CNN's Beck to first-ever Muslim congressman:

[burythehatchet]

"What I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies' "


These professinoal agitators are doing harm to the country, as Jon Stewart said. Long live the 1st amendment.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611150004

On the November 14 edition of his CNN Headline News program, Glenn Beck interviewed Rep.-elect Keith Ellison (D-MN), who became the first Muslim ever elected to Congress on November 7, and asked Ellison if he could "have five minutes here where we're just politically incorrect and I play the cards up on the table." After Ellison agreed, Beck said: "I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.' " Beck added: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way."

[dogday]

1. What a MORAN

And a generally rude human waste product as well.....

[Zhade]

23. An utterly RACIST moron, at that.

NT!

[valerief]

2. Ellison could ask the exact same question of Beck. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

3. No need to ask.

[Lex]

4. I'd like Beck to prove he's not working with our enemies.

What a POS he is.

[file83]

7. That's exactly how I'd answer the question.."Beck, I'll prove that as soon as you can for yourself."

[Bjorn Against]

32. Remember Beck advocated assassinating Michael Moore

I think he would have a very difficult time proving that he is not a dangerous person.

[file83]

47. He'd also have a hard time advocating that he's a smart person.

:rofl:

[aquart]

15. I don't think he could.

The Republicans have provided an extremely nurturing climate for terrorists, aside from refusing to go after bin Ladin because our atomic-bomb-secrets-selling "friend," Pakistan, is sheltering him.

[Nite Owl]

5. Sick

How far down CNN has come to keep someone like him. I've avoided coming across his show so far and hope to keep it that way.

[meganmonkey]

6. That's disgusting

That is absolutely fucking disgusting :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[Disturbed]

14. I am stunned that this AssClown, Beck, is still on TV.

I wonder what his ratings are. I watched about five minutes of his crap once while surfing. He is nutz.

[jhain]

34. I am stunned that he is still sober

do you have to be in recovery to be a freakin' republican lover these days??????????????

[stepnw1f]

8. I Guess CNN Represents Bigotry Now

How un-PC of them. Should blow over well for all the other meat-head bigots out there. Now they will all feel justified in their own bigotry.

Good job CNN... promoting bigotry.

[PATRICK]

9. "Which enemies are you referring to

the Democratic party or the American people or rival network viewers?" Sometimes I woud like to up there just to be able to get one line in.

[TechBear_Seattle]

10. Beck is a right wing shill and repeatedly says so in his program

I've heard him say several times, just while flipping the channel by, that he is definitely on the right. Even Faux makes an effort to hide their extreme bias; CNN doesn't even try.

[cwydro]

11. Can't stand Beck

Wish someone would explain to me how he got a show. So this doesn't surprise me, but geez...

[Bryan Buchan]

12. I have blocked CNN and CNN headline News from my TV

and refuse to watch ever since they started to air this prick's show. Another low for cable news. I can only bare to watch MSNBC.

[burythehatchet]

13. CNN HN has truly become the National Enquirer of the cable world

100% tabloid horseshit

[Shakespeare]

16. Let's see; we've got this inanity, we've got Nancy Grace goading the emotionally fragile...

...CNN's just turning into a paragon of the best in humanity, isn't it? :eyes:

He should lose his job for that bullshit. But he won't, of course.

[Anakin Skywalker]

20. CNN Trying to Compete w/ Faux News for Bigot Viewers.

[amb123]

17. THIS is one of the many reasons that CNN and CNN Headline News are BLOCKED on my cable box!

:rant:

[Conker]

18. 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies'

I can't believe he said that.

[Anakin Skywalker]

19. Glenn (My Name Sounds Like a Beer) Beck, Why Do You Have to Be Such a Redneck?

The people of his state elected him. That's not good enough?

[Rosalind]

21. That was basically his reply...

ELLISON: Well, let me tell you, the people of the Fifth Congressional District know that I have a deep love and affection for my country. There's no one who is more patriotic than I am. And so, you know, I don't need to -- need to prove my patriotic stripes.

[NastyRiffraff]

22. He shoulda ended it...

"you pathetic, bigoted SOB."

[madmusic]

24. Beck is our Tokyo Rose

And I hate the bastard. He is far more dangerous than Limbaugh, Coulter and Hannity combined. His propaganda is insidious. No matter how low his ratings go, someone will keep him on the air because he's the new GOP role model to win back the people.

[PassingFair]

25. What a TOOL!

I wrote.

I was NOT polite.

I will NOT repost my note here.

[Cha]

26. A lot of Americans are as stupid

as glenn beck..I'll give him that.

But, so many are waking up and throwing the bums out.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

27. Behold the Ugly American

Paraded as the everyman.

Bravo CNN.

Ugh.

:puke:

[demokitty]

28. Glenn Beck is an idiot

When he started on CNN Headline News, after 5 minutes I vowed to never watch their channel again and let them know. What rubbish!

[Canuckistanian]

29. Beck's been on an anti-muslim jihad lately

I just heard him being a guest on Limbaugh today, plugging his new anti-muslim TV special.

That was the most awkward conversation I've ever heard. A meeting of two insufferable jerks.

[LSK]

30. GLENN BECK: WELCOME TO AMERICA

IN THIS COUNTRY WE HAVE A SAYING CALLED "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY"

Just a few more citizenship classes and maybe Glenn Beck will know what being and American is all about.

[democrank]

31. Poor Beck.

Fearful because a Muslim was elected to Congress. That`s one of the saddest things I`ve ever heard.

[goodhue]

33. Meanwhile, Rep. Ellison makes a little news . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2616525&mesg_id=2616525

[progressoid]

35. Damn freedom of religion - what were those founding fathers thinking?

[Beelzebud]

36. What a fucking asshole... Aren't his 15 minutes up yet?

[electron_blue]

37. CNN or FOX? can't tell the difference anymore

That is an outrage and slander. I wonder if anything bigger will come of this.

[AlCzervik]

38. i fired off an email to CNN, i'm sure i'll get no response.

[immoderate]

39. WTF? I mean....

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

Oh, it's Glen Beck. Never Mind!

--IMM

[Mr_Spock]

40. Demand that he be fired

That is racist and he ought to be fired on the spot for that.

[spanone]

41. Ellison should have walked. This is such crap.

[mirandapriestly]

42. I am disgusted. Why is this kind of racism allowed toward

Islam? Can you imagine if he said it to any other race or religion? There would be outrage. Anti Islam propaganda is allowed to proceed unchecked, much of it lies...

[byronius]

43. Remember the Equation.

The more outrageous the right-wing talk show host = more certainty that something terrible and dark lurks in his or her basement.

Beck, then, has got to have Sauron down there or something. I bet we'd all wince if we could actually see.

I mean, we will when we do. I already am. Wincing.

Falafel -- Viagra and child prostitutes -- what's Next? Don't answer that.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

44. that darn lib'rul media again!

beck is especially annoying because he somehow got the clueless idea along the way that he's funny

[Cass]

45. What a rude thing to say! Especially after all the nasty vile things he's said.

I will never understand why CNN Headline gave that guy an hour to spew his imbecilic garbage.

[ContraBass Black]

46. Whoa.

I didn't think I could be altogether flabbergasted by a media commentator, but I am.

[FredStembottom]

48. "....and have you stopped beating your wife?"

n/t

[sutz12]

49. Hey, he made Olbermann's Worst Person in the World for it.

:rofl:

[Rockstone]

50. Glen Beck Nailed

The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others.

His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power.

The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.

... developed such hatred for other races and such allegiance to a military clique as to make him willing at all times to engage in any degree of deceit and violence necessary to place his culture and race astride the world.

Henry Wallace 1944

[TexasLawyer]

51. Beck--

Prove to me, Sir, that you have not arrived in a time machine from Revolutionary War-era Britain and that you do not intend, Sir, to harm our minutemen at Bunker Hill.



That is all, Sir. Good day.

[Hippo_Tron]

52. What a racist piece of shit

Hey Beck why don't you prove to me that you're not working with right wing militant groups.

[baldguy]

53. Ellison has nothing to prove.

OTOH ?Beack and his ilk have done immesurable lasting damage to America.

[OzarkDem]

54. What an asshat n/t

[Jed Dilligan]

55. The correct response is, right back atcha.

Prove your innocence to me first, then I'll prove mine to you. Or better yet, maybe we shouldn't have to, since last I checked this is America!

[majorjohn]

56. Extremely Rude and Offensive

What a racist! Must be fired without pay!

[aaronbees]

57. Utterly racist

Honestly, I can't stand more than one second of that jackboot Glenn Beck. How's this for an insincere slap across the face: "I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way." A lot of Americans, Beck, won't feel that way, and it's high time news organizations stop projecting this crap on viewers as if it's some cutting-edge defense of Amurika. What a pig he is, and CNN is the perfect mud pile for him.