Fox News should fire Glenn Beck; Speaker Boehner should denounce the birthers (Too much hate)

The Hill ^ | 2/25/11 | Brent Budowsky

[Libloather]

Fox News should fire Glenn Beck; Speaker Boehner should denounce the birthers
By Brent Budowsky - 02/25/11 09:48 AM ET

Fox News should fire Glenn Beck because there are some "opinions" that should not be given prominence on a network that purports to be a serious news station. Beck has the right to express his opinions, but a publicly traded company that presumes to be a credible news network should not be aiding and abetting the spreading of hate using its shareholders' money on the public airwaves.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) should denounce the birthers clearly, unequivocally, immediately and unconditionally and should state, without qualification, that President Obama is a Christian and an American. A leader of one of our two great parties, and the leader of the whole House of Representatives, which is the true role of the Speaker, should not give one ounce of credence to the politics of lies and hate, or leave one inch of doubt that he condemns the politics of lies and hate.

There is weakness in the Democratic Party, for sure, but there is a cancer that is spreading in the Republican Party. The GOP should not allow Glenn Beck to be one of its loudest voices, and should denounce his hate. The Speaker should not treat the purveyors of hate as a valued part of his constituency, or a faction he is too fearful and timid to publicly and clearly condemn.

The president does not say he is a Christian. He is a Christian. The president does not say he is an American. He is an American.

What is happening in American politics is the cheapening of our dialogue and dishonoring of our democracy that combines the worst of the trivial pursuits of what is called cable news with the most extreme voices from talk radio and the Internet, and adding a partisan hunger for power that is extreme and dominates every other consideration in our political and media nation.

Personally, I am fed up with Republicans who preach or tolerate the politics of hate, fed up with Democrats who seem to have no higher values they will champion with conviction, fed up with cable news that treats politics like a forum for hate or a freak show with the latest babble about Sarah Palin and Donald Trump and the idiot nonsense that insider Democrats and Republicans who are out of touch with America tell each other at their insider lunches.

What they all have in common is that they disrespect their audience for their higher purpose of gaining power, making money, peddling the latest insider pittypatter without any serious discussion about the one-fifth of the nation that is jobless, the deadly crisis of the tens of millions who are hungry or the continuing cascade of those who are foreclosed upon and homeless.

I am going to have a lot more to say about cable news and the culture it breeds, and I will not spare Democrats or liberals. There are tens of millions of Americans who do not watch cable news because their voice is not respected, and the battle is only beginning for their hearts, minds and eyeballs.

For now, it is time for Fox News to fire Glenn Beck and time for Speaker Boehner to denounce the birthers, or Fox News will forfeit its right to be treated as a serious news network, and Speaker Boehner will forfeit his stature as a national leader for being too afraid to say publicly what he surely believes in the privacy of his conscience.

[Publius6961]

As for Glen Beck--I've always found him an embarrassment for our side....but that's probably just me!

It is certainly just you.
SEIU troll?

It would be adult of you to cite which facts Glenn Beck divulges that embarrass you, and why. You got better documented facts? I'm all ears.

[kcvl]

DEMOCRAT Brent Budowsky...FAIL

From the mid-1970s to 1990 Brent Budowsky served in senior congressional staff positions including legislative assistant to former Senator Lloyd Bentsen.

Served as Legislative Director to Congressman Bill Alexander, then Chief Deputy Whip, House of Representatives.

Left goverment in 1990 for marketing and public affairs business including major corporate entertainment and talent management.

Brent J. Budowsky (born February 1952)[1] is an American political opinion writer and blogger for publications including The Hill and The Huffington Post.

[Clock King]

Oh brother, what a whiney ass cry-baby! How do these people make a living? Who the hell would even work with them? Or even go to lunch with them?

[chesty_puller]

And I find myself an embarrassment for posting twice!

Go to your corner and say 10 Hail Clintons! Shame woman, shame. Love ya Girl.

[Bitsy]

This guy should butoutski.

Good one!

[Will88]

Quite a self-righteous rant that is short on specifics and long on sweeping and unsupported generalities. Sounds like a really frustrated dude.

[Publius6961]

A leader of one of our two great parties, and the leader of the whole House of Representatives, which is the true role of the Speaker, should not give one ounce of credence to the politics of lies and hate, or leave one inch of doubt that he condemns the politics of lies and hate.

Harry Reid?

Nancy Pelosi?

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

[Maverick68]

You know, if not for that pesky “eligibility” thing, obama would SCREAM from the rooftops about his true heritage and birth.
The man HATES this country and if not for the consequences, he’d wear his Kenyan birthright on his sleeve for his fellow America-hating wackos to revel in.

[xzins]

Barack Hussein Obama in the pocket of Arab Oil Sheiks

[Publius6961]

The president does not say he is a Christian. He is a Christian. The president does not say he is an American. He is an American.

The president lied and continues lying.

He was going to cut the deficit in half! It's on the record.

Anyone can assert anything.
He says he is president? I say he's a piano. He doesn't have to prove it, I don't have to prove it.

He says he is an American? I say he is a muslim mole. He doesn't have tp prove it, I don't have to prove it.

Ease up on the drugs, dude.

[Tzimisce]

No one cares what you think Brent.

[Red Badger]

Blutarski?
Lebowski?
Lewinski?..............

[trisham]

This is hilarious.

[Red Badger]

Now I get it......
A Budowsky is like a Lewinski, only from the OTHER side...................

[Fantasywriter]

You said it very well. There are so many great responses Republicans could give, when asked to vouch for details of Obama's life of which they have no firsthand information whatsoever. It's as if the MSM keeps tossing them easy balls and the Republicans keep fouling out. There's just no need for it.

"As long as Republicans are willing to take the heat that Obama should be taking , he can continue to hide his sketchy background behind their reputations for integrity."

I don't know if you intended it, but you used a double entendre with 'sketchy'. According to the Urban Dictionary:

'sketchy': 1) someone or something that just isn't right.

4) someone or something that gives off a bad feeling

'creepy, iffy, fairly unsafe, an air of uncertainty, not kosher, and just generally something or someone that you don't want to be associated with (or really do want to be associated with, depending on who you are...)'

[upsdriver]

So Brent Buwdowsky practices intolerance for the purpose of purging the airways of Glenn Beck in the name of tolerance.

[Publius6961]

For several months I faithfully DVR'd his program, and watched as many as I had time for...then after a while his gloom and doom just got to be more than I wanted to hear.

Perfect!

That's what Soros ( and the 300 'organizations' he funds ), the radicals and the Socialists intended to accomplish.

Proud, are you?

[jimt]

I am getting very, very tired of these people. My basic response is “And who the f*** are you ?”

[xzins]

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) should denounce the birthers clearly, unequivocally, immediately and unconditionally and should state, without qualification, that President Obama is a Christian and an American.

Given that he was trained in Jeremiah Wright's church, I'm not very confident that he could possibly be a Christian. His statements and actions don't give much confidence either.

Given his unwillingness to release the proof of his natural born status, it is only rational to withhold judgement on whether or not Obama is a natural born citizen.

[FrankR]

It's not a matter of pride, it's a matter of preference.

You watch what you want, I'll watch what I want.