Posted on 03/23/2010 12:23:33 PM PDT by kcvl
Former ABC "This Week" co-host, now panelist on the program, Cokie Roberts does not pull any punches in the syndicated column she pens with her husband Steve.
She writes about a recent panel discussion that Steve was participating in during which "a beefy guy" stood up and claimed health reform was akin to fascism. Roberts writes, "We don't know what the beefy guy reads or to whom he listens, but we would bet he's a disciple of Glenn Beck."
She then goes off on Beck's "incendiary language" and his corruption of "the very essence of democracy."
We defended Fox News when the White House attacked the network in 2009, partly because it employs many fine journalists, including several of Steve's former students. But news folks at Fox are right to be worried. At some point, Beck's fanaticism taints them all. "They're right on the cusp of losing their image as a news organization," says Andrew Tyndall, a respected television analyst.
We are not denying Beck or anyone else their First Amendment rights. He can say anything he wants. But advertisers don't have to support his brand of hate mongering, and audiences don't have to take Fox News seriously if one of its top names has become a "circus clown."
Actually, Beck is worse than a clown. He's more like a terrorist who believes he has discovered the One True Faith, and condemns everyone else as a heretic. And that makes him something else as well -- a traitor to the American values he professes so loudly to defend.
Yes and it should be accompanied by emotional soundtracks and sound bites ala NPR.
Leftist media Nurse Rachets!!!
Was she implying that only “beefy guys” are “disciples” of Glen Beck?
Cokie Roberts? Like I respect her opinion?
HAHAHA!
While working in Guatemala, Sister Dianna Ortiz, a Catholic nun from New Mexico, was raped and tortured by members of a death squad until a US supervisor recognized that she was from the US.
Although there was no doubt of Ortiz’s torture and ample evidence to corroborate her claims of an American supervisor, Roberts insisted that Ortiz was lying in a 1996 interview with Ortiz on the TV show “Nightline.”
Roberts’ brother, Tom Boggs, working for the law firm of “Patton, Boggs, & Blow,” was paid by the Guatemalan military to promote a more positive image of the death squads and the military dictatorship in Guatemala.
This incident caused a tremendous amount of scrutiny into other potential nepotistic relationships within the media.
>>She writes about a recent panel discussion that Steve was participating in during which “a beefy guy” stood up and claimed health reform was akin to fascism. Roberts writes, “We don’t know what the beefy guy reads or to whom he listens, but we would bet he’s a disciple of Glenn Beck.” <<
Pure ad-hominem. The weapon of choice for the left, be it politics or AGW (Man made global warming). They don’t want to discuss. They only want to call names.
Gatekeeper is just a nice sounding word Cokie and her partners coined as a cover for censorship. They think their opinions are so perfect that only those opinions should be expressed in the media.
Name calling is the refuge of fools.
Let's see Cokie, who has the higher ratings, you or Beck?
They are more worried about being called fascists than they were commies.
Funny. Not all leftists are terrorists, but most of them are terrorists.
It is clear tht the ghost of Air(head)America lives on.
For now, that is. Because we can't get away with it just yet.
If Cokie thinks Beck “has something wrong” she could “pick up the phone”. I am sure he would put her on so she could explin it, but no, she chooses to slander Beck. How mature.
Kooky Cokie.
Well... with a name like “Cokie” what do you expect =)
Cokie Roberts will now and forever be referred to as: Kooky Roberts.
Snickers and guffaws must follow...
So decreed this 23rd day of March, 2010.
Idiot daughter of an uber-corrupt politician.
We know nothing so we’ll make stuff up.
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