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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGlenn Beck’s New Year’s Resolution: No One On My Show Can Mention ‘That Man’ Obama Anymore
Well see how long this pledge lasts. As part of his New Years resolutions, conservative talk host Glenn Beck returned from the holidays with a new policy: no one can mention President Obama anymore on his show.Anybody who brings him up, besides me, is fired, Beck said of the new policy. Astonished by the severity, co-host Stu Burguiere asked if staffers could get by with just mentioning that the president said, to which Beck said it would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
Instead choosing to refer to the president as that man or that guy, Beck explained the very loose definition of what counts as mentioning the president in his mind. After much back and forth with his colleagues, Beck said:
You can allude to him. You can play Joe Biden. But I dont want to hear the mans voice. I dont want to hear him. I dont want to know about him. You want that information? Go any place else. Theres thousands of outlets, you can have all the information you want. I am not talking about that man.
Burguiere joked that Obama is now like the villainous Harry Potter character Voldemort in that the novels protagonists referred to the evil wizard as he who shall not be named.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-becks-new-years-resolution-no-one-on-my-show-can-mention-that-man-obama-anymore/
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Glenn Beck’s New Year’s Resolution: No One On My Show Can Mention ‘That Man’ Obama Anymore (Original Post)
Playinghardball
Jan 2013
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think
(11,641 posts)1. A better new year resolution: Always add DOUCHEBAG when speaking of Glenn Beck
Beck: This president has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture, I don't know what it is.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/cspanjunkie/barack-obama-has-deep-seated-hatred-wh
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/cspanjunkie/barack-obama-has-deep-seated-hatred-wh
el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)2. That's a funny bit - we'll see if it lasts.
But as a bit it's kind of funny because it's so clearly unbelievable.
Bryant
MKITEM
(53 posts)3. Not surpringly, Beck is just fine with referring to the President as "That N-word"
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)4. So, Beck admits that his mission as a pundit is not to inform the public
My advice to his listeners is to go somewhere else for information, like he says.
Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)5. Sounds like something a three-year-old might do
But then, it is Beck* - the perpetual toddler...
*Calling for death threats ON THE AIR against all progressives, and Nancy Pelosi, and getting away with it because the FCC is comprised of two-year-olds who are SCARED TO DEATH of insane wacknut conservative three-year-olds.
Erose999
(5,624 posts)6. The only people on Earth more pathetic than GB are his sidekicks. I mean who would want to be the
"second banana" to that piece of shit?