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Rachel Maddow Defends Glenn Beck After David Letterman Calls Beck A “Looney”

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In a highly entertaining interview on David Letterman‘s Late Show last night, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow talked about what she sees as the stark differences between her network and Fox News.

Maddow argued that unlike MSNBC, Fox News is a “political operation” that’s run with overtly political goals: “to elect candidates…to fundraise for causes…to have rallies against Democratic ideas and politicians.”

For his part, Letterman kept it comedically short and to the point. He said Rush Limbaugh‘s a “fatty,” and Glenn Beck‘s a “looney,” and frequent Late Show guest Bill O’Reilly‘s a “blowhard.”

(Letterman may find himself the subject of a chalkboard breakdown on Beck’s show–and perhaps a sharply-worded takedown on Neil Cavuto‘s for bringing Limbaugh’s size into the story.)

It’s definitely worth noting, though, that not only did Maddow not take the bait to bash Beck personally–she revealed her admiration for him:

“Before Glenn Beck had his TV show, I used to listen to him every day on the radio. I think he’s the most talented…he was the most talented radio personality of my entire generation… Now that he has his TV show, he mostly talks about himself, which isn’t as much fun.”

As for Fox News, Letterman said the network “voices a conservative viewpoint,” and MSNBC “voices a liberal viewpoint.” But which one gets the story right? Maddow said her team gets it more right than the other guys, while Fox “makes up stories out of whole cloth.” The two discussed a recent series of stories dealing with Fox News memos critics have called instructions on how to spin political news stories.

Letterman accused liberals of being defensive, and “mild-mannered,” but then took a swipe at Fox, saying “these guys have a very high threshold of embarrassment and never consider apologizing when they get things right and wrong.”

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  • Big Eddie

    Glenn Beck is a fine man .
    His good qualities far outweigh his flaws .

    Letterman has become a nasty slimeball .
    No redeeming qualities at all anymore .

  • notsofast

    Who makes up stories?

    Try RM who told her viewers that a Republican Congressman got ADVANCED notice of the Oklahoma City bombing!.

    The outrage was so great, she had to retract her lie!

    BTW, Letterman is nothing but a sour, mean-spirited old man.

  • TfT

    Yawn – what a bunch of BS again from the Corrupt Broadcast Station.

    Letterman just makes up shit and Maddow goes along with it.

    Oh please, get some new writers and get over the FDS. It is the number one network for a reason, and it isn’t because it makes up stuff.

    Maddow lies through her teeth, and Letterman doesn’t bother to call her out on it?

  • TfT

    Ooops, Corrupt Broadcast Station should be “Corrupt Bastard Station”

  • Kermit

    Well so what else is new, everyone know Beck is a looney!

    Fox News memos critics have called instructions on how to spin political news stories.dah!!!!

  • bigbrainbrad

    Howard Stern is the most talented radio personality of her entire generation

    and it isn’t even close

  • Mr B

    Everyone wants a piece of the Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin success. It’s why they keep bringing them up.

    It is Christmas-time and Glenn Beck is undergoing another huge charity event. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/ohio-media-praises-becks-wilmington-visit/

    This is a great example of what the season is all about. Hat’s off to Glenn and my best to Wilmington.

  • Hugo Daun

    TfT said:
    It is the number one network for a reason, and it isn’t because it makes up stuff.

    http://www.alternet.org/media/149193/study_confirms_that_fox_news_makes_you_stupid/

  • TonyClifton

    I’d like to know which executive at MSNBC made the decision to talk about Fox all the time…

    Some VP of there must have called a meeting and said, “We are going to talk about our main competitor every chance we get. We’ll talk about Fox on our own shows, on other peoples’ shows, on radio, in print, etc.”, because otherwise, why would they do this?

  • felixw

    Glenn Beck’s core beliefs and values come straight out of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. So it is all too revealing when some New York elite liberal like David Letterman calls Beck a loony. By Letterman’s definition, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin would no doubt also be loonies. So much for David Letterman. Maybe he better give up political commentary, and stick with mentoring the young female interns on his show.

  • Big Eddie

    Mr B said:
    This is a great example of what the season is all about. Hat’s off to Glenn and my best to Wilmington.

    That was one of his best . There are places like Wilmington all over this country , and it was heartwarming to be reminded of that .

  • TangledThorns

    No Palin bashing between the two? Wow, that’s a first.

  • notsofast

    Maddow lies?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHOuzVv0Rgg

    http://therogersinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/10/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-retracts-and.html

    I love how this bitch tries to cover her lies by saying, “Yeah, maybe that was a lie, but what about this?”

  • newzmaker

    Maddow is wrong again, as usual. The American people reject the Fringe Left, which has hi-jacked the Dem Party, over the past decade. Maddow and most MSNBC on-air employees, are part of the Fringe Left, which 80% of Americans reject. When Maddow and her ilk attempt to pass themselves off as ‘mainstream’ America, instead of the minority loons they actually are, this shows how desperate they are and always have been, to receive attention. Moderate Dems need to kick these Fringe Left loons to the curb and bring their party back to life. As far as Letterman goes, he’s just another Behar, which means he constantly seeks ‘approval’ from the limousine liberals. Letterman and Behar are like the unpopular kids in high school, who desperately want to hang out with the ‘in’ limousine liberals. LOL.

  • Tucker P.

    It’s best liberal remain so called mild mannered , fed and diapered . Cause they have no guns on there side .
    God may have gave them a choice and the right to feel and speak as they wish . But its always a gun that protects it.

  • Patrick

    This is almost six weeks old, and well-publicized on the right blogosphere, but worth watching anytime Maddow starts talking about the difference between Fox News and MSNBC.

    http://johnnydollar.us/files/101107fhwir.php

    P.S. Has Maddow fallen out of favor among the center-left commentariat? You don’t see nearly as many gushing articles about her anymore. It used to be one couldn’t visit this site without being bombarded about how Rachel Maddow was the best thing to happen to cable news, nay, politics since like forever. Maybe it was just a Glynnis MacNicol thing.

  • CosmosDan

    I think Rachel left out one very important, maybe the most important , fact that both networks are guilty of.

    To often focusing on trivial sensationalism rather than presenting factual information that is relevant and important to inform and educate the general public.

  • Scott_in_MI

    Letterman: “these guys have a very high threshold of embarrassment and never consider apologizing when they get things right and wrong.”

    Was he talking about Maddow’s accusations that the census worker “killed” in KY was a crime comitted by the Right? (later turned out to be WRONG.)0

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/24/census-worker-death-very_n_298433.html

  • Pablo

    bigbrainbrad said:
    Howard Stern is the most talented radio personality of her entire generation

    and it isn’t even close

    Stern is not in Maddow’s generation. He could easily be her daddy.

  • Pablo

    Scott_in_MI said:
    Letterman: “these guys have a very high threshold of embarrassment and never consider apologizing when they get things right and wrong.”

    Was he talking about Maddow’s accusations that the census worker “killed” in KY was a crime comitted by the Right? (later turned out to be WRONG.)0

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/24/census-worker-death-very_n_298433.html

    Yes, you could say that was made up out of whole cloth.

  • Jackie_Treehorn

    Beck’s not a loony at all. The man’s very intelligent. He’s realized he can put on this front to get millions out of the loony’s who worship him. Same as Palin. She’s not dumb. She’s intelligent as fuck laughing all the way to the bank.

  • The Real Royal King

    notsofast said:
    Letterman is nothing but a sour, mean-spirited old man.

    Perhaps, but it is rather pot calling kettle in your case.

  • Scott_in_MI

    How how bout the time she accused that guy who crashed his plane into the IRS office in Texas of being a tea partier.

    Turns out the dude was a FAR LEFT/MSNBC-WATCHING-ZEALOT

    http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/msnbcs-rachel-madcow-maddow-fort-hood-wasnt-terrorism-but-irs-building-plane-crash-is/

  • Obeezy

    I couldn’t understand what these 2 old men were whining about…2 nasty liberals who think they are smarter and more altruistic than anyone else…Letterman was funny years ago, now hes just a bitter old man who need his rest and Maddow is a man who never knows when to shut up

  • The Real Royal King

    Patrick said:
    Has Maddow fallen out of favor among the center-left commentariat?

    That is an interesting question, to which I have no definitive answer, but I do think that there is a bit of a weariness when it comes to politics at the moment, perhaps a bit more on the left, but strong on the right as well and, perhaps, growing. The Tea Party seems not be living up to the high standards on which it hoisted its own ample petard, and the source of energy for the disaffected rightists, the Drop Out Governor, seems to have become a distraction and even an annoyance for the right.

    For the left, Olbermann and Maddow seem to have become tedious, even trite at times. Maddow, who is so great in her MTP moments (which I am sure results in fewer invitations by the egocentric Gregory), is not at all compelling on her own show. The format is simply silly.

    But, I also sense that the false dichotomy we have set up that assumes one view is always correct, the other always wrong, that the two never intersect is being lost, perhaps in some weariness of the combativeness and the divisiveness, but hopefully in the realization that as Americans we all have far more in common with one another than those who seek to divide us, the Olbermanns and the Beckerheads of the media, the Dementeds and Weiners of the political realm, would have us believe.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    TonyClifton says:
    “Some VP of there must have called a meeting and said, “We are going to talk about our main competitor every chance we get. We’ll talk about Fox on our own shows, on other peoples’ shows, on radio, in print, etc.”, because otherwise, why would they do this?”

    Because Fox a) is not a news network, b) makes things up as Maddow points out, c) operates as a political operation (a propaganda outfit) and that makes it something, a media phenomenon, to discuss. Someday, people will pay attention to the biased media watchdogs, MRC and NewsBusters, and take them to task for their hypocrisy. They don’t care about bias in news; they only care about bias that they don’t agree with.

    But I digress: Fox is dumbing down its audience by replacing an understanding of the world with an alternative reality, one that’s not based on facts as it is based upon fictions, especially in Beck’s case. Is “dumbing down” too strong? Programming may be more accurate analytically.

    Joyella, Maddow didn’t counter Letterman’s assertion that Beck is a loon, as the headline of this story suggests; she pointed out that he is to be respected for his talent. I don’t think his detractors lack respect for his talent. Milbank, author of Tears of a Clown, calls Beck an entertainment genius.

    What is appalling is how people can get sucked into his nonsense, including the lies he fabricated about Wilmington, OH where he was yesterday.

    I’ll defend Beck against Letterman’s claim: Beck is not a “loon” or a lunatic. He’s crazy like a fox. It’s all part of his self-promotion, his persona. Is he crazy? He knows that people will check into this claim and give him a chance to hook them with the persuasiveness of his (usually baseless) arguments. He is a brilliant entertainer, but a charlatan to the core.

  • The Real Royal King

    Scott_in_MI said:
    How how bout the time she accused that guy who crashed his plane into the IRS office in Texas of being a tea partier.

    Turns out the dude was a FAR LEFT/MSNBC-WATCHING-ZEALOT

    http://barenakedislam.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/msnbcs-rachel-madcow-maddow-fort-hood-wasnt-terrorism-but-irs-building-plane-crash-is/

    Turns out the guy was an apolitical nutcase.

  • dhg

    If anyone thinks MSNBC is NOT doing everything it can to elect liberal democrats they are delusional.Maybe Rachel really does think only Fox does this but it seems unlikely since she’s one of MSNBC’s loudest Republican critics and Democratic cheerleader.MSNBC may be a little less overt but they are no less involved in the political games.Maddow tries to be sutle.she tries to use her wit,which she thinks is far greater than it really is,and her intellect,which she thinks is greater than her audience’s,but she can’t act her way out of the paper bag of MSNBC’s bias.

    As for Dave,it really irritates me how he has completely thrown away the cardinal rule of late night talk show hosting and completely disrespected his idol and mentor,Johnny Carson,by constantly injecting his own political views and personal views into his act.Kimmel I can see not getting it but Dave has way too much experience.Late night is not for soap boxes,it’s equally opportunity fun and silliness designed to let the viewer lay back and relax before bed.

  • BlackWidow

    Palin and Beck are both entertainers. It is as simple as that. They make tons of money entertaining the right wing of the Republican Party. There is nothing wrong with that. For Letterman or Maddow to say Beck is loony is incorrect. I think Beck is very smart and knows how to make lots of money ACTING like he is loony. Who knows who is the “real” Beck. Now with Palin she isn’t acting. She is a real loon. That is obvious. She is smart enough to uise that to her advantage. Only time will tell if she is milking this for all it is worth. Her last book is not selling so maybe her 15 minutes of fame is starting to come to an end.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    This debate is getting tired. As much as the left vilifies FOX and says they are not a news organization, they are still #1 and will remain there. You might as well just accept it. You even have the POTUS trying to discredit them, million of $’s from your buddy Soros trying to run them out of town, and still there is no competition. You sad little libs just can’t stand it that FOX and Beck are so successful. It’s very humorous to behold. Keep it up, please!

  • Just4thefax

    act: After reading how KooKoo Letterman is even next to bloated news Madcow. It’s amazing that the two together still are clueless to the real world outside. Who spoon feeds them their no nothing non-facts is mystery. I know the average dumb shit liberal poster may have gotten their misgiving from watching this trash but thank God there is hope for the younger generation thanks to the Texas board of education requiring that the bogus information masquerading in text books be dropped. The future might be allotting brighter thanks to that great states intervention! That’s a fact!

  • Penguin60

    “Maddow argued that unlike MSNBC, Fox News is a “political operation” that’s run with overtly political goals: “to elect candidates…to fundraise for causes…to have rallies against Democratic ideas and politicians.”

    I guess RM overlooked these, what a sham:

    http://volokh.com/2010/01/17/ed-schultz-would-cheat-to-win-an-election/

    http://www.politicususa.com/en/obama-maddow-netroots

    http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/ed-schultz-slams-white-house-as-afraid-of-fox-news-video.php

  • redwriteblue

    TonyClifton said:
    I’d like to know which executive at MSNBC made the decision to talk about Fox all the time… Some VP of there must have called a meeting and said, “We are going to talk about our main competitor every chance we get. We’ll talk about Fox on our own shows, on other peoples’ shows, on radio, in print, etc.”, because otherwise, why would they do this?

    MSNBC has “Editorial Meetings” every day where the “topics of the day” are listed, as you watch the MSNBC programs you can see that they have the same “lead stories” every day.

    FOX News Channel runs continous anti-Obama commentary, even on Thanksiving day! so it is natural for the less popular channel to focus on that to give-it a theme to work-with.

    FOX has a lot of 2012 presidential candidates as commentators, Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin, and one with his own hour-long weekly program, Governor Mike Huckabee, so MSNBC has plenty of material to work with.

    Sarah Palin’s political ideas have been developing since the 2008 election campaign:

    http://www.tcunation.com/profiles/blogs/sarah-palin-reflects-on

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: I left a few crums for the illiterate liberal so that they can chime in to the discussion and act: that they have alloting their will on my poster so jackass feel free now to spelll checkit!

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    This debate is getting tired. As much as the left vilifies FOX and says they are not a news organization, they are still #1 and will remain there. You might as well just accept it. You even have the POTUS trying to discredit them, million of $’s from your buddy Soros trying to run them out of town, and still there is no competition. You sad little libs just can’t stand it that FOX and Beck are so successful. It’s very humorous to behold. Keep it up, please!

    Hey, everyone, Michelle-in-Utah is finally awake.

    And, we learn that FOX is #1, with a scorching 1% of the American population watching it. But #1 with what? With news? Very little news there. Ever. Shep is about it. Hemmer gets a story now and again.

    #1 with commentary. Perhaps. But, I think more people get their gas from Consolidated Edison than from FOX. In fact, many more.

    #1 in paranoia? In victimization. That must be it. Particularly if you add all of the Drop Out Governor’s paranoia and victimization into the FOX bag. Watch out Rupert and Roger! They’re after you. Seriously. I mean it. You can run from it Rupert, but you better be fast. Sorry Roger, waddling isn’t going to cut it. It’s doom, I say, it’s doom.

    Thanks for adding so mightily to the kart ‘o krap, Michelle-in-Utah.

    BTW, did you hear Mr. Jeffs is refusing an attorney? He said God was his attorney. But, guess what? God isn’t licensed to practice in Texas. Please, Michelle-in-Utah, call Mr. Jeffs. Persuade him not to pursue this dangerous course of action.

  • Linda

    Hello Rah-Rah fox boys, how about this for facts:

    Fox News’ Spin Game
    by Howard Kurtz Info
    Howard Kurtz is The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN’s weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the author of five books.
    X Close

    - + Single Page print TwitterEmailShare
    As the debate over the health-care public option heated up, a Fox News executive told staffers to change the way they talked about it. Howard Kurtz on the memo that echoed a GOP talking point.

    As the health-care debate was heating up in the summer of 2009, Republican pollster Frank Luntz offered Sean Hannity some advice.

    Luntz, who counseled the GOP on how to sell the 1994 Contract With America, told the Fox News host to stop using President Obama’s preferred term for a key provision.

    “If you call it a public option, the American people are split,” he explained. “If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it.”

    “A great point,” Hannity declared. “And from now on, I’m going to call it the government option, because that’s what it is.”

    On Oct. 27, the day after Senate Democrats introduced a bill with a public insurance option from which states could opt out, Bill Sammon, a Fox News vice president and Washington managing editor, sent the staff a memo. Sammon is a former Washington Times reporter.

    “Please use the term ‘government-run health insurance,’ or, when brevity is a concern, ‘government option,’ whenever possible,” the memo said.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Royal Pain in the Butt says:

    blah, blah, blah…….YAWN!!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Seeing 2012 From My Window says:
    “As much as the left vilifies FOX and says they are not a news organization, they are still #1 and will remain there. You might as well just accept it.”

    But not because they are offering news. They are telling both the gullible conservative and racist, reactionary sheep what they want to hear, and yes; there are many millions of gullible sheep, people who think that ACORN or The New Black Panther Party illegally got Obama elected or whatever other nonsense Fox is selling.

    Fox: bad news for America

  • Just4thefax

    Linda said:
    how about this for facts:

    Fact: Where? Still waiting for them!

  • Just4thefax

    GlennBeckReview said:
    The New Black Panther Party illegally got Obama elected or whatever other nonsense Fox is selling.

    Fact: President Ozero and Attorney General Eric the racist Holder will be getting around to helping liberals lack of fact finding talking points that Glen Beck retard review states on an daily bases, just as soon as they figure out which law the New Black Panthers might have violated by standing outside a polling place with Billy clubs. You can see it here
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neGbKHyGuHU
    Or read it here
    biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/06/10/fbi-do…
    So GBR is a liberal lying Hack!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Every day I read about false claims coming from the Fox Conservative/Reactionary Propaganda outfit. The latest:

    “Fox & Friends’ Peter Johnson Jr. continued Fox’s campaign against health care reform, this time by claiming the FDA approval process for the cancer drug Avastin was a sign of “Obamacare rationing” and by falsely suggested that the decision is being made based on cost.

    However, the FDA does not consider cost in its decisions, and studies have shown that Avastin — which was given “accelerated approval” in 2008 with the requirement that further studies confirm its benefits — has serious side effects without significantly prolonging life.”

    So many lies to track, so little time. Good thing for the divisions of critics to access the false claims and bring out the facts. Of course, most conservatives and reactionaries don’t care if they’re being fed a pile of feces day after day, so long as they’re told what they want to hear.

  • Just4thefax

    Fact: What other dumb shit liberal talking point bullshit do you want to post! At least give it a shot and come up with the lies yourseld quit taking handouts!

  • Just4thefax

    GlennBeckReview said:
    So many lies to track

    Fact: I bet you don’t even believe your own bullshit either! That’s a fact!

  • Just4thefax

    GlennBeckReview said:
    So many lies to track

    Fact: Where? Still waiting for them!

  • Penguin60
  • Penguin60

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: I bet you don’t even believe your own bullshit either!

    I disagree, somebody with that depth of pathology surely does.

  • Scott_in_MI

    The Real Royal King said:
    Turns out the guy was an apolitical nutcase.

    Yes, a left-wing political nutcase

  • Scott_in_MI

    BlackWidow said:
    Palin she isn’t acting. She is a real loon. That is obvious. She is smart enough to uise that to her advantage. Only time will tell if she is milking this for all it is worth. Her last book is not selling so maybe her 15 minutes of fame is starting to come to an end.

    Sorry to burst your bubble Keith Olbermann Parrot, but Palin in Number 2 in Political books.

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/bestsellers/books/11079/ref=pd_zg_hrsr_b_1_3_last

  • TeaPartyPatriot

    Does ANYBODY really care what the lunatic-left woman-abuser, reject from the Hair Club for Men and all-around perv letterman has to say about ANYTHING?

  • Scott_in_MI

    Linda said:
    Hello Rah-Rah fox boys, how about this for facts: Fox News’ Spin Gameby Howard Kurtz InfoHoward Kurtz is The Daily Beast’s Washington bureau chief. He also hosts CNN’s weekly media program Reliable Sources on Sundays at 11 a.m. ET. The longtime media reporter and columnist for The Washington Post, Kurtz is the author of five books.X Close – + Single Page print TwitterEmailShareAs the debate over the health-care public option heated up, a Fox News executive told staffers to change the way they talked about it. Howard Kurtz on the memo that echoed a GOP talking point. As the health-care debate was heating up in the summer of 2009, Republican pollster Frank Luntz offered Sean Hannity some advice. Luntz, who counseled the GOP on how to sell the 1994 Contract With America, told the Fox News host to stop using President Obama’s preferred term for a key provision. “If you call it a public option, the American people are split,” he explained. “If you call it the government option, the public is overwhelmingly against it.” “A great point,” Hannity declared. “And from now on, I’m going to call it the government option, because that’s what it is.” On Oct. 27, the day after Senate Democrats introduced a bill with a public insurance option from which states could opt out, Bill Sammon, a Fox News vice president and Washington managing editor, sent the staff a memo. Sammon is a former Washington Times reporter. “Please use the term ‘government-run health insurance,’ or, when brevity is a concern, ‘government option,’ whenever possible,” the memo said.

    Thanks for pointing of that FoxNews isn’t interested in towing the political line. They’re interested in the TRUTH. Actually calling ObamaCare, “government run healthcare” is like saying the sun comes up in the East.

    Now folks like you will believe whatever the White House says WITHOUT QUESTION, but its important that the nation has a well informed populace in order to make thoughtful and logical decisions when voting. THANK GOD FOR FOXNEWS.

  • Scott_in_MI

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Every day I read about false claims coming from the Fox Conservative/Reactionary Propaganda outfit. The latest: “Fox & Friends’ Peter Johnson Jr. continued Fox’s campaign against health care reform, this time by claiming the FDA approval process for the cancer drug Avastin was a sign of “Obamacare rationing” and by falsely suggested that the decision is being made based on cost. However, the FDA does not consider cost in its decisions, and studies have shown that Avastin — which was given “accelerated approval” in 2008 with the requirement that further studies confirm its benefits — has serious side effects without significantly prolonging life.” So many lies to track, so little time. Good thing for the divisions of critics to access the false claims and bring out the facts. Of course, most conservatives and reactionaries don’t care if they’re being fed a pile of feces day after day, so long as they’re told what they want to hear.

    Getting your news from MediaMatters is like telling the world that there’s going to be a career-ending expose on Glenn Beck, but then taking the cowards way out and blaming the “non-story” on the source being afraid of Beck retaliating.

  • Pablo

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Every day I read about false claims coming from the Fox Conservative/Reactionary Propaganda outfit.

    Stop reading Soros propaganda 24/7, and that will clear right up. So, hows that bombshell coming along, GBR?

  • goldmind

    Think of what we could accomplish, without the distractions of media. Independent thought. No more toilet paper discrimination. Making our own cheeseburgers, instead of hanging out with Ronal McDonald. No stress about those unforseen secretions. The absence of even “the no spin zones.” No more American drug cartel commercials, with their tedious disclaimers. Freedom of obesity. No more ugly pretty faces, and television programming with pitiful acting and mediocre plots. Perhaps Timmy Leary was right…”tune in, turn on, drop out.” Not a chance. America’s addiction to media, is as bad as a rock an hour crack addicts cravings. Another civil war, would be a neat distraction. Sorry…gotha go, there’s a commercial on about how to perform a painless enema.

  • Scott_in_MI

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Seeing 2012 From My Window says:“As much as the left vilifies FOX and says they are not a news organization, they are still #1 and will remain there. You might as well just accept it.” But not because they are offering news. They are telling both the gullible conservative and racist, reactionary sheep what they want to hear, and yes; there are many millions of gullible sheep, people who think that ACORN or The New Black Panther Party illegally got Obama elected or whatever other nonsense Fox is selling. Fox: bad news for America

    Just like there’s some people who think there’s going to be a story on Beck that’s gonna crush his career. Opps, thats not gonna happen bbecause that was A COMPLETE LIE.

  • writer

    The King lies all the time. Like that whopper about him being an important, world-traveling businessman. As for Maddow, if MSNBC isn’t ‘political’, then why do they call themselves ‘The place for politics’?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Stephen-Hogan/179500970 Stephen Hogan

    Just4thefax said:
    Fact: I left a few crums for the illiterate liberal so that they can chime in to the discussion and act: that they have alloting their will on my poster so jackass feel free now to spelll checkit!

    Oh, the irony.

  • notsofast

    The Real Royal King said:
    Perhaps, but it is rather pot calling kettle in your case.

    No, that’s projection on your part, nitwit.

  • Khyber Pass

    notsofast said:
    Maddow lies?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHOuzVv0Rgg

    http://therogersinstitute.blogspot.com/2010/10/msnbcs-rachel-maddow-retracts-and.html

    I love how this bitch tries to cover her lies by saying, “Yeah, maybe that was a lie, but what about this?”

    I’m so sick of my ‘friends’ who worship at the FOX altar, replying along the lines of “Well, yeah, (name your republican) did say/do that, but here’s what Soros does.” If I hear any variation on that theme one more time, I just might throw up. Comparing the theft of one apple off my tree is not the same as stripping every apple off my tree and then trying to sell it to me in the marketplace. That’s the FOX game and it’s disgusting.

  • Jackyboy

    Letterman has been past his prime for many years. And as much I disagree with Maddow on her statements about Fox she is right about Beck. There is a certain spark missing from his radio and TV show that made it great programs. There are still ok, just not as good.

  • notsofast

    Khyber Pass said:
    That’s the FOX game and it’s disgusting.

    Wrong!

    That’s the MSNBC game, libby!

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Royal Pain in the Butt says: blah, blah, blah…….YAWN!!

    One of your more literate posts, Michelle in Utah.

  • wayback

    When Letterman did that fake pause trying to think of Limbaugh’ name and came out with “you know, Fatty”- Maddow laughed very hard. If he was trying to think of her name and couldn’t , I wonder if he would have said “you know, Dyke”
    Maddow called the Black panther story a fake – it occured. They were convicted in court and banished from appearing at poll locations (mild slap since Eric Holder has a policy of not taking action against Black people).
    Soon Comcast is about to take over control of NBC. Watch the losers that they dump from MSNBC. I predict Rachel “Roger”‘ Maddow, Keith Olberdick and Mister Ed and many others will be gone. The failing MSNBC Liberal format will fade just like Maddow’s old employer Air America did.
    Letterman is an unfunny moron who will have trouble hanging on to his show as well.

  • njoy-d-ride

    LETTERMAN ??? Letterman has no room to talk.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Scott_in_MI says:
    “Getting your news from MediaMatters is like telling the world that there’s going to be a career-ending expose on Glenn Beck,”

    I never wrote that this would be career ending, not by any stretch have I even thought it. IF the story comes out, Beck will deny it and his gullible sheep for the most part will believe it.

    The tool, Just4thefax, wanted proof of Fox lies: I’ll go one better thanks to a link that I followed. I have maliciously stated this in the past, but now there’s evidence that Fox really does make their viewers stupid, or at least radically uninformed. Fox is bad news for America (but great for the pols who count on a misinformed voter).

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Just4thefax says:
    “biggovernment.com/capitolconfidential/2010/06/10/fbi-do…”

    You’re referencing Breitbart’s website?!? Hell, now I’m embarrassed for you.

    GlennBeckReview said:
    “Every day I read about false claims coming from the Fox Conservative/Reactionary Propaganda outfit.”

    Pablo the Plebe says:
    “Stop reading Soros propaganda 24/7, and that will clear right up.”

    When you can show me that Media Matters has the facts wrong and Fox has the facts right, then I’ll eat my words. Until then, consider yourself another tool in the corporate/media/consumer complex…because that’s all you’ve ever demonstrated yourself to be on here.

  • Bad Wolf

    Poorly educated bigots deserve news of the world that they can understand.
    Fox merely meets that overlooked market share.
    Winning the hearts and minds of 2% of the population is sufficient.
    98% don’t need simple minded explanations, from any network.

  • bobber

    you pathetic left wing morons all on msnbc and stupid shows like letthead so dumb. why don’t maddow and the other idiots on msnbc listen to what real news is all about like the only news show on tv: fox news

  • Cancon2

    God, When is Letterman retiring? What a boring bastard he has become.

  • WHarropson

    She is a smart enough girl to only imply that Glen doesn’t care about the truth of what he is saying. She knows that by implying it is to somehow lean forward with truthiness, but she also knows that saying Glen doesn’t care about the truth would make her an outright liar. It is difficult for smart liberals to summarily dismiss what Glen does. You have to feel a bit sorry for that pathetic empty position. It is pathological really. She and Letterman are comrads in arms. I hope he embarrassed her real good.

  • Alz

    Cancon2 said:
    God, When is Letterman retiring? What a boring bastard he has become.

    He is rather useless.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Cancon2 said:
    “God, When is Letterman retiring? What a boring bastard he has become.”

    Alz chimes in:
    “He is rather useless.”

    Right, who didn’t already know that Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck are blowhards? Talk about stating the obvious!

    WHarropson says:
    “[Maddow] also knows that saying Glen doesn’t care about the truth would make her an outright liar. It is difficult for smart liberals to summarily dismiss what Glen does….”

    No it wouldn’t and no it isn’t. It’s actually easy to summarily dismiss what Beck does because he’s a mere charlatan. He’s also a liar and a complete hypocrite.

    Glenn (note spelling) Beck cares about making you think that he cares about the truth, but it’s so easy to prove that on the subject of getting the facts right and the “ugly” truth, Beck is a liar, a hypocrite and a charlatan.

    Glenn Beck: living proof how brilliant was Lincoln’s observation that you really can fool some of the people all of the time. Zaitchik, Beck’s biographer also got it right when he subtitled his book Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. What Zaitchik conveys in that interview is pretty revealing.

  • Alz

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Cancon2 said:
    “God, When is Letterman retiring? What a boring bastard he has become.”

    Alz chimes in:
    “He is rather useless.”

    Right, who didn’t already know that Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck are blowhards? Talk about stating the obvious!

    WHarropson says:
    “[Maddow] also knows that saying Glen doesn’t care about the truth would make her an outright liar. It is difficult for smart liberals to summarily dismiss what Glen does….”

    No it wouldn’t and no it isn’t. It’s actually easy to summarily dismiss what Beck does because he’s a mere charlatan. He’s also a liar and a complete hypocrite.

    Glenn (note spelling) Beck cares about making you think that he cares about the truth, but it’s so easy to prove that on the subject of getting the facts right and the “ugly” truth, Beck is a liar, a hypocrite and a charlatan.

    Glenn Beck: living proof how brilliant was Lincoln’s observation that you really can fool some of the people all of the time. Zaitchik, Beck’s biographer also got it right when he subtitled his book Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. What Zaitchik conveys in that interview is pretty revealing.

    “Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck” actually make you think. They do their jobs well. Letterman isn’t as funny anymore. Glad I could help you.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Scott_in_MI says:
    “Just like there’s some people who think there’s going to be a story on Beck that’s gonna crush his career. Opps, thats not gonna happen bbecause that was A COMPLETE LIE.”

    First, Scott_in_1st Grade, I never wrote that this skeleton in Beck’s closet was going to “crush his career.” If the story ever comes out, it would embarrass him and weaken some of his support. Ergo, it is you who is lying about what I have previously written about this.

    You don’t know if it’s a lie or not. The reason that I’m not going to put the information that I understand about Beck’s skeleton out is because I’m not the source reporter and I don’t have contact with the sources of the information. I would be starting nearly baseless rumors that I could not prove. That would open me up to the reasonable charge of lying about Mr. Beck. I’m not going to do that. I have no admiration for The National Review or The Globe.

    I hope that the story comes out, but if it does not that is because of the ethics of not disclosing a source who requested to not have his/her name used.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Alz says:
    “Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck” actually make you think.”

    Actually, Alz, research has proven that they make you stupid!

    I am working on a post now that elaborates on Beck’s role in this Murdoch conspiracy to stupify the gullible and uninformed.

    Beck does make me think…that there are some pretty damn, stupid people out there who actually believe his “completely insane assertions.

  • Alz

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Alz says:
    “Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck” actually make you think.”

    Actually, Alz, research has proven that they make you stupid!

    I am working on a post now that elaborates on Beck’s role in this Murdoch conspiracy to stupify the gullible and uninformed.

    Beck does make me think…that there are some pretty damn, stupid people out there who actually believe his “completely insane assertions.

    You lefty’s are hilarious., You talk about the “gullible and uninformed” but that is a big part of the liberal base! Duh!

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Alz says:
    “You lefty’s are hilarious., You talk about the “gullible and uninformed” but that is a big part of the liberal base! Duh!”

    If by “that” you mean gullible and uninformed, then your assertion is far more true about the Republican base. I have data backing up my claim while you have the perverted propaganda from Fox and liar Limbaugh who has programmed you to “think” (for lack of a better word) that gullible and uninformed only is on the left. Alz, you’re a tool, a programmed tool.

    You righty’s are pathetic.

  • Jwatsoncpa

    That is almost the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard!

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