Ah, liberal tolerance.
NBC wants Fox competitor Glenn Beck fired.
Chuck Todd and company at NBC News are outraged that conservative
talker Beck won't --or can't-- be fired for calling President
Obama a "racist." They blogged as follows:
*** On the Glenn Becks and Howard Beales:
The White House doesn't want to give Glenn Beck a bigger
platform or extra oxygen -- especially regarding his remark
yesterday that the president has "a deep-seated hatred for
white people or the white culture" -- so they won't comment,
even off record. Beck, after all, is a radio DJ who somehow
ended up getting a national platform to give his opinion on
politics. What's most amazing about this episode is that what
Beck said isn't a fireable or even a SUSPENDABLE offense by his
bosses. There was a time when outrageous rants like this would
actually cost the ranters their jobs. But not anymore; if
anything, it's now encouraged. And all of this could turn
ACTUAL journalists into the next Howard Beales. It's getting
nuts that the folks who are creating the perception of an
ideological/polarized media world are people who have never
really spent their lives being journalists. Whether it's former
political consultants-turned-TV execs or former radio DJs, or
former California socialites, the folks helping to accelerate
the public's perception of the media off a cliff made their
livings trying to do other things. Of course, Beck's crazy
language could have one unintended consequence: It could cost
him bookings with any Republicans who want to be popular
outside Beck's hard-core bizarro-land viewers.
So much for the national discussion on race relations that
leftists and journalists say America desperately needs.
Of course when liberal demagogues maliciously declare their
enemies racist in the complete absence of evidence, such as when
House Ways and Means Committee chairman Charles Rangel (D-New
York) said Republican tax cuts were racist ("It's not 'sp--' or
'ni--er' anymore. They say, 'Let's cut taxes.'") we hear barely a
peep from the liberal media.
Meanwhile, a radical pressure group called the Southern
Poverty Pimp Law Center
wants adversary Lou Dobbs of CNN canned.
The SPLC's
Richard Cohen claims he wants Dobbs off the air
because "[f]or years, Dobbs has been trading in baseless,
conspiratorial claims that originate on the radical right."
Anyone who has monitored this fundraising
powerhouse that masquerades as a public interest law firm
knows the SPLC hates --and I don't use that word lightly-- Dobbs
because of the hard line he takes on immigration issues.
The group continually smears Dobbs as a racist and this helps its
coffers grow.
