This Is Real: Media Matters Installs A ‘Glenn Beck Phone’

by Glynnis MacNicol | 2:32 pm, January 6th, 2010

» 16 comments

The war of the symbolic telephone line is on! Regular viewers of Glenn Beck will likely be familiar with the fact that a while back Beck installed a red phone on his set so that the White House could call him and correct any factual errors he might have made whilst proving his case that the current administration are Mao enthusiasts (and other stuff). Alas, perhaps not surprisingly the phone has yet to be put to use.

Well two can play at that game! Or four if you count the actual red phone in the White House, which I think still exists in some capacity (oh those simple Cold War days). Anyway, Media Matters, the site which apparently inspired this week’s fact-checking mania when they dubbed Beck the ‘Misinformer of the Year’ is not taking Beck’s harried response lying down. They have got their own phone! I’m not kidding. They literally got their own ‘Beck Phone.’ From Media Matters:

“Media Matters’ President Eric Burns sent Beck a letter inviting the Fox News host — who has repeatedly professed an interest in accuracy — to call the newly installed “Beck phone” anytime he believes he is being unfairly criticized.”

After the jump Burns’ full fact re-checking letter. Be warned, it’s long. Of course, in a perfect cable world some enterprising teenage computer whiz would get their hands on the actual phone number for Beck’s red phone (presuming it exists) and proceed to call in with a killer Obama impersonation. Hello America!

>>> NEXT: Media Matters’ letter to Glenn Beck

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Eric Burns, Glenn Beck, Media Matters, The Red Phone

m

Hahahahahaha! Beck being beaten by his own game.
ImNotBlue

Why would Beck need to call MM? I thought they watched his shows. The radio show and the television show aren’t enough… he has to call them too?! MM, always trying to get some attention.
ChrisNH

The fact that Beck cowed MM into doing something similar means that Beck won. He’s driving the bus here; MM isn’t.
TfT

MM jealous of Beck’s phone to the WH and wants to get in on the game. Too funny…trying to capitalize on Beck’s popularity. Nothing but a bunch of copy-catters — you would think that Eric Burns would be more imaginative than this, but instead he just copies what Beck did to try to make himself and MM seem important.

Fail.
puck30

How long ago did Glenn put the Red Phone on the set? About three months ago. And it took this long for MM to come up with this? Wow! really original. BTW: Is this the same Eric Burns that use to work at FNC?

I guess Eric Burns missses the spotlight.

I bet Glynnis is glued to the tv (and screaming at it) at the moment. Cause you know who’s on right now.

Can you say obsession?
puck30

BTW: Glynnis I don’t agree with marquis3.0 . I love you just the way you are! Keep those Glenn Beck obsession rolling.
felixw

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
http://lnsmitheeblog.blogspot.com LNSmithee

puck30 wrote:

I bet Glynnis is glued to the tv (and screaming at it) at the moment. Cause you know who’s on right now.

Can you say obsession?

If Beck ever interviews Sarah Palin on his show, Glynnocchio will have a hate-gasm that would put Meg Ryan to shame.
tjl

The idiots are out in full force tonight. I love it! Lord Beck is a grownup. He can handle himself. Right Michael Jackson?
m

Why hasn’t Glenn Beck called Media Matters yet? Is it because he knows he’s a lying douche? If he doesn’t call them to refute their claims, he’s got to be a lying douche.
m

Ahhh…I love what Media Matters has done. As long as Beck hasn’t called them to dispute their claims, he basically admits he’s a bold-faced lier who keeps intentionally lying to and deceiving his audience.
ImNotBlue

m says:
January 7, 2010 at 1:25 am

Again, what makes MM so special? Beck has a national television program where he says what he’s got to say. Why does he need to call MM? Does he need to tell them everything he just said… again? What’s the point?

m says:
January 7, 2010 at 1:27 am

Um… so if you love that MM does that, you also love that Beck did it to the White House, right? They’re apparently “bold-faced liars who intentionally lie to deceive the public,” and the stuff Beck says must be right… right?

Although, if Beck is right… but MM is also right… then Beck is wrong… but Beck isn’t wrong because that would be hypocritical to say when you’ve already assessed that MM is right by a standard that shows Beck to be right. So… which is it?
Fidoohki

Now here is the big question. Would MM admit it if Beck did correct them?
onslo

Beck is nothing more than a sad joke. His viewers/listeners don’t have the necessary intelligence to see and hear him for the charlaton he is. Media Matters is merely pointing out the lunacy of the Beck act and that’s all it is, a very profitable act performed by an insincere,snake oil salesman.
pyrope

Mr. Glenn Beck is probably the nations’ psychiatrists. He is certainly brilliant, and since I am one of his viewers, I think my intelligence is pretty good: My IQ is 166, which qualifies me for membership in Mensa, Intertel, and the Triple 9 Society. (Look ‘em up.) Perhaps it is the lack of intelligence that causes some to think Mr. Beck, Limbaugh, Levin, Krauthammer, etc. are NOT totally brilliant. The sad joke, therefore, is that people like onslo don’t have the mental acuity to accept the truth as it is stated by Mr. Beck.
pyrope

BTW, it’s “charlatan” dumbazz.