The Media’s Double Standard
FOR Izzy helpfully sends the following, which reminds me of my friend’s adage–“It’s OK if you’re Republican!” Without a doubt, I would have been fired from KFI Radio had I uttered something similar about a Republican public figure.
(From Media Matters)
Why is this (below) okay?!!!
Why aren’t 20 federal agents dragging this a-hole off to the Black Hole of Calcutta, like they would be if some terrorist-supporting lefty blogger (ahem) had said something even remotely similar about one of the right-wing fascista?
How can this double-standard continue???
We are soooo screwed.=========================================
Radio host Glenn Beck “thinking about killing Michael Moore”
Clear Channel radio host Glenn Beck said he was “thinking about killing [filmmaker] Michael Moore” and pondered whether “I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it,” before concluding: “No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong?”
From the May 17 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I’m thinking. I’m thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I’m wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out — is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus — band — Do, and I’ve lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, “Yeah, I’d kill Michael Moore,” and then I’d see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I’d realize, “Oh, you wouldn’t kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn’t choke him to death.” And you know, well, I’m not sure.
Beck’s program is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks (owned by radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications) on more than 160 radio stations across the country to an estimated audience of 6 million listeners. He has previously falsely accused Moore of “taking help and money from Hezbollah” and calledMichael Berg, who criticized the Bush administration after his son Nick was beheaded in Iraq, “despicable” and “a scumbag.”
