If you listened to Beck yesterday, he droned on and on about the phrase “The Truth has no agenda”, and how he was accused of stealing it (and other stuff) from bloggers.
Glenn introduced the audience to his friend Mike Opelka. Glenn was the best man at Mike’s wedding. Pat has known him since 1990. Mike came up with the name “The Truth has no Agenda” in 2009, and works for Glenn on the Blaze.
So it’s Andrew Breitbart that is rattling he the chains of “he steals people’s stuff”….
Some things you need to think about:
– Breitbart is close to Michael Savage, who thinks everyone in the world always is stealing his stuff
– Brietbart helped create the Huffington Post
– Glenn Beck hired away one of Breitbart’s senior people to start The Blaze
– Glenn has said loudly a number of times tha this #1 directive to his staff is they are to do their own research and not just republish other people’s work
Much of the tension between the two involves the Sherrod video. When it surfaced, Beck refused to play the video, labelled it as suspect and demanded to see the entire video unedited. Once that was out, Glenn was furious the way O’Keefe and Breitbart had edited the video – cutting out the context. After the full video was out, the bulk of Glenn’s anger was directed at the President however, for allowing Breitbart’s video to stampede the President into firing her. That entire issue is currently in the courts.
The DB interview is very interesting. Apparently Glenn doesn’t care who he pisses off now that he is out at Fox.
I just heard Rush say that Breitbart was a “committed Hollywood leftist” until he was “converted” by listening to Rush’s show in the late 80’s.
I’ve been a Beck fan since 2001. But, altho I’ve tried mightily, I simply ***cannot stand*** Pat Gray, and am in the process of weaning myself off the show entirely. It’ll be interesting watching from afar, however, what direction the show takes now that Beck is “untethered” from Fox….