In a post on his Facebook page, former Bush White House press secretary Ari Fleischer offered criticism of Fox News host Glenn Beck, writing: “I find Glenn Beck to be a little weird and a little creepy, but he's entitled to give a speech on the Mall. How come the press didn't go nuts when Louis Farrakhan and other out-there groups used the Mall to promote their thinking? It's called press bias and it's a double standard.”

In his comments section, Fleischer continued of Beck: “I like his small government point of view, but he acts like he's the second coming. I find him too zany and apocryphal for my taste.” Fleischer later added:

His style is not my style. He talks in terms of Apocalypse and he says he fears people like “us” are going to get arrested. I like his small government message, I like his exposures of wrong doing in the Obama Admin - he's the one who found Van Jones. I just find his style over the top.

The issue today though is how the MS press treats his speech. The press never went this crazy against Farrakhan. Today they're acting like Beck et al aren't entitled to give their speeches.

(Fleischer's Beck remarks were found via former Bush aides Tony Fratto and Dana Perino; both linked to Fleischer's Twitter account, which contains a link to his Facebook page and reproduces some of his Facebook writing.)

Previously:

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