Arianna Huffington likes free speech...kinda

October 21, 2010 - 13:38 ET
Glenn Beck

The Blaze: Accurate? Arianna Huffington Says Ginny Thomas Called Obama a ‘Tyrant’
GLENN: One of the most reckless things any man of any consequence has ever done was done by Mr. Soros and we'll get into that here in the next 10 days, but let's just put it this way: He believes in global government. I do not. He believes in silence is golden. I do not. Arianna Huffington apparently believes she is the arbiter of what speech is okay and what is not. Arianna Huffington, who is now taking money from the Tides Foundation at the Huffington Post, understand, America, there is a clear choice. You cannot say that, Oh, we all see America the same, the way we used to. They do not see it the same way, but we must not become them. We must not scream for someone else's silence. We must not beat people down like SEIU and the union thugs. We are not them. We are decent, God fearing, tolerant Americans. Jesus turned some tables over. I'm not telling you to keep quiet. I am certainly not telling you to stand down or sit down, but I am telling you walk with love and peace and gentleness in your heart but let the truth be on your tongue and that's what they don't like. When they cannot win on the battlefield of ideas, they shut you down. This is America and I will go down swinging to my last breath. This is America! This is not Venezuela yet.

Here's Arianna Huffington. Do you have it on me first or not?

PAT: No.

GLENN: Okay. We know that she was we played the audio for you a million times, where she has said, you know, Glenn Beck, darling, is so wonderful, but he's like crying fire in a crowded movie theater. Aren't there limits on speech like Glenn Beck's, darling? No, there's not. The only speech worth protecting is the speech that is difficult to hear or sit through, the speech that you vehemently disagree with. I have never called for anyone's speech to be squelched. I will stand shoulder to shoulder with Keith Olberman if anyone tries to shut him down. I will stand with him, and I think he is a despicable man. That is not the way we deal with things in America, but Arianna Huffington doesn't agree with that and now here's the latest that she said.

PAT: She's talking about Jimmie Thomas, Clarence Thomas' wife, who apparently called Barack Obama a tyrant.

HUFFINGTON: It's really strange. It's beyond strange that you have the wife of a Supreme Court justice, not being against Obama. I can understand that. That's her legitimate right, but saying utterly irrational things about Obama. I mean, calling the President a tyrant

GLENN: Excuse me. Stop. Excuse me. Did they not call George Bush a war criminal?

PAT: Terrorist.

GLENN: A war criminal, a terrorist?

PAT: Terrorist, war criminal, Nazi, Fascist.

GLENN: And never, never did I say they should be shut up, that they should not have the right to say that. I say it's wrong. Anyway.

HUFFINGTON: beyond the realm of what is real and that's really what we need to be addressing, not disagreements, not a position, but just irrationality.

VOICE: She has the right to do it.

HUFFINGTON: Nobody should put her in jail, if that's what your question is.

GLENN: Nobody should put her in jail.

PAT: You know, and she says these things in that Zsa Zsa Gabor way. So, it doesn't sound sinister. It just you know, it sounds like she's on Green Acres and so you tend to dismiss it.

GLENN: That's irrationality.

PAT: She's frightening. She's frightening.

GLENN: It is irrationality that they're talking about. It is maybe I don't know maybe there's a mental disorder.

PAT: I'm not saying you can't oppose the President.

GLENN: No.

PAT: I'm just saying that you

GLENN: We should stop all irrational talk. That's irrational. No, you just disagree with it! I mean, that's

PAT: Yeah.

GLENN: If it's this is exactly what Stu, can you get the George Soros announcement? I want to read this announcement that came out yesterday afternoon. America, it's one thing to have four advisors, four, of the President of the United States to target you and then to have SEIU and the AFL CIO target you; but now to have moveon.org, Media Matters, the Tides Foundation, and the richest, most powerful man in the world target you. You come to one realization, I must be doing something right.  news@glennbeck.com