Posted on 02/05/2007 8:52:58 AM PST by SES1066
Glenn Beck represents a truly troubling trend in television journalism. Since May 2006, the radio talk show host has had his own one hour nightly programme on CNN's Headline News channel. While the network may have hoped that Beck's flamboyant style would increase ratings, the cost to their integrity has been staggering.
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'Evil 10 per cent'
In just the past two months, for example, one half of Beck's shows have focused on matters Muslim. Beck insists that he is not opposed to all Muslims, only what he refers to as the "10 per cent who are evil". He then counters this observation by stating that the vast majority of good Muslims have been cowered into silence by the extremist 10 per cent, so that they too stand indicted by their cowardice. Only when they do speak out, Beck says, will radical Islam be defeated and the rest of us be safe from their scourge. The net result of this circumlocution is that the majority of Muslims are to blame.
When Beck is not venting his own prejudiced view of Islam, he invites on-air guests who amplify his views. They are of three types: Israelis, right-wing Americans with a long-established axe to grind against Arabs and Muslims, and lastly, a handful of Muslims who are largely alienated and self-styled outcasts who have found their shtick striking out against their co-religionists. ...
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'Moderate Muslims', the silent majority could 'out' the terrorists if they were so inclined.
Aren't they purported to make up 90%? Pretty big odds.
I've come to believe the vast majority of Muslims support the terrorists aims.
Maybe not with arms, money, vocalizations, but they do support them.
It's not fear that silences them, it's ideology.
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You may be correct about James. But, it is odd that he and so many so called Muslim leaders use the same rhetoric that bewails bias AGAINST American Muslims. As if , Americans of all stripes would not have questions about American madrasses, Detroit's radical imans, NYC's radical imans, the fact that that Homeland Security will not profile Muslims nor will the Border Control groups ever ask for a stoppage of Muslim immigrants. Britain and France are regretting their over tolerant attitudes and policies toward ME Muslims. They are being 'invaded' and if and when people like Beck point this out, as Sean, Dennis Prager, Levin et al do, it is breath of fresh air. Because, we are inundated by multicultural tolerance toward our enemies!! I will doom us as Kevin McColloch wrote yesterday on Townhall.com. Take a look.
One interesting indicator of just how well grounded Mister Beck is came during a recent show in response to a Professional Rodeo Clown protesting Glenn's use of the title for himself in a deprecating manner (the Professional Clown sent footage proving that being a Rodeo Clown is dangerous work meant to assist and protect rodeo bull and bronc riders; Glenn often starts monologues with "I'm just a rodeo clown, so what do I know"). Glenn closed that segment that evening with something to the effect that it's tough finding out that you're lower in the feeding chain than you originally though, meaning the Professional had proven Glenn calling himself merely a rodeo clown wasn't deprecating enough.
Thing is, Glenn Beck fits the upgraded definition of Rodeo Clown when one considers the service this professional does for his country, educating us to the danger in advance of the coming outrages. And he does it with such a flare/fusion of entertainment and enlightenment!
Beck is so wrong about muslims.
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Actually 20% are jihadists, 60-70% secretly admire and support them and 10-20% are somewhat nice people.
I'm not a big Glen Beck fan, but his position is based on facts which are irrefutable. There is no argument possible with the premise above, and James Zogby knows it--which is probably why he, like all moslem apologists, ducks the question and goes for the ad hominem attack. Some day there will be a day of reckoning, and when it comes, the James Zogbys and Ibrahim Hoopers of the world will be held accountable for their attempts at criminal sabotage of freedom.
Hah! Yeah, like we need herpes, genital warts and hemorrhoids.
Buck bemp
Glen Beck is recovering from something video
http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/3442/
Zogby is Muslim !
and Cair??
If I didn’t know better, I’d call this a Zogby endorsement. I hear Beck on the radio each Sunday. What a zest for life that man has!
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