Confronted on GMA with "stereotypical bitch" statement about Clinton, Beck said "probably a better word was 'nag' "
SUMMARY: On Good Morning America, ABC News' Claire Shipman confronted Glenn Beck with his remark in March 2007 that Sen. Hillary Clinton is "the stereotypical bitch." Beck responded, in part, that "probably a better word was 'nag.' "
On the May 30 edition of ABC's Good Morning America, ABC News senior national correspondent Claire Shipman confronted CNN Headline News host Glenn Beck with comments he made during the March 15, 2007, broadcast of his radio show, airing an audio clip of Beck saying of Sen. Hillary Clinton during the broadcast: "She's the stereotypical bitch. You know what I mean? She's that stereotypical nagging -- [screeching]. You know what I mean?" Beck then asked Shipman, "Do you know what I mean? Do you?" Shipman responded, "What did you mean?" Beck, who is also a GMA commentator, replied: "This is what I meant. We were watching one of her interviews, or whatever she was doing, or a speech. And she had that tone of voice, where she just sounds like -- [covers his ears]. I can't listen to it 'cause it sounds like -- it sounds like my wife saying, 'Take out the garbage.' " Shipman then asked, "But what about the 'B' word?" Beck interjected, "Go ahead and say it." Shipman continued: "Is that OK to use?" When Beck again said, "Say it. Go ahead," Shipman replied: "You think I should say it? I don't want to say it. I don't like it." Beck then said: "No, you know what? Here's the thing: Calling her that -- no. I don't think I'd call her that. I hope I've never called her that. Saying, 'sounds like the stereotypical' -- probably a better word was 'nag.' "
From the March 15, 2007, edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: I don't want to sound like the old ball-and-chain guy, but Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because -- am I wrong in feeling, am I the only one in America that feels this way? -- that there's something about her vocal range. There's something about her voice that just drives me -- it's not what she says, it's how she says it. She is like the stereotypical -- excuse the expression, but this is the way to -- she's the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean? She's that stereotypical nagging [unintelligible], you know what I mean? And she doesn't have to be saying -- she could be saying happy things, but after four years, don't you think every man in America will go insane? Is it just me? I mean, I know this is horrible to say, but I mean it not -- I would say this if she were Condi Rice and she sounded like that. Condi Rice doesn't have that grate to her voice. You know what I need to do? I need to talk to a vocal expert, because there is a range in women's voices that experts say is just the chalk, I mean, the fingernails on the blackboard. And I don't know if she's using that range or what it is, but I've heard her in speeches where I can't take it.
From the May 30 edition of ABC's Good Morning America:
SHIPMAN: Is that stuff sexist, funny, or really bad taste? We asked Chris Matthews and Tucker Carlson if they wanted to talk about it; the only personality, though, who manned up to talk about his words with us -- radio and TV host Glenn Beck.
I'm going to show you examples of --
BECK: I feel like --
SHIPMAN: -- one thing you said. All right, don't get nervous.
BECK [audio clip]: She's the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean? She's that stereotypical nagging -- [screeching]. You know what I mean?
BECK: Do you know what I mean? Do you?
SHIPMAN: What did you mean?
BECK: This is what I meant. We were watching one of her interviews, or whatever she was doing, or a speech. And she had that tone of voice, where she just sounds like [covers his ears]. I can't listen to it 'cause it sounds like -- it sounds like my wife saying, "Take out the garbage."
SHIPMAN: But what about the "B" word?
BECK: Go ahead and say it.
SHIPMAN: Is that OK to use?
BECK: Say it. Go ahead.
SHIPMAN: You think I should say it? I don't want to say it. I don't like it.
BECK: No, you know what? Here's the thing: Calling her that -- no. I don't think I'd call her that. I hope I've never called her that. Saying, "sounds like the stereotypical" -- probably a better word was "nag."
SHIPMAN: One of the problems is sexism is hard to define. The virtue of name-calling, if you will, or slurs like "iron my shirt," is that, sexist or not, they are so obvious. But what about the very silly, a pen with Hillary's cackle? A Hillary nutcracker, her legs lined with spikes? In the bigger picture, even Obama supporters like leading feminist Naomi Wolf think Hillary is feeling unfair pressure, but she thinks it's self-defeating for the candidate to talk about it.
Beck says "She's the stereotypical bitch." Then, when he's called out about it, he says
Beck then said: "No, you know what? Here's the thing: Calling her that -- no. I don't think I'd call her that. I hope I've never called her that."
BECK: ...And she had that tone of voice, where she just sounds like [covers his ears]. I can't listen to it 'cause it sounds like -- it sounds like my wife saying, "Take out the garbage."
OK, Beck is afraid of Clinton as president because he hates his wife, and he's lazy. Good to know my fellow Americans are taking that valuable vote, and casting it based on substance.
- COL. HARLAN SANDERS / Friday May 30, 2008 9:30:48 PM EDT
I was thinking the same thing. I wonder how Beck's wife feels about him calling Hillary a bitch because she reminds him of his wife.
Hi Juliajayne.
Do I have to take out the trash? That's like paying my taxes without crying,or voting based on something other than video clips of a candidates pastor.
Bitch. And I mean that only in the most loving way.
At least I didn't say See you next Tuesday. ;0)
I hope we're not going to get the nauseating harrangue back and forth from a few males about whether it's appropriatre or sexist to use this word to describe a female (or her voice). Guys, it's not okay. Beginning, middle and end of story. I don't want some lame comparison to calling a guy a d**k. This is a ubiquitous word used to dehumanize and sunjugate and disrespect women. It is nasty and it's frequency of use does nothing to mitigate the hurt it causes. I don't care whether it's a female or male using it. Whoopi Goldberg already did the experiment of trying to "take control" of the word and she admitted it failed just as AAs using the "N' word has failed.
You can just imagine how I feel about the "C" word :-0)
End of diatribe.
- JULIAJAYNE / Friday May 30, 2008 9:37:44 PM EDT
That one's been slung at Hillary too, by GOP operative Roger Stone, who started the group "Citizens United Not Timid" to go after her. This guy draws a paycheck from the RNC and is a guest pundit on multiple networks. He's also a wife-swapper and got caught in the same hooker sting that netted Spitzer, got to love the party of family values, eh?
You can imagine how I feel about the c word, JJ! ;)
That darn outside voice again...
But it really is quite funny how all these right wingers claim it's the left that hates the most, but who on the left has called candidates ugly names on air, let alone call for assasinations of Democratic leaders? No, it's definitely the right that has hate locked, cocked and loaded.
Well, not just the right calling names etc.
Lots of the lefty pundits have done this to Hillary too. Particularly on MSNBC of course.
Barnacle has said a lot, Matthews! YIKES.
Schuster, and of course the big O. the worst of all.
I've never seen venom like that, plus belittling and demeaning which you could say is not "sexist" per se but if it is used against a woman and not a man and is never used that way towards a man in the same position/way then yeah, it is sexist. Or mayby misogynist?
I know most people don't think Matthews is left but comparatively speaking, he is not neocon or right wing nut.
He almost had me today when he was talking about sexism with 3 women. Hillary Rosen and 2 more. Rachel Carlson and I forget the other one. Anyway, it went sort of like you would expect. Carlson so seems to really hate Clinton and she was harshest and of course would not let up.
Anyway, Rosen was saying that no one is claiming least of all Clinton that she is losing because of sexism but that sexism is present.
By the end Matthews is saying something about he needs to learn more, what does it say. I don't think I like what it says.
I was actually touched for a moment.
Next segment he talks about the new hate video from Trinity and asks if its important, does it mean anything, what does it matter...using very almost amused descriptives!
aiyeeee.
I know
YES!
Now when do we all start screaming out the windows?
Every time I do it somebody calls the cops.
LOL!We need critical mass.
I don't like Glenn Baeck. In fact I've barely ever seen him, He is uncommfortable just to watch, his mannerisms etc.
But I saw a post with a link and in the video he was defending Hillary Clinton.
I was shiocked.
Ben Stein was there.
He was too.
It was about the RFK thing. He showed the WHOLE clip and parsed it.
He was the only pundit or "news" personality or whatever the hell he is that did that. Some of them did the little dance of well she probably didn't mean that but kept the story going, analyzing, debating etc.
I know there are people who fully believe that she is that evil and would do something like that.
I'm not one of them and neither is RFK Jr. apparently since he came out very strongly in her defense. They are friends and apparently he thinks she is very much like his father. well, RFK was a Scorpio too I think. ;-) that just occurred to me.Silly, but interesting.
\Anyway, RFK had a post on that mega aggregate blog site that has the same initials as PC's and other office equipment.
He made mention of that in the piece.
You know it gets bad when you can't say the name of a website.
First it was the idiot king's name I couldn't bear to say, then Darth Vader and a few others.
Now that site that shall not be named.
It is definitely getting to be silly season.
sorry for my rambling.
OH, I forgot.
She thinks it is self defeating for the candidate to talk about it.
That sounds so bad to me.
Just keep quiet like a good little girl or you will make the boys mad and they will pick on you even more.
huh?
well, perhaps if some of these leading feminist voices had stood up and said "Wait a minute here..." the candidate wouldn't have had to... though I have rarely seen her do it and the times the media slammed her for it I thought was distorted garbage... and no I wasn't a Clinton supporter---Then---.
I was very disappointed in the women in the DNC, the "leadiing feminist voices" and other women who didn't risk speaking out loud and clear. No matter who you support you should speak against these things to my mind anyway. If you don't it smacks of well, its bad, but its benefiting my candidate so I don't care.
If it was racism you can bet we would all be raising our voices and speaking out against it no matter who our candidate was.
OK, one more point and I'll shut up.
The other day a clip of Clinton interview (just voice) was played where she was asked about sexism and misogyny. She said yes it had been present but she didn't say it was the media, in fact I thought she was careful not to say it. What she did say is that the media didn't cover the sexism and virulant miogyny and "hate speech" (my word) like they did racism.
All the shows picked it up and said she was complaining that sexism in the media is to blame for her losing. I swear she did not say that. Is there no critical thinking left in the entire punditry?
And they went on from there, over and over in a zillion permutations yet what she said was that there was a lack of coverage.
Anyway, Rachel Maddow I think said they wished she had talked about gender more, she should have talked about the historical nature blah blah... HELLO?
I started having yet another cognitive dissonance episode. My head just automatically bangs against the wall now.
Do they not remember slamming her if she did bring up gender?
She spoke at Wellsley and said something about the glass cieling and there were a couple of days of accusations and sneering and malice about her playing the gender card.
This brings me to this conclusion.
Hillary Clinton Can't Win.
And I'm not talking about the election.
There is some kind of strange cultural weirness around her. Its not enough to just say people don't like her, or she is whatever all the accusations are that people use. Lots of neocon garbage has been resurrected. Anyway, there are lots of people that people don't like but not with this kind of vituperative ugliness.(I mean besides the idiot king and Rovina)And anyway, it isn't even true because apparently 1/2 the Dem's voting do like her.
What the hell?
anyway.
I'm rambling and I'm sorry moderator.
Can you tell I'm female? I'm apologizing for taking up room.
LOL
Hi Diana,
I can tell you're female, but more than that, I'm guessing you've been reading here and finally decided to post. I like the eruption from a new poster, it reminds the ones who've been posting regularly that they may be censoring themselves.
What a sickening little bit of "media" video this was to watch... I started by just reading the transcript: and when I had seen from it that the GMA hack-woman aired tape of this guy beck calling Sen. Clinton a witch, well I know right away, that it's an excuse to do just that thing: to air on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES someone calling Sen. Clinton a witch... I mean, ABC was just ticked off that they hadn't done it first, so what do they do? Why they just find tape of it being done, of Sen. Clinton being called a witch, and then they air that tape, on ABC, in a phony context of talking about "sexism" (a context that were it real, they wouldn't have found it so necessary to air the guy beck saying what he said, saying it now to ABC's PUBLIC AIRWAVES audience as well!)...
This still wasn't what made me listen to the sickening little bit of "media" video: it was when I saw in the transcript that the ABC hack-woman said...
SHIPMAN: But what about the "B" word?
...what? You just broadcast this guy calling Sen. Clinton a witch, on ABC, and then you descend to using the term "B-word"? Why do that? You think we'd be offended to hear you say witch? That's a joke, because why then did you just air the guy's tape?
And so I clicked the video, so I could be sure by my own ears, that this idiot hack-woman at ABC actually did that, and actually said "B-word" right after airing a tape of beck saying witch, right there on ABC.
But still, it was none of that up until then, that makes me call this video a sickening little bit of the "media":
It was when I heard the exact way this guy beck said the word witch, and the great emphasis he put on it... you have ears, I can't describe it for you here, in words... if you heard it yourself, then you know...
And I swear, the way he is heard drawing that word out emphatically, I think the Engineers at ABC helped out a little bit... I think they amplified and accentuated somehow, the way that word was broadcast, on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES, by ABC...
...and then the ABC hack-woman says "B-word"
Who are they kidding... how low and slimy can they go.
I am so tired of all these men talking about women as if we were trash and disposable. The disrespect, nastiness and overt sexism is uncalled for; the fact that a female host on GMA would entertain this banter is even more disturbing. Are these women so desperate to be accepted by this low caliber of men, that they have no properity, self respect or intergrity? I always thought most of the media hosts were college educated people who know and understand how to use "big" words and put them in complete sentences, but I now know I was wrong. And the media folks just don't understand why they are loosing audiences?! As a college educated and professionally trained women, I have found this year's primary season, both exciting and disappointing. The fact that so many women would throw over a candidate, like Hillary Clinton, for another member of the boys' club is disheartening, the fact that such foul language [especially the language used by other women] is used in describing Hillary and her supporters just proves that women are still the most abused group in the country and a lot of the pain is self-inflicted. Just use similar language regarding black people and heads will roll; mistreat women and not even a blip occurs and other women will participate in the abuse.
All I know, is that I have had more than enough and I refuse to hold my nose; this dong time democrate I will use the write-in option this fall and vote for Hillary Clinton. No more Ms. Nicegirl! You jokers are going to be made irrelevant, even if you don't know what that means.
Many men, particularly those in positions of power, fear strong women. I often wonder if it's because they know the women can do better.
The 'b and c' words, along with others that demean and belittle women should have no place in the media. Otherwise let's hear 'c**k, a**h**e and s*n-o*-a-b***h as common when describing men with whom the talk-show hosts, columnists or news announcers disagree.
Wouldn't matter if Hillary were Harry. Man or woman, the person that is Hillary is just plain unlikable, untrustworthy and unsuited for the job of President.
As is Obama and that cranky Republican. But that's beside the point.
When was the last time you heard a guy named Harry called a nag or a b*tch?
Never?
End of argument.
It does matter that Hillary is a woman.
Ron Paul is right, regarding the war
elseahere, he's a skanky whore
I'd think you'd be glad, Julia, that Libertarians "steal" votes from Republicans... or so goes the conventional wisdom.
As for whom I voted for, yes, I did take - for the first time since 1988 - a Republican ballot to vote for Ron Paul. It was a damned hard thing to do, and not one that I will repeat this November.
Thing is, I'm not crazy about supporting Bob Barr. Looks like I might be sitting out this Presidential election.
You can still vote for Ron Paul.
But saying the misogyny isn't "as bad as we're led to beleive" is such a guy attitude. Wake up and look around. That attitude doesn't just affect Hillary.
It isn't enough that I admit there ARE bona-fide woman-haters? I've met 'em. I've also met actual, by-God racists. They make me just as sick to my stomach as the former. What else do you want?
Bottleblonde, IMO it's more about *who* Hillary is, gender notwithstanding.. There are, admittedly, bona-fide knuckle-dragging woman-haters out there, but I doubt it's nearly as bad as we're led to believe.
I'm disappointed my party didn't nominate either of the women who ran for the top slot - I'd have proudly voted for Christine Smith or my personal favorite of the two, Mary Ruwart. But Bob Barr got the nomination, and I'm not sure I can support him, so it looks like I might just leave a box unchecked on the ballot this November.
burned out alkies used to do the decent thing, and just fade away. now, they get their own radio gigs. or get elected president.
damn, i should start drinking heavily, maybe it isn't too late!
"You can still vote for Ron Paul."
I could, but that would mean voting for a Republican this fall. I don't do that.