If you tuned in to see how Glenn Beck responded to the historic end of the 10-year man hunt for Osama bin Laden hoping for a spectacle, he delivered. Watch the opening of his Fox News show below. He began by addressing a hot-button topic — the New Year’s Eve-type celebrations witnessed last night as crowds amassed in front of the White House, at Ground Zero and Times Square in New York, and on college campuses around the country. As someone who was made uncomfortable by the sight of beach balls and actual cheerleaders performing stunts in front of the White House, I think this is an issue worth discussing. I thought, for a moment, that Beck did, too.
“This is a great day in the war on terror. But as I watched all the celebrations taking place on the streets of America, all over America, you may have — and maybe I’m alone — had a strange feeling,” Beck said. “You may have seen students jumping into the lake in Ohio and rushing to the White House bearing signs and smoking cigars. As I watched these things happen last night, I couldn’t help but be reminded of when the Palestinians danced in the streets and passed out candy after the 9/11 attacks, when they danced in the streets over the killing of five American students and the slaughter of a Jewish family. All of these things, you know and I know, were offensive. All of those victims were innocent. America, we are better than this. We are better than jumping into lakes and holding signs and cigars. I think we’re better than that. I mean, why hand out candy… when you can have cookies, and confetti, and a marching band, huh?” Cue the entrance of the Soul Tigers marching band drum line and Beck dancing around the studio while holding a plate of cookies and confetti dropped.
When the song ended, he spoke again. “That was tasteless and offensive…. My apologies for the marching [band]. No, I’m not gonna apologize for that,” he said. “I actually felt really kind of bad today about some of the grotesque displays, and then I thought, you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.” Later in the hour, Beck referenced his opening again. “Every time I think that, ‘Oh, I don’t know if we could do the cookies or the confetti or whatever,’ I see that it’s not marching in the streets for innocent victims. It is celebrating in the streets for a journey that has been and hard and been fought valiantly with honor. And people have tried to do the right thing. And this guy was certainly not innocent….”
Speaking about the assault itself, Beck said we have to give President Obama credit for making it happen. Too bad Beck fell victim to the dreaded Osama-Obama slip while doing so. “Although, I don’t think ‘Hey, yeah, let’s kill Obama,’ is all that tough, I mean, bin Laden, is all that tough of a call. But I’m not the one in that seat, you know,” he said. He did manage some praise for the president: “He did seem a little arrogant in last night’s speech. I’d give more credit to the troops who have been on the ground looking for 10 years. But he did create the condition to allow Osama bin Laden to be killed, and he deserves respect for that and our thanks,” Beck said.
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What a moron.
Yep. And a blathering one at that. I thought that ridiculous tangent would never end.
Hey Shannon guess you are too stupid to know if you don’t like to watch a show you can change the channel and watch some uber progressive idiot go on about how the anointed one fixed everything.
Yes, American citizens celebrating the death of one evil enemy combatant is the same as Palestinian citizens celebrating the deaths of thousands of American citizens. Sound logic.
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HEY CHRIS – I believe there was some sort of a memo sent to Bush – something along the lines of, oh, I don’t know, Bin Laden will attack the US with planes, or some such. What happened to the guy that wrote that memo…and the memo???
everyone continues to blame Bush for everything to hate about the war, but as soon as they catch the bad guy, it’s “We’re Back!” … meh
If this happened during the Bush administration, he would be writing the Pope asking him (Bush) to be up for sainthood – everyone on Fox is a hypocrite.
FOX News is a hypocrite. They hardly gave any credit to President Obama for what he just achieved. It was all President Bush this and President Bush that. Give me a break. Bush was too busy trying to get Hussein to give a crap about bin Laden. But I did appreciate Bush acknowledging President Obama and giving him thanks for what he did. The same goes for Beck. I know it may not seem like much from Beck–but I suppose that’s about as good as it’ll get from him. Too bad the same can’t be said for FOX News. They don’t want to acknowledge or give thanks to President Obama because they know this just sealed President Obama’s reelection. Ha. Ha.
Michelle Glenn Beck never liked George Bush either. just proves you have an agenda and are willing to lie about it like all the uber progressive idiots.
Lee Obama will NOT be re-elected and will go down in history as the worst POTUS we have ever had and will ever have even if the US last 1,000 years!
Michelle, try to stay with me on this. Depending on which report you read, the initial intelligence on the courier was obtained by the CIA during interrogation of KSM or another “high value” detainee. That interrogation was conducted using “enhanced” methods; ie. “water boarding”.
That initial lead was pursued for the following 6-8 years using things like cell phone intercepts and surveilance of Gitmo detainees to piece the picture together.
Finally, all those efforts paid of and the courier was identified, which led us to find Ben Laden.
As of today, NONE of those methods of surveilance and interrogation are in use. The One cancelled all of them, saying “they don’t work”. So, like everything else that comes out of Obama’s mouth, it’s a political lie; fodder for the masses that makes a great sound bite.
Do I credit him with having the hutzpa to order the mission? Yes. Do I condemn him for being a political hack that lies to us and is as narcissistic as anyone I’ve ever seen.
By the way, would you have been critical of Bush if he read all of his responses in a press conference from a teleprompter AND was able to get prompts from his aides off camera? Empty suit!
Thanks John. Couldn’t have said it better myself.
Once a clown, always a clown.
Beck is an jerk. I say this in my most mocking Fox tone: why does he hate Americans celebrating a great victory?
In fact, search naval academy, cheering, Bin Laden and you’ll see exactly the same response as the kids in NYC and DC. Does Beck hate our future warriors, too?
What a jerk. Him and and the other sarcastic jackass, Limbaugh.
So if Obama takes all the credit (you uber progressive nuts give no credit to the real heroes the navy seals) and if the Islamic terrorist blow up a city because of Obama killing IBL then OBAMA gets all the BLAME TOO.
Hey Chris, you’re accusing OTHERS of having an agenda? Hahahahaha!
yeah its childish that we lit fireworks, danced in the streets, got drunk in washington square – still im a 38 year old woman who watched it all on TV and was HAPPY!
Get alife Beck America desvered to actually have something to be happy about!
If this had happened under the bush administration Glenn Beck would be saying nothing negative about this. Beck is an evil, stupid, horrible man.
Yeah, he’d be celebrating without once questioning whether or not it was “offensive”, an adjective which describes him perfectly, by the way.
Democrats = Mission accomplished, Republicans = Mission failed.
Correction…..Navy SEALS= Mission Accomplished.
“All of those victims were innocent.” Well, there’s your difference right there.
The man is a master of compare/contrast. ::eye roll::
Exactly.
you people are the morons. you just hate the man no matter what.
No, ben, Glenn Beck is the moron.
Glenn Beck is like God, so deep, so mysterious, so unfathomable.
Why are we still talking about Glenn Beck, the former radio DJ and drunk?
I have a tasteless marching band warming up in the garage waiting for his final show on FOX. Maybe I’ll cry about it. Beck should be buried at sea when he dies.
you know, he doesnt know how to dress himself. That is an ugly outfit, navy blazer with kakis and a pink shirt??? AND green tie. Wow good job. Two things he cant do talk, think and get dressed. OH 3 my bad. (This is not a swipe at anyone but him)
Yeah and your uterus stinks.
Glenn Beck is so jealous of Obama that he cannot even give him credit for anything….little Glenn, made out of sour dough bread, who cares what’s in your head?
Why when Obama accomplished what Bush could not, did Fox News show all infomercials last night?
Kidding of course, but this country should celebrate. No need to pick apart the current administration.
We should be applauding Jim Phelps and his Impossible Mission Force for supplying the intelligence President Obama needed to execute this assassination plot. Phelps’s next mission will be to retrieve bin laden’s body for positive identification. Message will self-destruct in 5 seconds, good luck Jim.
Are the commenters on this post stupid? Beck was obviously mocking the palestinians and openly gave Obama credit. Please, you idiots,go and watch the whole Beck show. You people are morons!
If Beck can’t find something nice to say in this event, then he will never ever approve of anything Obama does. Geez, even Trump had something nice to say.
but you will notice Palin could not even aknowledge that Obama had anything to do with it. She gave credit to the armed forces and intelligence, and flat out REFUSED to mention the president at all. At least Beck said thanks, even if he had to put an insult in there too. I mean, I hate Glenn Beck with a firey passion that defies logic, but give credit where credit is due. If any Repubs are being horrid about it it is Limbaugh and Palin.
I so agree, Beck deserves anal and testicle cancer, like right now,.
I thought for the first 5 minutes Limbaugh actually said thanks, should have known it would have lasted – and btw Im am well aware that it wasnt Obama who did the actual killing, still it was on his watch he gets the credit for it (some of it anyway)
I think that it is funny how many of these famous television personalities, professional orators, experienced teleprompter readers mixed up the names ‘Obama’ and ‘Osama’ in the relaying of this story. Hearing that Beck did it isn’t that surprising, as being articulate is not his strong suit, but I heard it multiple times on other live national broadcasts.
Blessed are the peacemaker
I didn’t wach the clip as I literally can’t stand to hear this man talk… and do think that he’s a bit insane. And that’s not an insult, I’m talking actual mental illness.
BUT… given what the article says he said, it might be the first time I (semi) agree with him. This is a big moment for this country, but celebrating death is never right, even for someone as evil as Bin Laden.
Otherwise, Republicans and the right have had a hard time taking the fact that this happened under Obama. Many of them have turned around and voted against programs/bills that THEY CREATED just because Obama picked them up. Still the party of “No.”