Glenn Beck apologizes for smearing Obama's 11-Year-Old Daughter

[jefferson_dem]

Not enough. Fuck this shitstain. He needs to go down hard for this.

Glenn Beck apologizes for smearing Obama's 11-Year-Old Daughter
May 28, 2010 4:05 pm ET by Media Matters staff

From a statement posted on Glenn Beck's website:

In discussing how President Obama uses children to shield himself from criticism, I broke my own rule about leaving kids out of political debates. The children of public figures should be left on the sidelines. It was a stupid mistake and I apologize--and as a dad I should have known better.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005280055

By the way, if you haven't heard the most vile shit broadcast over the public airwaves in a long, long time (bar none, imo), listen here - http://mediamatters.org/blog/201005280025

[bluestateguy]

1. Apology rejected

Only his resignation from radio and TV shows will be accepted as acceptable.

[jefferson_dem]

3. His shtick should no longer be written off as "just another ranting rw hate radio jock".

Nothing short of his outright dismissal from the public airwaves is acceptable.

[tekisui]

2. He is a sick man.

I hope they fire him. His psycho bit has gotten old and done enough damage.

[Chulanowa]

4. Well, I will give him one point

It wasn't one of those "I apologize if i offended" non-apologies. he at least admits it was a screwup on his part.

There. I did my good samaritan thing for the day. Now Beck can take his apology and cram it up his ass.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

31. Still doesn't make Beck any less of an a-hole (my apologies if I offended any a-holes).

[hobbit709]

5. Website hell! He needs to apologize on his show for a start.

[cutlassmama]

6. Wonder who "made" him apologize. Doubt it was his idea.

[catgirl]

7. This was no simple one-liner oops joke

This went on and on, in a hate-filled display of dialogue that only a psycho could display (or someone having a bad trip
on hard drugs). He should be fired!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Phx_Dem]

8. Fuck off. Apology not accepted. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

9. Sorry, Charley. Not buyin' it.

[DinahMoeHum]

10. "Hey, Glenn, where's Mary? Where's your kid?"

Someone should have that on a sign every time Beck comes out of his bunker and actually faces the public. That filthy fuck once made fun of a fellow DJ's wife's miscarriage - and Lady Karma smacked his ass big time months later when his own daughter was born with cerebral palsy.

:evilfrown:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/22/glenn_beck_two

[boppers]

12. Whoa. That's one hell of a read.

Thanks for the link, lots of jaw-dropping in it.

[RamboLiberal]

33. The author of this article has expanded the info into a book

Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance

Very good read.

Who is this guy and why are people listening?
Forget Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity—Glenn Beck is the Right’s new media darling and the unofficial leader of the conservative grassroots. Lampooned by the Left and Lionized by the far Right, his bluster-and-tears brand of political commentary has commandeered attention on both sides of the aisle.

Glenn Beck has emerged over the last decade as a unique and bizarre conservative icon for the new century. He encourages his listeners to embrace a cynical paranoia that slides easily into a fantasyland filled with enemies that do not exist and solutions that are incoherent, at best. Since the election of President Barack Obama, Beck’s bombastic, conspiratorial, and often viciously personal approach to political combat has made him one of the most controversial figures in the history of American broadcasting.

In Common Nonsense, investigative reporter Alexander Zaitchik explores Beck's strange brew of ratings lust, boundless ego, conspiratorial hard-right politics, and gimmicky morning-radio entertainment chops.

Separates the facts from the fiction, following Beck from his troubled childhood to his recent rise to the top of the conservative media heap
Zaitchik's recent three-part series in Salon caused so much buzz, Beck felt the need to attack it on his show
Based on Zaitchik's interviews with former Beck coworkers and review of countless Beck writings and television and radio shows
Explains why Beck is always crying, why he has so many conservative enemies, why he's driven by conspiracy theories, and why he's dangerous to the health of the republic
A contributing writer to Alternet, Zaitchik's reporting has appeared in the New Republic, the Nation, Salon, Wired, Reason, and the Believer
Beck, a perverse and high-impact media spectacle, has emerged as a leader in a conservative protest movement that raises troubling questions about the future of American politics.


From the Inside Flap
Common Nonsense

What kind of disc jockey would telephone the wife of a competitor and, over live radio, belittle her and her husband about her recent miscarriage? What kind of patriot would con his listeners into donating $450,000 to finance a series of Rally for America events that turned out to be nothing but a personal promotional tour? What kind of talk-radio host would falsely describe the president of the United States as a communist and black nationalist out to enslave Americans? The purveyor of such tactics—and worse—can only be America's newest household conservative name: Glenn Beck.

In Common Nonsense, investigative reporter Alexander Zaitchik traces Beck's personal history, from his troubled childhood through his years as a "morning zoo" DJ to his sudden and meteoric rise to the top of the conservative media heap. He pays special attention to Beck's transformation from alcoholic, cocaine-snorting, failed disc jockey without a political thought in his head to wealthy, bile-spewing, right-wing demagogue whose radio and television shows form the core of a multimillion-dollar media empire.

Drawing on interviews with Beck's childhood friends, radio coworkers, and TV colleagues as well as Beck's own published accounts of his life, Zaitchik reveals the cracks in Beck's personal creation myth. He pinpoints the moment when Beck, then working in Tampa and about to be fired from his first-ever talk-radio job, discovered right-wing rabble-rousing as his route to long-sought fame and fortune. He shows how Beck adapted the timeworn gags and manipulations of radio hucksterism—including the audience donation drive—into powerful tools for propaganda and personal enrichment. He also demonstrates how Beck's screeds about ACORN, czars, and socialists are carefully honed to intensify his listeners' fears and spur them to action at a time and place of his choosing.

Beck's manipulations are not aimed exclusively at conservative Tea Party activists. One of his favorite gambits, Zaitchik reveals, is to make outrageous statements—such as calling President Obama a racist—to provoke angry and overwrought reactions from the Left. He knows that nothing burnishes his reputation as a right-wing hero victimized by political correctness more effectively than a barrage of scoldings from the "liberal elite."

You can laugh at his crocodile tears, shake your head at the "facts" out of which he spins his wild theories, gape in wonder at his abrupt transitions from cheap sentiment to vicious attack and back again—but do not underestimate Glenn Beck. Read Common Nonsense and discover how this smart, ambitious self-promoter and his devoted flock poison our political discourse and weaken our democracy.

http://www.amazon.com/Common-Nonsense-Glenn-Triumph-Ignorance/dp/0470557397

[treestar]

11. The first clause undoes it all!

[cornermouse]

13. I find this highly ironic.

[Cha]

17. So

[Dr Morbius]

14. "...and as a dad I should have known better."

Yes, and as a PERSON you should have known better. My kid understood that you don't attack innocent people before she went to school. So as a post-kindergartener, you should have known better.

I refuse to call Glenn Beck exactly what he is because I don't want to sink to that kind of language. One cannot truly accurately describe Glenn Beck without using an obscenity; that's who and what he is, a walking and talking obscenity.

[TK421]

15. You are a joke, Glenn...people don't even take you seriously anymore

you are viewed as a raving lunatic, and come across as one in your broadcast. People see you and laugh at what you have to say and they also laugh at you because of your insane facial expressions while you speak because it seems like you are acting a part.

Give it up, Beck....you have become satire and more and more are seeing it every single day and waking up to the fact that you and the rest of your vulture friends at Fox just are not reliable news sources and more like some cheap side-show performance

[Cha]

16. Fuck you beckhole.. You lying piece of shit.

President Obama does NOT use his children to shield him..that's your asshole palin's department.

You're such a jealous fuck that you couldn't stand him to say what Malia said to him in the White House. Suck it up, mediawhore.

[TK421]

19. please...he's not even worthy of "mediawhore"

edited to add: this guy is the most annoying, pointless, blabbering infomercial I have ever seen

[BklnDem75]

18. Apology accepted Beck

[Dont TS Me Brah]

20. apology is insufficient. Deeds not words. Quit your job. nt

[young_at_heart]

21. He crossed a line---he showed his true self

His "true" self is very ugly. Fox should fire him now!

[Cha]

22. So the big slobbering beck

started ragging on a little girl and now he wants to weasel out of it..who put the screws to him?

[Robeson]

23. Apology not accepted....

...I'm 50/50 as to whether he's insane, or partially insane.

[BreweryYardRat]

24. Yeah, an apology isn't enough.

It's a point in his favor, but it's still not enough. He needs to resign.

Seriously, I shit better men than Glenn Beck.

[Blue_Tires]

25. fuck him

[Robbie88]

26. Fuck you, Glenn.

n/t.

[demtenjeep]

27. Liz Curits Higgs is the nicest lady you would ever meet

in addition to all the other crap he does, he is puke on puke

Beck crosses the lines and never pays for it. It is time someone had him pay

[Cass]

28. The guy is an asshole. This is the guy who called a competing radio personality's wife

ON AIR to make fun of the miscarriage she had just had days before...he told her that her husband couldn't do anything right, not even getting her pregnant. That's what we are dealing with here, that's the caliber of this asswipe. He's a lowlife POS and always will be.

He can shove his apology up his ass. It wasn't one rushed remark in passing - he went on a spiel about it. He isn't sorry he said what did about Pres Obama's little daughter, he knew damn well what he was doing.

And where is Palin coming out to condemn his remarks?? Oh that's right, she's another phony bullshit artist.

[RamboLiberal]

34. The guy was a former morning zoo partner to Beck

And he and his wife had double-dated with Beck and his first wife. That's how low that ahole would go. He also mercilessly in Kentucky meanly joked on air about a very nice lady on a competing station who did an advice show (not in Beck's time period or format) on her being overweight. He wouldn't let up even when a co-worker of hers came to the station and pleaded with Beck to stop the joking.

[zulchzulu]

29. Retiring and resigning his gig at Fox would be a better form of apology

He'll be back to the same half-witted claptrap tomorrow.

If his body contained balls, he would have resigned.

[AsahinaKimi]

30. Beck has a job for life at Fox

The only way Beck would get off the air is if FOX Went Bankrupt. Fat chance of that happening. We will be stuck with him for a long time...


Personally, if a Meteor came down and put a crater in the middle of Fox News...well, I am not so sure if I would shed a tear.

[Ned Bro]

32. Giving the Devil his due.

I'm sure Mr. Beck will be saying something equally scurrilous come Monday!

[niceypoo]

35. "In discussing how President Obama uses children to shield himself"

What a dickhead