Hey Bud, nice tryYou're Number One!
Posted on 02/25/2011 10:10:40 AM PST by Libloather
Fox News should fire Glenn Beck; Speaker Boehner should denounce the birthers
By Brent Budowsky - 02/25/11 09:48 AM ET
Fox News should fire Glenn Beck because there are some "opinions" that should not be given prominence on a network that purports to be a serious news station. Beck has the right to express his opinions, but a publicly traded company that presumes to be a credible news network should not be aiding and abetting the spreading of hate using its shareholders' money on the public airwaves.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) should denounce the birthers clearly, unequivocally, immediately and unconditionally and should state, without qualification, that President Obama is a Christian and an American. A leader of one of our two great parties, and the leader of the whole House of Representatives, which is the true role of the Speaker, should not give one ounce of credence to the politics of lies and hate, or leave one inch of doubt that he condemns the politics of lies and hate.
There is weakness in the Democratic Party, for sure, but there is a cancer that is spreading in the Republican Party. The GOP should not allow Glenn Beck to be one of its loudest voices, and should denounce his hate. The Speaker should not treat the purveyors of hate as a valued part of his constituency, or a faction he is too fearful and timid to publicly and clearly condemn.
The president does not say he is a Christian. He is a Christian. The president does not say he is an American. He is an American.
What is happening in American politics is the cheapening of our dialogue and dishonoring of our democracy that combines the worst of the trivial pursuits of what is called cable news with the most extreme voices from talk radio and the Internet, and adding a partisan hunger for power that is extreme and dominates every other consideration in our political and media nation.
Personally, I am fed up with Republicans who preach or tolerate the politics of hate, fed up with Democrats who seem to have no higher values they will champion with conviction, fed up with cable news that treats politics like a forum for hate or a freak show with the latest babble about Sarah Palin and Donald Trump and the idiot nonsense that insider Democrats and Republicans who are out of touch with America tell each other at their insider lunches.
What they all have in common is that they disrespect their audience for their higher purpose of gaining power, making money, peddling the latest insider pittypatter without any serious discussion about the one-fifth of the nation that is jobless, the deadly crisis of the tens of millions who are hungry or the continuing cascade of those who are foreclosed upon and homeless.
I am going to have a lot more to say about cable news and the culture it breeds, and I will not spare Democrats or liberals. There are tens of millions of Americans who do not watch cable news because their voice is not respected, and the battle is only beginning for their hearts, minds and eyeballs.
For now, it is time for Fox News to fire Glenn Beck and time for Speaker Boehner to denounce the birthers, or Fox News will forfeit its right to be treated as a serious news network, and Speaker Boehner will forfeit his stature as a national leader for being too afraid to say publicly what he surely believes in the privacy of his conscience.
Hey Bud, nice tryYou're Number One!
Budowsky, you can buttoutski.
Fair is fair.
Brent is being ripped to pieces in the comment section at The Hill! 8^)
Yeah, I think he's the best evening news anchor in the business. I like the way he facilitates debate with the Fox All Stars and he almost always ends the newscast with a humorous video, an all-around good guy!
“I am going to have a lot more to say about cable news and the culture it breeds...”
The Hill should fire Brent Budkowski before he continues his hateful diatribe.
This article is just another piece of whiny, unsubstantiated groans from a leftwing loonie trying to don the appearance of an unbiased and sober critic of both parties. He wants to give us advice for our own good! It’s laughable and pathertic. The more the left whines, the more obvious it should be that their morally bankrupt, decrepit and failing ideology is being understood by people who may have been politically dormant, and who a more vocal and active in rejecting their inanity.
Brent Budowsky?
Brent Butoutsky?
Better.
From the amount of FLAK Glenn’s now getting, he must be DIRECTLY over the target.
Bombs away!
DAMN!!..you know the saying..if you lose Brent Budowsky..you lose America..might as well forfiet 2012 and return Pelosi back to the speakership..it is so over..sarc off
Free speech for me but not for thee...
That’s a progressive for you. Busybody, bossy, commanding and controlling.
“and I will not spare Democrats or liberals. “
You would think he could be at least a little honest and not bend over backwards to the democrats in the same article as this statement.
many would think at this point, being up to our XXXXas in lligators....
continue to march, lads...
If Glenn Beck's facts are untrue or distorted, refute them with better documented facts, or STFU!
Facts, refutation, thought.
I have no interest whatsoever to hear Soros opinions and talking points.
How about Katie Couric, Brian Williams, Wolf Blitzer, Harry Smith, Chris Matthews, Maddow, etc., etc.?
He's part of the problem and doesn't appear to realize it.
“The president does not say he is an American. He is an American.”
And you know prove this how? Because he say’s it?
“A leader of one of our two great parties, and the leader of the whole House of Representatives, which is the true role of the Speaker, should not give one ounce of credence to the politics of lies and hate, or leave one inch of doubt that he condemns the politics of lies and hate.”
What hate? Since when is it hate to question someone’s religion or nationality? I think ol Brent protests too much.
“The GOP should not allow Glenn Beck to be one of its loudest voices, and should denounce his hate.”
Again, what hate? Glenn Beck is a commentator, not a newsman. If Beck has no right to comment, neither does Brent Buttouski.
blah blah HATE blah blah FOX blah blah HATE blah blah. blah blah (strawman arguement) blah blah. whine whine (lie presented as fact) whine whine (generalization everybody,nobody etc etc.) whine whine
by line: Liberal
It is hard to read or listen to this blather anymore.
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