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  • TUESDAY APRIL 14 2009 9:30 AM

Glenn Beck Goes Insane

I have to admit, the greatest thing since Obama took over the presidency is watching Glenn Beck’s quick descent into insanity. It really is epic theater and could easily have been a movie, or a television show. He is completely out of touch with reality – and it’s fucking awesome. It’s as if the crazy conspiracy guy at the coffee shop got his own show. It may actually end with him pulling a Smith & Wesson out and blowing his brains out on live television. And I am not in any way kidding. That’s how crazy and awesome Glenn Beck has become.

Becks’ ratings have been skyrocketing, much like Mister Rodgers would have if he had begun smearing his trains with feces and ranting about how Mr. Greenjeans was going to put us in camps. A couple of weeks ago, the kids at Morning Joe on MSNBC decided to take a closer look at Glenn and they found a man on the edge of sanity, weeping openly on television.



Jesus, why don’t you lube up America, enter it anally and make sweet ass love to it? Just to be clear, that is not a man doing a show, or a character, that is a guy on the edge of a mental breakdown. Unfortunately, I have no sympathy for this impaired lunatic because he is a right wing fucknut. The crazy thing about the right wing is they already have no grip on reality, whether it be science, economics or foreign affairs, they have nothing to base their horseshit on. But The Beck has brought it to a whole new level.



What could possibly be seen as odd about that picture? It's just a guy sitting next to a close up of his eyes. How incredibly not odd.

The man has taken fear and consumed it. Fear is Glenn Beck’s bitch. And the man we are to fear, this Obama character, is so shockingly less destructive to our civil rights than his predecessor it is astounding. George Bush woke up every morning and tried to figure out a way to make us less safe, while he shit on the flag. Obama has pulled back on so many (certainly not all) of the crazy, rights destroying policies of Bush it is insane. But we are supposed to believe Obama, the guy who did not invade a country for no reason, is the next coming of Hitler. Holy fucking shit.

Glenn is quite concerned about our guns. He believes Obama is going to take our guns away. Now, I’d like to point out that if you believe Obama is going to take your guns away, you should have your guns taken away, because you have the intellectual capacity of a rodent. You are shockingly stupid and beyond pathetic. There is zero evidence this will occur in the future and Obama has emphatically stated he has no intention of doing so. So, stop it, you morons.

Glenn is also horrified by the prospect of socialized medicine. It would obviously ruin our country. It would be like opening up a bunch of USSR sponsored Chuck E. Cheeses. Please pay no attention to the fact that Obama has never proposed socialized medicine, never campaigned for socialized medicine and has even said a single-payer health system will not work. Yes, there are no plans for socialized medicine, only universal healthcare, which is pretty much the opposite of socialized medicine. It means the private sector is, you know, providing health insurance and care and stuff. Nonetheless, because Obama wants to provide fake socialized medicine, he is a Nazi. Because if there is one thing the Nazis were about, it was a national single-payer healthcare system. That’s actually what Nazi stands for: National All Single (cough, cough, what?)



That is fucking insane. He is the lunatic who should be wandering the streets and screaming at trees. He’s pretty much got the same take on every subject. Last week Glenn commented on a New York Times article that stated Obama was going to take on immigration reform. Obviously, everyone, right and left, agrees we need some sort of change when it comes to immigration. Glenn had an awesome take on the news that Obama was planning on dealing with immigration.

“Maybe I’m alone, but I think it would be just faster if they just shot me in the head. You know what I mean? How much more can he disenfranchise all of us?”



True dat. Was he done there? No, next he pretended to pour gas on someone.



Look, there is not much difference between a new immigration policy and shooting Glenn Beck in the head. I actually think it should be the first step taken by the administration. It is amazing that this man is allowed to spew such nonsense on national television. You can do anything you want, as long as it gets ratings, even if it is a man’s mental breakdown.

Ratings are ratings. You actually don’t need a huge number of people to watch your show in cable to be a star and there certainly are a large number of insane right wing lunatics who believe what the Glenn is telling them. They are being stoked and enflamed by his complete and total nonsense. For liberals and Democrats, this couldn’t be a better thing. It’s another big face for the Republicans to wear for the American public. He’s worse than Rush Limbaugh and that is quite an achievement. At least when Clinton was in office, they went after him for stuff that could actually be real. The Whitewater mess, Travel gate, getting blowjobs from interns is all spectacular criticism compared to what lunatics like Glenn Beck are doing now.

And feel free to enjoy some Glenn Beck poetry,, which he recites everyday on his show.


    WRONG WITH US

    Put these people in jail, put these people in jail,
    Put them in jail, what is wrong with us;
    We knew this guy was in the country,
    He was -- he has been in the country
    And extradited before; we have thrown him
    Out of the country, then we brought him back, and
    Then we threw him out and he came back again;
    What the hell is wrong with us, what is wrong with us.

    ("Glenn Beck," Fox News, March 11, 2009)



Just sit back and enjoy the madness of Glenn Beck, it couldn’t be better advertising for the left.


FearTheReaper is a writer, actor and stand up comedian. Check back each Tuesday and Friday for more from FearTheReaper


 

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FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

APR 14, 2009 01:35 PM

FearTheReaper said:



Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.

whatever Nice and condescending, yet you're doing exactly what other people have already done here.

When people have already been focusing on the same topic, it's kind of lame to jump in a new thread with the same tack. If a non NEWSWIRE writer (paying member) were to follow a posting of yours covering the same topic, they'd be jumped on and scolded, perhaps even have their thread locked by an editor for doing exactly what you did. If you wanted to inject something fresh but along the same topic then why not just add to the existing thread like everyone else?

In fact, this whole topic reminds me of how the GOP tried to hijack the "grassroots" teabagging movement (which is really just astroturf in disguise).

snidebot

snidebot

Berkeley, CA
October 2005

APR 14, 2009 01:37 PM

Homme said:

snidebot said:
glenn beck is not insane.



Correct, Glenn Beck is not insane. Glenn Beck is fucking nutballs.



glenn beck is an attention-whoring clown.

but the real issue shouldn't be why he does what he does, but rather why his antics resonate so well with conservative america.

mydogfarted

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ
June 2003

APR 14, 2009 01:44 PM

SomethingStupid said:

Flac0 said:
Right wing fucknut? that's funny because its not true. Also I guess its not cool to get emotional about 9/11 anymore. whatever

He may say some "crazy" things on air, but at least he says things that are from his heart and true in some ways. I can't say the same thing about Obama AND for Bush.



Yeah, he gets pretty emotional about 9/11.



It's nice when people speak from the heart.



I'm lost... how did he get from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina?
surreal

SomethingStupid

SomethingStupid

North Hollywood, CA
March 2004

APR 14, 2009 01:50 PM

mydogfarted said:
I'm lost... how did he get from 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina?
surreal



He didn't think he could wind up hating people faster than he wound up hating 9/11 victims' families, but then Hurricane Katrina happened and he hates those people because bad things happened at the Superdome and also they didn't get out of the city in the first place.

DJForce

DJForce

Summerville, SC
November 2008

APR 14, 2009 01:57 PM

Get a grip guys, "it's the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment". And like was stated earlier, if he is so out in left field, why is he so popular? Why is Rush so popular? Because they resonate with a large number of people. They are also entertaining.

CoyoteMike

CoyoteMike

Iowa City, IA
May 2006

APR 14, 2009 02:00 PM

DJForce said:
Get a grip guys, "it's the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment". And like was stated earlier, if he is so out in left field, why is he so popular? Why is Rush so popular? Because they resonate with a large number of people. They are also entertaining.



Which part of his (or any other Right-Wing mouth's) idiocy is "enlightenment"?

FearTheReaper

FearTheReaper

NEWSWIRE

I'm lost

APR 14, 2009 02:01 PM

FellOnEarth said:

FearTheReaper said:



Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.



When people have already been focusing on the same topic, it's kind of lame to jump in a new thread with the same tack.
.



Boards - Newswire.

Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.

mydogfarted

mydogfarted

Oakland, NJ
June 2003

APR 14, 2009 02:07 PM

DJForce said:
And like was stated earlier, if he is so out in left field, why is he so popular? Why is Rush so popular?



Because everyone loves watching things where they know a violent and horrible wreck is about to happen. Kind of like "extreme sports" - some people watch for the excitement of the sport, most just watch it waiting for someone to turn themselves into a lifeless meat sack.

IDGAS

IDGAS

Portland, ME
March 2004

APR 14, 2009 02:12 PM

mydogfarted said:

DJForce said:
And like was stated earlier, if he is so out in left field, why is he so popular? Why is Rush so popular?



Because everyone loves watching things where they know a violent and horrible wreck is about to happen. Kind of like "extreme sports" - some people watch for the excitement of the sport, most just watch it waiting for someone to turn themselves into a lifeless meat sack.



Like reading DJFarce comments

FellOnEarth

FellOnEarth

Temecula, CA
April 2006

APR 14, 2009 02:24 PM

FearTheReaper said:

FellOnEarth said:

FearTheReaper said:



Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.



When people have already been focusing on the same topic, it's kind of lame to jump in a new thread with the same tack.



Boards - Newswire.

Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.


Oops, you missed something:

FellOnEarthsaid:
If a non NEWSWIRE writer (paying member) were to follow a posting of yours covering the same topic, they'd be jumped on and scolded, perhaps even have their thread locked by an editor for doing exactly what you did. If you wanted to inject something fresh but along the same topic then why not just add to the existing thread like everyone else?

In fact, this whole topic reminds me of how the GOP tried to hijack the "grassroots" teabagging movement (which is really just astroturf in disguise).


Like a broken record, it's nice and coy of you to ignore the rest... Revel in the world of hypocrisy.

snidebot

snidebot

Berkeley, CA
October 2005

APR 14, 2009 02:57 PM

mydogfarted said:

DJForce said:
And like was stated earlier, if he is so out in left field, why is he so popular? Why is Rush so popular?



Because everyone loves watching things where they know a violent and horrible wreck is about to happen. Kind of like "extreme sports" - some people watch for the excitement of the sport, most just watch it waiting for someone to turn themselves into a lifeless meat sack.



unfortunately, i don't think that's the case here. while i'm sure there are some people who watch glenn beck just to marvel at his asininity, there are a lot of people who watch him because they relate to him. frankly it's a wee bit disturbing.

MrMuller

MrMuller

Detroit, MI
March 2004

APR 14, 2009 03:01 PM

He actually makes Morning Joe look good. And he's a crazy fuck too.

lowatt

lowatt

Atlantic City, NJ
February 2004

APR 14, 2009 04:31 PM

Years ago I'd hear Glenn Beck a little here, a little there in the Philadelphia area. He wasn't too bad, kinda entertaining with reasonable views. I'm not even sure this is the same guy! (it is, but...). He wants to be more Rush than, more Bill O' than Bill O'. He wants to be the face of FOX. That's what this is about. He blathers on about what Obama is going to do. But these are things Obama has never said he would do & has no history of doing. He's not coming for your guns, he's not raising your taxes, he's not socializing medicine. But if they tell you he will over & over & over...& enough people figure it must be true...then maybe, just MAYBE, they can win it all back in 2012. Just in time for the coming apocolypse of course!!

Subrosa

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA
July 2004

APR 14, 2009 04:42 PM

FellOnEarth said:

FearTheReaper said:

FellOnEarth said:

FearTheReaper said:



Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.



When people have already been focusing on the same topic, it's kind of lame to jump in a new thread with the same tack.



Boards - Newswire.

Life tip: People don't do exactly what you do.

You're welcome.


Oops, you missed something:

FellOnEarthsaid:
If a non NEWSWIRE writer (paying member) were to follow a posting of yours covering the same topic, they'd be jumped on and scolded, perhaps even have their thread locked by an editor for doing exactly what you did. If you wanted to inject something fresh but along the same topic then why not just add to the existing thread like everyone else?

In fact, this whole topic reminds me of how the GOP tried to hijack the "grassroots" teabagging movement (which is really just astroturf in disguise).


Like a broken record, it's nice and coy of you to ignore the rest... Revel in the world of hypocrisy.



This is a total non sequitur, but FTR is correct here. It's a non-issue. Newswire writers are paid to write for the newswire, not to write for the boards. When I used to write for the wire, I often would follow up a board thread with a newswire thread on the exact same topic. It happens all the time, and has always happened.

The best way to think of it is that the wire and the boards are two different forums. The wire happens to overlap with the boards, but the boards don't overlap with the wire. There are plenty of (member and non-member) readers who only read the wire.

Homme

Homme

Los Angeles, CA
January 2009

APR 14, 2009 04:49 PM


IDGAS said:

mydogfarted said:

DJForce said:
And like was stated earlier, if he is so out in left field, why is he so popular? Why is Rush so popular?



Because everyone loves watching things where they know a violent and horrible wreck is about to happen. Kind of like "extreme sports" - some people watch for the excitement of the sport, most just watch it waiting for someone to turn themselves into a lifeless meat sack.



Like reading DJFarce comments



He may be completely wrong, but there's no need to dissolve the discussion into personal attacks.

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