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The deranged Glenn Beck got nailed to the WALL tonight by Keith Olbermann--really nailed, I mean. Olberman showed a clip of Beck ranting and raving about an alleged lack of balanced media coverage concerning the recently-deceased Senator Robert Byrd's personal history. Why, Beck asks earnestly (with an earnestness that only Beck can feign so expertly), were there no film or tape clips of Byrd filibustering against the Civil Rights Bill when that legislation was before the U.S. Senate? Why did the mainstream media neglect to show some of that historic coverage? Beck asserted that he and his staff (obviously of equally incompetent morons) had looked hard for evidence of any such footage being shown by the evil "mainstream media," and had found absolutely none. None!!

Why would Beck & Co. have failed to find any such thing? Could it be, asked Olbermann, because in the era when civil rights legislation was before the U.S. Congress, NO CAMERAS WERE PERMITTED IN THE CHAMBERS OF EITHER THE HOUSE OR SENATE DURING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THOSE BODIES??!! That being the case, no "mainstream media" or any other media could have found any footage of the filibustering Byrd or of any other person in the Senate speaking on any other subject whatsoever during any session of that body!

What Beck the bonehead did not note, though it was evident throughout much of the coverage of Byrd's passing, was that frequent mention was made in the mainstream media--in both print and electronic forms--concerning Byrd's former association with the Ku Klux Klan and his stand decades ago against civil rights legislation, including his renowned filibustering. There was no contrived avoidance, no conspiratorial omission of any of that. Did Beck and his clueless staff, realizing that, decide to focus more narrowly on some alleged failure to show film or video clips illustrating Byrd's former attitudes toward integration and his Senate filibustering on this issue? Is that what impelled them to go on their absurd fool's errand of digging for evidence of recent use of such nonexistent archival materials by the mainsteream media? After such a debacle, should anyone place any confidence whatsoever in in the integrity or fact-checking competence of Beck or his large staff of right-wing knaves and serfs?

This pudgy, brain-addled little bozo reportedly nails down some $30 million a year for his televised antics and similarly puerile books. If that is the free-market system at work, something ain't working right! But as long as there is a great free market among those who are ignorant and brainwashed and who want their irrational biases confirmed, one supposes that sleazy weasels like Beck will find and occupy the economic niche that is created thereby!

Thanks, Keith Olbermann, for once more shining the light of truth on a classless purveyor of ideological nonsense!

And--on a lighter note--Jon Stewart takes a wondrously clever shot at Beck, demonstrating the absurd way in which Beck weaves his conspiracy theories for the benefit of his brainwashed fans! This is pure gold! Stewart is a genius of satire!

http://www.clicker.com/tv/coun...iracist-Beck-809732/
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Beternu,
You just revealed why "the free-market system" does, indeed, work. The "customer" votes with his money! It is also called "Freedom of Choice", which, somehow, I don't think you really appreciate. Additionally, if Keith Olbermann is your choice of reference, that probably tells us all we need to know about "brain-washing"...I'd bet you think Eric Holder is the best thing to hit the Justice Dept. in decades.
While Beck can be a bit irritating for me at times, I think one thing he is trying to do is get people to THINK and not get caught up in "gradualism". (You know, the old "frog in a pot of boiling water" story?) If MSNBC is your choice of info, then maybe your forum name is self-revealing.
As ususl, the right wing sheeple on this forum have just ignored the factual and easily verifiable information I posted concerning Beck & staff's huge gaffe and their incompetence at getting even basic historical information right. As usual, the incorrigibly brainwashed have cheaped out by questioning the source of the information, as though Keith Olbermann and MSNBC were not as much at risk of embarrassment as is Beck, should Olbermann make a gaffe as serious and as laughable as Beck did. The FACTS I prersented are true. Beck & Co. erred laughably in their headlong and compulsive rush to find fault with the "mainstream media." They failed miserably, and not only failed but hugely injured their own credibility with anyone who cares about TRUTH and who respects the standards of journalism--or whatever craft it is that Beck can be identified with (maybe stagecraft?).

Wake up, People! Beck is loco! disordered! a certified loose cannon! You do not want to associate yourselves with that ludicrous loon!
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Originally posted by ferrellj:
Bitternu is right. Beck is crazier than that wingnut from Wasilla. We need more Olbermans, Stewarts, Maddows and such to get the real news out. Dont forget to read Huffington Post and Alternet.


As snide and snarky as that is, it is correct when taken literally. You and the other victims of rightist brainwashing are to be pitied for your utter blindness to reality.
He was correct that Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights legislation, which is THE point. Beck is on radio and TV 20+ hours a week, playing clips of people in their own words, that the MSMedia ignores. He has been mostly correct while the MSM focuses on Lindsey Lohan and Lebron.
None in the MSM seem to think it important that the new healthcare Czar believes healthcare, by definition, requires redistribution of wealth or that healthcare has to be rationed. And to put the Czar in that position, Obama has to bypass the Senate. There are so many examples like this that are true, important, and overlooked and dismissed by the left and/or the media, (Petraeus, new Black Panthers, Arizona Immigration bill, economic disaster, etc).
You keep your sports announcer failure, Keith Olbeman and John Leibowitz (Stewart) for your hard news, I'll stick with Beck, Rush, Fox, et al. We'll both be happy.
It's understandable why you disparage him. He's effective!
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Originally posted by beternU:
As ususl, the right wing sheeple on this forum have just ignored the factual and easily verifiable information I posted concerning Beck & staff's huge gaffe and their incompetence at getting even basic historical information right. As usual, the incorrigibly brainwashed have cheaped out by questioning the source of the information, as though Keith Olbermann and MSNBC were not as much at risk of embarrassment as is Beck, should Olbermann make a gaffe as serious and as laughable as Beck did. The FACTS I prersented are true. Beck & Co. erred laughably in their headlong and compulsive rush to find fault with the "mainstream media." They failed miserably, and not only failed but hugely injured their own credibility with anyone who cares about TRUTH and who respects the standards of journalism--or whatever craft it is that Beck can be identified with (maybe stagecraft?).

Wake up, People! Beck is loco! disordered! a certified loose cannon! You do not want to associate yourselves with that ludicrous loon!



Usually when someone describes some one else they don't agree with as :

"loco! disordered! a certified loose cannon!"

You can be assured the "certified loose cannon" is the accuser.

Look, Beck can be a bit over dramatic and present his points in a conspiratorial tone...but he does bring up many things that the main stream media shy away from.

And to use beternU's phrase..."as usual"...those that critize Beck are mischaracterizing what he has said. Granted, I don't see much of his TV show...but I do listen to most of his radio show...which is 3 hours...he has much more discussion on the radio show.

What he said about the Byrd story was more about the MEDIA than Byrd himself...he talks of a person's ability to be forgiven and change...including Byrd.

What he did talk about was the hypocrisy of the media...especially the left leaning media. In that they bend over backwards to excuse Byrd's past...in particular the white washing (pardon the pun) of Byrd's past by Bill Clinton.

If you genuinely believe the media gives fair coverage of say Byrd's past and the Lott/Thurmond situation...then we really see the world very very differently.

And this notion of "not showing clips" or whatever...I never heard him say anything like that on radio...maybe he did on TV...but really...c'mon that's just really silly...and if that's the best you got to bring down Beck...then good luck!
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Originally posted by gracies old man:
He was correct that Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights legislation, which is THE point. Beck is on radio and TV 20+ hours a week, playing clips of people in their own words, that the MSMedia ignores. He has been mostly correct while the MSM focuses on Lindsey Lohan and Lebron.
None in the MSM seem to think it important that the new healthcare Czar believes healthcare, by definition, requires redistribution of wealth or that healthcare has to be rationed. And to put the Czar in that position, Obama has to bypass the Senate. There are so many examples like this that are true, important, and overlooked and dismissed by the left and/or the media, (Petraeus, new Black Panthers, Arizona Immigration bill, economic disaster, etc).
You keep your sports announcer failure, Keith Olbeman and John Leibowitz (Stewart) for your hard news, I'll stick with Beck, Rush, Fox, et al. We'll both be happy.
It's understandable why you disparage him. He's effective!


NO. THE point that Beck was so enthusiastically attempting to make was expressly what I described. I saw the clip of his full tirade and his complaint was that no film footage of Byrd's filibustering had been shown by the mainstream media. You can't gloss it over. Beck and Staff fluffed this one badly and ludicrously and in their headlong and unprofessional attempt to get the goods on the mainstream media, they made themselves look preposterous!
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Originally posted by gracies old man:
He couldn't find a non-existent clip!

Wow, at least he does know there are 50 states, not 57 (or 59), unlike our prez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws


So weak--going back to that long ago slip of the tongue. AND--yes, he couldn't find a non-existent clip, but the POINT is that he ridiculously assumed that it existed, notwithstanding that there was no filming permitted in the Senate when Byrd did his filibustering. And then, not having found the unfindable, he excoriated others for not having found the unfindable. He is a pudgy, lowbrow, fumbling dweeb!
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Originally posted by beternU:
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Originally posted by gracies old man:
He couldn't find a non-existent clip!

Wow, at least he does know there are 50 states, not 57 (or 59), unlike our prez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws


So weak--going back to that long ago slip of the tongue. AND--yes, he couldn't find a non-existent clip, but the POINT is that he ridiculously assumed that it existed, notwithstanding that there was no filming permitted in the Senate when Byrd did his filibustering. And then, not having found the unfindable, he excoriated others for not having found the unfindable. He is a pudgy, lowbrow, fumbling dweeb!


you're a real piece of $*&* work, you tag me as illiterate for typing "your" instead of "you're" in a meaningless forum:

Originally posted by beternU:
An interesting, if somewhat illiterate ("your[sic] a bonehead"] response.

yet you call Barry Soetoro's (Barrack Hussein Obama) the unconstitutional presidents reference to visiting "57" states a simple "slip of the tongue"

who's been NAILED and exposed now mr. almostBETERNadingleberryonaratsass
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Originally posted by onepatriot7:
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Originally posted by beternU:
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Originally posted by gracies old man:
He couldn't find a non-existent clip!

Wow, at least he does know there are 50 states, not 57 (or 59), unlike our prez.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws


So weak--going back to that long ago slip of the tongue. AND--yes, he couldn't find a non-existent clip, but the POINT is that he ridiculously assumed that it existed, notwithstanding that there was no filming permitted in the Senate when Byrd did his filibustering. And then, not having found the unfindable, he excoriated others for not having found the unfindable. He is a pudgy, lowbrow, fumbling dweeb!


you're a real piece of $*&* work, you tag me as illiterate for typing "your" instead of "you're" in a meaningless forum:

Originally posted by beternU:
An interesting, if somewhat illiterate ("your[sic] a bonehead"] response.

yet you call Barry Soetoro's (Barrack Hussein Obama) the unconstitutional presidents reference to visiting "57" states a simple "slip of the tongue"

who's been NAILED and exposed now mr. almostBETERNadingleberryonaratsass


Come, now. Do you really think the President of the United States did not then, or does not now, KNOW that there are 50 states? Of course it was an unintentional statement.

I assume that you elected to address this peripheral matter because you could not deny or rebut what I posted about Bonehead Beck's reckless and ignorant assertion about the mainstream media's failure to find nonexistent film footage. That, after all, was the substance of my post, and it can not be denied, since the evidence is available for anyone to see.

You may now unwad your panties, excited one!
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Originally posted by elinterventor01:
Why I should pay attention to a chubby George Gobel lookalike, or an ex-sports jock, fired from two jobs, is beyond me!


Please do not insult George Gobel. Roll Eyes

Otherwise, I agree totally. Beck is a real nutcase, but worse is anybody who would even give him the time of day to watch his show.
When he was on CNN, I watched him for about 5 minutes before I figured out he was crazy. I now want my 5 minutes back.
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Originally posted by seeweed:
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Originally posted by Jobe:
If seeweed is bashing Beck, then Beck is doing a great job.

Either-
1> you don't listen to him or you would know what a kook he is
2> You do listen to him in which case you are the kook !
Cool


Hmmm...so if some one doesn't agree with you or has alternate ideas...they are a kook?

God bless the USA...
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Originally posted by Netracer41:
I wouldn't take anything Beck OR Olberman says to the bank. It's shock jock TV, not journalism. Did anybody know that John Stewart hosts a comedy show and not a real news program? I know, it is hard to tell the difference sometimes.
......Good post! Voting for me is a choice between the bad or more bad. I vote independent, do research on the candidates myself, and couldn't care less what any of the TV or radio folks have to say. I'm not influenced by any of them.....after all... they are out for ratings in their business. Think for yourself folks!!!! Wink
I didn't say BeternU was wrong to point it out. But I think it is insignificant, if that's the best he can do.
But BeternU simply took what one left wing TV personality said about a conservative TV personality. And knowing Olberman, I'm sure it was in some way out of context. That's not really doing his own research.
But since you claimed I said he was WRONG to point it out, show me where I said that.
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Originally posted by gracies old man:
I didn't say BeternU was wrong to point it out. But I think it is insignificant, if that's the best he can do.
But BeternU simply took what one left wing TV personality said about a conservative TV personality. And knowing Olberman, I'm sure it was in some way out of context. That's not really doing his own research.
But since you claimed I said he was WRONG to point it out, show me where I said that.


Nope--I watched the entire clip of Beck as he vehemently denounced the evil mainstream media for showing absolutely NO film clips of Byrd's famous filibustering. I heard him describing just how hot and heavy his staff had been at it as they researched the matter. I had to chuckle as no doubt many did, since I was fully aware that filming of Senate sessions was prohibited in that time. In the late 70s--early 80s, while working for the gummint in Washington, I attended Senate proceedings several times and even then, 15-18 years later, still no cameras allowed. Beck bungled it badly,and he bungled it with all that great energy, enthusiasm and c o c k sure bluster that he summons up to punctuate all of his blithering tirades!
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Originally posted by beternU:
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Originally posted by gracies old man:
I didn't say BeternU was wrong to point it out. But I think it is insignificant, if that's the best he can do.
But BeternU simply took what one left wing TV personality said about a conservative TV personality. And knowing Olberman, I'm sure it was in some way out of context. That's not really doing his own research.
But since you claimed I said he was WRONG to point it out, show me where I said that.


Nope--I watched the entire clip of Beck as he vehemently denounced the evil mainstream media for showing absolutely NO film clips of Byrd's famous filibustering. I heard him describing just how hot and heavy his staff had been at it as they researched the matter. I had to chuckle as no doubt many did, since I was fully aware that filming of Senate sessions was prohibited in that time. In the late 70s--early 80s, while working for the gummint in Washington, I attended Senate proceedings several times and even then, 15-18 years later, still no cameras allowed. Beck bungled it badly,and he bungled it with all that great energy, enthusiasm and c o c k sure bluster that he summons up to punctuate all of his blithering tirades!


Oh well, since it isn't on film, that means it never happened, right? You're a good little prole, aren't you? Wink
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Originally posted by marksw59:
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Originally posted by PKROUSE:
If you believe anything Beck has to say your as big an idiot as he is.


I'll give Beck credit for one thing I've NEVER heard Chrissy Matthews, Olberpuke, or Rachel Maddow do, he often says, "Don't take my word, do your own research".

Not necessary as they appeal to a more intelligent audience who don't have to be told step by step what to do . We DO check things out.
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Originally posted by seeweed:
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Originally posted by marksw59:
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Originally posted by PKROUSE:
If you believe anything Beck has to say your as big an idiot as he is.


I'll give Beck credit for one thing I've NEVER heard Chrissy Matthews, Olberpuke, or Rachel Maddow do, he often says, "Don't take my word, do your own research".

Not necessary as they appeal to a more intelligent audience who don't have to be told step by step what to do . We DO check things out.


seeweed. warn me next time not to be taking a drink when you post something like this. I almost spit coke all over my computer laughing.
Gracie's Old Man, I'm sorry, it was your SECOND post on this topic, the one about Obama's slip of the tongue, that I found insignificant. Doesn't have anything to do with this topic. And every post you have made in this thread implies that you think BetternU is wrong. I happen to think he's right. Let's just agree to disagree.

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