GBTV ‘I BET HE HAS MORE THAN ONE ASCOT’: BECK PARODIES INTENTIONAL MISREPORTING BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA

To quote Glennbeck.com, “You just know things are too good when Glenn busts out the pipe.”

Glenn Beck busted out a pipe and smoking jacket today to mock the recent spate of misreporting from MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell – or as Beck called her, “Mrs. Alan Greenspan.” In tones of dripping sarcasm interspersed with genuine outrage, Beck savaged Mitchell both for her hypocritical attacks on Mitt Romney’s wealth, and for the blatantly dishonest bit of selective editing the network had done. For those of you who don’t recall this most recent bit of media malfeasance, here’s the Blaze’s Erica Ritz explaining:

In the MSNBC clip, Romney is shown discussing Wawa’s convenience stores like he has never been to one before (presumably because he is “too good” for such an establishment) Too bad the clip was taken wildly out of context.
In reality, Romney was illustrating the difference between private and public sector efficiency. After telling a story where his friend had to fill out a 33-page form twice to complete a change of address with the government, Romney holds up touch-tone sandwich-ordering as an example of private sector efficiency– not as a marvel of how the “common” man lives. As you can see, the MSNBC clip completely ignores the comparison Romney was trying to draw – a fact that was apparently lost on Mitchell, even after other people pointed it out. That, or she didn’t care, considering that she still cut out the first part of the analogy when showing the “full” clip on MSNBC today, and didn’t say anything that could be remotely construed as an apology. Watch Mitchell’s “update” below: Beck, quite understandably, had had just about enough of this kind of snobbery masked as populism. His blistering mockery can be seen below in full below: http://web.gbtv.com/media/video.jsp?content_id=22411917&topic...