Beck sounds off on Brown's "available" comment

The Bay State's new senator-elect may want to choose his words more carefully next time.

Scott Brown is being bashed by a bigshot pundit in his own party for joking that his daughters Ayla and Arianna are "available." (He later corrected himself, saying that Arianna, a student at Syracuse University, has a boyfriend.)

On his syndicated radio talk show yesterday, right-winger Glenn Beck said he was shocked that Brown would make such a statement on national TV.

"'Hey, my two daughters on a meat market,'" said Beck, mocking Brown's remark. "My wife would have pieces of my body in a drawer this morning. My daughters never would have spoken to me again."

What Beck said next was bizarre and disturbing, comparing Ted Kennedy's successor to former Congressman Gary Condit.

"I want a chastity belt on [Brown]. I want his every move watched in Washington. I don't trust this guy," Beck said. "This one could end with a dead intern. I'm just saying. It could end with a dead intern."

Ayla Brown, a 21-year-old Boston College student who gained a measure of fame locally a few years ago when she was a semifinalist on "American Idol," was standing beside her dad when he made the comment, and she looked none too pleased. Brown's wife, Channel 5 reporter Gail Huff, smiled but also shouted "Stop!"

Was Brown really trying to find dates for his daughters or just being an adoring dad?

Margo Howard, for one, thinks it was the latter. The syndicated advice columnist who lives in Cambridge says she's no fan of Brown -- or Martha Coakley, for that matter -- but she doesn't get Daughter-gate.

"Glenn Beck is a sandwich shy of a picnic," Howard said. "I thought it was kind of a cute touch by Brown. When my girls were 5 and 8, I always referred to them as my 'unmarried daughters.' Brown wasn't seriously looking for a son-in-law."

Eric Fehrnstrom, a Republican strategist who advises Brown, declined to talk to us yesterday. Likewise, Ayla didn't return our phone call, but she told the AP: "I definitely had a talk with my Dad," adding that she got 1,568 friend requests on Facebook and 300 inbox messages, mostly from men. She said her dad asked former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney "if he had any more sons he could sell me to...He said, 'please ... she'll convert to a Mormon!"

Others attending Brown's victory party at Park Plaza included Romney, retired NFL players Doug Flutie, Steve DeOssie, and Fred Smerlas, comedian Lenny Clarke, WAAF’s Greg Hill, Republican Party chairman Michael Steele, and Republican gubernatorial candidate Charlie Baker.

Here's video of Beck's rant.

And here's Beck later on his Fox News show.