Last week, ThinkProgress reported on Glenn Beck’s sexist explanation for ruling out a vice presidential run with former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at the top of the ticket. Beck said that he might consider a Beck-Palin ticket, but Palin-Beck would be out of the question because she’d always be “yapping away” as if she were “in the kitchen.” Today, Beck responded to our post on his website, saying his comments were a “joke” and that the media’s response was “predictable”:
The point, of course, was completely lost on liberal blogs who then immediately jumped to report on it, as if Glenn were just making a crass joke and hates women. It’s so satisfying when they take the bait.
Beck’s site says he was simply acting out “evil conservative stereotypes” and that he was obviously joking because he’s an “overweight former alcoholic talk show host” and Palin is an “accomplished governor.” But why is Beck so willing to condemn Newsweek as sexist for running a cover photo of Palin that she agreed to pose for, yet give himself a complete pass for an overtly sexist “joke” on air? It’s telling that Beck, who has a history of making sexist comments, even thinks his Palin joke is funny.
Update
On his radio show today, Beck predicted that blogs will be outraged — “just like” they were after his sexist Palin comments — about a “joke” he had just made about an African-American child rapist:
If he was white and raping children — let him go! Let him go, of course. … By the way, I just want to make a prediction that blogs and everything else today will all be on fire that I seriously said that if this guy was raping children and white, let him go. Just like they did when I was making the point that evil conservatives — of course you have to hate women. I would never serve as vice-president under Sarah Palin. She should be in the kitchen. And what did they do? They reported it just like that.
Listen here:
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