Glenn Beck Apologizes For Slandering Reform Jews
From the February 24 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
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Previously:
Glenn Beck Smears 35 Percent Of American Jews
ADL: Beck's Comments About Reform Judaism Demonstrate "Bigoted Ignorance"
BECK: Stop the music for just a second, because I want to, I want to lead with my mistakes. I have always told you that if I make a mistake, I'm going to lead with it. You also know that I don't apologize willy-nilly for things. I don't, I don't really care, you want to boycott me, boycott me, you disagree with me and you want to cause all kinds of problems and call me a racist, or whatever, you go ahead and do that. Let the chips fall where they may. That is my belief, if I know I have something right. If I have something wrong, I've always told you that I want to lead with it. Well, I made a mistake on Tuesday, and I want to make sure that you understand that I was wrong on this and I, and that I also apologize for it.
I do this, because I have always told you to do your own homework, and in this case, I didn't do enough homework. I also tell you that you, you have to guard your word, you have to guard your honor and your integrity, because people have to be able to believe you. The only way people will believe you is if when you get it wrong, you do apologize, and you, and you point it out, and not like the New York Times or anybody else, bury it on page two. I lead with my mistakes, because I think it's important as a human being to demonstrate to other human beings that we can be stronger if we correct our mistakes and flaws and move on.
With that being said, I think it was on Tuesday that I was making a point about political activists, and I started to talk about the difference in Rabbis. Somebody has called me ignorant for what I, what I said on Tuesday, and I think that's a pretty good description of my, what I said. I had, was having a conversation with a few friends the night before--one of them, I trust on things like this, and I'm not even sure if I misunderstood him, or misheard him, or what, but I certainly had not done enough homework to be able to go on the air and haphazardly make a comment, like I did, and it was just about political activists, it was, you know, I'm not going to rehash it, but it was, it was ignorant.
The second thing that happened was, I made one of the worst analogies of all time, and I knew it when I said it, and I just kept going, 'cause I'm like, you can hear it if you listen to the tape, or you know, if you go back and listen to Tuesday's show, you can hear, what I'm starting to talk--here I am talking about Judaism, and I start comparing Islamic extremism, and it was just, it was, it was a nightmare. And I knew it as I, I mean I started in on it, and I don't know if you noticed this Stu, but halfway through, I was like, and, well, no wait, this is not exactly, because I just knew --
STU: [laughs] yeah..
BECK: -- what a stupid--
STU: Yeah, and you did clarify it immediately, that it had nothing to do with, you know, but, you know--
BECK: Well, whatever, whatever.
STU: Attempted, at least--
BECK: Yeah. I mean, it's just, you get into--here's the thing. I'm on the air for four hours, every single day. Four hours every day, live, without a script. That is a recipe for disaster. That is, that is, trouble, because you and I have a--you know it's like Stu said yesterday: he was really, very concerned at the end of the show. You keep, I know you Glenn, you say you don't care anymore, well we do, we need a job! And you and I, as the host and listener, you and I, have this problem. I'm sorry, I don't know what is wrong with my microphone today.
PAT: Do you want to switch to mine? You want to switch?
BECK: Wow, yours sounds good.
STU: That's really nice, Pat.
BECK: That's nice of you Pat.
PAT: I'm not sure if it's the mic or just the incredible--
STU: Sultry tones?
PAT: Yeah.
STU: Of Patrick.
PAT: Dulcit tones of my voice.
BECK: No, our mics won't reach each other, so--
PAT: Oh, okay.
BECK: So, I try to keep him at more than an arm's length. What were we talking about here?
PAT: How you're on the air for four hours.
BECK: Oh yeah, how we're on the air for--see, this is a good, good example. We just have a different relationship, you know, you and I, as the host and the listener, we have a relationship where I'm like, hang on, my mic sounds weird, hang on, let me switch it. I mean, this is a very unprofessional show at times, and part of that is because we've been together for so long, and you know, you know me, and I feel as though I know you, and so when you have that kind of relationship, you are just talking like you talk in your cubicle.
Well, that brings me back to the original point. I've told you to guard your credibility. There's no way you're never gonna be wrong, there's no way you're never gonna say something stupid. But the people around your cubicle, and you happen to be around my cubicle, have to know that when you make a mistake, for honor's sake, you correct it, and you don't hide from it, and you go, "Man, was I stupid, and I was ignorant, and I apologize."
Abe Foxman brought this to my attention, and Abe Foxman is not, I mean he didn't directly. I don't agree with Abe Foxman on, really, I don't think, anything. Well, I think, we, years ago, I think we had dinner together and I, we may have agreed on what we--he may have had a steak, and I may have had a steak, but on this one he's right. And to Abe and everybody else: If I offended you, it was not my intent, I see how I did that, and I apologize for the action and the words. 'Nuff said. All right. Now, now let's see who we're going to offend, but do it with credibility. I mean--
PAT: We're gonna offend someone?
BECK: Let's mean it.
PAT: Yes, yes.
BECK: Let's just not back into offense, let's go head on into it.
The first 3 minutes are nothing but false self-aggrandizing (along with bashing the NY Times of course)! Glenn never "leads with with mistakes" and never corrects his outrageous hyperbole and exaggerations!!! Calling Judaism extreme Islam is just the tip of the iceberg Glenn! Good riddance. Cannot even give a genuine apology on the rare chance you attempt one!
P.S. Notice how he admits that he "knew" he was saying outrageous things but he just "ran with it"! That is unreal to me! He "knows" that he is feeding his listeners outrageous hyperbole and he "knowingly" does NOT correct that misinformation. It's what we have known all along but it was nice to hear Glenn actually admit that he just "runs with things" and doubles down on misinformation!
Mock apologies are a dime a dozen.
Look, to be fair, he never called Judaism extreme Islam. If your going to rant about him, post the truth. What he said was Reform Rabis/Juadism is more about politics in the same way that Extreme Islam is not about Islam but about politics. That they concern thimselves more with changing society then about their souls. Now, whether or not any of that is true is a different story. I have no researched reform judaism, so I dont know.
Are you REALLY posting that on a thread where Beck "apologises" for slandering reform Jews by saying, AND I QUOTE FROM THE ABOVE:" I certainly had not done enough homework to be able to go on the air and haphazardly make a comment"?
I'm sure that evangelicals are fully aware, through their own grapevine, that Gwenn Dreck is a Mormon. But his fundangelical fans will rationalize anything away.
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Believe it or not I actually dated a funny-mentalist once, years ago, when I still voted Republican myself, LOL. (Come to think of it, it was more like decades. Oh man!) :[
Plus, I *ahem* "rescued" my wife from a pack of religious loonies as well. (She was a non-believer when they found her and she's been a non-believer since, and for the life of herself she can't fathom how and why she fell in with them.) So yeah... I know all about the Zionist superstitions.
Funny thing... I have a semi regular Conservative poster on my blog who actually lives in Isreal. And she's always saying how Bush and the Right were such better allies, and how Obama and the Liberals could care less about them. I told she's entitled to her opinion, but that she should be very wary of anyone who loves Israel but hates Jews.
I never quite did get a response to that. LOL
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(Fun Fact: The REAL reason Lucas has been so fervent about burying the original theatrical versions of the first three films is because his ex-wife still gets a piece of the profits ... unlike the "Special Editions, which have been altered enough to qualify as "new" films.)
Took him a long time and a lot of rambling to get to the standard couched apology...and then declared it was time to go back to offending others
Then Beck says mentions Abe Foxman. Here is when he sort of apologizes:
"To Abe and everyone else, if I offended you, it was not my intent and I see how I did that and I apologize for my action and my words."
Then he downplays his offensiveness with "Let's see who else we can offend."
Essentially Beck is saying
1. Reputation is important and it is always a good idea to apologize.
2. I have an excuse for saying stupid offensive things, so it's not my fault.
3. If I have offended anyone, I'm sorry.
4. Being offensive isn't all that important anyway, so let's offend someone else.
5. there is no corrective action or amends, since it was no big deal.
I liked how he started out his apology telling everyone how wonderful he is for admitting that he is wrong. Can his ego get any bigger?
And I thought it interesting that he blamed this on "a friend" he was talking to the day before he said Reform Jews are just like Islamists. Gee is your "friend" a bit of a bigot Glennie? You know, this friend you say you "trust."
Oh and one more thing. You say you will apologize up front when you are wrong. Well then I suggest you start every show with an apology for all the lies you told the previous day.
Why can't liberals accept an apology without delving into "ulterior motives?"
Beck has apologized for his "mistakes," whenever he knows he was wrong.
Foxman, in the past, stated that he knows Beck is not a bigot. And that Beck has always stood strong for Israel and Jews.
There was no apology in this piece. There was a lot of blaming other people for giving him misinformation, then saying "I knew it was wrong when I said it," and finally, the old "if I offended anyone." That's not an apology, that's a CYA because he got called on the carpet.
As for what Foxman said IN THE PAST . . . completely irrelevant. Beck has shown repeatedly that he is anti-Semitic. Standing "strong" for Israel and the Jews has more to do with fulfilling end times theology than it does standing "strong" for Israel and the Jews.
Beck is a dishonest, uneducated, self-admitted con-man who calls people who believe his crap "idiots." He has also stated that he doesn't give a "flying crap" about the political process and that he is simply in the entertainment business. The man is conning you and he is LAUGHING at you, mamaearth. Get a clue.
He's not a conservative...he's a libertarian...you can't take one tiny issue that isn't really using the term in its recognized sense and claim you are "conservative." He is a "fiscal conservative" but only as relates to the government. He is a liberal anarchist in all other issues (if he truly believes anything at all besides money). Being fiscally conservative was only part of the Republican platform (as you all have noted before by my party's MASSIVE defense spending) and never to the absolute. If my party valued something it spent money on it with no regrets. Libertarians value NOTHING on a community or societal level and therefore refuse to spend any money for any common good.
Us regular folk....both liberal and conservative believe in some balance of public spending and private responsibility. The irony and reality is....true libertarians (as Glenn Beck seems to be...privatizing the military, etc.) are the actual "crazy liberals out to destroy the republic the founding fathers created" not the Democrats. My party has no idea who they got in bed with...the libertarians had them at "conservative."
No he's not. He's an old right fascist...everything, aside from his "liberals are the real fascists" points to this.
The libertarian routine is merely a rebranding exercise that alot of fascists and neoconfederate racists are going through these days.
Excellent summary. I've been saying similar things about the libertarian movement in America. Libertarianism as an entire ideology is much like purest communism. It sounds good to the people who think will benefit from it, but once it leaves the lofty confines of paper it becomes an utterly unworkable slide into Machiavellian anarchy. The only people who would benefit are those who already enjoy the top shares of the world's riches and resources through capitalist markets.
This is not a condemnation of capitalism, just a precautionary statement against allowing capitalism to completely replace our system of American representative democratic republic.
Capitalism and corporatism are NOT conservative values, BTW. They are economic philosophies. Some conservatives ascribe to them, but many others do not.
BTW, could you please list the conservative values of Rush Limbaugh? I've never seen him exhibit any. I mean, family values??? The man's on his fourth wife. He lives a very lavish lifestyle . . . not conservatism. I'll be waiting for your list of Rush's "conservative" values.
Glenn Beck doesn't really even claim to be a conservative, he's a libertarian which has very little to do with conservatism.
I am a staunch Capitalist and believe in its ability to help people live the American Dream of making their own successes in life no matter the circumstances of their birth. HOWEVER (and this is a big however lost on those who love to so often quote the founding fathers)...I believe, as Jefferson did, that our system cannot survive without giving ALL people the necessary tools to compete in this system...that means a fully funded federal education system (which we do not have currently). Capitalism cannot survive without human oversight (i.e. some gov. regulations) and a strong education system for ALL people....otherwise it is reduced to something none of us can live with.
Capitalism and conservatism are "cousins" to me. They dont necessarily go hand in hand but they are from the same family. Unfettered capitalism leads to abuses, just as an overpowering government can. It's a balance. I think that we have swung from being to far to right with Bush (especially on social issues, wars) to being to far to the left with Obama.
Even the most liberal things he's done have been done by republicans to an even greater extent. (Mitt Romney on Health care, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, and W Bush, all left office with tax rates higher then they are now as well as increased spending across the board)
As a liberal, I'm not happy with Obama's shift to the right, and yes, it has been a steady shift to the right from the moment he's taken office.
Most of the vitriol and hatred for Obama is simply irrational alarmist rhetoric, outright lies, wacky conspiracies, racism, and the extreme libertarian wing of the party complaining that he isn't giving them everything they want fast enough.
This is what's so frustrating about having the media led around by partisan hacks like Glenn Beck and the rest of Fox News.
United States Public Debt
Although I do see where Reagan-Bush1 did QUADRUPLE the debt!
Also your use of "RINO" shows exactly what YOU are.
Earlier he said this;
Hey Coleslaw, "moderate Republicans" ARE NOT conservatives. They are RINO's. Mitt Romney IS NOT a conservative.--MM
RINO's stand for Republican in name only. No where does it say conservative so MM is committing the error he accused CoolSlaw of making and it obviously flew right over his head.
Based upon your ridiculous comments yesterday regarding DOMA, I'm guessing you are simply a groupie.
Well, gee, I dunno.
Anyone know, was it the ReformED Jews, Orthodox Jews, who???
You're correct. Murdock is a mercenary with Face, Hannibal, and B.A. Baracus.
"Boy....You're just not getting it.....It IS the political aspect, not the religious one that's in question.
Do you EVER research yourself, or just follow liberal talking points?
Regurgitating progressive BS doesn't make for intelligent responses."----mamaearth
Funny how Beck tells you to research stuff but you can't figure out when he's wrong unless he tells you.
Beck is wrong almost every time he opens his mouth! (At least after stating his named and welcoming you to the Glenn Beck show.) So, at best, he vacilates between being a liar and a moron; being dishonest and incompetant!
And given the amount Murdoch has invested in Beck, and how many dollars he's flushed down the toilet subsodizing Beck's sinking ship on Fox, you'd better believe that he has a TON of influence over Beck, and cares quite a bit about what goes on on his Radio Show. Without the TV gigs, Beck's a nobody, and would be back in the gutter where he came from within 5 years.
You're naive as hell if you don't think the Fox high-ups had some say in this.
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That'll learn him not to stray outside his usual "code words"
Excuses, excuses, he has a zillion excuses and then it takes him 5 minutes before he apologizes???
He is most definitely psychotic.
GAG!!!
They're complete fools. I'm Jewish and have always belonged to a Reform Synagogue, where NOTHING political has ever been brought up. Sure, we tend to be liberal but so what?
Glennie is a hater. Nothing more needs to be said.
They've gotten you! OH NOOOOOOES!
Glenn Beck Admits That His Show Is A Recipe For Disaster...!
Therefore, shouldn't we be entitled to question whether he is ignorant in the many other provacative pronouncements he makes on his show?
That was an apology?!
Coulda fooled me.
Rupert, did you hear him just now? He's on the air 4 hours a day and he admits that's a recipe for disaster.
Truer words were never spoken.
Yeah, I'm Jewish and the wrote the above. I'm not a Zionist and proud of it!
Glenn spends nearly the first two minutes talking himself up. Then he starts in with the groveling, and his butt-kissing colleagues line up to do what they're best at, along with getting paid. At least one of them acknowledges that it's all about the paycheck.
Yeah, Glenn, your show is a recipe for disaster, but not only that. It's a disaster, period. A fully-baked disaster.
As far as honor goes, Glenn, you and it are complete strangers.
Beckbot brian hurty, basically. That's all I'm trying to say. THAT'S all I'm suggesting.
I swear, you can actually HEAR the tendons in his arm being twisted.
What I do see is self back slapping for "leading" off with his mistakes, blaiming someone for something he thought he overheard or misuderstood after stating he didn't "research" the subject matter enough, slamming and further insulting others for his mistake, and promising to continue onward and downward with further and additional insults.
Yes, he leads with mistakes every day. Unfortunately, he normally presents them as facts.
Go back and count your money, dave.
Want to know another irony. Glenn's followers are some of the most cynical and conspiratorial people you will ever meet... but... they are oddly never cynical or critical or curious of one Glenn Beck!
You can be conservative and be against Obama but still be on planet Earth and see that Glenn feeds nothing but hysteria and televangelism. He is like Jim Bakker or Jimmy Swaggert with a blend of Joe McCarthy and Nixonesque paranoia!!!
I meet thinking, rational conservatives and 9 out of 10 are embarrassed by Glenn. If Glenn's hysteria is associated with the GOP This could ultimately turn off independents and hurt conservative support in 2012 and beyond!
"What I said was ignorant and irresponsible. I, and only I, am to blame. I am sorry." Nothing more; no qualifications, subjunctives, excuses or deflections, and certainly no self-aggrandizement.
This man is no Christian because Christians don't bear false witness, not even for money. I wouldn't sell my credibility and Christianity for any amount of money, but I can't say the same thing for Beck or anyone else who supports him and his lies. The Bible speaks about following false prophets, and Beck is False Prophet #1. You and others may permit Beck to lead you on the path to losing your soul, but I'm having none of it. You can't serve two masters at the same time.
No, it did not and no I am not Ok with him. One cheap apology, he has 1,268 more to go, then I will be OK.
by MagCynic (February 23, 2011 3:39 pm ET)
Oh, look. More letters from people huffing and puffing about something harmless Beck said. Big surprise.
What kind of a delicate flower of self esteem does he have that he needs to followup an "I was wrong" with a "I knew I was wrong when I said it". He didn't seem to think he was wrong when the words fell out of his mouth and into the big pile of BS beside those new words.
Try that on your significant "other" next time they are mad at you...tell them you were wrong but when you did the thing making them mad you knew you were wrong. In exactly 3 seconds you will be feeling pain somewhere somehow inflicted by them...because that excuse is worthless and it makes the situation worse for the other person as the one saying it tries to "keep face."
Glenn Beck has the maturity of an 8 year old is what we learn with that phrase. Not to slam 8 year olds...
One of these days (maybe never) it would be interesting to give this same treatment to guys like Ed Schultz or Rachel Maddow. I hypothesize that you could quickly build a list of "lies" to present the evidence that they could be "Misinformers of the Year" by using Media Matters same standards.
Your hero is a JERK.
Ed Schultz is a putz, in my opinion. Including Rachel Maddow in your comments is a bit bizarre, though. I don't watch her, but I've NEVER heard anyone say that she does the CRAP that your hero does.
Of the 30 or so headlines listed, go through each one and count it as either a provable lie or not. Do that and come tell us all how many lies you counted of the first 30.
Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director, issued the following statement:
Glenn Beck's comparison of Reform Judaism to radical Islam demonstrates his bigoted ignorance. Despite his feeble attempt to suggest that he was not equating Reform Judaism with Islamic extremist terrorism, the simple fact that he would mention them in the same breath is highly offensive and outrageous.
The truth is that every religious body has religious points of view, whether one agrees with them or not. To compare Reform Judaism, which supports democratic institutions, to Islamic extremism, which supports anti-democratic movements and the repression of basic rights - including, for example, the denial of women's rights - is beyond the pale.
Glenn Beck has no right to discount the faith of any people, and he should think twice before commenting on something he doesn't know much about. He owes the Reform movement an apology.
So if you were right what is Beck apologizing for? So now Beck is only offering opinions? When someone says I knew it was wrong when it left my mouth yet still says it that is lying and being incorrect. Keep that in mind. And no I provided your own words from yesterday and adamant is correct for the posture you took and still seem to be clinging too. MMFA and many others have posted plenty of Becks' lies, oh excuse me opinions. It doesn't surprise me you don't accept them you are still embarassingly today defending the indefensible. You want to point out the lies of ED go right ahead, it still doesn't clean the stench left from the filth that Beck spreads and you continue to defend. Brown noser!
Hi MagCynic,
I'm having trouble understanding the basis of your criticism of MMFA in this case. Is your position that...
A) Beck is right to apologize for the hurtful and ignorant thing he said, and MMFA is wrong to highlight this; or
B) MMFA was wrong to criticize Beck for saying something totally innocuous, and now Beck is wrong to apologize for saying something harmless?
I'd really appreciate it if you would clarify your position.
Thanks,
-Vysotsky
On all these other shows you listed you will probably find tons of stuff you don't like or don't agree with at all, but I'm not sure about your assertion that you will find lies or the complete reinvention of reality that Beck has. Besides, you don't need MMFA to see that Beck is bigoted and promoting an alternate reality....you only have to watch and listen...it's all there for you...no analysis needed....most of what MMFA has is simply Beck in his own words. You shouldn't be mad at MMFA for making Beck look this way....it's all on him.
Reform & Jew
After suffering through 6 mins of his so-called apology, I began asking, "JUST HOW STUPID DOES A PERSON NEED TO BE IN ORDER TO LISTEN TO beck EVERY DAY???
There is NOTHING in the beck broadcast for people who actually THINK.
Go play with your money, dave.
He is just plain wrong.
I was just giving my opinion on what political correctness has done to our country.
Remember to be politically correct with your response.
Will you answer my question as to why only brainless people, such as myself, make these comments?
Or are you going to comeback with another irrelevant comment because you can't think of a real reason?
Will you post the same response again so everyone can see how bad you are at formulating an argument?
Thanks for your concern, anyone is free to form an opinion about me.
P.S.: Is this you Mag?
And by the way Political Correctness has made us as a nation weaker. It has forced companies to outsource jobs because in other countries they do not need to worry about "hurting someone's feelings" for not paying them enough money. I know it is a difficult concept to grasp, but poverty has been around forever, it was not created by corporations in the 1950's.
America was founded on the idea that people can be whatever they want, not the idea that people get to be whatever they want.
I have a suggestion. Stop living in your fantasy everyone lived happily ever after world, because in this place called the real world, not everyone gets to.
Wall Street Crash 2008.
Costs for the military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Revenue generated from taxes.
Inventions.
Consumer spending.
Private household debts.
The real reasons why companies outsource their jobs.
After you have done that, feel free to come back and explain to all of us how the above topics and many more are related to political correctness. Facts, figures, and such.
A simple leading question for you to answer how has political correctness (whatver that maybe, anyhow) lead to the Wall Street crash in 2008? Facts, figures and such.
Good luck!
Good bye and good luck with your homework whenever you start doing it!
Try it again when you have something meaningful to say.
If you feel it necessary to respond to me, then how about you bring your own opinions to the table instead of failing to understand mine.
Also if Fox getting part of your cable bill bothers your so much, then go watch college football are your neighbors, or a bar. No one is forcing you to have cable. I don't want Oprah Winfrey to get any of my cable bill, but that's a sacrifice I have to make in order to watch ESPN. I forgot your kind doesn't believe in sacrifices.
You may find this therapeutic, but I'd stick with the meds if I were you.
You may find this difficult, but I would use some thought if I were you.
Anything else?
They decided or maybe they were urged to so, regardless the apology is more about what a great guy Beck is and that he is indeed a leader with morals who has a special relationship with good, hard-working people. Notice the stunt with the mic to mimik an everday working experience. Do you have that file? Can you borrow me item x for a second? A sample of key words:
lead
I'm going to lead
I want to lead with it
do your own homework,
guard your word, you have to guard your honor and your integrity
as a human being to demonstrate to other human beings that we can be stronger if we correct our mistakes and flaws and move on.
we need a job!
And you and I, as the host and listener
We just have a different relationship, you know, you and I, as the host and the listene
we've been together for so long
like you talk in your cubicle.
guard your credibility
The perfect teacher knows and manipulates the needs of his pupils.
Another avenue that's ripe for exploration is, of course, Bernays. Like anti-semitic fascism, Beck has attempted to do some pre-emptive deflective innoculation and projection on this topic to avoid being labeled a disciple himself. I think that it's safe to say that either Beck nad/or his handlers are very familar with the techniques for manufacturing consent and most effectively motivating the self propagation of propaganda pioneered by Bernays:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bernays
Yes, you are right. By no means I would exclude other factor like Bernays though I tend to view Maslow in regards to needs as an advancement. Bernays and Freud knew about crowd psychology.
Also interesting Carl Jungs insights about the collective unconsciousness and the earlier ideas by Durkheim about the collective consciousness. Baudrillards theory about simulation and simulacra could be also helpful.
There are a lot of angles to look at Beck. I am afraid I just don´t have the time to write about it from all the angles and frankly, I can´t listen to him much more.
The crowd psychology effect is definiately at play here though..that's yet another article of utter hypocrisy among the beckers...for all of their self proclaimed self made man "libertarianism" their innermost collectivism is pretty easy to see. Just as well...it'll make it easier for the right of the future to wrote a tome on the failures of anti-american "tea party liberalism".
Without hypocrisy these people couldnt exist.
This apology is a joke. He did not apologize at all. By stating that he is sorry if anyone was offended, he easily hides behind his ongoing "boy, they are so sensitive" schtick. I am so looking forward to the day that GB gets help for his mental health issues...
Now, if anything might be considered a sign and wonder, that surely must be it.
Personally though, i am not buying it.
Beck has only apologized for being caught, not for the ugly tradition of anti-Sermitism which he hides behind his unconvincing facade of supposed love for Jewish people (about as loving as Joan Crawford and a warehouse full of wire hangers.)
Neither he nor his bigoted audience has any earthly idea what exactly he did wrong. They remain as clueless now as they did when Beck vomited out this nonsense.
And furthermore, (as tired as Nazi metaphors do get) Becks assault on Reform Judaism is the EXACT assault which the Third Reich implemented against all Jewsish people... that is, accusing Jewish people of tirelessly advancing a leftist, Marxist and secularist ideal at the expense of the heartland.
Much like his faux-pas with Liz Dilling, Beck has shown that, despite his unconvincing charade, he is in fact as anti-Semitic, and entirely bigoted as the depraved community which he represents, or the sick machine he serves.
People are waking up to your true nature Beck. You can't hide, we know what you are!
Nope... sorry, no dice.
How long is it before Becks audience realizes that he is just a bigoted and irresponsible liar? Why is he so important that his lunacy must be constantly catered and excused?
I mean (as in this case), he only apologizes at Roger Ailes prompting. And that only if Ailes fears that Beck might be offending a potential voting niche (meanwhile, Beck continues to parade the roster of incendiary, grotesque and bigoted lies which delight his unbalanced audience and provides him with so much income.)
Remember when, after comparing one of the holiest Hindu rivers to venereal diseases, and insulting Indian doctors with the most racist smears, Beck had to apologize (much later and only after several complaints) ONLY because Indian Americans loyal to the GOP demanded it? (Ask me how I know!)
So he has to apologize (very briefly and unconvincingly) for offending American Hindus by his rabidly racist garbage,
He then has to apologize for reinventing the EXACT SAME slander against progressive Jewish communities with which Hitler maligned ALL Jewish people (ie, that they are godless radicals and sabatours),
He then has to apologize for promoting the book of famed Nazi advocate Liz Dilling ONLY AFTER he realized that she was a true-blue Nazi (until that point, he saw his own voice in her words, and honored that, without knowing what she was.)
The list goes on and on.
And all of this says NOTHING about the countless lies and slanders for which Glenn SHOULD show some contrition, and never ever does (eg, accusing Holocaust survivor George Soros of being a Nazi collaborator, the assault on ACORN, etc...)
And after all that, what is his lame excuse?
WAH!!! I didnt do my homework!!!!! I was confused!!!!!
So fanning the flames of hysteria with bald-faced lies, and potentially inciting inter-ethnic violence with the advocacy of Third Reich fantasies only boils down to a freakin term paper for this bozo?
And all because he was confused! As if a murderer or an arsonist might suddenly come to the conclusion that he might be in the wrong.
I was confused!!!!!
(How many lynchings in American history do you think may have resulted from the purported confusion of a trigger happy bigot? Maybe Glenn should do some homework on that matter!)
So he was confused and he didnt do his home work. He forgot to dot his I-s and cross his T-s.
Thats all... sorry folks! Just a technicality here.
So why is a man who repeatedly gets things wrong over and over again still on the air?
Why is someone who repeatedly fans hysteria with the repeated use of ugly lies and racist smears still such a messiah to the political right, even when many of them acknowledge just how bigoted and offensive he truly is?
Yeah, people should admit their mistakes... people should also learn from them.
Beck NEVER learns.
He just whines after getting caught.
And after feigning contrition, he goes right back to the same lies and the same conspiracies and the same hysteria day after methed-out day.
And of course, his audience follows him like a pack of lemmings not because they truly believe him, but because they WANT to believe him.
Its like Strong City. They make an effort to suspend their reason just enough so that his outlandish fantasies become a real filter on their collectively distorted vision.
I cant believe that people on the right put so much stock in this freak. To call him an embarrassment is such a wild understatement.
I mean, how many times does one have to cater such utter ineptitude and disingenuous bs?
Its like the right misses the complete lack of sanity which characterized the Bush Administration, and so seeks to reincarnate it through the persons of such charlatans as Glenn Beck, or Andrew Breitbart and his staff of utterly unqualified morons.
Every day, Becks audience must ride with him into this bizarre trip in which they are constantly having to reify his morbid and outlandish hallucinations. Its sad that so many people willingly truncate solid reason, historical fact, and even basic decency for the sake of that liar.
What a shame.
She doesn't exist to be pretty for you and other chauvinists. Further, she is superior to you in every measurable way.
But because she's a woman (and women only exist to be pretty for you) and gay, you resent her; and resentment is what being a right-wing guy that expected the same white-male-privilege his father got is all about. You hate gays because they make you feel insecure. You hate women because very few of them have ever wanted to f**k you. You're a bore with nothing to offer anybody but trollish insults on the internet; there's nothing else to make you feel better about your dreary mediocre life.
You are a disgusting horror of a human being. The world would be a better place if you didn't exist.
You know every liberal living in America is unemployed, don't you?
You know all liberals in America sit on their moms' couches and eat cheetos all day, don't you?
You can use your trusty little crystal ball and peer into the future, can't you?
You're a real ignorant azzzz, aren't you?
This is what you do everyday, Beck, on the radio and on your program on Fox. You open your mouth, and insert both feet, not knowing what you're talking about.
Now how about an apology to every other group and/or person you've smear with your ignorance of the facts?
If you do this, I might begin to think that you have a soul.
Why does ANYONE pay attention to this idiot?
I am so completely flummoxed by the fact that economically middle class and lower class people pay attention to, and BUY INTO, what this jerk and guys like Limbaugh and Hannity, etc. are saying. They cry about "class warfare", but WTF do they think today's version of "capitalism" is except war on the middle class and below by folks like Dell, Koch et al.
Explanation required!