Comments on: News Flash: Glenn Beck Is A Human Being

By: Tracy

Tracy — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:29:09 +0000

Perhaps BarryO is supposed to be Barry Obama.

By: Outlaw13

Outlaw13 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 01:08:14 +0000

Like chum to the sharks.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:43:36 +0000

Barry when you have something interesting to add please do other than your stupidity and idiotic drive by comments only serve to make you look as ridiculous as you are. You couldn’t carry Glenn Beck’s hat if he wore one. Unlike you Barry Glenn is a patriot…you my friend are not worth the sacrifice that our marines and soldiers make everyday. You aren’t worth my time wasted telling you that either, however, it makes me feel good so there.

Glenn really didn’t fail anything. It was a bad interview to be sure but he did bring Massa’s lunacy out so people could see it for themselves…..

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:42:32 +0000

Oh, surely you can do better than that, BarryO (and, yes, I’ll call you Shirley even if you’re not nasty). Hard to not know the name of the person routinely trouncing MSNBC’s personalities in the ratings.

C’mon, BO, I have faith you can find the fighting form from your initial visits to Threedonia. Don’t let me down now, brutha.

By: BarryO

BarryO — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:38:01 +0000

Glenn Who?

By: Wankette

Wankette — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:10:13 +0000

I like him. I don’t agree with everything, but I love him for coining “conservative porn” (or at least, bringing it to my attention). Plus he’s funny.

By: JohnFN

JohnFN — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:08:19 +0000

Beck is a major disaster waiting to happen, the entire Massa interview is just a precursor.

By: Karen L

Karen L — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:33:09 +0000

He went up a couple of points with me today. A Facebook friend posted a piece about him telling people to stop going to churches that preach social justice. She goes to a BIG social justice church. It was quite a thrill to see her that spun up. I say we keep him around for awhile. If he’s a burr in the saddle of the sanctimonious blowhards on the Christian Left, he’s a friend of mine.

By: -fritz-

-fritz- — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:51:01 +0000

“He’s naked, sir!”

By: Rufus

Rufus — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:35:23 +0000

I agree with Rich’s post, and the two comments made thus far, but I will remind you all that, as Rich pointed out, this was a failure for Beck. If you saw Beck’s show the night before, it was obvious he bought Massa’s bizarre story and thought big news was going to be unveiled yesterday. I think the encounter with Rahm happened, and I also think Massa is less than a genius, may be a bi-sexual and does not apply simple rules of logic in his everyday life.

The benefit of Massa was his attack on Rahm. Last night Glen Beck succeeded in taking the news away from that story and putting the focus on himself. As Rich correctly wrote, that was a failure. It does not mean Beck is going away. It does not mean there will not be success from Beck in the future, but let’s be honest about what it was.

I’ve thought for awhile that Glen Beck needs an editor. He needs someone over him (Ailes?) who can listen to his ideas for shows and tell him “stop.” Beck has very good instincts, but there are times he gets way ahead of himself; “out over his skis” as Rich so aptly put it. He needs someone in his retinue with the guts and authority to tell him when to shut up, and wait.

Massa is a great microcosm of this. As I wrote Monday, what was going on with Massa just plain didn’t make sense. One possibility was that Massa had a big scoop that would damage the administration (beyond the shower room incident), but it was also possible that’s all that was there. One thing that was inescapable is that Massa was inconsistent and a hothead. You don’t make as big a bet as Beck made with those cards. Odds are an hour of air time with Massa was going to quickly devolve into an embarrasing circus.

Beck’s got a ton of energy and is capable of keeping more plates spinning than most anyone I’ve ever seen (even Rush failed at a TV show, twice), but he still needs someone with veto power who can tell him to stop, and wait.