Katie Couric Debuts New Web Show
Welcome to the home of @katiecouric, a new Web show hosted by CBS Evening News anchor and managing editor Katie Couric. The Webcasts will feature Katie's candid and incisive one-on-one interviews with high-profile guests ranging from politicians and celebrities to business titans and other top newsmakers.
The premiere Webcast of @katiecouric is Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7:00 p.m. ET with Glenn Beck, a major conservative presence on TV, radio and the Web, and the author of Arguing with Idiots, How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government.
Beck has been in the news lately, and is on the cover of Time magazine this week.
David Von Drehle described the climate in which Beck is delivering his messages in his Time article, "Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?":
"The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called 'the paranoid style' - the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country - is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls and the conservative concoctions of brainwashed children goose-stepping to school, you'd think the Palm in Washington had been replaced with a Munich beer hall.
Read a Preview: Beck says McCain Worse Than Obama
Watch a clip from Tuesday's premiere show:
"No one has a better feeling for this mood, and no one exploits it as well, as Beck. He is the hottest thing in the political-rant racket, left or right. A gifted entrepreneur of angst in a white-hot market. A man with his ear uniquely tuned to the precise frequency at which anger, suspicion and the fear that no one's listening all converge."
As an example Beck's on-air style, which he calls a fusion of entertainment and enlightenment, he critiqued the Obama administration's bevy of czars, or special advistors to the White House; "America cannot give the benefit of the doubt of things like the czars. I am waiting for a good reason why every person that pops up in this administration is a Marxist ...."
Be sure to tune in to Katie's interview with the controversial Beck at http://www.cbsnews.com/katiecouricshow Tuesday night or anytime after on CBSNews.com. It's sure to be fascinating and illuminating.
Following the Webcast, CBSNews.com is teaming up with Facebook to host an online video chat for the community to talk directly with Katie after her interview with Beck. The live video player from CBSNews.com will be posted on the CBS News Facebook page, Katie Couric Facebook page, and CBSNews.com.
Disclosure: Glenn Beck's book "Arguing with Idiots" is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS corporation; also Mr. Beck and Katie Couric are both represented by Hiltzik strategies.
Copyright 2009 CBS. All rights reserved. The premiere Webcast of @katiecouric is Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7:00 p.m. ET with Glenn Beck, a major conservative presence on TV, radio and the Web, and the author of Arguing with Idiots, How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government.
Beck has been in the news lately, and is on the cover of Time magazine this week.
David Von Drehle described the climate in which Beck is delivering his messages in his Time article, "Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?":
"The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called 'the paranoid style' - the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country - is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls and the conservative concoctions of brainwashed children goose-stepping to school, you'd think the Palm in Washington had been replaced with a Munich beer hall.
Read a Preview: Beck says McCain Worse Than Obama
Watch a clip from Tuesday's premiere show:
"No one has a better feeling for this mood, and no one exploits it as well, as Beck. He is the hottest thing in the political-rant racket, left or right. A gifted entrepreneur of angst in a white-hot market. A man with his ear uniquely tuned to the precise frequency at which anger, suspicion and the fear that no one's listening all converge."
As an example Beck's on-air style, which he calls a fusion of entertainment and enlightenment, he critiqued the Obama administration's bevy of czars, or special advistors to the White House; "America cannot give the benefit of the doubt of things like the czars. I am waiting for a good reason why every person that pops up in this administration is a Marxist ...."
Be sure to tune in to Katie's interview with the controversial Beck at http://www.cbsnews.com/katiecouricshow Tuesday night or anytime after on CBSNews.com. It's sure to be fascinating and illuminating.
Following the Webcast, CBSNews.com is teaming up with Facebook to host an online video chat for the community to talk directly with Katie after her interview with Beck. The live video player from CBSNews.com will be posted on the CBS News Facebook page, Katie Couric Facebook page, and CBSNews.com.
Disclosure: Glenn Beck's book "Arguing with Idiots" is published by Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS corporation; also Mr. Beck and Katie Couric are both represented by Hiltzik strategies.
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Glen Beck is an "ENTERTAINER", just as Rush Limbaugh or Alan Colmes. Fox News isn't really a news channel, it is the Fox Opinion Network and that's how it should be called.
Beck said he is in the opinion business as is Limbaugh, Colmes, Hannity and any of those other people.
They are ENTERTAINERS. Beck just has a high school education. Sorry all you folks that don't have that or more but you would be a rare bird to have exercised your brains enough to really understand the complexity of today's issues without only a high school education.
So, I learned a lot about Beck today. Seems like a nice guy, he's a wacky Mormon (Jesus went to Illinois - yea, right!) and he will never irritate me again because he just isn't smart enough to.
Free Speach has limits when it comes to groups that inflame and lie. There is responsiblity with free speach. Beck and Dobbs show none.
The law of the land is still that you may not shout "FIRE" in a crowded theater, Beck does so every night, just to make a buck.
Walter C. is turning ovre in his grave.
CBS has just as much credibility as the Disney Channel News, GE News, CNN, and Fox News.
Fewer newspapers. Not many credible sources left.
Also, any conservative is not good for the country. They have no ideas, are all warmongers and want to force their religious beliefs on the rest of the nation. McBush would not have been better than Obama, Caribou Barbie would not have been better than Obama, and Bush will never be as good as Obama. Carter was right, a lot of the criticism Obama is taking is largely because he is black. Conservatives can be 'outraged' all they like; the truth hurts, doesn't it?
Beck is no more imaginative than Joe Scarborough, another Retardican idiot. Beck is proof that, in order to be called a 'thinker', it might help if you had a bit of education. Amazing how Limbaugh and Beck appeal to the more racist, paranoid parts of the conservative base yet neither one of them have more than a high school diploma. And, these are the 'thinkers' the conservative base worships. If they could 'think', one might be impressed.
Where did all the libs go that were on earlier. Havn't seen anything from them lately.