First off, Glenn Beck. If you've been reading Media Matters for America, then you know how bad this guy is: he's a gibbering moron tryong to follow the "shout 'em down, bully 'em out" model of such right-wing blowhards as Loofah O'Reilly and Pigman Limbaugh. Don't believe me? Take some examples of what he's said, both on his show on HN and his radio hate-fest:
- Illegal immigrants are "trying to conquer our culture", and Iranian prez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad "sounded ... a lot like Michael Moore" in a letter.
- On Iran: "I say we nuke the bastards (...) In fact, it doesn't have to be Iran, it can be everywhere, anyplace that disagrees with me."
- On New School graduation speaker Jean Rohe, who said that the decision to have the new, more Christofascist John McCain speak at the graduation ceremony was done against the interests of the students: "Shut up! Shut up! Shut Up! I can't take her!"
- On Moussaoui: "In 30 years, I think this guy could become the next 'Tookie' Williams," agreeing with a caller of similar non-mind stating that "the Left" would make a "celebrity" out of Moussaoui.
- His famous hatred for the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the families of 9/11 victims: "And that's all we're hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we're seeing on television are the scumbags(.)" "[W]hen I see a 9-11 victim family on TV or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm just so sick of them because they're always complaining."...
- And, of course, like all vacuous right-wing windbags, he has to take a simple-minded, ham-fisted shot at Cindy Sheehan and her personal tragedy and drive to see justice done: "Cindy Sheehan. That's a pretty big prostitute there, you know what I mean? [...] Pretty hard to beat prostituting your son's death. Don't you think?"
And it's not just the fact that he says this disgusting shit that bothers me; it's the fact that CNN's commercials try to tout this jackass as a "normal guy". Yeah, normal guys make it a point to want to nuke whole countries if they don't kiss his lily-white ass. Normal guys call grieving mothers prostitutes. Normal guys hate tragedy victims. If that's what normal guys do, then by God, I'm abnormal.
Second, my hatred of Nancy Grace. This is a minor point, but one I have to get out: this woman is a big red herring. Every night, her show is the source of more Missing/Dead Pretty White Woman stories. She does NOTHING ELSE, far as I've seen. Her only point is to distract people from the real stories, the real problems of this world, by filling them with fear that their Pretty White Women may be next.
At least I don't have to pay too much attention to the TV there. I can always just keep working.
