Glenn Beck Jokes About Sarah Palin Belonging “In The Kitchen”
During the Fox & Friends interview with Sarah Palin last week, besides saying she wants to interview Katie Couric, she also weighed in on the potential of a Palin-Glenn Beck ticket in 2012. She thought Beck must think the whole discussion is a “hoot” and didn’t rule anything out.
Beck responded to the potential ticket on the radio Wednesday: he doesn’t think anything is a “hoot,” the ticket would have to be Beck-Palin, and she’d probably just be “yapping” instead of staying “in the kitchen.” You know, kidding, of course.
During the interview, which Beck played twice as he set up his own take, Palin told Gretchen Carlson: “I got a kick out of it, and he probably thought that was just a hoot too. I don’t know. We’ll see, we’ll see.” During an earlier interview with Newsmax, Palin said she thought Beck was a hoot as she also didn’t rule out the possibility of a joint run.
“I don’t think things are hoots,” said Beck. “I don’t. I don’t think it’s a hoot. I would never use the word hoot and I respectfully ask that every time my name is brought up she stops using the word ‘hoot.’”
Laughter from the studio ensues. Then to the real issue – what about a run? Beck ruled it out, then had this exchange:
Beck: Beck-Palin, I’ll consider. But Palin-Beck…Can you imagine, can you imagine what an administration with the two of us would be like? What? Come on – she’d be yapping or something, and I’d say, ‘I’m sorry, why am I hearing your voice? I’m not in the kitchen.’
Co-host: You’d you have to live up to evil conservative stereotypes, you’d have no choice but to do so.
Beck: I’d have to. Look I talked to the woman about it, I don’t even know what she was saying.
He’s kidding of course – Glenn Beck touts the merits of Sarah Palin on a regular basis on his Fox News program. But just like we identified the difference between Radio Lou Dobbs and TV Lou Dobbs, there’s a difference between Radio Glenn Beck and TV Glenn Beck. From his Zoo Crew roots, Beck’s career on radio runs deeper than his TV career, and involves a lot less serious political discussion. Instead, his radio show is looser, and he feels more free to press the limits of humor. Even Beck’s interview with NY-23 conservative candidate Doug Hoffman, when he called Beck his mentor, was a far different tone than when he discussed the race on TV.
Still, the whole ‘women belong in the kitchen’ line when discussing Palin, even as a joke about what others think as his co-host indicated, gets dangerously close to crossing the line of sexism. Maybe TV Beck needs to have a talk with Radio Beck.
(via ThinkProgress – h/t Gawker):
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rmbltmbl says: It is funny that you buy into the very thing Beck is joking about here. Beck is not joking about people who are sexist, he’s joking about people who automatically think he is sexist because he is a conservative however dangerously close to some ‘line’ that is for you.
Wait, you think I’m automatically assuming he’s sexist because he’s a conservative? Did you not read the post?
I don’t think he’s sexist – I know he’s kidding. But when you make jokes like this – whether it’s liberals like David Letterman or conservatives like Beck – you open yourself up for criticism of the jokes.
Don’t worry. According to “He Who Utters Truths”, Levi Johnston, Palin rarely steps foot into the kitchen.
m says: > he’s joking about people who automatically think he is sexist because he is a conservative
That conservatives hate feminism isn’t a shocker. Conservatism is about tradition and identity. Such as family values and the organic society. Conservatives believe we all have our place and defined rolesin our society. A man’s role is to provide income and guidance for the family. A woman’s role is to care for the children and serve the man.
As an interesting reference to this, Ferengi’s in Star Trek treat women like property, don’t allow them to speak to anyone except family, force them to walk around naked in their home and chew their food in advance. It’s an extreme interpretation, but it’s a pretty good metaphor for how conservatives look at the role of women in society. Not far off from how some women are treated by conservatives on this planet (just look at conservative wahabbists in Saudi Arabia).
m says: Fortunately we’ve liberalized. If the average Republican took a time machine back 100 years they’d probably be disgusted at how women were treated in this country. So one positive aspect is that conservatives today aren’t as conservative as they used to be.
This audio is like a perfect storm; It’s about Sarah Palin, it’s from Glenn Beck and the shockjock is saying something shocking. The pageviews on the progressive sites are stacking-up.
marigrace says: Why are women who stay home, raise their children and serve their families, often stereotyped as “conservative”? I am sure there are “liberal” women who do the same.
On the other side of the coin there are many “conservative” women who raise kids, serve their families, and have a career. Neither do ALL “conservatives” believe everyone has their place and defined roles in society. Palin is a prime example of a “conservative” woman has serves in both roles as a wife, mother and career person.
The feminist movement should be singing the praises of Palin , since she is an example of a woman who has it all, as a wife, mother, grandmother, and has a prominent career. Strangely they are silent, revealing their overwhelming hypocrisy.
marigrace says: M says: It’s an extreme interpretation, but it’s a pretty good metaphor for how conservatives look at the role of women in society.
That may have been the case at some time in history, but not any more. Get with the times, because that statement is bull crap.
What’s missing from this is the irony that when Palin was on the Rep. ticket last year there was a crowd of Liberal commentators who thought it was wrong for a special-needs mom to be campaigning and not at home with her child.
SWWT says: Apparently the reporter/commenters/(and me at first) at Gawker think Beck was actually saying that he thought Palin belongs in the kitchen.
+1 for Mediaite.
Cecelia says: Wouldn’t you know it… all the stuff that is said about Sarah Palin and the only way any concern about sexism gets any traction is when it’s Glenn Beck “dangerously” joking…
rmbltmbl says: Well, that’s first time I’ve heard a Letterman/Beck comparison, congratulations. This is no different than the plastic frog gag, every so often he does something like this.. I mean, check out his website. Again, he is making fun of his critics the entire time, he even acts cocky with Beck/Palin! To say this stuff is ‘over the line’ is out of line IMHO and only brought up because it is BECK.
j-mon says: Now, I’m not saying Glenn Beck raped and murdered a girl in 1990, but if he didn’t…..why hasn’t he come out and denied it? He needs to prove to me that he DID NOT actually rape and murder a girl in 1990! Where is the PROOF Glenn?
Beck/Palin? I think not. Palin/Beck? Maybe. But only when he proves he did not rape and murder a girl in 1990…..
jimmymaher says: A new low, it really turned my stomach as I watched it live. Let’s start with the least offensive of his conduct-a drunk and a Mormon pretending to drink wine. Threatening harm, vile and loathsome. And then there is the whole load of sterile steer manure about how much Nancy’s house and vineyard are worth, and then lets talk about Glenda Becky, that jolly average Joe, who makes more in a year than what she is worth, as one of the wealthiest members of Congress. Now, true, if he keeps up his revolting behavior, he may make less money due to decreased advertiser revenue or maybe (hopefully) being fired by Fox! Cheers!.
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MikeLI631 says: Online “journalists”, who “cherry pick” quotes, out of context of the pundits’ PROVEN, senses of humor, are taking cheap shots, at filling their column space, with NOTHING tangible but “shooting blanks”.
Howzabout you spend your time getting to know your TARGET, before riling readers up, with stupid issues, like this ?
THIS ONLY GOES TO PROVE, that “news writers” don’t have a sense of humor, AND a political agenda.
I wonder if our proposed national health care “covers” personality implants ? THESE writers need them, desparately, and proves that they shouldn’t be bailed out, but get a real job !
Jim Treacher says: “A woman’s role is to care for the children and serve the man.”
Which is what liberals say Sarah Palin should do.
Jim Treacher says: I’m not saying j-mon is an idiot… oh wait, yes I am.
Ted says: Here’s the problem. Conservatives are not funny; it’s a fact that they are born without a humor gene. For example, you see most people bursting out in uncontrollable laughter (or flames) when asked if SP is ready to be President while conservatives find no humor in that at all. So when people tell me that Glenn Beck is joking, trying to be funny, I cringe because what they don’t know is that he is genetically incapable of being funny; technically he can’t joke about anything!! I don’t blame him for trying but it is heartbreaking to watch the little fella strain to deliver a punch line. By the way I think Palin would look smashing in a red apron and high heels.
Jim Treacher says: Ted the Geneticist.
rmbltmbl says: Ted, you should check out Sowell and the ‘constrained’ and ‘unconstrained’ .. you may have a point.. liberals may be good at making Family Guy, but they have absolutely no business in politics, or any situation of control for that matter.
MikeLI631 says: A funny “Liberal” is Janean Garofalo…a genuine, no talent, looking for publicity, for her flaggin career.
Her BIG MOUTH is hurting her career, but she doesn’t get it.
She is “too smart” to realize that.
SWWT says: Yes, we should all make assumptions about people’s personality traits based on what their ideology/party affiliation is. I suppose that would be the smart thing to do.
Ted says: Look, I appreciate your sincere efforts at humor, I do. But all you are doing is making my point; it’s like watching a pig trying to fly; not gonna happen (unless said pig is in possession of an anti-gravity machine). Anyway I’m just reporting a fact, don’t shoot me for it. I don’t fault Beck for his inability to do something he simply isn’t wired to do. And MikeLI631, you can’t possibly know if Garofalo is being funny or not but again, it’s not your fault.
And I still think SP would look delicious in a red apron and high heels and sipping a martini…dry.
rmbltmbl says: Typical.
Cecelia says: Ted is merely voicing his own version of genetics-as-political-polemic.
With Hitler as the champion of this strategy, Ted has his work cut out for him…
Cecelia says: ”
Ted’s holding back a little. What he really imagines is ‘.SP would look delicious in a red apron and high heels and sipping a martini…dry…in the Oval Office, holding a whip, standing on my back.’
(With the current Oval Office occupant, Ted imagines that the apron is green.)
Jim Treacher says: Ted was born without the self-awareness gene.
Ted says: I’m saying is what is well known in the scientific community. Conservatives are not born with a humor gene and again, you make my point for me. (Can we get past the Hitler comparisons, they are not funny – I know you don’t know that, but for next time, okay?)
I’m with you on the whip part but I’ll stay with red, you can have green. Maybe we can work strawberries and whipped cream into this tableau?
Cecelia says: “I’m with you on the whip part but I’ll stay with red, you can have green. Maybe we can work strawberries and whipped cream into this tableau?”
They’re your fantasies, Ted. I’m just curious as to who gets the strawberries and whipped cream? SP, Obama, or Hitler?
Ted says: Cecelia – I would prefer that the fantasy remain between myself and SP but if you insist, you can join us.
But I must tell you that I am not into the Hitler fetish as you seem to be. Just an fyi.
Cecelia says: Now Ted, if it will make you feel better you can call your proclivities a Mengele fetish, after one of your fellow genetic theorist.
Ted says: Of course I am not talking theory, I’m simply reporting facts.
PS – Is Mengele and athletic shoe?!
Cecelia says: So, on the list entitled “Things Ted Doesn’t Know Anything About”, what would come first? Genetics, journalism, or history?
Ted says: Perhaps all of the above. What I do know is that conservatives are incapable of humor. Not your fault…or mine.
Cecelia says: “All the above” and more, Ted. You’ve certainly proved OUR theory…
So Beck makes a crack about Palin in the kitchen, the Liberals miss out that he’s kidding and over-react, and this is presented as proof that Conservatives have no sense of humor?
Those disconnects would never make it into a flow-chart.
Ted says: Martini – I’m saying that it is impossible for Glenn Beck to joke about anything. It’s like someone defying the laws of gravity or pissing into the wind; as a conservative he simply is incapable of humor. Simply put, he’s not wired to be funny or to understand humor. It’s not a part of his DNA.
I agree though, the disconnects would never make it to a flow chart but they might make it to Glenn’s chalk board!!
Nachi says: Why don’t we all just cease this bickering. And dress ourselves in the Mormon Android tradition of at all times wearing tight-fitting, harness-like underwear – in order to “thwart all untoward urges”??
Cecelia says: Ted’s familiarity with the law of gravity happened as a baby when his mom dropped him on his head, but he still hasn’t put 2 + 2 together with the relieving himself in a gale thing….
Ted says: Cecelia – I applaud your effort, you’re a real trooper. But you simply can not be funny, in fact coherence may be a challenge. I’m sorry.
Cecelia says: Ted, that you don’t have a sense of humor and couldn’t detect it if could be dropped on your webbed foot, is something that no one can blame on genetics. I’m sure everyone in your family laughs at you too.
Ted says: Cecelia – You are indeed an inspiration to humor challenged people everywhere. God bless you!!
Cecelia says: Glad to inspire you, Ted.
Yer welcome…
roxsteady says: Beck is an idiot and so is Palin. Now, those of you who say he’s joking….I don’t give a damn! I noticed how the teabagger crowd when nuts when Palin was put on the cover of Newsweek in that hideous outfit. Here’s a hint. Only a HICK would wear pantyhose with running shorts. By the way, I see that the Barricuda managed to stay out of the kitchen this Thanksgiving. Perhaps Levi knows of what he speaks. This woman who attended 5 coleges, none of them Ivey League, really thinks she can win over us liberals? Dream on dear. Community college won’t do! Oh, and Palin was clobbered by Couric who is an award winning journalist.
rmbltmbl says: roxsteady says:
November 28, 2009 at 8:57 pm
‘retarded fascination’ = levi johnston
OMG.. she didn’t go to an IVY COLLEGE!?!?!?!?! WHAT WAS I THINKING! What is it like to be part of 20% of America?
Jim Treacher says: Ted doesn’t think things that hurt his feelings are funny. Poor Ted.
Ted says: Jim – This just isn’t sinking in is it? I have lots of liberal friends who routinely hurt my feelings and are also very funny. Conservatives, try as they might, are simply incapable of this. Again, I applaud your effort!
wordoftheday says: Oh man can you imagine that ticket. Dumb and dumber. It’s amazing how Republicans flock to stupidity and misinformation.
ImNotBlue says: m says:
November 27, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Fortunately we’ve liberalized. If the average Republican took a time machine back 100 years they’d probably be disgusted at how women were treated in this country. So one positive aspect is that conservatives today aren’t as conservative as they used to be.
I wonder what the Democrats would say… you know, with all them uppity minorities having the same rights. Oh, whoops… brought up the fact that Democrats were the party of slavery and segregation… my mistake… I’ll “forget” that history because it’s inconvenient.
Cecelia says:
November 28, 2009 at 12:45 pm
Ted says:
November 28, 2009 at 1:32 pm
I’m saying is what is well known in the scientific community. Conservatives are not born with a humor gene and again, you make my point for me. (Can we get past the Hitler comparisons, they are not funny – I know you don’t know that, but for next time, okay?)
Ah yes… the same “scientific community” that has kept the “Climategate” story out of the papers and news. Even joking, how reliable.
But more importantly… it’s funny. I’ve been complaining about the Hitler comparisons for a while now… and you’ve never jumped on board until now. Why is that? Is it because this time it’s not something you agree with?! Ah… well, I suppose Conservatives lack humor, just like you possess common sense, humility, and respect for all people and ideas… which of course is to say, not much.
Nachi says:
November 28, 2009 at 3:11 pm
Nice! You’ve managed to insult people who disagree with you politically… AND insult a religion! Now, I wonder if you’d do the same if it were, say, Muslims… or African Americans? No, I didn’t think so.
roxsteady says:
November 28, 2009 at 8:57 pm
Beck is an idiot and so is Palin.
How polite!
Only a HICK would wear pantyhose with running shorts.
How respectful!
This woman who attended 5 coleges [SIC], none of them Ivey League, really thinks she can win over us liberals? Dream on dear. Community college won’t do.
How “common-man”… not elitist at all! (Which “colege” did you attend again?)
Facebook User says: Guys– Glenn didn’t say he thought women should be kept in the kitchen barefoot, pregnant, and stupid. He said he thought *Sarah Palin* should be kept barefoot, pregnant (well, probably not so much this), and stupid in the kitchen. And as much as a liberal as I am, I don’t think there’s anywhere I’d rather Sarah Palin be than in some kitchen slaving away on cookies with her mouth shut and absolutely no way to get attention from anyone, except maybe her husband at night.
Jim Treacher says: “Jim – This just isn’t sinking in is it?”
Apparently not; you’re still trying.
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