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> After reading Chris Balfie's comments on the rationality of Mr Glenn
> Beck, I am forced to rationally disagree. The word "unfortunate" may simply
> mean unfortunate to you but to me and millions like me, in this case,
> unfortunate means Beck is still getting air time on nationwide radio. .
> Having been a broadcast journalist for close to fifty years, I am fairly
> secure in my knowledge of who should be on the air and who should not. Mr.
> Beck is a total bust as a talk show host or as a political commentator and
> he is also an unfeeling, jerk who mistakenly believes he is funny and/or
> entertaining. There is very little his radio producer can say that could
in anyway justify Beck's jackass comments.
>
> When Beck talks about the victims of the California fires and those people
> that only he sees fit to describe as people who dont love America, he
> obviously knows nothing about Californians or Americans as a whole and he
> comes across as a moronic boor seeking to equal the gross out rate of Rush
> Limbaugh or Sean Hannity. As for you, Balfie, that you can talk about
> rationality and at the same time support the comments of Mr Beck gives me
> great cause to wonder about your own rationality. It is people like you who
> are the ones who hate America. You are the ones who issue the divisive
> statements that keep this country divided and you are the ones who back up
> those statesment to keep the divisions in place. In case you dont understand
> it but it is because of people like Hannity, Beck, Limbaugh, Savage and
> Coulter, among others who have run amok in the belief that you all are the
> true keepers of the flame but it is your inability to understand what this
> country is all about that has led to what all Americans now see as the long
> awaited end of neo-con thinking. It is because America has grown sick of the
> garbage you have been dishing out, they are fed up with your treatment of
> Americans and the hypocrisy that shows up everytime you try to explain how
> much you really love America because you wear a flag lapel pin. Patriotism
> is more than a pin. Love of country is more than just waving a flag. And
> supporting the troops is a hell of a lot more than demanding that more and
> more of them should be sent to Iraq and into harm's way. You dont support
> troops by sending them to where they can get killed. You support them by
> giving them the tools with which to work and taking the logistics and
> planning aspects of a war out of the hands of Chickenhawks who never wore
> any uniform except maybe that of the Cub Scouts. Simply speaking, patriotism
> involves getting off your butts and doing something, not just talking about it.
>
> As far as the victims of the California fires, the thousands of people who
> have tragically had to abandon their homes are all red blooded Americans,
> many of them veterans of various wars but all of them supporting and
> healping each other thru this very difficult time and people like you do
> nothing to help. And you try to explain it away by saying you and your people joke about Californians. What a joke! Fellow Americans are losing their homes to flames and you think it is time to laugh at them I know from where I speak because I too am a Californian
and been thru fires, earthquakes and other natural clamaties and
> I know how Californians relate to each other. I also know journalism having
> been with NBC, CBS Group W News and I have been a stringer for CNN and I
> would love to see Mr Beck cover news like real journalists do instead of
> making smartass comments about things he knows nothing about.
>
> Don Herbert
> Group W News, retired.
>
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