Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground, on Glenn Beck
by Jim Washburn
Eric Massa, the freshly retired Democratic Representative from NY was Glenn Beck's guest for the whole hour on Fox yesterday, time aplenty, Beck likely figured, for Massa to flesh out his allegations that he'd been forced out of a corrupt Congress by a vengeful White House and House Democratic leadership, which had smeared him to quash his opposition to the health care reform bill.
That had been Massa's third explanation for his retirement, after first claiming it was for health reasons, then because he'd been accused of inappropriate speech to a staffer. After those two didn't fly so well, he only then claimed it was because Rahm Emanuel had it in for him.
Hours before he appeared on Beck's show, a fourth and firmer allegation came out, claiming that Massa had groped a staffer.
On Beck's show, Massa immediately commandeered the conversation to announce:
"Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday. It was kill the old guy."
That opening threw things so far off track that Beck spent the rest of the show in the caboose, trying to get Massa to say any of the things he'd hoped he would, badgering Massa to name names, to cite particulars of corruption and union misdeeds, to accuse a naked Emanuel of towel-snapping in the locker room-anything.
When none of that happened--when Beck again failed in his God-anointed job of bringing down Barack Obama-he told the camera, "America, I've got to shoot straight with you: I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. And I apologize for that." Now if he'll only admit to those thousands of other hours.
You can read the whole thing here, straight from the Fox's mouth.
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