Rachel Maddow: Rachel Tells Glenn Beck to “Back Off”

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC The Rachel Maddow Show: Rachel not only shows how Beck lies about his climate-denying, but shows him as a a hypocrite for claiming she clipped his quote out of context (what was removed didn't really matter) by showing him clipping her quote - the part where she showed evidence of his lying.

[Britethorn]

1. Beck

The gift that keeps on giving! Hilarious!

[davidhilton]

2. Rachel's a badass!

[Rhiannon12866]

3. Got it on right now! K&R!

Rachel is wonderful! But why did BecKKK put a black rectangle over her eyes? :shrug:

He claimed that she edited her clip of him, while editing hers... :crazy:

[WhoIsNumberNone]

46. Because he "won't name Rachel's program"

And he couldn't even keep the black bar over her eyes! What, does he have a lazy 7th grader doing his video editing for him? I thought he was supposed to be some big name in national broadcasting!

[jmowreader]

60. Well, you know, that's partially our fault

If we hadn't been so gosh-darn effective in getting advertisers to drop his show, maybe he wouldn't have had to hire some guy standing on a street corner with a "will work for food" sign.

[Jackpine Radical]

62. Aw, c'mon. Hed never hire a poor person.

He probly had to accept some ad executive's incompetent son-in-law in order to keep an ad account.

[Wally Pipp]

4. Clash of the Titans?

In a battle of wits between Glenn Beck and Rachel Maddow, Beck is definitely bringing a whiffle-ball bat to a gunfight.

[sakabatou]

81. Glen's a Titan?

Hardly.

[travelingtypist]

5. Herr Beckkk should be afraid.

Vewy, vewy afraid.

Hopefully somebody comes up with a screenshot of after she says back off.

Spine of steel.

[Sherman A1]

6. While amusing and I love Rachel's talent and show

This is the thing that really turns me off about all these types of programs.

He said that "............" on his show, so I must respond with this "..................." and it never seems to end.

I reminds me of a bunch of kids in a school yard.


I really don't care what Beck says about anything and the folks that watch Beck are not going to be shown a new position by Rachel calling him out on his whatever.


His is not a news show, just as Limbaugh's is not. They are muckrakers and in my opinion poor entertainers who use current events and fear to sell their programs and make a whole lot of money doing so. Neither wants a solution to anything because if problems are solved they have no audience, hence everything is bad. The downside to that is of course it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy.

[spicegal]

9. I don't agree that people like Beck should be ignored.

Part of the problem is that normal decent reasonable people are NOT challenging the Glenn Beck freaks or any of the other clowns on Fox. It's why the righties were able to successfully "swift boat" John Kerry. Right wingers are bullies. We should not be ignoring them. Ignoring their lies and wild assertions only emboldens them. One of the big problems with the mainstream media news is that they treat Fox as a legitimate news network, when they should be correcting the record.

[Sherman A1]

11. I don't disagree, but the media is about entertainment not news

and I am fed up with the shouting match that it has become. I mostly get my news from the net, NPR, PRI or C-Span.

So I am ignoring Beck and his playmates.

[TankLV]

23. Interesting that you pick now - when WE are STARTING to fight back - to complain about the

"shouting match"

And - FYI - it's not a shouting match when only ONE SIDE DOES IT!!!

Spare us your phoney "concern"...

where were you for the past THIRTY YEARS or more when these ASSHOLES had the room TO THEMSELVES and WE did NOTHING???!!!

[liberation]

26. LOL, ain't that the truth...

... as soon as a liberal has a spine, a lot of people become very "concerned" about civility. Because ignoring them has worked wonders during the past 4 decades, right?

And for the record Rachel is not in a "shouting match" she is simply standing for herself as any decent, self aware, and secure adult should do. I am tired of people making false analogies in order to fit their narrative, and I am tired of the proponents of "taking the high road" no matter what.... being the ones who do not know what "taking the high road" means, it certainly does not imply turning the other cheek no matter what.


Furthermore, neither Rachel nor Beck shows are news shows. I am pretty sure Ms. Maddow is intellectually honest enough to tell anyone that what her show is an editorial/opinion piece no more no less. If people want news, they should watch a news show.. not editorials.

[Sherman A1]

40. Thank You

However, I did not pick NOW to start ignoring the likes of Limbaugh & Beck....

I have been ignoring them for a very long time, something like the last 30+ years.


So, Skippy.... spare me your phony (might try that spell check thing too while your at it) concern about my alleged phony concern.

[Hyper_Eye]

42. That would be "you're"...

"While you're at it." I don't disagree with the substance of what you're (<-- :P) saying. When you toss the "spell check" remark out you might want to double-check your (<-- :P) own post though.

[Sherman A1]

48. That would be

Ignore

[Hyper_Eye]

59. Bwhahaha

You can throw out that someone should use spellcheck but when you get called out for incorrect grammar in the very sentence you call them out in you hit ignore? Don't like the taste of your (<-- :P) own dish? That is awesome. I wasn't even being a dick. I was just having fun which I think anyone who read the post would pick up on. But wait... you're (<-- :P) not going to get this are you? Oh how woeful it is to be on that ignore list! I don't know if I can go on! :cry: :rofl:

[PSzymeczek]

71. No. "your" was the correct usage.

"your concern".

[Hyper_Eye]

72. He used the word twice and needed both forms.

"...spare me your phony (might try that spell check thing too while your at it) concern..."

[Plucketeer]

32. Heh - ignore Beck and the rest of the Faux clan if you like.

But since we're talking about Beck - with his propensity to compare Obama to Hitler - think about the films you've seen of German civilians being forced to tour the death camps after WWII. Those folks wanted to ignore what was going on as well. But they ended up being FORCED to inhale the stench and crimes that were a result of them being selective in what they had allowed themselve to see when Hitler was in power.

This crew-cut Goon is an opiate of the lingering racism and hatred "out there" in viewerland. He persists because there's lots of folks buying into his inciteful, contorted and contrived bullshit. Those folks inhabit the same streets and sidewalks you do. Can you afford not to be aware of their beliefs??? :crazy:

[Sherman A1]

41. I do

[Plucketeer]

52. And THAT'S the beauty of our (relative) freedoms

You're 100% within your rights to turn a blind eye to this kind of stuff. Just remember that when you NO LONGER have that option. ;-)

[CoffeeCat]

39. I agree, Beck should not be ignored...

Limbaugh helped to usher in the '94 Gingrich Revolution. Rush galvanized conservative voters, demonized
Clinton with a formula that worked and attracted some Indies to the Republican side. People ignored
and dismissed Limbaugh at his peril. After Goebbels, how can anyone ignore a proficient and effective
communicator who is spewing evil?

Beck is worse than Limbaugh. Beck flat out asserts that Progressives are like Nazis, and that Obama
is the next Hitler. Beck has his audience fear stricken. They're convinced that Obama is coming
for them, and is ushering in a "New World Order". Problem is...Beck is deflecting attention from
the real criminals. The corporations are taking over both parties and converting our republican
from a democracy into a Fascist state. So, many bad things are happening--but Beck is blaming them
on Obama and his "socialist followers".

Beck gives cover for the Fascists and demonizes Progressives. So, what happens if the Republicans
gain a majority in '10 or (God forbid) take the White House in '12? You'll have a contingent of
ignorant, amped-up Beck lemmings---who think that we're as bad as Hitler.

Beck should be squashed. His nonsense should be called out. He is dangerous.

[pbrower2a]

45. Glen Beck is dreck.

For someone to the left of George W. Bush, Glen Beck is unwatchable. He sounds increasingly like the fictional General Jack D. Ripper in Doctor Strangelove; he can "see" left-wing rot anywhere and any time that he wants. It won't be long before he laments the fluoridation of water!

Sure, he's a bully, and he attracts like-minded people. But most Americans have caught on. Glen Beck was too extreme for CNN. He is a crank, and he well fits FoX "News", a/k/a the Propaganda Channel. FoX cherrypicks the news and offers lies as commentary.

[JuniperLea]

61. Hear, hear!

I couldn't agree more, spicegal! They all need the harsh white light of truth shone upon them! We need to call out the lies every chance we get. That's why I love seeing things like this from our Rachel! She is brilliant!

[NoSheep]

65. +1

[izquierdista]

19. Muckrakers?!

You need to go look that term up. Try here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muckraker

Muckrakers have been the source of many positive developments in American history, while Beck and Limbaugh want to floor it in reverse.

[whathappened]

25. beck ,

reminds me of a old school teacher with his chalk board and pointer , he is schooling his little flock and they are just sitting there and learning from him to be more stupid in life

[AlbertCat]

55. and it never seems to end.

Two comments is never ending?

I doubt Rachel will bring it up again unless Glenn amusingly falls off the deep end over it. It's shooting fish in a barrel and not very interesting and Rachel knows that.

[spicegal]

7. Go Rach!!!!

The thing about these right wing lunatics is they just don't have the facts on their side, so it's not so difficult to rip them apart. Show the country what lying hypocrites they are.

[PatrynXX]

8. Think with the death threats she tends to get, she didn't like the lying part.

The normally upbeat Rachel was dead serious about being accused of lying. Good for her to call out Glenn Beckkk but Glenn's an asshole and with that total buzz cut .. I assume has a RED pointy hat around somewhere. The white ones are just wannabe's, I think he's a leader.

Most death threats come from right wing nuts. Not sure how many left wing extremes leave death threats, I never hear about those. Death is the easy way out anyway and why the fuck would I condone that? I'm against the death penalty. Not because it's inhuman, but that the worst offenders should be kept in a dark room the rest of their life with a small window. maybe a 1 hour walk but thats about it.

[mwb970]

10. What a horrible, annoying jerk Beck is.

My God. My disgust is total. What a jerk.

:puke:
:puke:
:puke:

[AsahinaKimi]

12. Personally? I wish she used stronger language...

Didn't KO tell Beckkk to go to hell?

[DRoseDARs]

75. Hearing Rachael cuss would blow my mind. I just can't see her doing it, even in private.

She's just waaay too amicable I think.

[Jello Biafra]

13. Mr. Beck....

You are REALLY messing with the wrong person here. Mr. Beck is waging a war of wits with no ammo.

[veganlush]

14. I can barely watch Beck for even a short time..

....I feel embarrassed for the guy, he acts like such an asshole...how many times does the POS say: "you know what?..." which is a non-nonsensical phrase anyway...does anybody else feel just plain uncomfortable watching this clown make a fool of himself? He needs to be put in cage with Hannity..

[veganlush]

15. Rachel and Keith are the only ones

..out there that I know of that are trying to get the truth out..I think I'll drop her an email of support in this case. [e-mail]

[LittleGirl]

16. amber alert

My sister used that line last week and she thought it was so funny!!!! I knew it was too clever for her to think up on her own. I thought she got it from rush but now, the evidence points to Beckkk. I gasped watching this clip: she's listening to Beckkk at work? sigh. My sister doesn't realize that Faux isn't a real news station. She proudly proclaims to be a member of the tea party.

[jeremyfive]

17. BANG

Time is short for Howard Beale. Bring on Sybil the Soothsayer.

[whathehell]

18. What do you mean by "BANG ..Time is short for Howard Beale"?

I know Howard Beale is a character in the film Network..The one who "told the truth" on TV, but was stopped....How does this relate to Rachel?

[Laf.La.Dem.]

20. I got my money on Rachel Maddow

You go girl:toast:

[Jester Messiah]

21. Rachel Maddow is a journalistic terminator.

She can't be bargained with, can't be reasoned with. She doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And she absolutely will not stop, ever, until your lies are dead.

[tsstranger]

31. Jester, GREAT POST

Rachel, the Terminator. Excellent.

[DrDan]

22. he has to respond to that . . . else he will look like a weak little wus to his fans

beaten down by a woman . . . and a gay woman at that.

[TomClash]

24. She could take him

I'll lay 3-1 odds on Rachel.

:popcorn:

[lobodons]

27. Up is down

Down is up. When Rachel said "back off" she really meant "bring it on"!!! Of course like the neanderthal Beck is, he will take the bait and won't even realize that he is way, way, way out of his league. Get some popcorn folks, this is going to get good!!!

[KansDem]

28. Hey! I just noticed something about the phrase "Back off!"

"F" is the fourth letter from "B": B - C - D - E - F

and

"U" is the fourth letter from "A" (in the vowel pattern): A - E - I - O - U.

Do you suppose...:shrug:?

[happygoluckytoyou]

29. Beck is the WWF of opinions.... BUT... why keep bringing his name up... let him fade

[John Kerry VonErich]

47. EXACTLY!!!!

All it does is dignify him. That's been a bad trend for years now and should stop.

[ffr]

30. Offense

Stay on the offense and keep them talking about subjects we want them to talk about. Simple formula for success.

[Plucketeer]

33. Rachel is a CLASS act!

I wish MORE of these idiots at Fux would start defending their bullshit whenever she or Keith call them out on it! After all, didn't Obama say HE was gonna start doing this??? You GO Rache!

[norvech]

34. this video is so 'meta' it hurts!

but hilarious all the same.

[clarence swinney]

35. Beck off rocker?

Is his producer and staff trying to get him fired?

On monday he had a long Rant about Current Recession not as bad as 1920-1921 recession..

He used 1920-1921 over and over????

No recession in 1920-192

I believe he meant 1930-1931

His staff should have stopped him.

[GlennBeckRules]

82. I looked into it, I had never heard of it either, wasn't listening that day :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_recession

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9880

http://www.america.gov/st/educ-english/2008/April/20080407122445eaifas0.640362.html

[hisownpetard]

36. Seems like Beck can't decide whether God speaks like an old Jewish man from Brooklyn or a mafiosa.

You'd think he'd know by now, since God apparently speaks
to him quite often!

[fascisthunter]

37. BUSTED!

and exposed for the liar he is...

[Lucy Goosey]

38. He's not even smart enough to be able to recognize ...

He's not even smart enough to be able to recognize just how much his "intellect" is dwarfed by hers. He thinks he's "winning" this "feud" with Rachel; he doesn't have the self awareness or honesty to even be embarassed by flat out lying about her.

Rachel is also much more entertaining and funny than Beck. I seriously don't know how people who agree with Beck can even watch him - his voice is like nails on a chalkboard, his attempts at humour are entirely lame, etc.

[peacetalksforall]

43. She is masterful. However, their strategy is to lie by saying the other Party did

what they did. They flip it. Until that is pointed out over and over so that it gets down to something that his followers can absorb, we're probably not going to make progress by getting into personalities.

The truth is the flipping. He is not masterful at flipping - he is way too transparent. She is saying this, but the emphasis has to be on the tactic, not the person and then expose everyone who uses it from Cheney to Boehner to Hutchinson to the madwomen and men (Bachmann, Coulter, etc.) who get to have the camera on them and their glorifed ones (Palin).

Flipping. Expose it. Or give it a more fitting name and then expose it.

[eagertolearn]

44. Rachel my hero...Is she the only person getting anything done?

Her great reporting has exposed and solved more problems than anyone in congress! It is so nice to get up everyday knowing that you are looking out for us. I want my daughters to be just like you!!! To be able to "think on your feet" like you do with no fear in confronting any topic or person (and you can even admit when you are wrong which we could all take lessons from that) are great attributes. Thanks for being you!!!!!!

[GreenTea]

49. Rachel's intellect runs circles around a dunce like Beck - Maddow does her homework

is well informed.

Loud mouth Beck just spews out lies, hate, racist right-wing fascist propaganda bullshit for his dense and dutifully hateful, stupid, ignorant, dumb as post audience.

Beck's lies caters to his dumb down audience always meeting the morons at their level.

The republican asshole Beck is far too lazy to research the facts.

And when the facts are put before Beck he refuses to believe them anyway, because facts don't fit Beck's bullshit and doesn't help his greedy money making corporate ideology, so he ignorantly & conveniently ignores the facts.

Beck's tactic are all the usual republican propaganda aberrations, which is only what the republicans have to offer - Lies and more lies, smokescreens, distortions, more lies and ugly smears.

While republican pigs like pigman Limbaugh, duplicit Bill-O, pontificating Hannity as well as all the republican wannabees that feed their repulsive audiences this lying filthy disgusting garbage knowing their idiot audience will eat it up...

Rachel clearly makes Beck look like a fool, the village idiot and all village idiots keep coming back for more and get their ass kicked again & again ...it's fun to watch the pig Beck squirm in his pig sty over at Fox.

[donheld]

50. She's got 1000% more integrity than Beck will ever have.

[DirkGently]

51. In support of calling out

... rather than ignoring, this type of thing. It's critical that we find a balance between screaming back at idiots (and thus being un-discernable from them) and letting calculated, demonstrably false rhetoric build steam without challenge. Glenn Beck may not be important enough to get angry about, but he does speak loudly enough that he must be corrected and publicly understood to be a liar.

This is something I think Rachel does very well. Olbermann sometimes loses control of his tone and becomes a shrill kicker of dead horses. The problem with that is that you then play into the idea that there is no middle ground and no truth, just flag-waving teams screaming slogans at each other. You can be dismissed.

Rachel never goes there. She *always* sounds like a reasonable, intelligent grown-up, even when she giggles at the inanity of others. It's easy to watch, but it's also absolutely devastating, because you cannot reasonably write her off as a partisan cheerleader. She therefore cannot be dismissed.

Tone sounds like a little thing, but I think the right tone cuts against this notion that "Our bullsh@t is equal to your truth" better than almost anything.

[Uncle Joe]

53. Rachel has pretty eyes, I don't know why Beck is so afraid of them?

Maybe if she could learn to cry on cue or rub some Vicks Vaporub under her eyes to fool her audience, Beck wouldn't be so afraid?

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.:thumbsup:

[ljm2002]

54. Give 'im Hell, Rachel!! n/t

[silenttigersong]

56. General Beck

needs to go back to the chalk board and explain his theory of weather to his devotess.....:rofl:

[mzteris]

57. i love rachel -

almost as much as i hate beck and limbaugh

[irishcat]

58. Fuckin' A right! n/t

[Riley18]

63. Beck had a bar over Rachel's eyes because he didn't want his viewers to

see what intelligence and integrity looks like.

[Taverner]

70. Honestly, I think he was afraid they would catch teh gai

[GlennBeckRules]

64. I would like to point out that the quote in the background is incorrect; “change” should be “hide”.

[Grassy Knoll]

66. glenda becky, is a grandma panty wanker.

[LBJDemocrat]

67. This is tiresome

He said; she said; he said; she said. This clip is like a parody of how puerile news media has become. It's like a mirror image of FOX News.

[Canuckistanian]

74. Only Rachel has a POINT

She's merely pointing out (albeit in a long fashion) the typical games that the RW media plays.

She's REFUSES to let their lies and "creative editing" win the day.

[muntrv]

68. Only because, on MSNBC, she cannot say "FUCK OFF AND DIE, ASSWIPE!"

[Taverner]

69. OMG One Tenth of Rachel's spine is more than there is in DC today!

East Bay REPRESENT!

[Stumbler]

73. I love Rachel, have since I 1st heard her on the radio 'back in the day'

What really disappoints me is that fans of Beck, like one of my uncles, absolutely refuses to watch a minute of Rachel's show because she's, uh, you know... (in a hushed whisper) a lesbian. Looks like I'll have to convince him to watch Bill Maher, even though he's a pot-head

[wial]

76. Rachel, to use the time-honored Montypythonian,

ran rings round him logically. Seriously, Beck comes across as a demented, corrupt ignoramous, Bush-like, whereas Maddow is, as very very few people are, as sharp as Obama.

I think there are times when people like Beck do need to be taken out to the woodshed and beaten silly, and this was one of them, and Maddow did a fine job at it. Climate change is no subject to be toyed with for short term personal profit and dubious political gain. It's our future (and increasinly present) holocaust.

The sad thing about the right is they have absolutely no shame. They'll keep swaggering until they pop like pimples in the heat of a boiling world.

[badgerpup]

77. "Back off."

:yoiks:
Now, why did I find that final, two word sentence, delivered in a level tone of voice so...I don't know what the word I want is here...intimidating? Scary? Sobering like a bucket of ice-water reality?
I won't use the term 'threatening'; in my lexicon, 'threats' are blustering and made with almost NO intention of following up on them. They are actually rather pathetic as they often indicate the person making the threats feels powerless, angry, and fearful.

I get the impression that Rachel does NOT make threats. :hide:



If Beck decides to go another round here, he's going to be playing with a lighted match in a fireworks factory with a lot of high-methane farts in the atmosphere. :nuke:

:popcorn:

[Johonny]

78. the funny part of this is the moran that listens to his show

must have heard him say those things. They must know he's lying his * off. I mean he can tell people the sky is green and they'll just nod their heads and turn the volume up. What kind of tool listens to that * is beyond me.

[democracy1st]

79. rec 99 can we get a 100!

[20score]

80. Rhodes Scholar verses Lonesome Rhodes. I know where to put my money.