Glenn Beck, under fire for comparing Reform Judaism to radicalized Islam on Tuesday, opened up his radio show yesterday with a lengthy apology about his remarks. “I’ve always told you to do your own homework, and in this case, I didn’t do enough homework,” said Beck, during a six-minute mea culpa that didn’t include tears but did include a fair amount of self-flagellation. “I made one of the worst analogies of all time. And I knew it when I said it,” said Beck. “Here I am talking about Judaism and I start comparing Islamic extremism. It was a nightmare.” Watch the entire clip below:
Beck’s initial remarks attracted immediate rebukes from the Anti-Defamation League and other Jewish organizations. I applaud Beck for owning up to his ignorance in such a forthright manner. Maybe it will become a recurring feature of the show.
Can I say I love Glenn’s archaic microphone? I’d ask if you felt Beck’s apology felt sincere, but everything about Beck is a form of sincerity. But did his apology enhance how you feel about him, one way or the other?
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Oh yeah… and Glenn Beck is still a douche…
Like everything else he says, he just spouted whatever came off the top of his head without much thought, and hopes that his dim-whited listeners would buy into it.
I bet the Zionist regime got to him. Those a-holes control everything now, and we won’t be able to speak freely.
I have to ask, are you just crazy or are you that much of an antisemite. Either way, you are a loser.
Is EW trying to be the Huffpost? Who cares what this idiot says?
Obviously you do because you not only read the article, you commented on it.
Haha @Firsties thanks for saying it, well, first. Took the words right out of my mouth. What a douche.
I respect Glenn Beck for his apology. It takes a big person to apologize one on one much less nationally.
Why is he a douche…….For giving his opinion? Are you a douche for having yours? As he stated, he challenges EVERYONE to verify him and correct him IF they find his information incorrect. Have you done that?
Well put!
Completely agree.
Pique, your pathetic defense of Beck ignores his own words: HE KNEW IT WAS WRONG WHEN HE SAID IT. Beck is a piece of garbage who knows that he can do damage with the original statement and then issue a BS apology that will not get nearly as much attention as the original slur. Mark my words, he will NOT stop with these slurs, he will keep comparing innocent groups with radical Muslims, Nazis, and communists, even though he is a liar and a slanderer.
And I think the left are a bunch of idiots, there, I said that, and it’s not wrong when I said it!!
He’s a douche because he vilifies people with spurious logic based on otherwise unrelated facts. He’s a douche because his incendiary vociferousness is divisive to an already overly partisan country. And, last but not least, he’s a douche because, outside of the celebrity, politics, and media the guy’s just your average douchebag.
Only douchebags use the term douche
Mmm, blanket statements are fun.
@ Pique
Yes, he challenges his viewship to do their own research and draw their own conclusions… but counts on them not doing so. His is a bluff that far too many people are buying without verifying. You yourself might learn a thing or two by looking into the findings of independent, non-partisan watchdog groups like politifact.com and factcheck.org…
sounds just like obama to me, the leftist media just accept what the imbecile says as gospel truth.
He’s a douche because when he was a shock-jock he called a rival DJ’s wife on the air to mock her for having had a miscarriage.
Now if he would only apologize for every other ignorant and ill-informed comment he has made.
he is a manipulative person with a twisted, scary idea of patriotism and what it means to be american. that’s why he’s a douche.
I agree with mary!
Attaboy!
What alex said.
The man owned up to his mistake.olberman never would have done. Beck did the right thing and look at all of the haters beat on him. You all should be ashamed.
WRONG AGAIN. Olberman has admitted he was wrong on many occasions, and apologized for offhand remarks. Take your right wing fringe hate elsewhere. Try fox news, the posters there will most likely agree with anything you want to say that paints anyone who thinks differently than you as an anti american demon
so, as a reform Jew, I should be ashamed of being offended by Glenn Beck’s statement? I think I am perfectly within my rights to hold him accountable for what he said. Regardless of things he’s done and said in the past, his political leanings, etc., I still have every right to be offended by this, as does any other American who takes offense to this. the fact that he apologized doesn’t change the fact that he should still be held accountable for the things that he says and does, so comparing him to other talking heads in this way is, in my opinion, kind of irrelevant. I absolutely will not be ashamed for being offended and I’m gonna go ahead and say thanks for the apology, Glenn, but you’re still kind of a douche. And I will not be ashamed for thinking so.
Waaaaaaaait a minute. How did you go from “the US is firmly anti-anti-Semitic” to “propping up dictatorships”? How does 9/11 relate to our country’s intolerance of racial/ethnic intolerance?
Because 9/11 only occurred because of our support of Israel. It’s what you would call ‘An Inconvenient Truth’
Oh, well, there we have it. The complexities of decades of geopolitics solved by a singular statement. Thanks, Red! Now we know. And knowing is half the battle!
Angelo – brilliant rebuke!!!!!!
What does “everything about Beck is a form of sincerity” mean?
I guess this idiot writer meant that all of Beck’s Muppet voices, straw man arguments, false comparisons to Muslims/Nazis/Communists, and outright lies are other forms of his “sincerity”. Beck is sincerely evil.
Sure and I bet you think that Olbermann and Maddow are totally unbiased.
The fact that GE (who owns NBC/MSNBC) pays 3% in taxes
vs WalMart and Target who spend 33% of THEIR EARNINGS in taxes tells you everything you need to know.
The “news” is already bought and paid for.
No one – NO ONE should BLINDLY believe what anyone says. On either side of the aisle.
Can you prove what Glenn Beck has said about the failings of our recent and past Presidents is wrong? What unbiased evidence do you have to prove him wrong on everything he says? Do I agree with everything he says? No, but I believe in the proof of research that has been done. Why is fox the only news channel that reports on the left and right mishaps? While CNN and NBC put a positive spin on the left and rake the right over the coals?
This man will say anything just as long as he thinks he can get away with it. And when he can’t he falsely apologizes. He wants his fame and his money. That is all.
typical left to bash someone with his own ideas. he made a mistake, just like every douche liberal host. lay off, you are jelous of his millions
Yes, that’s the issue: that ONE mistake he’s made. Uh-huh. Otherwise, he’s a man full of facts.
You’re an idiot!
Do tell. Precisely how am I being idiotic today? I am, admittedly an idiot, and thus confuzzled by my particular crime of ignorance in this matter.
If Glenn Beck were my father, I’d become emo and hate him for not letting me wear my sister’s jeans.
Where is the Daily Show camel story, EW????????
Um, here…?
http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/24/daily-show-camel-stunt-wisconsin/
The camel story was on yesterday. I found it by typing in camel into the search. Either you don’t know how to use computers or you were trying to make some lame argument about EW being biased. At least try and do a little research before getting so indignant. http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/02/24/daily-show-camel-stunt-wisconsin/