Posted on 02/23/2010 1:43:55 PM PST by Steelfish
February 23, 2010 Rush Limbaugh Knocks Glenn Beck; Criticized for "Reparations" Comment
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh is criticizing Fox News host Glenn Beck over Beck's criticisms of the Republican Party at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday.
At that event, Beck said he has "not heard the people in the Republican Party yet admit they have a problem" and said that he doesn't "know what they stand for."
Glenn Beck: GOP Needs to Admit it Has a Problem
"I would not have said that the only people who can stop Obama, Republicans, should be excoriated for being just as bad," Limbaugh said on his radio show (watch at left, via Mediaite). "I don't know how you can say…that the Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats. It would never occur to me to say that. I don't know what the objective would be."
The incident is the latest demonstration of Beck's unique position in the political landscape. A hero in the Tea Party movement, he's not shy about criticizing Republicans.
But he has also shown a willingness to break with right-wing orthodoxy, as evidenced by a new interview in which he says he believes global warming is real and thinks a legitimate case can be made that it's been caused by mankind.
Beck even goes so far as to question the connection between the GOP and perhaps its most admired member, telling USA Weekend that "I don't think [Ronald] Reagan was a real Republican."
Back to Limbaugh: The conservative flamethrower is once again angering liberals, this time for casting the health care reform effort as "a civil rights bill" that amounts to "reparations."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
"The rich are going to stop getting all the good stuff, we're gonna take -- this is income redistribution, this is returning the nation's wealth to its quote-unquote rightful owners," he said yesterday in discussing the reform effort. "This is a civil rights bill. This is reparations, whatever you want to call it."
Love Beck. The guy is the best. Makes sense.
“he believes global warming is real and thinks a legitimate case can be made that it’s been caused by mankind”.
...is this Beck’s version of “crossing the aisle”? I read that article and I have a hard time having a shred of respect for Beck at this point.
Fixed it.
How does that quote refer to Beck?
No, Glenn doesn’t believe in AGW. This is a divide-n-conquer hit piece.
Another MSM attempt to get us to form a circular firing squad and waste our ammo on our own side of the fence...leaving the likes of Pelosi, reid, Schumer, Waxman, Frank, et al to sit back and laugh at us while they go on about their business of spending our grandchildren’s money.
“he believes global warming is real and thinks a legitimate case can be made that it’s been caused by mankind”.
“...is this Beck’s version of “crossing the aisle”? I read that article and I have a hard time having a shred of respect for Beck at this point.”
That just did it for me. Right there. What a stupid to say at this point.
I was not going to take sides in this fight. But come on! MMGW? Are serious Glen? I like your show, but COME ON!
This article is a contrived effort to draw negative attention to Beck and bring Rush into it.
I didn’t hear him knocking Glenn on the show today - I heard him specifically say that he has a policy of not talking about other hosts who do the same job. (unless, of course, they’re liberals...)
How that is spun into knocking Beck I have no idea.
“No, Glenn doesn’t believe in AGW. This is a divide-n-conquer hit piece.”
I see I fell for it.
Beck does not believe in manmade global warming. Beck does not support a third party.
This "he said-she said" stuff is penny ante and childish and it accomplishes the liberal's divide and conquer plan via the MSM.
Do you not realize that you are helping them and doing no good for our side?
“No, Glenn doesn’t believe in AGW. This is a divide-n-conquer hit piece.”
I believe this is true. I don’t watch Beck much, but have heard him lampoon AGW.
There are Republicans who want insurance to be portable and allow the purchase over state lines and such. That would be reform.
Is it “crossing the aisle” or “jumping the shark”?
I was wondering what Mark Levin was really trying to say a few months back when he went after “the 5 pm guy”. Now I get the message, loud and clear.
and you would believe that Beck believes that, why?
After the HazMat suit? After having Lord Monckton on more than once?
The problem I have with Beck is that he is playing up to the media characterization of him as a cartoon caricature by his own mannerisms and by trying to show that there is no daylight between most Republicans and the D’rats he endears himself to the MSM. This comparison of course is manifestly untrue. There isn’t a single Republican who votes like Chuck Schumer or Barbara Boxer or Nancy Pelosi. This is unfortunate because he has a lot to offer.
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