What not to say in a speech: ‘My daughters are available’

Zeta says:

11:47am | 21/01/10

As soon as Glen Beck said ‘my wife would have me in pieces’ I immediately started wondering how we could trick Beck into saying that about his own daughters so the world would be rid of him.

I guess at least Brown is making his gaffes in public, at the beginning of his career, instead of being lionised now only to be shamed when we find out about his affairs, like the Kennedy’s.

I like this guy for a Republican Presidential nominee. He’d appeal to the old Bush base, he’s got a truck, his daughters look like they know how to party.

Dingo_aus says:

12:27pm | 21/01/10

Well said Nic (1.00pm).

BTW it should be clear to all of those who have attacked Glenn Beck as some sort of Republican attack dog, that he is not party affiliated.

To criticise Brown at this point in time clearly demonstrates that Beck is not following the Republican line.

Ben G says:

03:13pm | 21/01/10

How dumb would you have to be to think that Glenn Beck doesn’t root for one side or the other? A little lesson in politics and media: Sometimes people say things that aren’t necessarily true but are expedient. He may personally not have many strongly held views (which, if you’ve seen footage of him on CNN, you’d know he doesn’t, he just has a decent finger for testing which way the winds blow), but when he gets on TV, he has a funny little knack of pretending that all Democrats are communists and the few politicians he picks as his favourites are all GOP candidates, unless of course they’re too far right for even the GOP, in which case he’ll pick them and claim it as evidence that he doesn’t bat for any particular party, and idiots will believe him.

cats says:

01:22pm | 21/01/10

Glen Beck is kinda right by saying African American is not a race though. If it were, then White Americans would also be a race, or Asian Americans. I know the article’s not about this, just thought i’d point it out..

Randal says:

01:32pm | 21/01/10

What a stupid little piece and shows again how the left refuse to evenly assess the realities of politics when the gloss falls off one of their golden boys.

The reality is that Brown won Massachusetts because there is a ground swell of anti-Obama feeling in the US, as the people wake up from the party hangover and begin to wonder what they have done.

The US is a basket case economically, has a deficit so large I do not think I could fit the zero’s in this post, high unemployment, a collapsed housing market and is involved in two conflicts without end, meanwhile terrorists still want to set bombs off on their planes.

Whilst agreed Obama inherited these problems, what American’s are looking for is a leader who is offering real solutions and what he promised ‘Change’.

What they have seen is very little, a stimulus package that seemed more geared at rewarding the incompetent than helping the people, increase in troop numbers, and a health care package so flawed that even the Democrat’s hate it as it will cost many more of those zero’s and deliver very little to the people.

Add to that endless rhetoric without action, is it a wonder that they are demanding that their newly elected leader focus on these major issues, with real solutions. Should he fail to do so there will be further setbacks at elections, an increasingly hostile congress and eventual failure at the poles in 3 years.

There is still time for Obama, but the clock is ticking and he needs to prove himself as a leader with solutions, otherwise the comparisons with Lincoln and Roosevelt that were thrown around so loosely at his election will be the long past and he will find himself instead more likely compared to a Georgian peanut farmer than those great men of history.

Razor says:

01:41pm | 21/01/10

Senator Elect Brown is justifiably proud of his beautiful and talented daughters.  I don’t see anything wrong in what he said - I see it as a reflection of the Dad’s relationship with his daughters - loving, open and an ability to have a joke.  I’m sure the daughters are able to pick and choose who they go out with.  Unfortunately I am indisposed and in another country.

As a conservative I have some time for beck but on this one the guy is way off the reservation.

(Note: I too, have a beautiful and talented daughter)

Eno says:

02:38pm | 21/01/10

I’m with Razor - while it was very benny hill and needed a guy with drumset to do the “Boom-tish” bit on the punchlines the girls and the missus seemed anything but upset - they were laughing their heads off! Storm in a teacup.

E says:

03:14pm | 21/01/10

shows how shallow and dirty the gene pool is in the western political system. Remember Fitzgibbon using his office to help his equally well connected moron brother to land clients?
We as a people need to realise that both major parties in all western democracies are terminal cases.

Eric says:

04:12pm | 21/01/10

I guess journalists need to grasp at whatever straws of consolation they can get after this defeat.

Josh says:

09:59pm | 21/01/10

I’d be amused that people take Glenn Beck seriously, if it wasn’t so dangerous. Given all the production crew leaving to work on MSNBC, I don’t think Beck believes half the stuff he actually comes out with.

watty says:

08:06am | 22/01/10

Get over it Colgan.

The Republicans took what was regarded as the “Kennedy” seat from Obama’s Democrats even though the ‘Great One” went in to bat personally for the Democrat candidate

That’s the story….no more….no less.

Try and hide your disappointment, not get picky about the winner,Beck, Bush,whoever.

Liz says:

08:10am | 22/01/10

Ah well that’s modern politics for you,you get what you deserve they say!

Vivian says:

03:51pm | 22/01/10

Lighten up, folks.  The article wasn’t a deeply significant piece of social commentary, and the comment itself was clearly only a lighthearted shot at humour, despite the attempt to introduce the dreaded PC overtones.