New CNN hire Beck on Sheehan: "That's a pretty big prostitute"

[edbermac]

Recent CNN hire Beck on Cindy Sheehan: "That's a pretty big prostitute"

Beck referenced Sheehan in the during what he called a "search for the biggest prostitute," which, he said, sought to answer the question, "Who'll do anything for power or money?" The game initially pitted former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss against Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), and suspended Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver Terrell Owens.

Beck, who claims that his radio show is "ranked as the 3rd most listened to talk show in America among Adults 25-54," was recently hired to host his own program on CNN Headline News.

From the January 10 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: Honestly, who's a bigger prostitute? Heidi Fleiss or Terrell Owens? Who's the person out there -- who's the bigger prostitute: Heidi Fleiss or Howard Dean? No, not even Howard Dean. John Kerry. Who's the bigger prostitute? Who'll do anything for power or money? I mean, at least Heidi Fleiss -- this is saying something -- at least Heidi Fleiss will admit to being a prostitute. You know what I mean? At least she'll say, "Hey, I'm doing it for cash."

BECK: Cindy Sheehan. That's a pretty big prostitute there, you know what I mean? I mean, more of a -- Stu, what did we call her when she was in the news? Not a prostitute.

STU: Yeah, we eventually got to "tragedy pimp." Because we believe she's actually pimping the prostitute out.

BECK: Correct.

STU: Which I think is actually the most accurate description.

BECK: Pretty hard to beat prostituting your son's death. Don't you think?

http://mediamatters.org/items/200601190005

Note to CNN: If I wanna watch FOX, I'll watch FOX, not CNN!!

[sarcasmo]

1. That guy Beck is a right wing pimp what an ASSHOLE.

[liveoaktx]

34. VIDEO-Countdown's Worst Person in the World

Beck

[Deep13]

2. "Who'll do anything for power or money?"

um, Bush, Delay, Abramoff, Cheney, Frist ....

[alittlelark]

3. OMG... I know he's a hideous RW whore - but I had no idea he was

THAT fucked up. OK, now I'll actually e-mail CNN. I haven't done it yet. This was the straw.:mad: :puke:

[tatertop]

4. We just keep on letting them beat up on us

why is that?

[DanCa]

5. No one will stand up to these cretins.

I say we protest and picket cnn.

[Qanisqineq]

6. More on past Beck rantings:

http://www.comearmageddon.blogspot.com/

As posted on the blog "Come Armageddon":

"Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, "Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore," and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, "Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death." And you know, well, I'm not sure." - Glenn Beck, May 17th 2005

[Lars39]

7. So Beck called a Gold Star Mother a prostitute?

CNN should get a million or so emails and phone calls about this. :grr:

[EFerrari]

9. Link to contact page:

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

[Lars39]

12. Thanks! Here's my 2 cents:

What on earth were you thinking in hiring an amoral person such as Glenn Beck?

His calling Gold Star Mother Cindy Sheehan,a prostitute is shameful.
Just to jog the memory, a Gold Star Mother is one who has had a child die while in service to this country.

Shame on CNN for hiring such an idiot, and further shame if you keep him on the payroll.

[EFerrari]

17. Good for you.

:)

[Eric J in MN]

27. More direct link to CNN Headline News

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?33

[babsbunny]

14. At least 80,000 from the registered Du

Folks!

[chaumont58]

8. This is a conscious decision by CNN to get more of Fox's audience

I guess they say "fuck the liberals watching CNN, where are they going to go?"
I think all liberals, all progressives, all evil DUers should boycott CNN, even if it means watching Fox. The assholes at CNN will not change until they start paying for their ways. The posters here at DU can call CNN names, Media Matters can write scathing themes, but until CNN ratings start to tumble, they will laugh all the way to the bank. Dems of all stripes and positions have to learn to fight back. Repukes of all stripes and positions respect nothing and fear only striking back.
The Liebermans, or the Nelson Twins can not be our guide-ons or guardians. 2100 American soldiers are dead proof that repukes can not be trusted with anything. Hurricane Kartina and the latest fiasco with Medicare shows that competence is a word not in the repuke dictionary.

[OnionPatch]

19. I've turned them off but

I want to boycott their sponsors as well. The problem is I have no idea who their sponsors are because I really don't watch them.

Does anyone know where to go to find out who their sponsors are? I mean I could watch and see, but seems like there should be more info out there than you can get from just watching, like who is their BIGGEST sponsor, etc. We really need to know because that is how you hurt them...complain to the sponsors.

[jrw14125]

10. MAKE SURE TO CONTACT CNN!

i just sent them my email.

[Dunvegan]

11. I say we should boycott ALL news networks (except Keith O)...

...and sign up for Al Gore's new network Current TV when it comes online.

Ask your cable company to get onboard and offer Current TV now.

[Deep13]

13. Why can't all commentators be Stephie?

Next on WCLV classical music is conductor Stephanie Miller and the Los Angeles "No" Men Orchestra performing Choral Symphony for Prevaricating Attache of Excrement in D minor. Autographed boxes of wine are available in the gift shop.

[The Witch]

20. I'd pay to see that!

thanks for the :spray:

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

15. Cabal News, If I ever saw it

Pig vomit reporting, courtesy of Corporate Weasel Media.

[marylanddem]

16. Just wrote them and said if they hire this monster

I will never watch them again and will advise all relatives and friends to do the same. And I mean it. Jebus!

[babsbunny]

18. Maybe ignoring it and it will go away?

By writing them and telling them this Beck guy sucks, they know someone is watching, and maybe they want to piss off Liberals?

[Imagevision]

21. CNN will resort to anything to grab ratings from FOXnews

and that's the only reason for slimebeck being with CNN...!

[Maestro]

30. I don't know what disgusts me more.

The fact that CNN hired him or the fact that so many non-thinking idiots watch him enough to help the ratings. :shrug:

[TomClash]

22. Wanna see some real whores?

Look at the BFEE, Glenn. Now those are the Queens of the trade.

[greiner3]

23. Asshole. What comes out of his mouth is fecal material; n/t

[area51]

24. Ah, but the biggest whore around...

... is really Glenn Beck.

[KansDem]

25. "Tragedy pimp?" Here's a photo of a *real* tragedy pimp...

[Catrina]

38. Excellent example of a tragedy pimp!! Thanks to Beck, also, I wanted a

name to properly describe Bush! From now on, that's what I will call him. And Scotty, and Cheney, and the rest of them.

They have traded off the tragedy of 9/11 shamefully, 'tragedy pimps' what a perfect title for them! I know a mother whose pregnant daughter died on 9/11 and she literally becomes ill when she sees George Bush or hears him mention 9/11. She cannot watch him at all.

I emailed CNN just to tell them 'goodnight and good luck'. I will not be watching them until this administration has been prosecuted and convicted for the crimes they have committed against the American people and the propaganda machine, CNN, MSNBC, Fox and the rest of them have been shut down.

What scum! To do this to a mother who will never again hold her son in her arms, or hear his voice on the phone. How can any decent news media outlet hire slime like this. Why is he not in Iraq, btw?

I think a campaign should be started to recruit these scumbags. They're all mouth, hiding behind their mikes or computer screens.

A 'RECRUIT A RIGHTWING WAR-SUPPORTING, WINDBAG, CHICKENHAWK TODAY!' campaign needs to begin. If he survives Iraq, then maybe he will be fit to utter the name of a true Patriot like Cindy Sheehan. Not only did she lose her son because of the lies of this cabal but she is fighting for the country that he loved. I never hated people before, but these are not people. I don't know where they came from, or what they are, but they are filled with poisonous hatred for their own people.

They hate MM because he was the first to do the media's job for them, and reveal the truth about the Bush/Binladen family friendship and business partnership, amongst other things.

They hate Cindy Sheehan because she made Bush look like the coward he is, she made him run and hide, and they wanted to pretend he was a 'tough Texan' when all he is is an AWOL, coward from the Northeast, playing at being a cowboy! Cindy shattered their illusions and the world saw him for what he was and they hate her for revealing the ugly truth.

SHAME on CNN! Going to look for a list of CNN sponsors to boycott. Will spread the word. No one should support this who calls themselves an American. Fortunately, I will never lay eyes on the scum!

[Kurovski]

26. Outrageous and immoral, and like the idiot he is,

he's just a wee bit unclear on the concept of prostitution.

[noamnety]

28. emailed.

I sent this:

I'm very offended by CNN's hiring of Beck.

I served in the army during Desert Storm, despite my parents' strong objections. If I'd been killed during my years of military service, the last thing I would have wanted was somebody calling my mother a whore for expressing her feelings about the war.

I can't even imagine why CNN would think that someone who calls a Gold Star mother a prostitute would be a valuable addition to their staff. What next? Maybe you'll team up with Fred Phelps and start picketing the funerals of veterans?

[Maestro]

29. "....prostituting your son's death."

That makes no sense. Is he saying that she is benefiting financially from this somehow? Or is it that he just likes to use the word prostitute because it reminds him of the only way he can get sex?

Anyhow, that expression is nothing more than shock and no truth whatsoever. How has Sheehan benefited financially from protesting the war and her son's death?

[earth mom]

31. I am LIVID! This is the final straw-I have had it with these PIGS!

And while I don't have cable to watch CNN, I just emailed them about my disgust for them and am telling everyone I know to boycott them and their sponsors!

Anyone have a list of their sponsors? :grr: :grr: :grr:

[Catherine Vincent]

32. New chant....

FUCK CNN!

[populistdriven]

33. mantra!

FUCK CNN!

[Kurovski]

40. I third that!

FUCK CNN!

[EFerrari]

36. Keith capped them pretty well tonight: Something close to this:

"Can you put me on camera so I can talk to CNN, the guys that gave me my first break? You guys might want to think about dropping this right now. I have two words for you: Michael Savage."

:)

[farmboxer]

35. CNN lower than a snake! Republicans only, Democrats don't

count. It appears as if CNN does not want any Democrats to watch their crap, so, I very seldom what that crap, it belongs within the sewer from which it came.

[fishwax]

37. soulless asshole

:puke:

[Warren DeMontague]

39. The Republican Party's Been Prostituting 9-11 for over 4 years now.

I think they win.

[Kurovski]

42. Projection is part of the official Repuke Party platform.

The poor, brain-damaged little nutcakes just can't quite figure themselves out yet.

[Cleita]

41. Shouldn't he look in the mirror? n/t