Former Bush press sec. Ari Fleischer: "I find Glenn Beck to be a little weird and a little creepy"

[babylonsister]

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008300078

Former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer: "I find Glenn Beck to be a little weird and a little creepy"

August 30, 2010 5:33 pm ET by Eric Hananoki


In a post on his Facebook page, former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer offered criticism of Fox News host Glenn Beck, writing: "I find Glenn Beck to be a little weird and a little creepy, but he's entitled to give a speech on the Mall. How come the press didn't go nuts when Louis Farrakhan and other out-there groups used the Mall to promote their thinking? It's called press bias and it's a double standard."

In his comments section, Fleischer continued of Beck: "I like his small government point of view, but he acts like he's the second coming. I find him too zany and apocryphal for my taste." Fleischer later added:

His style is not my style. He talks in terms of Apocalypse and he says he fears people like "us" are going to get arrested. I like his small government message, I like his exposures of wrong doing in the Obama Admin - he's the one who found Van Jones. I just find his style over the top.

The issue today though is how the MS press treats his speech. The press never went this crazy against Farrakhan. Today they're acting like Beck et al aren't entitled to give their speeches.

(Fleischer's Beck remarks were found via former Bush aides Tony Fratto and Dana Perino; both linked to Fleischer's Twitter account, which contains a link to his Facebook page and reproduces some of his Facebook writing.)

[AlinPA]

1. "MS press acting like Beck et al aren't entitled to give their speeches" ?? When did they do that?

IMO, the MSM is 150% behind Beck.

[rug]

2. That's pretty damning coming from someone in the bowels of the Bush administration.

[Gman]

10. Not really considering Fleischer bailed out early

I think he didn't want to suffer the same face as Iraq's Baghdad Bob, much less stand trial for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

[spartan61]

3. Ya think???? n/t

[maxsolomon]

4. Equivalence FAIL.

I don't remember the Louis Farrakhan show being cancelled on CNN, then resurrected on the Nation of Islam News Channel.

WTF did Van Jones DO, BTW? Address reality?

[Bonhomme Richard]

5. Asshole like's the crap he throws at Obama but tries to mitigate..

the damage he can do to conservatives.
Ari is, and always will be, a complete ass.

[grasswire]

6. raise your hand if you always found Ari weird and creepy

More than "a little"!

[gratuitous]

9. That would be like Lady Gaga saying she thought you were too showy

But seeing as how the power of God was made manifest and stuff on Saturday, it's pretty hard to deny that Glenn Beck has the goods. I wonder if he's going to start minting his own currency now or just what his next step will be.

[NC_Nurse]

15. Exactly what I thought when I saw this. Ick.

[Johonny]

7. wait the press doesn't go nuts over Louis Farrakhan

I wasn't aware of that.

[Hugabear]

8. I smell pure BULLSHIT

He's only throwing BecKKK under the bus because he sees so many other people doing so. If BecKKK wasn't getting slammed so often in the media, he'd probably be a regular guest on his show.

[tanyev]

11. Uh-oh, Ari. Better watch what you say, watch what you do.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. What a coincidence..bet beckerhead feels that way about you too.

[Radical Activist]

13. The media ignores liberals and that's proof of liberal bias?

That's not twisted logic. That's Olympic gold acrobatics logic.

[BeHereNow]

14. Isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black?

Guess it takes one to know one and all that...
BHN