So I endured about six minutes of Glenn Beck's radio show today

[Orrex]

The entire segment was devoted to some apparently high-priority issue in which a low income mother made a plea for high speed internet access, largely as it pertains to her son's schoolwork. Beck was outraged that such access should be considered essential or--god forbid--a right in modern society.

His entire rebuttal, and I do mean his entire rebuttal, consisted of him replaying her public statement and himself making fun of her vocal style in real time. He mocked every syllable that came out of her mouth, pausing only to make a joke about the likelihood that her son is in fact "researching" pornography.

Hell, the kid might be doing so, but it's irrelevant even if true. It's simply an attempt by Beck to smear the woman and her son without substantively addressing anything that she said.

Additionally, she spoke with something like a southern-rural dialect, but Beck simply couldn't get past it, as though half of our great nation's most prominent Republicans don't demonstrate the same accent.


I can't imagine how anyone with more than a half-functioning brainstem can listen to him on purpose, except to remind oneself how awful he is.

[JDPriestly]

1. It is through this kind of ridicule that the rich prevent poor children

from improving their lives.

A child who does not have internet access is at a great disadvantage in school today.

[northoftheborder]

7. This is true. We should have universal access to the internet.

Other more socially advanced countries have it for everyone. We are becoming more and more backwards. Disgusting.

[Hugabear]

2. That's what Beck does. He never has anything of substance.

His entire schtick consists of mocking Democrats and liberals, and re-writing history.

[EFerrari]

3. As if the wasted heckler in the front row got the mic.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. Bleccch is FV#$ing pond scum. n/t

[cutlassmama]

5. you have my deepest sympathy for those 6 minutes of your life you'll never get back

[ejpoeta]

6. kids need the internet to do their homework these days.... so therefore it should be

available to kids. that is my opinion. i live in wny. and we are fortunate to have access to high speed internet. but we are the last house on the road to have access to it as it ends right after our house. a friend asked the other day if we have it. they live down the road farther. she called the cable company. and since there is only one option here, she is dial up or nothing because we have lived here for over ten years and it not moved from that spot right after our house.

my daughter has homework she has to do online. now, it is true that she can and does do most of it at school. but she is in middle school right now and when she hits high school she is going to have a lot more to do and I am going to guess a lot more of it online maybe. My friend has 4 kids and her boyfriend has 2.... imagine 6 kids without the same access as my 3....

to me that's like laughing at people who don't have access to electricity. internet is not a commodity at this point. when people have to look for work with it and companies are requiring you go through an intermediary like a job search engine or send a resume online then I would say that the internet is a must. When schools are more and more relying on the internet for homework assignments and even turning to online classes for teaching kids to save money, internet is now a utility and not just an extra. and we need to expand it to make it as available to as many people as possible.

[Warrior Dash]

8. I hope you weren't driving while listening.