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Beck: I Live In Connecticut
Because ‘It’s Out Of Reach Of A Nuclear Explosion
In Manhattan’
Think
Progress
Tuesday Aug 21, 2007
A new
GQ profile of Glenn Beck asks whether the CNN Headline News
host is the “most annoying man on TV.” But whether
he is “annoying” is beside the real point, which is
that Beck has a long
history of inflammatory remarks on-air.
The mainstream media continue to reward
Beck for his hateful, divisive rhetoric. Earlier this year,
ABC’s Good Morning America hired
Beck as a commentator, and Washington Post radio is now considering
bringing on the right-wing pundit because he “does
a good job.” Beck’s television producer admitted
to GQ, “He’s
a polarizing figure. That’s why we hired him.”
In the GQ article, author Benjamin Wallace claims that Beck “is
less partisan soldier than channeler of regular-guy id.”
A look at some of Beck’s “regular-guy id” as
evidenced by the GQ article:
On the Virginia Tech shooter:
“This guy makes you have respect for suicide
bombers,” Beck says, trying out today’s
career-immolating zinger. “At least they’re killing
themselves because they believe in something larger.”
(Article continues below)
On living in Connecticut:
In a mirrored room at CNN, on the fifth floor of the Time Warner
Center in Manhattan, a makeup artist paints cream under Beck’s
eyes while her colleague, idle in a nearby chair, tells Beck
that she’s moving to Riverdale, in the Bronx. “At
least you’re outside the vaporization zone,” Beck
says.
“Really?” says makeup lady number two. “I’m
still in New York.”
“You could drop a one-kiloton bomb on Lower Manhattan
and be safe in Chelsea,” Beck says.
“Good to know,” the woman says.
Beck: “Did you check the blast radius?”
“No,” she says. “I was more interested in
the public-school system.”
“Priorities,” Beck says.
He is kind of joking, kind of isn’t. One of the
reasons he lives in Fairfield County, Connecticut, is that it’s
out of reach of a nuclear explosion in Manhattan.
On work habits:
A Baltimore producer he fired named Tom Russell — who
is not the Baltimore producer Beck fired for bringing him a
ballpoint when he had asked for a Sharpie — recalls
the time Beck seized him by his collar, hoisted him nearly off
the ground, and said he would eat him “for fucking breakfast.”
In the profile, Beck also states, “If we don’t stop
believing the worst in each other, we’re dead.” This
is the same man who once described Sen. Hillary Clinton’s
(D-NY) voice as that of “a
stereotypical bitch,” hosted a guest who said on-air
that watching someone murder
the Clintons would be “great,” and confessed that
he is “afraid”
to have “a lot of African-American friends.”
Rather than a “channeler of regular-guy id,” a better
description of Beck might be what Jon Stewart said about him in
2006: “a
guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.”
Chris Achorn at My Two Sense has more
on the GQ profile.
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INFOWARS:
BECAUSE THERE'S A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND
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