Rachel Maddow Beats Down Glenn Beck The Way A Monster Truck Beats Down A Yugo
Asshattery, F*ck The Republicants, The Rachel Maddow Files, Wild Wacky Wingnuttery February 17th, 2010
Memo to Loansome Roads Beck:
When you trend your lies and deceit and neo-fascist talking points in front of your faithful Fixed Noise/Teabagger audience, you are in good hands.
When you attempt to parlay that BS in front of actual thinking adults, on the other hand, you are on quicksand.
And when you attempt to smear the likes of Rachel Maddow with same BS….well, may heaven help your soul, because it just won’t help your ass from the mudhole it gets stomped into.
It all started when Rachel had Bill Nye (aka, “The Science Guy”) over at her show last Monday to help disprove the misconception and recent right-wing meme ongoing that the recent “Snowmageddon”/”Snowpocalybse” record snowfall that has whacked the US this winter season is the dagger in the theory of “global warming”/”climate change”….that’s the theory that says that the increase in global atmospheric temperatures in the past few years will cause climate changes that could ultimately and radically affect all matters of human life unless radical changes in lifestyle are imposed.
Of course, right wingers like Beck (and his cohorts over at ClusterFox like InSanity, BillO, and Greta von Sustren) see this as nothing more than the usual commie threat against The Capitalist/Free Market Way, invented by former Vice President Al Gore as merely a way to deny Americans their right to their God-earned profits and land. What got Beck particularly incensed was that Nye had labeled such global warning/climate change skeptics as “unpatriotic”.
Well, Beckster wasn’t going for that….and on his Fixed Noise TV show on Tuesday, he attempted to smear Nye (and by extension Maddow) by challenging their belief that he had even questioned the notion of global warning.
[...] On his February 12 radio program, Beck responded by falsely asserting: “Nobody’s saying that … who has claimed that this snow storm is proof that global warming doesn’t exist? How many times have I said, both for hurricanes and no hurricane, this doesn’t — one storm, one storm does not prove anything. It’s a trend.” [via MediaMatters.org article here]
Big Mistake Number One, Mr. Beck….because that night, during a segment of her show, Rachel hit that softball clean out of the park (Taken from the official transcript of The Rachel Maddow Show from last Tuesday, again via Media Matters):
MADDOW [after replaying the clip of Beck challenging her claims of him denying global warning]: Who’s claimed that? Dude, you have. A lot.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
BECK: Well, the snow is hammering Washington, D.C. again. I believe God is just saying, “I got your global warming here, eh? You want a piece of global warming?”
MADDOW: Same radio show. Same guy and it’s not like that was a one-off occurrence.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BECK [February 10 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck]: I don’t think it takes a genius to see through the “more snow is proof of global warming” claim.
[Fox News guest host Eric Bolling]: Sixty-three percent of the country is now covered in snow. And it’s breaking Al Gore’s heart because the snow is also burying his global warming theory.
SEAN HANNITY, HOST, “HANNITY”: It’s the most severe winter storm in years, which would seem to contradict Al Gore’s hysterical global warming theories. Rumor has it that another storm could be headed this way next week. Global warming, where are you? We want you back.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MADDOW: Who has claimed that the snowstorm is proof that global warming doesn’t exist? Who has claimed that? It is one thing to be totally outrageously wrong about facts in science. But the price of that is getting made fun of for it and getting called out on it by, boom, Bill Nye the Science Guy.
Smarter folk would have gotten the hint and given up. Glenn Beck, fortunately for us, isn’t quite that smart.
Apparently, he thought that he would embarrass Rachel as this loony leftist lesbian liar working for that commie network MSNBC distorting everything he says….so the next day (yesterday), he produced a video blog for his website GlennBeck.com in which he decided to slam Maddow as a liar who distorted what he really said to support her — and by extension, the evil LEEEEEEEBROL media’s — dirty elitist biases. Again, quoting Media Matters:
MADDOW (video clip): Who’s claimed that? Dude, you have. [BECK CUT] It is one thing to be totally outrageously wrong about facts and science. But the price of that is getting made fun of for it and getting called out on it, boom, by Bill Nye, the Science Guy. On climate change, new rule – you lie, you must pay the Nye.
BECK: Ah, I see. I’m a liar, but – and here’s the inconvenient truth what was the very next sentence I said that they cut off?
BECK (video clip): Who has claimed that this snowstorm is proof that global warming doesn’t exist? How many times have I said both for hurricanes and no hurricane, this doesn’t – one storm, one storm does not prove anything? It is a trend.
BECK: Kind of nukes your whole point, doesn’t it? I guess that’s why they didn’t show it. No wonder they sympathize so much with the alarmists who hide and lose key data. Looks like they don’t mind doing exactly the same thing themselves.
In the actual vblog Beck does, Maddow has her eyes electronically shielded, like she’s some secret porn starlet or former Soviet double agent….and the entire clip is captioned with the blazing headline: “Media Shamelessly Attack Glenn: Selective Editing At Its Worst”.
Even Bigger Mistake #2 for Loansome Roads…because that night on her show, Rachel not only rebutted his attempt at smacking her down with her usual low key snark, but noticed something very interesting about Beck’s attack on her for “selective editing”.
Namely, that he engaged in his own selective editing of her remarks.
Hence, I present the rout.
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC): 2/16/10 segment responding to FOX News host Glenn Beck’s videoblog accusing her of distorting his statements on global warming (via YouTube/MSNBC)
Yeah, I agree wholeheartedly…although I’m not so sure that Beck understands the meaning of those words. Still…if he’s that much a glutton for punishment, I say,”Back off, Beck…..DON’T!!!”
Tags: Glenn Beck, Rachel Maddow, The Mighty Conservative Intellect
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