Glenn Beck - really dumb and really proud of it

[marmar]

:dunce:



from ThinkProgress:



Beck Links Abbas To ‘Radical Islam,’ Falsely Claims Palestinians Are ‘Being Run Now By Hezbollah’»

This morning on CNN, anchor Kiren Chetry discussed Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-IL) current trip to the Middle East with fellow CNN host Glenn Beck. Asked for his thoughts on the trip, Beck said there is never going to be “peace in the Middle East until you wipe out radical Islam.”

When asked if Obama’s meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “was a bad idea,” Beck said that “it is” because — seeming to lump Abbas in with “radical Islam” — “you cannot bring people together with an extremist ideology”:

CHETRY: So you think that it was a bad move for to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas?

BECK: I think it is. (…) But if you’re sitting down and you’re talking to people, as he has said that he wants to do, and try to bring everybody together, you cannot bring people together that have extremist ideology. (…) You do not get into bed with people that want to destroy you and run you into the sea.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/23/beck-palestinians/


So it seems that Beck is taking his fear of “talking to our enemies” to a whole new level. Even President Bush and Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) — both of whom have linked direct diplomacy with “appeasement” — haven’t gone that far. In fact, Bush and McCain have not only met with Abbas but they have also lavished him with praise for his efforts in the Israeli-Palestine peace process.

Bush has said Abbas is “a man of courage,” “a man of peace,” and a leader who is “willing to speak out and act on behalf of people who yearn for peace” while McCain has said Abbas is someone capable of settling “differences in a peaceful and amicable fashion.”

Further demonstrating his ignorance of the region, Beck later added that the Palestinians are “being run now by Hezbollah.” Actually it’s Hamas, not Hezbollah.

Apparently, as long as you’re Muslim, Beck considers you an “enemy.” In other words, Beck wouldn’t want the U.S. to talk to nearly 20 percent of the world’s population.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/23/beck-palestinians/

[kenny blankenship]

1. War on Terror not going so good? UP THE ANTE BABY!

Make it a war on a RELIGION.
"wipe them out" Hellz Yeah! That'll work!

[silverojo]

6. I think there should be a war on any religion....

...that holds as one of its premises that women should be subjugated.

Let's start with Christianity. :evilgrin:

[Hugabear]

2. Beck has always been an outspoken Islamophobe

What Hal Turner is to the African-American community, Glenn Beck is to the Islamic community. Except the difference is that Hal Turner doesn't have his own show on CNN, or his own nationally syndicated radio show to spew his hate.

[muntrv]

3. Glenn Beck's ratings are in the shitter, yet he's still on the air.

[burythehatchet]

4. That's what you have to love about CNN. Shitstain Beck has 6 hours a day

to spew his bile, but CNN feels that he needs to be interviewed on another segment. As Jon Stewart would say, "giving voice to the already voiced". What a horrible excuse for news media.

[kenny blankenship]

5. They should be fined a half a billion dollars for giving Julius Streicher's ghost a platform

[Gabi Hayes]

7. more like his great grandson

[scarface2004]

8. how is this asshole on the air?!?!

what the fuck is cnn s problem...can t get a donkey dick to do a show?? cnn is so fucking stupid!

[Cobalt-60]

9. He's a dirtbag

Sometimes I like to imagine what this paragon of ignorance's place in a healthy society might be.
I see him in white, tending a small rubber room.
But then there's blue, tending a cement room behind a stylish steel grille.