CNN contributor Roland Martin made light of Glenn Beck’s emergency appendectomy in a post on his Twitter account late Wednesday night/early Thursday Morning: “Glenn Beck had an appendectomy today. He must have blown a gasket after Hoffman lost the NY-23. Keep crying, Glenn!”
Martin’s lack of sympathy for the conservative talk show host is more than apparent in this first post, but it was further compounded after another Twitter user called him out on it. Jtlol wrote, “Must be part of your ‘fresh perspective for the 21st Century.’ I hope you never need emergency surgery.” The CNN contributor replied, “I had an appendectomy in 2000. Your point?”
So Martin clearly knows the pain of an ailing appendix, but cannot sympathize with Beck because he’s on the opposite side of the political spectrum. Stay classy, Roland!
[H/t: NewsBusters’s Ken Shepherd, Stephen Gutowski]
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Does anyone that can reason
November 5, 2009 - 11:11 ET by Thinking.ManReally still think that leftards are not heartless facists?
They would gladly start rounding people up if they thought they could get away with it, nothing but cheap, sleazly, low life thugs
Libs get their asses handed
November 5, 2009 - 11:14 ET by mattmLibs get their asses handed to them and they're crowing about NY 23 and mocking people's medical situations...what a bunch of (_*_)s
THe doctors told him...
November 5, 2009 - 11:16 ET by holeinthehullHoleinthehull
The doctors told him it was an appendectomy, it really was a lobotomy-they went through his side to get to his head!
They always reveal the jerks they really are!!
and I suspect
November 5, 2009 - 11:23 ET by theduck6the Big 3 will only echo the derision and not condemn the classlessness of the comment.
Just means Beck is doing something right.
Liberals and Classy?
November 5, 2009 - 11:28 ET by pbthinkerIsn't that an oxymoron to use those 2 words in the same sentence? I can't think of too many liberals I would associate with the word "classy". The closest is Jim Lehrer, that I can think of off the top of my head. Now I'll grant that few are as classless as Roland Martin proved himself to be here but still, you won't see liberals condemning him for his comments. If the rolls were reversed, the outcry from the liberal establishment would be deafening.
I guess, have people like this on your network, is how you get to number 4, even behind MSNBC.
Election 2008-God's way of showing us that elections count.
Let's be hopeful
November 5, 2009 - 11:59 ET by FranksamThe next time this moron ( OOPS!, I meant Martin) needs surgery, Obamacare will take his number and call him in 2013 or so. Of course, that's only if there are not younger people with more tax-paying years ahead of them taking his place in line.
I guess his comments re Glenn Beck mean that we can expect Martin to quit crying about being a victim of social injustice, too. Butch up, Roland.
Addendum: BTW, isn't Roland being racist when he says something critical re a person of a color different from his own?
They say you can see two
November 5, 2009 - 11:35 ET by HockeyKidThey say you can see two people in everyone's face. Here are the two people inside Roland. What do they have in common?
http://farm3.static....
Neither knows when to close its mouth.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Roland Martin had an
November 5, 2009 - 11:45 ET by fitzfongRoland Martin had an appendctomy in 2000. He must have blown a gasket after Gore lost the Presidential Election. It's been 9 Years. Stop Crying, Roland!
"I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered." -George Best
Ha Fitz
November 5, 2009 - 11:51 ET by acumenTwo of a kind in two minutes....what are the odds? Or maybe Martin IS that transparent.
The point?
November 5, 2009 - 11:47 ET by acumen“I had an appendectomy in 2000. Your point?”
Wasn't 2000 the year the left desperately claimed Dubya "stole" the election?
The point? Ascribing one's own feelings, thoughts, or attitudes to others. Projecting my dear Mr. Martin....projecting.
Big Twit
November 5, 2009 - 12:01 ET by HoosierEmIf you're on Twitter, talk back to Roland S. Martin - lots of people already have including me once or twice (or maybe ten times). LOL
@rolandsmartin
Jeez
November 5, 2009 - 12:05 ET by StarAZNice talk. For one thing, an appendix is not a gasket. Secondly, elections don't hurt your organs. Third, whoever this guy is, he must not watch Beck, who has said little about that election.
Jeez
November 5, 2009 - 12:05 ET by StarAZNice talk. For one thing, an appendix is not a gasket. Secondly, elections don't hurt your organs. Third, whoever this guy is, he must not watch Beck, who has said little about that election.
HEY HEY HEY! It's FAAAAT MARTIN!!!
November 5, 2009 - 12:18 ET by Lord ErondHave another donut you fat hog.
"Timothy, guard what God has entrusted to you. Avoid godless, foolish discussions with those who oppose you with their so-called knowledge."
Timothy 6:20
The fat hog is responsible for the high cost of health care
November 5, 2009 - 12:28 ET by averageschmoePut down your donuts and get on a treadmill and save the country some money!
It's gonna be fun watching Roland's head explode next November
November 5, 2009 - 12:37 ET by R D Helm:-)
-Dave
Our elected representatives have failed us.
We will remember this ignorant comment!
November 5, 2009 - 12:46 ET by Patriot IIWhen fat boy here, has his massive stroke.....we will remember his lack of compassion for a fellow man...and reciprocate with...."Tough S--t" fat boy!!!
Get a bucket of chicken, finger licking good......
November 5, 2009 - 13:01 ET by TomoramaMay this fat jerk choke on a chicken bone and die on air.
Is that classy for you Roland, you fat jerk.
Not a huge fan of Beck as he is too clownish for my taste BUT he does dig up stories that nobody else does and the FACTS are if you watch him or go back in time, he HAMMERS BOTH SIDES WHEN DESERVED, not an opinion, but a fact.
Can his critics say the same?
Put down the drumstick Roland and answer the question.
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
Gosh
November 5, 2009 - 13:16 ET by StarAZAren't you playing his tune with this post? Just wondering.
MMMMMM Perhaps MMMMMMM
November 5, 2009 - 14:22 ET by TomoramaThat's the problem StarAZ, this jerk is a one trick pony and he needs to be called on it, am I inferring something here that is not part of my usual brilliant posting, perhaps, but fighting ugly fire with dirty water get's the job done.
A great man once said, YOU only get out of life what YOU put into it, he obviously wasn't a liberal.
I'm sure a mental midget like Martin...
November 5, 2009 - 13:21 ET by PrairieSkyis unaware of and would never understand this, but a hot appendix can be a very serious, and sometimes life-threatening emergency. My father-in-law almost died from a burst appendix a couple of years ago. After surgery and a week in the hospital, he has fully recovered, but it was scary there for awhile.
Of course, since Glenn Beck is the person with appendicitis, well, he's fair game, right? Martin provides more evidence that there is nothing too low, classless or disgusting that one can say about another person as long as that person is a conservative, a traditionalist or a libertarian...pretty much anyone who isn't a liberal.
"The problem is not that people are taxed too little...the problem is that government spends too much." ~President Ronald Reagan
Roland Martin is a buffoon
November 5, 2009 - 13:33 ET by Captain KirockI also know two people who almost died from the same thing.
Only a classless buffoon like Roland Martin would find it funny.
Roland Martin needs a brain
November 5, 2009 - 13:43 ET by TheHistorianmaybe the Scarecrow can offer half of his!!!
Really funny how all of these liberals can have such sympathy for Kim Jung Il but none for Glenn Beck.
"What experience and history teach is
this - that people and governments never have learned anything from history,
or acted on principles deduced from it."
G. W. F. Hegel
Most liberals still don't get the lesson from NY 23.
November 5, 2009 - 13:48 ET by c5thenThe liberal republican had to drop out, not because her poll numbers were around 12% (although that was surely part of it) but because her donations dried up. Why??? Because conservatives were awakened to the fact that the local GOP "leadership" had chosen to run a candidate who was actually to the left of the democrat. So the race came down to a democrat and an independant without the GOP. Now, toward the end the GOP actually gave $$ support to the independant, but he got most of the way on his own.
It's no longer about the D vs R...It's liberal vs conservative, party be damned.
Throw 'da bums out!!!
Before it's too late.
www.loyaltoliberty.com
Vicious "liberals"
November 5, 2009 - 14:29 ET by iveseenitallMartin's rant is simply another example of the hypocrisy of modern "liberals". All their favorite words, such as "compassion" and "tolerance", go out the window if you dare to disagree with them. Their immature viciousness surfaces so quickly. Remember when they called Newt Gingich "meanspirited"? Sad.
BTW, Martin's retort "And your point is?" evinces how dumb most "liberals" truly are.
P.S. Get well soon, Glenn. You are a great teacher and a breath of fresh.
NEVER,NEVER trust a "liberal"
Roland Martin, What's that?
November 5, 2009 - 14:31 ET by east tennessee johnRoland who? He has 15 % of the audience Beck has and he's dropping dimes on Glenn? What some people won't do to get noticed, since he obviously can't on cnn.
Roland Martin
November 5, 2009 - 16:53 ET by srqvetWhat a shame Roland Martin seems to suffer from Obly disease. I did like his Laugh In program.
I've blown hot and cold and
November 5, 2009 - 14:32 ET by Jack BauerI've blown hot and cold and hot over Beck. He does valuable work shining the light on what the powerful wish to keep hidden
But his schtick leaves me cold. Then it hit me that I had been looking at this from the wrong perspective.
In the old days, when the King (or Queen) ruled by divine fiat, you could lose your head on a whim.
Except for the COURT JESTER. On the surface, the King's Fool, whose job it was to entertain him and the court.
But he also had another role.The one person who could tell the King the truth -- and get away with it.
Glenn Beck is the Court Jester. He really does "speak truth to power."
For What It's Worth...
November 5, 2009 - 14:52 ET by Corny_McPooI emailed Mr. Martin directly about his comments, I wrote:
<QUOTE>
Your comments concerningGlenn Beck's recent emergency appendectomy ("Glenn Beck had an appendectomy today. He must have blown a gasket after Hoffman lost the NY-23. Keep crying, Glenn!"and your response to Jtlol , "I had an appendectomy in 2000. Your point?") were reprehensible. Responsible political debate is the cornerstone to our republic's success, but your personal,callous attacks are beyond the pale and add nothing of value to the exchange. Shame on you. May you never need emergency surgery.
Sincerely,
<ENDQUOTE>
And he soon replied with...:
<QUOTE>
have you ever sent an email to Glenn Beck regarding the reprehensible things he has lied about?
Roland S. Martin
<ENDQUOTE>
And I answered...:
<QUOTE>
I try to tell my children that just because his or her sibling did something, that is not an excuse for his or her own bad behavior. And I was not addressing the veracity of your comments; I was addressing the insensitive, callous nature of your posting. Thanks for your quick reply!
<ENDQUOTE>
And finally, he replied...:
<QUOTE>
you clearly didn't get the satire. Glenn Beck was crying for days, predicting a Hoffman win in the NY-23. He has this problem the day after the election. Duh!
<ENDQUOTE>
I appreciate Mr. Martin answering me directly, but misdirection is ineffective as an argument. And he is clearly using the "You're Too Stupid To Get It"-line with the "you clearly didn't get the satire" blow- a la Dunn. Oh, I get it, Mr. Martin. His comments were a malignancy on any meaningful political debate.
Signed, Corny McPoo
Do Something Amazing!
Again...
November 5, 2009 - 15:14 ET by StarAZI have not heard Beck being particularly interested in this race. Maybe this guy (I don't know who he is) is watching a different version--or, could this be possible, he doesn't WATCH Beck?
Probably not worth it
November 5, 2009 - 15:17 ET by StarAZMaye when Glenn recovers, he can give this man a red phone to call about lies...What lies? Can he be more specific? I caught Glenn in a misstatement once--besides the one about the Calgary v Vancouver Olys...but I have not found his "lies" challenged very often--sure, they are mean to him, but it's not the same.
It Doesn't Seem Like It...
November 5, 2009 - 15:21 ET by Corny_McPooHis tactic of steering the discussion to Beck's "lies" was very telling. Essentially, he was called out for being a douche, so now he's trying to justify it.
Signed, Corny McPoo
Do Something Amazing!
I agree star. What Beck
November 5, 2009 - 15:22 ET by chicagotraumaI agree star. What Beck lies? He uses this administrations own words against them. I think Poo missed a great opportunity to make Martin look like a buffoon (yes , i know, again). You should have asked him to name the lies.
Furthermore, he had Hoffman on his show once and actually (sort of) made fun of his manner of responding to a question. So Martin really needs to get a clue.
...
November 5, 2009 - 15:27 ET by Corny_McPooThat's McPoo, to you! LOL!
You're right, I did miss a good chance to challenge him to name the lies, but my point was that when a fellow American is facing a medical emergency, we put the debate aside for the moment to remember what's really importatnt.
Signed, Corny McPoo
Do Something Amazing!
That pic reminds me
November 5, 2009 - 16:10 ET by jdlybrandNow I remember where I left my bowling ball.
"What a revoltin' development this is!"
Chester Riley