Beck: "I had the whole week of shows mapped out," but Massa "took me off track"
March 10, 2010 10:23 am ET
From the March 10 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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This is basically an admission that his slanderous diatribes are planned well in advance with little flexibility towards real current events. Sigh.
Beck really thought he had himself some fodder for one of his ridiculous conspiracies . . . he was, very humorously, mistaken!
Just to be clear, dogbreath -- which one are you referring to, Becky or Massa?
My take on Glenn's Expressions were that Massa was not Giving Glenn the Secrets, Dirt and Ammunition Glenn needs to go after the White House.
Glenn, keep hoping, praying and almost bagging-- "PLEASE.. PLEASE give me something JUICY ... ANYTHING WILL DO... I can DISTORT THE FACT... I can make it bigger and badder...JUST GIVE ME SOMETHING! PLEASE!"
Is personal responsibility that much a foreign concept to you, Glenn?
foreign concept to you, Glenn
GLENN IS AN AMERICAN.. Foreign is Socialism!
Thanku vera muuch.
It's obvious these guys, beck and limbaugh etc, thought they hit the jackpot, when they were offered the opportunity to flaunt not only a disgraced Congressional Democrat, but one that would take parting shots at the Obama administration as he left, and as they (beck etc) flaunted him.
But seeing an item here in these pages last night, the one where beck used a strange analogy about the World Trade Center and firefighters, and how in that video clip beck was ranting against campaign finance reform (his strange analogy was about just that issue), it made me wonder, to what degree was Massa's appearance and talk on beck's show, about campaign finance reform?
Here's what I mean, for example when Sen. Bayh announced his swan song, he also gave his obligatory parting wisdom about Congress, but amazingly (to me anyway) it was about "bi-partisanship" (or the lack thereof), and rancor and bitterness etc... I was amazed he didn't tell the truth or even mention a word about it, namely that it's the influence of money on and in our Congress, in particular corporate money by way of lobbyists to weaken slow or stop any and all reform efforts (think health care), that's what's "broken" and that's what needs to be "fixed."
And trying to wrestle back our Congress to represent the interests of the American people, against the influence of corporate lobbies (and the BRIBERY they work by way of "campaign contributions" which are in truth BRIBES), all of this is usually referred to by a single name...
Campaign Finance Reform.
Now I didn't see any of the interviews of Massa, especially not the one being referred to here, but like I said, I did spot the reference to campaign finance reform in the strange "WTC and firefighter" video clip, and so I'm left to wonder now, did Massa talk much about that, about campaign finance reform?
Was that his "parting wisdom" about what's wrong with Congress, versus Sen. Bayh's worthless insights, did Massa make references to our Congress being bought and owned by corporate lobbyists?
If he did, then I can better understand now, why beck and company are disowning and disavowing this guy that they had first thought was a jackpot to them.
Truly, consider it, in the above clip, not only are beck and his sidekick distancing themselves from what should otherwise be their jackpot (a disgraced Congressional Democrat who will also slam the Obama administration), but they're recommending that we pay no attention whatsoever to anything this guy Massa says...
Now, I'm under the impression that anything beck says is a lie or is simply in the interests of Republicans or corporate shilling or both or all three, and so when he tells me to pay no mind to what Massa says or said, then I want to know what it was he said that has beck and company disavowing him.
I'm suspicious, and even if what I think might be there is really not, then still it stands, that campaign finance reform (for the reasons I listed) is numero uno w/ a bullet, as an important political reform, the most important because it is blocking or slowing all other reforms, and that's why beck and the whole media really, are completely ignoring it.
This is from a TIME online article, that also wants to draw us away from anything relevant Massa may have said, but the article is honest enough to include this...
"And to make things worse, when Massa turned from discussing his own woes to the machinations of Washington, he offered ideas that have no place in Fox News's tightly regulated framework. Massa suggested that Beck and other Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill. Beck, who has called such proposals "a huge mistake," put his hand over his mouth, as if he were holding back an upset stomach."
I would have liked MMFA to have offered that little exchange, maybe under a title like...
"Beck Feigns Disgust At Campaign Finance Reform, Calls It "Huge Mistake""
the machinations of Washington
Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill.
That's more important right now, and a much sharper citation of a real and real important political issue, and of the ignoring of it by beck and the rest of the media, than any of the lurid and strange fascination with Massa that everyone seems so easily distracted into.
Thanks DB, and I don't want to be distracted from my point, which again is that Massa, who by all accounts should have been GOLD to beck and company because he's a disgraced Congressional Democrat and a critic of the Obama administration, is now being disowned disavowed and even called a liar by them (beck and company), and we're being told to not listen to a word he says, because (I believe) he actually told the truth about Congress and about what's behind the fact that they are not enacting any of the reforms they were elected to enact, that truth being BRIBES ("campaign contributions") from lobbyists for the corporate interests opposing those reforms, and those reforms being things like health care reform etc, it's a long list.
But on the matter of the BRIBERY ("lobbying") and the BRIBES ("campaign contributions"), observe these little truths:
This is a truly universal political issue, one on which we all agree, our agreement crosses all political lines (both Democrats and Republicans), it crosses all geographic and demographic lines, in Texas or Minnesota or California or Massachusetts, whether you're man or woman or you're color is red white or blue, you know that our Congress is bought and paid for, and you want an end to it!
Also, this issue is truly important and topical, maybe the single most important political issue there is right now, because all of the reforms we want (a better more safe regulation of our banks and financial services companies for example) are being blocked or weakened or even killed, by these BRIBES ("campaign contributions") and this BRIBERY ("lobbying").
Now, if we are in a universal agreement on this political issue, and if it is as important if not more important than any political issue presently, then why is it being ignored in the national media?
Why is beck so repentant that he allowed Massa any kind of platform on his show?
Why did limbaugh and malkin and even kristol I believe, know ahead of time to "not go there"?
Campaign Finance Reform: I care about it, and so do you...
I don't give a chit about this character Massa, but as I said, I think his comments about the machinations of Washington and that Americans demand "campaign finance reform" to curb the corruption on Capitol Hill (according to the TIME article I referenced above) are what's behind beck's strange fury right now.
I'm pretty sure you're sharp enough to get it DB, but I'm not so sure that enough people around here are as sharp.
Monday: Obama is a racist.
Tuesday: Obama is a communist.
Wednesday: Obama is Kenyan.
Thursday: Obama is Satan.
Friday: Rise up and revolt! Oh, and Obama is a racist.
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Not getting what you wanted on this administration led you to say to "America, I think I wasted your time". You idiot
MON: SCARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CALL PROGRESSIVES AND PRESIDENT OBAMA SOCIALISTS. SCRIBBLE ON CHALKBOARD. WEEP.
TUES: INTERVIEW MASSA AND STAMMER. WEEP.
WED: SCARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CALL PROGRESSIVES AND PRESIDENT OBAMA COMMUNISTS. SCRIBBLE ON CHALKBOARD. WEEP. SHILL FOR GOLD
THURS: SCARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CALL PROGRESSIVES AND PRESIDENT OBAMA NAZIS. SCRIBBLE ON CHALKBOARD. WEEP. SHILL FOR GOLD
FRIDAY: SCARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CALL PROGRESSIVES AND PRESIDENT OBAMA TERRORISTS. SCRIBBLE ON CHALKBOARD. WEEP. SHILL FOR GOLD. SHAKE. WHINE. PINE FOR WEEKEND BOOZE.
Apologies to goesto11
Re Dem's posts, yes CAMPAIGN FINANCE REFORM is the elephant in the room in all these discussions, and the corporate media and most politicians won't discuss it, much less address it.
That could be a factor in the Beck/right-wing hysteria over Massa's comments.
The weeping!
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I especially enjoyed his floundering when Massa took some personal responsibility, saying "I own this." Beck begged him to give him some dirt to throw, and did it by appealing to his "honor," !? then referencing his family.