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Liberal Intolerance on TV: NBC wants Fox competitor Glenn Beck fired.
American Spectator ^ | 7.30.09 @ 11:39AM | By Matthew Vadum

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; beck; chucktodd; deepseatedhatred; dnctv; enemedia; glennbeck; hatred4whites; liberalfascism; liberalmedia; mediabias; mediaelite; msm; nbc; nbcnews; obama; obamaracist; obamarqacist; obamedia; racist; racistpresident; todd
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1 posted on 07/30/2009 8:54:57 AM PDT by Behind Liberal Lines
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

First let them fire olberman or chrissy. Or is it asking too much that they not be hypocrites?


2 posted on 07/30/2009 8:56:18 AM PDT by henkster (A "Living Constitution" yields a Dead Republic)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

right out of the Obama playbook.

Don’t compete and risk losing. Instead, clear the field.


3 posted on 07/30/2009 8:56:24 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Oh, boo hoo HOOO! The news nazis are on the receiving end of things and they can’t handle it...too damn bad...


4 posted on 07/30/2009 8:56:42 AM PDT by matginzac
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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?


5 posted on 07/30/2009 8:56:52 AM PDT by bareford101 (the obamanation is a COUNTERFEIT with a COUNTERFEIT birth cert. & 39 different ss cards)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

NBC ratings in tha tank with the bomb


6 posted on 07/30/2009 8:56:52 AM PDT by The Wizard (Democrat Party: a criminal enterprise)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

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?


7 posted on 07/30/2009 8:57:17 AM PDT by lakertaker (Democratic Party Economic plan: Declare all those who hate higher taxes as unpatriotic)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
"Beck, after all, is a radio DJ who somehow ended up getting a national platform to give his opinion on politics."

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?

8 posted on 07/30/2009 8:57:51 AM PDT by TaxachusettsMan
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Time for Beck to read obamas book on his program.


9 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:05 AM PDT by pennboricua
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So does this mean that Professor Gates should be fired for calling a white cop a racist for just doing his job?


10 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:09 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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LOL! One of the most (inadvertently) funny things I’ve read all morning ;’}


11 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:11 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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Fox to NBC ... “Okay, you first ... fire David Letterman.”


12 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:40 AM PDT by al_c (Jan 20, 2013: The end of One Big A** Mistake, America)
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Hello NBC,
you have a f$#%ing Sports Reporter as the centerpiece of your political coverage.


13 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:43 AM PDT by Chipper (You can't kill an Obamazombie by destroying the brain...they didn't have one to begin with.)
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NBC needs to be cited for using hate speech against a Conservative who is telling the truth.


14 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:43 AM PDT by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.....)
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NoBodyCares what NBC thinks...
15 posted on 07/30/2009 8:58:55 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (I hear the words of Jefferson louder and louder as each day passes)
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Olberman the nutcase Pictures, Images and Photos
16 posted on 07/30/2009 8:59:12 AM PDT by Snickering Hound
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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.


17 posted on 07/30/2009 8:59:33 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (If I disagree with you, it is because you are wrong.)
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To: bareford101

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.


18 posted on 07/30/2009 8:59:41 AM PDT by presently no screen name
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LOL!!! Poor babies want their race card back.


19 posted on 07/30/2009 8:59:43 AM PDT by avacado
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To: al_c

Oh, nevermind ... I got the wrong station. I guess I acted stupidly.


20 posted on 07/30/2009 8:59:48 AM PDT by al_c (Jan 20, 2013: The end of One Big A** Mistake, America)
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