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.
Clueless broad.
We are not denying Beck Olbermann 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 MSNBC seriously if one of its top names has become a "circus clown."
Cokie Roberts? She still working? She has an insufferable boor of a husband too. Living proof of what family connections will getcha.
lol—Cokie Roberts, still alive!
I always thought she looked like she was drugged up.
Cokie Roberts, she is the daughter of Hale Boggs, a former Democratic House Whip who was the product of a corrupt Louisiana political machine that dates back to Huey Long. Interestingly, Boggs was made a member of the Warren Commission that investigated the death of JFK. According to John H. Davis, author of The Kennedy Contract, a book that explores a possible Mafia connection in the assassination, Boggs “could be relied upon to...see to it that his principle financial backer, and behind-the-scenes power in the state government, Carlos Marcello, would not be mentioned in the commissions deliberations, which, as it turned out, he never was.”
http://www.banned-books.com/bbarticle-cokie.html
This must explain the polls that show Fox to be the most trusted network in America, and the ratings which show it to be more popular than any other 2 networks combined.
It's funny listening to dinosaurs decry the rise of mammals.
One day these irovy tower morons will be in for the surprise of their lives.
Of course if you had her view the videos of decapitations by those currently in Guantanamo, she would be hard pressed to define them.
By calling Beck a Terrorist - Isn’t Cokie doing exactly what she(?) is accussing Beck of doing...
I mean, she “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.”
ALOL! w, Cokie, don;t get your tail in a kink. Just sit on it. Go Glenn!
Not a huge Glenn watcher, but at least his name isn’t “Cokie”.
Interesting you mention Marcello. Certain friends of
his wanted JFK whacked and it was arranged.
Astounding that the Warren Commission didn’t trip
over the truth.
So it is written, so shall it be done.
Liberals are the proverbial frogs in slowly heating water.
They are oblivious to the danger of their ideology until the rotten fruits of liberal disease totally engulf them until they are too deranged beyond repair.
A has-been liberal journalist that was replaced by George Stephanopoulos on ABC's Sunday news program years ago and now has to get a paycheck from NPR.
Glenn Beck (and other objective students of history) are right:
You know that progressivism’s subversion has been taking hold for a long, long time, when its closest adherents don’t even understand that this is what they are.
(Marxist, Social Darwinist, Fascist)
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