New CNN host bashes Beck’s past alcoholism
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Kathleen Parker starts a gig with disgraced governor, Democrat Eliot Spitzer, in October as hosts of an 8 PM weeknight show on CNN.
In her Wednesday column, posted prematurely by the Fall River Herald News, Parker took great swipes at Glenn Beck, a host on the rival Fox News network. The two will not compete directly.
Parker ridiculed Beck’s bout with alcoholism, penning for the Washington Post Writers Group:
Despite all the words spilled in evaluating Glenn Beck’s tent-less revival last weekend, the real meaning may have been hiding in plain sight.
Beck’s “Restoring Honor” gathering on the National Mall was right out of the Alcoholics Anonymous playbook. It was a 12-step program distilled to a few key words, all lifted from a prayer delivered from the Lincoln Memorial: healing, recovery and restoration.
Saturday’s Beckapalooza was yet another step in Beck’s own personal journey of recovery. He may as well have greeted the crowd of his fellow disaffected with:
“Hi. My name is Glenn, and I’m messed up.”
Beck’s history of alcoholism and addiction is familiar to any who follow him. He has made no secret of his past and is quick to make fun of himself. As he once said: “You can get rich making fun of me. I know. I’ve made a lot of money making fun of me.”
Ridiculing his alcoholism after agreeing to appear nightly on an hourlong show electronically beside a man whose sexual addiction and proclivities cost him his job as governor of New York is humorously ironic. Instead of picking at Beck’s speck, she might try dislodging that log in her broadcasting partner’s eye.
Parker ended her column, “Like other successful revivalists — and giving the devil his due — Beck is right about many things. Tens of thousands joined him in Washington and watch him each night on television for a reason. But he also is messianic and betrays the grandiosity of the addict. Let’s hope Glenn gets well soon.”
Actually, his audiences top 2 million every afternoon, most recently 2.6 million viewers on Monday.
The top-ranked CNN show that day drew 676,000 viewers — in prime-time.
CNN prides itself in its professionalism and hard-core news judgment. That’s why it is giving an hour of prime time to people who never were even weekend sports subs in Anchorage, Alaska.
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By the way, I’m glad she wrote the column and her editors sent it out. Maybe a disclaimer about the CNN/Fox News rivalry should have been included. But it was highly insightful. We now know a lot about her, don’t we?
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Don L says:
September 1, 2010 at 8:17 AM
KP the epitome of tolerance. Nothing is so empty as the moral section of a liberal’s brain -well…there is reason to debate that other parts aren’t even more void of matter, but that to a liberal is considered an asset! It doesn’t then cause anything to interfere with their superior emotions.
humdinger says:
September 1, 2010 at 8:41 AM
It is all “humorously ironic.” Or perhaps just humorous. Beckapalooza went off without a hitch. Huge crowd. No racists. All behaved well. What is the Left to do? What can they say?
[ They can say, hey, did you know Beck's a reformed drunk? ]
They certainly cannot just concede that Beck and Palin hold incredible sway over millions of Americans. So they spin it as well as they can. Kind of like watching the Lefty talking heads defend this economy – you just gotta laugh. Let’s enjoy this while we can.
Old School Conservative says:
September 1, 2010 at 8:51 AM
Yes, Beck was an alcoholic. He chose to recognize and control the addiction.
People like Ms. Parker on the other hand, are addicted to stupidity, refuse to acknowledge their addiction, and continue to feed the monkey on their backs.
One wonders why leftists bear such antipithy toward the 12 step program? Because it has a better success rate than any other? Because an element of spirituality is involved? Because the program emphasizes personal responsibility, the great bugaboo of liberalism?
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parentofed says:
September 1, 2010 at 10:33 AM
This column is one more example of why she is popular with the left – she pretends to be a conservative while bashing conservatives. If she were a true conservative voice, CNN would be mocking her. She is merely warming a CNN seat for Meghan McCain.
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