Glenn Beck: I Played A Role In 'Helping Tear The Country Apart'

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Here is when the right will yell at Glenn that he MUST'VE lost his mind and obviously doesnt know what hes talking about. It will be a delicate balance to show his apology is crazy but the man himself is not. Should be good

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/22/glenn-beck-fox-news-mistakes_n_4643537.html?ir=Media

Glenn Beck admitted Tuesday that he has some major regrets about his time at Fox News.

“I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes, and I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language,” Beck said during an interview with Megyn Kelly. “I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart and it's not who we are.”

He continued, “I didn’t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of more in it together and now I look back and realize, if we could've talked about the uniting principles instead of just the problems, I think I would look back more fondly.”

Beck left the network after two and a half years in June 2011 to start his own media company. His tenure was full of controversial moments, from accusing President Obama of being a "racist" to gutting a fish that he compared to the mainstream media on air.

He has made similar remarks about his time at Fox News before, telling the AP last year that he wishes he had used less divisive language.

Wow, wait...He just said what Liberals have been saying the whole time about Beck. Whipping up the ignorant masses. But but but...liberals were overreacting. But when you put on the hindsight glasses you see they werent.

Do you forgive him?

 

[Pennywise]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

 

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Glenn Beck and Other ?Too Little, Too Late? Apologies - The Daily Beast

Glenn Beck and Other ‘Too Little, Too Late’ Apologies
Glenn Beck admits his divisive language and outlandish conspiracy theories may have played a role in tearing the country apart. Like Sandy Weill and Robert McNamara before him, Beck’s apology is more than tardy.

An uncharacteristically subdued Glenn Beck took to Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show Tuesday to reflect on his own time at the network. The silver-bearded Beck, who left Fox in 2011 after more than two years to start his own online TV and radio show, The Blaze, looked slightly embarrassed watching clips of himself parading around in lederhosen, waving a dead fish and installing a red phone on set strictly for receiving calls from former White House communications director Anita Dunn, a vocal critic of Fox News.

“I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes,” Beck told Kelly of his time at Fox. “I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language because I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart and it’s not who we are and I didn’t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of a little more in it together. Now I look back and I realize if we could have talked about the uniting principles a little bit more, instead of just the problems, I think I would look back on it a little more fondly.”

The start of Fox’s Glenn Beck show coincided with President Obama’s first inauguration, and Beck’s tenure at the network was largely dedicated to harshly criticizing the administration, accusing the president and his staff of secretly harboring socialist or communist sympathies, and, of course, nourishing the nascent Tea Party movement with his 2010 “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall.

From 2009-2011, Beck was paid to spew damaging—not to mention unfounded—conspiracy theories about President Obama, including the charge that the president was going to release Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind also known as the “Blind Sheikh.” Beck also suggested that Obama planned to boost his own popularity by faking a terrorist attack similar to the Oklahoma City bombing. Beck also endorsed the gold firm Goldline by warning his audience of impending economic collapse, and he continues to urge his audience to prepare for any potential natural, political, or economic emergencies by purchasing Food Insurance’s freeze-dried emergency food supplies.

Beck preyed on and profited from his audience’s fears, many of which he planted himself. And now that the country is practically ripping at the seams politically, he wonders if his language was perhaps a bit too divisive. Beck’s admission of self-awareness on The Kelly File was reminiscent of some other too-little-too-late apologies.

Ex-Citigroup CEO Sandy Weill, for example, said in 2012 that he thinks investment banks and commercial banks should be kept separate. Thirteen years prior, Weill had spearheaded the effort to strike down the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that did just that, eliminating the legal limits on banks’ investing risks, and allowing the creation of financial conglomerate Citigroup—the biggest of the “too big to fail” banks. Time Magazine named Weill one of the “25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis” because of his efforts to shatter Glass-Steagall. Then there he was, after the dust had settled, telling CNBC that “what we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking, have banks be deposit takers, have banks be commercial loans and real estate loans, have banks do something that’s not going to risk the taxpayer dollars, that’s not too big to fail.”

Sandy Weill saying banks shouldn’t be too big to fail is like former Alabama governor and civil rights opponent George Wallace apologizing for his racist policies. Which he did. In the late ’70s, Wallace—the man who famously declared “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever” during his 1963 gubernatorial inaugural speech; who blocked the entrance to a University of Alabama auditorium in an attempt to prevent black students from enrolling—announced that he was a born-again Christian and asked for forgiveness from black civil rights leaders. Wallace continued to emphasize his change of heart throughout the last decades of his life, right up until his death in 1998.

Twenty years after the end of the Vietnam War, former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara made several unofficial apologies for the way the doomed war was managed from 1961 to 1968, while he was at the helm. “We were wrong, terribly wrong. We owe it to future generations to explain why,” he wrote in his 1995 memoir, In Retrospect.

Sometimes, apologies are so late that they have to be made on behalf of people or groups no longer around to apologize for themselves. In 2009, the state of California issued a formal apology for late 19th-century policies that explicitly discriminated against the thousands of Chinese immigrants who risked their lives to build the state’s infrastructure, including the first transcontinental railroad. Chinese immigrants were forbidden to vote, own property, or marry Caucasians, not to mention being insufficiently compensated for their often dangerous work. Like Glenn Beck to the many American people who live in fear of their president, the state of California told the children and grandchildren of those who suffered under their discriminatory laws, “sorry.”

 

[Stephanie]

yeah ok, he hasn't played as big a role as the Democrat/progressive/commie party with Obama as their leader has in tearing this country apart

but he wants to think he has, whatever

and there is already a thread on this

 

[ClosedCaption]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

Are you saying my quotes are incorrect?

Of course you arent you just want to cry.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Funny...Closedminded...er..ClosedCaption is maligning Beck for doing what he did for ratings and book sales...but has no problem with a man who did the EXACT same thing to BECOME PRESIDENT.

 

[Pennywise]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

Are you saying my quotes are incorrect?

Of course you arent you just want to cry.

I heard what he said, unfiltered by Huffpo and regurgitated by you. Your scumbag president told Latinos to "reward your friends and punish your enemies". No, that's not divisive, and it's totally presidential.

 

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Funny...Closedminded...er..ClosedCaption is maligning Beck for doing what he did for ratings and book sales...but has no problem with a man who did the EXACT same thing to BECOME PRESIDENT.

Apples and Oranges. I'm all for people making money but I will look at the kid with the lemonade stand differently than the kid making money from a kissing booth.

You really have nothing to add about the story huh?

 

[ClosedCaption]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

Are you saying my quotes are incorrect?

Of course you arent you just want to cry.

I heard what he said, unfiltered by Huffpo and regurgitated by you. Your scumbag president told Latinos to "reward your friends and punish your enemies". No, that's not divisive, and it's totally presidential.

You just want to cry

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Here is when the right will yell at Glenn that he MUST'VE lost his mind and obviously doesnt know what hes talking about. It will be a delicate balance to show his apology is crazy but the man himself is not. Should be good

Glenn Beck: I Played A Role In 'Helping Tear The Country Apart'

Glenn Beck admitted Tuesday that he has some major regrets about his time at Fox News.

“I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes, and I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language,” Beck said during an interview with Megyn Kelly. “I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart and it's not who we are.”

He continued, “I didn’t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of more in it together and now I look back and realize, if we could've talked about the uniting principles instead of just the problems, I think I would look back more fondly.”

Beck left the network after two and a half years in June 2011 to start his own media company. His tenure was full of controversial moments, from accusing President Obama of being a "racist" to gutting a fish that he compared to the mainstream media on air.

He has made similar remarks about his time at Fox News before, telling the AP last year that he wishes he had used less divisive language.

Wow, wait...He just said what Liberals have been saying the whole time about Beck. Whipping up the ignorant masses. But but but...liberals were overreacting. But when you put on the hindsight glasses you see they werent.

Do you forgive him?

Beck is too full of himself. Whatever role he thinks he played is minor. He should realize that Media Matters never sleeps and what ever he says along those lines will give the radical left something to be outraged about rather than talk about the issues. Beck has no power but Americans need to be outraged about the statement of people who have the power to tax you to death. Andrew Cuomo drew the line on the concrete when he told Americans that NY will not welcome Catholics, NRA members or any of the so-called "right wing extremists". The divisive language of democrat politicians is far more harmful than rhetoric from a talk show host.

 

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Remember how you guys posted pics from Glen Becks rally to show how much unpower he has?

 

[TemplarKormac]

At least he has the balls to admit it. You don't hear Obama admitting such a thing so freely.

 

[natstew]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

Are you saying my quotes are incorrect?

Of course you arent you just want to cry.

I heard what he said, unfiltered by Huffpo and regurgitated by you. Your scumbag president told Latinos to "reward your friends and punish your enemies". No, that's not divisive, and it's totally presidential.

Obama's Iranian born chief adviser: IRS Targeting Tea Party: Valerie Jarret ? ?After We Win This Election, It?s Our Turn. Payback Time.? | The Natty Conservative

Who is the divider?

 

[NLT]

When is Al shyster Sharpton, Rachel Madcow, Chris tingle in my leg, Sgt Shulz, piers the pussyman going to apologize for whipping up the masses of brain dead liberal obama bots?

 

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At least he has the balls to admit it. You don't hear Obama admitting such a thing so freely.

AFTER the destruction. Yeah Kudos. Great job.

 

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When is Al shyster Sharpton, Rachel Madcow, Chris tingle in my leg, Sgt Shulz, piers the pussyman going to apologize for whipping up the masses of brain dead liberal obama bots?

This is what no defense looks like. You're like a turtle on his back

 

[Avatar4321]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

Are you saying my quotes are incorrect?

Of course you arent you just want to cry.

Here is the difference between Glenn and you. He is aware of his mistakes. You criticize his mistakes without realizing they are yours as well.

 

[Avatar4321]

At least he has the balls to admit it. You don't hear Obama admitting such a thing so freely.

Difference is Glenn is actually trying to make a positive change in the world. And when something he does fails to do that, he isn't afraid to admit it and make course corrections. If only the rest of us were like that.

 

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When is Al shyster Sharpton, Rachel Madcow, Chris tingle in my leg, Sgt Shulz, piers the pussyman going to apologize for whipping up the masses of brain dead liberal obama bots?

This is what no defense looks like. You're like a turtle on his back

I am not defending him or any of the other hacks that spout off, I am just exposing your and your liberal buddies hypocrisy. I cant stand Glenn Beck, just like I cant stand the people I listed above.

 

[ClosedCaption]

And another leftist without clue one. I heard what he said, and it was nothing about "whipping up the masses" like your president dick face does. He said he should have done more to make his points in a way that was more inclusive. He said he could have delivered his messages in a way that would have been better received.

When will president dick face class warfare do the same?

Not holding my breath. Oh, and you just fully outed yourself as an asshat tool. I didn't know you were that fucking stupid, you hid it for a while.

Are you saying my quotes are incorrect?

Of course you arent you just want to cry.

Here is the difference between Glenn and you. He is aware of his mistakes. You criticize his mistakes without realizing they are yours as well.

Why are you comparing Glen Beck with me some guy on the internet? Is that all you're left with?