Posted on 12/12/2011 5:17:38 PM PST by mnehring
Glenn Beck is very much not a fan of Newt Gingrich. If anyone didn’t yet know that from this interview, he made it very clear Saturday on Fox Business Network when he alleged that Gingrich was so similar to President Obama in his “progressive” ways, that the only reason Tea Partiers would like him over the President would be because of his race. Unsurprisingly, this has caused some anger. Even less surprisingly, one of those angry voices is Andrew Breitbart, a man who is very much not a fan of Glenn Beck.
Breitbart appeared on the Victory Sessions podcast and slammed Beck for, as his BigGovernment site put it, “pulling the race card” on the Tea Party. However, the Beck/Breitbart beef goes back a far way and one could tell this had as much to do with a heated, longstanding grudge as with the Tea Party comment.. In fact, Breitbart only discussed that comment briefly before moving on to a list of the many slights he feels he’s received from Beck. He accused Beck of throwing him under the bus during the Shirley Sherrod scandal and trash talking him in private while poaching employees to create rival website The Blaze).
This was clearly personal.
“I don’t know what to say because I know it makes me look like a bad guy and I know Reagan’s 11th Commandment, but how many times can you have a baseball bat taken to your rib cage by a gang that have GBTV on your jerseys before you stand up for yourself?
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This guy has always been about himself. You know, while you’re sitting there watching him talk about the food shortage stuff, he doesn’t tell you this ties to the Mormon Church. He doesn’t talk to you about his investors. He doesn’t tell you that they’re paying for him to create a crisis. He always talks about Cloward-Piven and how Rahm Emanuel said ‘Don’t let a good crisis go to waste,’ but creating a hysteria that there’s going to be food storages because of chaos that is coming – he is profitting off this as well. There is a financial stake for him with food storage companies that advertise on his site. This guy is a huckster. He’s always been a huckster. It was only a few years ago that he was a shock jock, that he was a morning zoo guy. And he’s been taking people’s content for years and not crediting it.”
At the end of the interview, the podcast’s host Stephen K. Bannon put it explained that this seemed to be something that “comes from [Breitbart's] heart” and that might be an understatement.
Yeah, he resigned this weekend.
F U G B!
Not a fan of Beck, but Breitbart has been “dead to me” since he took up with the sodomites.
Beck has always been a useful idiot.
However, I think he has had the pleasure of our company, and camaraderie too long, and he has reached his expiration date.
He said Sarah Palin would make a good neighbor before she announced that she wasn’t running.
Now I understand why fox sh!tcanned his a$$!
And he wants us to pay to hear this junk.
If you have to change the meaning of the word to make it fit your belief system, then you’re not conservative.
Is it just me or does anyone else sometimes mistakenly say “Jeff Beck” when you really mean to say “Glenn Beck”? JEFF BECK!
Is GB another one of those guys who doesn’t really know what to think but thinks he (or she) knows exactly what to say?
ditto that
I opined here once before, long ago, that the problem with Beck is that he occasionally gives free rein to his inner asshole. Looks like he might have done it again.
I really not sure why I should care what either of these two says.
“Who would have known about George Soros and the pupet masters behind Obama if not for Beck?”
Certaintly not me with Soros and Obama together pics all over the internet.
....rolling eyes.
“Beck is a shock jock, a morning zoo guy, a hustler, a phony bomb thrower.”
He was exactly that when I heard him in Florida ~10 years ago.
Beck earns his living as a pundit and entertainer.
If everything he said just repeated or echoed what others said or what people already thought, he’d be unnecessary and it would affect his earnings. So he’s got to be controversial and “out there” - but in balance. And that’s the problem: Beck has been getting less and less balanced, and many who used to find him entertaining have been driven away by his crazy talk, like this.
Just remember, Beck has one vote like everyone else. We were each born with a brain of our own, why rely on Beck or anyone else to form your opinions?
For me, he and most of his ilk have always been unnecessary and irrelevant.
Beck has sucked for a long, long time.
I am surprised that more people have noticed the Mormon connection since Beck started hammering on Gingrich in the recent interview. Brietbart has some good points. While I vehemently disagree with Breitbart on GoProud, that does not discredit him everywhere. He’s done a lot for conservatives. I had hoped that Beck wouldn’t let his Mormonism affect his coverage of the race, it appears it has.
He just quit the GOProud board over an unrelated thing.
He still supports gay rights
He’s said some good things about her, but his hand wringing over her and snide comments here and there make it pretty clear that he sees her as a threat to Romney and is acting accordingly.
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