Radio host: 'A handful of people who hate America ... are losing their homes in a forest fire'

[sabra]

Source: USA Today

Conservative talker Glenn Beck is under fire today for comments he made about some of the victims of the southern California wildfires during yesterday's edition of The Glenn Beck Program.

Media Matters for America, a liberal watchdog group, recorded Beck making the comment on his radio show during a lengthy monologue about the importance of coming together as one nation, with the understanding that: We all love America. We all love America. We just disagree on how we should function, what we should do, big government, small government. It doesn't mean you hate America. I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today. There are a few people that hate America. But I don't think the Democrats are those. I think there are those posing as Democrats that are like that.

Read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/10/radio-host-says.html

[bigworld]

1. Just keep talking, pal

Beck just keeps spewing out nonsense. He's like the prick at the bar who keeps talking just to hear himself talk. People listen to this? CNN's hired this?

I'm sure the folks losing their homes in conservative Orange County will appreciate the comments.

[still_one]

6. You are absolutely right, beck is an idiot, and the odds are most of them are to the right

It only demonstrates what a rag CNN is by allowing an ignoramous and bigot to hit people when they are down

Does that say more about CNN or beck?

[Felix Mala]

2. The smug smirk on his face when he thinks he's saying something interesting is pathetic...

I'm thinking he either got beat up a lot by the other kids or he was the one doing the beating.

I know networks have to scrape the bottom of the barrel if they want to present the conservative side of things -- let's face it there aren't to many conservatives out there who can marry up a subject and a verb in the same sentence -- but where did they find this court jester?

[Trouser Trout]

3. Isn't Beck the elusive "Pig Man " Kramer was Looking for

On Seinfeld? The fact he has any type of national program is beyond belief.

[allisonthegreat]

31. roflmao..n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

4. K&R

[happygoluckytoyou]

5. ITS RAINING BANKERS AMIGO

FOR THE CONSERVATIVES WHO THINK THEY ARE RICH ENOUGH TO BE REPUBLICANS...

the finance industry is firing today.... there is a crowd at the elevator going to the roof...
and thank "the weather girls" for their song of the day..... It's Raining (Finance) Men

be careful if you are walking past a bank or finance institution today, look up and cross fast... try not to get hit by the starch-shirted upper-level asshole who just realized that his life has been a waste and that the pavement is his only friend

----if we are going to blame bad health and bad luck on g-g-god.... hey Kenny Lay, could we get YOUR opinion on that? Tony Snow? come on, speak up... why does bad stuff happen... god getting back at you for some unnamed sin?

for all of you who have prayed your whole life to have sex with a college cheerleader....
look behind you... that heavy breathing is george w bush

[sharp_stick]

7. Sounds like he's back on the sauce

you'd think his chaparones wouldn't let him go on air when he can barely stand up.

[Felinity]

13. Oh, I thought it was SPS disease

It is tragic how so many men with under average size sex organs tend to compensate by SHOOTING OFF AT THE MOUTH, criticizing everything from how much someone pays for a haircut to having their house burn down. In the latter stages, SPS (small penis syndrome)migrates to the brain and prevents most mental processes from reaching the level of human cognition.

Good news, then. If you are right, he's just a drunk.

[Joanne98]

8. CONTACT CNN!

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/

Tell them to REMOVE THE ASSHOLE NOW!

[Roland99]

14. Hear! Hear! My reply to CNN >>>>>>>>>

So, Glenn Beck thinks that "people who hate America" are suffering from the fires in southern California?

I wasn't aware that the most putrid and vile "celebrity" on CNN had a home down there. For Glenn Beck surely hates America. He spews his hate every day and CNN continues to give this hateful bigot a conduit to spread his hate across the world.

Bravo, CNN. Bravo.

You've reduced yourselves to the likes of Jerry Springer or even worse: FOX News.

[Joanne98]

16. Good one!!!!!

:applause:

[goclark]

28. Why don't I see his name at their website under the

names of "reporters" or those that have their own show?

I thought that clown was at MSNBC.

[Roland99]

30. Glenn Beck has his program on CNN Headline News

[happygoluckytoyou]

9. YEEHAH... A CNN BECK-ECTOMY......

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

10. Every time Glenn Beck speaks, God kills a puppy.

Won't someone think of the puppies?

[liberal N proud]

11. These compassionate conservatives and their style of compassion makes me sick

What an ass!

[happygoluckytoyou]

12. DONT KNOW ABOUT THE PUPPIES BUT---

I DO KNOW THAT EVERY TIME GLENN BECK SPEAKS, THE SUM TOTAL OF HUMAN INTELLIGENCE GOES DOWN

IT IS GOING TO BE THE HAPPIEST DAY IN MY LIFE, WHEN GLENN FINALLY REALIZES THAT HE IS A HIRED MOUTHPIECE, THAT THE BASE HE THINKS HE HAS COULDN'T GIVE A FLYING SHIT IF HE LIVES OR DIES AND THAT NOBODY ENJOYS LISTENING TO HIM MORE THAN....HIM

[Akoto]

15. He doesn't care. This is likely what he wanted.

His television show is an utter bomb in the ratings, and I'm sure his radio program isn't too far behind, if not worse. At this point, publicity (negative or positive) can only do favors for him. Beck's probably delighted by the outrage.

[Iggo]

17. If his show is an utter bomb in the ratings...

...then why is he on all goddam day?

[Akoto]

19. Don't know, but it's the truth.

Run a search. It wasn't all that long ago that people were posting about Beck's abysmal ratings.

[0007]

22. Sez a lot about the morans who hired the prick, 'eh?

[mitchum]

29. He's a loss leader who catapults the propaganda...

just as Limbaugh actually doesn't have 15 million listeners (if he did so, he would have the big ticket sponsors rather than impotency cures, hair restoration, steakhouse chains, etc)
Limbaugh, Beck, etc...earn their masters' pay by constantly "legitimizing" the RW propaganda by constantly keeping it out there in the marketplace of ideas

[Sequoia]

32. Wow, look...a newbie!!!!

Welcome Iggo.

[la la]

37. we went on a Princess cruise last Feb.,

had a teevee in the room - Glenn Beck was on the WHOLE F CKIN'DAY! I finally figured out it was to get everyone to leave their room and participate in stupid cruise happenings.

It was a tough decision- but I went for 'watching' the stupid cruise games and such!

[eyeontheprize]

38. Because they would have

to fill that air with something closer to the truth if they replaced.

[donco]

18. I just sent this off to CNN

What an insensitive remark Mr. Beck made on his monologue, calling for the nation to come together as on nation, then in the same breath saying that there is a handful of people who hate America. As a resident of Orange County, crammed into a Motel 6, in Orange Ca, Not knowing if my home is gone or not, I guess I’m just collateral damage as for as Beck is concerned. You just might tell Beck that I’m a retired Marine Sergeant Major, and as for as CNN is concerned this is the last week I will be watching, and only to get the names of sponsors of Beck’s program.

[Joanne98]

21. Great letter! Good for u!

[Joanne98]

20. The blogosphere comments on Glenn Beck....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200710220003?f=h_side

Greatscat!
892 buildings destroyed, 269 thousand acres burned, one death with more feared, and 37 injured that include 17 firefighters as this one rages on. The LATimes has updates, and government resources listed today... (Read more...)

Crooks and Liars
I wonder what kind of psychosis leads a person to look at the California wildfires and think about the political ideologies of those who are suffering. I guess that's what makes Glenn Beck special... (Read more...)

DownWithTyranny
Is Beck even aware that the quarter million families evacuated in Northern San Diego County are probably mostly non-political, Republicans and independents, not Democrats? Not that that would matter to anyone in their right mind to begin with! (Read more...)

Daily Kos
In what universe should this be appropriate, sanctioned commentary of major media outlets? (Read more...)

Calitics
Besides the obvious lack of knowing what he's talking about, this is so inappropriate that it's practically laughable. First of all, has Beck even ever been to SoCal? (Read more...)

The Carpetbagger Report
And to hear CNN's Glenn Beck tell it, that's all right, because those people aren't any good anyway. (Read more...)

Hullabaloo
Here's some rightwing gibberish that will make your hair stand on end: (Read more...)

The Q and O Blog
At best this is tasteless. Speaking of the California wildfires, Glenn Beck said: (Read more...)

Fox Attacks
In light of that, the "liberal" media's Glenn Beck said this: (Read more...)

Talk Left
The Most Trusted To Offend (Read more...)

Salon
Media Matters caught him in flagrante delicto on his talk radio show, declaring, "I think there is a handful of people who hate America. (Read more...)

Grist
CNN and syndicated radio host Glenn Beck, on the wildfires that have raged across San Diego county, (Read more...)

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Glenn Beck

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http://mediamatters.org/items/200710220003?f=h_side

[young_at_heart]

23. Dear CNN.......What possessed you to hire him?

Do you lack common sense, or what?

[bigworld]

24. No, they just think that they have to up the ante

to keep up with the rightwingers on Fox and MSNBC. If they would focus on NEWS instead of the personalities and the hosts, they'd do incredibly.

[chelsea0011]

25. It's all about ratings and $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ and if they can get some

Faux News people to switch stations, then they view it as a success.

[Harper_is_Bush]

26. Oh...it was a "liberal" group that recorded Beck. Nobody else heard or recorded it.

what a joke.

Get this thing off the blogs and onto mainstream media. This asshole should have his words repeated every hour or so on CNN, in between images of thousands of displaced persons.

[goclark]

27. And Stark had to say sorry!

Oh no, this is absolutely too much.

[yellowcanine]

33. I am surprised Rush hasn't chimed in with an impression of someone fleeing from a burning house.

Maybe done in blackface to mimic the soot. I am thinking Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."

[Harper_is_Bush]

34. KICKED AND RECOMMENDED n/t

[sakabatou]

35. Yep... only people who have hated the US

got their homes destroyed. A sure sign of God for sure.

:puke:

[KamaAina]

36. Glenn Beckkk: Today's... Worst. Person. In The World!!

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[Xenotime]

39. GET THIS FUCKTARD OFF THE AIR!

[blueDachi]

40. god he such an effin asshat

Is it wrong to ask for something of his to catch on fire?

[Harper_is_Bush]

41. I posted a topic with the various CNN contact info. Send a note to all 5:

and post what sent, if you wish:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2115962

[Vogon_Glory]

42. I Wonder What the Voter Demographics Are

I wonder what the voter demographics and party registrations for the burned-out areas were before the fires. I should think that Republican and right-wing voters living in those areas would be pretty PO'd when they learn of Glenn Beck's remarks. I hope they have the self-respect to notify any part of the state or federal Republican Party that endorses Beck's remarks that their campaign contributions will be sharply reduced as a consequence.