Glenn Beck's sobbing secrets revealed: A little Vicks Vaporub gets the tears flowing
By David Neiwert Friday Oct 02, 2009 8:00am
[YouTube here, via MisterMovies.]
This was too funny to pass up. We've known all along that Glenn Beck is a two-bit phony. Now we see how Glenn Beck gets himself properly weepy for the cameras: A little Vicks Vaporub.
One might dismiss this as merely a one-off for this shoot. But you can hear Beck himself say:
Beck: I think it's getting used to it -- my eyes are getting used to it.
From regular and continuous use, mayhaps?
The whole scene reminds us that Beck practices his schtick over and over before he performs. Which means he's gotten real good at working up those tears and choking up to say, "I love my country -- but I fear for it!"
This may be what Sen. Lindsey Graham had in mind yesterday:
Via Sam Stein:
"Only in America can you make that much money crying," Graham said of Beck. "Glenn Beck is not aligned with any party. He is aligned with cynicism and there has always been a market for cynics. But we became a great nation not because we are a nation of cynics. We became a great nation because we are a nation of believers."
In other Beck news:
-- Media Matters has an excellent followup to the Salon piece about Beck's disciplehood at the feet of W. Cleon Skousen -- which in turn illustrated Beck's long history of promoting extremist beliefs -- pointing out that Skousen was not exactly what you would call ... enlightened on matters of race:
Fox News' Glenn Beck has heavily promoted the writings of far-right activist W. Cleon Skousen, even making Skousen's book, The 5000 Year Leap, a central part of his 9-12 Project. Skousen is the author of several controversial works, including The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution, which presented as "the story of slavery in America" a passage from a book that attacked abolitionists for delaying emancipation; cast slave owners as "the worst victims of the system"; claimed white schoolchildren "were likely to envy the freedom of their colored playmates"; and claimed that "[s]lavery did not make white labor unrespectable, but merely inefficient," because "the slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken."
This continues to remind me of last week's interview with Katie Couric, when he refused to explain what he meant by white culture.
[Via ThinkProgress.]
-- Beck is having a little difficulty dealing with Internet memes. Especially when dealing with charges that, by golly, we haven't been able to disprove yet!
-- Finally, has anyone else noticed that, on the cover of his new book, Beck looks exactly like the illegitimate love child of Colonel Klink and Sergeant Schultz? Just wondering.
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there's always pepper spray, or tear gas.
Still, he looks fetching in his uniform...A 'real military man', just like Ronald Reagan.
;>)
How about a taser to the gonads?
but they are tiny and very hard to hit with something as imprecise as a taser.
They can fry his eggs from 50 yards out and don't require pinpoint accuracy.
being the operative word.
a tweezer?.
How about a starving rat soaked in napalm inserted up his lying ass?
Too much?
A merely hungry rodent is sufficient. No need to be cruel and starve the poor thing.
Yeah yer right,hell I'll settle for a "peckish" Rat.
I would pay top dollar for a seat in the viewing audience to see that...
deserves to get eaten when they get close enough to use it.
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and smells it.
Oh wait. That would make him smile.
Nevermind.
everyone needs to watch the classic movie 'a face in the crowd'. this is blenn geck. it's been done before and bleck has made it his meme...
“idiots” “morons” "guinea pigs."
Were that Beck was only selling mattresses. But no – he’s selling fear, hate, ignorance, and intolerance – which have a much bigger market.
Wait for it. Like Rhodes, the meltdown is inevitable.
I always liked the term "sheeple", from Marc Marion.
You'll never look at ole Sherrif Andy Griffith the same way again...
So his tears are induced by Vicks. That's so fu*king funny. Just like his patriotism is induced by paper bearing the pictures of dead presidents.
very witty
wise.
So whassamatter with onions?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePaHG6g7uFw
I had forgotten all about those dudes. Never occurred to look on YouTube. Good trip down memory lane.
gaggers of good blow, off camera. How disappointing. I'll never be able to watch his show
the same wayever again...Right there on the label: For external use only; avoid contact with eyes.
Beck is voluntarily retarded. Others who were born with a cognitive disability or have it thrust upon them by factors beyond their control do not deserve scorn.
about the voluntary part.
Glenn was paying for thugs to clobber him in the head - tears, incoherent babbling, the potential of long-term brain damage ... the symptoms were all there.
Ever listen to his radio show? It's even more obvious. He is a charlatan like the rest of them.
It was so preciant.
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"Network" and "Broadcast News"
Or precocious.
Or is it precise?
Can't live with him. Can't wrap a lamp cord around his neck when he steps out his front door on his way to "work."
Don't delete it. I'm not advocating wrapping a cord around Glenn Beck's neck until he stops thrashing. I'm just saying we CAN'T do that.
that way?
Is one allowed to say that Vick's VapoRub causes cancer (one of my relatives died from VVR)??? Not that I'm advocating Glenn Beck get cancer from Vick's, but maybe everyone should send him a jar.
you know, it's hard not to call his supporters complete morons. We aren't too surprised it just confirms our suspicions. But to think this guy is a called "real american" or a "Patriot" is disgusting and laughable at the same time.
this megolomaniac was able to organize tens of thousands of dupes.
I applaud him and hate him at the same time. Bravo.
"tens of thousands", well you've been listening to the Librul media again. I heard that the turnout was around 300 million...in fact the only people that weren't there were me, you, and 'ricky' up there.
..we don't have glenn beck to kick around any more!
is that if we're successful in chasing him off the air, the whackjobs will see him as a martyr. "Glenn Beck told the 'truth' and the Socialist Obama silenced him!"
..ratings for faux, unfortunately he's not going anywhere fast.
It was a good piece the White House wrote today exposing more of his lies. (and OT - the one exception was calling chris wallace "non-partisan". I almost had coffee come out my nose.)
Maybe dad pulled some strings for Chrissy?
"He's not a Muslim. He's a good man."
WTF? Does this mean Muslim men can't be good men?
If so, you misquoted him. He did not apply th quote to all Muslims.
Just Arabs.
It's in there. You did watch the video before commenting, right?
I shall follow your instructions.
into the video.
Lindsey included all Muslims. McGramps, during the campaign, used the same comment to respond to the woman who said, of Obama, "He's an Arab."
he didn't do it on purpose, which says to me we saw how he really feels. I can only imagine how he talks about Muslims when he's with nothing but other Cons.
the same courtesy and respect he shows to those of other races in such company.
i think he just wasn't paying attention to what he was saying and meant muslim when its used as a negative word in this society.
John McCain is attempting to recreate the Republican Party in his own image.
The only problem is, the current tactics used by the thuggish right had their origins in John McCain's presidential campaign. This brutish behavior is John McCains prodigy.
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That beck is a christianist racist? Of course he means that. his whole schtick is based on that.
Assholes like this WANT the country in a bad way; it's how they make money.
He is getting a lot more press than Hannity, and you know that has to be driving Hannity nuts.
your little worlds beginning to unravel beckypoo.
His wife has to put that under her nose whenever he's near her to cover his stench..
Then Bernard Goldberg on Faux and today, David Brooks of the NYTimes speaks to how Rush and Beck are actually like the Wizard of Oz -- there's no power behind the curtain! Just a man with Vicks Vap-O-Rub!
Here's the link:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/opinion/02b...
Could the fantasy world of the neocons be getting a few doses of reality?
enough to drown them all!
All this Republican Beck bashing is the result of agents of a jealous Rush, an envious O'Reilly, and a humiliated Hannity.
They are throwing him to the wolves because they are appeasers of the left and sore losers in the ratings.
..made me want to put something far worse than Vick's in my eyes.
Are you talking about a twinkle?
Fortunately, I averted my gaze and muted the sound. Beck's real gift - causing those who truly care about the future of mankind to weep.
turn into pillars of salt.
Twinkles are addictive and the cream in the middle is hard on the arteries.
beck is a sociopath and an opportunistic klown laughing all the way to the bank.
This looks like it's the shoot for the cover photo of the recent Time magazine article. Same shirt and background.
So Beck's excuse is that he was just hamming it up for the godless liberal mainstream media.
that he must be getting used to it.
From the post:
international news magaazine, that quit the news years ago is complicit in the dumbing down of Americans. I canceled Time years ago.
Clare Booth Luce and Madame Chiang Kai Shek, I could not bring myself to turn its sad, spiritless pages anymore.
play the graham video piece endless in the south. give the tea baggers something to belly ache about.
It is worth noting his influence on Beck's world view.
This quote got me: "the slave had a deliberateness of motion which no amount of supervision could quicken."
Sounds like today's ex-NFL player turned TV commentator explaining why there are so few white wide receivers. "You just cain't coach quick, Marv."
'...you keep it up and I'll give you something to really cry about...'
Oh Lord, if I only had the opportunity. How sweet would that be?
That's it...
Oh, we need more Vaporub...
Why is nobody talking about the rumour that Glenn Beck might have raped and murdered a girl in 1990? Why is no one investigating these allegations? And why is Glenn Beck refusing to deny it?
It basically explains that he is trying to cut off the website owner's free speech, by going to a world body to get the site shut down, since his attys know that the satirical http://glennbeckrapedandmurderedayounggirlin1... site is protected by free speech laws in the States
"We became a great nation because we are a nation of believers." "Believers" = codeword for white Xtians. It is highly likely that Graham would fail a Gr. 9 civics final examination -- and rightly so.
P.S. to Graham - Replace "believers" with "citizens". Even then, the assertion is suspect but that would require some critical thinking and some historical knowledge. Graham has little of either.
not a rabid snarling christianist or talibaptist, you are smeared by those people as a 'nominal Christian.'
you guys notice all the dirt comming out against beck?
you guys notice all the republican push back against beck?
do you guys see any of this happening to someone far worse then beck, one rush limbauhg?
this is a hit job, I don't know by who but it's not by progressives or democrats, we are being played, (sometimes being played works fine for us and this is one of those times
this is probably driven by rush, noticing all the power and following beck enjoys
See my coment above at 9:39. Spread the word. Let the faithful know who is trying to poison the King's well.
Glenn Beck certainly seemed to be enjoying himself. He sure does love entertaining people, doesn't he? Especially when it's a group of young ladies taking photos of The Great Clown.
"Hit job?" Nonsense. Beck needs nobody else to expose his bullshit. He just whacked himself.
crying preparation techniques seen by his followers. You, sir, are either a Limbaugh apologist, a Hannity hooligan, or an O'Reilly intern.
A system of social preferences that favors people with Anglo Saxon features over all others.
It should surprise nobody that evil clown Glenn Beck doesn't want to be cornered on his race baiting.
Beck's passive aggressive personality reminds me more and more of Jack Nicholson's interpretation of the Joker. Ask him a tough question and he attacks the questioner rather than answering the question.
"Get off my phone!!!!!!!!"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8360...
I'm anticipating similar scenes.
it's called FAUXnews for a reason.
If Klink and Schultz had an illegitimate love-child the obvious follow-up question is: who's pitching and who's catching?
Pardon me while I go change my pants. I pissed myself laughing. Bravo.
because of who they are.
They listen because of what they say and what the audience hears.
There is a large segment of the population, across the nation, that WANTS to hear racial slurs, and laugh at stereotypes, and imagine visions of their own 'superiority.'
I lived in Baton Rouge during one of the periodic recrudescences of David Duke's popularity, and the sentiment I remember most often hearing was the that, while "ol' David Duke mightn't be the best person to be saying it, he was saying what needed to be said."
Innit? These days I keep my sanity by simply laughing at these douchetards - hey, Chaplin practically melted a dictator by doing the exact same thing...
I was never to sure of his sincerity with the whole patriotic thing, but I did believe the tears were legitimate when he had spoken about his children and their handicap in relation to Palin. You posted it here but I can't locate it so this one is from...
YT-[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvbLEjPL6ZY ]
Maybe I was a compassionate fool then? It sure seems possible with this evidence? By the way, I didn't read all the comments or check your links... but just in case did anyone notice the Time's photo?
[ http://weeklyworldnews.files.wordpress.com/20... ]
"A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends." --Henry A. Wallace
this fake ass piece of dung sure seems to enjoy swimming in lame "me". just like a child...look at me look at me.
How desperate, pathetic,and repulsive he is? We know that already.
What we don`t know is what he uses for his... Ah, crying on cue……and the fake tears.
1.Lemon juice squirt in your eyes
2.Glycerine drops
3.Chill powered tissue paper
4.Onion
5.Tabasco sauce
6.Run into a wall. Head first.
7.Listening to a mixtape with The Jonas Brothers/Miley Cyrus/Hilary Duff
Cheap, Fake, Tacky....Glenn Beck
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This song goes out to Glen Beck...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ
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Why doesn't he just scratched his balls
Then sniff his fingers?
The Scorpio Killer in Dirty Harry when he has the burly black guy beat him up so he can blame the beating on Harry?
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BTW it's rumored that during Glenn's heavy cocaine and boozing days that he would get high, inject his daughter with coke and then fondle her?
Just sayin .... I personally don't believe it's true but it would be great if he could just clear it up for the record.
At least he could tell us he's stopped!
I keep thinking of that scene where William Hurt fakes some tears during a new story. And Holy Hunter's character goes ballistic when she sees him doing this.
Isn't what Beck's doing highly enethical? Or do we even have ethics in news anymore?
As I've posted before, Back is merely an actor, an entertainer if you will. Unfortunately his audience doesn't know that, and Beck won't let on as he laughs all the way to the bank while stoking the flames of hate and destruction.
One can only hope that he is eventually consumed by the fire he stokes.
From the looks of it, the video is from a shoot for his recent Time Magazine cover story. He'll immediately put it all on them. So much for my dream of seeing it on Countdown tonight...
Ooops.
Finally my opinion reflected, By Neal Gabler of the "The Los Angeles Times"
October 2, 2009
► Politics as religion in America
→ http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentar...
Ya, Beck is a fraud. FOX is a fraud.
Just behold it yourself.
Republicans don't debate, travy1920.
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and the bachelor? Sounds like you know all about it.
Yes... You folks certainly know "NO" don'tcha!
Here.
Is because he doesn't have a clue what the hell he is talking about.
Just like all these republican bought and paid for by big pharma, big insurance, and big banking! They have long forgotten what their job is supposed to be, if they ever knew in the first place. I have watched while republicans have schemed to get into government not to help America but to help themselves. They have made a fortune from war, and death. They have groomed themselves into people without shame, people without honor, without honesty, without integrity, and without the mothers milk of human kindness. What they do and have done and are doing follows the very same path of short term greed over riding long term sustainability. The very same problem that has put us where we Are today. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. Maybe we should look at what our so called business people are doing.
republicanism really is a mental illness!
what is white culture?
What is black culture?
What is asian culture?
What is latino culture?
Aside from music and maybe some different kinds of food, what the fuck is anybody talking about when they bring up these terms?
Really. WTF are they?
and hillbilly heroin addicts.
Don't they know that addicts will say anything to get what they want?
Only the dumbest of the dumb would follow these dysfunctional sociopaths.
We can't be certain but I think it has something to do with Accordions.
That was one of the most revolting, nauseating video clips I have ever seen. Beck would not last 5 minutes in any situation where intelligence, courage or self-reliance were required. He is like one of those little yappity, under-your-feet dogs. He is full of courage when someone is there to protect them; a typical mormon punk. (That is not to say, all Mormons fit into that category.)
just a thought.
Giving Beck something to really cry about.
LOOKS LIKE COKE TO ME
GLENN BECK is the greatest actor ever.
turn over all the rocks?
stupid little boulders
She's a lightweight interviewer, but I will give Katie Couric chops for sticking to the point on questioning Beck's white culture remarks.
You could actually see the panic on his face and he's was getting more paranoiac the longer she stuck to the point. He knew he was caught, and covers it up by hinting it's a conspiracy against him. How anyone can take this fool seriously makes me seriously question the educational system in this country.
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