If CNN won't fire Glenn Beck for this, what will it take?

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/02/28/glenn-becks-got-a-camera/

than the bile he spews regularly

I don't watch his show so I can't comment on whether his regular bile-spewing might get him into legal hot water.

The guy's an ass, but I would think when he fantasized on air about killing Michael Moore he was in more of a legal grey area than he is here.

No need for the sarcasm.

it wasn't my intent. :hi:

Speaking of Canada, maybe you saw the Kids in the Hall Sketch where Dave Foley is the guy who can't help sounding really sarcastic when he talks. "Oh, yeah. I'm reeeeeally glad to meet you." Classic.

I'd completely forgotten about his out-loud musings about Michael Moore, so my OP title could have been better informed. Thank you for the reminder.

(Got to see KITH in Vancouver for their reunion tour a few years back. Great stuff, but alas, no appearance by my favourite character, the pretentious Darryl.)

Although, really, you can't count the moments of brilliance that were on that show any more than you can count the angels dancin' on a pin.

crushing your HEAD, pay no attention :)

I loved those guys.. the Squirrel TOUPEE!!!!!!!

I couldn't stop laughing for days.. thanks for the memories :)

You raise an interesting question, however. Protection against sexual harrassment might even extend to paid contractors as long as it involves a situation wherein the person being sexually harrassed might be intimidated into not raising objections or believing that objecting to the behavior may have negative consequences regarding their employment. I didn't see the interview. Was the lady being interviewed by Glenn Beck being paid by CNN as a consultant on a particular issue or topic? There might be cases wherein the "workplace" extends into cyberspace or the video monitor such as one involving a TV host interfacing with someone at another TV studio by monitor. I'm not sure any of the elements for sexual harrassment would be present here, but there are some interesting issues.

Maybe a lawsuit against CNN. I certainly wouldn't shed many tears if they fired that guy, for whatever reason.

Sexual harrassment could include criminal acts as part of the behavior, such as stalking and criminal assault and battery. But in this case, it sounds simply like crude and ungentlemanly behavior by someone who doesn't know the meaning of good manners and civility.

nt

But after doing a little googling on the situation, I can only say one thing and one thing only-

if the religious right honestly still thinks that they're somehow going to get people in this country to stop fucking for pleasure, they're high. Really, really high.

Maybe Beck is trying to horn in on Bill O'Reilly's viewer demographic.

Maybe CNN Headline News ought to sign Phil Donahue for a bordering time slot.

in not so rosey terms. Can't have that now. :sarcasm:

It's really amazing to me how much the right gets away with, and how much the left is beat to shit for things not anywhere near as obscene.

:grr:

So it's entirely conceivable that a lame, awkward, cheesy line line that might get the guy fired when openly fantasizing about murdering liberals like Michael Moore has not.

about that. Not Glenn Beck specifically, but how violence, hatred, etc., is perfectly acceptable in this society, but that we (the societal "we") get totally freaked out by sex.

Situation Normal- All Fucked Up. :shrug:

... well that's what it to to 'necklace' Dan Rather.

... in spite of his growing credibility gap.

Wondering how Ted Turner's been sleeping lately.

Hard for me to even remember what it used to be like.