They Call Him Mr. Maudlin: Glenn Beck, You Are A Nut A Loon
By David Neiwert Saturday Mar 14, 2009 5:45am
Glenn Beck finally got off his big "You Are Not Alone" shindig yesterday afternoon. (Blue Texan had the rundown.) As gatherings of right-wing populist movements go, it looked kinda lame to me. But then, everything about Beck seems lame to me, so I'm probably not the best judge.
The weirdest thing was how much he cried. I suppose you can't blame him for getting all worked up, but Beck was getting all verklempt from the opening moments of the schtick. And then, as you can see, he kept doing it.
Look, I'm a sensitive kinda guy too, OK? I get all weepy at movies and good books, that sort of thing. I don't really have anything against men crying. But this was just ... off. It was just plain weird.
For one thing, his crying spats mostly reminded me of a furious fourth-grader standing up to make a confession to his class -- plaintive, petulant, an undercurrent of anger and blame. For another, they mostly came at odd times in the discussion, at points when it didn't seem the topic warranted such an emotional outburst. Moreover, you can see him stop and prepare himself to burst into tears; it all looks terribly contrived.
Then there were times, such as when he was reading his closing story -- a touching tale of a soldier slain Iraq war -- when the manipulatin just became crass and obvious. The story is genuine enough, but you can't help get the creepy feeling that Beck is using a genuine hero's story to plump up himself and his little cause, an emotional prop with a hook that lets him cap off the hour with a bang. It's reminiscent of the time he started crying over his special-needs child so he could talk about what a great gal Sarah Palin is.
Bottom line is the same as before: Beck's maudlin attempts to emotionally connect with his audience are just too coldly and obviously manipulative. It's the worst kind of cynicism: Posing as deep, heartfelt, sincerity.
"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He is a special needs child and then he purposely breeds another. This Reslug moron should be sterilized. What stupidity do you expect from Faux Noise entertainment next??
"He is a special needs child and then he purposely breeds another. This Reslug moron should be sterilized."
This is a profoundly offensive and repugnant post, just the sort that people like Beck and O'Reilly love to use to paint the entire Progressive movement as dangerously elitist, etc. I suggest the poster and all of us think about that before clicking "Submit".
I totally agree with you jrbarringer, sounds to me like the poster 'Limp-Dick Blimpaugh' might be the kind of person who took delight in school in mocking students with learning disabilities.
People shouldn't use the mockery of one group of people with disabilities as a way to mock Beck. Beck is an A-hole, simple as that.
Neither of you took offense at the words that insulted those with mental disease. What fakes and cowards.
You should both be sent to extended PC camp where you will be reprogrammed to think, speak and act without any offense to anything, ever.
Really, it's tofu gobblers like you that give progressives a bad name.
Beck's been touting the militia movement for a while now. This "you are not alone" stuff is all part of a piece. It's designed to attract diseffected white males - like him - who resent the idea that they're now "being told what to do by a black man." He has a pretty big audience. I know: I work with some of them.
Yeah, he's cynical and manipulative and creepy.
He's also potentially very dangerous.
We tend to write these kind of buffoons off as harmless until a McVeigh comes along and shows us the real danger
Right wingers must all be taken very seriously- because they pander to hate and bigotry-and their numbers. like an infection, can rabidly grow. Ignoring them is not an option-
Germans dismissed Hitler as a crackpot for most of the 1920s,and look what happened...
only that, but it was due to bad economic circumstances that allowed his movement to gain traction so fast. Sound familiar?
The conditions are ripe for these unhinged, aggrieved fascists ...
apparently, Chuck Norris is on his A-Team. Scary....
I have a hard time seeing any difference between the violent militia groups and the militant white power groups- Which group is Beck preaching to?
I agree not to underestimate Glenn, but his audience use to be only about 15,000 viewers a night when he was at CNN. Has it changed that much. Just wondering.
Beck did a birthday piece on Obama claiming that Obama lied and the Selma March took place in 1961, before he was born, not 1965. Hey, Beck, I have a reading assignment for you:
http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/civilrig...
I need to go throw up.
after I'm finished.
the phoney crying is a nice touch except i spit up my coffee. puleez honey. go back on your meds.
watch his schtick...he's a charleton looking for an audience, unfortunately; I think the Fox channel and their audience will come to the same conclusion. I actually would rather watch Geraldo on the weekend wasteland...as much as I detest his nutty show. The only show I cannot watch anymore. Is Glenn Beck's.
I appreciate your input.
It's not everyday we get a conservative who acknowledges that.
Thanks again.
Tell me something please. How do you feel about Billo and his technique during his interviews of Liberals?
Thanks in advance.
He is deteriorating before our eyes.
I believe that Mr. Beck will be in serious need of mental health services before our very eyes.
Didn't he complain about Hilary Clinton's tears as a ruse?
He is a very dangerous man and now fox has given him a bigger platform.
Waaaaaaaaaaa!
LEAVE GLENN BECK ALOOOOOOONE!
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
Beck has got to be prime material for SNL- Have they mocked his weeping antics?
DICK!
The actor jackass freak is trying to hijack 1 of the greatest movements in America, Chuck Norris, and Glen Beck. I hate you.
You are trying to mutate this movement into a joke. Alex jones started it and now I am sure it is a pentagon move to infect us, divide us with even more stupidity. I knew back when Kucinich was getting large and Jones stepped on him with Ron Paul. You people are exposing yourselves now. You are irritating the massive group of people that were following you. You sick perverted low brain power idiots really piss me off. You can be sure trying to pull your movement into the mainstream using Fox news only discredits it. You corporate rich assholes, you rich ass organized religion freaks are satanic American fabric Destroyers. I guess a simple way to quell the revolution. Too bad all you do is suck the dumbest of the dumb with you, hopefully soon you will start your baby revolution only to be slaughtered. You separated Alex Jones's movement, exactly the plan I am sure.
I could go on, you make me sick tho Glen, your are an idiot, I guarantee we know what you are doing, using FOX and Norris, fools, you have no idea. So gather your mutated church people and start fighting lets see ya try, bring it!
is a psychopath. He's not all there. The "crying" was driving me nuts. I can't believe Chuck Norris (who used to be my hero as a kid) openly associates with guys like Beck.
This was pathetic.
Yes, this could potentially become dangerous. I know that someone as spineless as Beck would never actually devote himself to any real cause, but he can incite many to do so.
I don't believe this country is perfect. I don't believe that we're above the need for some kind of civil revolution, but to re-enact the previous Civil War (seceding because you don't like who was elected) is ridiculous.
We do need to be careful. Americans have grown to comfy with the idea of being the most powerful country in the world, but I do not believe that America is the first country that can survive through peaceful transitions alone. Pax Romana lasted for almost 400 years. We've only been a country for 230. We have many struggles ahead of us. Many violent struggles.
Just be careful out there in case one of these groups really does decide to start action.
It is not potentiality dangerous, you are seeing the Alex Jones revolution, which was dangerous, being squashed by a paid fascist pussy.
When insane radicals go into a church to kill "liberals" because he can't reach the liberal congressman, that is dangerous. When people gather and talk about these topics, it's dangerous. If one person dies because these people go too far with their dissent, it's dangerous.
There are liberals in church? (joking)
I am looking at the bright side, The movement was getting very large, and now with these 2 clowns it will diffuse. They are doing this purposefully. I understand your point, but understand mine, it was very large at critical mass. The dewsh (i spell it like that because I like to) Glen Beck is breaking that apart just by being his own pussy self.
we may see these guys as clowns, you underestimate stupid people in large numbers. Especially the really stupid who are unemployed or underemployed and feeling like it is so and so's fault for making their life what it is.
You know, the people who vote against their own best interest because of the Beck's, BillO's and manatee's of the world.
This is not going to go away. It is only going to get worse.
couldn't be more right.
This is exactly what worries me. It's happened time and time again throughout history and all over the world.
as Jimmy Swaggart's or Bennie Hinn's.
Fuck off, you miserable piece of shit. And FUCK OFF to my stupid fellow Americans who eat this pablum for dinner nightly. I am NOT one with you.
There is a real liberty and freedom movement brewing in USA right now among all types of political backgrounds, and Glenn Beck is trying to hijack it and associate his smarmy show that shills for us corporations as being the leader of this movement.
Screw Glenn Beck, he is so full of double-speak it makes my wanna puke.
Between his cultivated emotional outbursts and sanctimony, Beck belongs as a semi-regular on "Big Love"
Why, he's even a convert to the faith. Sign him up, and let the croc(k) tears flow like a river.
I didn't know it was a special format.
Guess I thought that's how every show operated.
And it was something to behold.
It seems like about every time I surf by this lunatic show, he's either blubbering or he's just stopped blubbering! I'd like to meet his other half, whether male or female, just to see "WHAT" would marry a crazed mutha fucker like Beck1 Yes, he is VERY lame!
The Conservative/Extra-Constitutional/Republican Party has decided that if they can't win elections they will overthrow the duly elected government.
Without hyperbola this is treason.
That the Corporate Mass Media refuses to cover this story is mora than appalling, it is frightening.
Mr. Beck appears to be suffering from clinical depression. I'll wager he considers himself too much of a "man" to seek professional help. Lord, it must be miserable living inside his head, listening to all of those voices.
clinical Self-Parody Syndrome, not clinical depression.
He gives it away when he mentions he's not televangelist preacher and then proceeds to follow the same routine.
The choked up voice, the tears on cue the lost little puppy face.
He probably thinks of his tanked Bear Sterns stock or is huffing from a bag of onions before the teary deary shots to evoke the 5 seconds of contrived pseudogrief.
He's playing to the same audience that sucks up this theater when done by televangelists not the more skeptical crowd found here.
Where was all the gripping roller coaster of emotions when he was on Billo?
Couldn't get a clip without O'Reilly laughing in the background?
What's next, patriotic pray rags and laying of hands on the TV screen?
The only thing I want to see is the inevitable spoof of Beck done this way:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6waXPTSrGiA
I don't know about you, but I can hardly wait to see what he has in store for us on 9/12.
This guy needs to be hanged before he incites real violence.
That WOULD go against the principles this country was founded upon.
His "movement" is based on smoke, mirrors, and cynical manipulation of emotions. While there certainly are alot of stupid people in this country who listen to people like him and Limbaugh, the truth is, he was right, the "power is with you, the people" and the people in no way are buying off on this shit after 8 years of neocon nightmares.
This country has learned alot since 9/11,and part of that learning curve includes not believing in right wing shills and misinformers.
They have their adherents, but they are small in number, and while armed, they fight for all the wrong the reasons. For that reason alone they would lose in the end.
metaphor for get him off the air before . . . and if and if he's mentioned, then hang him.
I don't know, there seems to be "enough" followers out there . . .
guy is a certifiable loon. The thing that Beck seems to forget is that the MAJORITY of the country put Obama in office. So, he wants his MINORITY to take back the the country by surrounding the majority? So let's just all, every time whoever we want to win an election loses it, start a movement to overthrow them. Forget all about the democracy thingy that we have been using up until now. Who cares what the majority of the people want.
Face it Glenn, your side lost fair and square, in an election. You don't get to start a revolution because you didn't get what you want, or because Chuck Norris thinks his taxes are too high.
From Beck's "We surround Them" page;
Except for the previous administration, and any other republicans that break the law.
And perhaps the funniest one,
I think you all see the hypocrisy of this one.
that Beck is on some serious pharmacological regimen?
He talks exactly like the TV personality in V for Vendetta, channeling the same emotionally unsettled, frustration and his loss of cultural identity and feeling of powerlessness and finishes off by venting his anger at the "government" and what he perceives as left-wing elites controlling him and keeping him and the people down.
Well he is to a certain point, He seems to be a RePUGlican't and for that I feel sorry for him, well not much.
He is another GOP prop comic who lost his props. So he cries a lot, He can't get his wife, if he has one, to show up next to him ala Vitter & Craig so untill he locates his case with the bells and gongs, he is gonna cry for awhile.
My guess is that he can buy lots of props when CNBC Cramer retires soon.
911:
http://www.bpcgp.hu/letoltes/2006/kepek_izeli...
912:
http://bringatrailer.com/wp-content/uploads/2...
The 912 is missing two cylinders and about 100hp, much like Beck.
No doubt that 95% if not 100% of Beck's "crying" was fake. I saw about 2 minutes of it, and I just could not take it any more.
He was on his regular segment with BillO last night. BillO was all chummy with the loon, and was defending him against the "far left smear machine."
Even if I agreed 100% with Beck, I would not watch him because he is certifiable.
He said it himself. He's a wannabe Jimmy Swagart. Do they have Mormon Jimmy Swagarts?
you learn something new every day. I didn't know Beck was a Mormon.
I wonder if he wears magic underwear? Maybe it's too tight and that's why he cries?
He's a Moron
Reject
a liar.
Between Morons and Promise Creepers...I just don't know which one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promise_Keepers
Try a revolver to the temple. If you have a family, they could clean up from the pay per view revenue, if you can get it programmed for the right time slot.
I stumbled onto an audio book at the library called “The Likeability Factor” by Tim Sanders. The book is a simple treatise on the success skill of being likeable. In the text Mr. Sanders gives a number of ways to increase your likeability; in reading, or rather listening in my case, I found that I really don’t care if I am liked or not, but I did learn that in a number of cases I can use the methodology of “likeability” to determine a large part of who I let influence me or even whom I will allow into my conscious mind.
The rules are simple.
1. The person must be friendly. I think of it as openness or approachability, a person I would like to spend casual time with.
2. Relevance to my life. I need to believe that this person has a point that will reflect well in my life. In this I don’t accept the idea of reflecting on a negative will let me know the positive better; it has never been true of any other aspect of my life, so why think it would be true for people?
3. Empathy. This is very hard to describe either as it relates to my relating to others or my understanding of the underlying motivation of others to me. I think it can be said, do they feel as I do on important matters.
4. Realness or authenticity. For me it is the ability or the courage even of exposing the fundamental essence of just who we are stripped of the social show.
It is for these reasons added to several others that I’ve mentioned in other places, that I don’t watch people like Beck, Bill O, Hannity, Rush and all the rest. Not only are their comments empty, vain, repetitive, self aggrandizing piffle, smeared with hatred, racism, and an odd mix of self hatred, but they are not likeable people and influence unlikeable people too.
There are some opposing ideologies being presented out there that I do listen to, but they have one real important element to me, their likeable.
Wow, he is a really bad actor. That crying looks 100% fake, like a televangilist begging for forgiveness. He seems to be fooling some people though.
oh wait, no its just some Fox News moron pretending to cry. Go back into your bottle Beck, at least you were only damaging yourself. WTF is a 9/12er?? im not that $hit, I am an American, fearless and freedom-loving
Opportunistic NY real estate developer?
In order to gain the political control that they enjoyed over the last ten years, Republican moderates and Reagan conservatives made a pact with the devil (faux Christians, bigots and misanthropes) to achieve the numbers they needed to defeat Democrats. They made a strategic decision to manipulate and exploit the ignorance, fears and hatreds of dysfunctional and vulnerable voters in order to win elections rather than lose them by being intellectually and morally honest.
Today, those who conspired with the devil are caught between wanting to disassociate themselves with and or casting out the devil they empowered and the karmic reality that they don’t have the numbers to hold on to or regain power without continuing to accept and "advocate" the immoral values, hypocrisies and corruptions that are dividing and destroying their party. The survival of today's shrinking Republican Party has become so dependent on extremism that they have no significant power left WITH or WITHOUT the support of America’s increasingly pernicious lunatic fringe.
The idiom about choosing between the devil and the deep blue sea is certainly appropriate as Republicans are facing the dilemma of choosing between two equally undesirable alternatives that both result in Republican impotence in mainstream American politics. They are suffering the consequences of their treachery. Their irresponsible propping up of George W. Bush cost them their credibility, and their disgraceful and shameless licking of Rush Limbaugh’s storm trooper boots is costing them their viability.
From the LA Times, March 6, 2009:
"Beck's indignant critiques of the Obama administration and gloomy outlook on the nation's financial health have found near-instant resonance. His eponymous 2 p.m. PST program averaged nearly 2.2 million viewers last month -- double the number the time slot attracted the previous February and a remarkable amount for the afternoon. That made "Glenn Beck" the third most-watched program in all of cable news for the month, after Bill O'Reilly's and Sean Hannity's evening shows."
There are a lot lot people in America who are eating this stuff up. Beck has found a "message" that resonates with all the disaffected in this country and, as the economy worsens, the numbers of the disaffected will only increase.
On the one hand you've got Norris preaching secession and on the other you've got Beck claiming to "understand" why "Liberal political correctness" could drive otherwise rational people over the edge to committing unspeakable acts of violence. The synergistic potential of these two messages is profoundly frightening.
If these people or others of their stripe continue to wind the 20 percenters up we will most certainly see more Oklahoma Cities, and perhaps more Ruby Ridges and Wacos. Add to that the infiltration of our military by a witch's brew of Neo-Nazis, Skinheads and radical Christian fundamentalists and you have a recipe for insurrection.
The right wing neanderthal base have nothing to do at that time and they eat this crap up. It is a very scary situation. I wonder how Pastor Hagee would do in that time slot?
Also wasn't John Gibson on in that time slot the previous February? Just goes to show you how lame John Gibson is to the base.
"Our fear of hypocrisy is forcing us to live in a world where gluttons are fine, so long as they champion gluttony."
---Jonah Goldberg
about Beck, but as a Mor(m)on he will be promoted to GOD of his own planet somewhere after he shuffles off of this mortal coil.
Then he'll send us all to hell.
I don't know how I missed that. Beck's a Mormon?
A convert.
It's extremely unlikely Beck will ever achieve Godhood. That's only for those who reach the Seventh Level, which is very rarified company. You pretty much have to be President and Chief Prophet to get there.
Well, he is certainly shooting for it and he has the platform in Fox News to do it. Too bad he is too retarded (no offense to retards mind you).
walking around on a cloud, muttering "Where's all the white women at?"
Sorry...
I just think that constantly being outraged by Beck is counter productive. Sure it's amusing and sometimes it's catalytic but mostly it's just the same thing, different day. I wonder how much traffic goes to Beck and how many viewers he gains by constantly posting his more insane moments? He doesn't care if his viewers love himor hate him, as long as they watch him. Well, I don't watch Beck or listen to him and I think it's been months since I clicked on one of these links or even paid attention to his latest stupidity. It would be news if he said something rational. I know I'll probably be flamed for this comment but I think you're actually helping his ratings, not bringing them down.
He is surviving the same as she-man coultier. Saying and doing the total crazy and outrageous stuff is what keeps this guy "relevant".
What's with all these fucking crybaby Conservatives? Doesn't it cancel out your whole "tough guy" act when you start blubbering and blowing snot bubbles, like Glenn Beck and John Boehner? I mean, seriously.
My own *mom* would've smacked me in the head when I was a kid if I acted like that. My mom was more a tough guy than Glenn Beck is.
Holy bat shit, Robin, back to the Bat Cave. I think Beck has squirrels swirling around in his skull - nuts everywhere.
How long can even the pathetic propaganda network keep this idiot on the pay roll?
I thought he stepped over the line when he did the camera in his face thing a while back...or the "dooms day scenario". But honestly, in the name of even pathetic journalism and entertainment....this guy is insane. I really think he needs help.
He is a depressed and phobic individual who really needs help...mental help, not encouragement. Even his colleagues are laughing at him...to his face and behind his back. He is just too lame and stupid to even see what is going on.
Oh my god, I just realized what this weeping twat sounds like, blubbering about "be a 9/12er".
He sounds like Pat Robertson with his "700 Club" sales pitch. Beck is just a televangelist who uses jingoism instead of religion. What a joke.
The guy needs to be fitted for a straitjacket. What's more ridiculous, FAUX News giving that nutcase his own show and platform to spew his dribble from or the people who take him seriously? Let em' keep talkin'. The more these people keep talking the more ridiculous they look.
haha, thats Fox. They would put on a clown juggling babies if it got them higher ratings which translates into more expensive advertising slots. Their M.O. is to do the most outrageous, ratings-grabbing things that conform to minimal ethical standards. With that mentality in mind, they give Beck a huge megaphone to blast his stupidity into millions of homes a night. Money is, once again, King
her own time slot soon as well.
Rupert Murdoch hates BillO the Clown....yet he keeps him because of his ratings $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
You know, I'm not even going to bother watching this one. So, thanks for writing the blurb describing the video.
In my memory bank, Beck is a money digger no different from Joe Smith himself
http://www.bibletopics.com/biblestudy/162-4.htm
talks of insurrection, treason, violence, and hatred for your president are EVIL
unless you're a republican, then god bless you *weep* *sniffle*
Why hasn't anybody checked up on Beck's past?
From Becks manipulative behaviors - including his crocodile tears -- I assume that he never threw a tantrum that didn't work for him.
The Reich-wing has plugged him in to be our new Joe McCarthy. That's his job. AND what he does is dangerously close to sedition.
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Why would any responsible organization let a lunatic like Beck on national media?
This friggin guy is preaching end times and calling for an uprising of like minded nuts.
This is truly frightening. Something really bad is going to come from this kind of thing.
Fox should yank this guy. He should be in a rubber room somewhere instead of on national television.
I am serious. Beck needs help.
...ew ew ew
... into that video.
Needless to say, I was aghast. Incredulous.
The guy needs a timeout, if not a full-scale intervention. He's deranged.
I've mentioned this a long time ago, but I once DVR'd a show that was on the BYU channel with Glenn Beck out of morbid curiosity.
It was a 180 degree difference from what he is like on his show. We know him to be deranged and all over the fucking place, but when he was giving his testimony to the other Mormons for this show, he was eerily calm and relaxed. Very sedate, almost. Almost as if the guy had taken some Xanax or Valium. I didn't know what to make of it.
Beck IS a televangelist in the Jimmy Swaggart, Jim Bakker, Ted Haggard tradition. Egomaniacal, self-absorbed and dishonest. Beck is also a dangerous demagogue trying to generate not self-reliance but rather anti-government populism. He gets lots of money and air time first from CNN and now from Fox -- "THE MEDIA" -- to spew his mixture of self-congratulatory demagogy, using half-truths, comparing apples and oranges, scapegoating, putting up straw men, and presenting false dilemmas. The "government is the problem" crowd loves him. I wish there was a way we could let that crowd eat only uninspected meat, use only uninspected/unapproved drugs, fly airplanes not checked out by the FAA, plow their own roads, deliver their own mail, drink only from their own wells, fight their own wars, and rebuild their own homes after floods, fires and tornados. Here in New York State, we send in far more tax money than the whiners in "the heartland," who benefit disproportionately. Speaking of "the heartland," wasn't this country founded on the East Coast by people who were comparatively educated and cosmopolitan, many of whom lived in places like Boston, Philadelphia and New York?
Yeah, Chuck Norris, how about we build our own interstate? Or inspect jetliners for their air-worthiness?
I wish these cretins would just disappear. Whoosh! Into thin air ...
as well as a snake oil salesman. He's a dry-drunken wingnut. Beck, Hannity, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, Savage, and many other chicken-choking microphone hacks are working overtime to suck in more mindless flag-waving, gun-totin' theocratic morons for the cause of unethical and unregulated capitalistic greed. This is exactly what is WRONG with our country and these propagandists just go on drooling their divisive hate all over public airwaves without any rebuttal. No one had a chance to debunk Hitler, either. How did that work out?
This guy is so far out there, a genuine loon, that I truly find it hard to believe he is allowed on television. CNN got rid of him, so should Faux if it has one shred of decency. I won't hold my breath though.
The good thing is he is so nutty no one can really take him seriously. Even on Faux Noise he is probably considered a comic act like Dennis Miller.
glenn mentioned that it was 6 months to 9/12 yesterday (or something like that)- wow how poignant! So to legitimize bringing up such a ridiculous reference - he is "starting" a project that will take 6 months to do and urged his followers to do the same. My project is going to be a macaroni statue of glenn beck looking for WMD's and Al-Qaeda in Iraq! I'll hold it together with my tears. What projects do you have in mind?
Seriously though, this was exploitative and sad. Did Shep Smith know that the hyper-waterworks, even by beck standards, were coming or what!?
This man has lost his mind!
Glen beck is completely CRAZY and a cry baby to boot! I've NEVER in my 63 years EVER seen a grown man cry as much as this pussy and I guess insanity runs in the family because either his sis or mom croaked themselves years ago!
Beck is trying to reach just one racist who has nothing to lose and he will have his wish for a dead President. I sent faux an e-mail asking why they don't have the decency to take this criminal off the air. He is literally begging, along with that crazed goofball Norris, for someone to take out Obama. I pray for the President's safety every day. These people have no regard for anyone but themselves and they have demonstrated how truly evil they are.
This is very worrisome. I worry for the President, and I worry for average citizens that Beck and his ilk have tried and in some cases succeeded in inciting violence against...
Is he starting to remind anyone else of Chris Elliott in the last scene of Something About Mary?
Beck,like norris is a legend only in his own mind. Beck,like norris could not act his way out of a tied rubber, don't we all miss those wonderfully entertaining Texas ranger tv shows, or his war movies which appear to have been written by a group of kids playing with toy soldiers, while drunk. Norris is now sending promo guys around to sell kick boxing events for the public to enjoy for the price of a ticket( at which they take a cut of the bar profit). Ok, have all the shit kicking snake-oil shows you want, but please, magical being, no more of those fucking Texas ranger things, even my two year nephew would choose eating spinach over watching trash like that, but then he is not a willfully- ignorant,beer swilling hick, looking to marry his sister.CEO,citizens,eyes,open.
He's worse than all of that.
HE'S A SOCIOPATH.
http://www.google.com/books?id=EJLSnbvDD9sC&d...
Seriously... He lies, compulsively, habitually, and without conscience. He used to have a serious substance abuse problem. He invokes pity. He craves control. Really, these are all classic signs. I'm telling you...
Look, not all wingnuts are sociopaths (though I do wonder about Limbaugh). O'Reilly, for example, is clearly not. He's just pedestrian crazy, and has a conscience. But Beck is almost a case study in sociopathy. Don't get mad at him. He can't grow a conscience any more than you can become gay, left handed or hazel eyed. However, he's a dangerous, dangerous guy. The appropriate response is to point it out, make the world know and as such make sure that he doesn't do any serious damage.
Could've fooled me otherwise, if that's the case!
No, he's not. He may be a narcissist. But he does infrequently display a sense of shame and embarrassment. He further likely believes he is fighting for some "cause"; even with a narcissist, it's not always about him. Beck has no cause but himself. He seeks control and victory.
George H Busha and John Boehner are always ready to fake-cry at the drop of a hat. The cynical pussies.
BTW Beck, General Mills called, they want back that 'Sonny The Cocoa Puffs Bird' Mascot suit you'd borrowed from. LOL!!
Anyone who knows what entertainment is about knows this is called acting. He does it quite poorly, but most Americans are stupid enough to believe it.
It is nearly impossible to know what Glenn Bleck really thinks, but I can tell you it isn't anything he has professed to believe. He is simply a con man, a schister, a LIAR.
Anyone dumb enough to be moved by his words is dumb enough to vote for George Bush, twice.
Beck belongs in a straight jacket and padded cell .
WTF?? What a total nut job! Do people really fall for this shit?
what's even worse, or funnier, or whatever, is the faces of the dolts sitting in this snake oil salesman's audience. can you imagine what a low iq it must take to listen to that prick and actually BELIEVE what he's selling? jesus.
and what's up w/ this "special project" of his? is he going to send our soldiers bottles of his desalinated tears to drink?
my project it to take a stinker in his gas tank.
Either it is Beck with crocodile tears (think of Bill Clinton at times) or he is having a Howard Beel moment. Even right-wing extremists can have mental illness--very often the same charisma associated with bipolar mania helps performers and politicians reach the top. But, we should understand that "nut job" and similar epithets are out of line when someone is ill--even someone spouting detestable tripe. They are out of line not just because of compassion for people like Beck, but because there are a lot of folks outside the public eye who suffer from the stigma of mental illness, an inheritable trait they have no control over. So, let's attack his views without attacking the mentally ill at the same time--they have enough of a burden to carry.
....something wrong with Glen Beck. At first glance, I would say that he is simply your typical ultra right wing Republican; blinded with anger because his party is no longer in power; spouting off all kinds of crazy shit any chance he gets. But there is something much more going on here. The man has issues for sure. Fox should probably give him a leave of absence so that he can get properly medicated and basically get his shit together. If not, he's most likely going to have a breakdown at some point.
C&L should no longer comment on his show; there is no way anyone could take this man seriously.
Beck's Dragon
what the???
this is too cartoony
I first heard Beck on a FL station several years ago and he described himself as "down the center" but as time passed he kept moving farther to the right and has now completely fallen off the cliff. At the time I told my wife that he was perhaps the most manipulative person I had ever heard on the radio. He can turn on a dime, going from, we all need to come together to divisive commentary in literally no more than 30 seconds.
He is very good at what he does and every time I hear Glenn Beck I can't help think of Jim Jones (A 9/12er?!). Manipulative, disturbed and dangerous.
the money stream for these jackasses would run dry and they would be off the air. Time to do a grassroots movement.
From the day I mustered out of the U S Army in 1968, I haven't owned or touched a fire arm of any kind but that's all going to change in MY near future and the one thing Crazy boy Beck does not understand is the fact that as he spits out this nonsensical BULLSHIT about an armed uprising ,the majority in our country are made up of actual vets( like myself)unlike the minority( like our republican chicken hawks)and God forbid, if push comes to shove,this jerk WILL rue the day he and those of his ilk were ever born!Beck, the key word in all of this is simple:MAJORITY,but YOU advocate violence! Be VERY careful what you wish for because your recent problem at Wendy's will be a walk in the park compared to what may happen!Have you even shot a gun much less SHOt at another human being? NO you haven't! ASS HOLE!
Man what a creep.
I really don't know how to describe Glenn Beck. I do know one thing my 2 daughters didn't cry this much when they learned to ride bikes or skating and fell and skinned their knees, hands, or butts. I didn't cry that much when I broke my arm when I was 8 yrs old and I fell out of a big ass tree. This guy is (pardon the expression)a BED WETTING PANSY ASS PUSSY, because I know my drill sergeant called a lot of guys that for bitching about aches and pains and would have. He would have gone bat shit on a guy for crying.
In the last eight years? Why is it just now that he "Fears for his country"?
If this guy was a dog, he would be a "Paranoid Retriever".....
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