Glenn Beck Calls Barack "Osama," Says Obama Is An "Unfortunate Name"

On Monday's "Good Morning America," Glenn Beck "accidentally" referred to Barack Obama as "Osama," calling Barack's last name "unfortunate." While the Obama/Osama mix-up was described as one of 2007's biggest media mistakes, the conservative pundit may well have ulterior motives.

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On Monday's "Good Morning America," conservative radio and TV personality Glenn Beck mixed up Barack Obama and Osama bin Laden, saying "I think Osama -- unfortunate name, Obama" is a relatable candidate. Watch. http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid1348330565http://www.brightcove.com/channel.jsp?channel=1178199204

From ABC, 12/17

Comments

[DELICIOUS]

ISN'T HE A STREET SWEEPER OR DOES HE CLEAN THE MEN'S ROOM IN THE AIRPORT WHERE THE REPUKE SENATORS GET THEIR JOLLIES???

[fourex]

CNN,
Glen Beck is a misogynist and a racist. You pay him to make disgusting comments about people's religion, race, and sex, that have no redeeming social value, porn. A positive move would be to remove him from your network. You can pay now or pay later, but you will pay.

[TheLastPenguin]

Beck Who?

[TILL]

Glenn Suck...and it's closer to the truth then you might think.
till

[zizyphus]

Glenn Beck is a pathetic, magic-underpants-wearing shill for the extreme right-wing zealots.

Maybe he will appear in them one day, and explain to the rest of us about the special planet he and his wives will inherit after they die. That should boost his credibility. Until then, he will take safe potshots at people who are actually trying to accomplish something in the world.

[Kyuzo]

By the way, this was as much an "accident" as Ann Coulter constantly referring to "B. Hussein Obama" (i.e., not an accident at all). The right-wing blowhards are trying very hard to plant the Obama=Muslim seeds in peoples' minds.

I've lost count of all the "OMG Wut Obama Duzn't Want You to Know!!!!111" e-mail forwards I've gotten in the last few weeks.

[Kyuzo]

Believe it or not, pre-9/11 Glenn Beck was moderately entertaining to listen to and NOT vehemently partisan in his commentary. The man is an opportunist and used the "9/11 Changed Everything®" mantra as an excuse to suddenly become a right-wing extremist on the air.

Give him credit, he's milked it beautifully. Although to this day I really hate that nasal, whiny, annoying voice he does when he's imitating people he disagrees with.

[TotobiAyokoh23]

The saddest part is that, majority of Americans will buy into the politics of nomenclature currently peddled by sophomorics, nincompoops, and cognitively-challenged zealots. Only in America.

[moodyring]

Glenn Beck's arrival into this world was an "unfortunate birth".

[GrayShockley]

This from "Glennie at Cheney's Beck & Call"?

[tandrmcdonald]

Glenn Beck is CNN's cave-in to the radical right, a kind of sick comic relief to anyone with the intestinal fortitude to sit though more than five minutes of his daily datribes.
I don't think anyone with an IQ over seven takes him seriously. 'Nuff said?
Gramma Rose

[rwe]

So basically now Hillary and Dick turbin Durbin and Teddy the swimmer are now all right wing extremists as they have either called Barry Osama or have accused him of being Muslim . Hillary especially to disparage him and Teddy adn Dick (our soldiers are Nazis) just becasue they are special that way.

[OkieMon]

Get used to it dems....

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[shotgunblast]

Who watches this boobery? Does he get any ratings?

[bethinCary]

Other networks have managed not to resort to such idiocy O times. MSNBC,CBS,ABC-yet Fox and CNN do so a combined time of at least 4. It shows the illiteracy and stupidity of the talent on either one of these channels. Of course its' done on purpose:but still, to even have such "uneducated talents" on a network continuing to employ boobs makes the networks look REALLY bad. Not to mention untrustworthy.