"Jourmalism's gatekeepers' Steve & Cokie Roberts
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.
"Jourmalism's gatekeepers' Steve & Cokie Roberts
Cokey’s an airhead.
Who is this old hag and why should I listen to her?
Isn’t that the silliest statement you have ever heard? LOL
Democracy is just another form of socialism and any one who speaks out against the collective can be accused of being any form of enemy they choose.
“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.”
They don’t know shit and they just said a mouthful...
Former ABC “This Week” co-host, now panelist on the program, Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts: Glenn Beck 'Corrupting' Democracy, a 'Traitor' to American Values
Leftists just HATE IT when the “little people” have access to the truth! Clearly, it just shouldn’t be!!! Only Cokie and Steve should have the right to “educate” us!
Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts wishes she had Glenn’s audience.
She is a lonely little voice in the wilderness of lame stream media when she gets lucky.
What ever happened to the religious folks who believed Thou Shall Not Covet thy Neighbor's goods?
Cokie Roberts is the fourth child and youngest daughter of former ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of the late Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives. Her sister, the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey and a candidate for U.S. Senate from New Jersey. Her brother Tommy Boggs is a prominent Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist.
Yet another angry old-media outcast.
Maybe I was thinking of Bea Arthur.
Bingo!
lol....Cokie’s an idiot.
Give me a break. She's just like the rest of the loser media, just ticked that they are going extinct. And it's their own fault. It's their left wing bias and unbalanced mental state that they are no longer relevant.
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