Rachel Maddow: I Used to Love Glenn Beck
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Jonathon M. Seidl
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MSNBC host Rachel Maddow made a startling admission to David Letterman Wednesday night: she used to be a huge Glenn Beck fan.
During her appearance, the liberal TV host said that she really liked Beck and his radio show prior to him getting a TV gig at Fox, even admitting she used to listen to Beck every day.
“I think he was the most talented radio personality of my entire generation,” she told Letterman. She described Beck’s pre-Fox radio show as “incredibly performative…he inhabited all these different characters, he would do all these voices, it was very entertaining. really funny, really fast-paced, very unpredictable, surprising, very good.”
But now her opinion has changed: “He mostly just talks about himself and it’s not as fun. But when he was on the radio, before he got on TV, he was great.”
The compliments were mostly backhanded, Letterman and Maddow made sure to take jabs at Fox and conservatives in general. Letterman even called Beck “loony” and a “blowhard”:
(H/T: HuffPo)



















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Comments (259)
swimmer1940
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:48amBeck is still talented, whereas Maddow never was and never will be. As for Letterman, he seems to have most of his talent lodged in that part of his anatomy directed at the female help.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:47amSo, she liked Beck when he wasn’t delving into serious topics, when he was playing the clown?
I guess that’s something, in a way, at least from her. Most on the Left scream bloody hate murder about the guy, and won’t admit to even his superficial comedic qualities.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:55amThe reason for this is, when you are so far beneath someone, the only way you can be herd is by screaming outrages things. This holds true for everyone on the left. But what they don’t realize is, that only the truth will bring you up, and screaming nonsense will only get you squished.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:47amIf those networks ever wanted to do a study on why their ratings suck so bad, this would be a good video to start with…
Report Post »tbarr4
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:45amMr Maddow and Social “Nazi” Letterman prob work for Soros!!
Report Post »Hub City Progressive
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:45amSelf-deception is when a person justifies their own actions and views by inflating their own ego and virtue while exaggerating the faults of those who disagree with them. It is a form of self-betrayal as we decieve ourselves of what reality truly is. I see this more and more present in the Glenn Beck following.
Report Post »GhostOfJefferson
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:57amIt’s hard to take criticism of “deceiving ourselves about reality” from a guy who admits to being a progressive. Just sayin’. ;)
Report Post »not funny
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:13amI thought you were talking about Rachel Maddow until I got to the last sentence.
Report Post »SDmom
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:54amAm I deceiving myself about the true reality? Our federal government is deep in debt, with continued deficit spending. Our federeal government has a one size fits all mentality, sending mandates to the states and making the state governments pay for the programs. What is needed in NYC isn’t necessarily needed in South Dakota. This affects our future, but more importantly, it affects the future of my children, grandchildren and so on.
Report Post »By the way, I’ll be in the Hub City later today, spending our hard earned money and paying sales tax to support your town. But it is MY choice to shop there and I gladly support my home town.
DarKangelAZRAEL
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:03pmTalk about deluding one’s self. It’s you progs that have skewed history to fit your own realities and have to fit large groups of people into little homeogenic piles so that your fascism is more productive against them. Wake up man.
Report Post »nealb4zodd
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:43pmya. up until the end, i thought you were spot on while talking abou Maddow.
you know . .just because someone disagrees with you, doesnt make them a blowhard. – that comment Letterman made about Republicans driving the rhetoric and pounding talking points with passion while the liberals are mind mannered . .is he drunk? the most angry-pissed off whiney people i know are liberals. They b!tch about everything. – -that Olbermann guy is gonan givehimself a heart attack . .and Maddow is so condescending i want to hurl. – the barrometer and temperature of msnbc is so angry and whiney — THATS why no one watches.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:43amBoth these characters are nuts. msnbc more accurate? Liberals more reserved? No blowhards at msnbc? What dangerous areas he/she talking about?
Report Post »zacharytcuster
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:43amHe still is one of the most talented. How many more viewers/listeners does have than you?
Report Post »ShortFinal
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:42amI recently doubled ManCow’s ratings by tuning in for a few minutes and , again, remembered why I can’t stomach her show. We produced better shows when I was in college…….
Report Post »Merry Christmas Glenn!
Bluenose177
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:41amI’m sure Glenn is bothered what the opinions of Ray Maddow and the adulterous liberal blowhard that is Letterman are of him.
Report Post »C.C.D.
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:39am“He who laughs, laughs last” and I can’t wait..
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:38amI used to really like Letterman…….then he drove the car in the ditch with his endless lefty hate. Got no use for him anymore. I am glad Mr Maddow dislikes Glenn, one viewer the shows do not need.
Report Post »2gether
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:02amI used to like Letterman, too. You are right. He was so desperate for ratings that he started “acting stupidly”. Now I cannot stand to listen to him at all.
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:43amI was looking for this post. A long time ago in a land far away, Letterman was IT. His show was the funniest thing on TV. Hands down, by far. Would rush home to catch it. Those were the days. Not anymore. Have tried to watch and just cant do it anymore……
Report Post »tobefreeinmt
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:37amWhat can one expect from Rachel Madcow? If your looking for insight, talent or anything of substance, your looking down a dry hole! Just look at her whopping 15% viewership.
Report Post »Colonial Revolutionary
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:37amHey Mad Cow. Beck was on CNN before Fox.
Report Post »OnceIsEnough
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:25pmIt’s interesting to watch as all the commentators “sort themselves out” on the networks. Liz Claman (sp) used to be on CNBC, now she’s on Fox Business News (she was always a strong presence on CNBC. The migration from the libs’ networks to Fox seems neverending. The ones who have conviction of conscience will find themselves on Fox and enjoy a long, fruitful career. Of course, there will be that small percentage of them who will move to FOX because they want to be with a winner. But, they will eventual implode because they can’t sustain the message. Libs have no conviction. . .they bend with the wind because their end justifies their means.
Report Post »APatriotFirst
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:35am*Chuckles*
Report Post »Glenn’s ratings, just his, is higher than all of MSM put together.
Gotta love it.
SHASTADIANE1
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:45amAPatriotfirst * I like that one. Right on. I see jealousy written all over their faces.
Report Post »MARYLANDRON
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:34amWho cares? Come on Blaze, don’t give these dirtbag loons a forum.
Report Post »Gun_Slinger
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:33amI wished I could say I have ever like Ms. Maddow.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:32amI bet she has a bag of Cheetoes under her desk……………
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:32amgo ahead, make a toast then drink the kool aid…..
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:31amLike anyone gives a flying rats **** what Madcow regurgitates. And Letterman is as big a blowhard as he claims Beck is. Beck shines a light on the Progressive agenda for all to see and these two freaks of nature can’t stand him for it.
Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:27pmLanguage , language. please….. ?
Report Post »FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:31amI mean who really gives a hoot what Lettermen thinks? The leftest mindset of the entertainment industry as well as the liberal college educated professions what to “make” everyone else follow their direction.
Quite frankly I wish all singers and actors would just shut the hell up and sing or act. Why do they think their opinion is of any value to anyone. They have a job to do and they just need to keep on track. Regarding Rachel Maddow, well what do you expect that she is working and part of the enemy leftest movement. Beck is telling us all what is going on and they do not like having it all brought to light………………VICTORY OR DEATH
Report Post »FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:36amI just have to ask, does Glen Beck remind anyone of the kid who played in “A Christmas Story” that came in 1983? Man he sure looks and acts like the kid, great movie by the way too………………..Merry Christmas!
Report Post »Kisha
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:36amAye, I can’t stand listening to singers or actors speak politics. Its like they all were forced to take the same class. “How to be a communist” or something to that effect. For all of them (cept maybe Chuck Norris lol) Who‘d by the way would kick anyone’s ass if he so desired. lol Are simply clueless and fearful of losing their status in life so bad, they can’t have their own mind. I think it’s getting rich and famous that drives people batty. They don‘t feel worthy of it and so they lop their guilt into this abyss of ideology’s because that’s the only way that they can live with themselves.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:22pm@FED-UP, You’ll shoot your eye kid !!!!! lmao … Good movie, and BTW, the answer to your question is YES..
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:41pmDid you hear Limbaugh report that Obama has hired, by executive order, Jon Bon Jovi for a White House Solutions Council? Hell, why not Jackson Browne, Don Henley, or even the Dixeating Chicks? They all won’t just shut up and sing, their anger just spews forth like vomit.
Report Post »FED-UP-AND-READY-TO-TAKE-ACTION
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 3:51pmI sure wish Jon Bon Jovi would not have gotten involved. I love his music and now I can’t listen without seeing IN MY MIND him and Obama kicked back in the oval office doing what ever progressive liberals do (I have my suspicions)………………VICTORY OR DEATH
Report Post »Ziplock
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:29amMaddow’s thinking is warped!
Report Post »akelso
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:03amZipLock. She is simply the product of our history and facts being warped by that side, and she simply believes. Common sense is out the door for these people, only adherence to the ideology. I watch her for as long as I can stomach, and half her show starts and end without real fact, just the ridicule of FOX or anyone on it…they should change their new logo from Moving forward to: FBS. The Fox Bashing Station, or Full of BS. They think news, is news against the other guy, not what you actually might want to hear. Someone did tell them they are sitting at the bottom of the barrel with the rating’s thing?
Report Post »Tractor
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:29amI know this breaks Glenn’s heart. Who cares what he/she thinks: I think he/she is a “shim”. 1/2 & 1/2.
Report Post »tadroid
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:26amObviously, Glenn is getting to be more popular if a Commie attack dog like Maddow is admitting that she actually liked his work at one time. Amazing that it stopped liking him when he went to FOX. She’s as pathetically transparent as the rest of her ilk.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:38amI ony watched about half of that garbage. ‘Tis the season for love, faith and happiness so, enough of Mr Madcow. The fact that she can sit there with her teeth in her mouth and her bald face hanging out and lie about FOX lying is mind boggling. I watch FOX news (obviously) and I never heard anyone say the New Black Panthers decided the election of BO. The people who watch FOX will know that everything that spews from this delusional cows‘ mouth is false but the people watching Letterman won’t know it is all cow splat.
Report Post »missy8s
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:24amThat is one creepy little dude…
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:40amremember that Johnny Cash song, A boy name Rachel?
Report Post »EP46
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 6:26amHE Madcow, is so desperate for attention ‘it’ is even using Glenn……..jump on the coat tails of the best and Ride Rachel Ride
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:23amToo bad you really didn’t listen and hear the message, Mr. Maddow.
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:29amYes…..I can see how the substance of what Glenn says might turn you off, you left-wing bigmouth. Is is just me, or does Maddow look alot like Jon Stewart?…now theres a creepy thought.
Report Post »Lonescrapper
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:31amYeah.
Right.
And I used to love Spinach in a can.
Happy Killmore
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:41amI love political commentary from the guy with the “casting couch” sex room in his studio where he takes advantage of young staff members and interns. Yeah, I listen hard to those folks’opinions.
Report Post »tobywil2
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:43amIf there were a illustrated dictionary, there would be a picture of Letterman by the word boring. http://commonsense21c.com/
Report Post »wildjoker5
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:44amWell, when someone was calling out Bush for being “bad” because of what he was doing and then truns and say the samething about a Liberal, I can see you how you can start to dislike them. It hated someone for their political allignment and not the principles that they stood for. Maddow can’t be any more abvious about how she hates Republicans for spending money and running the country into the ground, but hates anyone speaking against the liberals doing the exact same thing.
Hypocrite much?
Report Post »Carbine1
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:51amMr? THIS is a woman. Sick Liberal eh there padi co? Very sick country we live in. THIS is what got the COMMY in the presidency.
Report Post »TruthTalker
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 9:55amThat guy has to be really mad. Why did his parents give him a girls name?
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:20amWho, or what, is Rachel Maddow? When they use the “polite” term of “liberal” it usually means “idiot” or “useful idiot” depending if they are just a true believer, or a useful true believer (Stalin). So this probably means another semi-useful idiot.
Report Post »independentvoteril
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:31amFunny I use to listen to Maddow until she went off the deep end into PROGRESSIVE LAND.. her buddy Schultz use to be a fair minded person but he too went off the deep end.. must have something to do with TRUTH overload from listening to Beck..
Report Post »dirtypolitics
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:34amMs Maddow heard the message alright but she can’t handle the truth or it is not part of the radical left wing agenda….. plus Beck believes in God, one thing the left cannot respect.
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:45amRun Glenn Run!! She’s got the strap -on…………………….
Report Post »kreese
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:54amThank you HAPPY KILLMORE
By the way, who is Rachel Maddow? Guess I need to get out more often.
Report Post »UlyssesP
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 10:56amWhat is this guy talking about? Richard Maddow is nutz!
Report Post »JesusFreak95
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:07amWell, it must be Christmas, because I actually half agree with MADCOW. I’ve been listening to Glenn for years. He has dropped most of his irreverent funny stuff, like “Moran Trivia” and his spoof songs like “Great American Aholes”. I appreciate the serious stuff he does, but I miss the fun stuff. Too much crying not enough laughing…. but I guess that’s where we are these days.
Report Post »NoDaDAZone
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:20amMs. Madcow is everything that is wrong with “Liberals” in a nutshell. Where does she get her “superior” attitude from. Is it because “Logic is a complication….Logic is always false”
Does Madcow even KNOW she’s a liar and teller of half-truths?
Expose: http://www.marcrubin.com/dada2.ivnu
Report Post »Kisha
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:25amWhen did she “love” him? GET HELP MADDOW!
Report Post »Kisha
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:31amAcorn is fake!??? OMG…………………………………………………………. Where’s my gun? lol Can we take on target practice on communism? Oh wait… maybe not… it’s not PC!!!! AHHH!!!
Wayner
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:34amIt appears to me that Letterman is putting the words in her mouth. What does the far left idiot know about the truth?
Report Post »jorge_washington
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:35am“Too bad you really didn’t listen and hear the message, Mr. Maddow.”
That’s exactly when Beck stopped being entertaining and began sounding dangerous. When Beck began weaving an insane conspiracy that President Obama was a this or that because he once was in the same room with so-n-so or that George Sorros is that evil super villain from those James Bond movies trying to destroy the world and the democrats have been plotting the destruction of the US since, forever. Though Beck never had any to say when Bush was giving the US record deficit after record deficit or spying on the US citizens and breaking the law by doing so.
Questioning with BOLDNESS
Mad Az Hell
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:40amYeah, just two guys sitting around talking about blow hards.
Report Post »SaneRoger
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:46amAnd what message would that have been?
Report Post »KenM
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:04pm“He mostly just talks about himself and it’s not as fun.” She on the other hand just talks predictable left wing garbage and is such a shill for the left you usually know what is about to come out of her mouth before she opens it…nothing.
As for Letteman; his show is bilge material when he stoops to entertaining people like Maddow. Keep to the humor and the Hollywood eltie David. Your show sucks when you do politics. I tune in late nite to get away from politics not be insulted by you and your progressive guests.
Maddow is one person I cannot tolerate watching. The event on Letterman had her sitting there pntificating about her issues. She has that Obama postre; I am obviously all knowing and so much more intelligent than you little people. She is, in her mind right about everything she talks about. The right is the problem, Glenn Beck is the problem, the Tea Party is the problem, everbody NOT a part of her chosen group of progressive elites is the problem. She thinks Obama is perfect, her beloved democrat party is untouchable. I’d lik to ask her one question ” the dems OWN the congress and the White House and have now for almost two years so why Ms.Madcow are you blaming everything on the republicans and George Bush”?
How do I really feel about her? She irritates me all to hell. I guess she must be doing her job.
Report Post »Reagan/Demint.deciple
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:09pmThere is so much that both of them said that I can attack, and PROVE they are wrong, but frankly, as I said, there is just too much, and where do I start ?
Report Post »Two idiot moronic liberals haveing a BLOWHARDED discussion themselves.. The hypocrisy is uncanny….
NapoHill15
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:11pmSounds like if you disagree with liberals you’re a “blow-hard.” It’s ironic that this conversation, that Letterman’s show, could easily be broadcast in Venezuela, Cuba, Russia . . . without changing a thing . . . Mmmmmm.
But you know . . . there’s an unreported travesty in their performance: They still have an audience that believes their premise and their themes.
And despite Dave feigning all the usual liberal reasonableness, humanitarianism, he and his liberal friends, Maddow, Moore, Olbermann, which ever liberal face you want to mention, they would separate your head from your shoulders if they could only have a chance to prove their problems with conservatism can only be cured in one way.
Report Post »Beckofile
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:14pmRalph Machio is telling us that when Beck moved from humor to truth she stopped listening. This is exactly how the “usefull Idiot” is usefull. When truth is spoken about oppressive government just numb the dumb with humor or her kind of mindless dribble. I wonder if she has gold, guns, god and food storage?
Report Post »americanidiot
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:16pmdavid letterman is still alive? I thought he was dead. ;-) He actually has a show, I guess it might be better than the infomercials on at the same time. I miss Billy Maze
Report Post »BlueStrat
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:17pm@ Jorge_Washington
“Though Beck never had any to say when Bush was giving the US record deficit after record deficit or spying on the US citizens and breaking the law by doing so.”
Yeah, Beck should have been down on GWB for that stuff, and…..oh….wait.
Oops, Glenn *did* criticize GWB on those very things! As a matter of fact, Glenn has pointed this out himself multiple times on both his radio and TV shows in response to this exact criticism. I guess that fact isn’t “truthy” enough for some.
Report Post »Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:17pm@jesusfreak! i forgot about the “moron trivia” era! hilarious….and don’t be too worried about kinda agreeing with her/him….as they say, a broken clock is …..
Report Post »Clive
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:30pmoh, yeah, mr. maddow, thats really funny dude. you should be a comedian.
Report Post »ConservativeBeauty
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:36pmMr. Maddow is a leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwwzzzzzzzeeeeerrrr
Report Post »DarKangelAZRAEL
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:42pmJorge, Beck was very critical of Bush when he was in office both on his CNN show and on the radio. He has been talking about the safety of gold for the past 8 years at least. Long before he had a TV show. He was also very critical about Bush “Abandoning free market principles to SAVE the free market” and Beck is also on about all Progs. NOT just dems and is all about booting out the prog repubs as well. You should actually listen to him. I drew very dangerous and scary lines between Soros years before anyone talked about him on TV or radio. The truth remains that progs have always aimed for the destruction of our republic so they can easily integrate it into their one world government model. Open the eyes.
Report Post »gipper2112
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:44pm@txpilot na, more like jon bon jovi ….
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:44pmWhom ever this Maddow person is, she’s not on my radar scope. The few things I’ve read about her
Report Post »are hateful trash from her mouth and really mean spirited talk. She belong in the same group of people as un-joyful Bayhar, Kathy Griffith and all that ilk, (can‘t remember their names as I’ve erased all memory of them from my mind) but you know who I mean. Can’t stand mean old broads.
MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 12:48pmBlow harder Dave.
Report Post »graciebarbosa
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 1:30pmRachel is like the boy named Sue.
Report Post »AriBenTZion
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:29pmMaddow’s is the most androgynous looking person I’ve ever seen.
Report Post »AnnMarie
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 2:41pmAnd this is important because???????
Report Post »paulamadden
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 5:07pmMr. Maddow…loll
Report Post »ozz
Posted on December 16, 2010 at 11:31pmYeah sure you did. Nice ploy. No Glen is gaining audience not losing it.
Report Post »anOpinion
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 4:19amHow did she finish the sentence?
RACHEL MADDOW: I USED TO LOVE GLENN BECK …
Report Post »… until I found out he loves his country
… until he started using facts
… until he saw the good in people
…
quiet little lamb
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 1:59pmfox said the black panthers decided the election? that sounds made up! lol. i’m glad they can laugh while they can.
Report Post »touch
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 10:48pmMadcow is just jealous that Glenn is much better looking with short hair and more easily identified as a male than she is.
Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:19amGlenn doesn’t have to take that from any boy.
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Report Post »thepatriotdave
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:24amJorge,
“Questioning with BOLDNESS”
That’s cool, but the idea is to NOT ask stupid questions. Glenn started asking serious questions. It‘s not his fault you don’t like the answers he found.
PatriotShops.com
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