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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
