Glenn Strikes Back

Oh what a tangled web we weave when at first we practice to deceive.  After publicly accusing Beck of using rhetoric that incites the public and that his remarks are the journalistic equivalent of shouting fire in a crowded theater it turns out that Arianna Huffington only recently came to this view.   Check out David Patten from News Max:

Fox News host and bestselling author Glenn Beck fired back Monday against allegations by Huffington Post blogger Arianna Huffington’s that he is “inciting” Americans to violence are “completely ridiculous.”

On the Sunday talk program ABC’s This Week, Huffington asked Fox News CEO Roger Ailes if he were concerned that Beck “talks about people being slaughtered, about who is going to be the next in the killing spree.”

Ailes replied that Beck was referring to massacres by Hitler and Stalin. But Huffington insisted: “No, no, he was talking about this administration.”

…….In discussing Huffington’s allegations on his radio program, Beck revealed that Huffington had tried to recruit him last year to write for her Web site. “Arianna Huffington, I would like you to explain this,” Beck told listeners.

“The last time and the only time that I’ve ever seen you or spoken to you, you asked me to write for the Huffington Post and tried to convince me that it would be good, because you are so open minded and everything else.

“Now, were you trying to incite people, when you asked me to write for the Huffington Post? Or are you going to deny that? It was, I can tell you when it was. It was at the Time Most Influential 100 dinner last year when I was an absolute nobody. But I was on Fox News and I was saying the same stuff.”

Wonder who has an axe to grind?