Day: March 17, 2007

Trump: Bush Administration ‘All a Big Lie’

Jon Ponder

It’s so rare that I ever agree with the Donald:

TRUMP: Look, everything in Washington has been a lie: weapons of mass destruction — was a total lie. It was a way of attacking Iraq, which [Pres. George Bush] thought was going to be easy and it turned out to be the exact opposite of easy.

He reads 60 books a year, he reads a book a week — that’s — do you think that’s — do you think the president reads a book a week? I don’t think so.

He doesn’t watch television. Now, one thing I know is that, when I’m on television, I watch, or I try. Because you do — your own ego says, you know, Let’s watch, let’s see, whether it’s good or bad, you want to watch, right? He doesn’t watch television. So he’s on television, being interviewed by you or somebody else, he doesn’t watch. Does anybody really believe that?

Now they’re doing this whole scandal with the U.S. attorneys. Now they’re finding e-mails, and it’s proven to be a lie. Everything’s a lie. It’s all a big lie.

Glenn Beck: Hillary Is a ‘Stereotypical Bitch’

Jon Ponder

Glenn Beck, a less entertaining copycat of comedian Rush Limbaugh, has likened his role in the noise machine to that of a rodeo clown. Listen to him clowning around on his radio show last week:

BECK: I don’t want to sound like the old ball-and-chain guy, but Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because — am I wrong in feeling, am I the only one in America that feels this way? — that there’s something about her vocal range. There’s something about her voice that just drives me — it’s not what she says, it’s how she says it. She is like the stereotypical — excuse the expression, but this is the way to — she’s the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean? She’s that stereotypical, nagging, [unintelligible], you know what I mean? And she doesn’t have to be saying — she could be saying happy things, but after four years, don’t you think every man in America will go insane? Is it just me? I mean, I know this is horrible to say, but I mean it not — I would say this if she were Condi Rice and she sounded like that. Condi Rice doesn’t have that grate to her voice. You know what I need to do? I need to talk to a vocal expert, because there is a range in women’s voices that experts say is just the chalk, I mean, the fingernails on the blackboard. And I don’t know if she’s using that range or what it is, but I’ve heard her in speeches where I can’t take it.

It is hard to believe this guy is married but, according to his bio at Wikipedia, Glenn Beck is in his second marriage. He is also a former drug addict and an alcoholic, as well as a lapsed Catholic who is now a Mormon.

In addition to his radio show, Beck also hosts an hour-long show every weekday on CNN Headline News.