conversationpc wrote:Until recently, even though I knew you were a liberal, I was beginning to think that you were at least fair. However, this exchange seems to indicate that you're not even being rational. This whole thing started on his radio show. Again, it is obvious, both from context and from the tone of voice that was used that it was a joke. Don't give me that "He meant it seriously but does it in a joking manner so he can get away with it" crap.
This
"I Was Only Joking" excuse has been invoked everytime his words get him in trouble.
From his on-air fantasies of strangling Michael Moore to asking a US Weekly reporter to strip to his most recent anti-Christ comment.
Everyone, including Olbermann, is well aware that Beck's delivery is more often than not tongue in cheek.
So too was Imus's, the Greaseman's, and incalcuable scores of brash-mouthed disc-jockeys whose plots now fill the talk radio graveyard
Just this week I heard Beck rejoicing over Director Anthony Minghella's death because he found The English Patient boring.
Ha..Ha...Ha?
You really defend this juvenile shit?
There are conservative talk show hosts who are not always genuine, trustworthy people, in my opinion. People like Hannity, Limbaugh, and Savage come to mind in that vein. Beck isn't one of them.
LOL.
That's why Beck came running to Rush Limbaugh's immediate defense about "phony soldiers" without ever playing the clip of Rush's own words?
That wouldn't have had anything to do with the fact that nationwide Beck and Rush are packaged together now would it?
Of the above, I will admit Beck and Savage can be more honest at times, but not by much.
There are lots on the liberal side as well. I could just as well use the same kind of arguments you've done here about the genuine liberals in talk radio if I wanted to be an overbearing ass but I'm fair enough to admit there are some who aren't all about money and making publicity for themselves.
Go ahead. Brent Bozell's Newsbusters/Media Research liberal monitoring site has been around and getting publicity alot longer than Media Matters has. Bring it on.
If this isn't an elitist snob kind of comment, I don't know what is. Who gives a flying monkey crap if he never went to college and making fun of someone for straightening out their lives when they were slowly killing themselves is beyond the pale. Everyone has had their vices. Glenn's was drugs and alcohol. Please enlighten us as to your vice so that we can belittle you publicly, here on the forum.
I'm not arguing that I am purer than the driven snow, I am positing that Beck is an uneducated sob. And also quite possibly brain-damaged.
Again, if you heard his radio show, he actually engages in a conversation with his coworkers on the show, saying that people like Media Matters and Olbermann will try to make it look he is taking the antichrist thing seriously. I even had my wife watch the video from the Media Matters site (she hates talk radio and could not care less about Glenn...) and even she thought it was ridiculous that anyone would come anywhere close to thinking he was serious.
The guise of "humor" attempted no matter how unsuccesfully is not a get out of jail free card.
We all know Beck is joking.
That does little to paper over the ignorance of the question or the race-baiting intentions lying under it's surface.
And by the way, both ThinkProgress and MediaMatters, which initially carried the story, included full transcript and video.
Something Beck failed to mention when rallying his puppets to his cause.
