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Title: Glenn Beck Apologizes for Mocking Obama's Daughter
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URL Source: http://www.aolnews.com/nation/artic ... malia/19496426?ncid=webmaildl1
Published: May 29, 2010
Author: Lauren Frayer
Post Date: 2010-05-29 10:09:57 by war
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Views: 399
Comments: 17
(May 29) -- Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck has apologized for a segment on his radio program in which he made fun of President Barack Obama's 11-year-old daughter, imitating her in a childish high-pitched voice and criticizing her intelligence. Beck issued an apology on his website Friday after bloggers and parents objected to the tirade from Beck, who in the past has argued that the media should "leave families alone." In his radio show, "The Glenn Program" on Premiere Radio Networks, Beck mocked Malia Obama for asking her father if he'd managed to stop oil from continuing to spill out into the Gulf of Mexico. At a news conference Thursday, the president recounted how his daughter had asked him, "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" -- in an effort to illustrate how all Americans are anxious about the BP oil rig that's now become America's worst oil spill in history. Afterward Beck made fun of the anecdote, imitating Malia in a squeaky voice. "Daddy? Daddy? Daddy, did you plug the hole yet? Daddy?" he said. Then Beck's co-host Pat Gray responded as if he were the president. "Honey, not yet... Not time yet, honey. Hasn't done enough damage," Gray said. Then Beck took his argument a step further, saying the exchange reveals something about Malia's education. The 11-year-old and her 9-year-old sister Sasha go to Sidwell Friends, and exclusive and high-performing academy that's sometimes called "the Harvard of Washington's private schools." "'Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?' Is that's their -- that's the level of their education, that they're coming to -- they're coming to daddy and saying 'Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?'" Plug the hole!" Beck said on his Friday morning radio show. Later in the 4-minute segment, Beck turned the routine toward Obama's race. "Why do you hate black people so much?" he said, still imitating Malia in a baby voice. "I'm part white, honey," Gray responded in the voice of the president. Friday's segment ran just two days after another piece on Beck's radio program in which he decried critics of Sarah Palin's family. "Leave people's families alone. I don't think I've ever... We've never done anything but protect families... Leave families alone," he said at the time. Under criticism from liberal blogs like Media Matters and others, Beck issued an apology saying, "I broke my own rule about leaving kids out of political debates." "The children of public figures should be left on the sidelines," Beck wrote. "It was a stupid mistake and I apologize -- and as a dad I should have known better." Filed under: Nation, Politics
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#1. To: All (#0)
It was hilariously funny, and he was mocking Owe-bama not his kid. But this does highlight a difference between Left and Right. The Right apologies when they go over the top on things such as this. You'll never see the Left apologize for the Bush Twin jokes that were a staple for eight years. Think about it.
For approximately 72K, BP Oil bought Owe-bama. And as President, he let them Spill, Baby, Spill! Its documented.
Think about it. ====================================== Left and Right, you say? Have you read Laura Bush's new book? She's pro-abortion and believes it is now time for gays to be accepted. Where was she on this from 2000 to 2008? Think about it.
An apology isn't enough, is it w.a.r.? Call an investigation. Hire a special prosecutor. Make it the lead story on the lamestream media. Pay reparations. PROSECUTE, THEN KILL GLENN BECK! It's not as if there are other things going on.
If I could, I would. Where was she on this from 2000 to 2008? The first was well known from the 2000 campaign. The second is a throw away, a 'DUH' comment. What either have to do with the topic is unknown.
For approximately 72K, BP Oil bought Owe-bama. And as President, he let them Spill, Baby, Spill! Its documented.
(chuckle) It kills the leftwingers they can't produce anyone thats half as sucessful as the top ten Conservative commentators, on radio or tv.
For approximately 72K, BP Oil bought Owe-bama. And as President, he let them Spill, Baby, Spill! Its documented.
Laura Bush suffers from BDS. Big time!
If I could, I would. Yeah, but the problem is when they fail, they quit and become US Senators. If I could, I would. Then Beck took his argument a step further, saying the exchange reveals something about Malia's education. The 11-year-old and her 9-year-old sister Sasha go to Sidwell Friends, and exclusive and high-performing academy that's sometimes called "the Harvard of Washington's private schools." "'Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?' Is that's their -- that's the level of their education, that they're coming to -- they're coming to daddy and saying 'Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?'" Plug the hole!" Beck said on his Friday morning radio show. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ You just cannot help lying about anything can you Boof?
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
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Is that supposed to mean something relevant to anything? So people watch these morons on TV and listen to them on the radio. Big fucking deal.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
People forget how the Left has used GOP President's children for decades as political targets.Some of us are old enough to remember how they treated Nixon's kids, for example. And Reagan's, remember the SNL skits mocking Ronnie Jr? That didn't stop til Ronnie Jr's daddy issues became a career path for him. Personally, I never used Carter's kid, or Clinton's, when they were 'children'. Had a few laughs since they've grown up...and long after each were out of office (Carter obviously). Til Webb Hubbells kids...er, Chelsea Clinton went out on the campaign trail, I left her alone. No point is ever made using them. Then again, the Left rarely has a point, just rhetoric.
For approximately 72K, BP Oil bought Owe-bama. And as President, he let them Spill, Baby, Spill! Its documented.
Yeah, free market. Who needs it? /moron
If I could, I would. And Reagan's, remember the SNL skits mocking Ronnie Jr? Some of us know what a fucking liar you are. Nixon's kids were not attacked. Ron, Jr guest hosted SNL in 1986, Boof.
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
Ron, Jr guest hosted SNL in 1986, Boof. The 500 year old man speaketh. He would have been slobbering all over his Maltomeal waiting for the rabbit ears to pick up Captain Kangaroo when Nixon was in office. Nixon's daughters were treated like rock stars and they dated celebrities.
Making the world safe for United Fruit.
You just never catch on, do you Boofer? Beck said the children should be off limits, then went against his own rule. That's what he's apologizing about, dufus. It has nothing to do with the "Left" or "Right", it has to do with Beck.
"The children of public figures should be left on the sidelines," Beck wrote. "It was a stupid mistake and I apologize -- and as a dad I should have known better." No...no...Glenn...Boofer has said that you weren't mocking is Obama's children. And Boof is omnipotent. Or is it impotent?
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
Boofer is what Orwell had in mind... George had some sense of humor, eh?
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#2. To: Badeye, war (#1)
You'll never see the Left apologize for the Bush Twin jokes that were a staple for eight years.
#3. To: Badeye, w.a.r. (#1)
The Right apologies when they go over the top on things such as this.
But I can't, so I won't.
#4. To: HAPPY2BME-ONLF (#2)
She's pro-abortion and believes it is now time for gays to be accepted.
#5. To: Ignore Amos (#3)
#6. To: HAPPY2BME-ONLF (#2)
She's pro-abortion and believes it is now time for gays to be accepted.
But I can't, so I won't.
#7. To: Badeye (#5)
It kills the leftwingers they can't produce anyone thats half as sucessful as the top ten Conservative commentators, on radio or tv.
But I can't, so I won't.
#8. To: Boofer (#1)
It was hilariously funny, and he was mocking Owe-bama not his kid.
#9. To: Ignore Amos (#6)
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#10. To: Badeye (#5)
It kills the leftwingers they can't produce anyone thats [sic] half as sucessful [sic] as the top ten Conservative commentators, on radio or tv.
#11. To: Ignore Amos (#7)
#12. To: w.a.r. (#10)
So people watch these morons on TV and listen to them on the radio.
But I can't, so I won't.
#13. To: Badeye (#11)
Some of us are old enough to remember how they treated Nixon's kids, for example.
#14. To: war (#13)
Some of us know what a fucking liar you are. Nixon's kids were not attacked.
#15. To: Badeye (#1)
You'll never see the Left apologize for the Bush Twin jokes that were a staple for eight years.
#16. To: Skip Intro (#15)
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Beck issued an apology saying, "I broke my own rule about leaving kids out of political debates."
#17. To: mininggold (#14)
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