The hell with CNN.

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.

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.

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.

Get over it.

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.

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.

Want to know my opinion of Beck? He’s an idiot.

Want to know my second opinion about Beck? He’s ugly too.

That and, “They’re just drunken idiots”, etc.

Moron of a man.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

He is impossible to watch. Absolutely impossible.