Last August, hate radio host Glenn Beck played a song by “one of his favorite new bands,” the English rock group Muse, claiming that the band endorses his radical anti-government views. The UK Telegraph reports that Muse asked Beck to retract his endorsement of them, prompting Beck to childishly claim the album he once praised is “awful and you should never go out and buy it”:
Beck, an outspoken conservative known for his caustic attacks on Barack Obama, praised a song on [Muse's] new album The Resistance for warning against the dangers of “one world government”. Describing their music as “absolutely fantastic”, Beck implied that the band members shared his concern about the centralisation of power by liberal politicians. [...]
But Beck withdrew his recommendation after being emailed during the show by a representative of the band.
“They would like me to retract my endorsement,” Beck told listeners. “My apologies to Muse for saying that I like them. I didn’t mean to destroy all their credibility and all their coolness.
“It’s an awful album and you should never go out and buy it.”
Update
Apparently, Muse did not ask Beck to withdraw his endorsement:
According to a spokesperson for Beck: “After raving about Muse for four minutes, Glenn made a joke about their representatives emailing him to stop. While it is entirely possible that Muse do not like having Glenn as a fan, he was making a joke and their representatives never reached out to him.”
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