Glenn Beck Bashes 11-Year-Old Malia Obama (VIDEO)
Fox News personality Glenn Beck landed in hot water last week after spending much of his Friday radio show taunting First Daughter Malia Obama, on-air. What appeared to set Beck off was a comment President Obama made at a press conference on Thursday in which he relayed a story abut Malia asking him about the crisis in the Gulf, saying “Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?”
Beck used the comment for the basis of a skit in which he mimicked 11-year old Malia Obama’s voice in a mock dialogue with the President, asking things like “Daddy, why do you hate black people so much?” and “Daddy, why do you still let Sarah Palin destroy the environment? Daddy, why don’t you put her in some sort of camp?” As if that weren’t offensive enough, Beck took time out from the exchange to make a few zingers about Malia’s intelligence.
“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.
Last night, Beck issued an apology, saying that he shouldn’t have done the skit, explaining, “The children of public figures should be left on the sidelines. It was a stupid mistake and I apologize—and as a dad I should have known better.”
Quite frankly, he did know better. This skit, which goes on for minutes, involved forethought, planning and execution. It also featured two grown men laughing at a little girl. To call it a stupid mistake is a serious dodge. It was mean, and it was intentionally mean, and no kid deserves that. (You can listen to the skit here and see for yourself)
What do you think? Did Glenn Beck go too far?
Source/Photo: AP Photo/White House – Annie Leibovitz
Once again, I think the whole thing is being taken out of context, blown out of proportion, and, in doing that, overlooking the actual meat of the story. Beck, whether right or wrong for his taunting of Malia Obama, is first and foremost and entertainer. His show is very informative and, in many ways, superior to his competition; but he is still doing it to entertain, to make his audience laugh, and to make them sit up and take notice. I don’t recall anyone attacking those who made the numerous attacks on Jenna and Barbara Bush; but then, I don’t recall George W. Bush ever using either of them in the same manner that Barrack Obama did in last week’s press conference. As a fan of Beck’s, I find it very interesting how intensely he’s being attacked on so many levels and I can’t help but wonder if it’s because of how close he’s getting to the truth. But don’t take my word for it, listen and watch him for one week. In the meantime, don’t worry about all the stuff (like this whole attack on Glenn Beck), look at the real story: Why is the oil still leaking in the Gulf and the President won’t do anything about it? That’s the story.
clearly Beck counts on people’s pathetically short memories when it comes to politics. Here’s a blurb summarizing an interview with Sarah Palin:
“In recent days Glenn Beck interviewed former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. During the interview he took a stand as to how he felt individuals should treat the families of public speakers. Beck likened Palin’s family to those of past politicians, saying that while Bill Clinton was president, you never saw anyone attacking Chelsea Clinton. While George Bush was President, you never saw his children under such a microscope. However, Palin’s kids have been exposed to the political world at a young age, especially her daughter Bristol Palin, who became a teenage mother during Sarah Palin’s Vice Presidential bid. Beck said that families ought to be off limits in politics, and that he was against the recent attacks on the families of politicians.”
No Beck, I am sure that is not their level of education but I am sure that is your level of mentality. You should be embarrased.
What exactly is the President supposed to do about the oil leak? Swim to the bottom and stick his finger in the hole?
America isn’t a communist nation where the government controls the means of production. The president does not have the authority to order a private business to do anything – even if it has broken the law. It is up to our legislative and judicial branches to identify wrong-doing. It seems as if so many people want more oil, less regulation, to get government out of our lives – until something goes wrong. then people don’t seem to understand why the government can’t teleport itself into a problem and make it stop.
BP is just loving the fact that blame is being directed at Obama – less focus on them. How about Beck doing a real news commentary on how huge corporations have benefited from years of soft regulations (passed in Congress, like all our laws and regulations are) that have resulted in tragedies. If he stopped being such a tool for the side he’s clearly on, I would listen to him.
His “commentary” was mean-spirited, sophomoric, and added NOTHING to our understanding of the situation. In fact, it succeeded in keeping the attention away from whose truly at fault here – BP.
This isn’t any worse than her own mother calling her and her sister obese and making the rest of America’s children conform to a new diet on their own dime.
Just another example of Beck doing what he does best.. being an idiot! The only reason he apologized is because of the negative publicity his immature skit caused. FOX news should take him off the air pronto!! Do you think if a black radio host did the same thing to a white president his desk would be there the next day?? I doubt it!! Whoopie said it best today on The View “Beck is a BONEHEAD”!!
Beck, those who watch him and find his show “informative” or “entertaining” are revealing their own lack of humanity. After all, Beck is the man who draws a line from “social change” to Nazism. He’s a dangerous ideologue with a huge platform. If he believes what he spews, he’s stupid and uninformed. If he’s doing it for ratings or entertainment, he’s a cynical hypocrite.
Bush daughters was not 11 years old where is the respect for a chid
I hate Glenn Beck with a burning passion, and this doesn’t help at all. What a POS.
Glen Beck,
Someone should plug that hole you have on your face that you call a mouth. You’re an idiot.
Where’s the thumbs up button? Well, about 300 of them to Citizen Mom comment on Jun 01 10 at 2:45 pm
If “children of public figures should be left on the sidelines” then President Obama should stop mentioning them in his national press conferences. The moment President Obama made the remark of what his daughter said, that right there opened the door.
Did someone just call Beck “informative?” Oy vey- maybe he is right. Maybe the world IS coming to an end, but not for any of the reasons that he claims.