DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Makes Up Bad Insult For Good Reason

Television ghoul Glenn Beck said “Philadelphia sucks” on the air. His reason: It’s too scary to walk around Independence Mall after 6 p.m. (especially as the Ritz is letting out). He called the area “the killing streets.” Mayor Nutter’s spokesman struck back, saying Beck suffered from “verb-arrhea” (um, good one?) and Police Lt. Ray Evers said Beck was simply “misinformed.” Lesson learned: Nutter needs to stick to words we all know, like motherfucker. [Inky]

And for the record, when Glenn Beck was on the air out of Philadelphia, where his national show began, he wasn’t the 2-bit evangelical conspiracist/Woodrow Wilson scholar he is today. All he ever did was talk about his family and American Idol. It was OK for driving. Perhaps his being kicked off the air in Philly, where his career took off, has something to do with this newly-found hatred of the city? [I used to listen to Glenn Beck and am not proud]

Al Taubenberger, the guy who ran against Nutter in 2007, and whose campaign strategy included praising the now-mayor and agreeing with him on every issue, may run for retiring Councilman Jack Kelly’s At-Large seat. [NEast Philly]

Martin Bednarek, who’s running for City Council to replace retiring member Joan Krajewski, was told he’d be dismembered by an anonymous caller. He called the cops, because, as he said, “You just can’t take anything for granted, especially with what those poor people in Arizona are going through.” They’re on the case, pleading with Verizon to get the restricted caller’s number. [Inky]

Antoine Rodriguez, arrested as a person of interest in the Kensington Strangler case Monday night, has reportedly confessed to the murders of Elaine Goldberg, Casey Mahoney and Nicole Piacentini. [Inky]

Former (!) Governor Rendell is out of the spotlight for a minute, so what does he do? Takes up some kind of “dogs for inmates” cause. Now Michael Vick is back in the spotlight, too. See how that works? [Inky]

Fox News has written a strange piece, in which they claim a 23-year-old Brigham Young University student “won’t forget his 23rd [birthday], which is today” because he’s sending out press releases for his Draft Rick Santorum for president website. This is an actual grab from the article: “For now, Thomas Schultz will continue his Santorum advocacy via the new website while continuing his studies at BYU. Will he return over the Summer to lend his favorite presidential candidate a hand? “We’ll see. I’ll probably go back to Iowa,” says Schultz. As for his birthday, Schultz says all he has planned is “some studying.” But chances are he’ll remember what he did when he turned 23.” [Fox News]

There’ve been a lot of fires around the city lately. What up with that? Here’s another one, except this one, in Tacony, began with a gigantic explosion caught on tape by NBC news. Unfortunately, a PGW worker was killed in the blast. [NBC 10]

One Response to “ DAILY GRINDER: Nutter Makes Up Bad Insult For Good Reason ”

  1. Armageddon T Thunderbird says:

    People need to wake up the fact that Glenn Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology that he mixes with cherry picked parts of Catholicism and his personal core as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. The two are not the same as one is a cult and the other is a religion. This makes Glenn Beck one very twisted screwed up moron who sold his soul to the lowest common denominator of personal stupidity. And for the record…the religion of Islam has far more in common with Christianity than the mormon cult.

    Glenn Beck can be summarized simply as a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. Those are his only qualifications for anything in life as he never went to college and definitely knows nothing about American History or the US Constitution. Because he does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, this makes him the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. Considering the fact that Beck’s personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. He is definitely not a true conservative.

    As with Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate who started the Jehovah’s Witness Cult, this over-paid idiot (Glenn Beck) got in bed with Satan a very long time ago and he loves being on the bottom. It’s really all about the money as hate, lies, promotion of ignorance and fear mongering are the only marketable skills that Glenn Beck has on his side and he has a growing flock of very impressionable idiots who do not understand the difference between a cult and a religion or truth & facts versus lies.

    Glenn Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them frequently pervert truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths. Beck is simply part of a national league of pseudo-conservative idiots who make big money by selling lies and half truths to impressionable fools who occupy the lowest levels of society. Basically…tea baggers and registered republicans who are condemned to repeat the mistakes of history.

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