Beck continued attacks on "fat witch" Rosie O'Donnell
On the March 21 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Glenn Beck aired a clip from the March 20 edition of ABC's The View in which co-host Rosie O'Donnell -- during a discussion on allegations of torture at Guantánamo Bay -- said to conservative co-host Elisabeth Hasselbeck: "Okay, wait, Elisabeth, you have to stop, you have to stop. You can ask a question but you can't just blather on your opinion." Beck then said of O'Donnell: "She goes off on her opinion every step of the way. But there's a conservative on the show and she's shut down. You can't just say your opinion. What the hell is this show all about, you fat witch? What is this show about?" Later, Beck claimed that O'Donnell has "blubber ... just pouring out of her eyes," and asked, "Do you know how many oil lamps we could keep burning just on Rosie O'Donnell fat?" Steve Burguiere, the executive producer and head writer of Beck's radio show, who is known on-air as "Stu," also attacked O'Donnell: "I mean, she's the type of idiot that watches documentaries online about 9-11 and conspiracies that a fourth-grader made on a PowerPoint and believes them. So there's much more to go to on that direction than just her rolls and rolls of hideous fat."
In the same broadcast, Beck -- recently hired by ABC News as a "regular commentator" for Good Morning America -- complained: "I can't take it that Rosie O'Donnell can be put on ABC television, mainstream, unquestioned, by the mainstream media. She can say whatever she wants to say, she can take the sides with, what's his name, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a guy who was the mastermind behind 9-11. She can make him into some sort of a martyr without anybody at ABC, NBC, CBS -- mainstream media, they say nothing about that. Nothing." As Media Matters for America has noted, Beck claimed on the March 16 broadcast of his show that O'Donnell "has more contempt for the United States of America than the guy who is the number-two guy of Al Qaeda."
Premiere Radio Networks, which syndicates Beck's radio show, claims the program is heard on more than 230 radio stations nationwide. According to Talkers Magazine, the program reaches more than 3 million listeners each week.
From the March 21 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: I am so sick of the double standard in the media on -- when it comes to an opinion like mine. I've got a crazy opinion, I'm a hatemonger, you know. I'm a hatemonger that just wants to lock people up, wants to put Muslims behind razor wire, that wants to kill Katrina victims, wants to see all 9-11 families burn in some sort of fiery death. Yes, that's me, the hatemonger. Yet Rosie O'Donnell can be on ABC television, mainstream, she can be celebrated, she can be defended. And what does she say? Well, I'll give you the latest on the Rosie blog on who caused 9-11. Wait until you hear the destruction of the World Trade Center, and why it happened.
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BECK: I can't take it that Rosie O'Donnell can be put on ABC television, mainstream, unquestioned, by the mainstream media. She can say whatever she wants to say, she can take the sides with, what's his name, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, a guy who was the mastermind behind 9-11. She can make him into some sort of a martyr without anybody at ABC, NBC, CBS -- mainstream media, they say nothing about that. Nothing. She goes off on her opinion every step of the way. But there's a conservative on the set who's shut down. You can't just say your opinion. What the hell is this show all about, you fat witch? What is this show about?
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BECK: Try to find an intelligent whale joke.
STU: Exactly.
BECK: I'm just -- I'm saying, because the whale jokes and the blubber that she has just pouring out of her eyes --
STU: There's no reason to go to her weight. I mean, she's the type of idiot that watches documentaries online about 9-11 and conspiracies that a fourth-grader made on their PowerPoint and believes them. So there's much more to go to on that direction than just her rolls and rolls of hideous fat.
BECK: Do you know how many oil lamps we could keep burning just on Rosie O'Donnell's fat?
STU: See, that -- that's --
BECK: Sorry.
STU: You're back to the facile whale jokes, and there's no --
BECK: Think about how much perfume we could make out of Rosie O'Donnell. Again, too easy.
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"I can't take it that Rosie O'Donnell can be put on ABC television, mainstream, unquestioned, by the mainstream media."
Gee, Glenn, you stupid putz...I feel the same way about YOU!
Right. Took the words right, ah, out of my keyboard? No one sees any absurd irony here, right? Sheesh. Beck is as dumb as they come.
But, in typical lefty fashion, neither of you get the point that Beck IS questioned by the media. He IS under the scrutiny that "the fat witch" isn't. Until you can show that she is under the same scrutiny then everything he says is correct! Don't you just hate it when someone actually reads the article for you.
Hold on my friend.
Isn't Beck part of the so called Mainstream Media? He has his own show on CNN, appears on Today, all of the time, that's about as mainstream as it gets. And he is criticizing her (well, her appearance, not what she says). And from what I can see, and or hear, I hear Rosie O'Donnell getting attacked all of the time for the views she makes on the show she is on. If you haven't heard her criticized, methinks you haven't been listening too much, or even read this story.
Not so fast, yourself. Just what is the equator for personal opinion and public media calling Odonal on her misguided mental travasties? Name one media outlet that questions her statements "of fact". Isn't Beck giving his opinion of her? And, here, we have a media outlet taking quotes out of context, using incomplete quotes to give an impression that he is someone he isn't.
Autopsycho, can you name one mainstream media outlet that questions Beck's credibility? Olbermann is the only one I can think of, but he's just a lefty commentator. Can you name another?
Everyone that the common sense God gave a dog would fully understand (or realize) that The View is not a news program, but daytime talkshow/commentary.
Now, this isn't much different from Beck's radio program. It's commentary, and I'm sure if Beck didn't appear on CNN (a supposed news channel) or is not a contributor for ABC's morning news program, then this wouldn't get much attention.
However, therein lies the irony and the whole point of MMFA has posted this: Beck is criticizing someone for being slanted with their commentary on a network program. If I need to explain further, then God help us all.
Day late... But, no need to explain Beck's inane commentary. He's a fool who can't understand the painful irony in his own words. Apparently, neither can you. Magnolia above points out, correctly... that Beck has appeared on various mainstream shows and get no hassle whatsoever for his inflammatory remarks (which 9/10 are based soley on opinion, his and his rightwing idiot propagandists...which are then parleyed as fact). Tough luck.
Beck calling Rosie "fat" is like Bush calling Cheney an "oil man".
"I can't take it that Rosie O'Donnell can be put on ABC television, mainstream, unquestioned, by the mainstream media."
The ULTIMATE irony.
Actually, it's not ironic because Glenn IS questioned all the time by the media. This site does nothing but monitor him and other media shows. I haven't noticed any Rosie 'alerts' here.
Glenn was complaining because no one sets up websites to pull out quotes from liberal hosts like Olbermann and Rosie.
Oh really?
So there's no site called "OlbermannWatch"?
And the wingnut blogs don't harp on Rosie on a daily basis?
Is that what you're saying?
Would you like to rephrase?
Actually, the guys at 'Olbermann Watch' have shut the site down. They said that they failed because Keith's ratings keep going up and they think they are just giving him free publicity! Oh, those crazy guys!!
Methinks they just got tired of keeping up with him - notice how a large part of each Media Matters article is a transcript? On Olbermannwatch, all they had was a few lines from his show and a page of ranting and raving.
Fair enough, I didn't know about olbermann watch. Maybe I don't know about them because they don't do a good job, or maybe it's because conservatives are actually in favor of free speech, and don't try to get every liberal commentator thrown off the air.
The other reason it's not ironic, is because Glenn has not appeared on the show since they named him a contributor.
"maybe it's because conservatives are actually in favor of free speech, and don't try to get every liberal commentator thrown off the air." --libs
You are clueless. Conservatives constantly work to get people off the air. Do you think ABC doesn't get any such requests on a frequent basis for them to kick off Rosie? Heck, the Dixie Chicks make one remark about the President and conservatives demand they be removed from the radio stations (to which, the huge Bush supporting ClearChannel happily obliged). How about what happened to Bill Maher with "Politically Incorrect"? Conservatives have protested Fahrenheit 911 to try to keep it out of theaters as well.
Don't try to feed us the crap that you guys just love open debate and free speech. It simply isn't supported by the evidence.
Not to mention the fascists at American Family Radio lobbying - successfully, in several cases - to get NBC affiliates to take The Book of Daniel off the air.
Yep, conservatives love them some free speech.
*snort*
Great. Thanks a lot. Now my nose hurts and there's Dr. Pepper all over my screen.
Hilarious. Must be a fantastic planet you live on, where up is down and black is white.
Stay there.
I think Glenn Beck wants to "harpoon" Rosie.
:-D
You sir, Skye, are brilliant and I would like to father your children.
The oil lamp and perfume part was funny, IMO. I bet Donald laughed, too.
meh, i didnt realize attacking rosie was limited to and only allowed by donald trump? she is kind of a sorry human being, she has a very negative personality and it is quite obvious. rosie's views tick beck off and he has every right to lambaste her on his show
By the same token, isn't Beck a pretty sorry individual too?
Conservatives like to come here and spout about ratings. let's compare Glenn's to Rosie's TV ratings. On TV, his ratings would be infinitesimal compared to hers.
Yup. He absolutely does have that right, as long as the radio station keeps giving him a forum. And as long as we have a forum here, I can decry the lowering of the bar that both Beck AND O'Donnell are doing to the political discourse in our country. I mean, I know she's a polarizing figure, but contemplating the number of oil lamps you could burn from the woman's fat just makes you look like a cad... in my humble opinion of course.
You are right that it is Beck's show and if he wants to attack something Rosie said, then he can.
However, whereas Rosie and Elisabeth constantly have disagreements on the show, at no point has one called the other childish names the way Beck has. And while I disagree with almost everything Elisabeth says on the show at least she is able to argue more rationally than Beck is.
If Beck wants respect and for people to take him seriously then maybe, instead of wasting airtime calling names and making childish statements about Rosie's weight, maybe he should have stated why he disagrees with her position and given evidence to back up his claims. But he does none of this. If he has no logical rebuttal then he has nothing. And if he has nothing then maybe he shouldn't waste air time attacking people who DO have an opinion and are willing to back it up. If that is all Beck wants to do then he deserves all the criticism Mediamatters is giving him. CNN, or any news channel, should not be used for pointless attacks on people simply because Beck doesn't like them. That is neither news not entertainment...it's just pettiness.
Conflict is good for ratings, isn't it. The View never had it so good. But it really made me want to puke when Baba Wawa implied a few months ago, with absolutely no evidence, that Elisabeth's stalker was some disgruntled liberal. And there was Princess Elisabeth, sitting there with her eyes modestly downcast while Baba talked, playing the Poor Little Victim role to a T.
Funny thing... the show is called THE VIEW, as in opinion. Yet Rosie tells Elisabeth in a very condescending tone 'you can ask questions but you can't blabber on with your opinions.' That's total b.s.
As to Glenn calling Rosie fat. She is. Soe is he. He makes fun of himself constantly.
As to taking the high road, Olbermann does the same darn thing. In fact, on today's radio show Beck played audio of Olbermann making fat jokes about a conservative. He ran it on the air, there were nine fat jokes in a row. Olbermann isn't a saint.
Bottom line: this is all entertainment and we are mere peons.
I find it extremely difficult to conjure up any sympathy for Rosie O'Donnell no matter whom attacks her or why. Whether it be Beck or Trump. Neither of which I particularly like either.
Rosie brings most of it on herself.
Her latest foolishness, the 9/11 conspiracy, is just another example of her whacko world.
While I don't think it was necessary for Trump or Beck to refer to Rosie's girth in their criticism of her, I understand how she brings the worst out in people.
Rosie is just another example of yet one more talent-less celebrity who has worn out her welcome.
Shouldn't be any big deal around here, people make fat jokes all the time about Rush. It's funny.
Sad, but true, Bruce. Although how many of them do you see coming from the articles, and how many of them do you see coming from commentors? I'm willing to bet the ratio is somewhere around 0/100 - none from the articles, all of them from people who sign up for free and post anonymously. Nice pre-emptive strike though. Also, nice use of the "billy hit me first, so it's ok for me to hit him back" logical argument.
I didn't say it was ok, I said people around here shouldn't have a problem with it. You don't see me writing that way.
Bruce, Before someone else admonishes you, let me do it.
Some here have a special "anonymous poster's license" to call Rush a fat drug addict. However, if a liberal is the target, and the name caller is a conservative talking head, then he or she is beneath scum - and rightly called so.
Slight difference...non of us posting here is paid millions of dollars by a news network to spew our nonsense.
That's not the point.
When someone calls Beck, or anyone, out for calling someone a "fat witch", and then proceeds to use a similar slur themselves - they are no better - paid or not. One can criticize Beck's use of gutter insults by not uttering one as well.
If your kid said to another kid, "You just called my father a fat pig, you fat pig!" - would you condone your kid's choice of words?
Do you think its important to hold a person in the media to a high standard?
If your concerned about someone being hypocritical then I think you should address the issue with them directly instead of making a blakent statement about liberals or people on this website.
hey - fair enough, I was calling out the anonymous posters also. Although to be fair, Rush IS a fat drug addict (both proven facts) O'Donnell is also fat (besides being a contemptible human being, but that's a side note) I don't think she's a witch though. And I still think it should be beneath the dignity of a guy with a radio show and a national audience to query as to how many oil lamps he could run off of the woman's fat.
Southpark,
It's beneath the dignity of anyone and everyone to name call another person "fat".
Tommy, no one is more liberal than I am. Show me a fat, liberal drug addict and I'll be all over him too.
And you're missing the point. The reason we call Limbaugh a fat drug addict is because of his hypocrisy. He's been railing against drug use for as long as he's been on the air. He squawks all day about family values, yet he has none.
Show me a liberal drug user who wants to imprison all drug users and I'll join you in mocking him. Show me a liberal with no values who mocks others for their lack of values and I'll bring the nails for when we crucify the bastard.
Worrier, I am referring to name calling in general - specifically the "fat" part. I rarely, if ever, can see it's justification or rationalization.....now I know I have done it too, (hat tip, CC, don't go searching through your "tommy" archives), and I am not proud of any name calling I have done......but it doesn't make it ok.
Is that your pledge to never name call in the future? Or are you saying do as I say not as I do?
" Show me a liberal with no values who mocks others for their lack of values and I'll bring the nails for when we crucify the bastard. "
That's a trick question, isn't it? Everyone knows all liberals do is mock others. Better buy the nails by the 'gross'.
We mock, because we care.
AP spewing igonrance again. The only place everyone knows any such thing is in your delusional fantasies. While for instance I can flamethow with the best of them you will NEVER see me calling Rush fat or denigrating Coulter for her looks or any such thing. ALL you ever do is come here with troll posts to denigrate liberals with your CONSTANT LIES. YOU are a liar. Its is so clear that you are a sad and pathetic human being. It is so clear that you were the stupid kid who sat in the back of the class praying the teacher didnt call on you and resenting the smart kids. So now in this anonymous setting you come here and take out your frustrations from your sad life on us. You let the sad projections from your obvious inadequacy and insecurity float to the top of the sump I will generously call your mind and spew it out like the sewage it is on liberals. WISHING it would show us up when all it does is spotlight how pathetic you are. What everyone HERE knows is you are a loser who has never yet made a cogent argument or a valid point. You dont even try. You troll with insults to liberals then snivel like a little girl when you are insulted back. Grow up or stop wasting our time with your juvinile stupidity
" you are a loser who has never yet made a cogent argument or a valid point. You dont even try. You troll with insults to liberals then snivel like a little girl when you are insulted back. "
Thanks, again, for your kind words. However, you'll notice I did speak about what was being spoken about. Are you on topic? No, again. So, unfortunately, that makes YOU a TROLL also. Which is what most posters seem to do anyway. They post personal opinion about current conversations, which could all be considered to be trolling.
P.S. I really don't think you can argue with the best of them as you claim. You don't argue at all, you only call others names. You still haven't provided the posts you said you could that show you can stay on topic without calling names. I really didn't think you could do it. You said 20 in 2 years, but you haven't backed that up with ANY proof or evidence. Like I said, I didn't think you could. You prove to everyone WHAT kind of person YOU are.
You are a liar, this is on topic HOW?
That's a trick question, isn't it? Everyone knows all liberals do is mock others. Better buy the nails by the 'gross'. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
I have always maintained that I respond to troll flamethrowers with flamethrowing as for my posts if you can read at ALL you could find them all over this site. I am reasonable with reasonable posters. YOU are a namecalling troll. So THAT is how I treat you. As for your next ATTEMPT to show I am wrong. Gangleskank is not a remark about her appearance, you will also never see me talk about her looks in ANY way, skank is a reference to her actions I stole the term from another poster actually I just cant remember who. She is a lowclass hatemongering weasel. I suppose the gangle part could be a reference to her thinness but since when has THAT been an insult to women that they are too thin? Not even a good try but then again you havent managed a single post that showed higher brain function yet why should I think you would start now. I am telling you straight out, if you START making reasoned and cogent arguments, assuming you are even capable of baseline reasoning even at a primative level, you will see my reasonable side. Keep up with your constant trolling insults of liberals THIS IS WHAT YOU GET. I dont really care its all the same to me. My reasonable posts are all over this site just not in answer to trolling insulting morons like YOU
" While for instance I can flamethow with the best of them you will NEVER see me calling Rush fat or denigrating Coulter for her looks or any such thing "
Who's the liar now?!? Read on, this is taken from just one month ago. Imagine what I could find if I actually looked extensively. So much for your credibility. You did say "NEVER" didn't you? Hmmm
" IF Gangleskank Ann really HAD made a valid point, which of course she didnt, it would have been the very first time. Glad to see her unbroken string of hatred, and bigotry is going strong. She defines disgusting and is a waste of precious oxygen
- solon / Saturday February 10, 2007 03:37:06 PM EST "
Who is the liar now? Still you.
It's nice how you weasel out of calling someone a "skank" and explain it as not an insult. I've never quite seen that before. So, you don't mind if I call you skank from now on? (since it isn't an insult)
so raping his sons was justified? Also do they even need to parade the pre-convicted in front of their 'confessions' before hanging them or not these days?
See, that is what all the torture scandels that Abu Gonzales and the dumbaya cabal have bought us with our national treasure. Since their reign of terror began it is not out of bounds of reason to speculate that way.
Just wondering...
I think Rosie is great, I say GO GIRL!!!!!
ewww, and she "watches documentaries online" gadzooks. Newsflash for Beck, online video is about to make him pine for the day he had 3 million in his audience. It's true, anyone with a PC and an internet connection can now rant and rave to their hearts content, even if they have no expertise, no relevant education or experiance and even if they lie, lie, lie. Soon, there will be so many Beck like shows each one will have an audience of one.
These guys are just getting in their last licks before the Republican leadership is taken away in chains and mobs of angry citizens come for the propaganda masters.
The Clown of CNN (and "thinker") decides to spend a major portion of his "not right and left but right and wrong" program calling Rosie O'Donnell names?
I heard his rant at the beginning of the show; turned on the radio three hours later and he's talking about her again.
Hey Chuckles - no one really gives a second thought as to what Rosie says. Rosie is an entertainer and actor...sort of like you are. You know, when you pretend to be news person but are really little more than a mud wrestler.
Again...CNN please call...I can be a total buffoon for just half of what you are paying Beck.
I'll bet that the hot air that spews from the mouths of both Rosie and Glenn contribute more to global warming than all the SUVs in the world.
Both are loud abrasive no-nothings.
BeckieBoy shows his childiness on this one. Of course, NotSoRosy is not a witch (Wiccan) as that would show a hint of religiion, which all she has ever done is attack all religion. Fat, Loud, good descriptions, but the rest is child talk.
While I missed this portion of the show...
I saw most of Beck's show. Truthfully, I can't believe this even made the RADAR. He "disapproved" global warming with the help of Christopher Horner's The Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming (and Environmentalism). What a farce, and from there it was straight down hill. While I suppose this is a totally valid point, however, a minor one compared to all the other tripe he spewed.
I wonder if Beck calls his overweight relatives that stuff he called Rosie. His mother? His sister? His cousin? Would he really be that evil? Probably. Perhaps Beck and fellow woman hater Michael Savage should start their own version of the 'He-Man Woman Haters Club'.
I'd imagine most of Beck's relatives wrote him letters long ago notifying him of their deaths.
Makes Thanksgiving nicer.
We will be hearing a lot more about Liberal 9-11 deniers now. These stupid, vile crackpots need to be rebutted at every chance. Talking to dead people on TV is one thing but the Loose Change people are really dangerous.
Soooo . . . you really discount all possibility that there was something strange about the circumstances? That maybe it would be better to know more, rather than simply pretend that Bungle's Boyz would never do bad things to us, in order to have their excuse to start the war with Iraq?
Even though they were busy planning that war for several years prior to 9-11? And equally busy with planning, equipping, moving troops, to begin that war, the invasion of Iraq, at the very launch of the set-to in Afghanistan?
OK, I guess that falls under the heading of "opinion", and you are entitled to ignore all protests that yours doesn't conform even to the public facts, if you choose to do so. Meanwhile, what is the great danger those "Loose Change" people represent to our nation? Would it be prompting some to wonder about all the lack of evidence you cite, to support your opinion? Or wondering about all the evidence they DO present, to support theirs?
Hopefully belittling someone else makes Mr. Beck feel better about himself.....However, my other comment is to ask that he please not interchange Witch with bitch, which is clearly what he meant to say. Those who actually are Witches get a little annoyed with that. It just perpetuates the stereotype that Witches are mean, nasty folk, or, well "bitches".
FACT: Rosie is vilified in the harshest terms on a daily basis throughout the right-wing blogosphere.
FACT: Glen Beck is celebrated and defended on a daily basis in the same quarters.
FACT: The MSM doesn't make a peep about Beck's hatemongering.
FACT: MSM stalwarts ABC and CNN give him a cushy spot from which to spew daily.
CONCLUSION: Glen Beck is a delusional, lying idiot.
Way to go Beck. Rosie bullies elizabeth everyday on the view. She feels as though only her bloated opinion counts. Kudos for calling her out. That show is simply hillarious because you have one con, who's not exactly an intellectual, and 3 libs on the panel. Hasselbeck is simply outmached. It's pretty much a microcosm of the overwhelmingly liberal bias in the media (check up on it there've been studies to prove it). I think it would be hillarious if say, Laura Ingraham was to be another host. She'd tear Rosie apart....I wonder if she bleeds gravy.
There are not only NO SUCH STUDIES to prove any such thing. In college HERE in Flagstaff the institutional analysis of media is done with Choskys book manufacturing Consent. The point being the media does not break down into liberal/conservative bias but serves power and reflects elite opinion. I am a liberal and my points of view are in no WAY being pushed by the media. The run up to the war showed very clearly the media had no such liberal bias as liberals were almost shut out of the debate. POWER was served. Your delusions about a liberal media do not define reality it simply does not exist. There are liberal media outlets like the Nation magazine but an overall liberal media bias is absolute nonsense and only the really brainwashed could possibly buy it.
Beck: ""Do you know how many oil lamps we could keep burning just on Rosie O'Donnell fat?"
What a nasty, Nazi thing to say. For anyone who had doubts about Beck's true sympathies, this statement ought to make it clear. His past close-associations with neo-Nazis and white supremacists may have poisoned Beck's mind, but it's far more likely that he's not only sympathetic but also one of them. Who else would consider such an atrocious thought "funny?" (Cue the neo-fascists response claiming the story of Nazis using the fat of Jews as oil is a "myth.)
Well, if Beck is a nazi he's obviously not a very good one considering O'donnel is not jewish. Maybe you're going for the link between Hitler's oppression of homosexuals to make this link. Or maybe, if I follow your logic, Beck, who claims to be a mormon, is secretly a christian hater, since Nero used burning christians to light his gardens at night. Your assumptions are simply hillarious. Is Donald Trump a nazi as well? In fact, the simple fact that Beck says such things and the doesn't run to rehab (or is it "reducation camp") shows that he cares little for the PC facism imposed on freedom of speech by the mainstream media. Hillarious!
Olbermann the hypocrite!!!! He can talk about someones weight but when a rightwinger does it its somehow wrong?
Huh?
I cannot find Olbermann in the article, so is he really the topic?
I also get tired of people calling Olbermann a liberal.This site and others have said Olbermann is a rightwinger!!
Didn't see you guys complain too much when Keith Olbermann called Roger Ailes "fat" 8 different times in 7 minutes...
http://hotair.com/archives/2006/09/29/video-olbermann-calls-ailes-fat-eight-times-in-seven-minutes/
Just another example of liberal hypocrisy..'tis nothing new.