Clear Channel Hypocrisy

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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 called Michael Berg, who criticized the Bush administration after his son Nick was beheaded in Iraq, "despicable" and "a scumbag."

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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 called Michael Berg, who criticized the Bush administration after his son Nick was beheaded in Iraq, "despicable" and "a scumbag."

Howard Stern got fined and shit for being lude on the air, but this goes un-noticed? what the fuck?

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A witch hunt is what it was.

They took Howard Stern and Bubba the Love Sponge out, in Bubba's case because he was a Democrat and God forbid he might be onto something about getting rid of the Good Ole' Boys down in the Pinellas County Sherif's Office.

This guy says he wants to kill Moore....

Seems pretty conservative to me.

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Did he say 'scumbag' on the air? If so, that is an indecent term and can be grounds for a fine. Yes, the term scumbag is indecent, your government hard at work there.

To the main point however, talking about killing someone on the air is perfectly acceptable. We recently had to take an indecency test as per Viacom's orders and one of the questions was the following (and I am not making this up at all):

Which of the following statements would not be considered indecent?

1. "Yeah, so I walked in the boss's office, dropped my pants, and took a huge dump on his desk."

2. "When I was banging this chick last night, all she kept doing was screaming out 'give it to me daddy, just like that!'"

3. "The boss pissed me off so bad last week that he made me want to go to his house, slit his wife's throat, bash his head in with a shovel, then set his children on fire."

Yes, you guessed it, Statement 3 is perfectly radio-friendly, despite the other two being about natural human acts. If you don't believe me, Stern read that same test on the air a week after the test was given to employees. It's absolutely fucking ridiculous, and again proves that the FCC is outdated and unnecessary. Here's another little tidbit, do you know why the FCC only regulates TV and Radio and not other forms of media such as newspapers? It's because way back at the dawn of the FCC, it was decided that we don't need to regulate newspapers because there were so many different papers that people had a choice of what they could read. Meanwhile, radio and TV were growing mediums that needed regulation, now cities have far more radio stations than newspapers, but the FCC's still there. Because back before this country completely lost its mind, we realized that people had a choice to not look at what they didn't want to look at, just like today where you can change the goddamn channel. The FCC is a group of jackoffs who aren't smart enough to work in a real government job, and so they bully people. And the assholes in the real government, Democrats and Republicans alike, allow this abuse of power because it keeps the media in control, which is just how our politicians like it.