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Don Imus Loves “Scary” Glenn Beck Even Though “He’s Insane”

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Shep Smith popped up on Imus in the Morning this morning and he got Don Imus to list the shows he watches at night which led to a review of the Fox News line up. As this was being broadcast on Fox Business as well as the radio, it shouldn’t be too surprising that Imus was fairly positive about the sister network’s staff. He said he liked Bill O’Reilly and that he loved Glenn Beck. He did admit, however, that both of them are pretty much insane.

Here’s his quotes on Beck:

IMUS: You know who else I like? I really like Beck. Well, I think he’s scary. Here’s the other thing, he could be right too about one.

SMITH: About which part?

IMUS: Anything. I mean, he may not be. But, personally, we have him on the show occasionally. I love the guy, he’s a sweetheart. He’s a nice man. He’s got a great sense of humor. I mean, so he’s insane.

SMITH: We all are on some levels.”

Not exactly a perfect pull quote for Beck to use in his advertising, but still a nice comment nonetheless. Imus also claimed to be a fan of Neil Cavuto. No word on his mental state though.

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  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Well to be fair, if you are interested in that Jon, perhaps he was referring to Beck’s wacky behavior and not his views. He can indeed be a little wacky.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    RRKING wonders . Can you imagine being a nasty old grouch like Imus , with all his bleaching , krimping , mooning and kvelling ?

  • wasjustsayin

    I’m pretty sure the REAL news was how cry-baby Imus had to bring on his boss, Kevin Magee, to reassure Imus (ON THE AIR) that he’s not being canceled.

    I guess it’s natural to get paranoid after your ratings fall 58% to a lousy 57,000 viewers a day.

  • JazzyJim

    Why is it that Fox hires drug addicts and drunks to be their on air personalities like Imus, Beck, Limbaugh to do the RNC’s bidding? I think it must be representative of their audiences. Unbalanced, unstable, uneducated.

  • writer

    I like when he wears the cowboy hat. Then he rides around Manhattan on that broomstick with the horse head on it.

  • Penguin60

    JazzyJim said:
    Why is it that Fox hires drug addicts and drunks to be their on air personalities like Imus, Beck, Limbaugh to do the RNC’s bidding? I think it must be representative of their audiences. Unbalanced, unstable, uneducated.

    Limbaugh works for Fox?

  • huntingtonboy

    Imus? You have to be kidding. This guy is soooooooo yesteday’s news.

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    Jazz hands, you seem to have a lot of pent up rage.

  • Penguin60

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Jazz hands, you seem to have a lot of pent up rage.

    It’s humerous how the lefty extremists kooks come out of the woodwork using the same tired theme. But he forgot nazi, and racist. Unbalanced, unstable? did anyone at fox threaten to burn the place down? LMAO

  • Real Royal Spelling and Grammar Czar

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    RRKING wonders . Can you imagine being a nasty old grouch like Imus , with all his bleaching , krimping , mooning and kvelling ?

    Correction – that’s bleating, kvetching, moaning and whining.

    No citation this time, we know what you meant.

  • timcajun

    JazzyJim says:

    Why is it that Fox hires drug addicts and drunks to be their on air personalities like Imus, Beck, Limbaugh to do the RNC’s bidding? I think it must be representative of their audiences. Unbalanced, unstable, uneducated.

    Once again you are 100%! The teas just live in that simple little bubble of “Fox”!

  • The Donger

    JazzyJim said:
    Why is it that Fox hires drug addicts and drunks to be their on air personalities like Imus, Beck, Limbaugh to do the RNC’s bidding? I think it must be representative of their audiences. Unbalanced, unstable, uneducated.

    Last time we heard the tea party was better educated than the rest of the country, perhaps a new talking point is in order, I mean there is always the trusted race card fall back for ya.

  • rover37

    Sheperd Smith is the Liberal hiding at FOX… its obvious. Im also waiting for him to come out of the closet… its a race between him and Anderson

  • ImNotBlue

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Jazz hands, you seem to have a lot of pent up rage.

    I disagree.

    His rage isn’t pent up. It’s expended on foolish things, and through false “facts” and name calling.

    He’s just another one who believes he knows what he’s talking about, so ACTUALLY knowing what he’s talking about isn’t needed.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Clifford-EElisary/1434665168 Clifford E.Elisary

    DON IMUS, is a Proven Racist Bastard, so why would I even care what this PUNK has to say??? Since he has started working at FOX he has like the rest of those Fools taken the company line an use every chance given to him to Blast the President and any Democrat within shouting distance. FOX isn’t a News Network but a Propaganda machine the THIRD RIECH WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD OF. An Don Imus has followed the rest of those RIGHT WING ASSHOLES AT FOX NEWS !!!!

  • Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window)

    rover37 says:
    Sheperd Smith is the Liberal hiding at FOX… its obvious. Im also waiting for him to come out of the closet… its a race between him and Anderson

    He doesn’t hide it, he is just (usually) better at being an impartial reporter than those on the other networks.

  • Penguin60

    Clifford E.Elisary said:
    DON IMUS, is a Proven Racist Bastard, so why would I even care what this PUNK has to say??? Since he has started working at FOX he has like the rest of those Fools taken the company line an use every chance given to him to Blast the President and any Democrat within shouting distance. FOX isn’t a News Network but a Propaganda machine the THIRD RIECH WOULD HAVE BEEN PROUD OF. An Don Imus has followed the rest of those RIGHT WING ASSHOLES AT FOX NEWS !!!!

    Ding, ding ding…What do we have for him Johnny? Congrats for the most inane rant of the day!
    Special extra cookie for invoking Godwin’s law(and so soon)…congrats again. LMAO

  • ImNotBlue

    I think we should get Cliff and Jim together and have a Rage Off!

    Who can appear more irrationally angry, without actually knowing what they’re talking about?

    The winner gets to go up against roxy (lowercase).

  • writer

    Sorry, but you have to put your rage in the form of a question.

  • writer

    Okay, Alex. “Whatts a matta you?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Clifford-EElisary/1434665168 Clifford E.Elisary

    FACT #1..Don Imus was FIRED from his last Job for making Racist remarks against the RUTGERS WOMENS BASKETBALL

    Fact #2..Google Imus Show anytime in the last Year an you will listen to a constant barrage against this President and the democrats in Congress,. The Fox Party line…..

    Fact #3..Since the NEWS this morning that MUBARACK will be leaving, Fox News has spent the last 4 Hours, finding a way to blame what has gone on in Egypt on the President and Jimmy Carter. An they have for the last Four Hours tried to spread the FEAR that the BAD BOYS of ISLAM will be taking over Egypt and thus DESTROYINBG THE US AND ISREAL. Four Continuous HOURS of FEAR, FEAR,FEAR…Just Pathetic you Bastards just hate Facts!!!!!!!

  • ImNotBlue

    @ Cliff

    AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGG! RAAAAAAAAGE!

    Of course, what you’ve said above is untrue, and obviously so. But don’t let that get in the way of your rage.

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    JazzyJim said:
    Why is it that Fox hires drug addicts and drunks to be their on air personalities like Imus, Beck, Limbaugh to do the RNC’s bidding? I think it must be representative of their audiences. Unbalanced, unstable, uneducated.

    Why is it fools like you hide behind phony names that make you appear to be a drug addict or a drunk? Oh I know, it is so no one will know that YOU are making these stupid comments and are attacking people.

  • Gasket

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    Well to be fair, if you are interested in that Jon, perhaps he was referring to Beck’s wacky behavior and not his views. He can indeed be a little wacky.

    Looky here. Becky’s nut swinger to the defense.

  • BlackWidow

    I watched Imus for years. I didn’t think MSNBC should have fired him. Now I don’t know what to think of him. He as all the others that do radio and TV goes with the flow. Now he is on Fox but I remember when he voted for John Kerry.

  • BlackWidow

    Liberal Tormentor (formerly Seeing 2012 From My Window) said:
    rover37 says:Sheperd Smith is the Liberal hiding at FOX… its obvious. Im also waiting for him to come out of the closet… its a race between him and Anderson He doesn’t hide it, he is just (usually) better at being an impartial reporter than those on the other networks.

    I like Shep and think he is a great commenter. I can actually enjoy watching him and wish he were on another network.

  • timcajun

    ImNotBlue says:

    @ Cliff

    AAAARRRRRRRGGGGGGG! RAAAAAAAAGE!

    Of course, what you’ve said above is untrue, and obviously so. But don’t let that get in the way of your rage.
    ……………………
    Untrue! …..It was all 100% true! Name one item that was not! Fox has went “out of their way” to blame Obama for Egypt. What will Beck do now that the Muslims won’t take control of the country? I think he may hit the grape drink, because this makes the 100th time that he has been wrong. It doesn’t matter to teas. They only live in the bubble!

  • ImNotBlue

    @ tim

    For it to be 100% true, the recently posted story about Leland Viddert and his comments about witnessing history, would have never happened.

    But they did… and FNC showed it a few times.

    Anything else you want to know?

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Beck is not insane and not crazy. He says things that are “completely insane:”
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2010/07/glenn-beck-as-jesus-insane-quotes-and.html

    More to the point, Beck is a master at manipulating his audience.
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/02/why-glenn-beck-isnt-crazy-and-millions.html

    BlackWidow says:
    “I like Shep and think he is a great commenter. I can actually enjoy watching him and wish he were on another network.”

    So do I. He’s one of the genuine reporters working at Fox propaganda. He’s better than that.

  • timcajun

    ImNotBlue says:

    Anything else you want to know?

    First, you have to tell me something, anything! We may not be on the same post, however if you quote FNC it doesn’t matter. It’s not a news source, just tea propaganda but again, I think this is off topic!

  • ImNotBlue

    @ tim

    So anything that does not comport with what you’ve decided is “real” or “valid opinion,” you ignore.

    Neat! Don’t let the echo chamber give you a headache… oh, and don’t pretend you know what you’re talking about. If you are willfully selectively informed (ie- you only listen to news sources which promote your opinions) you simply cannot claim to be “informed.” Just foolishly biased.

  • zumpano

    IMUS LOVES THE RACIST ASPECTS OF BECK

    BIRDS O’ A FEATHER

  • timcajun

    ImNotBlue says:

    So anything that does not comport with what you’ve decided is “real” or “valid opinion,” you ignore.

    Neat! Don’t let the echo chamber give you a headache… oh, and don’t pretend you know what you’re talking about. If you are willfully selectively informed (ie- you only listen to news sources which promote your opinions) you simply cannot claim to be “informed.” Just foolishly biased.

    ……………………

    How is this any different from what I just said? How does this apply to me, yet not you? I know all tea thoughts are magic, so I’ll give you this “Fox” is a very honest network, with no bias or spin! How’s that?

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    GlennBeckReview said:
    So do I. He’s one of the genuine reporters working at Fox propaganda. He’s better than that.

    Oh no, you crawled back out of your hole. Give us that “bombshell” on Beck. You are really hurting his ratings.

  • Arkansas Steve

    I DVR “Imus in the Morning” every day. It takes me an average of 1.5 hours to watch it. I really lilke Imus and his show.

    I could go on and on about Imus’ good qualities. However he is not perfect.

    One of his weaknesses is calling all his friends who have a strong “liberal” or “conservative” point of view WHACK JOBS. By doing this, he does not risk having a serious interaction with them. He can ask questions and get them to explain their views, without having to explain or defend his views. This keeps them as friends.

    So Jon Bershad, next time you write a truly “dumb ass” headline like this one, you would be more valuable to our country if you’d get a little context first. Imus truly likes Glenn Beck. And he knows that, unlike your liberal “whack jobs” Beck has a genuine sense of humor.

  • Gasket

    Insane Glenn Beck. Blue Sky. Flying Birds. White Milk. et al. Truisms.

  • Mr B

    I’ll tell you what is insane. Petrodollars. $1,500 Billion Petrodollars for oil Exporters in 2006 alone.

    http://www.newyorkfed.org/research/current_issues/ci12-9/ci12-9.html

    Then, consider how developing Capitalist economies benefit from the recycling of those Petrodollars into their economies. Is it any wonder oil remains the energy juggernaut that it is? Oil exporters have to spend that oil money or else global finance goes bonkers.

    Take China for example: “In Asia, China has fared even better than the euro area in seeing petrodollars recycled back home. Imports from oil-exporting countries increased by $56 billion from 2002 to 2006 while sales grew by $34 billion, so that 60 cents of each $1 sent abroad returned to purchase Chinese goods.

    This high figure accords with the explosive growth of China’s exports to all markets. Indeed, China’s exports grew by 179 percent over the period—an increase not too far below the 238 percent rise in sales to oil exporters. Given China’s gains in market share, the country might well have seen its sales to oil exporters climb sharply, even if oil exporters’ purchases worldwide had remained flat in recent years.”

    Explosive growth.

    Fascinating.

  • Pablo

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Beck is not insane and not crazy.

    But you are.

  • Pablo

    Arkansas Steve said:
    One of his weaknesses is calling all his friends who have a strong “liberal” or “conservative” point of view WHACK JOBS.

    Imus has been calling people he likes crazy, stupid, etc… for years. He’s the Don Rickles of talk radio. He also gets as much as he gives, with his own staff frequently calling him a “crazy old fool” and such.

  • Pablo

    timcajun said:
    I know all tea thoughts are magic

    I once saw White Chai saw a lady in half with its mind.

  • Cancon2

    Beck is a threat ,,, nothing more. Doors are opened, now the Libs are freaking out and panicking as per usual. “Oh my God, he is talking about our philisophy and history on TV in front of Millions every night”?

    What are they scared of?, simple, their philosophy and history in front of Millions on TV EVERY NIGHT..

  • kittycat

    Beck is not only crazy but a dry drunk—-wish he would go to meeting and get honest what a self asborbed man. Ugh!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Kitty kat, Beck is not crazy; he’s a master manipulator. It’s so weird: when my wife listens to Beck, she gets “an overwhelming feeling of evil” too. I asked her why, and she said that she could tell that he is a liar by HOW he speaks.

    I’m more empirical and philosophically trained. Beck lies and we prove this day after day. I have a long list of posts detailing Beck’s false claims, and I don’t post nearly all the ones I know about. I have a large unused file detailing many of Beck’s lies.

    Beck is on the wrong side of history again, but — not surprising — he was on the side of democracy in the Middle East in support of Bush’s war of choice against Iraq. He hasn’t changed his mind: Glenn Beck is a hypocrite through and through. I prove this with facts and logic over and over again. And this begs the question: why does Beck has such a large following?

    Yes, he’s persuasive and cunning and gifted. He’s also highly skilled at manipulating his viewers; Beck is a master manipulator. Why else would more of his followers not hear the lies I could detect before starting The Glenn Beck Review. He programs his viewers to dismiss any and all criticism of him, no matter how factual and unbiased, no matter how honest. This has led me to a recent re-evaluation of his intellect as of late. He’s still ignorant about the world, but he’s very bright, clever, gifted, persuasive and intelligent. It’s taken a while to see that, but the link about his manipulation skills forced me into rethinking just how smart he is.

    It’s still all about Glenn Beck. His motivations, according to Beck’s biographer, Alex Zaitchik, “are, and have always been, money and fame. If Beck has a true religion, it’s not Patriotism. It’s not Mormonism. It’s cross-platform self-marketing.” Those who do not grasp this about him, can not hear his lies or hypocrisies, do not recognize that this uneducated, ignorant man is a charlatan and yellow propagandist, are victims more than they are supporters. They are to be pitied, not respected.

  • kittycat

    Beck perhaps is a master manipulator but he is a man acting out his drunkeness in bully behavior and sense of totally feeling of inadequate ways and tend to avoid social interaction because of a fear of humiliation, ridicule or rejection. These people are overly sensitive to criticism and their self-image is poor so he has a narractive that focus on that audience to built himself up—-he’s a blowhard insulting drunk who doesn’t work a honest program. He’ drunk on his noise that vomits out of mouth that makes him high. Not a very intelligent or man of intergity in my book —he continues to be the fool.

  • Pablo

    kittycat said:
    Beck perhaps is a master manipulator but he is a man acting out his drunkeness in bully behavior and sense of totally feeling of inadequate ways and tend to avoid social interaction because of a fear of humiliation, ridicule or rejection.

    That might be the dumbest thing i read all day. Beck is a bully? He feels inadequate? He avoids social interaction?

    Everyone who knows him likes him, unlike a certain hero of the left who has trouble maintain employment. He makes gobs of cash and keeps winding up on the Time Most Important People list. He just brought at least 300K people to DC in August. He tours and does stage shows for thousands of people what seems like constantly. He does 4 hours of broadcast a day, TV and radio, both of which require lots of people. He employs somewhere around 60 people many of whom he does daily production meetings with. Others are research staff that he spends significant time talking to. None of these people have ever come out talking about what a prick he is. Quite the opposite, really.

    Are you talking about some other Beck?

  • kittycat

    I don’t know what your source of information is but I don’t really care, Beck is a fool, a cartoon character, grandstanding drunk and his higher power is money and using people. I fine him to a scam and totally cry baby dishonest man that has never develop any character except to feed his inflated ego. So if one like his bullshit go for it. Its a free country!!! I just fine it shameful!!!!

  • X-3

    GlennBeckReview said:
    I asked her why, and she said that she could tell that he is a liar by HOW he speaks.

    You need to get some new material. You’ve posted this same line of crap for months and thus far you have FAILED to list ANY lie Beck has told BOMBSHELL!

  • timcajun

    Arkansas Steve says:

    Beck has a genuine sense of humor.

    …………………………..

    fear + lies + crazy = humor

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