Posted on 07/30/2009 8:54:55 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
Chuck Todd and company at NBC News are outraged that conservative talker Beck won't --or can't-- be fired for calling President Obama a "racist." They blogged as follows:
*** On the Glenn Becks and Howard Beales: The White House doesn't want to give Glenn Beck a bigger platform or extra oxygen -- especially regarding his remark yesterday that the president has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture" -- so they won't comment, even off record. Beck, after all, is a radio DJ who somehow ended up getting a national platform to give his opinion on politics. What's most amazing about this episode is that what Beck said isn't a fireable or even a SUSPENDABLE offense by his bosses. There was a time when outrageous rants like this would actually cost the ranters their jobs. But not anymore; if anything, it's now encouraged. And all of this could turn ACTUAL journalists into the next Howard Beales. It's getting nuts that the folks who are creating the perception of an ideological/polarized media world are people who have never really spent their lives being journalists. Whether it's former political consultants-turned-TV execs or former radio DJs, or former California socialites, the folks helping to accelerate the public's perception of the media off a cliff made their livings trying to do other things. Of course, Beck's crazy language could have one unintended consequence: It could cost him bookings with any Republicans who want to be popular outside Beck's hard-core bizarro-land viewers.
So much for the national discussion on race relations that leftists and journalists say America desperately needs.
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First let them fire olberman or chrissy. Or is it asking too much that they not be hypocrites?
right out of the Obama playbook.
Don’t compete and risk losing. Instead, clear the field.
Oh, boo hoo HOOO! The news nazis are on the receiving end of things and they can’t handle it...too damn bad...
Is telling the truth such a foreign idea, that now “Truth” is known as hate speech?
Is good, now bad?
Is right, now wrong?
Are lies, now truth?
NBC ratings in tha tank with the bomb
I didn’t vote nor support GWB.
But I do get a kick from the left up in arms about all da meanie tings sed bout Obama?
Is that anything like Keith OlberWOman, who was a two-bit (and lousy) sportscaster who somehow ended up getting a (toilet ratings) national platform to give his opinion on politics?
Time for Beck to read obamas book on his program.
So does this mean that Professor Gates should be fired for calling a white cop a racist for just doing his job?
LOL! One of the most (inadvertently) funny things I’ve read all morning ;’}
Fox to NBC ... “Okay, you first ... fire David Letterman.”
Hello NBC,
you have a f$#%ing Sports Reporter as the centerpiece of your political coverage.
NBC needs to be cited for using hate speech against a Conservative who is telling the truth.
I’ve been saying 0bama is a racist longer than Beck even. The only time race ever even comes up is when 0bama and his ilk bring it up. Racism is not the exclusive venue of the white and it can be extremely ugly when it’s coming from non-whites.
Personally, I really don’t care what color he is. I do care that he is a moron and is dragging this country down a hole.
Yes and it’s evident what ‘time’ we are in. If ‘we’ did as much for ‘truth’ as the commies do for ‘lies’ - we would be in the mess we are in right now.
LOL!!! Poor babies want their race card back.
Oh, nevermind ... I got the wrong station. I guess I acted stupidly.
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