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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.

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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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To: bert
Maybe you haven't noticed, but those GE light bulbs on the store shelves are very fragile.

ELECTRIC LAMP MONOPOLY CHARGED; General Electric and Westinghouse Said to Sell 95% of Bulbs in America. COMPETITION CHOKED OFF Lockwood Witness Tells How He Was Forced to Sell Out--Untermyer Charges Extortion

121 posted on 07/30/2009 9:48:53 AM PDT by anonsquared (Jim Thompson made me do it!)
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To: bert
A better course is attacking directors where they live

Each to his own :) But it'll be a cold day in Hades before I buy another GE appliance, and we're gonna need a fridge, washer, and range in the near future.

122 posted on 07/30/2009 9:49:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
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To: wilco200
The Saul Alinksy playbook. When things go well, accept credit. When things go badly, blame your adversary.

There was indeed racial profiling in this matter - by Gates and Obama.

123 posted on 07/30/2009 9:52:39 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

NBC should mind their own business.


124 posted on 07/30/2009 9:53:00 AM PDT by dr_who
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Beck didn’t say anything Obama hasn’t stated himself:

From Dreams of My Father, “ I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”. Barack Hussein Obama

animosity—a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility

grievance— grudge, a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; “holding a grudge”; “settling a score”; that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong.

Obama is a racist. He feels a resentment against and entrie group of people rather than regarding them as individuals. He has admitted so.


125 posted on 07/30/2009 9:54:41 AM PDT by KansasGirl ( Obama's heroes have always been left-wing radicals.)
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To: combat_boots
From the 912 Project page:

“This morn. Glenn, asked for prayer for his family. Something is going on, that isn’t good. We all must pray to our higher powers for him and the family.

He also distanced himself from the 912 project.”

Has an incident occurred in re his family?

We should all stand up and protect Glenn's back. He's the Patrick Henry of our time.
126 posted on 07/30/2009 9:55:39 AM PDT by Sig Sauer P220 (Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Liberal professors at Texas Tech want Alberto Gonzales fired before he even starts here.... but... it aint going to happen. Welcome to Lubbock Mr. and Mrs. Gonzales and family.


127 posted on 07/30/2009 9:57:26 AM PDT by JFC
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To: EagleUSA

Bill O’Reilly is a nanny-state-loving, paternalistic popoulist with no true appetite for a more limited government. There, I said it!


128 posted on 07/30/2009 10:00:51 AM PDT by LowCountryJoe (Do class-warfare and disdain of laissez-faire have their places in today's GOP?)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Others are referring to Obama as a “racist opportunist” and doing it with stunning impact. That alpa female meanie, Michelle Malkin, says it just about as well as it can be said, while whipping up on Matt Lauer like a red-headed stepchild.

Go to YouTube - Michelle Malkin talks with Matt Lauer about Obama’s “Culture of Corruption”

It is an incredibly fresh view of a PC liberal being systematically dismantled.

Someone on here will know how to put up a formal link. Go there. Best news in months!


129 posted on 07/30/2009 10:01:00 AM PDT by Hennible Cobb (Don't wait for orders! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: GnuHere

If you really want to see the Marxist Media Magnates collective heads explode have Beck and Palin start co-hosting on Fox TV and the radio program. It would send the Leftists straight into frothing at the mouth, bleeding from the ears seizures.


130 posted on 07/30/2009 10:01:21 AM PDT by Desron13 (If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
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To: patriot08

” If anybody had had sense enough to read Obama’s books, they’d know he is a racist and a Muslim.”

My words exactly.
His books damn him and expose him.
The constant narrative is how much contempt and hate he has for his white mother and white grandparents
and white people in general.
The genesis is obviously the abandonment by his white mother and
then being dumped with the white grandparents who were strangers to him.
He didn’t lose that contempt by winning an election-it’s his soul.
Beck played clips of Obama ( typical white person, white people don’t want to pay taxes so black kids can go to school )
and Michelle and Gates and Wright yesterday.
The clips played one after the other were grotesque and disgusting.
No white politician and his wife and their core group of friends and advisers
would be allowed to get away with the kind of racial vileness that Obama and Company routinely trumpet.


131 posted on 07/30/2009 10:01:52 AM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: 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."

Chucky, Chucky, Chucky! Obama IS a racist!! You should clean up your own backyard before you try to clean up Fox's backyard. Unlike Crissy and Keith's programs, people actually want to hear Glenn Beck. They want to hear him on the radio, watch him on TV, and read his books. Jealousy is a b*tch, huh? DEAL WITH IT!! :o)

132 posted on 07/30/2009 10:03:59 AM PDT by NRA2BFree
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To: 70th Division

Maybe I can get Olbermann to co-host it. I’ll wear my “I’m with stupid” t-shirt.

I’d be willing to bet the ratings of a show that consists of just me slapping him around would be higher than his current show.


133 posted on 07/30/2009 10:06:14 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (If I disagree with you, it is because you are wrong.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
No surprise here. Fox is kicking NBC’s butt. NBC is owned by GE. And, GE is in the tank for Obama. GE's CEO Jeff Immelt, is on one of Bam’s economic advisory committees.
134 posted on 07/30/2009 10:07:28 AM PDT by kenmcg (THE)
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To: patriot08

My biggest disappointment in all this is that he is probably single handedly making it harder for there to be “the next black President”. My wife says he had taken the country almost back to the days of segregation as far as attitudes go.


135 posted on 07/30/2009 10:08:42 AM PDT by CougarGA7 (If I disagree with you, it is because you are wrong.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines

Does the phrase “Go pound sand you corporate fascists” ring a bell?


136 posted on 07/30/2009 10:09:10 AM PDT by OpusatFR (Those embryos are little humans in progress. Using them for profit is slavery.)
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To: TaxachusettsMan

Olberman was a sportscaster here in LA. He was absolute garbage then and is still garbage now.


137 posted on 07/30/2009 10:11:04 AM PDT by Churchillspirit
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To: combat_boots

“Has an incident occurred in re his family?”

They are probably receiving anonymous threats from the Evil Rahm Machine.

Either that, or there was a dead cat on his doorstep. (A la Kathleen Willey.)


138 posted on 07/30/2009 10:13:28 AM PDT by Palladin (Obama: "Irrational black guy--GOOD. White policeman--BAD! UGGA--UGGA!")
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
NBC wants Fox competitor Glenn Beck fired.

LOL - I suspect that NBC wants all their successful competitors fired!

139 posted on 07/30/2009 10:14:34 AM PDT by meyer (Obama's failure is America's Success.)
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To: Behind Liberal Lines
Why I like Fox News...

foxnews agenda report decide

No Agenda

140 posted on 07/30/2009 10:14:55 AM PDT by Bill_o'Rights
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