In his defense, however. MSNBC has been pushing the babe factor with Erin Burnett. She seems to enjoy most of it. Although I think Matthews she was probably creeped out by the the remarks..

When Scarborough interviewed her, he was just as lame as Hardball. He actually suggested that she trademark the moniker Street Sweetie because it’s been used to describe her. But Scarborough is a sexually overy kinda guy, so I’m not too shocked.

one of the most painfully awkward silences you’ll ever hear.
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she recovers quickly for someone who’s just absorbed such a rude insult. … Humiliating.
TFA

AP, this is a hell of an exaggeration. You have an ax to grind with GB?

Typical, blunt and straight honest. Very nerdy, awkward about humor.

I’ve heard several of his jokes fall flat

I’m sorry, sir, but it looks like we’re out of carrot cake. Oh yeah? Well, do you think you’d be able to scare some up if I jumped over this counter and grabbed your ass? … … … … ……

He’s at the Secular Islam conference on Monday, will we see any MSM there? I’ll put up with his lame jokes to get coverage of important issues like that.

Tacky, obnoxious, and offensive. Not intended to persuade anyone, or to really “make” the point. Instead intended to embarrass and offend the person you’re having a disucssion with… which really doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Well, not if you want anyone to consider you something other than a Jackass. It was a Howard Stern class move. If that’s the class you want to be in, that would be your call.

gekkobear on March 2, 2007 at 2:25 PM

“gekkobear,”

Although I think his comment was within the context of the topic of discussion and the response the women gave, I do agree with you and other here, his method was tacky, offensive, sleazy, and potentially damaging.

He could have made his point by rephrasing the statement to something like “So, then you would not have a problem being photographed naked and then seeing your photo of you naked appear all over the Internet, and you would have not problem if this happened without your permission?”

Much more classy, strong, and put the ball back in her court, possibly drawing a response from her that would cause her to commit herself, or try the leftist, liberal way out, try not to answer, but beat around the bush, or dance around the question.

William

Beck appeared to be calling the women on her lax attitude about photos of people who are naked appearing on the Internet, to which he made his statement that he has a camera, why doesn’t she come by and get her picture taken.

That is a reasonable follow through.

I can almost hear some leftist talking about how he or she would love to kick some conservative’s butt and the host responding with “Well, I’m here now, I’m a conservative. You’re so tought. Why not stop running your mouth, get out of your chair, stop talking about it, and kick my butt?”

Call them on their claims and their attitudes!

Call their bluff!

William

Hey, how ’bout that basketball team you got down there? Personally much prefer college hoops but these guys look like the real deal!

honora on March 2, 2007 at 12:59 PM

Not a Mavs fan – screw ‘em. I’m going to be happy when they crash and burn in the playoffs (much like last year).

Was that a good way to make it? Nope.

Tacky, obnoxious, and offensive. Not intended to persuade anyone, or to really “make” the point. Instead intended to embarrass and offend the person you’re having a disucssion with… which really doesn’t seem like a good idea.

Well, not if you want anyone to consider you something other than a Jackass. It was a Howard Stern class move. If that’s the class you want to be in, that would be your call.

I move that we stone him.

Real world translation: He tried to make a point in the presence of a blonde without using A/V aids and large, colorful diagrams. She didn’t get it.

Big surprise there.

She was pretty confident about the privacy of nude photos when they were pictures of someone else. Glenn was trying to demonstrate that she wouldn’t be so confident if there were pictures of her out there. It was a “put your money where your mouth is” type of point.

In other words, you really don’t think nude photos find their way to the net? Then let’s get some pictures of you and see how comfortable you are with the chances that they won’t eventually be posted somewhere.

Chad on March 2, 2007 at 1:17 PM

Well if you say so. Let’s just say as humor goes, it needs work.

Exactly what I was thinking. Beck made a valid point there, if you don’t like it, that’s your problem.

Chad on March 2, 2007 at 10:57 AM

What exactly was his point again?

honora on March 2, 2007 at 11:09 AM

She was pretty confident about the privacy of nude photos when they were pictures of someone else. Glenn was trying to demonstrate that she wouldn’t be so confident if there were pictures of her out there. It was a “put your money where your mouth is” type of point.

In other words, you really don’t think nude photos find their way to the net? Then let’s get some pictures of you and see how comfortable you are with the chances that they won’t eventually be posted somewhere.

The problem with that is that going after Olby means giving Olby more attention than he deserves – that’s what Olby is desperately trying to do – it also means more people will tune in to see what this Olby guy is all about, and get a truly distorted version of current events.

Rick on March 2, 2007 at 12:28 PM

Curses!! Foiled again!!!

Hey, how ’bout that basketball team you got down there? Personally much prefer college hoops but these guys look like the real deal!

Because Olby is sure to hit back.

Kid from Brooklyn on March 1, 2007 at 9:29 PM

The problem with that is that going after Olby means giving Olby more attention than he deserves – that’s what Olby is desperately trying to do – it also means more people will tune in to see what this Olby guy is all about, and get a truly distorted version of current events.

Yall are lookin way too hard into this…

What exactly was his point again?

honora on March 2, 2007 at 11:09 AM

His point was that she is naive if she doesn’t think that nude photos of someone wouldn’t end up on the Net someday. Especially if they want to become famous, even for only 15 min.

In the interest of disclosure, I’m a huge Beck fan, but I even thought this point could have been made in a better way.

What was she saying in the lead up to that? What was he disagreeing with her on? That’s the necessary context for the joke, such as it was. Need more lead up on that one for teh nuance.

Exactly what I was thinking. Beck made a valid point there, if you don’t like it, that’s your problem.

Chad on March 2, 2007 at 10:57 AM

What exactly was his point again?

Apparently a few of you here have no sense of humor. Geez, I’m really sorry for you, your life must really suck. I’m just saying…..

soulsirkus on March 2, 2007 at 10:00 AM

Exactly what I was thinking. Beck made a valid point there, if you don’t like it, that’s your problem.