Local Radio Host Suspended One Day For Questioning Beck's Sanity [View All]

Source: Asheville Citizen-Times

ASHEVILLE — A local radio show host was suspended after questioning the sanity of the popular syndicated radio and television political personality Glenn Beck.

Matt Mittan, host of the show “Take A Stand” on WWNC 570-AM, was taken off the air Thursday after a Wednesday show in which he made “inflammatory remarks about another host,” said program director Brian Hall.

“He's been suspended for 24 hours … he's had his hand slapped,” Hall said.

Transcripts or podcasts of the comment were not available on the station's Web site, but a podcast that began shortly after Mittan's initial remarks was.

“I've never attacked Glenn Beck. I voiced concern about his mental stability based on what I heard on a show this morning and what I see as a deterioration of his cognitive capacity over the last few weeks or the last couple of months,” he said.

Mittan could not be reached for comment. Co-host Agnes Cheek responded to a Facebook message saying the omission of the podcast with the comment was unintentional.

E-mails and calls made to numbers and addresses on “The Glenn Beck Program” Web site were not returned Thursday evening.

more: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20100326/NEWS/303260037

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Mittan is a right-leaning "independent". Strangely, no pod-cast or transcript are available.