Say Anything

This was over at Crooks and Liars, so is widely read. But it is so bad that I am putting it up here and adding our three readers to C&L’s.

Here’s Glenn Beck:

“If you’re a guy, you can get past it. I don’t think you can as an ugly woman.”

“You’ve got a double cross, because if you’re an ugly woman, you’re probably a progressive as well.”

Beck later added:

“If you believed in God, you’d know that there’s going to be another chance for you. You don’t have to be ugly in heaven. You’re going to be your perfect self, and there will be another perfect somebody waiting for you on the other side.”

Here is what I don’t get – the guy is obviously a cold and cruel jerk, and a moron to boot. Why does he have a show on CNN?

I think Dave Budge and I touched on it a bit in the post below on how mainstream news networks do such a lousy job. CNN is in a ratings battle with FOX and others. They need numbers. It’s not about IQ. That’s the last thing they care about. They want those right wing butts sitting on those couches. After all, TV is just a way of selling audiences to advertisers.

So they bring on the biggest right wing jackass they can find, one not comported to normal decency, one given to saying outrageous things, even if only to draw viewers.

It’s marketing to our lowest common denominator. It’s why the free market can’t deliver a decent product to the public. Our tastes are determined by the dumbest jackasses among us.

Beck is the lowest of sleazeballs to occupy the front lines of mainstream media – an extremely shallow religious freak.

But my – isn’t he a handsome man?