Beck Fires Back: Calls Series of Stories about Mother’s Suicide 'Despicable Yellow Journalism'

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Recently, the McClatchy-owned The News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash. and the left-leaning Salon.com ran stories questioning whether or not Glenn Beck's mother, Mary Beck committed suicide. It was later propagated by the left-wing storefronts.

And, on Fox News Channel's Oct. 5 "Glenn Beck" program, Beck addressed that and some of the gripes he had about the media for not doing their job.

"I tell you all the time, I'm not a journalist," Beck said "I'm not. I joked that I'm a rodeo clown, but you know what - I take that back. I no longer am a rodeo clown. I am a dad, and quite frankly, I'm a little pissed off right now. You can call me names. You can make fun of me, whatever. I'm doing what I believe is right. I am doing a job as a private citizen right now."

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Beck pleaded with a couple mainstream media outlets to do more hard hitting journalism when it comes to corruption.

"I would love to have The New York Times, The Washington Post, a duo like Woodward and Bernstein, even if they would just go for the Pulitzer, even if they didn't believe it, just go for the Pulitzer will you?" Beck said. "I would love for them to look into these things, but quite frankly, I didn't have to."

Any credited his own network, Fox News for having the courage to report on these stories.

"I would love for them to look into these things, but quite frankly, I didn't have to," Beck continued. "Will anyone look at these issues instead of looking at my past? We will continue to fight this, you and me together, you and me and quite frankly, Fox News, the Alamo for truth!"

What have the media looked at instead? They've looked into Glenn Beck's past - and not corruption in government.

"I'm tired of the people in the press railing about how bad I am for the Republicans or the

Democrats or honest to goodness even questioning, this was a series of stories, even questioning if my mother committed suicide when I was a kid," Beck said.

But that's where me made his impassioned plea to stop looking into his past and pointed at ACORN, the NEA and Van Jones as stories he went after that were missed in the mainstream media.

"Stop wasting your time on this kind of despicable yellow journalism," he continued. Why not spend your time proving me wrong or spend your time telling the American people that I wasn't wrong on ACORN or the NEA or Van Jones! If I'm in the ballpark, it's not because I'm a journalist, I'm just a dad doing this for my kids."


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Typical liberal tactic:

Typical liberal tactic: attack the messenger! 

"The bureaucracy is growing to meet the needs of the growing bureaucracy"

 

"Stories about Mother’s

"Stories about Mother’s Suicide"

uh, shouldn't there be quotes or something around something you don't know?

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Why? Because when

Why?

Because when liberals can't win an argument with facts, their preferred tactic is to destroy the opponent personally.

"when liberals can't win an

"when liberals can't win an argument with facts"

i.e. all the time.

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Joe the Plumber.

Joe the Plumber.

Bristol Palin

Bristol Palin

a message to the Fringe

I agree with Beck on this. If the Fringe Media get anything out of Becks rant today, it should be,

                        PROVE ME WRONG

Yea, but it wont be

They will use it to further their "investigation" of his mothers demise.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

A new low in "journalism". 

A new low in "journalism".  Now they are asserting that Beck's mother didn't commit suicide in order to discredit him?  Apparantly only liberals can have struggles.  Sadly, as someone who was an alcholic/drug addict, his mother was committing suicide every day.

Why should we be surprised?

Why should we be surprised? after witnessing Joe the Plumber, Sarah Palin (still seeing the Palin evicseration) Lawsuits and stories on how those deranged Republican hooligans broke the law by taping Acorn employees, Consistantly taking out of context and deliberatly giving quotes false meaning. THIS is the new media, the media that will sink stories not in line with personal politics, the media that will let the National Enquirer scoop them on a Presidential candidates sexual philandering deaming it more important to find out if the new President is still "Enchanted" with the Presidency or to focus more on the broke campaign of a Republican candidate doomed to lose in the general election. No, no one should be surprised with this nonsense.... In fact I think that is why we (aside from a few trolls) are even here.

Right on, Snappy...

No surprise here. These so-called journalists are the same pack of animals who attacked a baby named Trig Palin in an effort to get to, and destroy, his mother .

I know this is a stupid

I know this is a stupid question- I'm usually good for one or two each night- but: How is his mother's cause of death relevant? I assume she's actually passed, though I wouldn't put it past these scumbags to say it to her face...

It is relevant in the same

It is relevant in the same way that as the economy continues to spiral, unemployment continues to climb and support fades for most of the administrations campaign defining projects, we can expect another manufactured crises to occur rather quickly to draw the eye and allow "The Won"'s honey dipped tongue and twinkling eye to boldly, and concisely state "Perfectly Clear" that unless health care, cap and trade and the abolishment of term limits are passed our country will be no more.

This is why they attack

This is why they attack people like Beck, because they can't refute them.

You go, Glenn.

HANDLE WITH CARE...

 Beck is a very dangerous person to the MSM, & the MSM does'nt know what they are dealing with. Beck's persona is of a wild eyed lunatic, he is a crazy man, & a self described "rodeo clown". The fact is Beck knows EXACTLY what he is doing, & he know EXACTLY how to do it. His enemies underestimate him, & if they continue to do so, he will take them out.

Beck has seen worse then those who hate his guts can really do to him. His mother did off herself when he was about 13, he has talked about that in books & on air. He has almost destroyed himself with Jack Daniels & drugs, hit bottom, & has come back to where he is. Digging up dirt on him will be fruitless, & those digging better be clean themselves.

I know have a feeling about how this will end, & I would not be betting against Beck.

 

"...How blind can you be, don't you see...

...that the gambler lost all he does not have..."  

Nightwish

Glenn has thick skin

Agreed Danny, Let them keep it up, Mr. Beck will shine like a 66 Stingray..... Yeah baby.......

"Government is like a
baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of
responsibility at the other."

- Ronald Reagan

Huh?

So, this is supposed to destroy beck?

Huh, so Kennedy can drunkenly drive his car off a bridge that results in a womans death and then flee the scene, ah well nothing to see there.

Obama can, well it would take about 500,000 words to describe the shennanigans going on around him not to mention the utter corruption and scandal in pretty much everything he has touched or even brushed up against, again no story there...

Becks mom died, reports are inconclusive as to cause, but if it was an accident then this makes Beck a liar and not to be trusted?

LMAO, if this is the best they can do good bye Obama!

 

When it comes to Democrats.....

The Democrats pick Obama, the press sends 30 volunteers to see how fast they can suck up to him and get inside stories. McCain picks Sarah Palin for vice-president and 30 volunteers go to Alaska to see how much dirt they can dig up on her. 

Glenn Beck made the mistake of exposing the organization that gets money and votes for Democrats.  Now, rather than having the press go out and see if there's fire where Glenn Beck had smoke, they decide to go after Beck.

The way they're doing in is normal for the slime in journalism today, just look what they did to Palin's kids.  Their demise is coming rapidly, let's all root for it.   

Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.  

I fail to see what, if

I fail to see what, if anything, this has to do with what Glenn Beck is saying.

Also, the man never portrayed himself as growing up in a Brady Bunch family, so again, what's the point?

I doubt if even the vast majority of Dems will even hear about this "story", nor care anyway.

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 86% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory.

Arguing with idiots

I just got Arguing with idiots. Have you got yours.

Not Yet

It was that or Malkin's new one last week....she won that round.

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

avid reader

I know about conflict with money and books too Blonde. But I am most fortunate. My daughter is a librarian. HeeHeeHee.

Actually, cajun

Lucky you!  I bet I know who is at the top of any wait list at the library! 

It was my mom buying the book at Costco...she's a slow reader.  I used to have about a 5 book a week habit...but that was when I lived by myself and actually had room for them.  (Plus my neighborhood bookstore closed, and the nearest Borders is a half an hour away).  Now it's more of a storage issue, I can't bear to toss a book if I liked it.  I read them again.  This is a problem, obviously!

While we're on the topic of books....is anyone here using a Kindle? 

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

Blonde I'm running out of

Blonde I'm running out of room to store books to, so I'm hoping to get a Kindle for Christmas.   I just have to check out available titles.  My nephew has one he LOVES it.  I love the fact that you can enlarge the print.

Besides, then I can say I've gone green and still use toilet paper ;)

That was funny, Rad

How very green of you!

I hope he fails, too.

 

 

I bought one for Pop

He seems to realy enjoy it.

 

My Gov. thinks I am dangerous, so be careful

"Television is a freak show" Bernie Goldberg

Kindle vs eBook

is anyone here using a Kindle?

Keep in mind, with a Kindle, you 'borrow' the books, i.e. your library (with some exceptions) is tied to Amazon. With a Sony eBook, you own the books. I like the idea, but don't own either.

D

Write your Congress and Senate and tell them what YOU think!

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Yep, got mine on Sunday,

Yep, got mine on Sunday, reading it now...another great one from Beck, making you laugh at the idiots while you're simultaneously angry at them for how they have marched destructively through this country...

Got Mine

$20 at the non-unionized Wal-Mart near me.  Finished it in two days. A great read!

Liberalism: The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, can help themselves.

The state run media are just

The state run media are just doing their job...digging up any dirt they can find on conservative talk show hosts, and blacking out the dirt on liberal politicians.

You know they're getting pretty desperate when they resort to manufacturing dirt.

Yea, I would say going after someone's mother is despicable

I would say going after someone's mother is despicable. I would say its despicable in any instance where the family member is not part of the story or discussion. I would say it was despicable no matter who was involved. A hypocrite would only find it despicable if it was done to those on his side.God knows ( and I do as well) the world is full of hypocrites.

I was tempted to post a link, but you know who you are ( as do I).

Shawan

Is this about that ''Your Mother wears Combat Boots'' remark the other day?

My Bad . . .

 . . . . But I just could not resist.  It was so ''out there'' and awaiting the obvious response.

;-)

Utterly contemptible,

Utterly contemptible, despicable, typical, and proof yet again that the liberal media and their handlers are beyond being out-of-control.

Beck is 100 times the "journalist" that these idiots need to be, yet they attempt to smear his mother's suicide.

Words cannot be spoken publicly as to what I would do in this situation.  Beck is a much better man than I, to be sure.

You definitely have my admiration, Mr. Beck.

 

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Citizen Commentators Unite!

 

Just Plain Weird

In a clip just over 2 minutes in length, Beck manages to say "I, me, my" at least 35 times. That's just plain weird. This guy is more thin skinned-than Olbermann, and twice as sensitive to criticism. Stay tuned for a meltdown of monumental proportions....

for the blind

Try this Trickle, Beck used I,me,my, because he was talking about a very personal attack on him. You, like other trolls always try to deflect from the issues. Try this. Listen to Becks rant again. Try to hear his plea to the Fringe media. Instead of personal attacks on him, investigate the issues he brings up and

                         PROVE HIM WRONG

Sorry, but...

I don't care if he's right OR wrong. Becks brand of paranoid populism is a turn off. Beck claims he speaking for 'mom' and 'dad', but this is one 'dad' he isn't speaking for. I don't need Glenn Beck to tell me to take notes. I think for myself, thank you very much.

What, Trickle?

What, Trickle?  No tingle up your leg when you watch Beck?

 

"Reason and persuasion are the only practical instruments against error.  To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged" - Thomas Jefferson

Tingle?

No sirreee, Feynman Fan, you pegged me perfectly! Thanks for the chuckle.

Beck doesn't want people to

Beck doesn't want people to follow him, he wants people to look into things themselves and take their own actions. 

Uh, Trickle... you fail to address any point Beck makes. You

merely call names like most of our resident trolls on this site. 

Geez, I'll wait to get back to the game and hold my breath for an answer from you...  /s

You KNOW we most on this site think your shallow, right??? I mean really?

I don't care if he's right

"I don't care if he's right OR wrong..."

Precisely.

RE: ''Sorry Butt''

Is it all about that Theory of Relativity thing regarding the Truth?

Yeah, right!

 "I don't care if he's right OR wrong."

That's the biggest load I've ever heard. You obviously DO care, or you wouldn't be trolling here! 

"Do you consider your position so weak, that it cannot withstand a debate?" - Lt. Commander Data

"Paranoid populism..."

Haven't seen any of that...but, I have seen him present FACTS, in peoples' OWN WORDS that should concern EVERY AMERICAN! 

Why does The Left concentrate on attacking Beck personally instead of REFUTING the FACTS he presents?

Answer: They can't!

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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein

Beck's facts....

Beck bellows daily "Take notes, stand up and follow me."

Beck single handedly discovered all the socialist/communist related architecture hidden all over in the buildings in Manhattan!

Beck also discussed the horrible "FEMA camps" (he talked about them for about 2 weeks before he said he never brought the subject up, in earnest).

Sorry, but Beck's accomplishments aren't very impressive to me. I'm glad Van Jones is history, but the real credit for that goes to 'Gateway Pundit', who discovered the goofy 'truther' stuff.

The Church of Glenn Beck? Nah, no thanks. Not for this 'dad'.

Beck single handedly

Beck single handedly discovered all the socialist/communist related architecture hidden all over in the buildings in Manhattan!

I think you confuse Beck with The Architecture of History folks. Never have I heard him speak of the architecture is that way. Again, you left leaning/ left wing folks have been brain washed into beliving everything your buddies tell you.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Trickletown..

By your "I, me, my" calculations, that sensitive, thin-skinned weirdo Barack Obama is primed for a monumental meltdown too, right?

Oh yes he is!

Barker,

You got that right - and Michelle too, for that matter.  They are the family of 'I', 'Me', and 'Look at ME". 

Forest,  No kidding. In

Forest,

 No kidding. In his olympic address, is was laced with "what I have done" and "in my administration I have" and on and on and on. No wonder they wanted nothing to do with the jerk.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

Scumbag

I doubt if he's going to melt down.  But liberals like you are truly scum, Trickletown.  You scum go after someone's MOTHER for chrissakes, which is about as cowardly and low as you can get. You are cowardly yellow dogs.

When he expresses authentic outrage, he's "thin skinned." 

I am starting to think Liberals are some sort of sub human, and I'm not kidding.. 

Well, Mike, scum is what most liberals like Trickle down my leg

are like...  and yes your comment is as eloquent as anyone can put it about someone who actually claims to be a 'father'... that is frightening.

Mike

This just in...Glenn Beck announces creation of "Alamo" type community he is developing in Guyana. It will be called "Becktown". All Beck loyalists are welcome.

Kool-Aide tester needed....developing.... 

Research Van Jones, Valerie

Research Van Jones, Valerie Jarrett, Cass Sunstein, Mark Lloyd, Tides Foundation, John Holdren, Carol Browner, ACORN, SEIU, Obama's past words regarding courts and distributive change, Apollo Alliance.  There is much more, but there's a few.  Research how alot of it ties together, or not, depending on what you find for yourself.  Pay no attention to anything anyone says about those people/topics.  Look them up for yourself and decide.

You are American, I assume.  I am American.  WE have that in common.  American citizens.  Question your government. If all looks good to you, great.  Or, don't question anything and just drink whatever Koolaid they're passing out.  The latter is what they prefer.

reply to scumbag

This just in...Team Obama is recruiting low-IQ, cowardly online losers who are easily hypnotized by slogans like "Hope," Change, and "Yes we can!" 

Prerequisites for the position are glorifying child-rapists like Roman Polanski, and hating normal family men and fathers like Glenn Beck. Pay is $5.00 an hour.

Job duties include going to conservative internet sites, ignoring content, and engaging in smear campaigns, in the hope that someone takes it seriously.  

I would get your application in soon, Tickletown, as it's clear you're supremely qualified for the position.

Mike

You are obviously a very emotional man. That makes you an ideal Beck fan. When you learn to use your mind, rather than your emotions, you become impervious to snake charmers ala Obama or Beck. It looks like you don't have a clue, but there is always hope. Think for yourself.

right back at you, scumbag

Trickletown,

You are obviously a very easily manipulated,thin skinned, not very smart person. That makes you an ideal Obama supporter. When you learn to use your mind, rather than your emotions, you become impervious to snake charmers like Obama. 

And you can't escape the fact that you support an attack on a man's mother, you disgusting, cowardly, yellow dog.

It looks like you don't have a clue, and I doubt in your case if there's any hope. Do yourself a favor and commit suicide. It'll make the world a better place.

Mike...

My parting words to you:   Kick back and enjoy life. All that anger must be eating you up from the inside. I'm sure Glenn would pat you on the head if he saw how hard you fight for him. Take care little feller.

parting words to scumbag

My parting words to you, Tickletown.  Get help, and soon.  All the bitter hatred and jealousy you spew, well, it must be eating you up from the inside.

I'm speaking of the bitter hatred and obvious jealousy you have towards a normal man who expresses authentic anger when yellow, cowardly dogs attack his MOTHER, for chissakes.   How it must sting you that others are capable of genuine emotion, and not just the fake, calculated kind. 

If you think I care, well, I don't care about you. But I DO care about the unfortunate people who have to deal with you, and your black and bitter hatred. Please get help soon, for them.

Either that, or commit suicide. Take care, little yellow dog.

Time will tell, Trickle...

Time will tell...

And, in time, you and your ilk will be on the losing side of right in America.

I've never seen a group more hateful and intolerant towards others as the so-called "Enlightend" Left.

You guys are the most whiney, condescending, arrogant, bitchy, complaining, hypocritical, non-thinking, toadies I've ever seen.

"Take care little feller" indeed. You make me want to puke.

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There's no need to puke, shooter.

There's no need to puke shooter.  I did respond by saying, "Take care, little yellow dog."  I find it sastifying to get right into the mud with these losers. It may be childish, but it is satisfying.  It seems they can't win on the "high road," so they take the "low road."  But if one meets them there, they can't win there either!

Stay tuned for a meltdown

"Stay tuned for a meltdown of monumental proportions...." 

Are you talking about America under the social/racial justice rule of Obama?

Who is Really Nuts?

So, space alien James Carville is now quoted as saying Glenn Beck is "out and out nuts."  And still, they attack Beck but refuse to answer his serious questions.  They can't.  

I have never seen or heard anyone as refreshingly open, honest and passionate as Glenn has been over these past 6 months.  He has almost single-handedly founded a huge movement to restore America's light, and  is now more powerful than any Democrat, including the guy in the White House. He works his butt off and has put himself and his family at great risk to do what he's doing. 

When they sink so low as to bring up his mother's death to somehow discredit him, that's really hitting the bottom of the cesspool, but that's what liberals regularly do because they're devious, duplicitous, disingenuous, deceptive, dishonest donkeys. They don't have a clue how to govern.

They're full of anger, venom, and lust for power, and because very few of them, if any, believe in God, they have no moral compass, which means little integrity or scruples – the ends always justify the means, even if they're dirty.

Glenn is just great.  His staff is great.  He's winning, unlike alien-eyes Carville, who's stuck defending an administration that's so bad, even NBC's SNL is mocking them.  Objectively speaking, who is really nuts? 

Good post.  I agree. 

Good post.  I agree.  It's absolutely amazing (well it isn't but common sense says it should be!) that those trying to discredit Beck do not do so by picking up the issues he brings up give their thoughts on it.  That says alot of things.  It could say they have no interest in whatever the topic is, that they only want to go after Beck because he's saying things they deem to be "bad things" about their messiah and the temple of Congress.  It could say that they do have interest, yet can't refute what he's saying, and they know because they too have actually looked into it but keep quiet on what they too find out.  I highly doubt that is the case though.  It could say that they too have no interest in America being the beacon of hope and the light of the world, instead wanting it to go down the road of socialism, communism, marxism, or whatever other crappy and sinister "ism" systems of governemt rule exist.  To me, its the first and the last.  They want what the messiah and the temple of Congress is preaching.  They want the "win at all costs, America be damned" mindset.  They want all of the Van Jones types, Valerie Jarrett types, Cass Sunstein types, etc etc etc.  Amazing isnt it, that not just one or two around Obama are haters of Amerca the Beacon of Ligtht, but instead he has around him, one after another after another.   And still, the media looks the other way.

What Glenn does is great.  Take it or leave it. If he's wrong, they should prove him wrong.   They don't.  They can't.  They know it.

Greg & Abraxos

You both are right.  They do personal attacks, etc. because they have no ammo for issues or substance.  This is the equivalent of their habits of calling people racists and such when they have no facts or arguments.   Much like toddlers that throw temper tantrums when the don't get their way 'because they said so'.

The irony is that this repeated, widespread pattern of PURE emotional reaction, rather than true debate, is exemplifed by the Trickle person in his posts above and illustrates to a 'T' exactly what he is accusing Beck & other posters here of (Of course he is ABSOLUTELY wrong too) ... ironic, sad, and oddly heartening too because they are so beneath anyone's time or effort, you know you can blow them off as a total waste. 

I wonder if 'Trickle' can spell 'projection' to go with his rants? 

What, no racism?

Isn't it considered bad taste to insult a person's dead parents.  I'm just saying, if you did that in real life, you'd get your ass kicked if you're lucky.  Dead if you aren't.

It's a matter of manners...

Back in the day, one of the lads from the hockey team or shop class would conduct a brief "South Parking Lot Counseling Session" for the dimwits who never got the whole respect thing.

Michael Moore has always struck me as someone who dodged his session. Al Fraken too.

Beck doesn't need me to pipe up

Glenn can take care of himself--and I will be watching as he does it.

The Obama Media

Can't stand it that their Gold Prez is being exsposed as what he is.  BHO himself said if we wanted to know who he was just look at the people that suround him.  Glen took his word for it and has done just that, shown the people around him.

Glen has talked about his dirt very openly so the media has nothing and it is pissing them off. 

Liberalism: The haunting feeling that someone, somewhere, can help themselves.

PROVE ME WRONG!!

TAKE THE LEAD-PROVE GLENN BECK WRONG

PRETTY SIMPLE CHALLENGE

PROVE GLENN BECK WRONG!!

BHO-  THE PROGRESSIVE PIRATE

 

 

 

Typical Ad Hominem Attacks

"The Left" is devoid of honor. They are devoid of positive ideas. They are devoid of principles. They are devoid of taste. They are devoid of any semblance whatsoever of true diversity, or true acceptance of others. They are devoid of logic and critical thinking.

In short, they are nothing but pure, unadulterated evil.

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"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert A. Heinlein