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Glenn Beck On Trump: ‘The Last Thing The Country Needs Is A Showboat’

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Don’t think that, despite continuing to tackle his gigantic multi-organizational/one-world-government themes that Glenn Beck has not noticed the Great Donald Trump Media Takeover of 2011. On his regular segment with Bill O’Reilly last night, Beck gave his less-than-glowing review of the possible Trump presidential campaign, expressing concern that a “showboat” hijack the 2012 elections.

After initially teasing O’Reilly by claiming that he was “dismissive” of Trump, Beck began his analysis in a positive light, calling Trump “a guy who gets things done” and someone he “really respects,” but still confessing that he has “made me a little uncomfortable recently.” O’Reilly rebutted by approving of Trump’s harsh language on China and the economy, which was precisely what concerned Beck. “the whole ‘I’m going to go pound China’… you can’t just go pound China!” he complained, which, to the casual Beck viewer may be surprising given his national debt fears, but is rather consistent with his ideology. Amidst much of the theater the consistent looming threat of America falling under that defines his program, it is easy to forget that Beck is first and foremost a libertarian, which means a lot of Trump’s neo-conservative “to the victor go the spoils” invasion talk just doesn’t sit too well. And the birther talk, when Trump, “releas[ed] a birth certificate worse than Obama’s,” appeared to be another layer of self-parody that pushed Beck away.

Then there’s the “showboating,” which really bothers Beck. “that’s the last thing the country needs is a showboat. You don’t want me as President of the United States,” he joked. O’Reilly countered this claim by noting that Trump is “getting a massive amount of attention quickly,” and that, as a candidate, Trump would “shake things up, and that’s good.” Beck agreed, though lamented that no one could “shake things up by not stating things provocatively.” O’Reilly failed to skip a beat at pointing out the irony in the statement: “then we’d be off the air!”

The segment via Fox News below:

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  • Barack Must Go

    The One WORD , not mentioned by either during this back and forth, that puts Beck at the polar opposite of Trump’s ideology is GOD. Beck, even if he wanted to, considering his largest fan base, couldn’t back The Donald, not in a million years.

  • Nacho

    I almost never comment before I read the article and/or watch the video, but that headline is AWESOME.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ellen-Carey-Rowe/683757018 Ellen Carey Rowe

    Looks like Beck is not too happy to share the limelight. :)

  • http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

    The libs agree with Beck but they have to attack Beck anyway. LOL

  • Nacho

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The libs agree with Beck but they have to attack Beck anyway. LOL

    The funny thing is, a showboat blowhard is calling another showboat blowhard a showboat blowhard.

    Everybody knows Trump isn’t running for President, so really, he is nothing different than Beck, just a couple millionaires cashing in on peoples fears and stupidty.

    They’re both bad for America.

  • Barack Must Go

    Nacho said:
    The funny thing is, a showboat blowhard is calling another showboat blowhard a showboat blowhard. Everybody knows Trump isn’t running for President, so really, he is nothing different than Beck, just a couple millionaires cashing in on peoples fears and stupidty. They’re both bad for America.

    So you admit that in the case of both of these men, liberal-ace types allow their paranoia and that fact they’re all dumber than a piece of driftwood be their guide when responding to Beck or Trump. Now if you could just speak to the others that would be great.

  • RowdyHoward

    His tune will change if Trump becomes the Republican nominee.

  • Tedderman

    Trump’s “showboating” is what bothers Beck,really, Trump’s showboating…….Beck’s own daily fleet of showboats are just fine but Trump’s….well, they’re just too much. What a gigantic HIPOCRIT!

  • jim bronson 990cc

    Barack Must Go said:
    So you admit that in the case of both of these men, liberal-ace types allow their paranoia and that fact they’re all dumber than a piece of driftwood be their guide when responding to Beck or Trump. Now if you could just speak to the others that would be great.

    “and that fact they’re are all dumber than a piece of driftwood…” . If you are going to complain about someone’s intelligence, at least do it in an intelligently written sentence.

  • Barack Must Go

    jim bronson 990cc said:
    “and that fact they’re are all dumber than a piece of driftwood…” . If you are going to complain about someone’s intelligence, at least do it in an intelligently written sentence.

    Who died and made you Mrs. Crabtree ?

  • Davo

    Barack Must Go said:
    The One WORD , not mentioned by either during this back and forth, that puts Beck at the polar opposite of Trump’s ideology is GOD. Beck, even if he wanted to, considering his largest fan base, couldn’t back The Donald, not in a million years.

    Dunno. Considering the possible offerings so far from the Republicans, Trump is looking pretty good. In fact, I heard a poll yesterday that had Trump above Romney. But polls are just polls, not elections.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    Who died and made you Mrs. Crabtree ?

    Who made you omniscient? There are intelligent defenders of the reactionary movement in this country.
    BMG, you aren’t among them. You’re starting to sound like Gordo without the net-show. And that’s just pathetic, squared.

  • Barack Must Go

    I don’t know what that word means, I’m assuming it’s not good. Why do yo libs insist on using your handy, dandy pocket thesaurus all the time ? You’re really not fooling anyone……..but yourselves.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Nacho says:
    “The funny thing is, a showboat blowhard is calling another showboat blowhard a showboat blowhard.”

    Beck has been projecting his own faults and foibles a lot lately. It’s really a case study of the mentally ill mind. Nothing serious; he is not crazy. See:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/03/beck-projects-his-violent-rhetoric-and_4582.html

    Joseph Glackin says:
    “There are intelligent defenders of the reactionary movement in this country. BMG, you aren’t among them. You’re starting to sound like Gordo without the net-show. And that’s just pathetic, squared.”

    I don’t think I’ve read a defender of the reactionary movement on this blog. Mediaite seems to be where the troglodyte crowd that used to dominate AOL wondered to when AOL imposed civility on their news boards.

    The last thing this country needs is a liar and a hypocrite pretending to be honest and principled leading the backlash against liberalism, hope and change; but I’ll never convince the trogs who follow Beck that he is the opposite of united we stand. Anyone opposing Bush with the kind of vitriol Beck employs against Obama would have been roundly condemned on the Fox propaganda channel as traitorous.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Joseph-Glackin/100000892011713 Joseph Glackin

    Barack Must Go said:
    I don’t know what that word means, I’m assuming it’s not good. Why do yo libs insist on using your handy, dandy pocket thesaurus all the time ? You’re really not fooling anyone……..but yourselves.

    Don’t have a thesaurus. Have an education. You might look into one. There is a cure for ignorance.

  • Nacho

    RowdyHoward said:
    His tune will change if Trump becomes the Republican nominee.

    LOL

  • Nacho

    Davo said:
    Dunno. Considering the possible offerings so far from the Republicans, Trump is looking pretty good. In fact, I heard a poll yesterday that had Trump above Romney. But polls are just polls, not elections.

    LOL

  • glenn113

    Listen to the pot calling the kettle black.

  • glenn113

    We’ll see how much of a showboat Trump is when those old Howard Stern interviews are released………….d’oh!

  • glenn113

    Seriously on this one. About 10 years ago or so wasn’t Trump bragging about that every girl he met that wanted to f____k him, he would make the girl take an hiv test right on the spot by his personal physician that use to travel with him? I can’t remember the whole thing but it was something like that if I’m not mistaken.

  • glenn113

    gordonbloyershow said:
    The libs agree with Beck but they have to attack Beck anyway. LOL

    All kidding aside, do you remember that Trump thing he use to brag about with the girls and sex, etc?. I think I heard that for awhile on those old Howard Stern interviews when he was still on am..radio. I can’t remember all the details but it was funny as hell cause Trump was bragging about it. thnx.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Nacho said:
    I almost never comment before I read the article and/or watch the video, but that headline is AWESOME.

    That’s about what I thought.

    ‘Candy for libs’

    The same could be said about most Mediaite articles.

  • Nacho

    Barack Must Go said:
    So you admit that in the case of both of these men, liberal-ace types allow their paranoia and that fact they’re all dumber than a piece of driftwood be their guide when responding to Beck or Trump. Now if you could just speak to the others that would be great.

    If that were only true. “Liberal-ace” types aren’t the ones transferring their cash from their wallets to Beck’s.

  • The Tea Weasel®

    Davo said:
    Dunno. Considering the possible offerings so far from the Republicans, Trump is looking pretty good. In fact, I heard a poll yesterday that had Trump above Romney. But polls are just polls, not elections.

    That just about sums it up.

    Oh well, there’s always 2016….

  • Nacho

    Paleoconservatarian said:
    That’s about what I thought.

    ‘Candy for libs’

    The same could be said about most Mediaite articles.

    It was on Bill O’Reilly’s show, unedited with Billo and the Beckster upfront and personal. Is that what those two jokers are up to now?? ‘Candy for libs?’

  • glenn113
  • Nationman

    I’d be more supportive of beck if he wasn’t such a jealous hypocrite. “I’M THE ONLY SHOWBOAT OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT!”

  • Nationman

    glenn113 said:
    All kidding aside, do you remember that Trump thing he use to brag about with the girls and sex, etc?. I think I heard that for awhile on those old Howard Stern interviews when he was still on am..radio. I can’t remember all the details but it was funny as hell cause Trump was bragging about it. thnx.

    I remember when he used to be pro choice.

  • tgk

    Nationman said:
    I’d be more supportive of beck if

    No………. you wouldn’t

  • Kat

    Awww Glenn is Trump stealing your thunder?

  • Nationman

    tgk said:
    No………. you wouldn’t

    let me rephrase that I would be more supportive of his statement here. and also have we met somewhere? your statement seems to indicate that you know me or something.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    “Trump would “shake things up, and that’s good.” Beck agreed….”

    This is yet another example of how Glenn Beck is a complete fraud. Beck has strong views about birtherism, the questioning of Obama’s place of birth which Trump has been engaged in lately. Look at Beck considers birtherism dumb and worth of flat-earthers, so why is he not denouncing Trump as dumb, a flat-earther and unworthy of media attention?

    ANSWER: Look at Glenn Beck is a complete and utter, unprincipled fraud, charlatan, fake! A propaganda genius, he has millions of gullible fools thinking that he tells the truth and has principles. Many of them can be seen here supporting the “clown’s” (Beck’s word!) ideas and attacking me for pointing out what a liar and hypocrite Beck is.

  • Pablo

    How’s that BOMBSHELL! coming along, Bombshell?

  • Armageddon T Thunderbird

    And another thing American does not need is Beck or another one of his right wing conspiracy blow jobs.

  • potvin

    Beck must think of himself as an earnest show boat.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Nacho said:
    Paleo

    They didn’t write the title, silly.

  • eingriff

    We don’t need a showboat, Glenn? You’re retiring, then?

    How about a savvy businessman who approaches a problem directly, objectively, and with energy, posing relevant factual inquiries?

    As Dr. Charles E. Rice, Professor Emeritus at the Law School of Notre Dame University, says in calling for a congressional investigation of the Obama matter, “The first step toward resolving the issue is full discovery and disclosure of the facts.” http://thesteadydrip.blogspot.com/2011/03/is-he-or-isnt-he-american-citizen.html

    If searching for answers be showboating, make the most of it. Beck’s joining the ranks of know-nothings, whose motto seems to be, “Don’t confuse me with facts.” is very strange, and contrary to his own general standards and stance of critical inquiry. Thorough official investigations of Obama’s eligibility are likely to allay some doubts but raise other significant questions of corruption and sedition.

    Initially, official investigators must subpoena Obama’s vital records, which can be expected to show he was born in the U.S.A. to two U.S. citizen birth parents, and so was a natural born U.S. citizen at birth. But this would also show that his claimed birth parents were actually adoptive parents, and his racist political manifesto “Dreams from my Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance” is a total fabrication and a gigantic hoax.

    But Obama’s acquisition of Indonesian citizenship might have terminated his U.S. citizenship, especially if it involved written renunciation of U.S. citizenship. His residence in Indonesia was at about the time of the great slaughter of communists, when the populace was enjoined by the government to go out and kill every communist they could find. Some 500,000 were murdered. This event in his early formative years, plus his anti-American communist upbringing, might account in large measure for his dedication to communist subversion of America. Thorough official investigations will probably disclose massive corruption and sedition in paying off Indonesian interests at American expense for concealing evidence of Obama’s Indonesian citizenship.

  • Nachi

    Right yopu are, Glenn. We don’t need The Donald. We badly need another BushDrunk. Had two – need another. Let the Games begin -

  • Fuzzytoes

    Two words for Trump, “You’re Fored”

  • BOMBSHELL

    Pablo said:
    How’s that BOMBSHELL! coming along, Bombshell?

    Hey sweetie pie! My ol’ man hasn’t got a BOMBSHELL on Glenn Beck–he’s just talking about our son. YOU look like you’d be a BOMBSHELL in the sack though. Wanna come over when he’s working?

    Gaffing BOMBSHELL Reject said:
    This is yet another example of how I am a complete fraud.

    You tell ‘em oh husband mine! And bring me a large order of fries when you come home tonight.

  • Rockycomet

    Pablo-Wouldn’t it be easier to just call GBR names directly instead?

  • timcajun

    “Shake things up”, without being provocative! Glen, the sky is falling, their coming to get, they want to kill grandma, here’s todays’ conspiracy, one world order, “Beck”!

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