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Beck on Brown: ‘This could end with a dead intern’
Glenn Beck uses radio show to harangue Senate victor for treatment of daughters
It was hard to tell last night who was in the most trouble for political incorrectness - Scott Brown, the victorious Republican in the election for a new senator from Massachusetts, or Glenn Beck, the far-right radio and TV host... Brown for what he said about his own daughters in front of millions of TV viewers, or Beck for his remarks on radio, in which he said of the Republican:
"I want a chastity belt on this man [Brown]. I want his every move watched in Washington. I don't trust this guy. This one could end with a dead intern. I'm just saying. It could end with a dead intern."
It all began with Brown's acceptance speech on Tuesday night after his shock victory over the Democrats' Martha Coakley to win the late Ted Kennedy's Senate seat.
The speech was going just fine until, when introducing his family to the victory rally, Brown said of his two daughters, Arianna, 19, and Ayla, 21: "Just in case anybody is watching throughout the country, yes, they're both available!"
Greeted with a mixture of laughter and shocked "Oh-my-Gods" - mainly the latter - Brown didn't give up.
"No no, only kidding, only kidding," he said, before correcting himself and explaining that Arianna was not available - but Ayla definitely was. Cue more squeals of shock and discomfort among his family on the podium behind him and across the nation.
As bloggers rushed to their laptops, and pundits grabbed their microphones, Brown was accused of being "creepy" and "pimping" his daughters. But the general consensus appeared to be that it was no more than an "embarrassing Dad" moment, some even suggesting that it showed Scott Brown to be a genuine family man, in that he felt able to josh around with his daughters.
But Glenn Beck, the ultra-conservative commentator, while delighted to see the Democrats unseated in Massachusetts, could not let go of Brown's gaffe, riffing on and on until he came up with the "dead intern" line.
At one stage in his rant, Beck said that if he, as a father, had tried something similar, his daughters would never have talked to him again, while his wife would have had his body parts scattered in drawers throughout the house.
To which a million American liberals no doubt responded, "Now, there's a thought, Mrs Beck." ·
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Is this the raving Right eating its own? With none left in the real world to denigrate they just gotta keep pushing - I wonder when they'll decide Pandora has WMD?
I for one look forward eagerly to the time when we too can have insane, vitriol-spraying, right wing tub-thumpers with less sense than god gave a squirrel on our networks. Oh? We have? Awesome. I'm a little perplexed by Beck's assertion that his wife would keep his body parts in drawers - seems a little strange. Why can't she keep them in a bin-liner in the freezer like everyone else?
Even as a southern belle, I understood what that poor sap meant! He was just teasing his daughters. Good grief, Beck must be hard up for victims to spew bile upon.