Posted on 03/09/2010 6:38:43 PM PST by Shellybenoit
Glenn Beck was wrong, its as simple as that. He wasn't wrong in interviewing Eric Massa because it was an interview that he had to take once it became available. The Massa story was dominating the headlines and he had to jump on it. No, where Glenn Beck was wrong was apologizing for wasting our time at the end of the interview. This interview was no waste of time because in the end it destroyed the myth that Eric Massa's claims had any viability.
It was classic train-wreck theater. You know that a train is going to end up derailed and on its side,and even feel uncomfortable waiting for it to happen, but you are powerless to stop the carnage. Through the whole experience you are just wondering if the train will wreck itself or will someone push it over.
In this case it was Massa who self-derailed.
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Over the past few months, my opinion of Beck has been dropping like a stone. The Massa interview didn’t help.
love train wrecks (as ling as no one is injured or killed I mean :-)
Nice spin maybe Beck will hire you. The fact that he made comments like this interview mad change everything hype without even knowing the backround of this clown and then being stubborn to giving him an hour on tv. The only thing I agree with him is that it was a waste of time.
as ling=as long . . . oops.
I actually felt sorry for Massa. He has cancer, for goodness’ sake. I thought the interview was interesting and I thought Beck was too hard on the guy. But my husband does not agree with me.
How did poor Massa go from a Naval Academy grad to this train wreck of a life? I realize he is a lib.
You should have read the whole thing. He was saying that Beck’s mistake was apologizing for wasting our time. We learned that Massa was full of it and had nothing to reveal.
I was following. Massa only spoke in the usual hi-flown, meaningless “I’m leaving because I’m too good for this place” generalities we’ve been hearing quite a lot of recently. He did not provide any specific accusations and instances of anything that could be called real bribes or threats. He even backed down on his previous statements on that radio interview of yesterday.
Beck was buying any of it. He didn’t let Massa get away with anything. He done good.
Rush was right. Beck was wrong, but right to apologize for wasting an hour to illustrate what Rush had reported five hours earlier, and Rush was not tentative about it either. He knew.
And you needed a Beck interview to show you that? You must not be paying attention to any of Beck's history lessons.
its bee let slip several times that there are real mafia like arm twisting going on in dc since obama got there and beck had a chance to dig deep and missed it....ooooh badddd.wish greta had interviewed massa
The compelling radio today concerning Massa was on the Rush Limbaugh show. He replayed tapes of Massa lying in his usual grand manner during his campaign for Congress two years ago.
I enjoy the interview I thought it was just funny watching Massa trying to make up stories.
“Over the past few months, my opinion of Beck has been dropping like a stone.”
I never developed any great fondness for him, but I kind of kept my mouth shut, as I thought he was on message more times than not. Now I just think of him as an entertainer.
I agree, its a shame that he has cancer. I don’t think Beck was too hard on him, though. Beck was just mad becuse he kept asking him to “name names” and Massa either couldn’t or wouldn’t. I think Beck also was betting that he could provoke him into acting totally loony and he didn’t do that, either. Glenn Beck is very interrested in ratings and he lost a gamble on this interview.
Previously a Republican, Massa switched parties after leaving the House payroll and went on to work for the 2004 presidential campaign of retired Army Gen. Wesley K. Clark, for whom Massa had worked when Clark was supreme allied commander of NATO.
Massa then became a professional staff member on the House Armed Services Committee. He says in his biography that he was an early critic of the Bush administration’s strategy for invading Iraq, and that he was “forced out” of his Armed Services job for “standing up against the failed pre-war planning.” Congressional salary data on file at the Web site Legistorm shows that Massa was employed by the committee for eight months in 2003.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/09/AR2010030902157_pf.html
Massa looked like a nut.
Do you want to give your statement another try? I can’t understand what you are trying to communicate. I do like your handle...
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