huffington chooses den of inciteful rhetoric to complain about inciteful rhetoric

Monday night, Arianna Huffington appeared on Countdown with Keith Olbermann to complain about Glenn Beck’s inciteful language?

Keith Olbermann – the unhinged man, person, human…er…talking head who spews hatred nightly. She chooses Olbermann, the purveyor of inciteful, hateful rhetoric, she chooses his show, to make her point?

What exactly is Arianna all in a huff about wrt Beck? This is a continuation of her face to face with Ailes on This Week. She accused Beck of inciting the American people, and points to these comments:

BECK: I told you yesterday, buckle up your seatbelt, America. Find the exit — there’s one here, here, and here. Find the exit closest to you and prepare for a crash landing. Because this plane is coming down, because the pilot is intentionally steering it into the trees! Most likely, it’ll happen sometime after Christmas. You’re gonna see this economy come up — we’re already seeing it, and now it’s gonna start coming back down again. And when you see the effects of what they’re doing to the economy, remember these words: We will survive. No — we’ll do better than survive, we will thrive. As long as these people are not in control. They are taking you to a place to be slaughtered!

She called him a liar for his response:

BECK: I don’t even know if I’ve ever used the word “slaughtered.” And if I used the word “slaughtered,” if it wasn’t in a context of Mao, Stalin, or Hitler, [Ailes was referring to Beck's airing of a documentary "The Revolutionary Holocaust: Live Free...Or Die"] it was in the idea that the truth is being slaughtered by this administration… not saying that this administration is going to slaughter anyone.

So she really thinks Beck is saying/believes that people are actually going to be slaughtered? Does she think his viewers actually believe that? When you talk about sports, and say one team slaughtered another, is the other team really dead? When you say the Saints killed the Dolphins, are the Dolphins dead? Does that scare you? Are you really worried you are going to be slaughtered?

Arianna paraphrases Beck:

“Not Stalin. Not Hitler. Not Mao. Not “the truth” being slaughtered. YOU. “They are taking YOU to a place to be slaughtered.”

He didn’t make the type of comparison like Matthews did the other night:

Chris Matthews compared Republican conservatives to the Khmer Rouge, the murderous Communist regime that racked up a body count of some two million during its reign of terror:

“What’s going on out there in the Republican Party is kind of a frightening, almost Cambodia re-education camp going on in that party, where they’re going around to people, sort of switching their minds around saying, if you’re not far right, you’re not right enough.”

Or attack millions of Americans, like Olbermann:
“folks that watch Fox News are “tin foil hatters, conspiracy theorists, paranoids and racists.”

Olby has spewed hatred towards: Bush, calling him a facist; the millions of people who don’t support Obama, calling them racist; Scott Brown; Sarah Palin; Carrie Prejean Hillary Clinton; Republicans; Michelle Malkin; Limbaugh; O’Reilly; and on and on…

But Arianna selected Countdown with Olbermann to complain about Beck’s inciteful language? That is just flat out hysterical.

So, I guess words only matter when they are said by people with whom you disagree. She apparently has no issue with the hateful inciteful garbage Olbermann and msnbc toss around weekly. And she takes no responsibility for the inflammatory language on her site.

But she wants to hold Ailes responsible for something Beck said, she wants to limit the freedom of speech of her opposition? Typical. Don’t believe me? Take a look around the comment sectons on Huff Po. Well reasoned, factual comments that don’t agree with the liberal content of a post are bannned. They allow a few inflammatory comments to appear, I assume to further their screed that all conservatives and opponents of Obama are racist or whackos, but I can’t tell you how many people have complained that they were banned or moderated for stating well thought out opposing views.

(I wonder why she asked Beck to be a contributing writer on her blog last year?)