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Is that Darrell Hammond?
Saturday, August 29th, 2009I haven’t watched Saturday Night Live in a long time, but this parody of Glenn Beck was perfectly executed.
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What? Wasn’t that the real Glenn Beck expressing fear of living in an oligarhy, whatever that is, and ruled by oligarhs, whoever they are?
This is what happens when you snort too much Cocaine.
Umm … kinda forgot the “c” I think that was the point of the post though. How do people watch this fear-mongering crap?
Someone needs to take that chalk out of his hand and put it back in the “safety drawer” next to the glue, paint, erasers, scissors and all the other household items this idiot can’t be trusted with.
Why does his set have so many stairs!?!
It like he sat down one day to watch the O’Reilly Factor and went, “You call that batshit insane? I’ll show you batshit insane!”
The really scary thing is there are probably tens of thousands of people, at minimum, that believe every word of shit happy horseshit.
So much for reason and logic…
Beck is leftist alien sent to drive rational people from the right. He’ll remove his skin suit on 12/21/12, revealing landing strips for gay martians.
Chris:
Over 3,000,000 viewers one of the days this week. Must be the least successful boycott ever.
This is why I don’t watch TV. Well, okay, I watch Mad Men but that’s pretty much all.
It seems to me that if people would stop watching all these idiots and just let the market work, things would be all right. But no, they hear all this noise from the so-called ‘experts’ and follow the advice.
The ‘experts’ predict doom, and what do we get?
Turn off the tube, people!
It seems to me that the reason at least some people what these idiots is *because* they are idiots. The same reason they watch reality shows, Jerry Springer (is he even still on?), and sitcoms.
“what these idiots” == “watch these idiots”
Sigh.
I was going to say that I’m ashamed it took me a good ten minutes to figure out it WASN’T an SNL parody (I mean, the missing letter bit seemed to clever NOT to be scripted), but I suppose Glenn Beck is the one who should be ashamed.
the sadly ironic part is the sincerity.
when i was in high school, my chums and i used to stay up late and ‘expand our minds’. once we had reached the proper state of expansion, we would often watch the 700 Club, the PTL show, or Benny Hinn. those shows are just as odd (if i find salvation, it won’t be from a guy in a maroon velour three-piece suit).
but … at the end of every rant they would ask you for money. so you were kinda put at ease by their greed. it gave you something you could understand. you knew what they were angling for.
this guy … i have NO F*CKING IDEA where he’s coming from
josephdietrich
are you speaking in code? do all you Beck-ers omit C’s ?
that’s how you’ll know the apoalypse is coming, isn’t it?
The missing letter was scripted. He did it intentionally. The next day, he pointed out that although all the blogs were afire laughing at him for misspelling “oligarchy”, NOBODY refuted anything factual that he said. I don’t agree with him all the time, but he does have a lot of information that is concerning, and all any of you can do is just litter the net with ad hominem attacks. Yes, he’s a goof, a geek, a religious nut, a self-proclaimed sick twisted freak, and all of that. But saying those things doesn’t at all address what he says, and such references have no place in a debate of the facts. Any of you have anything useful to say about the content of the Glenn Beck shows 8/24-8/29?
@ solinox: he really didn’t say anything. there weren’t a lot of facts to refute, just broad concepts and scare language.
@bk (and anybody else who would like to join in)
Much of what Glenn Beck is saying, I have seen presented and dissected here and elsewhere in the libertarian blogosphere, so I will try and concentrate on the things I haven’t seen anybody else address.
Why is a private organization being allowed to write 1000+ -page bills that the legislators are going to vote on without even reading?
What does it mean that our president has advisors on his staff who are self-proclaimed communists?
Is it now acceptable to have people with criminal records working in the top levels of the White House?
Can the President explain the connections between his staff, ACORN, the Weather Underground, and the Apollo Alliance (among many others)?
Where in the constitution does it provide for all of these high-ranking White House staff members, responsible for everything from executive pay to running GM, and answerable not to Congress, not to the people, but only to the President?
What are the details of Obama’s desired National Civilian Security Force? The very idea is concerning to me.
Some of the other things Beck presents are speculation. Some of it could be considered fear-mongering, although if so it is the same kind of “fear-mongering” I have seen here and on other libertarian blogs. If you have not paid attention to Beck in the last 6-18 months, I highly recommend you go back and listen to some of his shows. He is no longer a Republican, he has moved to the Libertarian column, he no longer supports moral legislation, the drug war, the Patriot Act, or similar things. He is still very pro-border control, which bothers me. He is VERY religious, but being that I am a religious minority myself, I can accept that somebody will present their views colored by their religion, and I can listen to the useful things he presents while ignoring the references to his god. I absolutely don’t agree with everything about him, but he is digging up and presenting information that very few (if any) other people are looking at.
The problem with Beck and his ilk is that his hyperbolic delivery distracts from his real concerns. When blogs like this one pointed out the hypocrisy of passing the stimulus bill so quickly, their concerns were much more credible given their consistency of principle. Neither the pundits of Fox News nor those of MSNBC have been worth listening to because it is all too obvious they lack any principles beyond “Our team good, the other team bad.”
The missing letter was scripted. He did it intentionally.
Pfft. Sure he did.
That’s the REAL Beck you idiot.
C is for Cookie.
And that’s good enough for me.
There is a crazy hobo at the end of my street who shouts at his elbow about winter yellows, rainbow thorns, and ObamaCare. Because he’s right on 1 for 3 makes him no less insane.
Beck is a clown, but his Odelay album was fantastic.
Hmm, I’d like someone to tell me what is ‘wrong’ with what he is asking? Seems to me that he is the most libertarian guy on TV right now (John Stossel is only on once a month it seems). Since he’s not getting any ‘You’re wrong’ answers … sounds like he’s on to something to me.
But yes, let’s keep comparing him to Rush Limbaugh, Oreilly, etc while we continue down the socialist crapper ….
I wonder if Beck has notebooks filled with tiny writing. Seems to be the type of guy. It’s good to see that Beck was able to break the shackles of public access television and present his theories in a national forum. Someone needs to warn us about the FEMA death camps.
Beck did not “warn us” of FEMA death camps. HE DEBUNKED THEM. He went through the story to kill it. He interviewed the experts to prove that the death camps didn’t exist.
Can’t you at least listen to the guy and debate him on the facts? When you say things like “Someone needs to warn us about the FEMA death camps,” all you do is prove that you don’t watch/listen and you don’t really know what he’s saying. Nobody has addressed the questions I raised above, that Glenn Beck raised this past week on his show.
Wait just one doggone minute! You mean to tell me we aren’t living within an oligarchy already? It seems to me that you can’t call a turd a diamond because that’s what you’d like it to be.
God, I weep for the lack of lucid thought among most Americans.
I really do.
(sigh)
holy shit radley there are glenn beck apologists amongst your audience.
“holy shit radley there are glenn beck apologists amongst your audience.”
and he’s got a plus three and a plus four amongst the comments. Think i’m going to stop reading the comment sections.
No, I won’t skip the comments, Beckers and libtards be damned. The first half dozen are priceless. I am now drowning in laugh snot, thank you very much.
What does it mean that our president has advisors on his staff who are self-proclaimed communists?
I mean really? We’ve gotta talk about stuff like this in 2009? i’ll keep reading the comments section but the reasons will be different now.
Glenn Beck may occasionally ask a reasonable question or two but the fact is he has discredited himself as any kind of sophisticated contributor to rational policy discussion by being part of the cable news shout-o-sphere. Oh I know he calls himself a “libertarian” now but as do quite a few disgruntled Republicans who are ashamed to admit they voted for Bush and learned a new word.
The guy’s past speaks for itself. Many of you here will disagree with me for this but I had a similar problem with Bob Barr getting the Libertarian party nomination. You can’t spend years as one of the most vocal advocates of the federal war on drugs then expect me to believe you’re a true blue advocate of limited government and personal freedom just by calling yourself something else. Opportunism seems a more likely motive than some sudden moral awakening.
If Glenn Beck wanted to have a show where they calmly discussed the gives and takes of government policy and where lines should be drown when it comes to personal freedom he’d be off the air because no one would be watching.
“If Glenn Beck wanted to have a show where they calmly discussed the gives and takes of government policy and where lines should be drown when it comes to personal freedom he’d be off the air because no one would be watching.”
This is an interesting point. Beck makes no bones about being an entertainer first and foremost. And I think the wacky factor is probably a big part of his getting such big ratings since moving to Fox. Without it…you’re right, nobody would listen, would they? Good grief, if it weren’t for things like Moron Trivia I would never have started listening to his radio show in the first place! I love the silly stuff. And if that’s what gets the proletariat to listen…and maybe manages to make them think about a few things while they’re at it…what’s wrong with that? How would being 100% serious be any better for presenting a message, if that would mean nobody would listen?
InMD they have that … it’s called NPR; it puts you to sleep, it’s all liberally biased, and it’s paid for by our (stolen) tax money …. if that’s the alternative, no thanks.
Well played, Radley. Well played.
After the blackboard thing, I’m leaning more toward there being a room in his house that looks like John Nash’s office from A Beautiful Mind.
At #32
The problem with it is that it doesn’t put things in context. People who aren’t well informed by more in depth reporting from other places accept what he is saying as though it is fact or at least a reasonable interpretation of fact. Now don’t get me wrong, there isn’t anything inherently wrong with that. He has the right to say whatever he wants to say and Fox News has the right to air whatever views they want on their channel. However, based on your own description of what he does you might as well put Glenn Beck in the same category as Jon Stewart. Like Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart will occasionally say something insightful. However, Jon Stewart is on comedy central, not a channel that claims its mission is to provide information. If, as you yourself say, the fundamental purpose of Beck’s show is to entertain then it is no better than getting information from Jon Stewart. Both of them engineer the show to get the results they want. In Stewart’s case it is to get a laugh, in Beck’s case it is to stoke outrage.
Once again. None of this is to say that what they do doesn’t have its place. But, in my view, anyone who allows it to shape their world view is being extremely naive.
At #33
No source of information is unbiased. Some are merely more intelligent than others and thus worth more consideration. This website has a bias. It is Radley Balko’s bias. Now I happen to agree with him on many things, particularly on the law enforcement issues, but this site definitely has a point of view. When that point of view, even if it counters your own, is well thought-out and sophisticated it is worth listening to. When it is a guy shouting about where the letters go in a word he can’t even spell it may not be. I believe someone else made a comment about the ranting derelict on the street occasionally being correct about something. It doesn’t mean he is worth listening to.
OK. Beck is a useless nut. What about those questions though? Anyone else on TV asking who is writing the bills? Or why the rush? Or the czars? et, et.
No? Well, don’t watch! Better to just write Beck off as a nut.
“Beck did not “warn us” of FEMA death camps. HE DEBUNKED THEM. He went through the story to kill it. He interviewed the experts to prove that the death camps didn’t exist.”
Oh bullshit he didn’t debunk them until he was under intense pressure from a variety of outlets (blogs other shows etc). He stirred the crazy pot for many months on the subject beforehand. Hell in his next show he alluded to concentration camps again..
“Can’t you at least listen to the guy and debate him on the facts?”
Because he’s talking crazy talk about shit that has been going on for 50-200+ years under various presidents of various parties. Hell you haven’t even given one exact thing to refute just vague shit without specifically naming anyone other then OBama and only naming him because it’s “certain people in Obama’s administration”..
The Glenn Beck on fox news wouldn’t even agree with Glenn Beck from CNN it’s hilarious. The dude has no real principles other then filling his bank account and gaining celebrity.
How can you take someone serious that has refereed to himself as a “rodeo clown” on other shows? He is in it for the money and the celebrity and doesn’t really care about the truth just the entertainment.
Matt,
At least he didn’t identify himself as a party clown*. I’d be supremely bummed. Now, if he would just become a mime we’d all be in a better place.
*If he was a party clown, he’d totally be a Binky The Clown type: “You didn’t see nothing old man. We’re just five happy party clowns, sitting down to a plate of beef. White, powdery beef.”
That clip was one weird way to end my weekend. Good night, Glen, thanks for playing!
I’m still hearing nothing but ad-hominems … no refuting of any facts.
http://www.mofopolitics.com/2009/08/28/video-glenn-beck-oligarh-was-on-purpose-you-cant-spell-oligarch-without-czars-or-something/
As funny as it is to see Beck sigh every two seconds, it’s hilarious to see him fake cry. The problem with men (e.g. the Menendez brothers and Beck) who fake cry, is that they study women to get the “look” right; the head thrown back, the biting of trembling, quivering lips. Only that’s not how women cry. But the fakers, not having a woman close at hand who will cry for them on cue, study the soap operas and that’s where the lip-biting and head thrown back poses come from. Real crying is not pretty, but soap stars try to make it look sexy, and you can see their mannerisms mimicked by the male fakers, which is WAY funny. One time Beck bit his trembling lip, caught his quivering voice several times before he could reassure someone not to worry, the calvary was finally here to help, too stupid to know that Calvary is where Christ was crucified. He actually made boo-hoo noises.
Is a Gilbertian the same as a Savoyard? I hope so. Count me as one, Radley.
he is the most libertarian guy on TV
Who is the second and who is the third most libertarian guy on TV? I am trying to learn.
I don’t know, I would think John Stossel is the most libertarian guy on TV, even though he gets less air time. Third? IS there a third?
I did qualify that John Stossel is the best, but he’s barely on TV with any regularity.
Thanks guys. John Stossel and Glenn Beck. That gives me something to work with.
“Because he’s talking crazy talk about shit that has been going on for 50-200+ years under various presidents of various parties.”
And yet: look at where we are.
Ralph Kramden + two years of community college credits = Glenn Beck