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Barbara Walters’ Most Fascinating Interview With ‘Pussycat’ Glenn Beck

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Picture 4Love him or hate him it would be hard to argue that Glenn Beck was not one of this year’s more fascinating people (you can find interviews with all of Barbara Walters choices on our video page, by the way). Said Barbara Walters in her introduction: “Let’s meet a man who’s been accused of turning politics into a circus…it’s hard to tell sometimes whether Glenn Beck is being serious.” And then later on “Is Beck a leader, a demagogue, or just a media savvy clown?” Alas, Walters doesn’t manage to answer any of these questions, or get much out of Beck beyond one word answers. Not even any tears! (Beck, by his own admission, is a weeping willow.) Maybe Barbara is losing her edge. Which is too bad, though I suppose you can’t expect much more from such a short segment.

Still, perhaps the strangest thing about the interview (and the same could be said for the much better one Beck did with Katie Couric) is seeing Beck out in the real world, outside the vacuum of his nightly show, interacting with other mainstream media types. It would be nice to see more of it, and longer and better. Next up: Beck does Jay Leno on Friday. Can Charlie Rose (or, dare to dream, Jon Stewart!) be far behind.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    Lonesome Rhodes on Fox Not News Channel is blown a kiss by Barbara Walters.

  • ImNotBlue

    Bill Adkins says:
    December 10, 2009 at 9:09 am
    Lonesome Rhodes…

    So you’ll just repeat anything Olbermann tells you, huh?

  • MartiniShark

    Really, she wants to imply Glenn Beck is to blame for making politics into a circus? There is little difference between a Big Top and the Capital Rotunda.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

    “ImNotBlue says:
    December 10, 2009 at 11:25 am
    Bill Adkins says:
    December 10, 2009 at 9:09 am
    Lonesome Rhodes…

    So you’ll just repeat anything Olbermann tells you, huh?”

    Sonny, Olbermann got that from me. I applied it to Limbaugh years ago.

  • germ

    Your Moment of Rachel: Lump ‘em or Lose ‘em

    by me

    For the second day in a row, Rachel Maddow spent a large portion on the show on the Uganda bill to imprison or kill the gay people of Uganda. While doing so, Maddow spent most of the first and second segments patting herself on the back for her interview yesterday with the “unlicensed, self-appointed therapist” Richard Cohen, who a junior high debate team scholar would tear apart as a warm-up to the competition. There was no “hard-hitting interview” material with this guy, unless you can have a hard-hitting interview with a orbiting nut job.

    While patting herself on the back, Maddow decided to lump all conservatives into the same boat with the Ugandan leaders and Cohen, by “putting an exclamation point on the connection we drew last night between the American conservatives’ pet cause, the curing homosexuality industry and this bill overseas.” By lumping the broad range of American Conservatism together with the “cure-the-gays” Cohen and the Uganda “Kill the Gays” bill, Maddow is firmly drew an ideological line and passed it off as fact, whether it is true, or not. While the country is fairly split on the stance of the word Marriage (Gallup 56 no,

  • germ

    crap, well my browser decided to refresh before I could finish, but you get the point… Why is it we rarely see anything about the liberal media gaffes on the site, but (not to fear! MacNicol is here!) we get a daily dose of Beck and Palin.

  • islanddiva

    The vitriol spewed by the libs in their repeated and feeble attempts to undermine those with opposing political views underscores their intolerance for anything other then their own rhetoric. Ignoring Palin, Beck, et al WON’T make them go away. Why is it that both Beck and Palin have books that have soared to the (yes, it’s true) NYT Bestseller lists? Ta-da…it’s because REAL American people LIKE them, they AGREE with them and they SUPPORT them! It’s no surprise whatsoever that their books’ sucesses have all been ignored by the lame stream media.

    Hard as it is for the liberal elites to fathom, not everybody is okay with the government taking their hard earned assets and distributing them to the “underpriveleged.” . Not everyone is going to stand aside and let Obama and co. make a mockery of the values this country was founded on. Instead of insulating themselves from the facts, the liberals need only take an HONEST look at Obama’s dismal, and consistently bombing) approval ratings to get a taste of what people are thinking.

    Let’s hope Beck IS wrong, as he said in his interview with Walters. He was initially criticized by Obama and the left for not getting his facts straight. If that’s the case, why aren’t Obama or any of his rabid SEIU and ACORN thugs, (um should I say supporters?) correcting his facts? Beck’s red phone hasn’t rung.

    At this point, Beck’s damning facts are an indictment against the Obama and all liberals. They have not stood corrected. Ignoring him WON’T make him go away and ridiculing him makes the libs look even more desperate.

    If you disagre with Beck and Palin, then note to the libs: Correct the facts as they now stand, have a dialogue. But DON’T sneak in in the dead of night and infiltrate the white house with proven losers and communists like Van Jones, convicted felons like Creamer and wackos like Cass Sunstein, without a fight.

    Ask why SEIU and ACORN have shaped health care “reform” and why do they have the president’s ears. With polls of the AMERICAN PEOPLE showing less support for Obama care than for Hillary care, why is this being shoved forward? Ask why Obama can’t/ won’t enter a dialogue with anyone who opposes his views. Ask why Obama continmues to demonize the real journalists whom he can’t buy off.

    None of this makes sense to the American People. And if it walks like a duck and smells like a duck, then guess what? It probably is a duck!

  • Nachi

    Barbara. Trying to make sense out of – nonsense.

  • ImNotBlue

    Bill Adkins says:
    December 10, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Sonny, Olbermann got that from me. I applied it to Limbaugh years ago.

    I don’t know what’s sadder… the notion that Olbermann is hack enough to pick up jokes from you… or that you’re recycling (allegedly) old jokes because it’s all you got.

    Couldn’t you throw in a Nazi reference… you know, really show your inner Bill “Anti-Semite” Atkins.

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