Glenn Beck on Iran Pres. Ahmadinejad: "This guy is Howard frickin' Dean."

[madfloridian]

We can not let this fool get away with this stuff. It is stupid, and it is ignorant. Media Matters makes contact info readily available, and here is a video clip.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200608140008

"On the August 14 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio program, Glenn Beck repeatedly compared Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, at one point exclaiming, "This guy is Howard frickin' Dean." Responding to Ahmadinejad's criticism of the Bush administration during an August 13 interview with Mike Wallace on CBS' 60 Minutes, Beck declared that Ahmadinejad "sounded like Howard Dean. ... You listen to this thing; the only word he didn't use was Halliburton." After airing an audio clip of Ahmadinejad stating through a translator that "45 million people don't have health care cover" in the United States, Beck stated: "That is the Howard Dean message. ... his is the Democratic platform."

Beck is also the host of CNN Headline News' Glenn Beck. As Media Matters for America has noted, Beck previously declared on that program that Ahmadinejad "sounded ... a lot like Michael Moore" in a letter Ahmadinejad wrote to President Bush.



From the August 14 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: Stop, stop, stop this. There were two places where Ahmadinejad, President -- Tom as you and I know him -- actually sounded like -- well, there was a moment where I expected him to say: "And then, we'll go on to Wisconsin, then to Michigan, and to Ohio. Yowwww!" I -- he sounded like Howard Dean. Here's one of those places: "George Bush and his cronies want to control oil." You listen to this thing; the only word he didn't use was Halliburton.

AHMADINEJAD (through translator) : -- and 45 million people don't have a health care cover.

BECK: Stop! He's saddened that the American people, 45 million people, don't have health care coverage. Got it?

AHMADINEJAD : That is very sad.

BECK: Very sad.

WALLACE : And he was sad also not to hear any answer from President -

BECK: Stop! This guy is Howard frickin' Dean. That is the Howard Dean message. Why are you spending so much money in Iraq? It's meaningless, it's worthless, when you don't have health care. Your economy -- you're distracting people. You're going over and killing people as a distraction because the economy is so bad. I mean, this is the Democratic platform."

[Joanne98]

1. Kill him!

[DireStrike]

18. now, now

Maybe somebody will make a nice flash game for us. :evilgrin:

[Brian Stevens]

31. Go right ahead.

Double dog dare ya :rofl:

[MADem]

2. There is no way to say it politely, so I will say it crudely

Fuck that sick pig.

Vote with your remote.

[Cha]

37. KNR! I'm of the impolite persuasion,

too! This traitor needs to be held accountable for this! Fucking cnn!

glen beck is nothing more than a Toyko Rose wannabe.

[DireStrike]

3. CNN is pure shit

jesus christ, can't anyone see that?

[panader0]

4. This asshole needs to go off the air!

E-mail CNN and get this chump dumped!

[MrModerate]

5. Beck is a sleazy sack of shit dumped on CNN . . .

So they can pretend to be "fair and balanced" without stealing the Fux trademark. CNN has been running scared ever since Fux reared up and ran off with their lunch money a few years ago.

They're in the entertainment business. Expecting "old-fashioned journalistic ethics" (never experienced in the real world anyway) is a way to ensure constant disappointment.

[geomon666]

22. Well said.

He's just a big dick to me. He looks like he raided El Pig Man's wardrobe and mannerisms. Just a disgusting prick.

[VaYallaDawg]

38. Amen.

He's obviously CNN's (lame) attempt to recoup some of their ratings loss - especially white males 18-34, who buy lots of consumer stuff. Or to use Glenn Beck's word, "crap." His on-air language is almost as disgusting as his face is.

[LTR]

6. Ramblings of a wacky drunken cokehead

Health care coverage probably helped his sorry ass with rehab.

[bobthedrummer]

7. And G. Beck is another Heinrich Heydrich. n/t

[jimshoes]

8. Perhaps if Howard Dean initiated

a multi million $ defamation lawsuit on this muckraker for his verbal drool, and won, these cheap shot artists would think before speaking.

[Cha]

39. Great Idea! Why didn't I think

of that? This is freakin' America..you slander we sue! And I'm not being facetious. Dean needs to hold this fascist jerk accountable for his spewings on cnn.

[threadkillaz]

9. IQ=32

This guy is proof that TV is trying to dumb down 'merika.

[elehhhhna]

10. This is a coordinated plot and dangerous, at that:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1906483&mesg_id=1906483

[madfloridian]

13. You are right....coordinated and dangerous.

:hi:

[Cha]

40. Yes, it is! And we can only hope

the masses are wise to their "1984" tactics by now and don't like being called people who vote for the "al qaeda candidate"!

This needs to be fought head on and not ignored like the swiftLIARS in 2004, I think we've learned That Lesson!

[madfloridian]

11. Contact info right here....

Contact information:

Glenn Beck
[e-mail]

Premiere Radio Networks
http://www.premrad.com/pages/contact.html

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Main: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Toll Free: [phone]

Glenn Beck Program
[e-mail]

When contacting the media, please be polite and professional. Express your specific concerns regarding that particular news report or commentary, and be sure to indicate exactly what you would like the media outlet to do differently in the future.

[Marr]

12. Don't worry- only 12 people heard him.

That's counting you and the show's staff.

[madfloridian]

14. I did not hear him....but we all need to contact them.

It is vital for our democracy that we stay on top of the words of stupid fools like this.

[Exiled in America]

15. My friend who thinks Glenn Beck is great......

What makes me so frustrated about people like Beck is that people confuse his bravdo and "what they want to hear / believe" with an actual argument.

Notice at no point does Beck ever discuss the merits of the statements in which he thinks Ahmanidejad sounds like Dean. People like my friend I'm mentioning mistake his ad homiem attack with some kind of profound point-making. He ever addresses the question of whether or not the evidence tends to support the assertions he quoted or refutes them. If he DID he'd have nothing to report, because virtually no one denies that America and this Administration is motivated in part by concern for oil. And its true that 45 million people don't have health coverage, and it is sad.

But no, all Beck can do is act like a third grader and make fun of howard dean because someone else less likable said similar things. Never once tackling the only relevant question - are the statements TRUE? It doesn't matter who says things - it matters if they are true or false.

[Cha]

42. Yes! It's just Pure Brainwash Bullshit!

Same with all the other dangerous koolaid dispensers in the country..limpballs, insanity, savage, et al.

[WillieDee]

16. That is the current GOP talking point...

I heard it on Savage, Bruce, and Ingraham.

[DireStrike]

17. I wrote, checking in!

Everyone please write in. It only takes a minute.

[AX10]

19. CNN is the choice network of the Taliban.

[LittleClarkie]

20. I would just write to CNN and let them know they've lost a viewer

that might have an impact.

Otherwise, if you just complain about the guy, they'll just figure that's good, because people are watching and Beck's doing his job.

That they even hired him tells me that CNN ain't what it used to be. He is the equivalent of a shock jock.

[Cha]

44. Thank you, they lost

me a long time ago and I wrote them then.

[Rose Siding]

21. K&R -CNN HN must be in a test trial for total foxification

[BreweryYardRat]

23. Now I want to smash Beck's face into his mike. Repeatedly.

What a fucking idiot.

[madfloridian]

24. Be sure you listen to the audio clip...contact info again.

The audio is sickening...he sounds crazy.

Contact information:

Glenn Beck
[e-mail]

Premiere Radio Networks
http://www.premrad.com/pages/contact.html

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Main: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Toll Free: [phone]

Glenn Beck Program
[e-mail]

When contacting the media, please be polite and professional. Express your specific concerns regarding that particular news report or commentary, and be sure to indicate exactly what you would like the media outlet to do differently in the future.

[LSK]

25. attack the messenger!!! attack the messenger!!!

attack the messenger!!! attack the messenger!!! attack the messenger!!!

45 million do not have health care.

[Disturbed]

28. I watched this fool for 5 minutes and never again.

Only good thing about his stupid comment is that the fact that 45 Million Americans do not have Health Insurance gets out to the idiots that regulary tune in to this Asshat.

[madfloridian]

26. CNN Headline News has the guy who said Lamont was Al Quaeda candidiate

What was his name? He asked if Lamont was the aq candidate. Never did hear if he apologized. And Beck is on CNN Headline news.

CNN the Propaganda Network.

[Darkhawk32]

43. Chuck Roberts... who went to my hometown school, University of Missouri.

[Jara sang]

27. Glenn Beck is a ruptured boil on Sean Hannity's anal sphincter.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

29. I hate people who try to act like they're a bad-ass and say 'frickin'"

if you're on a format where you can't curse, then you're not as edgy as you think you are glennie boy.

This guy is just a bad recovering coked-out morning zoo DJ. All he's missing is the bad hawaiiian shirt.

[CrushTheDLC]

30. Glen Beck is Charles Fucking Manson!!

Yeah, the makeup covers the swastika in his forehead, but it's THERE, I tell you!!

Fucking neocon lying propagandist swine :grr:

[madfloridian]

32. A night kick. Don't forget to contact them.

This is nasty stuff.

[AntiFascist]

33. You have to give Beck credit though...

half the dumb fucks who listen to this shit will just eat it up and spew it back out. It's called right-wing 'Murica.

[Cha]

46. "Credit", Shit..no stinking

credit from me. I'll put him in the minus column as anti-american.

[Marr]

34. Listen closely to Bush and you'll hear Adolf Hitler.

Listen closely to Pat Robertson and you'll hear Osama bin Laden.

The difference is, Bush and Robertson resemble these men because of their hateful rhetoric- not because they advocate national healthcare or some other wholly benign (and popular) social program.

[madfloridian]

35. Have you contacted them yet?

[e-mail]

http://www.premrad.com/pages/contact.html

Premiere Radio Networks, Inc.
15260 Ventura Blvd. 5th Floor
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403

Main: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
Toll Free: [phone]

[Beelzebud]

36. Glenn Beck is like Joseph Fucking Goebbels!

[spanone]

41. Beck is an asshole and CNN has shown it's true colors by hiring him.

I'd rather stick sewing needles in my eyes than watch that peice of shit show of his.

[PaDem]

45. Glenn Beck isn't worthy of shining Howard Dean's shoes (EOM)

>>>>

[madfloridian]

47. He did the same thing on his show on CNN Headline News.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200608150006

On CNN Headline News show, Beck repeated comparison of Dean and Ahmadinejad, again mocked Muslim names

Summary: On his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck repeated his comparison of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Howard Dean and again mocked men with Muslim names.

On the August 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck repeated his comparison -- aired earlier that day on his nationally syndicated radio program -- of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman Howard Dean. After playing a clip of Ahmadinejad's claim, during an August 13 interview on CBS' 60 Minutes with correspondent Mike Wallace, that the Bush administration wants "to monopolize energy resources in the world," Beck asked on his CNN program: "Who are you, frickin' Howard Dean, man?" Later in the program, Beck mocked the names of three men who were recently arrested outside a Wal-Mart in Caro, Michigan, reportedly carrying 1,000 untraceable cell phones and photos of the Mackinac Bridge, describing them as "hree guys with names I could never pronounce, basically Mohammed, Mustafa, Abdul, something like that." The three men arrested on August 11 were Adham Othman, Louai Othman, and Maruwan Muhareb."

Contact:
http://www.cnn.com/HLN/

http://www.cnn.com/feedback/forms/form1.html?33

[e-mail]

[Supersedeas]

48. the Corp Media is in full campaign mode for fearmongering Pubbies

[mtnester]

49. Glenn Beck is a TURD

wipe and be done with it!