So Glenn Beck is trying to paper over his dimwitted, overly-credulous embrace of Eric Massa’s conspiracy claims by…blaming Massa.
On his radio show today, Glenn Beck lit into former Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.) for his disastrous, rambling appearance on the Tuesday episode of Beck’s Fox News Show.
“America, have you ever heard of a 50-year old man having a tickle-fight — five men tickling each other so hard that they can’t breathe?” said Beck. “I think we found out who he is — someone who can’t be trusted to tell the truth about his life.”
The thing is, Glenn Beck never should have believed Massa in the first place. From the very start, Massa’s story didn’t add up — but it fit neatly into Beck’s narrative about the Obama Administration and Democrats in DC, so Beck fell for it.
But even now, even after Eric Massa’s admission that he engaged in tickle fights with staff members, Glenn Beck is refusing to fully concede that Massa’s wild allegations were bunk. Amazingly, Beck is still leaving the door open to the possibility that Eric Massa is a victim of a grand conspiracy:
Beck indulged the “possibility” that somebody “got to” Massa and turned him — at the very least, said Beck, the former congressman “lied” in a pre-interview.
Sigh. I know this will be hard for Glenn Beck to believe, but sometimes a sleazy congressman is just a sleazy congressman. Outside of Glenn Beck’s imagination, there is no conspiracy. There’s just a gullible radio host with a television show on Fox.
Beck may be on top of the world right now, but if keeps on being this sloppy he’s going to experience the same career arc as did Morton Downey, Jr.: a fast rise…followed by an even faster fall.
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