Beck: ‘Nobody cares’ about Gonzales resignation.
Beck: ‘Nobody cares’ about Gonzales resignation.
Yesterday on his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck mentioned the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, stating that he was “surprised” the “media jumped all over this story”:
Well, after weathering the storm of congressional calls for his resignation, Alberto Gonzales has finally done just that, he has resigned. But the thing is, I don’t think anybody cares. I don’t think how he — anybody cares how he was connected to the firing of those nine U.S. attorneys.
Watch it:
Despite Beck’s claim that no one cared about Gonzales’s role in the U.S. attorney scandal, the Attorney General’s approval rating was at just 28 percent in a recent poll.
(HT: My Two Sense)
Transcript:
BECK: Well, after weathering the storm of congressional calls for his resignation, Alberto Gonzales has finally done just that, he has resigned. But the thing is, I don`t think anybody cares. I don`t think how he — anybody cares how he was connected to the firing of those nine U.S. attorneys.
Bottom line, you want to know what people care about? Why is it Gonzales let the American people down when he failed to act on the cases dealing with protecting the border, keeping men like Ramos and Compean in federal prison, while illegal drug realers (sic) run around free in our country?
Why is it also, Mr. President, that you spent so much political capital defending men like Gonzales and Donald Rumsfeld, and then in the end they resign and everybody moves on?
Mike Allen, chief political correspondent for The Politico.
Mike, let me start here, and I mean this sincerely. Question No. 1, convince me that I should care.
MIKE ALLEN, THE POLITICO: Well, first of all, if this amounts to weathering the storm, I think I could win a beauty contest. This is pretty battered and bruised as the attorney general heads out of town.
But you`re right: what`s implicit in your question, Glenn, is that the structural damage has been done. What good does it do now? Very much like Republicans might tell you they hold one or both chambers of Congress if the — Defense Secretary Rumsfeld had left earlier.
BECK: Yes.
ALLEN: Why didn`t this happen in March? And as you can see from these two examples, and there are others, one lesson this administration has never learned is take your whipping and move on. Get it over with. That`s just something they don`t seem to be able to do.
But Glenn, why this matters is this is an opportunity for the president to re-establish some trust with the Hill. It`s a chance for each side to get something done. And that`s why they both have a little leverage here.
BECK: Mike, Mike…
ALLEN: Viewers know how bad Congress`s polls are.
BECK: Mike…
ALLEN: So they don`t want to look like they`re shutting down the whole Justice Department.
BECK: Mike, Mike, first question…
ALLEN: I can tell you, you`re…
BECK: No, no. First question was, convince me that I should care.
ALLEN: How did I do? How did I do?
BECK: Second question is, try again. I mean, nobody cares. Nobody cares. Because everybody sees this as just politics for politics` sake.
It`s just, what a surprise this is. Ted Kennedy comes out and says, “Next time George Bush will get somebody that will actually enforce the laws of the United States.”
What? Mr. Ted “I`m All for Amnesty” Kennedy is saying this?
ALLEN: I was going to say, once again, Glenn Beck, Ted Kennedy agreeing with each other. It happens all the time. All the time.
BECK: Give me a break, man! Mike, this is all about politics. That`s all it is. And people are sick of it.
ALLEN: Well, you sound surprised. You can`t be surprised.
BECK: No, I`m just surprised that the media is covering — the media jumped all over this story. You notice, it`s 20 some minutes after the hour as we get into this. I mean, the media is all over this like it`s a big story. Nobody cares!
ALLEN: Well, Glenn, here`s why you should care. If you care anything about this president getting anything done in the next 15 months, if you care about this president having the opportunity to do something besides count the days until he moves back to the ranch, you would want the chance for a clean slate or at least a fresh start between the two ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.
BECK: Mike, I`ve got…
ALLEN: Keep talking…
BECK: Twenty minutes. I`ve got to tell you, if you think that any kind of slate is actually going to get these people, these clowns in Washington to work together before the next election, you`re smoking something. I should try it…
ALLEN: That`s an opportunity…
BECK: I`ve got to run. I`ve got to run, Mike.
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August 28th, 2007 at 4:01 pm“Nobody” = 70% of American People.
Unreal. They don’t even try to hide their bias anymore.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pmBeck - he’s good at reporting on “nobody.”
August 28th, 2007 at 4:03 pmIt takes one to know one.
Like I have said so many times before, Glenn Beck has the redeeming graces and personality of a pubic louse.
Why anyone bothers with him, I don’t know.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:06 pmhe must be right …
some ringo just stated as much on the hannity thread:
hook, line and sinker…
August 28th, 2007 at 4:07 pm…
“Nobody” watches Beck’s show except for the poor TP intern that is forced to. :-)
August 28th, 2007 at 4:07 pmThe only people that care about Gonzales are the Racist DemoKKRats.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:08 pmThey’re glad they made an example of a Latin who didn’t tow the party line!
Beck, you’re irrelevant.
Journalists are expected to be impartial, to have vision, to see truth.
You are a rank hack, see dubya’s vision (envision armageddon, 28 virgins, a line of coke and a bottle of JD - “Hardest decision I ever had to make was marrying my wife” - thousands dead in Iraq - hack) and lie.
Hack, hack, hack.
Ann Coulter at least lays no claim to impartiality, vision or truth. She’s just plain vermin. . . . but professes to be no less.
Hack, hack, b-b-b-b-hack.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:09 pmALKN lies. America cares and the concern is growing.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:10 pmHe didn’t ask me if I cared about the way rove, gonzales, cheney, rice, rumsfeld, and all their minions have been subverting our democratic republic, our system of justice, our election procedures, our way of life, and our Constitution in violation of their oaths.
Yes, I do care.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:11 pmI don’t care about Glenn Beck.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:11 pmWell John Conyers was interviewed on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman this morning and he cares. He cares about the number of times Gonzales disassembled in front of Congress at the issue of torture, illegal detention, and firing of 9 USAs.
Maybe CNN would like to get some people on who have opinions and can really speak to the issues. Why do they so clearly reveal their contempt for their viewers by having these two come on a news program to say “No one cares” and fill up so much time with nonsense?
Isn’t that like having an article in a newspaper filled with gibberish because the journalist didn’t think the story had any merit but needed to fill up so many inches of the column. Wouldn’t fly.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:12 pmAmerica cares.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:13 pmJohn Conyers,
August 28th, 2007 at 4:13 pmIs a good Plantation member doing what his DemoKKKRat Mastas tell him!
I think this is a new high in cable news commentary. “All this stuff is happening! But who cares, right. What are you watching this news channel for, anyway? You could be watching The Speed Channel or Stark trek reruns! What’s the matter? hit the remote!”
all of which explains his ratings.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:14 pmYou DemoKKRats just wanted to make an example out of him.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:15 pmAll Latins must bow before the Party’s White masters!
If everyone would simply ignore ALKN these threads would be much more readable… and bearable.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:16 pmWhat world does Mr. Beck live in? Is he that good an actor is is he just that delusional? I’ve never seen his schtick before and will try to resume that trend. I’m all for free speach, but that man’s stupidity quotient is just Way, Wayy too high. Oh well, free markets will out.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:17 pmIBACASTC!
CNN = Fox “News” Lite
August 28th, 2007 at 4:21 pmDow down 280 points!
August 28th, 2007 at 4:22 pmthis is great!
I hope there’s more forclosures and bankruptcies!
That way we have a deep reccesion and Hillary wins!
This is great I can’t wait to see Unemployment hit %10!
CNN is a digital rag. To say nobody cares is a huge assumption coming from a huge a$$. The resignation of the Attorney General is news and anyone who values the democratic process should be interested.
If nobody that watches Beck’s show is interested is probably because he does such a horrible job in showing actual news. He filters and opinionates all stories before they reach the airways.
We deserve better. CNN isn’t watched by me because of this fabricated/truncated form of “Newz”
August 28th, 2007 at 4:23 pmRight wingers are laughably pathetic. Keep painting yourselves into your hateful little corner, freaks.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:24 pmI hope the economy collapses!
August 28th, 2007 at 4:25 pmThis demonstrates the usual contempt for government and morality underlying the Republican and conservative view of government. These fascists do not believe in the ability of the public to understand or care about democracy or the abstract issues concerning the morality and ethics necessary to preserve an effective government. They may be right. Bush and his cronies have been very successful in deflecting every criticism as being nothing more than partisan politics.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:26 pmApparently, our forefathers cared. They finely crafted a Constitution that called for a balance of power between three co-equal branches of government. The fact that the democratic leadership has exercised none and enabled the executive to co-op the Judiciary doesn’t mean that the people don’t care. The people absolutely care. The Department of Justice absolutely cares. Our founding fathers absolutely cared.
As Bush seeks empiracle status as nominal leader, he destroys freedom at every opportunity for the opportunistic interests of his Ivy-league breatheren. Screw NO, once those black thugs leave, Rove has abandoned humanity in favor of politics . . .a Repub haven . . . screw Iraqis, once those Iraqi’s leave, Dubya, Cheney and the Rangers will slather ourselves in black gold and rule the world. . . .
and if you believe in Peter Pan, clap your hands, vote Repub in NO, wallow in the blood of dead Americans in Iraq and watch the middle east become a turbo-charged, toxic version of Katrina.
Dubya promised that the terrorists will come here . . . it may be the only promise upon which he delivers.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:26 pmRight wingers should keep using terms like plantation and off the reservation as well. Sure shows how non-racist they are.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:26 pm28% approval rating?
That is higher then the dem controlled Congress! When are you losers going to ask the dem leadership to resign?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:43 pmWhen are you losers going to ask the dem leadership to resign?
Comment by Roger_Roger — August 28, 2007 @ 4:43 pm
awww… why all the hate, rog? losers, heh. you can do better than that.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:51 pmif nobody cares about his resignation why was Harriet Miers such a big deal back when? And why was Gonzales chosen to replace her failed nomination?
Huh?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:52 pmOnce again Ben Gleck is completely, utterly, totally, absoliffically posilutely wrong.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:54 pmRoger Roger, it’s been awhile. Do you care that the Attorney General resigned? Does it matter to you that he lied to congress? That he violated the Geneva Convention? Does this matter to you?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:56 pmOnce again Ben Gleck is completely, utterly, totally, absoliffically posilutely wrong.
Comment by RUCerious — August 28, 2007 @ 4:54 pm
With that logic, the beckster would have called Katrina a Gulf Coast sea breeze and wondered why the President would have even bothered to fly over, 3 days later! Besides, they weren’t white rich people, so who cares, right?
August 28th, 2007 at 4:58 pmHe really is like some cartoon cariacature of a TV personality in a movie. And I don’t mean that in a flattering way. He’s a buffoon.
August 28th, 2007 at 4:59 pmWho the hell is Glen Beck? Does anybody care? Does he have a show or something? He sounds like a typical bush-licking, rightwing, ass-clown. Am I close?
August 28th, 2007 at 5:07 pmNobody who REALLY COUNTS.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:11 pmGlenn Beck: Moron, menace or both?
Glenn Beck, one of conservative radio’s most outspoken gasbags, made the jump to television Monday. Beck’s new television show premiered on CNN Headline News. It only took Beck one show to jump the shark. So catch the train wreck before it’s too late, because his 15 minutes of fame are fleeting.
Glenn Eck . . . ignore him . . . he’s irrelevant.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:13 pmFind a person who actually likes watching Glen Beck, then get back to me about that person.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:14 pmKind of like the DoJ, under Michael Powell at the FCC, CNN got hi-jacked by the wingers . . . Ted, how did you let this happen?
Colin, you must be proud.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:17 pm“The evidence shows right now, …that [Republican Senator Pete] Domenici complained directly to President Bush. And that Bush then called Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General, and complained about my alleged lack of vigorous enforcement of voter fraud laws.”

- Fired US Attorney David Iglesias saying President Bush was directly involved in the firing of prosecutors who wouldn’t bring “bogus voter fraud” cases against Democrats in order to win elections.
Says Investigative Reporter Greg Palast…
“In other words, it went to the top. The Decider had decided to punish a prosecutor who wouldn’t prosecute innocents. All day long I’ve heard Democrats dance with glee that they now have the scalp of Alberto Gonzales. They nailed the puppet. But what about the puppeteer? The question that remains is the same that Watergate prosecutors asked of Richard Nixon, “What did the President know and when did he know it?” Or, to update it for Dubya, “What did the President know and how many times did Karl Rove have to explain it to him?”
August 28th, 2007 at 5:25 pmWingers are all upset that their promos, coming out of the brand new Pentagon “war room” (read: propaganda machine) won’t be carried by MSNBC.
Wake up doods . . . once you shot that bullet in the temple of the Fairness Doctrine . . . your gun exploded in your face of a Democratic majority.
Like to see the drunken-spending, pontificating, self-absorbed, war mongering, gay-hating, closeted Repubs, self-destruct, but . . . the US of A needs the Fairness Doctrine. Bring it back.
Independent me.
August 28th, 2007 at 5:27 pmWhy does Glenn Beck have a show? Who the fuc# is Glenn Beck anyways? Did Rush Limbaugh have an illegitimate kid along the way?
August 28th, 2007 at 5:51 pmIt’s Beck’s job to persuade people to not care. Why is this surprising? Why is THIS a news story?
Is Beck supposed to make the news just because he’s on the corporate media’s dole?
August 28th, 2007 at 6:03 pmSure Glenn, no one cares about Gonzo peeing all over the Constitution … nah, not at all! Hey Glenn! I’ve got some GREAT ocean-front property in Arizona you might be interested in!
I wonder if being a tool is inherent to Glenny’s nature or if it’s a recent development for him …
August 28th, 2007 at 6:04 pmYou mean someone watches his show? Maybe the “nobody” he was referring to was his audience.
Glenn Beck’s audience = Nobody
August 28th, 2007 at 6:05 pmWell Beck is right in a manner of speaking. I mean, was anyone upset that a squirrel was run over by a van on Georgia Avenue this week in Bethesda? Didn’t think so. So one more criminal in the criminal administration heads off into the sunset to advance his personal wealth stolen from the American public. What else is new?
August 28th, 2007 at 6:18 pmAlmighty Latin Kings Nation is seriously stupid.
For example: “The only people that care about Gonzales are the Racist DemoKKRats. They’re glad they made an example of a Latin who didn’t tow the party line!” Almighty, that should be “toe the line.” The way you spelled it hearkens back to the old song, “Draggin’ the Line.”
And then there is this: “John Conyers, Is a good Plantation member doing what his DemoKKKRat Mastas tell him!” I assume that this is just a bit of sly humor, since Conyers is a Republican senator.
Oddly, there is another poster, called ALKN, who thinks much like Almighty Latin Kings Nation and even spells things the same way. “You DemoKKRats just wanted to make an example out of him.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:20 pmAll Latins must bow before the Party’s White masters!” Strange that two people could be so similarly misguided. Hmmmm. Wonder what ALKN stands for?
It’s hardly surprising that a panty wearing little GOP leg humper like Glenn Beck would think it was news when the attorney general of the US, resigns in disgrace.
First off if it isn’t news, why is Beck talking about it. The moron just shot down his own argument by spending an entire segemnt discussing something that supposedly “isn’t news”.
Second. Beck can criticsize decent men like Ted Kennedy all he wants, that won’t keep Ted Kennedy from whupping up on the GOP every day. Beck is a moron, he routinely gets slapped around by guys like Al Franken and others, and of course he cries like a little girl about it on his show that nobody watches. The only thing that isn’t news….is the Glenn Beck show.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pmIt’s hardly surprising that a panty wearing little GOP leg humper like Glenn Beck, wouldn’t think it was news when the attorney general of the US, resigns in disgrace.
First off if it isn’t news, why is Beck talking about it. The moron just shot down his own argument by spending an entire segemnt discussing something that supposedly “isn’t newsâ€.
Second. Beck can criticsize decent men like Ted Kennedy all he wants, that won’t keep Ted Kennedy from whupping up on the GOP every day. Beck is a moron, he routinely gets slapped around by guys like Al Franken and others, and of course he cries like a little girl about it on his show that nobody watches. The only thing that isn’t news….is the Glenn Beck show.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:33 pm“the Attorney General’s approval rating was at just 28 percent in a recent poll.”
Wow, that 28% are really stuck. But, their world is about to come down on their heads and it’s going to be a lot of fun watching them howl.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:46 pmI care. Good riddance!
August 28th, 2007 at 6:48 pmNobody cares about Glenn Beck.
August 28th, 2007 at 6:56 pmGlenn Is right; no one cares what Beck thinks. Or, to be more precise, no one is surprised by what Beck thinks, as his “thinking” is limited to spinning every topic one of two ways:
1)If it makes the Republicans look bad, minimize it
2) If it can’t be minimized, call up the ghost of Chappaquiddick, Monica, or Barney Frank. The power of these three shibboleths is amazing, as they can be used over and over, negating any repub pecadillo without losing their power to cloud right-wing minds
August 28th, 2007 at 7:36 pmExactly. No body cares.
August 28th, 2007 at 7:51 pmBeck is a walking hate crime!
August 28th, 2007 at 8:04 pmI think what everyone forgets is Republicans and the knuckle draggers don’t think that there is anything wrong with lying and/or breaking the law (by Repubs that is). Therefore, he was “hounded” unfairly. I mean, so he lied continually AND broke the law by firing for political reasons. To a Repub, that is not a problem so all they see is the hounding. How horrible to live like that. Fortunately they are the fastest dwindling minority in the U.S.
August 28th, 2007 at 8:51 pmOh yes we do Glenny boy, every time one of you sanctimonious little shitbirds eats his own…shit, we’ll it’s just chuckalicious!
August 28th, 2007 at 9:46 pmJohn Conyers is a Democrat.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:29 pmGlen Beck: Douchebag
August 28th, 2007 at 10:30 pmThe comments here are entertaining. Particularly ALKN’s regarding how the democrats are just against Gonzales for being a Latin boy who did not toe the party line. (If that line means trying not to shred the Constitution, the principles of open democracy upon which America was founded, or repeatedly dissembling to Congress, perhaps he is right. Although one presumes that these are still republican party lines as well — but perhaps they need to be more sufficiently explained.)
The trouble is, while ALKN’s inability to see certainly reaches an almost satirical level of profundity, it is reflective of a wider degree of general ignorance. This ignorance is cultivated in part by such shows as those being proffered (and viewed) as “news” or news analysis” by the clever as a fox channel. And by show’s like Glenn Beck’s. And, while such ignorance is often disparaged or foolishly termed irrelevant to the actual “news†shows which reflect it, this widespread misinformation based ignorance does have a measurable impact upon the direction of our democracy — for example, playing no small role in the election (and subsequent appointment) of rather extremist figures in both Congress and the White House this decade.
Beck is sometimes humorous, and very often entertaining. (Those who don’t at least see these possibilities need to lighten up. They are also partially why CNN has given him the show , and it is also partially why CNN — taking “infotainment” to the point where the “tainment†part not only trumps the info part, but even the accurate info part, airs the show.) But the level of manipulation and incomplete and misinformation is not acceptable in a major news station, let alone one that calls itself the most trusted name in news. (The fact that the widely popular and often referenced clever as a fox channel routinely engages in it is another, greatly underestimated problem.)
The energy spent disparaging Beck should be spent contacting CNN, and others, and letting them know this. If the level of manipulation and incomplete information as news analysis is not tolerated — and the case is effectively made (curses and nastiness being largely counterproductive, for example), it won’t be done for long.
August 28th, 2007 at 10:58 pmGlen Beck’s ratings must be really tanking. Just like when GWB comes on the tube, if I see Beck’s face I turn the channel. I sometimes forget that CNN Headline News doesn’t carry news anymore. And then I’m reminded, as I have reminded them on many occasions. Where is Ted Turner when we really need him?
August 28th, 2007 at 11:04 pmheres what will happen.
now that gonzo quit, he cannot be impeached.
if he were impeached, bush couldnt spring him free.
with him having quit, he can be prosecuted by a court of law, but not impeached, bush can pull a libby and commute (and eventually pardon) him to keep him viable as a law firm partner and to keep him from singing to the fuzz.
his resignation is a legal cover to protect bush, cheney and himself.
they are pulling a libby on you americans.
fool you twice?
August 28th, 2007 at 11:56 pmGlenn Beck is nauseating at best. Watching him pontificate about current events, what American’s think, what the media does, or God forbid, international relations and foreign cultures is like watching a retard drive the bus to the picnic.
Just another example of an out of touch Republican scurrying around in disbelief as the house of cards built on a foundation of quicksand collapeses.
Way to go Glenn, you really know how to tell it like it is.
If enough of you would stop watching him they would have to take him off the air.
Wake up.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:11 amWho is Glenn Beck…
and who cares?
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August 29th, 2007 at 12:16 amI no longer watch CNN. Glen Beck is Bill O’Reiily’s illegitimate puppy. Who cares? Oh, I don’t know. How about people who believe in justice. Beck must go to Fox where he belongs!
August 29th, 2007 at 8:44 amregardless if it’s abu gonzo or not, when an Attorney General of the US resigns, that’s still big news. But now add that it was abu gonzo, mister torture himself, they it’s gigantic news.
beck is a tool and always will be.
August 29th, 2007 at 9:22 amPeople should care, Gonzales did his share to dismantle the constitution. He was just a bush-rove lacky following orders with 0 intgrity of his own.
August 29th, 2007 at 12:12 pmGlen Beck - nobody cares about you. We do/did not care about “Fredo” Gonzales, you are right. What we did and do care was how badly he and that man in the White House have screwed OUR country. The Wicked Witch of the West is out. Make way for the new Wicked Witch of the West. Gonzales made us look back with fond memories of Ashcroft. I hope that Gonzales’s replacement will not make us look back his, Gonzales, term in the office of the AG with that same longing for the past.
August 29th, 2007 at 1:34 pmI heard Glenn Beck has a TV show. Anyone ever hear of it? What station is it on? Anyone? Well, I guess NOBODY watches it!
August 29th, 2007 at 3:10 pmAfter Mission Accomplished, Australia’s prime minister crowed about how great the war was and how great Bush was.
After Iraq fell apart he said: “People only care that Saddam is gone.”
The correct thing for the media to do is to demolish such BS. Instead, they are spreading the BS!
August 29th, 2007 at 6:59 pmIf liberals couldn’t call anybody they didn’t like racist, they’d have no argument at all.
August 31st, 2007 at 11:03 am