Dear Mom, Beck has history of sexist comments
Recently, Glenn Beck has claimed that his audience has seen an increase in its proportion of women and has promoted the website AsAMom.org -- a "Network of principled mothers, grandmothers, daughters, & guardians of our nation's children dedicated to" the 9 Principles & 12 Values Beck established -- and hosted its members on his Fox News show. However, Beck has a history of outrageous sexist comments including calling then-Sen. Hillary Clinton a "stereotypical bitch," telling a CNN Headline News colleague that she was "looking hot in leather" on the air, and reportedly once calling a rival radio host's wife and ridiculing her on the air for having a miscarriage.
Beck claims large female audience and promotes "9/12 Moms"
Beck: "I noticed that women were calling my program more than men were."
BECK: You know what? I think it was about a year ago that I was on my radio program and I noticed something, and I said it on the air. I don't remember when it was, but I -- it was when the financial crisis was really starting to hit, and I noticed that women were calling my program more than men were, and it was different and they had a different conversation with me. And I said at the time, I think men right now are freaking out, going, "How am I going to feed my family?" And women were sitting back and seeing the bigger picture and saying, "Wait a minute. What does this mean for the long term?" Women have gotten it, I think, far beyond -- far sooner than men in this country. And yet, that's all you ever hear from on the tea parties. That's all they ever want to paint. Or all they ever want to show are the angry men.
But it's the women, the moms, that I think truly have an idea of what's going on. And I want to bring you to the second one that you had a concern on -- parents losing their rights. [Fox News' Glenn Beck, 9/28/09]
Beck promoted AsAMom.org -- an organization affiliated with the 9/12 Project, which Beck founded -- and hosted "the 9/12 moms."
BECK: America, we're going to go in a different direction here in just a second, but I want to tell you, AsAMom.org is just the beginning -- just the beginning. Moms, you are going to make the difference.
More with the 9-12 moms and the signs of the times -- next.
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BECK: Well, I want to thank the 9/12 moms for being with us. You can go to "AsAmom.org," right? "AsAMom.org" and you can connect all weekend long. [Glenn Beck, 10/2/09]
According to its website, AsAMom.org is a "[n]etwork of principled mothers, grandmothers, daughters, & guardians of our nation's children dedicated to the 9 Principles & 12 Value" and "a labor of love by Mommy Patriots who wholeheartedly subscribe to the 9 Principles & the 12 Values of the 9.12 Project." Beck founded and has repeatedly promoted the 9-12 Project, which describes itself as "a place for you and other like-minded Americans looking for direction in taking back the control of our country;" Beck also established the group's "9 Principles and 12 Values"
Beck: "an unusual number of females in the audience" at book signings; "Moms, you are going to make the difference."
BECK: Hello, America. Tonight, we have -- we have a couple of things that we have to do. We're going to spend time with moms. I've been thinking about the show that we did last -- when was it, last Friday -- and I have been getting a ton of response on it. It has been overwhelming.
Last night, I went to Philadelphia and Cherry Hill, New Jersey, I had a couple of book signings to do, and something struck me. The crowds were enormous. They went all the way around -- I don't mean like out the door and kind of around the corner. I mean out the door, around the corner, around the corner, around the corner, all the way around the block. And there was an unusual number of females in the audience. Now, sure, it could be because of my molten hotness. I mean -- who doesn't want a slice of this, huh, ladies?
You don't have to laugh. But they were there, I know, because they're moms. They're grandmas. It is in their nature to protect their children.
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BECK: America, we're going to go in a different direction here in just a second, but I want to tell you, AsAMom.org is just the beginning -- just the beginning. Moms, you are going to make the difference. [Glenn Beck, 10/2/09]
But Beck has history of outrageously sexist comments
Beck on Hillary Clinton: "She's the stereotypical bitch." On his nationally syndicated radio program, Beck claimed that "Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because ... there's something about her vocal range." Beck went on to comment that "she's the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean?" [Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program, 3/17/07]
Beck on "bitch" comment: "[P]robably a better word was nag." After being confronted with calling Clinton "a stereotypical bitch" in an interview with ABC News' Claire Shipman, Beck commented: "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.' " Beck went on to say: "Calling her that, no. I don't think I'd call her that. Hope I've never called her that. Saying, sounds like the stereotypical -- probably a better word was nag." [ABC's Good Morning America, 5/30/08]
Beck mimed Hillary Clinton shaving her face. After a guest referenced senators "who see a president in the mirror when they shave in the morning," Beck asked: "OK. Does that include Hillary? Does she shave? ... Does that include Hillary? Does she -- I mean, she -- she shaves her legs. I'm just saying." After the Competitive Enterprise Institute's Chris Horner said, "Now who's being naïve?" Beck -- while jutting out his lower jaw and miming shaving his face -- said: "I can see her in there. 'Gimme a pack of Kool cigarettes, will ya?' " [CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck, 12/17/07]
Beck: "[I]f you're an ugly woman, you're probably a progressive as well." On his radio show, Beck commented: "Ugly people, if you're a guy, you can get past it. I don't think you can as an ugly woman." Beck went on to say that "you've got a double-cross, because if you're an ugly woman, you're probably a progressive as well." [The Glenn Beck Program, 2/14/08]
Beck to female guest: "I've got some time and a camera. Why don't you stop by?" While discussing racy photographs of an American Idol contestant, Beck made sexually suggestive comments to US Weekly's Dina Sansing. Beck claimed that "[y]ou can't take stupid photos and expect those to be ... locked away forever," to which Sansing responded that it was "possibly" true and that "it depends." Beck then asked Sansing: "Dina, I've got some time and a camera. Why don't you stop by?" Sansing did not respond and, after several seconds of silence, Beck stated: "No? OK." [Glenn Beck, 2/28/07]
Beck to colleague: "You are looking hot in leather" Despite introducing CNN Headline News anchor Erica Hill as "the credible part of the program ... with an actual newsperson" Beck told Hill that "[y]ou are looking hot in leather." Beck went on to tell Hill, "I'm wearing leather pants right now" and "Oh, no, I'm not wearing pants." Hill responded: "OK, that was definitely more information than I needed." [Glenn Beck, 5/8/2006]
Beck on being "embarrass[ed]" watching Hill with his wife. In another segment with Hill, Beck told Hill, "I will tell you that it's a little embarrassing sitting there watching your program at night with my wife. And she says, 'Look at the way that Erica is looking at you.' And I say, 'I know, honey.' " Hill replied, "Don't try to drag me in to this one, my friend. I am nothing but professional." [Glenn Beck, 5/10/06]
Beck on Gloria Steinem: "You self-centered, self-righteous, socialist, out-of-control, dangerous, man-hating bitch." Responding to Gloria Steinem's statement that John McCain would be treated differently if he were a woman, Beck exclaimed: "You self-centered, self-righteous, socialist, out-of-control, dangerous, man-hating bitch. Shut your mouth. We might have bought into this crap in the 1960s because too many people were doing LSD. We're not on LSD anymore. You need to start making sense." [The Glenn Beck Program, 5/3/2008]
Beck: Rep. Kucinich's wife might be under influence of "date rape drug" After calling Rep. Dennis Kucinich "Gollum," Beck speculated that as to whether his wife, Elizabeth Kucinich, is under the influence of a "date rape drug." Beck described the drug he had in mind as "not powerful enough to actually knock you out, but it's powerful enough to, like, make you think that you're not standing next to Dennis Kucinich and making out with him." Beck continued: "I was thinking cyanide. That would be the only thing that would really dull the senses enough. Even then, your dead body would be like, 'Dennis Kucinich has his tongue in my mouth.' " [The Glenn Beck Program, 6/4/07]
Beck reportedly ridiculed rival radio host's wife for having a miscarriage. Salon.com's Alexander Zaitchik quoted a former Beck colleague describing an incident in which Beck called a rival radio host's wife on the air and ridiculed her for having a miscarriage:
The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween -- a recurring motif in Beck's life and career -- Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. "A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby."
"It was low class," says Miller, now president of Open Stream Broadcasting. "There are certain places you just don't go."
"Beck turned Y95 into a guerrilla station," says Kelly. "It was an example of the zoo thing getting out of control. It became just about pissing people off, part of the culture shift that gave us 'Jackass.'" Among those who were appalled by Beck's prank call was Beck's own wife, Claire, who had been friends with Kelly's wife since the two worked together at WPGC. [Salon.com, 9/22/09]
"Journalism's Train Wreck"
Mr. Beck's attacks on Women have been Duely Noted.
I could give many examples but all his remarks have been Amptly Quoted.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Ratings don't have anything to do with it. The man doesn't tell the truth, and spouts inflammatory rhetoric. From the perspective that we would like to have an informed and civil public debate, his presence within that debate is nothing short of a disaster.
Do you have any evidence he purposefully disseminate incorrect information? Can you back up your opinion it is a train wreck with objective evidence?
I cited the ratings the show gets, non-primetime at that. Ratings, in my opinion, are a very good indicator of how the public at large believes in something. It is a vote that costs people time out of their day to do so. Consistent high ratings mean that people have seen a good performance in the past and expect to continue to see it, whereas the train wreck so awful you can't take your eyes off it doesn't last more than a few episodes (it has to come to a stop, after all).
I think ratings do have a bit to do with it. A train wreck would be Fox News spending five million dollars to get this on the air and having an audience of Glenn, the producers, and his mother watching it. But that isn't the case here.
"professionalism, honesty or respectability" are again, subjective traits. It appears to me Glenn is very sincere, even personal, to his audience, talking about his family, his personal life, and what it has to do with his decisions. If you want to make the assertion that someone is a train wreck based upon your observation of respectability, go ahead, but you won't score any points unless you have objective evidence to back your opinion up.
I could argue that Colbert is neither professional, honest, nor respectable by the bar Beck sets, yet he gets pretty nice ratings and delivers a funny show to boot. If he isn't a train wreck then why is Glenn?
Then you can't make the claim he is lying. You could make the claim he is lying if he purposefully generated a false document about the president's military history, for instance. Or if he generated his own statistics out of thin air and lied about the source. Things like that would prove he is lying. But you don't have any evidence like that, do you?
Once more, for emphasis...journalism...and ratings...are two...totally...separate...concepts.
What does that have to do with respectability? Does he have to be an axe murderer or something? A crazy person comes off as sincere, because they really believe what they're saying. Invoking his family doesn't excuse inflammatory rhetoric. And of course they're subjective traits, but so what? Examples of his extremist commentary are highlighted here daily.Colbert is satire. He's a comedian on a comedy network, while Beck is a commentator on a news network. Is this really supposed to help your argument?So, you're drawing a distinction between someone saying something untrue and someone lying, based on intent. I suppose I shouldn't have used the word "lying" in my previous post, then. Let's go back and see what I said:Interesting. So you morphed "doesn't tell the truth" into "lied" in order to tell me that I can't claim that he's "lying". That's some brilliant work right there.
Again, intent is irrelevant. It's not like anyone who is interested in contributing to a healthy dialogue can say something false and fail to correct it. Is "professionalism" so subjective that you think a complete failure to fact-check might qualify as professional behavior? If you don't believe that, what the hell do you imagine your point is?
Shouldn't you be comparing his ratings to cartoon shows or MASH re-runs?
Go match his numbers against sitcoms. He is utterly drubbed by "Two and a Half Men" for crying out loud!
"Fox News dominates MSNBC in the ratings which either means there are more conservatives than liberals or liberals would rather watch "Tool Academy" than the news."
You really do make it too easy, Stark.
Television ratings are an investment of time. You can't gauge the success of a particular movie or episode with ratings, but you can judge a series by it, because people judge how to allocate their time or money based on past performance. If the show delivers consistent ratings, that suggests it consistently satisfies viewers. You could apply the same idea to movies in some situations, high revenue for a Pixar movie doesn't mean that movie was good necessarily (good reviews do help of course), but it does suggest that they have done an awesome job in the past.
ratings mean nothing except maybe advertising dollars. it has no relation to the truth.
The Wall Street Journal is to the National Enquirer as Meet The Press is to __________.
It's trash television. He's Morton Downey Jr. He's Jerry Springer. He's Rush's original attempt at hosting a television show.
Oh, Lord, you're a ratings rah-rah person. First, ratings do not connote quality, honesty nor agreement by viewers. Beck's ratings don't even compete with reruns of Smallville on The CW. [No cable opinion network shows do, for that matter.] Second, you are incorrect in your assessment of Beck's program or any of the cable networks as "news" programs. They are OPINION programs with very little, if any, news. Third, Beck is a train wreck because he has set himself up with his idiocy and his over-the-top lunacy. He has to keep coming up with more and more outrageous stunts to keep his viewers watching. The more outrageous and false his programming, the more he pushes away legitimate advertisers. He's a train wreck just waiting to happen and the time is drawing nearer and nearer for that occurrence.
Generally they are called the "cable news networks" irrespective of journalists or commentators.
I missed the part where he is forced to escalate the over the top lunacy to simply hold viewers. It appears to me that the viewers like the visuals and demonstrations, and why deny them that? And as far as I know, he has always very visual/over the top even since his radio program was picked up early 2001 by my local station, when he was mostly entertainment and less commentary (jeopretardy, more-on trivia, etc).
Media Matters has missed the advertisers he has picked up, and the advertisers other commentary programs (Olbermann mostly) has dropped because the vast majority of advertisers have pulled out of all commentary programs on all networks.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but you probably shouldn't link the word "visual" to "radio program".
He's a sexist towards liberal women.
Sarah Palin? Michelle Bachmann? Oh, they're okay. No problems with Beck.
My objections to Palin and Bachmann have nothing to do with their phony political ideology, it has to do with their lack of intelligent thought.
I betcha her IQ is equal to or greater than Palin and Bachman combined.
How often have you honestly experience racism from blacks? I believe that you've experienced some form of racism, but not to the extreme of blacks in America. I'm not naive, I know racism goes both ways and I think most people have experienced it in one form or another. Just not to the extent of blacks in our country's past.
And with government spending the money, what incentive is there to spend it wisely? By and large people don't care what goes on in Washington. They do care that, if they send money to a charity, it does a maximum amount of good, however. Even private companies are more humane (Medicare rejects twice the number of insurance claims as private companies do, while approving ones to dead doctors and patients!)
This is the problem, which I like to call the "coffee-kitty effect". If you set up a system where people are supposed to pay a quarter for a cup of coffee in your office, you will not get a quarter for every cup of coffee. Many people will look at the quarters already in the kitty and think "I can just claim I put one of those in there, and nobody can prove that I'm lying". Likewise, reliance on private charity would lead to hearing "I don't know why the funding is so short, I gave ten percent of my income to charity last year!" from everyone up and down the street.
A civilization where people voluntarily give enough to provide the support needed is a nice thought, but when it fails to come true then real people die. If people could really look past their greed and selfishness on a societal scale, then anarchy would work, as would communism. Just like a reliance on private charity, both systems are great concepts on paper, but don't hold up when taking human nature into account.
Also, I'm not entirely sure that the statistic you cite really proves "more humane" behavior.
As far as private charities go, many are corrupt. Look how many end up in the news bc they've misappropriated funds! I know there are good charities out there but people don't give as much as they used to because of corruption.
I do agree that our government does not spend our money wisely. Right now the democrats are trying to use our tax money to help our own people and the republicans are stopping it by lying about the healthcare bill. Republicans put pork spending in almost every bill that is passed that would benefit the people of this country.
You can also have a debate with a woman without making sexually suggestive comments.
Also, does Beck just "disagree" with a woman for having a miscarriage?
A Mormon man who repeatedly denigrates women?
Why, it just can't be!
And is Beck even mormon? o.o
I have a dislike for the mormon leaders who campaigned for Proposition H8 but I'd like to avoid blaming all the mormons, I'd rather blame the establishment surrounding mormonism rather than the general ( possibly innocent ) population of people that are part of it.
Along with many other women, my sister left the LDS cult because my "generalizations" were so counter-Christian to her.
Beck is a bigot and racist and a cheap shot trying to make money on freedom of speech.
No generalizations observed.
Most thinking people realize that.
As I pointed out earlier, you can disagree with a woman without calling her derogatory names.
You can also have a conversation and/or debate with a woman without making sexually suggestive comments.
So this is, obviously, not just about the fact that Beck happens to disagree with a woman.
So, what I'm trying to establish here is, don't you agree that it is possible to disagree with a woman without calling her derogatory names and that is possible to debate a woman without making sexually suggestive comments?
The position you appear to be coming from is that somehow MMfA is just attacking Beck for disagreeing with someone, which is not at all the situation. MMfA is criticizing the way in which Beck has repeatedly demeaned and denigrated the women he disagrees with.
We can all read now where Stark states "white people are scared because 90% of what comes out of their mouths is taken as racist even when it's it's not" or "You are clearly one of these people that throws "racist" at everyone they disagree with. It's a strategy that many liberals use." However, when I called him on explaining to me what statements of Van Jones made him a racist who hates America (two names that Stark commonly uses when referencing Van Jones) all he could give me was a statement Van Jones once made comparing inner-city violence to suburban violence where he used the words "white kids" and "black kids". Stark uses this as an example of Van Jones' racism.
So, clearly pulling the gun out of the racism holster a little quick is never an issue with Stark when it comes to minorities, only when it comes to those poor persecuted Fox News and hate radio hosts. It is important the we make note of this each time the right attempts it. It has clearly become a strategy on the right since the election of Obama to call anyone of color a racist any chance they get while screaming persecution at the top of their lungs anytime they are even suggested at being race-baiters or racists.
Or the other crying teabaggin' woman who said this isn't the country she remembers.
Some people just can't tolerate the black man being in the white house. And the majority of those people just happen to be Republicans.
They obviously liked their country just fine when the christian white man was sitting in the White House and we were heading down that evil path toward socialism. (And, by the way, no matter how many times you may claim it, NOTHING Obama has done is socialist).
Does it always have to be IDIOCY with you people?
And I think one of the major things that has led people to make this conclusion is that many of the people that have injected themselves publically into the debate (such as the tea party protesters and 9/12 protesters) have really demonstrated that they don't have much comprehensive knowledge or understanding of the issues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUPMjC9mq5Y), which indicates that they may be reacting on a more primal level. I mean, does anyone really even know what the message of the 9/12 protest was? What exactly were they protesting? And what possible political message could a protester be making with a sign depicting Obama as a witch doctor with a bone through his nose, who is also somehow a communist? Or a poster bearing the message, "What's the difference between The White House and the Cleveland Zoo? The Zoo has an African Lion and the White House has a Lyin' African". I mean, what political statement, exactly, is that making? What, specifically, is it protesting? It's not protesting the president's stance on any particular issue; it's simply protesting the president, and possibly the fact that he is "African".
No, what I actually said was "I agree that not all of the criticism of Pres. Obama is racist, but some of it is."
Please read my post before responding.
Can you find a fault with a common person generalizing Beck with his supposed faith, after what he has been doing?
As the saying goes, you reap what you sow. Not you, but you get the drift.
I can't stand Glenn Beck and have a hard time finding a place in my religion with my progressive views, although I find the church doctrine to be inline with my personal world-view. Sometimes the culture and the doctrine don't mesh. Glenn Beck is a terrible example of Mormonism.
Wow just wow... if I didn't already hate him before, I'd of hated him for that one paragraph. But now since I already hated him before I hate him more now... ( and yes hate is a strong word and I don't think anyone can argue that he doesn't deserve such harsh words... )
and that miscarriage thing... seriously? Where are the ethics... where is that self proclaimed religious morality?... These guys are like internet trolls, no ethics, no integrity... just plain flat out barbarism. Oh wait... I don't want to insult the barbarians... Beck is worse... seriously :/
~Celeste~
You would think, how they preach on tv how much they love America that they would actually have done something to defend her.
If I recall, there is none good but God...according to Rabbi Jesus and the first Commandment. Then they go on with their I'll give stuff I earned to people if I feel like it. Government hands off, etc. which is also quite unbiblical in its stance.
Ignoring religious principles, saying "America is good" is like saying "China is good." It's cartoonish.
To say it's caused a rent in the family is an understatement.
I think she's being easily led. She on the other hand, thinks I'm Evil Incarnate. And I've held the same political views I've had since I was a teen. She didn't think I was an especially bad person until Beck came along.
I can't figure out why she chose him to follow, of all people, but for some reason, she thinks he's got her best interests at heart. Maybe something similar is going on with these other women, I don't know.
But personally, it's been like watching someone join a cult.
It's depressing and disturbing.
If she's unmoved by that I don't know what to say.
If you find this man's insanity and lies hilarious, it's very telling about what kind of person you are. That's sad.
Some people take him seriously, and those are the people I'm scared of. You know, like the guy who took O'Reilly seriously when he said "something" had to be done about Dr. Tiller, the baby killer. Or the guy who took Goldberg seriously about the 100 people who are ruining America and then went and shot up a church because he wanted to kill Democrats.
That's what's scary about Beck.
About Olbermann and Maddow, convince me they are liars. I'm open to anything you can tell me they lied about. I'd like you to give me a few examples so I can research them myself. If you show me they lied, kudos to you.
And gs-425 - Glenn Beck edits his videos to make the people he is talking about look worse than they are. I'm not even going to address you because obviously there is nothing I could say to convince you that Glenn Beck is a fear mongering entertainer.
What lies??
Try again.
And, you are incorrect about the latest poll numbers . . . the AP numbers were at 56% approval today, an uptick of 6% since September. Now, of course, if you are referring to the discredited and unreliable Rasmussen poll, you are probably correct. Rasmussen is so far off of the average that it is considered an "outlier."
Accusations of bias is a common trick for someone losing an argument, or with a victim mentality or both.
I will bet anyone $1000 that Stark does not realize he just said that Beck is destroying himself. Anyone?
And you are right, I don't see conservatives obsessed with Olbermann and Maddow because most conservatives [real ones, not Foxbots like you] don't care about any of the opinion networks. They are intelligent enough to understand the difference between NEWS and OPINION, which apparently, based upon the drivel you post here all the time, you are not. As for Olbermann and Maddow "being my heroes," where do you get that from? They are entertainers just like Beck.
Just thought I'd clear that up.
BTW, have you ever checked into those classes I recommended for you? They would do WONDERS for your ability to carry on intelligent conversations with regard to political ideology and the Constitution. Just saying!
I noticed the cons on this site always make the same statements: liberals are afraid of Beck; Beck has the highest ratings. But they don't dare defend stuff like the miscarriage taunt.
I guess all is fair when you believe you are infallible.