You can't be serious.
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.
Something is coming, and they are afraid of it. There is no end game that works for Obama: either he is illegitimate, or he has been playing a very childish and stupid game. Neither one is 'presidential'.
The biggest ‘weakness’ I detect is in the average American, who might strike out with their purse at anyone who mouths those troublesome ‘truths’ that could excite anger. Anyone that isn’t angry that Obama refuses to confirm citizenship is a panty-waist Alice, you in particular libloather. People like you just never had what it took to show up, did you? You never showed up, you never stood up, you never took a hit for the right cause, did you? You, sir, are the problem; not a Glen Beck or a John Boenher. They might not have the solution, but they have guts; something you, and the majority of todays’ Americans don’t.
I’m about as much of a troll as you are—but I usually don’t diss other freepers, although I’ve been a freeper longer than you have......
How uncivil.
I’m fairly sure the AZ shooter got hold of a rough draft of this article just before he went ballistic.
-—And it’s not his facts, it’s his delivery which I find distasteful. A bit too much theatrics for me.
Tell the truth - does anyone think Sarah Palin could get away without showing a birth certificate? Dems would be screaming bloody murder and their shills in the MSM would headline it every day...
What a blowhard -- he STARTS with what conservative MUST DO. Then he'll get around to telling dems what liberals should be fired for hate.
Yeah, that's totally believable... like we were all born yesterday...
This guy's trying to play us for fools and we're NOT buying his bull about how he's 'going' to be just as hard on dems...
We're NOT going to hold our breath waiting for him to condemn dems for not being wonderful enough. Or for liberal MSM to be condemned for hate. Ain't gonna happen.
You can't be serious.
If this Internet news site were truly **conservative**, it would wipe the dribble right off the faces that run Fox News.
Fox News: We report ( some conservative news). You wind up yelling at the TV screen.
As for Beck, the man who cries real tears over the Constitution, it will be a LONG time before I can forgive him for how he has treated Obama’s eligibility.
lol -- ex-cellent!
Ace call. Except "progs" ain't Progressives, they're Stalinists in drag, since about 1948 when they stole the name.
It's called "Marcusian toleration" and is exactly what Communist theoretician and Frankfurt School import Herbert Marcuse taught the Alinskyites in media to do.
The only safe harbor for the proletariat is true, vanguard-led, Marxist-Leninist socialism. Ergo, it is the positive duty of the right-thinking intellectual, opinion leader, and media 'Rat to help lead the proletariat as directly and as expeditiously as possible into said safe harbor, and to this end, to reprove, refute, rebuke, and belittle every other train of thought that is not "progressive" </cant> and therefore conducive to the safety and well-being of the proletariat.
</theory, /Communist b.s.>
I think this guy has been snortin the powder with Charlie Sheen.
And next he’s going to demand that we vouch that Barry never had sexual relations with another man? How do we know? Why is it our responsibility to do this?
And by the way, who are you Buttzinksi to say how anyone should think and what they should say? You report - we decide, got it??
UHHH..last time i looked GLENN’S red phone is still plugged in...bring it on?
Don’t forget Watson. :)
Howdy, Basil. Hope all is well with you and yours.
May I respectfully disagree? Not only is Beck not an embarrassment, he is prescient. He has nailed Soros, Obongo Bozo, The Lamestrewam Media, et al, for the anti-American, anti-FReedom LIEberal subversives that they are.
If those dirtbags have their way, America as we know it will be destroyed. Beck is calling them out five days a week, and it well behooves us to pay attention to what he has to say.
Beck is, as far as I am concerned, shining the spotlight of truth on an evil crowd.
Please watch him and pay attention!
Tonight’s show was simply outstanding!
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