The Glenn Beck Cartoon Show: 'We've raised a generation of potential killers'; Plus! 'We're watching what happened to Russia'
By David Neiwert Tuesday Oct 27, 2009 5:00pm
Glenn Beck has become a cartoon. You can pretty much guarantee that every afternoon, you can tune in and find Beck saying something so stupidly outrageous, so detached from reality, so unhinged in its lunacy, that you just have to shake your head. It's not really a very funny cartoon, though.
Yesterday he treated us all to a long rant about how liberals are indoctrinating our children with inhuman values that are OK with letting grandma die at the hands of death panels, or something. "We have raised a generation of potential killers," he warned, inspired by a letter to the editor from a young woman who wants health-care reform for her generation especially. Yeah, that's exactly the same thing as pushing for euthanasia.
Beck, obviously, hears strange things when he listens to other people -- things they don't actually say. Instead, they seem to be edited by the voices inside his head.
He featured a later segment with right-wing economist Arthur Laffer -- one of the progenitors of Reaganomics -- who tells Beck all the damage could be repaired overnight with just a simple injection of Reagan-style economics. Of course, Laffer neglects to mention that G.W. Bush followed his economic prescriptions (especially those tax cuts for the wealthy, and the deregulation of the financial sector) to the letter, too -- and we can see where that got us.
But Beck concludes anyway that Obama is marching us right into a Soviet-style decline and crumble:
Beck: Did you ever read Pravda?
Laffer: I did read Pravda, as a matter of fact.
Beck: Did you read that? Where they're like, 'What is wrong with the Republicans?' We're watching what happened to Russia -- Pravda gives us more truth than the American press!
He's referring, of course, the Igor Panarin's dire predictions of the fall of America, which, so far, have proven laughably wrong.
Indeed, Panarin is actually just a classic Russian propagandist, engaged in the process of explaining to his readers why post-Soviet rule has not exactly been a smashing success -- by claiming that the USA is about to go into a similar decline.
We had no idea Beck was such a fan of post-Soviet propaganda. Quick, someone alert Glenn Beck and see if he can do another of his McCarthyite exposes.
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Where headed to Corporatism
... frankly I am surprised Pravda hasn't sued FOX for copyright infringement.
LOL
Innit? All those decades living in mortal fear of "The Red Menace" and their State-controlled propaganda machine, and here we are, with a Corporate-controlled propaganda machine that's much more insidious and effective than Pravda ever was. At least the Soviets didn't believe Pravda.
The "me" generation started with Reagan and the "greed is good" jackoff's back in the 80's.
Why pay taxes, even if you do steal a couple hundred million a year? Screw everybody else! It's mine, all mine, even if it's really not!
I know plenty of self-centered uncaring creeps, and they are all cheap-ass conservative republican's. They would eat dog turds laced with cyanide if the GOP offered them a $50 tax cut.
And the more religious and evangelical they are, the more cold-hearted and uncaring they are towards others.
If Harvard offered a Ph.D in projection, these rightwing carnival barkers would all be honorary recipients.
I could not agree more
They would eat dog turds laced with cyanide if the GOP offered them a $50 tax cut.
Say, where's that phone number for my congressman? I know I've got it around here somewhere...
Sideshow Beck is out of control! Funnier and funnier as the days go on. This is adult cartoons at their best!
but what happens after Corporatism fails somewhere down the line here in the future?
I think this is the main reason David Neiwert covers this stuff.
Don't think it can happen here?
one is 'written off', not 'right off'...but there is a RIGHT ON, MAN~~!!
your not much help.
and don't get me goin' on adverbs...
anytime you want to talk polyphonic scales or something let me know. If you can pull yourself away from Guitar Hero for a minute.
oh man.
if you were concerned at all about proper grammar and spelling, that is.
Sort of a 'Crank meets Wank' showdown.
I'd rather watch that.
All that time to scan letters to the editor just in case. I wonder if Beck or one of his little followers may have popped that letter in the mail? What's more, I wonder who decided to publish it> Culture creation as clear as day.
Glenn should be reminded that Cheney and Bush wiped out thousands of young adults, teenagers, children, and babies, Iraqi, American, and that of other nations as well, in order to get what they wanted, more loot for themselves and their cronies.
And for those youth they did not send to their deaths, they pillaged many of their futures.
Only in Beckistan can up be down, day be night, and youth wanting more opportunity for themselves and others be verging on homicidal behavior.
Glenn can kiss my big, fat, Generation Y arse!
He got his. Moved on up from CNN Headline News ghetto, he no longer is staring Nancy Grace's ass in the face.
while the seasons change for her ass (or mind) to move. I loathe the woman.
and harassing people makes her....I can't say it. I'll puke.
Nancy "I know what you did last summer" Grace. Just Yuch. I can't watch her - she makes me feel guilty just by the way she sneers.
Is a hateful, evil old bag---just look at the angry expression that is constantly on her face--ick, she is vile and revolting.
Duckett if Nancy hadn't hounded his mother to her suicide. If she did it, at some point she could have accidentally confessed to someone, but no, thanks to Nancy, it's possible the truth about Trenton died with Melinda.
Vigilantism for ratings. There are no innocents on Nancy’s show. SHE KNOWS everyone is guilty – and SHE’S gunna get’em (on her show).
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is slightly more tolerable. She used to be a "newswoman" in LA (KCAL, KCOP?) some years back. I've got a little more respect for her; she's discussed her demons, and she doesn't screech over her guests.
Somehow I picture Nancy (Dis)grace having ill fantasies about the missing kids she profiles. Maybe that's just me...
"It's not really a very funny cartoon, though."
Family Guy?
I got a chance to watch “A Face in the Crowd” the other day. It’s been a while.
I think Lonesome Rhodes was a much more likable character than Beck. Then again, Rhodes only sold mattresses and vitamins. Beck sells fear and hate, which has a much bigger market. Maybe Beck’s job is just easier than Rhodes’ was – and Lonesome had to try harder.
Olbermann was talking about when he kept referring to Lonesome Rhodes (I was born in 1981, so I'm a little young to be familiar with the film), so when I saw it on TCM, I had to tape it.
I've only gotten to see some of it so far, but I can very much see where Olbermann's coming from, and yet, I almost feel bad for Beck with that comparison. Just a tiny, tiny, bit. Not much.
I'd feel bad for Rhodes. Fictional or not, it's pretty damned insulting to be compared to this whiny, weepy little toad.
basically comparing Beck to some drunk somebody pulled off the street. Which is harsh, hence the feeling bad for Beck, but there's more than a little sliver of truth to it, so yeah, I guess I'd have to agree.
Along with "Network" are the two best satires of media demagogues. The difference being, Howard Beale actually broke down crying over the consolidation of the corporate media. If you watch his rants, they actually make sense.
Highly recommend both films though.
The mattresses and vitamins were just steps on the ladder. The product Lonesome Rhodes was selling was himself, and he was damn good at it. A hell of a lotthetter than ol' loony Beck.
Insult every growing demographic to retain a stranglehold on declining ones.
These guys are destroying the Republican party to line their pockets. It's ugly, but there a certain poetic justice to it.
I think it's beautiful, myself.
these demagogues are destroying the Republican party to line their pockets, the Corporatists are destroying the world economy to secure their own wealth and power--almost as though Richistan will protect them from the anger of the masses.
I don't know if it's THE Pravda, but there's one on-line that seems hardcore right.
http://english.pravda.ru/
I think someone really needs to look at Fox News's ratings. I find it amazingly difficult that Beck and other Fox pundits garner such a large, regular viewership. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if numbers are being fudged. Business is business, right?
tweaking the un-employment numbers. It's hard work!
It would explain the whole 9/12 tea party hype by Fox. It would explain why Fox thought they could get millions of people to show up to their 9/12 teabagger fest while only 70K nutjobs showed up. I just can't fathom as many people watching Fox and their pundits and seriously believing the dumbness that is spewed on that channel. I'm telling ya, the numbers are rigged.
So can I start a new conspiracy now? Maybe people will start referring to me as a "rater"? Someone who doesn't believe in TV ratings?
on some cable new areas where MSNBC is not. They have to pay more to get MSNBC. That must mean they rate higher in the market if you have to pay more to get it, doesn't it?
do they count among their viewers those who watch simply because they cannot resist witnessing the train wreck more commonly called FOX? Or, those viewers who get their comedy fix with FOX?
someone explained it once as thousands of nursing homes and dr.'s offices where people cant change the channel ... then there is Der Cheney ... god know how many TVs his bunkers have ...
Unless your TV is a Nielsen TV, it doesn't count for squat for ratings. Actual viewership numbers are extrapolated from Nielsen ratings. I'm telling you folks, it's a mad, mad conspiracy.
[cue diabolical music] muwahahaha!
had been replaced ... something more techno ...
oh yeah! THOUGHT CONTROL!!!!!
Had dinner at Burger King Monday, and Beck was on the TV in the dining room. I listen in a lot on my XM while commuting, but to see him live was a treat. I couldn't wait to swallow that Whopper and get the hell out of there.
Turn the tables over faster and serve more Whoppers.
"First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather then the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas then the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blind the foolish."
http://english.pravda.ru/opinion/columnists/1...
One thing that honks my cheese off is when you see a classic title like Paradise Lost, on some cheap paperback novel about high school cliques for annoying teenaged girls to read.
Guess which book they'll grow up identifying the title with?
about a future American society in which the masses are hedonistic, and critical thought through reading is outlawed. An anti-intellectual America that has completely abandoned self-control.
I agree in regards to the masses or the majority but certainly the right wing are already there ... "anti-intellectual , completely abandoned self-control " .
there are cheese honkers around for me to nibble while I pass my twilight years worrying if I look old enough to be a CEO with the CofC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0O7_3o3BrI&fe...
and being functionally illiterate...quite a scary mix.
Or a complete re-org.
http://campfire.theoildrum.com/node/5859
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regarding bank failures in 2010. The FDIC is saying 300+, but the national bankers’ association is saying 500.
I would love to see corporate fascism come to an end.
not gracefully though.
Louis XVI, Stalin, Hitler,
Of course Stalin and Hitler were vomited up after the Corporates (crooks) looted entire economies.
smack dab in the middle of the inception of the catastrophic change that's about to rearrange our entire world. Our species experiences change now at an exponential rate. Change is happening so fast, most cannot see the forest for the trees.
Speaking of cartoon shows:
http://www.thisweekontheinternet.com/wp-conte...
Benecio Del Toro ...
Yes, yes you have.
Sorry, projection isn't the same as donating sperm though...
this freak can take a letter from an earnest concerned college grad who may not be able to pay off a huge student loan due Bush's tanked economy ... and call her a would be killer ...thats special crazy ...
is whether he knows for sure if Obama's tendencies lean to the Menshevik or Bolshevik side of the slippery communist slope.
there are over 6 million people unemployed over the age of 65 looking for work people who can’t afford “retirement.”
To serious a subject for his audience.
They just need to wait another 10 or 15 years for the "trickle down" to get to them.
It's comming, really! They have already waited 30 years, just a bit longer.
collapses of GSE, municipal bond and mortgage pool funds that are so popular in that age group didn't work out to well.
Now f---K you. To you old people--please just die soon. You people are such an inconvenience to my ambition.
It's already taken affect only they are too dumb to realize it , we the people been getting pissed on for years now .
giant trucks, giant tvs, big gulps . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB1EE-FDgMk
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/img/081809_ra...
an insult to toons everywhere ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H9f8qUrF6w&fe...
You are right , it is a cartoon show ... for psychos and none too bright adults .
Beck wearing those glasses paints a fairly disturbing portrait.
It's got child abductor written all over it.
I'll be unable to sleep tonight because I'll remember the bizarre way the glasses sit on his face and wind up laughing all night. :P
... make me look smart?" No Glenda, they make your a$$ look big.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mA0nM8l8onE&fe...
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saw the trailers \i think and said ... no thanks but yes GB all the way
Has never been one of my favs but ya never know.
lot like Angry Conservative White Guy porn if you know what I mean, except that it's all violence against vulnerable groups instead of sex.
u just saved 2 hours of my life ...
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In the end the Angry White Man (TM) gets what's coming to him. A little moralistic, but not encouraging Beckonism.
you nailed it.
How is that Douglas flick btw?
no idea \I hated the whole concept from the promos ...
say that "george bush was a liberal" and that mcshame's nomination, loss was just corpro- Murika's plan to give the Dims their "required" eight years in office to balance the 'Thugs.
Nearly hit an OC, FL sheriff's car while trying to contain my laughter...
As long as you hit one of these:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGHBsP6SAGs
I'm here in Winter Park, FL; home of Rollins College. Lots of young liberal (arts) coeds. Damn, I feel old...
I think Brad Lidge threw one when he was with the Houston Astros.
I believe it resulted in a run on the bank by the St. Louis Cardinals.
I recall Albert Pujols made the deposit.
Just as Laffler drew it up on the napkin for Ronnie Raygun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co3qjoo_eR4
Hey, looks like we got a hot new TV property for Drew Carey to star in!
http://blog.cleveland.com/top_entertainment/2...
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http://www.flowinsports.com/images/snoopy.jpg
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Second Amendment is important.
http://i.tbs.com/v5cache/TBS/Images/Dynamic/i...
Everyone's on the ball tonight with the comparisons! :D
atop the Fox Flagpole.
http://www.mudsugar.com/uploads/a_christmas_s...
the yellow snow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmVvgo1wxh4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR11icHC_ro
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvlJc8ilD5o&fe...
by which to judge a new bar...
http://blog.silive.com/entertainment_impact_t...
in honor of our sadly unemployed friend above ... (good luck brother)
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So who else has to get their kids to explain how to work all the new technology stuff - cellphones, dvd recorders etc
internet to him before he should be allowed 50 feet near a vote on net neutrality....
more than happy to show off her ... ummm knowledge online ...
Twitter was not what I had in my mind, but that would still be more interaction with the intertubes than McCain has probably had at this point without someone doing it for him... :P
knowing the basics of the internet. He's a Senator for crying out loud! And there are classes in computer and internet literacy for senior citizens out there. He should take one.
rarefied atmosphere the super rich and powerful live in ...they don't have to actually know much of anything ...
and that probably goes for a lot of those fossils in Warshinton ... I still cant believe he even got a remote chance of becoming POTUS .. beyond belief ...
reminds me of how the neocons talk about America, lots of talk of "We Deserve This" and "We do no Wrong.
for giving this lunatic his first shot at reaching a national TV audience.
It's not really a very funny cartoon, though.
Neither was Fritz the Cat, so there you are.
but it's somehow liberals fault that two prominent politicos lied about health insurance reform?
that the economy was stronger than ever and there would be no crash in 2006?
we are in a rapid decline
we are also in denial
but hey call it a recession
americans will believe it
they believed reagan when he told them things would be fine: just need tax cuts
americans lined up in droves to vote for him
oh the price of ignorance
the future: 1% have mores much more 95% have nots
reagan hated unions and the middle class: ie troublesome to corp america
he was able to pretty much eliminate both
pretty good record I would say
lets name a ship after him and an airport
that is dumbed down america in the process of self destruction
capitalism has a price: third world status.
mega profits off the sick and needy
wars for profits
mega military expenses
nation building
controlled congress by corp lobbyists
but there is always hope.
yes we can has been replaced by please can we just all get along
americans greatest moment putting five blacks in the white house. even a mother in law
there is a god
the racist neo con south is going nuts.
the humongous DEBT that this country owes to other nations and continues to rack up daily ...
I didn't even make it a whole minute. It's possible that Beck is the most annoying human ever.
Pop quiz: Beck, Pauly Shore, and Joe Lieberman are in a sealed room running out of oxygen...
I'm not sure how that one ends, but Beck is freaking annoying.
How glen beck will look today:
http://www.tvacres.com/images/bobeck_mimi2.jpg
At the hospital I work, the upper management is very "R". Most of the public TV's are set to Faux. In the cafeteria, there are two large TV's. The one on CNN has the volume off and taped over, set to CC. The one with volume (THANKFULLY now kept low) is Faux. Most of the waiting rooms have Faux with the volume low-ish. I swear, I rarely go through a day without having my thoughts interrupted by that f*ck-wit. I half expect him to blurt out, "and then the aliens on the moon...". He just blurts out these chains of half-formed thoughts that are upsetting but barely coherent, and it's amazing how many people stay glued to the TV as if they are listening to the ghost of Einstein explain relativity. "Yeah. Yeah! YEAY!!!" like something with any meaning was just said. My "favorite" is "I never thought of that!". I want to say, "That's because you haven't done enough cocaine and meth to do *that* [point at TV] much damage to your brain! Normal people are *supposed* to have 'never thought of that'. The fact you haven't is a good thing! Now watch a damn news show!"
Ugh... sorry to rant.
Are those glasses supposed to make him look smart?
Izzit just me or does the guy on the right sort of look like:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6tgOEpb424
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Watching this is like dipping my toe in the idiot pool and immediately realizing they are using it as a toilet.
...or does the Beck do a masterful job of channeling Gene Wilder?
Beck is a cluess moron
who is this joker and why do i have the urge to rip his effing head off. "Literally...long weekend..." MFer you and Regan started this whole failed american policy you jackass. You have the nerve to face yourself in the mirror and say "I have manipulated the system to kill off the poor and I'm proud to say I can do it again." God, I wish there was an actual hell for these kind of people, nay, creatures.
Anybody ignorant Reslug who still listens to the lunatic and drugged up nutty Beck, should seriously go back and get some more education beyond the fifth grade that they flunked.
Beck, being a really stupid bastard, can't read past the fourth grade, so he didn't read the book. DUH!!!
...when he's got his smart guy glasses on.
All I have to say about Glenn Beck and his guest can be said in the following few words:
http://patrick.welfringer.lu/sos/waves/insult...
http://patrick.welfringer.lu/sos/waves/insult... (Ahnuld in “The Terminator”)
http://patrick.welfringer.lu/sos/waves/insult... (Sean Connery in “The Rock”)
And in the immortal words of Joe Pesci:
http://patrick.welfringer.lu/sos/waves/insult...
This guy dropped out of college after ONE CLASS. He's entertaining, I'll give him that, but THAT'S ALL HE IS...AN ENTERTAINER. It's horrible how people actually believe his crap.
Let's all post some really batshit crazy rumors to Lonesome's websites, then wait to see how many he reports on. Maybe there could be a members-only blog or a Yahoo group or something to keep track of how far he swallows the bait - which ones get on the air. Wouldn't it be fun to watch him go further and further off the deep end with the crap we'd be feeding him?
Scott Roeder
Eric Rudolph
David Adkisson
Michael Griffin
James Kopp
James von Brunn
Paul Hill
Shelley Shannon
Jason Bush
Shawna Forde
And don't forget that noble veteran, Timothy McVeigh
Patriots all. Lonesome Beck should be proud of them.
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