Glenn Beck: Fareed Zakaria An 'America Basher' And 'Useful Idiot' (AUDIO)

Glenn Beck lashed out at CNN's Fareed Zakaria on his Tuesday radio show, calling him a "useful idiot" and an "out and out America-basher."

Beck and Zakaria have tussled before. In December, Zakaria called Beck's assertion that around ten percent of Muslims are terrorists "total nonsense." In response, Beck hypothetically called for Zakaria's death.

What raised Beck's ire on Tuesday was Zakaria's interview with Beck's arch-nemesis, liberal billionaire George Soros, over the weekend. During the interview, Soros said that Beck was "telling falsehoods" about him and "leading the government in the wrong direction." To Beck, the interview was a softball farce.

"How much money does George Soros have to pay reporters?" Beck asked rhetorically. Zakaria, he said, was an "out and out America basher." Beck said that it was "no surprise" that, after his criticisms of Beck, Zakaria landed the interview with Soros.

"He's one of the useful idiots who's being used by the Left to come against me," Beck said.

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Comments

[MartinWCooper]

04:43 PM on 03/08/2011

FZ's questions should be answered; to do so would be an affront to Beck's ego.

http://coopersdroppings.blogspot.com/

[ratitouille]

10:07 AM on 03/05/2011

Fareed Zacharia is a real journalist. He does sane, nuanced interviews and provides serious insight into current events. He even recomends a book to his audience at the end of his show every Sunday. Zacharia enlightens and challenges his audience to deeper thought. All of this is anathema to Glen Beck.

[Rich Perl]

01:42 PM on 02/27/2011

Glenn Beck is a gifted communicator. A truly gifted thinker fo great thoughts. His magnificance is only surpassed by his luminosity and intellectual brilliance. His grasp of the details and macro aspects of history are profound. He is not only brilliant and handsome but manly and heroic.
Many will be reading this a think it is farce, and that is because it is.

[Aleks Hunter]

10:44 PM on 02/24/2011

How about an intelligence squared debate, Glen Beck and Sarah Palin squaring off against Fareed Zakaria and Christiann Amanpour?

[Tulka2]

02:15 PM on 02/27/2011

How often has Glen Beck appeared anywhere but on Fox News?  There's a reason for that, my friend.

[Aleks Hunter]

03:01 PM on 02/27/2011

Oh, absolutely, Beck and Palin both share bunker mentality and are phobic about cameras and microphones that are not owned by their employers or themselves.

That said, such an intelligence squared debate would be a beautiful thing.

[mike dougles]

07:44 PM on 02/24/2011

In defense of Fareed I think he is just as smart as Glenn.

[carallen]

02:06 PM on 02/24/2011

I'll bet those glasses don't even have a prescription; he wears them because he believes they make him look smart.

[Tea party Bigot]

01:55 PM on 02/24/2011

It's simple people... If you are NON-white and suggest anything that America can do better you are a basher. But if you are white and say something bad you just want to take your country back or a teabagger

[ggs83]

01:34 PM on 02/24/2011

Thanks Huffington Post, I am glad that I can find out the latest crazy thing that Beck is saying without watching his show--sure would not want his sponsors to think that they are spending their money wisely.
And let's see----Beck is anti Soros, anti reformed Rabbis, anti Zahari, anti Obama--pretty soon there will be no one left.
In truth, it is all about how can he make more money than Rush. It seems like each of them just keep upping the ante so they can get more play, more audience, more money--that is all that matters

[Prapanna]

01:15 PM on 02/24/2011

Amazing! Beck cannot come close to the knowledge and insight of Zacharia! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!

[walkerke]

07:02 PM on 02/24/2011

We should all be such idiots as Zakaria, no?

[beingthebest]

11:56 AM on 02/24/2011

I'm glad Beck thinks so much of himself. It's a party of one

[BeBop33]

11:14 AM on 02/24/2011

hey Glenn, spell "oligarchy"...

no fair peeking...

[LeftLeanWing]

11:06 AM on 02/24/2011

I think Beck going after Reformist Jews will end up being his 'Jump The Shark' Moment.
He actually compared them to Radical Islamist and the ADL is NOT TOO PLEASED..........

I believe that Reformist Jews is the largest group for American Jews 
( confirmation requested )

They Are Not Too Pleased At All.

[Aleks Hunter]

10:45 PM on 02/24/2011

Many groups that Beck "explains' are not too pleased with his interpretation.

[NotEve]

01:16 AM on 02/24/2011

Zakaria is as idiotic as Beck is insightful

[GlennBeckReview]

07:32 AM on 02/24/2011

NotEve very effectively conveys how successful Glenn Beck is at programming, brainwashing, convincing his viewers that a man with a Phd from Harvard is "idiotic" and Beck, with one course of college under his ample belt, is "insightful." Some things that Beck says are "completely insane," often he comes across as a bigoted anti-Semite and usually the experts (on the Middle East for example) consider Beck "profoundly ignorant."

So how does Glenn Beck pull this rather amazing feat off (besides having an ignorant and gullible following)? Glenn Beck is not stupid or dumb; he's a sophisticated propagandist. Understand that, and you'll understand NotEve's bizarre and unreal observation about Zakaria and Beck:
http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/02/why-glenn-beck-isnt-crazy-and-millions.html

[LeftLeanWing]

10:59 AM on 02/24/2011

Look at NotEve's comment carefully ..

It is Tongue-In-Cheek.

[beingthebest]

11:58 AM on 02/24/2011

Say you are sorry, now

[eastfernstreet]

01:10 PM on 02/24/2011

You are as rambling as Beck is pithy.

[NotEve]

06:08 PM on 02/24/2011

You're right, I do tend to ramble, which is a problem of mine.

But I fail to see how that's illustrated by my post above...?

[shadowgirl52]

10:08 PM on 02/23/2011

Glen, I hear you mother calling you home. See ya.

[LeftLeanWing]

10:59 AM on 02/24/2011

Suuuuu-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE  Suu Suu Suu-EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Wilson201]

10:03 PM on 02/23/2011

Get an education Beck.