Over the past few months, my opinion of Beck has been dropping like a stone. The Massa interview didn’t help.
love train wrecks (as ling as no one is injured or killed I mean :-)
Nice spin maybe Beck will hire you. The fact that he made comments like this interview mad change everything hype without even knowing the backround of this clown and then being stubborn to giving him an hour on tv. The only thing I agree with him is that it was a waste of time.
I actually felt sorry for Massa. He has cancer, for goodness’ sake. I thought the interview was interesting and I thought Beck was too hard on the guy. But my husband does not agree with me.
its bee let slip several times that there are real mafia like arm twisting going on in dc since obama got there and beck had a chance to dig deep and missed it....ooooh badddd.wish greta had interviewed massa
Previously a Republican, Massa switched parties after leaving the House payroll and went on to work for the 2004 presidential campaign of retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, for whom Massa had worked when Clark was supreme allied commander of NATO.
Massa then became a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee. He says in his biography that he was an early critic of the Bush administration’s strategy for invading Iraq, and that he was “forced out” of his Armed Services job for “standing up against the failed pre-war planning.” Congressional salary data on file at the Web site Legistorm shows that Massa was employed by the committee for eight months in 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902157_pf.html
Glenn Beck did the right thing by putting Massa on. It was a great opportunity — a scoop. And no, there was nothing “explosive” to see. Massa was spinning more than Friut of the Loom on back order. It did surprise me that Beck didn’t absolutely GO OFF like he has on his radio show in the past. And he had reason to on several ocassions. But, I think he was wise in not doing so, because he allowed Massa enough rope to hang himself OR his enemies. He seems to have hung himself, but Rahm and others slipped the noose.
As to Massa — he didn’t support ObamaCare for 2 reasons — 1) he is from a Conservative district in NY State and his constituency overwhelmingly opposes it, and (2) the price Pelosi & Obama were willing to pay wasn’t hi enough. And, because Massa was fairly new to Congress, he didn’t have the knowledge of where the bodies are buried or whose skeletons were in what closet, like, say, a Charlie Rangel. But he WAS there long enough for those types to dig up all kinds of goodies on him. And they did.
Beck was set up by Massa. Going in to the interview, I think Massa made Beck think he was going to be a whistle blower. Beck thought he was going to get a soul-baring inside look from a whistle blower on the administration and on government corruption.
Beck was left speechless and without a back up plan when Massa blind-sided him with his cover-up act.
Beck expected Massa to say he was forced out. Massa made it sound like resigning was completely his own idea, as if from saintly lofty ideals of honor.
Beck expected Massa to rat out Emanuel for threatening him. Massa down played the entire thing.
Beck expected Massa to reveal specific instances of government corruption - bribes, threats, arm twisting, vote buying from Congressional leaders. Massa never did more than hint at it.
Massa played Beck perfectly. He used the interview as a personal PR opportunity and gave Beck nothing that he was looking for.
I learned one thing. Massa is a very smarmy, self-centered egotistical, power hungry punk. The interview was good for reminding me that our typical political representative is a corrupt scumbag. Seriously, he is the archetype of who gets into office. Hardworking, sleazy, self-centered lying scum who will sell their own grandmother for their next hit of power.
They all suck. There are no good guys in office. Good guys can’t get elected today.
Actually, Massa was elected in November 2008 and his 50th birthday was September, 2009. This math isn't difficult. And BTW, it's spelled "Wikipedia".
(The Lid writes good columns, but seriously needs an editor.)
After reading all the posts so far, I see no one else has mentioned this: about five minutes before the end of Beck’s show, Massa says,
“I’m a progressive.”
That threw Glenn backwards in his chair.
I feel sorry for Glenn. He gave Massa every opportunity to tell about how deep the corruption runs in Washington, D.C.
Massa was afraid. That much was evident. He knows much more than he’s telling. Too bad Massa isn’t an honest man, cancer or not. He’s had a chance to come clean, and failed.
Can you say "DISTRACTION"???
The bastardized Congress hopes to distract America through cheap, trailer-trash gossip while they attempt to socialize our entire economic system!!!
It was sad to watch Beck fall for this trick today!
That’s alright! Beck has been amazingly informative and he’s given to an instance of “stepping in it”.