O’Reilly dropped the ball defending Glenn Beck with Joe Klein

Posted by The Right Scoop on February 1st, 2010 in Uncategorized | 6 Comments

I hope that O’Reilly never has to defend me, because he does a really crappy job. He let Joe Klein call Beck a ‘birther’, and Beck has denounced that time and time and time again. I know O’Reilly was talking at the same time as Klein, but dude, you can’t just let that one go. You have to at least set the record straight.

But this proves one thing: Joe Klein doesn’t even watch Beck, or listen to Beck, or else he’d know that Beck is no ‘birther’ by any stretch. He is biased by what he hears but has no clue what Beck is really about. Basically he’s just a hack.

Personally I don’t care if Joe Klein loves or hates Glenn Beck. That’s his right. But O’Reilly dropped the ball in a big way. Instead of painting Beck as well researched and established Fox News broadcaster, he painted him as “every man sitting on a barstool” and then said “why shouldn’t every man have a show?”. Are you serious?

If O’Reilly was Beck’s life preserver, he’d be dead.

Enjoy:

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Nilloc

Klein is a pinhead. I LOL when I heard him say that Glenn believes Obama wasn't born here.

And you're right: O'Reilly should have corrected Klein. Perhaps he didn't hear him? As you said, they were talking at the same time.
Karen

I thought Joe Klein's performance was embarrassing, but what's more important, he demonstarted — as do ALL of talk radio's critics in the national media — that they don't even LISTEN to the programs they're criticizing. I listen to Rush, and Beck, and Hannity. And then whether it's Joe Klein trashing Beck, or Bob Schieffer attack Rush, or any of the talking heads attacking conservative critics, they never manage to quote anything the pundit under attack actually SAID. What they mouth — time and again — are warped, warmed over, badly garbled synopsis of what someone on some blog WROTE about what someone supposedly said.

Whatever you think of Glenn Beck, I haven't heard him say anything worse about Barack Obama than EVERYONE at MSNBC (save for Joe Scarborough) CONTINUES TO THIS DAY to say about G W Bush.

But somehow, that sort of “incendiary rhetoric” never bothers people like Joe Klein.

Apparently, what bothers Klein about Glenn Beck is not what he says, but who he says it about.

And that's Joe Klein's right — just as TIME has the right to give him a forum — but let's not pretend either has anything to do with journalism.
scristanti

I watched it also and did not hear klein say birther, I must have missed it also, I just wanted to hear what klein was saying but o'rielly was talking non stop as he usually does with a guest, I do not believe in a million years that if he heard that jerk klein say that he would not have said something back. I think you are being to hard on him.
therealroyalking

Beck a well-researched and established FOX news broadcaster? I suppose “FOX” saves you from a complete lack of credibility. On a true news channel, Beck would be regarded as a complete charlatan. As for O'Reilly, even passing through FOX en route to something better, the tension between O'Reilly and Beck is obvious. For O'Reilly to aid Beck would be like Joan Crawford coming to the assistance of Betty Davis, albeit Crawford would be less shrill and catty.
FoxNewsJack

The dirty little secret is that both O'Reilly and Beck wish each other dead, at least in the business sense. It is so clear that O'Reilly is really threatened by Beck, and with good reason.
Smallz

FoxNewsJack…are you serious? I really hope you were kidding, because otherwise you need to get a clue! They are on tour together “Jack”.

O’Reilly dropped the ball defending Glenn Beck with Joe Klein

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