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Glenn Beck Points And Laughs At MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer For ‘Economics Degree Question’

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Glenn Beck and his radio crew couldn’t resist enjoying MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer squirm yesterday after a failed attempt to discredit the economic arguments of her guest, a Tea Party-influenced Republican Congressman. Beck summed up his description of Brewer as succinctly as possible: “what a dope!”

After playing the original clip, Beck and his crew rewarded the performance of Congressman Mo Brooks with hysterical laughter and a round of applause. Beck thought Brooks should have also asked where was Brewer’s economic degree so that then he could “start talking down to you now.” Yet one of Beck’s sidekicks had a more serious inquiry regarding Brewer, wondering, “this is not Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow, this is a news hour of their programming where this occurred. This is not an opinion hour.” Regardless if it was opinion or news, everybody (even The Daily Show which made Brewer’s flub their “Moment of Zen”) seemed to get a chuckle out of the exchange.

Watch the clip from The Glenn Beck Program below, and check out the original clip of Brewer’s question further below:

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  • Michelle

    Very valid point.  This was supposed to be a news program, not an opinion show.  What liberal media bias!?

  • Anonymous

    One of the best moments of MSNBC. Brewer is just flat out dumb and out of her league.  This is not the first or last time he has fallen on her face.

  • Harry Flashman

    Poor Contessa. She should stick with programming like “Caught On Camera” and leave the news to the news people at MSNBC. More her speed.

    Wait, what? She IS the news people at MSNBC?

    Yikes.

  • Anonymous

    It was a contentious question and a beautiful answer ,

    Brewer has a side and doesn’t hide it .  Do they have any newspeople who play it straight ?

  • Anonymous

    There is no such thing as “news” on MSNBC. There is only lies, bias and slander.

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    Double Post

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    She humiliated herself and the rest of the network with that one question.  It is a very valid point that Tessa should be playing objective journalist and not giving her opinion or be trying to shape the narrative while embarrassing Republicans.

    Also, Glenn and the guys are about as funny as they come, WITHOUT calling women sl*ts, wh*res and cu*ts.

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uelHwf8o7_U&feature=av2n Unicon

    Has Tommy made a post declaring Brewer the hands down winner of that segment yet?

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget to add thrills.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/ON4HHDYPEEDF3USYEBHZ7CJBCU potvin

    The barefoot-in-mouth Contessa

  • Anonymous

    It was funny. Why is this a story?

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    I think you’re confused with “Fox” 

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Beck needs people to change his diaper. 

  • Struckgld

    I went to school with Contessa.  If it wasn’t for her looks and hot body she never would make it anywhere.  Dumber than a rock.

  • Anonymous

    Hey, has Beck had anyone to debate any of the “absolute truths” he spews everyday?  No?  OK, will check back in tomorrow

  • Anonymous

    He’s still working on an angle.  It’s not complete until he calls Brooks a racist & a sexist though.  

  • Kelc

    I think MSNBC should team Brewer with Joan Walsh.Name of the show could be dumb and dumber

  • Constitutionallyspeaking

    OBVIOUSLY NOT

  • Anonymous

    why, cause he laughed so hard he peed himself? lol

  • Anonymous

    This is the same “straight news” reporter who pined for the development
    that Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, turn out not to be an Islamic
    terrorist but perhaps an American white person – for that would better
    fit the narrative she wished to portray – and, once more, was so
    childlike in her honesty /slash/ stupidity that she openly express her dashed hope AFTER the fact.

    She’s also the “reporter” on whose show edited tape was run to change
    a black tea partier into a white tea partier to fit a narrative that would paint the tea party as dangerously racist.

  • Anonymous

    This is the same “straight news” reporter who pined for the development
    that Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad, turn out not to be an Islamic
    terrorist but perhaps an American white person – for that would better
    fit the narrative she wished to portray – and, once more, was so
    childlike in her honesty /slash/ stupidity that she openly express her dashed hope AFTER the fact.

    She’s also the “reporter” on whose show edited tape was run to change
    a black tea partier into a white tea partier to fit a narrative that would paint the tea party as dangerously racist.

  • http://capitolcommentary.com Harrison

    Contessa was also the same person who wished the NY Times Square bomber was a white male and was “disappointed” to learn it was a Muslim.

  • http://capitolcommentary.com Harrison

    Contessa was also the same person who wished the NY Times Square bomber was a white male and was “disappointed” to learn it was a Muslim.

  • progressive-kitty

    Glenn who?

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    No, he’s just a big crybaby.  

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    I think EVERYONE laughed at her, except hard leftists.

    We all know that JournOlistoes know way more than old has been economists that do not agree with Krugman.

    Because Krugman was right on that stimulus package, do not pay attention to him saying it would work, pay attention to him saying after it failed it should have been bigger.

    We all know that if the government would just print up “a very big number” and gave everyone a billion dollars, we would all be rich! or at least living in the new Weimar or Zimbabwe!

  • Anonymous

    and she was the same NBC’r if I recall right who called the tea party racist and threatening to Obama  by showing up at a tea party rally with an AR15 – and they’d edited the video so you could tell it was actually an African American with the AR.  Countless other examples of her bias as well.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Why don’t you post a concise and riveting comment disproving one of his theories? I am sure you will provide quite an array of evidence right?

    You can start out with how his theory years ago on how gold was going to skyrocket in price was wrong.

    Then you can segue into how he is wrong on how Egypt is heading for an Islamic theocratic dictatorship.

    Then you can go after him on how he was wrong about Jones being a radical communist.

    Then you…………………….you get the point.

  • Anonymous

    Glenn Beck said gold was going to skyrocket?  During a recession?  YOU DON’T SAY?!?!?!?!?!?!

    What a sage, a brilliant mind, we should save his brain and put it next to Einstein’s in the Smithsonian, or as Glenn would prefer, the Smithsonian as brought to you by Comcast Cable/Kraft Cheese.
    by
    You mean Van Jones, the man with the hilariously left sided ideas that are just so ridiculous he can’t hold public but yet for some strange reason Glenn turned down his offer to debate him.  Why?  Van Jones is clearly such a loon, it would be easy for Glenn to put him in his place.  Why does Glenn seem to never ever have anyone EVER debate anything he ever says?  Oh, I forgot, he’ll have a liberal caller sometimes, picked out by his call screeners, who will get filibustered by Beck and his other goons and mic put down so they can’t get a word in. 

  • Anonymous

    I think you’re confused with facts.

    Brewer and her sychophants at MSNBC have been wallowing like this for ages — all while they project their biases onto Fox News.

  • Anonymous

    Well, looking back at your posts staci – there’s a slight problem.  Missing a little depth there sweets.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe with her surname he can charge Brooks with being hostile towards 12-steppers in recovery.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s be HONEST here. Even those on the Left have to grimace and swallow hard on this one, while grudgingly admitting that Brewer really blew it BIG TIME.

    Beck is 100% right — or rather one of his sidekicks was, when he correctly noted this was not Olbermann or Maddow slipping up. This was Brewer as she hosted a NEWS hour of programming, and not an OPINION show.

    Ironically, if Brewer had simply started the interview by asking an obvious introductory question or two, such as you’d expect a PROPER journalist (“So, for our viewers at home, you represent such-and-such district? And you’ve been in the House for X amount of time?”)…

    …And then if she had basically paraphrased the exact same question (“And since we’ll be discussing the Debt Ceiling and economics, do you have a background in finance or business?”), at that point she might have been okay. Because she would have been simply SETTING UP the segment to come.

    But come on — give me a freakin’ break.

    As it actually happened instead — and as you watch the segment unfold — it’s actually CRINGE INDUCING to watch Brewer get visibly more and more flustered on screen…to see her flying off more and more frantically at the mouth, trying to push back against the Congressman…all the while spewing nothing more than prepackaged Liberal talking points over and over. At which point, when she asked the infamous question, it’s OBVIOUS that she was going for an angry slam against the Congressman, now hoping to win the argument simply by trying to PERSONALLY belittle him.

    Hell, her rebuttal points were SO one-sided, she might as well have been reading straight off a DNC press release. Or maybe Media Matters and the Soros people sent her the material. Hey, given that we’re talking about MSNBC, that wouldn’t surprise me at all since — after the Andrew Breitbart incident — that’s clearly where Martin Bashir gets all of HIS material from.

  • Moosenuts99

    Beck has no room to talk re: INTELLIGENCE

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

  • Boomshakalaka

    hum….did you come yet?…cause you’re a little too excited if you ask me..

  • Anonymous

    There are a lot of guys who would love to have hate sex with Brewer, Bill Maher would probably say.

  • Dblaess

    How is bein a cry baby require people to change his diapers?  You are truely on a different planet.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    I see you concede that he was right on the gold and the economy. Hmmmm, does that give him more credence than say Krugman.

    Since you do not want to attempt to debate any of his theories, I guess you agree with them, thanks for following Beck.

    Keep up the good work.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Fox doesn’t even know what facts are.  

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Since it was YOU that posted the challenge, why not pick up a theory he has espoused with proof that he actually did and I WILL BE YOUR HUCKLEBERRY!

    Or are you just another one of those that will just go off half Brewered?

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Since it was YOU that posted the challenge, why not pick up a theory he has espoused with proof that he actually did and I WILL BE YOUR HUCKLEBERRY!

    Or are you just another one of those that will just go off half Brewered?

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    You’re very dense.  I’m sure you have a hard time understanding comedy.    

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    It doesn’t sound like you know how the economy works.  

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Tell me Staci, since you THINK I do not know how the economy works, I am going to ask you a question.

    Facts-

    2010 US Federal Deficit spending was 9.6% of GDP
    2010 stated GDP growth was 2.6%

    What was the ACTUAL or EFFECTIVE GDP growth? Explain your answer.

    I have had several semesters of accounting, macro and micro economics in a Business Admin curriculum and for the last three years I have been studying the economy at numerous places, including reading every Krugman article and about 50% of the articles at Zero Hedge. Now, that is about 1/6th of the sources I have been studying.

    Enthrall me with your economic acumen.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Apparently, Contessa Brewer didn’t know the facts, Staci.

    The cream of MSDNC.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    U mad, Staci?

    Mad that MSDNC was exposed so nakedly in this little episode?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    U mad, Staci?

    Mad that MSDNC was exposed so nakedly in this little episode?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    U mad too?

    Mad that MSDNC was shown to be what it was?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Do you have an economics degree?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Glenn Beck listeners > number of Contessa Brewer/MSDNC viewers.

  • Anonymous

    Do you realize how dumb you sound right now?  Look up “gold in a recession” and “buy or sell” then get back to me.  When I debate someone I expect them to have  at least a rudimentary amount of knowledge about stocks and the economy, but apparently I greatly overrated you.

    What exactly would you like me to debate?  Him saying the left wing in the country are worse than nazis?  I swear I hate right wing morons, when they’re not breathing through their mouths they’re shoveling bullshit in.  You do realize you’re the perfect stooge, right?  You believe in 100% of what he says then find nothing suspicious about him never having to debate it.  This is how cults are born.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Great breakdown and analysis.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Hey IDIOT, it was YOU that challenged the internet to a DEBATE.

    Are you going to RUNAWAY NOW with your ball?

    Sorry to tell you this, but I am not Glenn Beck. You are under the delusional belief that those that listen to him believe in everything he espouses. You would not be further from the truth. Many of us that listen to him say he gets it wrong a LOT! Does not mean that he is always wrong. Heck the only one that I know of that gets everything right is GOD! Well, you might think that your idiots are always right, just saying.

    But hey, you keep with your attack points, it is winning over a lot of people. Especially the ones that listened to Weiner when he attacked the gold sellers on Glenn Beck’s show.

    I bet everyone that listened to him is just SOOOOO happy that they held onto those stocks and US Dollars.

    Huh skippy?

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Hey IDIOT, it was YOU that challenged the internet to a DEBATE.

    Are you going to RUNAWAY NOW with your ball?

    Sorry to tell you this, but I am not Glenn Beck. You are under the delusional belief that those that listen to him believe in everything he espouses. You would not be further from the truth. Many of us that listen to him say he gets it wrong a LOT! Does not mean that he is always wrong. Heck the only one that I know of that gets everything right is GOD! Well, you might think that your idiots are always right, just saying.

    But hey, you keep with your attack points, it is winning over a lot of people. Especially the ones that listened to Weiner when he attacked the gold sellers on Glenn Beck’s show.

    I bet everyone that listened to him is just SOOOOO happy that they held onto those stocks and US Dollars.

    Huh skippy?

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Hey IDIOT, it was YOU that challenged the internet to a DEBATE.

    Are you going to RUNAWAY NOW with your ball?

    Sorry to tell you this, but I am not Glenn Beck. You are under the delusional belief that those that listen to him believe in everything he espouses. You would not be further from the truth. Many of us that listen to him say he gets it wrong a LOT! Does not mean that he is always wrong. Heck the only one that I know of that gets everything right is GOD! Well, you might think that your idiots are always right, just saying.

    But hey, you keep with your attack points, it is winning over a lot of people. Especially the ones that listened to Weiner when he attacked the gold sellers on Glenn Beck’s show.

    I bet everyone that listened to him is just SOOOOO happy that they held onto those stocks and US Dollars.

    Huh skippy?

  • Anonymous

    If this piece of economic advice is blatantly obvious explain why the deposed Anthony Weiner went on a personal crusade to discredit beck and Goldline for defrauding and misleading people on gold prices rising.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    They could bring in Harry Reid for the premiere and call it, Dumb and Dumber go to Vegas.

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure their on-air talent have enough accumen to know not to challenge an individual on an educational pedigree they themselves do not possess.

  • Anonymous

    Dave, that one was too easy.
    Answer:
          It’s George Bush’s fault.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Do NOT ask a question if you do not know the answer. That is what is so funny about her telling me I do not know economics. She did not know. I have to admit, I have been studying more the political environment more than the economy over the last three years. I think I could debate almost anyone though on the economy, if they did not ask me specific numbers in the micro to prove I did not know what was going on.

    Now, Chrissy Mathews caught Walsh mistaking US government numbers for the GDP, but I am not talking general numbers, I am talking specifics like manufacturing etc. Those I would get caught lacking specific numbers, but I would hold strong on macro numbers for the government and the economy.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    Beck has no educational background and is just a stupid radio jock.  

  • Anonymous

    You Mad?

    You’re not Glenn Beck?  You don’t say?  More knowledge bombs being dropped here.  You know that US Goldline thing was fradulent, right?  You didn’t get anywhere near your value of good that you paid for

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Still not going to pick a topic. Hmmmm, until you do, I say you are a frightened little wannabe. Not to be confused with wallaby.

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    You just prove my point you have no idea what your talking about.  

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    LOL! Everything is, heck, I see Global Warming being blamed on him in the near future.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    What the heck is the matter with you? Do you think just because off the top of my head I cannot recall specific micro economic numbers, my knowledge would be wrong? Do you think say…….an astrophysicist that could not recall the distance between two stars in the Andromeda Galaxy does not know astrophysics?

    Oh wait, if the person has a degree in Saul Alinsky techniques, Law and Political science they know everything about everything. Now go away before I taunt you a second time. I say NEET to you!

  • Anonymous

    so that’s how it happens in your house?  Turn on Tessa and…. chuckle chortle snicker and respond like a 12 year old boy.  

  • Anonymous

    Sorry David – staci is tied up coloring her roots at the moment.  She’ll get back to you as soon as her “help” to leftist bloggers is answered. lol

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm dense, you want us to pull a Tessa take down right here and now? lol
    You’re cruising there sister – so I’d go watch the next instalment of Housewives of ——— and stimulate the old grey matter.  

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm dense, you want us to pull a Tessa take down right here and now? lol
    You’re cruising there sister – so I’d go watch the next instalment of Housewives of ——— and stimulate the old grey matter.  

  • Anonymous

    Hmmm dense, you want us to pull a Tessa take down right here and now? lol
    You’re cruising there sister – so I’d go watch the next instalment of Housewives of ——— and stimulate the old grey matter.  

  • http://profiles.google.com/bentleg14 Jerry Jones

    I wouldn’t even bother with him Dave, I stopped responding to him after I made him look dumb.  He’s just here trolling without a brain.

  • Anonymous

    I guess you are the fat, ugly and unemployed one relegated to posting comments instead?

  • Michelle

    And yet he makes more in a year that you will probably make in a lifetime. You know that drives you libs absolutely insane!

  • Paul G

     First off, it’s not a house…BooMoronalaka lives in a cubicle. Secondly I think he was asking his ‘gloryhole’ buddy that question.

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Do you have a degree in economics, Staci?

  • http://twitter.com/Good_Lt Good Lt.

    Some would probably just like the sex without the “hate.”

    What is it with lefties and hating people?

  • Anonymous

    Heck if I were the guest, I would have countered… Do you have a degree in journalism?
    What a Dunce

  • gail

    stacy, dear,  apparently, you are the one who lacks facts, also, brains, common sense, ability to understand, responsibility, all the stuff that makes up a real human being

  • gail

    tooooooo bad they still don’t have the thumbs down you deserve it

  • gail

    you don’t have a point you have a needle and you sure know how to use it, you pinhead

  • onthegulf

    you must live in a cave

  • Anonymous

    Probably by at least 2 to 1.

  • Anonymous

    It doesn’t sound like you know much of anything.

  • Anonymous

    progressive who?

  • Anonymous

    A fact to Stacy is like Kryponite to Superman.

  • Anonymous

    You need someone to change the padding on your walls.

  • Anonymous

    A little?

  • Anonymous

    Stacy, you really should give up blogging. Making cogent arguments backed up with facts doesn’t seem to be one of your talents.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Hebb/1483004033 Peter Hebb

    Aw, c’mon. we finally got rid of Beck on Fox TV. Now, could we please get rid of any and all reporting about him and his various lunacies. I know he’s an easy target, but stop stooping, Mediaite.

  • Anonymous

    On the bright side Contessa, we all make mistakes, that is how we acquire humility.  You will recover, I’d suggest you allow a liitle self depraction.  Laugh at yourself now and soon enough, you will laughing with them/us.

    Conversely, the DEA Agent that shot himself in the foot,  there is no hope for him.  He might as well become a Monk.  Ouch!

    Purveyor

  • http://twitter.com/Staciisa_bitch Staci Chase

    The truth hurts!! 

  • Anonymous

    Maybe on Beck’s chalkboard it was actually showing the demise of News Corp.   

  • Anonymous

    I’m no fan of his, and I’m glad he isn’t getting the Fox distribution now, but he is still there in the scope of Mediaite coverage so it’s no good complaining. Keep shooting at the easy target if you want.

    By the way, this instance of a really dumb reporter is the one time I have to agree with Beck. She should not have challenged the man’s credentials.

  • Anonymous

    Apparently your TV and radio did not have on/off buttons.  Kind of Orwellian?  In fact, you sound as if you have a 1984 in you.

  • Anonymous

    “It doesn’t sound like you know how” sarcasm and humor works…  LOL

    Purveyor of Rhetoric

  • Tony

     Staci, we could spend all day giving examples of non-news being passed off as news on MSNBC.  Can you give us one example for Fox?  Just one.

  • http://www.thefriendcenter.com/ SoThere

    The story isn’t really about Beck, Peter, it’s about Contessa and her ignorance about the man she is interviewing. She thought she was serving him a “Gotcha” question and he slammed her with his expertise, education and his knowledge of the situation.

    Say goodbye Contessa.

    “TMP”

  • Bunny Meinhold

    You’re not very funny, dear….

  • Bunny Meinhold

    You’re not very funny, dear….

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