Why would anyone want to submit themselves to the Glenn Beck treatment?
It's actually quite rare for Glenn Beck to invite onto his Fox News show a guest he disagrees with. Most often he's playing fanboy to the likes of Michelle Malkin and Jonah Goldberg, which means that the show is usually an hourlong right-wing mutual-admiration society. This means the Glenn Beck show largely is a big Snoozarama, livened up only by Beck's weepy wingnuttery.
But yesterday he invited on Scott Levinson of ACORN, which Beck has been chasing after and demonizing since last summer's campaign. As you can see, the entire exchange turns into a fiasco when Beck refuses to respond to Levinson's points and begins instead showing videos of a Burger King worker bathing in a sink.
At one point, Beck even orders Levinson's mike turned off.
Even more remarkably, after Levinson was off camera, Beck continued to attack him on the camera -- relaying to the audience the argument that ensued afterward (Levinson accused Beck, evidently, of being afraid of black people), calling him a "dirtbag," and then later telling his audience that Levinson had hit up on one of his female assistants in the green room.
Wow.
Now, on the one previous occasion when Beck did invite on someone he disagreed with -- Sam Webb of the Communist Party USA -- the behavior was similar: Beck refused to respond to Webb's points, insisted on peppering him with nonsequiturs and his own prepackaged narrative, talked over him, and generally treated him with so much contempt that any veneer of professionalism was eradicated.
So it seems that this is what any liberal can expect should they ever be invited onto Beck's show:
-- They will be talked over.
-- Their points will be ignored.
-- They will be used as a pinata for Beck to make fun of.
-- Beck will turn their mike off if they insist on trying to make their point.
-- After they leave the set, Beck will call them "dirtbags" and continue to smear them, perhaps even accuse them of sexually harassing his staff.
Why would any sane person want to endure that? Leave Beck to his little self-enclosed circle jerks. It's the only thing he's good at anyway.
Levinson will sue Beck and his handlers right off the air.
... there's a fair shot at claiming Levinson is a public figure, furthermore enhanced by being on Beck's show.
However, I suppose that means we can call Glenn a child-molesting pervert and then say, 'meh, he's a public figure.'
"Levinson will sue Beck and his handlers right off the air." - Xboxershorts
Dream on. More likely, Levinson will be sued for sexual harrassment by Beck's production assistant.
Beck's "handlers"? - Gee, who would this mystery group be? Haven't seen any "handlers" around Beck.
Geeezzzz, you have a serious case of Beckass fever.
Who are you, his mom?
Nice, you call people names on an old thread and run away .
You call people coward?
It must be hard to look yourself in the mirror.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
And this bullying and infantile behavior, along with outright slander, is allowed in our media?
Faux news is anything but!!!!! Can we ban the whole group from our country. I'm sure there's a strip of land somewhere in the middle of the pacific (doesn't have to be above water ;-).
man..this is absolute buffoonery...No self respecting journalist would act this way.
Just when I though Fox news couldn't sink any lower!
"Faux news is anything but!!!!! Can we ban the whole group from our country."
Gosh, aren't you an impressive champion of freedom of speech!
Ban anyone who disagrees with you from being allowed to speak - How wonderfully tolerant and open-minded of you.
"I'm sure there's a strip of land somewhere in the middle of the pacific (doesn't have to be above water ;-)"
Right - Even better than banning them from speaking, just kill them!
Once again, liberalism shows its true colors - You're all for freedom, tolerance, and rights...except, of course, for anyone who dares to disagree with you - Those people should be silenced, exiled, or executed.
And say he's got the right to speak his opinion. That's true.
But you seem to want to bash anyone here who has one of there own.
Project much?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
mud - I'm not bashing anyone for having an opinion - you're certainly welcome to have yours. What I am bashing is what I see as the rather constant practice of not just stating an opinion, but of going on to assert that anyone who disagrees with that opinion is an "idiot", "redneck", "nuts", etc. That, and the pitiful ignoring of simple reality, as when people assert ludicrous notions like, "no one listens to this guy" - when the obvious fact is that a lot of people listen to him. And finally, the fact that there seems to be very little substantive criticism of Beck's actual assertions - mostly just a lot of name-calling.
Or watched his show.
The guy is nuts. He really is.
Sure he's got the right just like everyone else, to speak his/her opinion. He Is an opinion based show. He's in show business. Not a journalist. Not in journalism.
And having an opinion based show opens him up to all kinds of criticism. I'm sure he doesn't mind with what he's getting paid to lie, tell half truths and distortions just to inflame the sensibilities of people who don't do more of their own research. Who are either to simple minded, or just don't care enough.
That's just the way it is.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
When did Olbermann EVER had someone whom he disagrees with on his show? Just one, please show me.
that only on Fox you can hear shut his microphone off!
John Ashcroft. He's also had a couple writers from the Washington Times on before. Then again, he doesn't use the slogan "fair and balanced", so it's beside the point.
Next....
better not to have someone you disagree with on the show, if you are going to treat him that way.
I don't hear Keith taunting folks for not coming on his show.
Rachel, now, she extends on-air invitations to opposing viewpoints - very few will show up. But when they do she is very polite and puppy-dog grateful.
But now that I think about it, I do remember Keith taunting someone - oh yeah, Sean Hannity, for not sticking to his word about being waterboarded for charity.
they don't have the balls to accept his invitation to appear on his show.
welcomes ANYONE on "countdown" who disagrees with him ,but, like the cowards they are ,they don't have the brass to go head to head with Keith because he would EAT THEM ALIVE!Why don't you slither back to the far right,whence you came?
Hitting on an aide? Who does Scott think he is, Bill O'Reilly?
lol
Well you know what they say, when in Rome....
blowhard like Beck? Paaahhhleease!
Beck seems to be taking lessons from BillO. Seems tomorrow whe is going to have some ex-ACORN people on who will dish some dirt on the organization.
If that guy didn't hit on the lady at the show, I hope he sues Beck's as for slander.
There was another part of his show tonight that I didn't catch all of it but it had to do with states passing laws that stated if guns are made in that particular state, they are not subject to federal gun laws. Like I said I didn't catch it all but that seemed to be the general gist.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Facts? he wanted to condemn , not to find facts!
how much I'm going to miss Ruperts media network when you have to pay to see this crap?
By percentage, if we put the number of ACORN bad employees compared to elected GOP politicians who got caught in pedophilia and restroom sex scandals, I guess the GOP loses. Now, don't tell me they are just a few bad apples. Not to mention conservative hosts who are addicted to painkillers and sexually harrass their employees.
What about Karl Rove's massive plan to deny the right to vote?
http://www.atlanticfreepress.com/content/view...
Airwave pollution and other so-called shows of this ilk are possible for the same reason the housing and banking fiasco happened. A handful of rich fascist asshole conservatives were/are allowed to rule the roost without any regulation.
A stupid, lying, ignorant imbecile like Beck is allowed to spew anti-american bullshit on the airwaves unchallenged, only because their rich overlords own the public airwaves.
History will show, that it was privitization of the airwaves that led us down this current path to corporate fascism.
I especially like the fact that Fox assholes always want to shut off the other persons mike when the cannot intelectually and honestly debate them. Why is this allowed to be called a "news" channel?
It is nothing but the reichwing, corporate fascist propagagnda channel for the GOP! Lets have a little honesty on the telly.
Rush Limbaugh is what a smart person thinks a stupid bigot sounds like.
"A stupid, lying, ignorant imbecile like Beck...reichwing, corporate fascist propagagnda..." - NoGWBpolicyleft
Wow - Congratulations on the typical "Liberal Rant of the Day". You followed the guidelines perfectly: Say nothing substantive about any issues, just engage in vicious personal attacks on anyone who disagrees with you and, oh, don't forget to ALWAYS throw in the "Nazi" accusation. (Gee, I think you forgot to call him a "homophobe" too though - I guess you were probably just in a hurry and overlooked it.)
People should just refuse to be treated that way. The wingnuts have built up ACORN into some kind of big, menacing monster, and by having them on they can show their emasculated viewers how tough they are. They are the terrorists of cable news.
I think the Acorn guy did what he had to do. He made it through and the host had a genuine hissy fit - if you've never seen a hissy fit, behold.
It starts when Beck monkeys the Acorn guy's behavior.
At 4:00 his parralel to burger Kink starts to collapse under the weight of the Acorn guys bulldog grip on the conversation. By 5:00 his argument is crushed and the hissy fit begins. Go Glennda Go!
Notice the monkey man starts at about 7:00 or so because the Acorn guy is requesting an honest exchange of the facts with his body language, but Glennda is unwilling to play that game.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Has Beck ever been the guest on another news show (outside of Fox)? If so, how was he treated? Has it always been just him, in control of his own little turf? Not that it matters nowadays, but to treat guests like this on television, is totally unprofessional. It also makes you more and more less credible.
Compare Beck to Jon Stewart, who never claims to be a television journalist, but acts like one, i.e. refusing to sit down before his guest, treating the ones with whom he disagrees with respect and decency. That's what makes Colbert's intros to his guests so funny; it's just a mirror of what happens on Fox as we see here too.
I'd like to subject Glenn Beck to some "treatment", but it requires a taser on his nut sack...
That was great! I wonder if Glenny had as much fun as we did in that exchange.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
I keep hoping that ranting haters like Glen, Savage and Rush (and even Buchanan) will have that moment, lost in their nasty rhetoric, where they go so far over the edge that even their corporate masters will realize they're poison...but no such luck...no matter how treasonous their screeds, they pass under the radar...
If a Dem comes out with even a mildly mean or mocking statements, wimps like Beck and O'Reilly wail like spanked kids...their bravery is all bluster...
And their "Love of America" a shallow self serving platitude...
wagonjak
There's nuts...
There's off-the-wall-bat-shit-put-your-pants-on-your-head-and-run-around-the-room nuts...
And then there's Glenn Beck!!!
anyone would appear on that snide prick's show is beyond me..unless you're a masochist.
Everyone who watches Beck's show is a brain dead redneck. By appearing on his show, nobody's mind is going to be changed. It's like Stephen J Gould discussing his views on the non-connection of race and IQ at a Klan rally.
Worst of all, by appearing on his show you legitimize it as "news", when it's anything but.
Rather, why don't those who go on these shows take the opportunity to tear these clowns a new one with undeniable force? Mic switched off or not, I don't see anyone really ever take it to them.
"Everyone who watches Beck's show is a brain dead redneck." - Van
Wait - let me guess...You'd describe yourself as "open-minded", "tolerant", and "non-judgmental", right?
The guy is a clown.
He's proved it over and over again.
Hey, how many times did it take before you stopped beating your head into the wall to find out that it hurt?
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Well written.
Beck is a Mormon. Mormons believe that being black is the result of a curse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blacks_and_the_L...
Wow! did you just make that up?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
No. I did not invent the Mormon religion nor did I write the Book of Mormon.
Yep, Joseph Smith MADE IT UP. Ya gotta love cults.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
fraud a short time before the angel showed him the golden tablets. Or was it a salamander in a fire? I forget.
but there was a kangaroo involved, and apparently no one's supposed to know about that part....
FB
99%
So Mormons believe in karma/ reincarnation? Black people are sinners so they must have sinned in a previous life, because you don't turn black one day because you sinned. Why else would God create someone black, for the hell of it? Their hypocrisy is fun to point out. Hours of laughs!
Gotta love that big old style mike on Big Beck's desk, standing right there compensating for...something. And then he goes around saying "cut off his mike!!"???
ROFLMAO
Please do not call this circus "news".
I could only handle 2 minuites of this stuff before I had to pause it. I can't stand to hear him rattle on. I think if they made Gitmo prisoners listen to this crap, I would call that torture. This is what FOX opinion channel is doing to their listeners, torturing them.
Actually it's called brainwashing.
If I find out that someone I'm takling to gets their information from FOX I stop the conversation very quickly. There isn't any reason to continue the conversation because I kinda have a feeling were it will end up.
...get their information from FOX, Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan...
There are quite a few conversation-enders for me.
CNBC ....the Bible
"If I find out that someone I'm takling to gets their information from FOX I stop the conversation very quickly." - inClearwater
You must really be starved for conversation then, if that's the guideline you follow, since about half of the people who watch cable news at all, watch Fox.
How incredibly open-minded of you - NOT!
Yet another liberal with the charming, enlightened attitude of, "I don't ever want to have to listen to anyone who doesn't agree with MEMEMEMEMEMEME!"
Did you bother to look into the Rev Beck and his qualifications to be a TV anchor?
He took one class at Yale in theology. He dropped out.
He said god was stalking him.
Yep. you go right ahead. keep on truckin.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
I like how he actually resorted to just repeating everything his guest said back at him in a snearing 10 year old mocking tone (7:15-7:25).
Bravo Murdoch/Ailes, you have really raised the News bar here.
Ya, i'm not a psychologist but that was pretty bratty behavior.
What is the medical term for "brat"?
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
anus. Or, in common usage, asshole.
Some of us remo through hate programs like Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly just to amuse and educate ourselves about the level of moronic hate they've sunk to that day, and they never disappoint!
wagonjak
"programs like Beck, Hannity and O'Reilly just to amuse and educate ourselves about the level of moronic hate" - wagonjak4
Wowww...talk about the pot calling the kettle black. You want to see some "moronic hate"? - Then just read the comments on this site. I daresay there's not a higher rate of vicious, personal insults per post to be found hardly anywhere else around. Just this page alone must have set a new record for calling Glenn Beck an "asshole".
Hey, I'm all for amusement - Why don't you amuse me by taking the comments on this page and using them to build an argument that liberals are all about love and tolerance, freedom of speech and diversity? Now THAT would be amusing.
I particularly get a chuckle out of the people (who no doubt are the same people who scream about waterboarding) talking about how they want to use a taser gun on Beck's nuts.
Feel the love, baby. Thank God you're not like those moronic haters on Fox News, right? Rrrright...
Glenn Beck is simply a bully and this is how bullies operate.
Someone used that term upthread and that perfectly describes Beck. Talking into the camera and having his guest's mike turned off are just beyond the pale. This is journalism? Pathetic.
I do hope its not true that the Acorn guy really did hit on the producer and said those words that he was accused of.
If a drone kills a child in Kandahar, do the crying parents make a sound?
A sort of Crusty the Clown for politics.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Maybe I'm naive but I have to believe the ACORN guy was smarter than that.
isn't it about time that we all just ignore beck and his kind. they offer nothing to the national debate on serious policy and in my humble opinion they should be ignored in the public forum. there is little to be gained by offering this man any additional airtime. they will never ever change their behavior. and any additional exposure only helps them sell the show to advertisers that are influenced by web hits and public recognition. their ultimate goal is money and ratings and not public policy change.
"isn't it about time that we all just ignore beck and his kind." - willie
Oh, definitely - I think you should always just ignore people who disagree with you. That way it's easier for you to keep walking around with the illusion that everyone thinks just like you do.
"in my humble opinion they should be ignored in the public forum"
Yeah, how incredibly humble of you to set yourself up over another person and pass judgment that what they have to say should be ignored.
"there is little to be gained by offering this man any additional airtime."
Uh, actually, according to the ratings, there's a LOT of advertising revenue to be gained by offering this man additional airtime.
"they will never ever change their behavior"
You know what? I'd bet they're just about as likely to ever change as...you are.
"their ultimate goal is money and ratings and not public policy change"
Wow, what a bizarrely original goal for a television show - ratings! (P.S. Uh, is the goal of a news organization SUPPOSED to be "public policy change"???) Well, I suppose you definitely could make the argument that, in contrast, MSNBC certainly isn't driven by any desire for ratings.
Hey The Rev Beck has the right to do whatever he want's to.
But no has to listen to a nutcase. It actually shows a sign of intelligence to ignore him. You should try it sometime. There's still time.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"It actually shows a sign of intelligence to ignore him." - mudshark
Well, that's your opinion, which you're certainly entitled to have.
But it's not necessarily true. :)
(P.S. Uh, is the goal of a news organization SUPPOSED to be "public policy change"???)
Murdoch has said in the past that his show is not a journalistic based show.
He has said that Hannity, O'Rielly and The Rev Beck are not journalists.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
After the last 8 years, you making comments like the ones on this thread make you look like you're willingly suffering from a bad case of cognitive dissonance.
Now remember, don't miss the next episode of the Rev Beck.
Don't forget your knee pads.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
This is why the no-minds and mouthbreathers at FOX loved Bush. He was one of them.
It's so obvious now that that we have an intelligent President.
I would of punched Glenn in the mouth for talking to me like that.
Glenn Beck wants to be Bill OReilly.
And Bill OReilly wants to be Morton Downey Jr.
And Michelle Malkin wants to be Ann Coulter.
And Ann Coulter wants to be Joe McCarthy.
and they all want to be the schoolyard bully who happens to be related to the principal.
...organization (especially in an adversarial environment) you send someone who is articulate. Scott Levinson strikes me as someone who's been hanging around the fight gym for about twenty years too long.
If this represents the leadership of ACORN, it's no wonder there is trouble. This guy is simply not up to the job. I was embarrassed listening to this clip.
I consider Beck to be the most colossal clown ever to have his own show (and that includes real clowns), and I want to see him taken apart if and when guests appear on his show (which I have never watched and will never watch). But I think Levinson was pathetic.
As if his appearance wasn't bad enough, WTF was the story with him asking a Beck employee out on a date? Sorry, this seems like a difficult* appearance to spin in favor of Levinson.
* Where difficult = impossible
This is about Acorn, not the leadership, or the acorn guys responce to Beck's habitual bullying.
In republicani minds Beck shredded the Acorn guy. But this is only about 'spin' on FOX.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Levinson sounds weaker because his mic is muffled and turned down. He doesn't have his own camera, the only one really pointing to him is the one used for wide shots. Beck has his own camera with close ups. He also has a much louder, in fact booming, microphone that appears to be piped into the studio as well. This was a dirty, snide, set up by the Glen Beck and his crew. This is propaganda at it's fullest.
be Glenn Beck's crew. Are they wingnuts or just utter whores?
...noting each of your points. Then, I watched the video clip again. I stand by my original appraisal of Levinson's performance. He clearly, in my mind, is not the person to argue this case with Beck.
Beck seems to me like the worst of the worst. I consider him an idiot and a clown. But anyone who appears on his show is going to have to play Beck's game, so he or she has to be forceful, articulate, and faster than Beck. Levinson really isn't any of those.
Since I have no respect for Beck and understand the nature of Acorn's difficulties, this clip didn't sway me at all. But I came away completely unimpressed with Levinson, about whom I knew nothing before seeing this clip.
When Beck asked Levinson to name Republican's he's supported, Levinson gave the worst possible kind of answer. Scott, telling someone you can't think of any "off the top of your head" is ridiculous. You know the answer to the question. Tell the truth and don't be apologetic about it. Telling someone "I can't think of any off the top of my head" is the kind of bullshit we get all the time from politicians.
Assuming Levinson has never supported a Republican candidate for office, he should have said exactly that and explained that he doesn't support Republicans because...and there are so many reasons that could fill in the blank, he could have run out the clock on Beck's show (except Beck would have cut him off).
I'm less interested in complaining about what a dick Beck is than I am in showing him up for the clown he is. Because he talks fast and loud, because he's comfortable in front of a camera, and because he's got a simple script (mindless is probably a better word) and no particular interest in facts, truth, or responsible behavior, he's going to be a tough opponent. The only people from the Left who should ever appear on his show have to be able to beat him at his own game (while sticking to the truth and being responsible). Those people exist. Levinson doesn't strike me as one.
Footnote: Generally, I think it's a waste of time appearing on any Fox News program. Levinson, even if he'd done a stellar job, wasn't going to accomplish anything meaningful. The people who are stupid enough to waste their time watching Beck are either beyond hope or...that's it, they're beyond hope. I thought of including masochistic, but if someone watch's Beck because they are a masochist, they're probably beyond hope too. I know people who listen to Limbaugh. He makes them mad, they rave about what a POS he is, and they explain they tune in to "know what the other side is saying." Sorry, is there anyone who can't predict what Limbaugh (or Beck) is going to say about 99.9% of the time?
"Sorry, is there anyone who can't predict what Limbaugh (or Beck) is going to say about 99.9% of the time?" - oh really
So??? I mean, what, like you can't also predict what Keith Olbermann's going to say 99.9% of the time? - Your point isn't wrong...it's just pointless. :)
Levinson did, indeed, appear a horrible spokesperson, but beyond that, let's look at the simple, basic facts with a little honesty. Can you think of any other advocacy organization that has a history of fraud accusations (AND convictions) surrounding it that even remotely approaches that of ACORN?
But no convictions.
Then there's the Nixon admin, and the Reagan admin.
Have you noticed how many GOPers are currently in Jail.
Just from the last admin?
You shouldn't have mentioned fraud.
Big ole can o worms with that one.
Yes, there are some Dems in there too.
But the facts do present a truth that can't be denied.
The GOPers far outweigh in the number of convictions.
Thanks for playin.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"The GOPers far outweigh in the number of convictions." - mudshark
Just curious - exactly where do they publish that particular statistical analysis of fraud cases? :)
Here. I'll look for more.
Does the name Abramof ring a bell?
Or how about Ney?
Or Cunningham?
You really should pay more attention to what's going on.:)
What is your conceptual, continuity?
The Acorn guy pulled a sort of 'Gore' on the guy and he couldn't handle it. it hurts when. you. say. the. truth. slowly. doesn't. it. Glennda?
The trick with the 23%ers is you can never. talk. too. fast. It makes them confused and excited and then they interupt you.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
It's not debate at all. I'm honestly perplexed at how anyone even finds it entertaining. I found that about as interesting as listening to my old roommates bicker when one of them was drunk.
The guy turned the tables on beckies lies/propaganda so beck-y pitched a hissy fit and told lies when the other guy could not defend himself.(typical propagandist trick)
I thought it was pretty funny
Glenn Beck doesn't know that at Burger King and other fast food establishments, people do all sort of horrid stuff. My son worked at the Burger King at the Seattle Zoo back in the 1990's. He saw this other kid spit on a burger that was to be sold to someone. The kid did it because it was his last day there. Beck is so rich that he probably never eats at any establishment like that where employees make only minimum wage. Also, these people working for Acorn didn't do disgusting stuff like spitting or hawking a loogy on someone's burger. Out of the thousands of volunteers that work there, a handful of "bad apples" doesn't change the course of the election, Glennda!!!
"Also, these people working for Acorn didn't do disgusting stuff like spitting or hawking a loogy on someone's burger." - kari
No, they just did something REALLY disgusting - attempt to fraudulently influence the very process of democracy. If that doesn't bother you infinitely more than someone spitting, I respectfully suggest you re-examine your priorities.
.LOL!
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Hi...am new here, did not read the 49 prior posts...personally, I will not risk letting even children visiting my abode accidently witness Glen Beck's facial and vocal contortions on any TV I have. We must raise children in healthy environments!
watching a clown of a propagandist get his ass kicked by someone
way smarter than him.
Teach them what happens when you tell lies
to watch any of the republican idiots!
It is just to stupid to tolerate!
some of them make my stomach hurt listening to their BS
I love the way he puts on his glasses as if that makes him more important. I'm sure his audience ate it up. The 21%er crowd that is. Not us who watch for the comedy aspect of it. Of course most of us cannot take more than a minute or two because it is just too stupid.
"I love the way he puts on his glasses as if that makes him more important." - Captain Kangaroo
Um...I think he probably puts his glasses on for the same reason anyone else does - because he needs them to read. Your statement absolutely reeks of projection.
Gee, do you think you could come up with anything more petty to criticize someone about?
That's what you call jaw-dropping television! Fox News is making the 1976 Sidney Lumet film, Network, a reality. Paddy Chayevsky nailed it 23 years ago.
That was insulting. Beck is an infantile jackoff. Fox is an insult to journalism (Beck's show is listed as news by Fox and TV Guide). The Acorn guy was a fool to go on a Fox program in the first place and then so again when he played nice when that idiot Beck started acting like a monkey-boy and then asked if he ever voted for a Republican. What a load of crap.
The Glen Beck program is proof, beyond any doubt, that there are just too many f-ed people in America. It's like cancer. At some point, the diseased cells take over and the body dies.
Another thing is that ACORN itself was not mentioned in the fraud cases that Glenda mentioned. Employees! If ACORN had done something wrong ACORN would have been the plaintiff. Not the Employees. It's strawman argument.
Beck is insane!!
I don't have much time to check up on Glenn, is he still on the wagon?..does he attend meetings nowadays?..does he have a woman who tolerates him?
I have never sat through an entire G. Beck clip. I shall not do it again. That was really painful. Glenn is world renowned as an idiot. Why does America hate Glenn and yet he has a show? His set is ridiculous. Reminds me of what Waynes World might do if they had nearly a thousand dollars to spend. Could we please clone Walter Cronkite? Real journalism anytime would be fantastic.
"Glenn is world renowned as an idiot. Why does America hate Glenn and yet he has a show?" - billmunyon
Actually, Glenn is reknowned, if at all, for being a highly successful talk show host. And if "America" really hated him, I rather doubt he'd have the 3rd highest rated show in cable news - according to the ratings, America LOVES Beck. Respectfully suggest that you stop projecting YOUR opinion as the MAJORITY one, when it obviously isn't. Walking round with the belief that if you don't like something, well then everyone else must hate it too, is a little painfully on the high side of egotistical.
Yeah, right.
His ratings are around 3 mill an episode.
How big do you think the pop of this country is.
I find it hilarious that you defend this clown.
All the tears and boohooing for ratings.
If he loved this country so much, why didn't he enlist and serve it.
People that watch him and follow him are gullible weak minded peons.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"His ratings are around 3 mill an episode.
How big do you think the pop of this country is." - mudshark
That's not the relevant point - Of the people who ARE watching a cable news show, more than half are watching HIS. If you're only going to gauge popularity with absolute numbers of people as a percentage of the total population (rather than using percentage of actual, active viewers), then, other than maybe the Super Bowl, NO television show has ever really been popular, because there's never a majority of the total U.S. population watching it.
"If he loved this country so much, why didn't he enlist and serve it."
Let me make sure I'm following you. Your (absurd) argument here is that no one loves his country who hasn't voluntarily enlisted in the military???
"People that watch him and follow him are gullible weak minded peons."
Here we go again, with the impressively open-minded, non-judgmental attitude, the continual refrain of, "Anybody who doesn't think just like wonderful ME-ME-ME-ME-ME is obviously stupid". The incredible level of esteem in which you hold your own opinion is really something quite remarkable to behold. Your humility is just devastatingly non-existent.
That's not the relevant point - Of the people who ARE watching a cable news show, more than half are watching HIS.
You're full of horseshit. Nevermind the population or the amount of people who don't watch his show. Irrelevant? I don't think so.
Let me make sure I'm following you. Your (absurd) argument here is that no one loves his country who hasn't voluntarily enlisted in the military???
Not quite Einstien.
If someone on a national level with a national tv show, spouts that much bullshit. Yeah, he needs to back it up.
"People that watch him and follow him are gullible weak minded peons."
LOL.
Hey, if the show fits.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
"...the entire exchange turns into a fiasco when Beck refuses to respond to Levinson's points and begins instead showing videos of a Burger King worker bathing in a sink."
Well what did Scott think was going to happen when he went on Beck-y's show? Intelligent conversation??
But at least Scott schooled him before Beck pulled a BillO.
Teh Truth! It Hurts!
NOBODY 2012
I could only watch until Back wanted Levinson's mike turned off, I guess because Levinson was interrupting Beck's summation of "truth".
Really, why does anyone even try to go on that show and oppose Beck? There's no way to get your point across.
The people of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." J.K. Galbraith
I guess I'm wondering why Beck didn't ask the guy when he quit beating his wife. That was about the only thing missing.
Beck is a looney, people listening to him must be weak minded. He has a Jim Jones type of personality and like that WACO Texas guy, errie. Oh boy should have SLAPPED him.
"Beck is a looney, people listening to him must be weak minded." - LaneyGA
Well, gosh, yes - I mean, if they don't hold the same opinion that YOU do, they obviously "must" be of inferior intellect, right? (Can you spell "pompous" and "self-righteous"?...then you can add it to your profile on any social networking sites you might belong to.)
I'm sorry - I don't mean to be cruel. But it's just laughable how constant the refrain is around here of one variation or another of, "Anyone who doesn't think exactly like I do must be an idiot."
Anyone who follows the Rev Glen Beck religiously or fervently can't be 100% there.
Having a difference of opinion is one thing. Beck doesn't report facts. His is opinion based. He's nuts.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Try to get a word in to defend yourself? Get your mike turned off.
This is the modus operandi of O'Reilly, Beck, Hannity, etc.-- sit there and take it, and when you speak up, either get shouted down or you get silenced.
Of course there's no mention of zero voter fraud, or the fact the people who were registered could very well have voted for Republicans. No, the agenda was set before the ambush.
Beck is a fuckwad of the highest order and deserves a good beating.
Mr Beck unfortunately is a buffoon. He's a radio jock, who built his TV career off of 9/11 victims. Instead of trying to have a civil conversation about ACORN, he chose to, once again disgrace himself. And as far as, "did we have the tape rolling?" comment, pure deception. On a nationally broadcasted cable show, the tape NEVER stops running! Even if you have an inept producer, there's always a backup in place. So the racist, and "sexual" agenda claims can be shown, if Mr. Beck chooses to do so. But you know why he won't? Because they never happened. Glenn Beck at best is an audience court jester, at worst, a liar. I choose to believe both.
Let me clarify myself. When I call Mr. Beck a radio jock, it means he's not the sharpest knife in the drawer. This is all entertainment folks. He is NOT a journalist, and he is NOT to be taken seriously. It's unfortunate that he has a platform on Fox News Channel, but who said life was fair?
However, he knows he's lying about the tape. Very conservative of him, don't you think?
that REALLY gets under my skin. I wasn't sure what it was at first, but it just hit me.
Beck is a "recovered" alcoholic. My sister is in the process of divorcing a jerk who is basically a dry drunk from an alcoholic family.
He and Beck are the SAME--snide, condescending, and sanctimonious as hell. Their attude is basically "I don't have any problems! It's the rest of the world that is screwed up!"
Beck has issues...still.
"Beck has issues...still." - Van
Your ability to conduct long-distance psychoanalytic diagnosis on someone you've never met is really quite impressive.
Please do go on passing unrestrained judgment on whomever you choose. After all, you're so much smarter than they are, right?
You obviously haven't watched this clown.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
This whole right wing TV thing, especially Faux News, is simply professional wrestling dressed up to look like political "dialogue." Political dialogue? Is there some country where it really takes place?
Beck gives himself too much credit when he calls himself a rodeo clown. Its really a shame that an entire generation will grow up believing this kind of buffoonery passes as journalism and news, but what would you expect from a guy who has made millions by behaving like a lunatic. Fox evidently has a policy of give me your self respect and we'll pay you well. It appears to be working. So I do my best to educate my children on difference between the crap that is Glenn Beck and those who do the hard work that journalism requires.
onto becks circus sideshow so I can beat the stuffin out of him on natl tv.
Amen.
Hilarious! Peckerhead is a just a uneducated, bedwetting, pussy.
"Peckerhead is a just a uneducated, bedwetting, pussy." - Limp-Dick
Yeah, there's a reasonable, substantive criticism. So, what other notable talents do you have besides being a champion at name-calling?
(By the way, an educated person might know that the proper grammatical construction of that sentence should be "AN uneducated", not "A uneducated".)
He is opinion based. Not factual based.
He's an idiot.
And with your superior intellect, your going to bash someone over a type o.
Haaaaaa. Time for you to go watch more FUX NOOOZ. Your batteries are getting low.
What is your conceptual, continuity?
Everybody can smell the stench of the rotting, dying GOP.
That would have really nailed Acorn.
Louisville Lawyer
he will every once in a while actually bother to directly argue with a human, instead of just yelling at a digital image of their head.
Olbermann has never once had on a guest he didn't agree with. never, once! what the hell?
but I could be mistook...
I don't think KO would get taken to school by anyone he disagrees with either...he's not an idiot like anyone on faux you care to name.
This is simply false. Olbermann has had on numerous contra-ideological guests, most notably Pat Buchanan.
You write, "the Glenn Beck show largely is a big Snoozarama".
Yeah, right - it's so incredibly boring that after only being on the air a couple of months, it's the third highest-rated show in all of cable-TV news. What is inarguably an absolute TV ratings success phenomenon, you term a "Snoozarama".
Does it ever remotely occur to you that maybe you're just hopelessly out of touch, when you constantly disagree with the overwhelming majority of people, and simultaneously champion shows like MSNBC's "Keith Olberman", that would be lucky to be throw a handful of rocks and manage to hit a viewer anywhere?
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