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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