# Glenn Beck savagely mauled by she-wolves **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 21, 2009, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202 "2009-05-21T17:17:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/21 "2009-05-21T18:56:43Z")
First, I want to say I for one am glad that actual she-wolves did not literally maul guitarist Jeff Beck, which is who I thought this thread was about at first. I have never been a fan of Barbara Walters and can’t think of a thing Whoopi has done that I’ve liked since “Ghost” about 100 years ago, but it seems clear that _Glenn_ Beck brought that on himself. The funny part is that in the second segment he says it’s time for people to stop lying and play straight, and he gets a round of applause. Of course he’s talking about politicians, not political commentators. > [@ivylass](#): > > I don’t understand…if they don’t like the guy, why have him on the show? It’s not like The View is known for their deep political analysis. They frequently have people on that they don’t agree with. They were angry about a story he told after he was booked on the show. ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/22 "2009-05-21T19:02:50Z")
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy. I do think he went on the show just to get this kind of response from them so he can play the “poor abused conservative victim of the MSM” schtick on his show for the next two weeks. I have heard his show before and I will say, for a RW nutjob, he is at least crazy enough to be humorous although more unintentionally than he thinks. I do like the insane sponsors that he has (on my local stationanyway. I do not know if they are national) especially the one for a 4-acre emergency garden so you can barter non-hybred seeds and food after the world society collapses into some sort of Post-Obama appocalypse. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/23 "2009-05-21T19:09:36Z")
> [@42fish](#): > > I’m not the only person disappointed that the title of this thread turned out to be metaphorical, am I? I thought it may be some sort of zoo mishap. Yeah, a bit dissapointed. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/24 "2009-05-21T19:14:21Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > They frequently have people on that they don’t agree with. They were angry about a story he told after he was booked on the show. They had John McCain on the show before the election, in fact. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/25 "2009-05-21T19:16:29Z")
> [@spooje](#): > > I thought it may be some sort of zoo mishap. Yeah, I was hoping for something like that woman in Berlin with the polar bears. But I do have to commend Barbara Walters for insisting (more than once) that even “commentators” should check their facts, even if they don’t consider themselves “journalists.” ---
**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/26 "2009-05-21T19:22:27Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Yeah, I was hoping for something like that woman in Berlin with the polar bears. > > But I do have to commend Barbara Walters for insisting (more than once) that even “commentators” should check their facts, even if they don’t consider themselves “journalists.” In this case, journalist or commentator – call it what you want, Beck was a party to the exchange. He had no need to check any facts. He was there and still felt the need to lie about it. What a moron. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/27 "2009-05-21T19:31:01Z")
I love Glenn Beck. I just put myself into an alternate universe and pretend he is a parody of the right wing nut jobs. It’s suprisingly easy to do. The guy is a literal parody of himself. I loved his little schtick on how a random sample of african americans in Pittsburg found none that disliked Obama. “I just had two african americans on my show that didn’t like Obama!” Clearly the MSM study was biased, rather than his hand-picked pundits. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/28 "2009-05-21T19:31:22Z")
> [@Captain\_Carrot](#): > > Thirded. That **Sampiro** is such a tease. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/29 "2009-05-21T19:48:23Z")
[Beck’s response](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BM66c6Rbew)(audio of a call in to another Fox show). He denies lying of course. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/30 "2009-05-21T20:07:05Z")
> [@WarmNPrickly](#): > > I love Glenn Beck. I just put myself into an alternate universe and pretend he is a parody of the right wing nut jobs. It’s suprisingly easy to do. The guy is a literal parody of himself. > > I loved his little schtick on how a random sample of african americans in Pittsburg found none that disliked Obama. “I just had two african americans on my show that didn’t like Obama!” Clearly the MSM study was biased, rather than his hand-picked pundits. Dammit!!! It’s Pittsburg **H**!!! Dammit, stop leaving out our H!!! ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/31 "2009-05-21T20:12:56Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > She mostly just sits there like a mnnequin the whole time. Towards the end of the clip, she tries to squeeze in some kind of lame tu quoque about Nacy Pelosi, which the rest of them ignore. She’s not very bright, is she? Donald Trump, during the midst of his psychotic publicity whore war with Rosie O’Donnell a couple of years ago, actually defended Rosie’s position on the Iraq War in a briefly high profile argument twixt Rosie and Hasselbeck. > [@](#): > > Trump: ““On this one I think Rosie should win, but Rosie is not much herself. I think anybody that’s against the war in Iraq is the winner of the fight, because to justify the war in Iraq — only an imbecile could do that. Elisabeth is not a very smart person, she’s one of the dumber people in television. To see that she supports the war, and she’s solidly behind the war, give me a break.” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/32 "2009-05-21T20:37:45Z")
Beck wants “a damn apology” for them calling him a liar when, in fact, _they_ were the liars. [Cite.](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/21/glenn-beck-demands-a-damn_n_206366.html) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/33 "2009-05-21T21:03:34Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > Dammit!!! It’s Pittsburg **H**!!! Dammit, stop leaving out our H!!! That’s right! Give 'em H !! ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/34 "2009-05-21T22:18:55Z")
Glenn went over the audio today on his show. In fact, the “lie” he was accused of (that he was addressed by Walters first) was in fact not a lie. He started the story about the conversation when Walters addressed him, he simply omitted that he presented himself to Walters first. That’s right, 7 minutes of shrill harpies over who said hello first. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/35 "2009-05-21T22:30:54Z")
First of all, he attacked them first on the radio, so we can stow the “shrill harpy” stuff. He started it. Secondly, he also lied about them having reserved a table, and he mischaracterized the whole tenor of their encounter. Thirdly, when he said that Walters addressed him first, that WAS a lie. It can’t be defended by saying he “omitted” that he addressed them first. He fucking lied. He got called on it. He admitted that he lied on the View, and now he’s trying to revise history and paint himself as a victim. This is a guy who, plays stock footage of Nazi stormtroopers while talking about Obama. He’s a thinn-skinned, hypocritical little crybaby. ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/36 "2009-05-21T22:35:23Z")
First of all, shrill harpies are shrill harpies. Secondly, he never said they reserved the table, only that the Amtrak person said the table was reserved. Secondly (again) he doesn’t say that she addressed him first. Get a freaking life. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/37 "2009-05-21T22:37:21Z")
He DID say that they addressed them first, and he strongly implied that they reserved the table. Me get a life? You’re the one who’s obsessed with protecting Glenn Beck from getting challenged on a morning talk show. ---
**Author:** ![emarkp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@emarkp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emarkp)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/38 "2009-05-21T22:37:32Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I love his almost indignant “NO I’M NOT!!! I AM NOT!!!” when they had the nerve to accuse him of being a journalist. Because he goes out of his way to point out that he’s not a journalist. Kind of odd that Walters got that wrong. He says up front that he’s an opinion guy and that he’s coming from a right-of-center perspective. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/39 "2009-05-21T22:38:31Z")
And that he should be excused from having to get any facts right. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2009, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202/40 "2009-05-21T22:42:29Z")
> [@emarkp](#): > > First of all, shrill harpies are shrill harpies. > > Secondly, he never said they reserved the table, only that the Amtrak person said the table was reserved. > Secondly (again) he doesn’t say that she addressed him first. Get a freaking life. But he DID say it. Only after he was called on the accuracy of the statement did he backpedal and admit that it didn’t happen the way he said, which btw, is what most people would call “telling a lie”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-savagely-mauled-by-she-wolves/497202.md?page=3)