Ethics

Beck Babbles Incoherently to Couric

By Ed Brayton

What is it about Katie Couric that reduces populist conservatives to babbling idiots? It's not as if she's a particularly tough interviewer. I mean, Mike Wallace she's not. But here she asks a perfectly reasonable question to Beck and he babbles and poses and tries to distract. He does anything but actually answer the question.

The question is simple and reasonable: When he said that he thinks Barack Obama hates "white culture," what does he mean by "white culture"? The full range of his defense mechanisms are on display here - sarcasm, subject changing, persecution complex (you're out to trap me!), and the ubiquitous "I'm just asking questions" pose.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).