Glenn Beck attacks Keith Olbermann

[CatWoman]

Beck Falsely Claims Olbermann Will ‘Never Admit He’s A Liberal’
Last month, CNN’s Glenn Beck attacked MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, calling him an “intolerant ideologue” whose ideas “smack of the same McCarthyism Murrow fought so valiantly against.”

Yesterday on CNN’s Reliable Sources, Beck once again went after Olbermann: “I’m in the hot seat almost constantly because I’m doing an opinion show — but I am telling you I’m doing an opinion show. I am in the hot seat because I’m a conservative — but I’m telling you that I’m a conservative. It’s people like Keith Olbermann doing news shows, never will ever admit that he’s a liberal. He is a liberal and he’s also blending news and comment together. That is the great danger.”

Beck is wrong. From a 6/9/05 Houston Chronicle profile:

A lot of my personal worldview is unmistakably sympathetic to things in a liberal playbook, but honest to God, I have been called a reactionary by some on the far left, a liberal by some on the far right and I’m insulted by both terms. My point of view is about delivering information and context. It has nothing to do with a political point of view.

While Olbermann admits that personally, he is liberal, he maintains that he focuses on criticizing those in power, which included President Clinton in 1998. I try to be “fair and honest and as accurate and as informed as possible, and allow my viewer to be the same way,” Olbermann told CSPAN last year.

On the other hand, Beck’s comments are more than just “conservative.” They are also, at times, racist, anti-gay, and sexist.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/19/beck-olbermann-liberal/

[Catherine Vincent]

1. Buck Feck!

:hi:

[CatWoman]

6. I knew you'd jump right on this

:hi:

as someone else so eloquently posted - Beck isn't qualified to carry Keith's jock strap!!!

[Catherine Vincent]

7. Beck is just jealous that Keith is dating a gorgeous 23 year old!

LOL!

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. ...however much he might want to... nt

[verse18]

2. Glenn Beck is not worthy enough to hold Keith's jock strap.

[LiberalFighter]

32. I'd like to see Beck hold the jock strap in that football commercial

humongous jock strap. Better yet someone tie it around his head with the used part in his mouth.

[Greybnk48]

3. Beck calls Olbermann out at his peril

Olbermann will eat him for breakfast--and it will be fun to watch. Thanks Glenn!!

[GaYellowDawg]

5. No doubt!

Perhaps Beckie Boy had better call Captain Falafel and see how much good it does to tangle with the KO Artist.

[mac56]

16. I foresee a nomination for Worst Person In The World.

Just sayin'

[Homer Wells]

38. As Sam Kennison once said to a heckler

"You don't Want my UNDIVIDED attention!!!"

:spray:

[BlueManDude]

4. you're waaaay out of your league here Glenn.

[TahitiNut]

8. "admit"?? Like that's something to be ashamed of?

The shame is in cloaking one's self in the sheep's clothing of 'conservative' and having the fascist agenda of a rabid wolf.

[CatWoman]

11. Hey Sweets

:hi:

Glenn Beck is a poopie-head :rofl:

[TahitiNut]

12. Hiya, Luv!

:hi:

Yep. He's got fascist cooties, too. :silly:

[The Doctor.]

31. I think they call that

"Plantar Fascistis"?

(I think you get it from licking jack-boots)

:shrug:

[WiseButAngrySara]

34. Oh groan! That is a memorable pun! LOL! ....n/t

[NightWatcher]

9. Beck is so pitiful and sad

He just wants to be talked about like Keith did with O'Really a few months ago.

AAAhh, the wity, bity Beck wants to pway.
What a dink

[Clark2008]

13. Wonder if Glenn Beck realizes that Keith doesn't vote because

he wants to remain neutral in his reporting.

I doubt he does.

[mod mom]

14. There can be multiple opinions but ONLY ONE SET OF FACTS! Keith delivers

the facts, while Beck spews shit.

[myrna minx]

15. I hope Keith ignores this silly moran.

I think Beck is hoping to get Keith's attention, thus he would feel somewhat validated by receiving any attention from Keith. I hope Keith just swats this bozo away into the pit of obscurity where he belongs.

[graywarrior]

17. Beck is a hall monitor.

And a dweeb.

[tsuki]

18. Wasn't Beck a runner up one week for "Worse Person in the World?"

Something about asking a guest if he could take naked pictures of her?

[Ganja Ninja]

20. He took the gold last Friday. n/t

[Robbien]

19. Beck's ratings are tanking. He is just trying to get attention

The only people watching Beck are Freepers who channel surf off of Fauxnews.

[donco6]

29. DING DING DING a WINNAH!

Yeah, that's my thought, too. His show is worthless. He's trying to spice it up with a byotch fight.

[Beelzebud]

21. A better headline: Glenn Beck attempts to ride Olbermann's coat-tails. :)

[H2O Man]

22. My father used

to use one of LBJ's favorite descriptions of insignificant fools: "He ain't a pimple on a good man's ass." I can think of no better example than a comparison of Beck and Olbermann.

[nashville_brook]

23. Beck is still stinging from Olbermann's Rolling Stone comment:

Glenn Beck: "A wolf in sheep's clothing. A very dangerously bigoted guy who's selling himself as a pragmatic philosopher. I don't think he sees his own bigotry. There's something about him that suggests one night he will say something that costs him his career in television."

[ComerPerro]

24. well, to be fair, racist, anti-gay, and sexist IS conservative. But Beck won't even admit in his ads

that he is conservative. CNN still adverstises him as a moderate, and an independant thinker.

[donkeyotay]

25. Po' li'l conservative. It's so hard to get your opinions heard

when you only have your own television show on a major network. It's so HARD.

Keith Olbermann is "the great danger." KO is it? Or, is Beck saying the blending of news, military propaganda, corporate toadyism, and intolerant ideology with a dash of sex, violence combined with a smidgen of child abuse and abduction isn't a substitute for the free range of information and debate on which citizens give informed consent?

TeeVee elected bush and sold his war. They specialized in drive-by's on Democrats. The manipulated by controlling the information seen, editing out inconvenient truths - from the history of labor or the truth about global warming to the warnings on the lies told for war. They stood by the neocons every step of the Patriot Act way. They have waged a propaganda war that would make any military's psychological operations proud.

Go Cheney yerself, Beck.

[mtnHov]

26. maybe Keith will "worst person in the world" the douchebeck.

but your right...not even mentioning him would be a better burn. We'll just have to watch and see, to not see it,or not.

[Cabcere]

35. "Douchebeck!" I like it!

:rofl: :thumbsup:

[opihimoimoi]

27. Glenn Peck is a Rash wannabe.....full of crap....

[Donnachaidh]

28. Beck looking for PUBLICITY?

Joe Scarborough uses the same tactic. Whine about someone picking on him, so he can garner more publicity.

same shit, different mediawhore. :sarcasm:

[GreenPartyVoter]

30. a) Beck just realized what the "MSM" has been doing for years, and B) he just wants to be

the new Bill O'Really in KO's book.

[nadinbrzezinski]

33. Having a problem with reflection, aren't we?

[in_cog_ni_to]

36. He's a drunk who needs to go back to rehab. Maybe a new 12 step program?

I saw him sobbing on CNN the other day. The man is unstable.....INSANE.

I can't wait to hear what Olbermann has to say to the WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD!!!!

[Poiuyt]

37. CNN must be getting a lot of complaints about Beck's racism and bigotry

They are having all the CNN anchors interviewing him so that they can show his "soft" side. Just this past week, Paula Zahn talked to him about his alcoholism (he was able to drum up some tears for that one), and Howard Kurz gave him free reign to counter Keith Olbermann's comments.

I say keep pressuring CNN.