Rachel Maddow Slams Glenn Beck (VIDEO)

Rachel Maddow took Glenn Beck to task for his frequently apocalyptic pronouncements--saying that he and other right-wing media figures said such outlandish things that she couldn't tell truth from fiction sometimes.

Maddow's denunciation of Beck was part of her explanation for why she believed a post about Sarah Palin on a satirical website and aired an item about it. She said that Beck has used "every occasion as the right occasion to push for the idea...that it's the end of the world."

Maddow then played clips of Beck's doomsday take on the Egypt uprisings. (Beck has warned that the protests will lead to a caliphate and are being directed by Communists and jihadists. He also apparently said that China is close to taking over New Zealand.) Maddow pointed out that Beck had been equally apoplectic about Wall Street reform. It is for this reason, she concluded, that she was hoaxed.

Beck and others, Maddow said, see "a direct ratio between their own success and how afraid they can make their audiences."

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Comments

[USNDC]

12:06 PM on 02/13/2011

Oh my ... she's coming unglued ... just her friend ... KO.

[Squigibo]

03:31 PM on 02/11/2011

I don't think Beck should walk around out in public without wearing a helmet.

[mickeyson]

04:15 PM on 02/04/2011

Beck's lost his audience and his mind both.

[jdrourke]

10:51 AM on 02/04/2011

Good for Maddow! Beck is 100% out there...

http://jdrourke.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/memo-to-messiah-glenn-beck/

[Joel Smithis]

10:17 AM on 02/04/2011

There is so much rot on The Right and it may take more than MSNBC to straighten that out. Mainstream media is letting all that right wing BS un-challanged.

No wonder American public is clueless!

[Robearbeach]

09:53 AM on 02/04/2011

Well, not in the ratings. In the ratings Beck slams her with more than twice her viewers.

[snove77]

10:15 AM on 02/04/2011

And ratings have exactly what bearing on what is true and what is fear-mongering lies?

[drreader]

11:08 PM on 02/03/2011

Rachael used to be smart and fresh, now she's just preaching to the choir. Is this what we can expect from Comcast, or has success gone to her head ?

[dtruth27]

07:10 PM on 02/03/2011

It seems like 90% of MSNBC's primetime content is about bashing FOX News. Don't they have anything better to talk about? I mean, you don't see CNN or FOX News obsessing over their competition?

I'm not saying I support FOX News, but really? Come up with something original that might bring in better ratings to beat them, rather than pandering to their base audience and remaining a (distant) 2nd.

[cyclebeast]

08:42 PM on 02/03/2011

Fanned and faved!

[not one of the sheep]

08:44 PM on 02/03/2011

If that's all you got you gotta go with it. Desperation knows no bounds.

[Judy M]

06:57 PM on 02/03/2011

The mind is a fear-seeking missle....and, Beck, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, Hannity, Savage, etc. know how to play it to their financial advantage!

[DJE12857]

06:14 PM on 02/04/2011

Fanned Judy M!

[mitchpeter]

05:46 PM on 02/03/2011

Great.
Now why isn't everyone on TV doing this daily?
www.gaynycdad.com

[ClarkOHrepub]

05:11 PM on 02/03/2011

Rachel...I'll give you this.....Glenn is a goofy-dude........and you are a goofy-gal!
That's OK...most of us know that both of you are merely entertainment...and not news. Not very good at it either based on ratings.
IMO....Rachel is analogous to the school-yard tattle-tale....running around saying "Did you hear what HE said?"
If you want to win me over, any talking head, you need to be convincing WITHOUT resorting to childish behavior.

[aztlan]

06:59 PM on 02/03/2011

I think that you're projecting here. Her analysis is spot on.

[ClarkOHrepub]

08:43 PM on 02/03/2011

Of course you do....you are hooked on her like a drug.
BOTH are simply goofy!  May I submit that Rachel and Beck would not have a show if not to spend the entire episode bashing the other?

[mrs young]

08:55 PM on 02/03/2011

No not really - seemed like a long silly rant to make someone else responsible for her bad.

[weirdamerica]

10:59 PM on 02/03/2011

Maddow is accurate. 100%

[christmas808]

03:43 PM on 02/03/2011

tax cuts for all and for all no jobs LOL i love rachel

[Michael Rappaport]

07:51 PM on 02/03/2011

Hey, you know them wack jobs are right. If you didn't have any taxes to pay, your zero income would go a lot further.

[Joyanco42]

01:41 PM on 02/12/2011

still better than 2 years of pushing a Health Care bill that no one can afford or use, and ignoring the jobs issue and Oh, what about the illegals that are working in the USA?? Now that Pelosi has been put to the back of the the bus, Obama, is trying -but not very successfully to use his own head and develop an agenda. God help us.

[CateManhattan]

06:28 PM on 02/12/2011

We can't afford to let people with pre-existing conditions have health care? May god have mercy on your soul and on your GOP. Y'all are "I gots mine!"

[youguyscrackmeup]

03:01 PM on 02/13/2011

I was watching The War documentary and felt like America is falling apart more today than when we had both sides of the world wanting us gone. Americans back then were willing to sacrifice for the good of all and it wasn't considered 'socialist' or 'communist' like it is today. what stuck me was how different we are as a nation, you should watch it. Very eye opening.

oh yes and I love how the house is pushing for limiting abortions and defunding education etc but not cutting any big bank, corporate or their own benefits, or big oil. Did you know our taxes go to big oil? why is that?

how is that going to create jobs? it isn't.

[TehMimz]

03:31 PM on 02/03/2011

Does she have to clown it up to get her point across. Keep clowning and none but your base will listen.

[michellbrow]

03:13 PM on 02/03/2011

Sick of her and her complaining about a better NEWS source than her.

[AdamWest1313]

03:44 PM on 02/03/2011

Are you SERIOUSLY calling Glenn Beck a news source?

[InBirmingham]

04:19 PM on 02/03/2011

"Sick of her and her complainin­g about a better NEWS source than her"

Wow, could you infer much more off topic? Michel didn't state that in the least.

[Tails]

03:50 PM on 02/03/2011

A chalkboard is news?

[cariintexas]

04:56 PM on 02/03/2011

To FOX tools, yep.

[Sliceman]

01:51 PM on 02/03/2011

Love that preaching to the choir!