You have to wonder what’s going on with Glenn Beck.
Beck’s fall from grace started when his site, The Blaze, falsely attacked James O’Keefe — to the delight of the very people who used to attack Beck. Then Beck, of all things, betrayed the Tea Party in the worst way any conservative could. I thought he’d hit bottom with that. After all, how much lower can you go than selling out to the mainstream media?
Well, yesterday, what I thought had been a rhetorical question was answered when The Blaze went full Andrew Sullivan, full Politico,full Wonkette, and and attacked Sarah Palin over a situation involving her family.
The Governor’s sin? Composing what amounts to a touching article about her family’s life with Trig – Todd and Sarah Palin’s youngest son with Down Syndrome.
To understand how misleading the Blaze attack is, you first have to read what Beck’s writer, a piece of work named Eddie Scarry (more on him below), wrote:
What’s the first thing that came to mind when you heard that Rick Santorum‘s special needs child was in the hospital with pneumonia late last month? I bet all ofMitt Romney‘s money it wasn’t Sarah Palin unless you are Sarah Palin. …
Of the roughly 900-word article, 123 of them relate to Santorum and his daughterBella who was born with Trisomy 18, a disability similar to Down syndrome.
It’s all downhill from there. For more perspective, the names “Rick” and “Santorum” appear three times total and are all found in the first paragraph. The word “my,” in reference to Palin herself, appears 15 times throughout the rest.
What the Blaze is intentionally doing here, is misleading its readers into believing Governor Palin was supposed to write a piece about the Santorum family and their daughter Bella. Moreover, The Blaze obviously wants their readers to believe that Palin selfishly exploited what happened to the Santorums so that she could write something all about herself.
That’s the only explanation for why the Blaze counts the number of times “Rick” and “Santorum” are used, or why there’s a count of how many words are dedicated to the Santorums. Why would those word counts matter otherwise?
The lie the Blaze tells here, is one of omission. But it’s a lie nonetheless, because the truth happens to be the COMPLETE opposite. Which leads me to a bigger question…
What are we to make of the fall of Glenn Beck when we’re forced to use the Huffington Post to correct his site’s misinformation … about Sarah Palin?
Yes, what just flew past your window was a pig, because today ”the truth has no agenda” at the Huffington Post:
[A] Daily Beast spokesperson says the Palin piece was assigned last week following the news that Rick Santorum’s daughter, Bella, had been hospitalized and he was briefly leaving the campaign trail.
“We asked Sarah Palin if she would like to share her personal story about life with a child with special needs upon learning about Senator Santorum’s decision last week to place his campaign on hold to be with his daughter,” the spokesperson emailed.
In other words, in the wake of what happened to Bella Santorum, Newsweek reached out to Sarah Palin — and I’m going to repeat this carefully for the Beck-impaired — to… share… her… personal… story… about… life… with… a… child… with… special… needs…
So what is Sarah Palin guilty of here? Writing the piece she was asked to write.
But what is The Blaze guilty of here? Again, telling a lie of omission and, just like Wonkette and Andrew Sullivan, using Palin’s family as a weapon against her. After nearly four years, this tactic is well-honed and easy to spot. Anytime the Governor writes about or speaks of or is seen with her family, some bottom-feeder weaponizes the event, weaponizes her own family, to beat her senseless with. And that’s exactly what The Blaze did.
And what kind lowlifes does Beck hire, anyway? When Stacy Drake, a Conservatives For Palin writer, challenged Scarry about his story via Twitter, he responded by calling her a “whore”:
Video of Joe Biden surfaced in which the Vice President is singling out former NJ Governor John Corzine as a key contributor to the Obama fiscal policies we are seeing now. That would explain a lot, considering Corzine’s bankrupt company MF Global can’t seem to find $1.2 billion of investor money. It just vanished – just like the success of the stimulus package.
“When they were trying to figure out what to do with the economy, they called the smartest guy they know. They called the guy who lost $1.2 billion, Jon Corzine!” Glenn joked.
“So he helped design the stimulus package. Which we’re not really sure where all that money went,” Glenn said.
Herman Cain’s constant flow of sexual misconduct allegations against him sparked a heated debate on radio today. What are the types of situations at work that are acceptable to engage in and which are unacceptable? Glenn gets a little heat from the rest of the radio crew for his firm stand that he shouldn’t take a member of the opposite sex out to dinner. Stu and several other Mercury colleagues, however, strongly disagreed with Glenn.
Watch the hilarious debate unfold on radio below as everyone from Betsy Morgan, President of The Blaze, to Jeff Fisher, (We aren’t sure what his title is or what he does here but it involves something called The Feed – Wait – are we paying him to eat?), weigh in on the matter.
Presidential candidate and Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann stopped by Glenn’s NYC radio studio Monday for a talk that spanned national security, the possibility of economic collapse, and the implications of a second Barack Obama term.
Congresswoman Bachmann laid out her expansive policy knowledge, foreign affairs acumen, and expressed her deep concerns about the future of the country.
Among her most stark analytic points was that “The table has been set for a worldwide nuclear war against Israel.” Read More
Another weekend and yet another allegation of rape at an Occupy protest – but more disturbing than the allegation itself is how OWS is handling it. In the latest case, the victim was afraid to speak out about the incident at all and said OWS handles sexual assault cases ‘internally’ and feared she ‘said too much already’ about the allegation. Why not just report it to the police?
“There seems to be an increase of rapes now,” Glenn said of the Wall Street protests.
“They’ve decided that they are just going to have to not really call them ‑‑ well, they’ll call them rape, but they’re not going to call the police because the police really would be a bad thing to call, you know. Why do that?”
The New York Post reports “A sex fiend barged into a woman’s tent and sexually assaulted her at around 6 a.m., said protesters, who chased him from the park.”
The Post interviewed one woman who explained that they don’t report the assaults. “We handle it internally. I said too much already,” she said.
“They did shine flashlights in the face of the most recent rapist,” Stu said.
“Brutality! Brutality! Brutality!” Pat jokingly chanted.
Dirty hippie or homeless vagrant ??? How can you tell the difference ???
The kitchen staff at Occupy Wall Street has decided to revolt against the freeloading “professional homeless” and other who are trying to just get a free meal off their hard work. Seriously – it’s pure irony in action and Glenn took the time on radio to point out the massive hypocrisy.
According to news reports, the cooks down on Wall Street feel overworked and underappreciated. There are homeless people and others who are not necessarily part of the protests – although they certainly are part of the 99% – going to Zuccotti Park for a free meal. In response, they chefs are refusing to cook the gourmet food they usually serve and will only serve brown rice and other ‘spartan grub’ this weekend. For instance, they are only serving peanut butter and jelly sandwiches today.
“There are people starving in this country and you’re not willing to share you’re food?” Glenn asked.
“Heartless,” he added.
Glenn said at most gatherings the Tea Party organized don’t get gourmet food, and they would be lucky have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
“They have so much in common with those in Egypt,” Glenn jokingly added.
“I mean, these hangers on aren’t doing anything. Why should they have to support them? Why?” Pat asked.
“They are protesting for the people who are at the middle and bottom of the ladder, they say. But their protest to shake the deadbeats is to feed them peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. You’ve got to be kidding me.”
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Absolutely very alive, motivated and kicking.
GLENN: You are ‑‑ this has actually put new life into you, hasn’t it?
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Oh… don’t tread or me or the freedom of speech.
GLENN: I tell ya, Hank, it is ‑‑ it’s amazing that when people wake up and they think that they’re going to destroy you, it’s ‑‑ it only goes one way or another. You know, some people will be destroyed and they will be quiet and they will sit like a mouse. The others like you release songs.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Yeah, I’m not one of those people, Glenn. How about Thomas Jefferson, you know: When the people fear a government, they’re a tyranny. When a government fears the people, there is liberty. This song of ours, it’s a great day in America. It is an awakening. It’s not about all the talking heads on the network. It’s not about the real world. Well, my song is about the real world. And if I may, we’re talking about 48 hours, Glenn. The number one MP download and the number one stream in the United States of America yesterday ‑‑
GLENN: Unbelievable.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: ‑‑ is Keep the Change by yours truly.
GLENN: Good for you. Good for you. How’s radio reacting to it?
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: That is the radio.
GLENN: That is the radio?
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: That is the radio.
GLENN: Holy cow.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: That’s country radio, ladies and gentlemen, in the United States of America.
GLENN: There’s the ‑‑ there’s the answer we were looking for yesterday. We thought how many ‑‑ and I thought country music would still, would still, would come your way and my way and not, you know, the change way, and that is great, great to hear.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: You know, that’s the bottom line, Glenn. The number one song in this country downloaded and streamed in country radio is ‑‑ is yours truly, and I’m going to call it the people’s song. Keep the Change.
GLENN: Do you ‑‑
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Because that’s how I write my songs.
GLENN: Do you ‑‑ can we play a little bit of it here so people, if you haven’t heard it ‑‑
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: I think that’s an excellent idea.
GLENN: I actually played it twice yesterday on the talk show. Played the whole thing twice.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Good.
GLENN: But do you ‑‑ when you wrote this, do you think you were writing an anthem at all?
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: I hope. I hope. It’s ‑‑ yeah. It’s my ‑‑ you know, I have a lot of wonderful fans out there. I’ve probably got the ‑‑ you know, you can ask Snoop Dogg or Kenny Chesney or Taylor Swift. I’ve probably got the most loyal hardcore fans in the music business. You know, I can sit around, go fishing, do ten shows a year, fifteen, none, twenty, and it’s just fantastic. Because they know I shoot straight and I don’t talk bull.
GLENN: Hang on just a second. Here’s a little Hank Williams.
(Music playing).
GLENN: A lot of people I don’t think really understand. I mean, if you’re living in New York and you’re aware or you’re living in Washington D.C., it’s the only city in America that has cranes where they’re still building things, you feel it. You feel the United Socialist States of America coming on. A lot of people will be driving their truck and listen to this and they will think this is just a snappy number that’s fun to dance to. But you take on Fox here ‑‑ listen to this part.
(Music playing).
GLENN: Let me ‑‑ let me ask you this, Hank, because when I ‑‑ when I watched you on Fox and Friends, I didn’t see it. They brought ‑‑ they played it for me on the air live and as soon as Brian, who I like ‑‑ he’s a good guy ‑‑ as soon as Brian said, what do you mean you’re comparing to Hitler, I ‑‑ my first words out of my mouth, I cut him off. I said, Brian, you’re smarter than that. That’s not what he ‑‑ that’s not what he’s saying by any stretch of the imagination. You were ‑‑ you were as shocked at that reaction from them as I was.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: I really was. I was awed. I absolutely was. And by the way, Glenn, the rest of the story, you know, there will be downloads hopefully this afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen of America, we have that whole interview before they started. Please look at it. When they asked me, “Well, what about, you know, the presidential race and the politics.” I said, look, let’s don’t go there. Let’s talk about my father’s new box set. Yet I can’t wait, you know. In the words of Sean Hannity last night, I’d hate to be Fox and Friends right now. Just judge it for yourself. Don’t go there. And like you said, an analogy?
GLENN: I know.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Yeah, how many of the other side have said some horrible things.
GLENN: Right.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Right, right, right. There is no freedom of speech if you’re a conservative.
GLENN: So you ‑‑ you think this was just a Fox and Friends? This wasn’t a networkwide? This was just a ‑‑
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: I’m like you, Glenn. Completely ‑‑ what are you talking about? It’s 6:30 in the morning, I’ve got 27 stations to visit, and I said, what? Don’t go ‑‑ what are you talking about? When they, you know, when they went into that thing.
GLENN: How do you think this is going to affect the NFL fan? I mean, you know, you’re watching football and ‑‑
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: (Laughing). Well, you know, Glenn, the poll was ‑‑ they said, who should sing the Monday night football song? 53%, you know, they said yours truly. And the biggest of the others was 14? Okay? I’m not going to mention their name because there are some pretty big ones. 14 was a big one. Mine was 53. Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them. And I will be a free agent in May of 2012 and yours truly and all his conservative rowdy friends and his song, you can bet there’s other networks that show football games.
PAT: That’s fantastic.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Oh, yeah.
PAT: That’s fantastic.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Oh, yeah. Yeah, like one contact yesterday already, uh‑huh. Yeah.
GLENN: Where do you think we’re headed, Hank? Because I listened to the words of your song and I thought, this is ‑‑ this is the beginning of a split in people’s minds of, “Yeah, there are two countries. Now, there are two views of our country.”
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Yep.
GLENN: So what, I don’t ‑‑ we don’t have to go there. I’m not going to push you on this. Do you want to say what you’re thinking? Is this a split?
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: You just said it earlier. You know, if you ‑‑ he says United Socialist States of America. And if you hang around a couple of cities, you certainly start getting that idea.
PAT: Well, and that’s why the song is resonating and is number one right now because so many people are feeling it.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Oh ‑‑
PAT: And you just, you said it in song.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: The public, I have the most wonderful e‑mails and letters.
GLENN: I bet you do.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: “You are our hero. You have the guts to say it like it is out here in the real world. I’m 62 years old. We lost everything we had, and you hit it right on the head.” You know, that just makes me feel ‑‑ you know, John Adams is one of my heroes, and he said facts are very stubborn things, and the fact is they ‑‑ Mickey Mouse is a mean mouse, and I’m talking about Disney. Harry Truman in the Rose Garden in 1948 was asked a political question by a reporter and he said, “Son, remember this: Never kick a cow turd on a hot day.”
PAT: (Laughing).
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Okay. Mickey Mouse has stepped in the poo and now he’s trying to sling it off and he can’t get rid of it.
GLENN: (Laughing).
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: My kind of Mickey is the one that says Mantle on the back with Number 6 ’07. That’s my kind.
GLENN: I have to tell you something, Hank. I was told, this could be a rough interview, Glenn. You know, this could be really ‑‑ this could be dicey. This is my favorite interview maybe of all time.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Yeah. You know, this guy’s some illiterate, you know, dumb racist hillbilly. This may be horrible, you know. Doesn’t that crap get old? Have they not ‑‑ listen, America. Have they not beaten that horse to death?
PAT: They sure have.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: The public is completely turned off, disgruntled. Let’s face it. The USA Today poll said 89% of people polled said congress should be totally replaced. I mean, that’s where we are. That’s where we’re at. But I can tell you, I am looking forward to 2012, and I’m looking forward to finishing this album and putting, you know, ten or eleven more songs with the Change and getting our message out there.
GLENN: I will tell you, Hank, that it’s ‑‑ it’s a pleasure to talk to you. It’s good to see somebody who could lose it all and has now just lost a significant thing but you’re taking it and you’re saying, “You know, I don’t really give a flying crap what you say about me. I’m moving forward.”
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: You know what? Listen. I haven’t lost anything. My daughter, a Freshman in college, said, “Daddy, I didn’t know anything about it. Did that stupid thing that day, get called,” and I said, what are you saying? I said, well, I’ll tell you what, you can tell them I’m outta there. That was my manager. My daughter said, “Daddy, are you in trouble?” I said, “Well, honey, if I am, then we all are.”
PAT: That’s fantastic.
GLENN: You’re exactly right, Hank. God bless you, man. Hank Williams, Jr., new song out on the Internet. Just, you just Google Hank Williams, Jr. and you’ll find it. It’s on the front page of GlennBeck.com for free. Also is ‑‑ if I may, if I may be Hillary Clinton and try to use some country speak, his Daddy’s CD is Hank Williams, Sr., The Legend Begins: Rare and Unreleased Recordings. Hank, it is a pleasure to talk to you, sir. It is an honor to talk to you, and you keep going. You’re an inspiration to millions on this.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Listen. Backatcha. It is a pleasure and an honor to talk to another great American that stands up for the Constitution and our principles and our freedom and his name is Glenn Beck.
GLENN: God bless you, man. Thank you very much, Hank.
HANK WILLIAMS, JR.: Thank you.
GLENN: God bless. We’ll talk again.
That was fantastic.
PAT: That was great.
GLENN: I’d like to just end the show there.
PAT: Yep.
GLENN: All right, gang, I think we’re good.
PAT: You could go home after that.
GLENN: Good night, everybody. Here’s a little Hank Williams.
(Music playing).
GLENN: Stop for a second. Pause it there for a second. Look at what he ‑‑ we’ve got to go back and take this apart. Look at ‑‑ he’s nailed it. He’s nailed it every single line. He’s nailed it. You know, I talked to a politician last night. I said, you’ve got to wake up, man. This guy is awake. I said, you’ve got to wake up. You’ve got to wake up. You spit yourself out of the system. You make sure that everybody understands, “Not me.” That’s what Hank Williams is doing. When I say spit yourself out of the system, Hank just did it. Spit yourself out of the system. You’re going to get bumps and bruises and it’s not going to be good. It’s not going to be fun. Believe me, believe me, I know. But you know what? When we all start doing it and start inspiring each other, one may fall but ten more will rise behind him. Where are the icons? Where are the leaders? Where are the people that are saying, “You know what? To hell with that.” Begin with Hank Williams, Jr.
You know, I’ve always been a fan of Glenn Beck. Watched him on CNN’sHeadline News and of course on FOX.
I’ve read his books, and defended him on the internet when he’s been attacked.
That’s why this deal shocks me, pains me, and pisses me off.
Everyone has been hammering Joe McGinnis for his work of fiction about Sarah Palin. And by everyone, I mean even the New York Times!
Dana Loesch has a list of a some of the heavyweight liberals who have called the book a steaming pile of BS. Check it out here.
Stacy Drake reported on former Wasilla resident Rob Port’s interview with Stephen K. Bannon that exposed McGinnis for exactly the sort of worthless liar is. You can check that out here.
Robert Stacy McCain has even [semi-seriously] started a “Todd Palin Defense Fund!” [in case Todd wants to beat the ever-loving crap out of McGinnis] Check that out here.
That reminds me, Josh Painter has even more on McGinnis’ lies here.
All of this is what makes the attack on Sarah Palin, and her family, by Glenn Beck all the more despicable.
Glenn Beck TV is actually giving some legitimacy to what McGinnis is saying, and trying to get away with it by calling it “comedy.”
This puts him on the same level as über douche-bag Tucker Carlson who has called Sarah Palin a “MILF” in the past, and whose online fishwrap The Daily Caller published the vulgar rants against Sarah by Mike Tyson, and then threatened blogger Dan Riehl with a lawsuit because he called them out for it!
You can read what Dan has to say about all of that here.
In the guise of “comedy” Beck introduces the man who he claims is going to “take Jon Stewart’s job” who then turned around and did jokes that even Stewart would have too much class to do.
Look, I love good comedy, even when it’s at the expense of myself, or someone I support. This isn’t good comedy and was totally uncalled for. Andrew Breitbart has the video of this on his website, watch it here.
If that is what passes for comedy on the Glenn Beck Show these days, I think the folks paying a premium to see it are getting cheated.
Not sure why he felt the need to join the most vile elements of our society, and disrespect a fine, decent woman, mother, and grandmother, but I am very disappointed in Glenn Beck.
The average American completely understands that when a President is on vacation, he’s not really on vacation. Daily briefings, updates, etc all usually still take place. That said, with the economy in the dumps it’s probably not the best idea to take vacation after vacation after vacation. He’s hitting the links again. For PR sake it’d probably be best to stop the R&R streak, but Obama doesn’t really seem to care. Check out the clip above for more on the story!
Is it possible that Chris Matthews has been drunk while hosting his MSNBC show? After all, there are only so many explanations for his horrible and unprofessional habit of slurring nearly every word he says on his TV show! What other TV host could get away with such lazy speech on a national news netwok?
What were some of Matthews’s slurring language? He kept saying “Prez Obama” rather than “President Obama”, “Harbra” instead of “Hardball”, and “conserves” instead of “conservatives”.
“He’s jamming forty words in three seconds,” Stu said.
