I think Rahm Just Fucked Glenn Beck.

[msanthrope]

Seriously--Beck must have thought he was booking Howard Beale....

but he booked Mark Foley.

I'm watching Beck--Massa trying to explain how groing wasn't really groping.....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902157.html


Good for you, Rahm.....

[FrenchieCat]

1. I'm gonna watch,

just so I can see....... :rofl:

[denimgirly]

2. You have a very pretty child.

Sorry..just had to comment on the signature pic.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Thanks!

That's my eldest!

[karynnj]

50. She really is absolutely gorgeous

[Cha]

3. omgosh! It figures from what's been adding

up lately.

[FrenchieCat]

16. I think this may be the first time I've seen Beck look embarrassed!

Not that I look often....but! :)

[Cha]

22. Somebody predicted earlier

today that the rightwing embracing of Massa would come back to bite them in their greedy not checking the facts..ass.

[tabatha]

27. Schuster did.

[msanthrope]

28. I think Schuster knew what the real story was--when Steny Hoyer made

reference to Mark Foley.

[Cha]

32. Wow..not good.

it's sounding like Massa is trying to take the heat off himself by accusing the Dems of whatever..as the saga continues.

[Cha]

31. Thanks..I knew it was somebody

and that's somebody who might know.

[Mopar151]

56. I did'nt know that was possible....

But it should happen more often.

And the kid?:fistbump: I so hope we can leave her world worth saving!

[tularetom]

4. Eeee-yew, there's a mental picture I will carry with me to my grave

I don't think I'll ever be able to go to sleep with the lights out.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. What does Rahm have to do with Massa exactly?

:shrug:

[Bucky]

6. I don't know the facts or anything, but having read the internet I understand they showered together

[mdmc]

23. jaja

well played/DUzy

[lunatica]

53. I heard there was some poking involved too

[Born_A_Truman]

7. Massa claims Rahm confronted him ...

in the showers at the congressional gym and shook his finger in his face (something about voting for Obama's economic bill).

[cutlassmama]

10. poked his chest with his finger. Also, supposedly there are not shower

curtains on the gym showers.

[Bucky]

52. Are we sure it was his finger?

[BuelahWitch]

59. If it was what you're thinking of it would have been his knees

Rahm's pretty short...:hide:

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. What, he didn't beat him up or anything?

How scandalous!!! :eyes: You mean, he POKED him with his finger in the Congressional gym shower? Break out the smelling salts!!!! :rofl:

[Born_A_Truman]

17. Even more shocking....

Rahm wasn't wearing a suit! OMG, naked men in showers. The horror!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. Awwww!!!!! My eyes!!!!!! They burn!!!!!

:spray:

[Cha]

9. It's quite the ongoing saga and

this is a decent thread to read on its history..

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=433&topic_id=214118&mesg_id=214145

[Born_A_Truman]

8. Pretty bad when Beck seems like the logical person here ...

I'm only catching a couple of minutes of this show.

[Cha]

13. I bet beck is not happy if

Massa is not coming off as a credible victim?

[CoffeeCat]

14. Not sure I completely understand this situation...

Are you saying that Beck has Massa on his show, as a spokesperson/Democrat who is against
the president's healthcare-reform bill--and it turns out that Beck was bamboozled because
his little Dem-against-healthcare is a serial groper?

Is that it?

Or is it that Massa stole all the tigers and now the CIA is after him?

:shrug:

[msanthrope]

It is the former....and it is a Repuke lately-turned Dem serial groper! n/t

[FrenchieCat]

15. Glenn Beck just apologized to his audience for wasting their time!

Happens every day, Beck.....

You've been hosed! :rofl:

[Cha]

18. ..

Ha! Massa not quite the victim he wanted to parade for his "audience"? }(

[BlueIdaho]

19. OMG Hilarious!

Beck is such a dumb shit - didn't even bother doing his homework. He just thought he'd use this ex-congressman to grind on the Democrats. He should have been watching the morning shows - even ABC's GMA wouldn't touch this freak - and THAT's saying something!

[Supersedeas]

34. but he got ratings b/c every corporate shill was pointing to this interview all day long

on every network and even NPR

[Christa]

20. K & R

:rofl:

[Born_A_Truman]

21. Did he give yet another reason for resigning?

Cancer returns
More time with family
Salty language/ethic's committee investigation
Rahm/Obama pushing him out over HCR

[mdmc]

25. i don't know

but reading about it here ,, I think we are missing a train wreck..

[undeterred]

24. Confusing headline.

:shrug: Literally?

[msanthrope]

30. You aren't a victim of abstinence-only education, are you? n/t

[Tempest]

29. It wasn't just one incident with Massa

Apparently more of his male interns have come out with stories of being groped by him.

[msanthrope]

33. Ah--the wailing and gnashing of teeth in Freeperdom--

To: no dems
Total waste...Glenn should have vetted him better....I expect more of Glenn...This diminished him...



6 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:03:24 PM by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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Eric “Frankie Pentangeli” Massa: “I never knew no Rahmbo, Glenn.”



7 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:03:28 PM by SirJohnBarleycorn
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I was disappointed, I thinink that Rahmn and the chicago thugs got to Massa, he was tight lipped... about any thing going on really..



8 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:03:55 PM by JoanneSD
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Bad. I wasted an hour watching it. Massa was all over the board, but Glenn did not ask probing questions.



9 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:04:07 PM by jpeg82
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A waste of on Air time. Seemed a little shakey to me by avoiding direct questions, but then he’s a liberal.



10 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:04:28 PM by JamesA (You don't have to be big to stand tall)
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Wasted hour.



11 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:04:34 PM by FES0844
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Beck is an idiot, he got everything he deserved on this one.

Beck has sold out.



12 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:05:33 PM by stockpirate (Hey Beck, Thomas Jefferson was a birther!)


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2467471/posts

[Cha]

37. ..

"Bad. I wasted an hour watching it. Massa was all over the board, but Glenn did not ask probing questions."

Gotta:rofl:

[Born_A_Truman]

45. ROFL

"To: no dems
I was disappointed, I thinink that Rahmn and the chicago thugs got to Massa, he was tight lipped... about any thing going on really.."

Ya thinink?

[verges]

54. Jefferson was a Birther?

WTF? I really don't undersand that one.

[Cha]

35. Local news had "fellow NY Dems distancing themselves from

Massa because of the distraction of the real issues and they were contiually surprised by each turn in the story".

Massa to be on Larry King tonight..oh good..more attention for Massa.

He admitted to "groping a staffer but not in a sexual way".

[msanthrope]

36. "Groping a staffer but not in a sexual way"?????

On Larry King he'll be even more of a train wreck.....but remember, the rightwing was loving him 10 hours ago!

[Cha]

39. And, so are those who hate

the HRC and Rahm.:)

[msanthrope]

41. Note how those Du'ers are strangely silent now?

We had more than one DU'er earnestly explaining how Massa was a true progressive, and how his going on Glenn Beck to expose Rahm, the DLC, and the Tri-Lateral Commission was a great move.

[Cha]

42. So much for their political acumen.

[msanthrope]

43. They did claim they knew how DC really worked.....

and the rest of us didn't.

Funny how none of them saw the groping investigation coming.....

[Cha]

44. They always claim to be

more knowledgeable while they're spouting horseshit.

[Spazito]

40. Oh geez, the guy is falling apart, imo...

and, from reading this and other threads about his appearance on Beck, the last thing he should be doing is another media appearance. This is getting beyond bizarre.

[Moochy]

38. no (vomit-inducing) sex threads

[Jennicut]

46. Wow. Massa is turning into a nut case. Poor Glenn, he really thought he had something here.

The thing is, I can't really feel happy about seeing a Dem totally self-destruct. Why, Massa, did you bring this on yourself?

[marshall]

47. Rahm's not somebody you want to meet in the shower

He doesn't take no for an answer.

[Cha]

48. So, did anyone see Massa on Larry King? nt

[boppers]

49. An hour of rambling, incoherent, bizarreness...

I think it's safe to say that "Tickle Fight" has a new political meaning.

[donheld]

51. Literally or Figuratively?

[Cha]

55. IT WASN'T THE START OF A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP"

"By all appearances, conservatives' burgeoning love affair with Eric Massa ended abruptly yesterday, a few minutes after 5 p.m. (ET).

On Monday, Glenn Beck told his radio audience of the New York congressman, "This guy is the guy we've been looking for!" I don't imagine he feels the same way now.

Beck had Massa on as a special, hour-long featured guest on his Fox News program yesterday. The host and his supporters had heard Massa spinning wild conspiracy theories involving Democratic leaders on the Hill and White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, and hoped desperately that his tales would prove humiliating to Dems.

By the time the interview was over, there was plenty of humiliation, but not among Democrats.

Marc Ambinder's description of the Beck-Massa discussion summarized things nicely.

So everyone thought that Eric Massa would go on Glenn Beck's show and trash the White House and fuel conspiracy theories about Chicago-like intimidating tactics used to threaten lawmakers into voting for the health care bill.

But the first thing that Massa said was that he wasn't forced out, "I forced myself out."

Beck's night ended there. His lip curled up.

Then Massa used the platform to (a) look a little crazy (b) defuse a conspiracy theory that he helped to create and (c) lambast Beck a bit for his own overstatements.

Complicating matters, Massa conceded that he "groped a male staffer" last year, though he said it wasn't sexual.

Conservatives waiting with bated breath for the former Democratic congressman to dish the dirt had to have felt dejected. Did party leaders really force him to resign as part of a heavy-handed display of power? Well, actually no. Does Massa have any evidence to bolster his conspiracy theories or specific instances of corruption? Nope. Did Massa have anything new or damaging to say about Democratic leaders? Not really, no.

Was there any real point to this bizarre political theater? Not so much.

As the show was wrapping up, Beck seemed to realize he'd made a terrible mistake: "America, I've got to shoot straight with you. I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time, and I apologize for that."

Sam Stein, who posted the video of the hour-long chat, described the interview as "train wreck television."

How could Beck allow this to happen? Alex Koppelman highlighted the underlying lesson from yesterday: "Beck had very little idea who Massa was or what he wanted to talk about. He simply wasn't prepared for the interview -- he just knew that the former congressman had said some things that tended to support his worldview. This is where we really see the limits of an approach like Beck's. His schtick -- former wacky morning DJ turns guy who's singlehandedly saving America by exposing what they don't want you to know -- works fine when it doesn't involve actual knowledge or reporting. Once he needs that, though, things can fall apart very quickly."

As for Massa, it didn't seem possible for his reputation to deteriorate further. And yet somehow, he managed to find a way".

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beck wasn't the only one who had little idea of what Massa was about..they only knew they wanted him to keep slamming Rahm and the Dems with his little conspiracy theory.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

57. what happened to Foley?

[Bobbie Jo]

58. The look on Beck's face was priceless.

An entire hour of FAIL. :rofl:


Sadly, at the expense of a man having a melt down on national TV.