Glenn Beck attacks New Orleans.
By on Feb 20th, 2007 at 10:23 pm
Glenn Beck attacks New Orleans.
“I find it very difficult in some ways to feel bad for New Orleans,” said CNN Headline News pundit Glenn Beck, who once called Katrina survivors “scumbags.”
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That in a word is 'sick'.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:31 pmWhy can't Glenn Beck just come out and make a strong point like every other righty blowhard out there? He has to qualify every single thing he says with "in some ways" or "kind of feel like" or something of the sort. He has to weaken his statements for some reason. I always note that about his style-- he ducks behind the nearest bush at every single absurd right wing statement he makes. Maybe we can call it the "MediaMatters Effect."
February 20th, 2007 at 10:31 pmThe hateful blogosphere at it again. C'mon you took him out of context, snipping and digitizing the stuff he says. He's just kidding, it was a joke.
/sarcasm
February 20th, 2007 at 10:32 pmWhat a hateful, small, spiteful, whiny, limpdick.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:34 pm#4 - Zooey,
February 20th, 2007 at 10:37 pmThat last label was a low blow, he gets his thrills from trolling child porn WEB sites.
News pundit Glenn Beck, who once called Katrina survivors “scumbags.â€
February 20th, 2007 at 10:38 pm***Beck's the real "scumbag". He has no empathy for his fellow man.Yeah and I am quite sure he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps too.
Walt,
Then I hope he stays limp.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:41 pmOh is this the weekly Hate Progress story on Glenn Beck. You folks sure hold onto your obssessions.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:44 pmThat in a word is ’sick’.
Comment by WaltTheMan
Beck is sick. CNN is sick for hiring him.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:47 pmI have been boycotting them since they hired him.
Blech claims that he has no black friends because he is afraid he'll say something wrong in front of them.
Like perhaps the N-word.
Blech is obviously a racist who feels more sympathy for Iraqis than for Americans.
That CNN continues to debase their brand-name with this racist shill is to their unending discredit.
-GSD
February 20th, 2007 at 10:47 pmOh is this the weekly Hate Progress story on Glenn Beck. You folks sure hold onto your obssessions.
This from a clown who still has a Bill Clinton voodoo doll.
The rightwing still blame everything on Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter but when you point out their morons in action in real time they scream about Bush Derangement Syndrome.
You wingers are nothing if not funny.
-GSD
February 20th, 2007 at 10:49 pmGlenn Beck is like a boil on the ass -- he needs to be pricked and drained, so he can shrivel and dry up.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:50 pmPLEASE do not let Vince P hijack this thread!
February 20th, 2007 at 10:53 pmCaring, conscientious, good-hearted, empathetic human beings find it easy to feel sorry for the people of New Orleans.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:57 pmVINCE?
OBSESSIONS?
Check the topic in which you list about a gazillion things from the Koran.
Do you even know what the word "obsession" means, Son? Look it up in the dictionary, it has a picture of your @$$ in it.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:58 pmYou folks sure hold onto your obssessions.
Comment by Vince P
says the person who is scared witless by brown people with a different religion from him.
February 20th, 2007 at 10:58 pmOh is this the weekly Hate Progress story on Glenn Beck. You folks sure hold onto your obssessions. Comment by Vince P — February 20, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
The Gay Republican with an obsession on Islam, can only see his own freakishness in others, even though he can't spell obsession. Vince, get some help, you're a mess!
February 20th, 2007 at 11:02 pmThe Liar-in-Chief could careless about New Orleans now that Cheney got the recovery money. The American tax dollars will go to Iraq not New Orleans. When Bush said New Orleans would return he out right lied just like Libby and Cheney. Americans will never see New Orleans recover as long as the GOP has something to say about it. Next we'll invade Iran as other countries set back and watch. Notice how fast the Brits are leaving now the Tony Blair is out. People who aren't rich aren't important in the US. Notice how the media is worried about Brittney's bald head but not homeless people. Bush and the GOP will bleed every cent out of middle class and poor Americans as they line their pockets. Watch out for the green pill next and you thought Russia was bad you haven't seen anything yet until you see what's up with the White House and the GOP. Don't worry the Journalist wont say a word as Libby said it's hush hush.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:10 pmVincy, do you love you some Beck (Glenn, that is)?
February 20th, 2007 at 11:18 pmChrist Vince, get a penile implant or a Ferrari. You are so incredibly pathetic.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:19 pmChrist Vince, get a penile implant or a Ferrari. You are so incredibly pathetic. Comment by JPark — February 20, 2007 @ 11:19 pm
Vince seems like the type that has to pay, to get a penile implanted anywhere near him! ;)
February 20th, 2007 at 11:21 pm#21 That made me laugh. A lot. I forget that gay people have standards too. :)
February 20th, 2007 at 11:23 pmYou folks sure hold onto your obssessions.
Comment by Vince P — February 20, 2007 @ 10:44 pm
Obviously irony has no bounds for Vince.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:43 pmGlenn Beck would be wise to never visit New Orleans because the residents might tar, and feather him, then run him out of town on a rail.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:51 pm*
so, did beck ever decide which group he hated more - the 9/11 familes or the n.o. victims? ... not sure if he ever cleared that up...
and surely you all wrote to CNN and ABC to get this creep off the air...
February 20th, 2007 at 11:52 pmObviously irony has no bounds for Vince.
Comment by VerbalKint
personally,I think it funny as hell, that a paranoid, bigotted hatemonger would post on a thread supporting a paranoid, biggoted hatemonger, like Beck.
Very ironic.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:52 pmGlenn Beck would be wise to never visit New Orleans because the residents might tar, and feather him, then run him out of town on a rail.
Comment by Jay Randal
more likely he would disappear in a nearby swamp, they would save the tar for their roofs. It is New Orleans, after all. Ticked off cajuns don't play around.
February 20th, 2007 at 11:56 pm#26 Wayne
maybe it is Beck ... then again, that would be giving him too much credit ... maybe he is at least Beck's fellator
February 20th, 2007 at 11:57 pmHonestly, I don't understand why Glenn Beck still has a job at CNN. I understand that CNN has decided to compete for their share of the viewers who typically watch Fox News, but Beck isn't smart, isn't funny, isn't clever, and isn't incisive. He's just a dough-skinned boob with nothing but hatred and cruelty to dispense. I don't get it. Can someone explain what it is they like about Glenn Beck? (Preferably in positive terms, rather than saying, "Beck really gives it to Clinton, Gore, Kerry, survivors of Katrina and 9/11, and all those other people I hate," et al., ad nauseam.)
February 20th, 2007 at 11:58 pmBreaking News:
George W. Bush endorses gay sex with Bin Laden.
"I will screw him in the ass!"
-- President Bush on what he would do to Osama bin Laden if he caught him, as recounted by Ariel Sharon to biographer Uri Dan in Ariel Sharon: An Intimate Portrait.
-GSD
Now back to blathering about known racist and alcoholic Glenn Blech.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:13 amAnd how bad are the cable news ratings getting? More and more are waking up to the fact of what garbage these stations put out. Corporate republican owned news media has crosased the line for some time.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:17 amZooey...could you maybe visit america blog someday,,,,I as well as many others miss you...
February 21st, 2007 at 12:28 ambeck - not long for the air waves
February 21st, 2007 at 1:00 amLet's see now in a very short amount of time:
1. He said Shanghai would not be a big loss if global warming caused the country(or is it a city) to go underwater
2. He questioned a Muslim Senator's loyalty to the country
3. Said he has no black friends and Obama is colorless
4. New Orleans are scumbags
Am I incorrect to say that Beck is a bigger ass than Limbaugh, Hannity, Savage, etc.?
February 21st, 2007 at 1:39 amGlenn, the president shares your values.
[Insert picture of Bush giving the Gulf coast poor the finger on his new guitar.]
February 21st, 2007 at 3:53 amI think Beck's thing is to conflate emotionalism with honesty. What he's saying is "this is my honest emotional reaction to the situation". It's more emotionally satisfying to apply sweeping generalizations to people than to actually think and examine the facts.
February 21st, 2007 at 7:36 amWhy does this man still have a job at CNN?
February 21st, 2007 at 7:50 amMyTwoCent
You are correct Sir and I have change for you.
February 21st, 2007 at 7:59 amBeck should be fired. He should should have been fired for telling then Rep.-elect Ellison to prove that he was not working with terrorists. Beck is a journalistic disgrace.
February 21st, 2007 at 8:32 amPerhaps the $250,000 question should be "has Beck ever felt sorry for anyone?" It doesn't much sound like it to me -- as far as I can tell, the man has about as much compassion for his fellow man as a Sherman tank does.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:28 amBeck is such an idiot that he seems destined to eventually say something so disgraceful on the air that CNN will be forced to get rid of him.
He is impossible to watch. Absolutely impossible.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:30 am"41. Beck is such an idiot that he seems destined to eventually say something so disgraceful on the air that CNN will be forced to get rid of him." Comment by Ranger Jay — February 21, 2007 @ 9:30 am
Dear Lord, I pray that "eventually" will happen today! He and Nancy "I shill for the highest bidder" Un-Grace are a stink on cable TV news that just won't seem to go away.
February 21st, 2007 at 9:56 amGreat success, Blair's share of the oil reserve war-profits decrease.
February 21st, 2007 at 10:31 amComment by Bluestocking — February 21, 2007 @ 9:28 am
He makes a good show at Christmas time. He plays a sappy standard and gets real sloppy about his mother's addiction. You could think he cares about her. She's dead now, so he doesn't need to prove it.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:44 amI live in New Orleans. I moved into the city after Katrina. Before the storm I worked in the city and lived in the suburbs. I was here for the storm.
I read countless news stories--not commentaries--that constantly report false stories about this city. So many items are presented to the rest of the country as fact when they are so obviously wrong. I share this just to let you know that, even in this age of instant information sharing, reports that come from secondary sources are as unreliable now as they were 1000 years ago.
Glenn Beck is right on the money. He may be callous but his criticism is well founded. All levels of government failed. If blame is at all unequal, the largest portion of it rests with the state of Louisiana. The bus pictures tell plenty. Allowing Amtrak trains to roll out empty is just one of many gaffes on the part of the Nagin administration. Bush . . . ah, Bush. Thanks for the flyby! His boy Brownie promised trucks were lined up "to the east coast" and ready to provide aid. Funny that trucks of water were turned away at the border. But we could keep this up for eternity.
We are to blame. A political philosophy that has incubated a large group of people--poor people--who DEPEND on the government is to blame.
Many have found places to live. I lost my home and had no money in savings. Yet I managed to scrape up the $1500 in a month or so to put a first month's rent and deposit on an apartment. My story is common. What then, of those who, 18 months later are homeless, is the excuse?
Bill Jefferson reelected. Ray Nagin, perhaps that's understandable. But if you knew of the lineup of those who have abused our city and our coffers for their own enrichment who constantly spew racial injustice and blame white people for keeping down our black brothers, if you knew how they live and the system that is perpetuated so that a select few keep power, then you would know how foolish so many people are to vote for these charlatans.
A district attorney who is inept. A mayor who has never offered a "plan". Judges who release boys who have raped their own sisters. Police officers moving drugs. Maintaining seven property assessors for one city when the rest of the civilized world uses one. Valedictorians who cannot pass the state mandated aptitude test for graduation. Reelecting the school board members who have overseen such a system that produces such a student. A community that just accepts young teens' binge drinking because it's Mardi Gras. Bill f'ing Jefferson. Bill Jefferson. I could go on.
February 21st, 2007 at 11:51 amHe makes a good show at Christmas time. He plays a sappy standard and gets real sloppy about his mother’s addiction. You could think he cares about her. She’s dead now, so he doesn’t need to prove it. -- Bob
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It's also not beyond the realm of possibility that he cares about her more now that she's dead than he did when she was alive simply because it's easier to care about someone in the abstract than it is in the concrete. People can sometimes be funny that way about loved ones who have died -- the loved ones become virtual saints in death even if the person may have been furious with them and railed against them constantly while they were alive. Not saying that this is necessarily true in Beck's case -- but if so, he wouldn't be the first nor will he be the last.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:03 pmI caught this snippet of his show (I used to watch headline news all the time and despite that he's been there for 10 months, I still tune there before I realize I'm an idiot and turn it off) and yeah, he basically derided them in every way like a moronic right-wing smear-job man does.
That and, "They're just drunken idiots", etc.
Moron of a man.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:50 pmHere is a thought, if you don't like Beck, don't listen to him or watch him.
February 21st, 2007 at 12:59 pmHere is a thought: I don't like Beck, and as a rule, I don't listen or watch him. However, it never hurts to occasionally tune in to crap I don't like, just to hear what people are saying. Like a second opinion.
Want to know my opinion of Beck? He's an idiot.
Want to know my second opinion about Beck? He's ugly too.
February 21st, 2007 at 1:08 pm48 - if i don't watch beck, is he still responsible for what he says?
February 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pm48 - if i don’t watch beck, is he still responsible for what he says?
He's entitled to his opinion. Obviously CNN thinks high enough of him, and all the extra attention he gets from comments like this will only help his ratings. Many people don't even know who he is. The best way to get to people in the media is to simply ignore them.
February 21st, 2007 at 3:08 pmGlenn Beck is the SCUMBAG, not Katrina victims...This is the method of the rightwingnut commentator and pundit--to portray the victims as the villains--used by SCUMBAGS from Beck to O''LIE-lly to Limburger to Coulter-geist to Malkin to Morgan to Savage to Hewitt to Drudge to Donohue to Gaffney to AD NAUSEUM--SAME OLD SHIT! This is WHY rightwingnut pundits are SLIPPING in popularity and will soon all be flushed down the toilet of public opinion to be relegated to the sewers of forgetfulness where there will fester with other discarded baby alligators and scabrous vermin--these creeps will be in GOOD COMPANY!
February 21st, 2007 at 3:41 pmDude where's the context? The "scumbag" comment was made referring only to the guys that were shooting at helicopters which were trying to save people!! Listen to the show.
Also, why don't you print why he said it's hard to feel bad for them? It was because they voted the same bad local government in that was a part of the huge problem.
February 22nd, 2007 at 10:47 amIf you are on here bashing Glenn Beck, you obviously haven't lisened to him or understand him or his humor enough to see that he is an incredible man and an incredible american.
Liberals control every aspect of the main stream media so why is it that you seem to care so much about one lousy radio host. The one thing conservatives have is talk radio. If you don't like him, forget about him. I can't stand how extreme and opinionated Nancy Pelosi's views are, but who cares?
Get over it.
February 22nd, 2007 at 6:02 pm54 - Just what world do you live in where liberals control the MSM, and how can I get there, short of mind altering drugs?
February 23rd, 2007 at 12:15 amDude, here's the context.
The “scumbag†comment was made referring only to the guys that were shooting at helicopters which were trying to save people!! Listen to the show.
Comment by Jefferson — February 22, 2007 @ 10:47 am
From the September 9, 2005 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: Let me be real honest with you. I don't think anybody on talk radio -- I don't think anybody in their right mind is going to say this out loud -- but I wonder if I'm the only one that feels this way. Yesterday, when I saw the ATM cards being handed out, the $2,000 ATM cards, and they were being handed out at the Astrodome. And they actually had to close the Astrodome and seal it off for a while because there was a near-riot trying to get to these ATM cards. My first thought was, it's not like they're going to run out of the $2,000 ATM cards. You can wait! You know, stand in line. Maybe it's because I'm the kind of guy, when I go to a buffet, I either have to be first in line, or I'm the very last. Because I know there's going to be extra food, and I just won't stand in the line. I'll wait until all the suckers go get their food, and then I'll go get mine. Or if I'm really hungry, I hate to admit this -- and really, I don't even have to be really hungry. If I'm really being a pig, I will kind of, like, hang out around the buffet table before the line is -- you know, chat with people right around the table: "Oh, they just opened the line! Let's go!" And then you're first in line.
When you are rioting for these tickets, or these ATM cards, the second thing that came to mind was -- and this is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this -- you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9-11 victims' families? Took me about a year. And I had such compassion for them, and I really wanted to help them, and I was behind, you know, "Let's give them money, let's get this started." All of this stuff. And I really didn't -- of the 3,000 victims' families, I don't hate all of them. Probably about 10 of them. And when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, "Oh shut up!" I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them. And, again, it's only about 10.
But the second thought I had when I saw these people and they had to shut down the Astrodome and lock it down, I thought: I didn't think I could hate victims faster than the 9-11 victims. These guys -- you know it's really sad. We're not hearing anything about Mississippi. We're not hearing anything about Alabama. We're hearing about the victims in New Orleans. This is a 90,000-square-mile disaster site, New Orleans is 181 square miles. A hundred and -- 0.2 percent of the disaster area is New Orleans! And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we're seeing on television are the scumbags -- and again, it's not all the people in New Orleans. Most of the people in New Orleans got out! It's just a small percentage of those who were left in New Orleans, or who decided to stay in New Orleans, and they're getting all the attention. It's exactly like the 9-11 victims' families. There's about 10 of them that are spoiling it for everybody.
Beck did not make any attempt to focus his comments at the supposed snipers - now known to have never existed - as you claim.
It's quite evident to my reading of his comment that it was directed generally at those persons who did not evacuate. Additionally, he attempt to discern those who chose to not evacuate from those who could not.
I find if quite approapriate that Beck describes himself as a pig: "I'm really being a pig."
Also, why don’t you print why he said it’s hard to feel bad for them? It was because they voted the same bad local government in that was a part of the huge problem.
Comment by Jefferson — February 22, 2007 @ 10:47 am
From the February 20, 2007 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: I don`t want to kick a city when it`s down, but I just -- I mean, we`re not even rebuilding it properly.
I find it very difficult in some ways to feel bad for New Orleans, because you`ve voted your government in. It`s a bad government. You didn`t know that after Katrina, as you were sitting there and the buses were underwater.
Beck does not note that, of the 465,000 pre-Katrina residents, scarcely 56,000 voted for the incumbent. In Beck's world, it seems, he can feel free to punish 410,000 Americans for the bad judgement a few - he says "about 10 ... are spoling it for everybody"
And, "we" are not rebuilding New Orleans - properly or not. Go there. You will see that little rebuilding is going on, and the little rebuilding is being done by locals, with local money and local labor.
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:06 pmPardon me, my corrected paragraph appears below:
It’s quite evident to my reading of his comment that it was directed generally at those persons who did not evacuate. Additionally, he made no attempt to discern those who chose to not evacuate from those who could not.
February 26th, 2007 at 8:22 amI watched two minutes of Beck, and listened for two more. It took the first two to make my stomach roll, and the next to to run for the john and puke.
The hell with CNN.
March 3rd, 2007 at 9:34 pmJust an observation to get out there:
March 11th, 2007 at 3:59 amAll of the so called "news" channels are essentially 'info-tainment'- in that they choose topics in a selective way. The selection of topics seems to be coordinated with a news production program based on an anouncer or anchorperson with some form of purported ,derived or presumably attained celebrity status.This fame is through or in orbit with respect to either their politics or their personality or something else, like good looks or stunning clothes. These people, who are undoubtedly generously and handsomely rewarded and luxuriously annointed by being mightily paid ...are obviously well represented/managed and therefore quite priveleged class of people.
They then deliver a small amount of information. This small amount or tidbit is then expanded upon by opinion. Opinion is supposedly based on the announcer's experience ( being some type of expert ) or is based on the background writers or some guest expert being interrogated. In these hotly debated political agenda type shows the information or tidbit of news info is then connected to some other thing . It can be even connected via opinion or scant data of some sort to someone or something else such as a news event or another expert opinion. This way types of informational theories are established and so purported to be "proved" via connection to other information and opinion. These opinions then can snow ball more and more, establishing the "news" announcer as an "expert" and coupling him or her with other such experts - such as the group on " FOX news "or other agenda-based channels.
This then enables or allows further stories to be covered by these "expert" people's programs ... in time, attaining credibility through multiple instances of wheeling and dealing with data(news) and opinions in whatever way that creates a regular audience. The news show and its entertaining announcer are established at this time.
Simple news statements with reporters in the field and referenced information of news data is apparently not popular if it is being done at all in these types of news operations or outfits.
These are merely my observations from watching way too much TV. It is, in a way, unfortunate, that the news stations have become , in many ways, sensationalist entertainment- like a "reality" show.
There are more down to earth and data- supported news in the local markets and on channels such as, for the most part,CNN.
When the credibility of these programs seems to be based essentially on the method of coupling some type of news-data to an "expert"-opinion (or an overall concept)...that program should not be advertised as a news program at all.Such a program is a type of news show...on a type of news channel. Apparently it has been discovered through the great wisdom of who ever ...that people want to be told about things through the expert opinions of news anchors and guest experts who, in many if not most cases. are atesting to a biased and agenda-oriented curriculum.