I wonder which of Beck’s "9 Principles, 12 Values" this would fall under.
The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles’ "War of the Worlds" for Halloween — a recurring motif in Beck’s life and career — Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. "A couple days after Kelly’s wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, ‘We hear you had a miscarriage,’ " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, ‘Yes,’ Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can’t do anything right — about he can’t even have a baby."
There’s the right’s great new voice of moral clarity and reason.
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I wish his name was Glenn Bell, so it could be rhymed with “go to hell.”
Oh Gawd, went to the grocery store yesterday and almost puked in the parking lot.
Some guy had taken soap (I guess, or whatever they use to write stuff on windows), and on the big back window of his SUV had handwritten:
“Watch Glenn Beck. Ask ????”
Luckily, I managed to contain the insane impulse I had to go over and throw a brick through the glass. Just barely.
Goddammed fucking right wing lunatic.
This is an important story to tell if you want to get involved in this effort:
http://turnofffox.com/
I’ve been wanting to start something like this for a few years, and happily Buzzflash beat me to it. We gotta get businesses, airports, doctor offices, etc. to keep this crap off. Pox Newz is not a legitimate news channel.
Revolting.
What is this empathy you speak of?
THis is under the no empathy allowed principle.
Clearly a commentator worthy of Fox News.
“Luckily, I managed to contain the insane impulse I had to go over and throw a brick through the glass. Just barely.”
Red brick or just basic cinder block? I’m running a survey.
Nice guy.
LOL, closest available.
Is this a wide spread thing? I hadn’t heard of or seen it before.
I saw this guy in the Giant parking lot in Purcellville, VA, which is in Loudoun County. Wondering if others have seen something similar.
That should have had a spew alert. Cleaning up coffee.
Used red brick with traces of mortar would be my choice.
How #4 of the 9/12 proposals should read:
4. “The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not Glenn Beck”
Geater heft. More ragged entry.
Thanks, BT. Saw this earlier but could not remember where.
Hi, BT. Your link above is to Beck’s page on his 912 values. Here is the link to the Salon article the quote is from. Thanks for sharing that passage. It’s hard to imagine how he could be any less principled.
Here’s a link to the latest portrait of Beck.
http://blog.seedsofdoubt.com/2…..e-culture/
Dfinition from the”Urban Dictionary”:
Glenn Beck.
1. Synonymous with the word “bullshit.”
2. Synonymous with the word “myth.”
3. Synonymous with the words “drug addict; alcoholic.”
4. Synonymous with a radio/TV host who spreads bullshit, myths, rumors, and a bunch of other random, nonsensical fuckery on a daily basis. Used to be an alcoholic and a drug addict.
1. David: Hey Doug, I heard some bad rumors about you at school.
Doug: Don’t worry, it’s a bunch of Glenn Beck.
2. In Ancient Glenn Beckology, there were stories of dragons and serpents. Note: I said STORIES.
3. A: Bill became a Glenn Beck, so he smoked pot until his brain stopped functioning.
B: Michael sure loves his booze, he must be an Glenn Beck!
4. Glenn Beck: Welcome to the Glenn Beck Program, my shit smells excellent.
You mean those 912 values are supposedly Beck’s????
I must’ve seen the word “honesty” in there at least 4 times.
Yet I’d bet a month’s disability he’s never had a single show where he didn’t lie at least 3 times.
I’m wondering if he’s ever had a show where he was “honest” at least 3 times.
In a parallel universe, maybe.
In beck-world is joking about a lost baby a principle or a value?
O/T: Fed holds steady. Here’s the latest bullshit statement:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/…..90923a.htm
But it’s all just a joke, you see…a terrible misunderstanding. Why, Glenn is just a sensitive, patriotic, misunderstood soul…A seer for our troubled times.
;>)
Anybody know where I can download that clip? That might be enough to open the eyes of some people.
I’d just go for the forklift and palletful.
Take out the entire car.
The Left doesn’t have a sense of humor, in Beck’s parallel universe this comment was clever and funny.
I wonder if health care reform would happen if it was offered only to white males?
Gotta love the pro-life theme in that little anecdote…
Damn cut and paste gets me every time.
Beck is the future of right wing radio?
Well now, here is a change. My local VA hospital now is tuned to CNN during the day on all the TVs thruout the hospital clinic waiting rooms and, at least during the evening hours in the ER waiting room, they now have TV Land. Why is this a good thing? Well, the last time I actually paid any attention to the TVs in the various waiting rooms-I usually bring a book or three to read so have not paid any attention to TV for at least 6-8 months- they all played faux news 24/7. So, I wonder if people complained or if the local VA management decided that a hospital is a place where people need to be calm, not raging at the TV or getting into arguments about what one of the wing nuts said.
Finally a sane decision by local VA management.
If Beck did that to my wife I would beat him to death with a Louivill Slugger and plead justifiable homcide. Seriously!!!
If there are any decent Mormons out there, they should excommunicate the bastard.
I’m not kidding. I would kill that prick if he did that to my family. And, I hope he realizes that if Obama gets murdered by one of his followers…he is a dead man.
“When Terry said, ‘Yes,’ Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can’t do anything right — about he can’t even have a baby.”
Five minutes.
In an alley.
Alone.
I noticed that the first time I went this year. All during the Bush years, every TV I saw at the Martinsburg VA had Fox News Channel on. Then, my first appointment in 2009, February IIRC, every TV I saw had CNN’s Headline News on it.
I’m thinking that’s NOT a coincidence.
Ah, the old “If I’m gonna go to the slammer I might as well make it really worth while” gambit.
Absolutely.
my ex-SIL maliciously tormented another one of my SIL’s when she had a miscarriage. Cruel doesn’t begin to describe it. the only person who would say anything like that is unhinged and cruel.
I believe this is a truly non partisan opinion.
Minute thirty, tops. Not worth any more effort.
Beck is JAFM
Just Another Fucking Monster
On second thought, Big Rush got a pass on mocking Michael J. Fox’s illness…guess it’s OK in GOPCrazyLand
when m. scott peck spoke about “people of the lie”, he was referring to this kind of personality.
Who the heck
Is Glen Beck?
Give it to Beck
In the neck
If you are a Glen Becker
You brains are in your pecker….
So are you saying that it is possible for what someone says to incite you to violence?
If you think that people like Beck will be held responsible by anyone if Obama is shot at or murdered then you are mistaken. They have already lined up their defenses.
1) It’s a joke!
2) I didn’t tell anyone to pull the tigger.
3) The person who took the shot was a crazy person, I can’t be responsible for crazy people.
4) I NEVER said someone should attack the President
5) Don’t you like free speech?
6) If you don’t like what the host has to say, turn off the radio.
7) His job is to generate controversy, I’d say he is doing his job.
I’ve got lots more, because all of these were used by the hosts of KSFO and their management. That is why I developed the advertiser alert program that lead to them losing 28 advertisers. The management will keep supporting people like Beck because they think that the ratings will some how translate to money. If not now eventually.
This IS such a thing as BAD PR. Bad PR is PR that costs the company money. And when they can’t figure out how to turn it into a money maker.
Beck right now is being subsidized by Fox. In the past his wacky stunts may have led to ratings that may have led to money. But make no mistake, 62 advertisers leaving is big.
We cost KSFO 28 advertisers in 2007 and then in 2008 Melanie Morgan was let go because of the money lost at the station. They tried to say it was, “industry wide” but that was just so they would have an excuse to fire Morgan and not get sued for breach of contract.
I advised the Hate Hurts American campaign that cost Michael Savage 18 advertisers. Last week he was cut off of his San Francisco broadcast on KNEW. There is a reason that happened. Money. He was costing them more money than he was bringing in. That is the corporate sin that people forget in the “free market”. But the station owners haven’t forgotten.
We need to remind the media of the financial consequences of Beck’s racism.
We need to remind the corporations that HE IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO ADVERTISE!
Advertisers don’t want controversy. The host and station might want it, but the advertisers don’t.
Finally, let’s think about how to take the next step in the financial path to ruin. Fox News needs to explain to their stock holders (who aren’t all wackos) that their are going to keep subsidizing Glenn Beck for 3 more months as a money losing venture because they can run Fox promos. But they need to also show on the balance sheet who is paying for this subsidy.
If the money is coming out of the Fox News advertising budget that needs to show up on the debit side. Who is paying for this? How long will it be maintained?
You want to hurt rich people you take away their money.
Not until Limpy Limbaugh assumes room temperature.
For some reason, honestly religious people and honestly religious leaders never speak out against people like Beck. Heck, Bush has pretended to be religious for years and no one has ever called him on that.
I’ll tell you a little story.
Over the past few weeks I’ve been trying to find someone from the religious community to speak out against certain talk radio hosts support of torture. Hannity is Catholic. The Catholic Church is against torture. I’ve contacted the New York Archdiocese, a priest who wrote a book about torture,national security and religious ethics and a group whose charter is to be against torture. The group was helpful but the Archdiocese never returned my email and calls. The priest was clearly told not to get involved in a challenge to Sean Hannity.
They see no benefit in challenging these people on this issue. I developed a plan, and was attempting to line up the experts, but the religious experts aren’t willing to take on the right wing bullies who are pro-torture.
We have heavy equipment. Lots of heavy equipment. You would never find the body.
You guys are all right, Glenn Beck is horrible for saying something stupid, according to a DJ in 1986. This is 23 years ago. I was 1. This was like 20 years before he was even with FOX. Obama was smoking dope back then admittedly, so should we post this with such great relevance and horror. Wow and all I hear on here is how petty the “right” is, you are going back 20 some years to defame a man, are you who u where 20 years ago???
Grow up
Thanks for dropping by, Mrs. Beck.
You could have easily converted that to “Watch Glenn Beck. ASS????”
It would be one thing to say that Beck has redeemed himself by never crossing such lines since. But he’s constantly made remarks that have stereotyped groups, belittled individuals, and suggested violence should be perpetrated at our leaders.
Love of God.
His name does rhyme with DRECK, if that helps.
Since you asked, it was 23 years ago when this outrage was perpetrated on my family:
You don’t forget something like that. And BTW your Obamawassmokingdope equivalency doesn’t wash. It’s one thing to hurt ourselves when we’re young and stupid, it’s another to hurt someone else. And in public. Deliberately. And vengefully.
Stop whining.
Wow, the Texan must be bored again. Have to go back to some age-old thing Beck did?!?! He must really be hitting a cord for you to pull stuff like this up.
Glenn Beck is a loathsome bottom feeding moron who only appeals to those who are more imbecilic than he is. The proof? That anyone could be dense enough to defend the odious turd for his vile actions, whether from 20 years ago or 20 minutes ago.
It does show that Beck has consistently been an asshat for at least 20+ years.
Beck = Asshole sucker! Plain and simple.
He did that when he was a social liberal. He’s sober and conservative now however so it couldn’t happen again.
Beck really isn’t such a bad guy. It’s just unfortunate that he ended up being so successful in the radio business at such a young age. His oddities usually reinforced with six figure salaries and fame.
Bad day at the keyboard??? No worries, I fixed all those mean old typos for ya!
You’re welcome.