Glenn Beck compares ABC report to Nazi propaganda

[steve2470]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_upshot/20100827/cm_yblog_upshot/glenn-beck-compares-abc-report-to-nazi-propaganda

Glenn Beck apparently doesn't buy into the adage that all press is good press. On Friday, the conservative host described a "Good Morning America" segment on the Lincoln Memorial rally he's holding Saturday — on the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" address at the same site — as a "hatchet job" and compared it to Nazi propaganda.

ABC's Claire Shipman is one of many journalists who have reported on the criticism of Beck holding his "Restoring Honor" rally on the anniversary of the King speech. Beck says the timing is coincidental. Civil rights leaders and activists including the Rev. Al Sharpton will hold a countermarch and demonstration in Washington on the same day.

Beck, along with his radio cohorts, took issue with a few parts of Shipman's report, including her saying that it "wasn't so long ago" that Beck called President Obama "a racist" on Fox News. (Beck made the inflammatory comment in late July 2009. Beck also later apologized for the comment.)

Beck, who has criticized the rally backlash, was also bothered by ABC quoting him as saying that "blacks don't own Martin Luther King." Beck says ABC edited the quote selectively, failing to mention he also said that "whites don't own Abraham Lincoln" and that both men are "American icons."

[marmar]

1. Projection.......

Protofascists hate criticism.

[PJPhreak]

2. No Mr Glenn Douchenozzle...You are a Hatchet Job.

Beck insists that he is not political: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers.


Fucking Money Grubbing Bastage!

[VOX]

3. Lewis Black is right -- Beck definitely exhibits the symptoms of "Nazi Tourette's." n/t

[MadMaddie]

4. Gotta love Lewis Black!

[Initech]

5. Yup and a fine example of that at work.

[Froward69]

7. "Glen Beck uses more prop swastikas than hitler did"

Love Lewis Black...

[Catshrink]

6. Be kind to the man, he does have have Nazi Tourettes.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-12-2010/back-in-black---glenn-beck-s-nazi-tourette-s