Glenn Beck, Ed Schultz In War Of Words (VIDEO)

Glenn Beck and Ed Schultz entered a war of words on Thursday.

The feud began when Schultz criticized Beck on his Wednesday show for saying, "Why would you get a gun? To prepare for tough times, that's why," while seemingly pointing at a picture of President Obama. Schultz said it was part of an escalation of racist and violent rhetoric from right-wing pundits.

On his Thursday radio show, Beck struck back harshly.

"This guy is such a piece of trash," Beck said. His explanation for the offending image? The camera angles on his show.

“I said, 'why do you need a gun? You’ve got to prepare,'" Beck explained. "And I was pointing to the chalkboard [which said 'Prepare' on it], but the camera angle made it look like I was pointing to the screen behind me. And this guy uses that.”

He went on to say that people like Schultz were "why I am leaving television. There's no honor in it. No one is honorable."

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On his Thursday show, Schultz devoted two segments to Beck's comments.

"You believe that?!" he said of Beck's explanation for the image of him seeming to point at Obama. "He's blaming it on the camera angle!"

He looked at the image again and said, "I don't care what Glenn Beck thinks. He was pointing at, it looks like he's pointing at the President of the United States and encouraging people to get a gun."

Schultz also responded to Beck's "trash" remark.

"Let me give you a fact," he said. "You're the garbage that Roger Ailes took out the back door...trying to weasel your way out of it by blaming it on camera angles and calling me names is dishonorable psycho talk."

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Comments

[ZackShorty]

03:12 AM on 06/21/2011

LOL. At least I learned a new word.

[lastcallmd]

02:55 AM on 06/21/2011

As Danny DeVito said in an episode of Taxi--"a duel of wits between unarmed opponents."

[carolina919]

10:35 PM on 06/20/2011

He went on to say that people like Schultz were "why I am leaving television. There's no honor in it. No one is honorable."

Ah, really? Sorry, Beckie, that dog won't hunt. We've got short memories in this country but not quite that short....EVERYBODY, and I mean, everybody knows why you're "leaving" TV and your druthers isn't even in the top ten of reasons why........

[BluesRose]

04:31 PM on 06/20/2011

Dear Mr. Schultz,
Please stop trying to have a battle of wits with such an obviously unarmed person as Glenn Beck.
Thank you.

[smbjoe]

04:23 PM on 06/20/2011

I would buy a ticket to see these two duke it out, now that's good TV. Oh wait they are both wimps and would faint at the first sight of blood. Beck makes me wretch but I also don't want Ed to tell me what to think, I can do that all by myself!

[alumcreek]

07:47 AM on 06/21/2011

"but I also don't want Ed to tell me what to think, I can do that all by myself!" by smbjoe

You can tell YOU what to think? What a mervelous concept. Did you come up with it all by yourself? You should patent that concept before someone steals it and sells it to Rupert Murdoch or Roger Ailes.

[GaiasChild]

04:23 PM on 06/20/2011

this here is a war between a gnat and a nobody

[Truth Purveyor]

12:27 PM on 06/20/2011

Ed is just trying to pull the race card out, because he has nothing else better to do. Obama was elected by white people. They dislike him because he has been a terrible president so far. That is why his numbers have slid. He campaigned on being different, and he is the same big government progressive that the democratic party has patterned itself after for years.

[dukeuch]

01:44 PM on 06/20/2011

Au contraire. Most of those abanodinign Obama are doing so because he has largely ignored his most progressive promises.

[PasseParTout]

04:39 AM on 06/21/2011

I hate to say this because I love the Obamas but, I do believe the promises he made to us progressives have been largely unheeded.

[Slipperypick]

11:19 AM on 06/20/2011

Freedom of Speech's dark side: Glenn Beck. I'm glad to live in a country where he's free to say anything he likes. On the other hand, I am ashamed to live in a country where so many people actually believe it.
America. Proud to be free and in love with being stupid.

[SjayLa]

07:08 PM on 06/20/2011

well put my friend

[Slipperypick]

09:09 AM on 06/21/2011

Back atcha.

[Jeremy Frasier]

08:26 PM on 06/20/2011

fanned and faved...great perspective.

[Slipperypick]

09:09 AM on 06/21/2011

Thank you.

[carleronn]

10:50 AM on 06/20/2011

Schultz is like a fly on Beck's butt, irrelevant

[cynical one]

06:59 AM on 07/08/2011

Does that make you a pimple on Beck's butt?

[Royal Payne]

09:42 AM on 06/20/2011

[The feud began when Schultz criticized Beck on his Wednesday show for saying, "Why would you get a gun? To prepare for tough times, that's why," while seemingly pointing at a picture of President Obama. Schultz said it was part of an escalation of racist and violent rhetoric from right-wing pundits]

Ed, take another week off, collect your thoughts, and tell us how you really feel -

"There's something very ugly and dangerous going on in this country, Schultz said…”

"Left wing talk show hosts seem to be amping up racist and reckless rhetoric like never before ... the level of racist and violent rhetoric on hard-left wing radio today is off the charts."

But it’s a living!

[jbing495]

09:38 AM on 06/20/2011

Testing...

[tonysparks612]

09:15 AM on 06/20/2011

Ed who?

[imfedup]

10:07 AM on 06/20/2011

Apparently he's important enough for Glenn Beck to talk about.

[sunshine14]

07:01 AM on 06/20/2011

Prepare for what and who B*ck? Living in the land of the freedom, prepare from what B*ck? Who really is out there instilling fear mongering of others falsely and out to cause -doubts?  divisions? and chaos? among those in the Land of the Free? Those who live in darkness are fearful and by their words actions, they are known.
Their words spoken are to  spread doubt, to create civil unrest among their own dear citizens, to instill fear, place doubt in the minds of many,  they are the ones to be prepared against. How to prepare simply speak only the truth, to those who are the fear mongers, doing so peacefully. Truth, is all that is ever needed to bring about civil peace among all.  Those of  Darkness, the fear mongers, do not like the Light of Truth shining upon them.  The one to run from is the fear mongers, you think?

[Truth Purveyor]

12:27 PM on 06/20/2011

If the currency collapses, you will likely understand much better. Lets hope it does not.

[smbjoe]

04:26 PM on 06/20/2011

Prepare America for the "End of Beck" bring your guns!!

[dlb1443]

06:59 AM on 06/20/2011

YES he is leaving TV..... BUT it was because he got booted Not as it was his will .... Another looser trying to screw up this country even more.

[dutch163]

08:45 AM on 06/20/2011

yep!

[reveal7]

01:55 PM on 06/20/2011

yep

[David Dem]

05:44 AM on 06/20/2011

Schultz +1