08-31-2010, 11:27 AM
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When I interviewed Glenn Beck two years ago, I told him that I found his remarks about the first Muslim member of Congress "horribly offensive."
He had informed Minnesota's Keith Ellison during an interview that "what I feel like saying is, sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."
Beck, who was then with Headline News, said on my CNN program: "I apologize for a poorly worded question. However, I think we're all living in denial if we are really saying to each other that a world that we live in now, where we can't -- where we have to shut up because of political correctness and we can't say Muslim extremists are bad, 10 percent of Islam is extreme and want to kill us."
Artfully done: back off from the insulting wording but not from the larger charge. Beck also told me: "I want people to know I don't take myself that seriously. I want you to know I'm a rodeo clown. I want you to know I'm conservative and I'm not a journalist."
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Howard Kurtz - Bombastic Beck busts out
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