Glenn Beck (CNN), neo-Stalinist
Want to see your fair, "mainstream" media at work? Wonder what happened to the old, namby-pamby "innocent until proved guilty" shtick?
Go watch this (via Media Matters, h/t Eschaton) at CNN, in which Glenn Beck, speaking to congressman-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who just happens to be a Muslim, says:
CNN should be ashamed. Beck should be fired. How far have we come that this kind of personal and just plain ignorant stuff gets aired on a mainstream network? Ellison deserves an apology.
Go watch this (via Media Matters, h/t Eschaton) at CNN, in which Glenn Beck, speaking to congressman-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who just happens to be a Muslim, says:
"I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."I am sorry, but in the good old days they fought duels over stuff like that. Even though Beck first asked if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect", there is no justifcation for this utter crap. Could he have gotten away with something like this, even under the label of political incorrectness?
No. What's the difference? Racial bigotry, verboten; religious bigotry, not nice? (OK, I know some RNC guy got away with racial bigotry in the Tennessee ad against Ford. But that at least was supposed to partisan, and pretended to cover itself as a moral issue.)"Sir, prove to me that you are not planning to rape white women."
CNN should be ashamed. Beck should be fired. How far have we come that this kind of personal and just plain ignorant stuff gets aired on a mainstream network? Ellison deserves an apology.
posted by ChiTom | 10:00 PM
1 Comments:
I saw Glenn Beck tonight, I know I should have watched a hockey game instead... I agree with you , The program was full of conservative propaganda. But I do respect Beck for bringing on the good Muslim Doctor from Nevada who denounced terrorism by extremists. I'm with Beck and the good doctor on this one and agree in general, Islamic people are peaceful, loving, caring and respectful of life as is most Americans, Jews and other people's on the planet.
The danger with Becks program is it groups up all Islamic people as suspect to commit terrorism and I know from history this is dangerous. I've lost count as to how many times our own Canadian goverment has apologized and paid out sums of tax payer's compensation to identified groups that were wronged by racial profiling during wars. This has caused nothing but grief and shame in our history and yet media such as CNN and FOX continue to abuse thier ability of propagating the war.
Its preparing Americans that Iran is next to be attacked.
I'm Irish by the way, I abhor hate promoting as I witnessed on the first half of Beck ( Neo Consevatism and radical Muslims nut jobs alike) They both promoted hate and the media have done its job at exposing America to the new enemy of freedom. Russians, Japanese, Iraqi's, German's have all been victimized by this racial profiling before the battles.
I noticed 30 minutes of Glenn Beck and 30 minutes of commercials paying big bucks into the bank vaults of CNN, thats a religion on its own called capitalism and they too have agenda.
One strange thing last night was I also noticed that a 10 second portion of Becks show was sensored and blacked out with a sign of numbers and letters saying "Blocked" on my TV screen. This may have been by our local cable company or perhaps our CRTC here in Canada. Wow that sucks.
Wish they block out South Park.
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