“So we know you’re hookin’ but you’re just not cheap,” Beck said of Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., and her big gains in voting with the Democrats for last week’s health care roll call.

“He said she was ‘hooking,’ basically called her a prostitute,” said Kurtz, before comparing the comments to Rep. Alan Grayson’s, D-Fla., describing a lobbyist as a “whore” last month — a controversy which got seriously play on Fox News. Perhaps a double standard was at work, Kurtz suggested to his guests, Press and the National Review‘s Jim Geraghty.

Press concurred with Kurtz: “I am totally for talk show hosts almost getting away with almost anything they say, on the radio particularly. But I’m amazed how much Fox News lets Glenn Beck get away with. I think he is a ticking time bomb and one day he’s going to explode in the face of Roger Ailes and they’re going to be sorry they gave him that television show.”

“Nobody elected Glenn Beck to Congress… yet,” Geraghty countered. Check out the clip below: