CNN host asks Dem. Rep-Elect Ellison to prove he's not working with the enemy

Outrageous. Here's the America Blog info, along with the link to the Media Matters clip and contact info:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/cnn-host-asks-newly-elected-us.html


Fire this guy. This is beneath CNN. If we want to watch bigots on national TV, we can go to FOX. We don't need this kind of crap on a network that, in spite of what many of our commenters seem to feel, I still have a lot of respect for. And the idea that somehow this is simply "politically incorrect," which is what the CNN host, conservative shock-jock Glenn Beck, claimed (in an effort to make his racist question seem okay), is equally abhorrent. It is not "politically incorrect" to ask a Muslim-American to "prove" that he's not a terrorist simply because he's a Muslim. It's racism and bigotry and intolerance and prejudice. It's digusting and un-American. Calling it politically incorrect only further diminishes the offense.


Here's the interview, and Media Matters has the video:



Video & Media Matters story link:

http://mediamatters.org/items/200611150004

Contact info:

me@glennbeck.com

(That's what Media Matters gave. I'd add contacting senior management -- contact info can be found here: http://capwiz.com/lwv/dbq/media/?command=org_pages&org_id=554)

This guy needs a severe beating.

A conservative friend of my who loves Glenn Beck tried to defend this shit. So, I asked him, as an American of German descent, to PROVE absolutely that he wasn't a Nazi. He couldn't answer me, so by Glenn Beck's logic, my friend is a suspected Nazi.

CNN should fire this guy! I know CNN jumped the shark long ago, but this is truly pathetic.

t prove they're not working with enemy terrorists.

After all, fair is fair. If it's the religion that causes you kill doctors, bomb Olympic games, bomb abortion clinics, etc., then every person of that religion should have to "prove" that they're not a bomber/terrorist.

beck and said...prove your not. We used to have an old truck that only got AM stations and I heard my fill of BEck, Rush and the bunch..I Beck is a joke..a sad joke....It boggles my mine...just a few years ago this kind of thing would never have been ok with anyone Beck would be unemployed...so would Ann and Rush

I can't believe CNN hired this Rush Limbaugh Wannabe. I guess they weren't being "fair and balanced" enough.

beck is just dying for attention. He knows of no other way to make a living. He knows he has to be outrageous and hateful and ugly (conservative strengths) or else he won't be able to pay the bills. He's one of the millions of Americans who think they are patriotic and god loves only them.

No two ways about it, that sort of "commentary" is indefensible. Beck should never have been given a forum - he's like a Rush Limbaugh Mini-Me.

would have such a pig as Glenn Beck. I've heard him say he's all about entertainment....why would CNN stoop to such a level? It's sad really....but, I have a feeling the tides are changing!

This is foul - but complaining to CNN won't matter. They don't care as long as they're raking in the dough.

Besides, I don't want them to think I watch this foul-mouthed racist in the first place.

However, I would be more than willing to write his advertisers, provide them with this transcript (and online video) and ask them why they support such hatred and racism.

Say something controversial and get people to tune in. Except it was at the expense of a Muslim AMERICAN!

I'm sure Glen Beck is not stupid and realized that what he said was just going to generate controversy and make the bigots happy.

CNN is dead to me now.

except for Keith O, I just can't stomach TV news anymore and I don't think it's going to get any better.

"You must have been asleep for the past week. We are in a new era, where we don't smear another American's patriotism just because they dissent or disagree- even the President agrees with this position. Smearing someone you disagree with is one of the reasons the Republicans lost last week, and I suspect, one of the reasons CNN is losing stature in the world of TV journalism, for it's willingness to give airtime to surrogate Republican smear artists such as yourself."

"Now as to your question: are you accusing me of giving aid and comfort to Al-Qaeda, our enemy? Are you accusing me of being what the Military Commissions Act defines as an Unlawful Enemy Combatant? Because if you are, I'm going to have to kick your ass right here on live TV".

That's what he should have said.

Not possible, if you ask me.