I saw Glenn Beck's rightwing, bad-acting version of Howard Beal for the first time in that clip.

*shudder*

bob, you have major lurkers on gdab! how ironic that things word for word show up on television a day or two after discussed here. "bbq media", "zero cred", now "dirty sanchez"?! coincidence? i think not! keep up the good fight and we'll keep the ptt in the gutter! ;)

I nearly cried laughing at Stewart last night.

Disclaimer:
Sorry, but this will be a disgusting, but pointed rebuke of the blogosphere's collective promotion of this Beck character.

Got it?

Now...why are you all paying attention to this Beck asshole? He's like the unremarkable pudgy kid in kindergarten who eats boogers to get girls to look in his direction. The girls never paid him any mind with his disgusting shenanigans, so he shits himself to disgust anyone, boy or girl, within the vicinity. Still, no one bothers to bat an eye. Soon after he's done that, he starts chasing the kids around, smelly as all hell. The teachers have had enough with this kid's hijinks and properly expel him from the school.

Now this Beck idiot is on FOX, the equivalent of media dork juvie. Who gives a fuck what he's doing there, we know it's not worth paying attention to in any way, shape, or form. He's a goddamned dork loser with a FOX "News" show, nothing more. Let's raise a ruckus about the perpetual wallflower kiss-ass lawyer chick, Van Sustren, or the slick, fork-tougued, hillbilly preacher, The Huckster, while we're at it. I'm sure they've got some VERY interesting things to say about America or something. Damn it, they ought to just give Sam the Fraud an Extreme Makeover-type show, too.

Anyway, Beck is B-O-R-I-N-G! Stories covering him are boring. It tasks me to even write this much about the idiot. He's as interesting as the snot that drips from someone else's nose in the middle of flu season. Why the fuck do I care that this idiot is playing a paranoid retard for the FOX "News" audience.

I understand that you need to have material, but don't you all find it hard to stay interested in covering this Beck assclown?

>>>Now...why are you all paying attention to this Beck asshole?

Because, right or wrong, he's influential now and it's important to underscore his insanity as a means of undercutting his influence.

It's a mistake to ignore people like Beck.

"It's a mistake to ignore people like Beck. "

I agree. Furthermore, he gives a bad name to Independents, of which he claims to be one, along with Lou Dobbs.

If by Independent, they mean they lurk on the far fringe of the Right because the people in the middle are too square for them, then maybe they have a case. But in my opinion, they are claiming Independent status as a means of dictating what Independents actually believe, and hopes of persuading real Independents to follow suit.

Thank God real Independents know what to do with people like Beck and Dobbs. We call them out on their poorly disguised "sky-is-falling" rhetoric.

I have to admit, though, that I have debated, with myself, about a new drinking game to play when watching the Lou Dobbs show. I call it "I mean...what in the world is going on?!"

Every time Lou Dobbs says, "I mean...what in the world is going on?!", you drink a shot of Kubler Absinthe. By the end of the show, you are hallucinating the Feds coming to get your guns.

I mean...what in the world is going on?

I disagree with you, Bob, unfortunately.

See, here's my thing...

I don't believe Beck is all that influential. I believe that FNC is promoting him as if he were, but personally, I think he's a mock crank that FNC is attempting to mold into someone influential. I don't believe that there are enough individuals in America that will buy into his idiotic stage act. Those that chose to adhere to his phony hyperbole-ridden rhetoric are already imbeciles to begin with, and they were thriving in America before Beck ever got his FOX, CNN, or radio gig. Beck is literally a media dork manchild that resembles the kid hysterically cries and causes a scene in the middle of Chuck E. Cheese's in order to take everyone's attention away from the rest of the children in attendance. When everyone turns to see what he's carrying on about, he offers nothing more than a hello.

I mean, is there really anything unique about this asshole? We've heard these people call Dems and libs everything - socialists, communists, fascists, Leninists etc. - for the last three decades. It's like he's a nobody wearing a con-servative/lie-bertarian media dork costume for a perpetual Halloween. A con-servative harlequin with no true angle.

I figure someone ought to be be documenting this bastard's words for the sake of using them against him in a court case involving brainwashing methods, but Beck is, perhaps, too stupid to be that diabolical. FNC as a whole needs to be put on trail for such actions against the public. Beck is just a theatrical fraud, plain and simple. Giving his act credence is just dignifying FNC's desperate efforts to coach its audience into staying loyal to its propaganda.

The one thing I can agree with you guys on is that he does have a "punch-me" kind of face. His stage act, however, makes me want to slap the hell out of whoever raised him to be such an ass in public, if I may hearken back to my analogy involving "Chuck E. Cheese and whatnot.

A slight disagreement with your notion is all this is, Bob.

Lexaburn -

You are entitled to your own opinion and I don't think it's very important to try to convince you differently.

"I don't believe that there are enough individuals in America that will buy into his idiotic stage act."

Here is a list of things I didn't believe could ever happen:

1. Ronald Reagan will never be elected president because the U.S. electorate can't be that stupid.

2. Rush Limbaugh won't last because people can't be dumb enough to listen to his lunacy.

3. Fox News can't continue the way they are since eventually people will figure out that they 'cook' the news to favor the corporatist view.

4. Bill O'Reily's TV Factor won't last longer than a year.

5. Sean Hannity might last two years on TV but not much longer.

The common factor in all of these is that people just can't be that stupid to believe the blatant bullshit these clowns dispense.

Well, I was wrong. People *are* that stupid. None of these positions that I felt strongly about were correct.

People *are* ignorant and stupid enough to fall for Glenn Beck's blatant propaganda and ratings grab and you are right, they are all imbeciles.

Ignoring him will not make him go away. Redrawing him as a lousy clown is effective. (Since he is.)

Keep up the effort Lexaburn. I agree with you way more often than not.

What we see here is the downside of Freedom of Speech.

It would be great to be able to ignore these a-holes, but it doesn't work for the simple fact that they'd be the only ones doing the talking.

Also...these protesters really ought to look on the urban dictionary (biatch) before they go out into the world. Not that their antics aren't unintentionally hilarious, but there's only so hard i can laugh before I unintentionally puncture a lung.

You do have many good points there, uh, RatfacedGit.

But, see, beating Beck over the head with insults is, ultimately, fruitless. Anyone can do it, as evidenced by the fact that I, a person that cannot stand discussing the idiot, have now authored three posts insulting Beck.

The point I'm making is that whatever heap composes a loyal Glenn Beck audience already knows he's a clown, since they are clowns, as well. They have to know exactly why they're copping to his nonsense, and if not, then FNC truly is guilty of brainwashing its loyal audience, not that that's illegal or anything.

Those of Beck's ilk are willful clowns and eager targets. They know they're going to be profusely insulted. Ignoring them won't make them go away, but it will make sloppy.

Actually, that's what went down with Wimpbaugh back in January if you weren't paying real close attention. I know media idiots like Matthews and such eventually protected him in a subtle manner, but Blimpbaugh was doing all he could to attract President Obama's attention - appearing on TV, writing articles etc, never mind his petty CPAC/Klan Rally rhetoric concerning Barack Hussein Obama throughout '07 and 08. Then when the little GOP snitches (probably that weaselly Cantor snot) ran to tattle about Obama dropping his name at their little meeting, Wimpbaugh starts playing the victim like all the other con-servaidiots.

I bet some of you have seen Raggedy Ann (she who forever plays the victim of circumstance) carrying on about how the president isn't paying her any attention, right? She plays like she's being facetious, but that reaction is very real. You can see the subtle contempt whenever she discusses how much she adores Wimpbaugh for snatching all the attention away from her book-promoting antics. It's fascinating to see, actually. I guess she, too, became "too big to fail," if you get me.

Excellent post, Lexaburn. I get you.

Yeah, you wrap your mind around this example of Rush's bullshit...

Wimpbaugh and his ilk call Obama a "socialist" for half-a-year, to which the voting majority delivers a kindly "STFU!" Then during the week of Barack Hussein Obama's inauguration, this fat bozo, desperate for attention, goes on his dork friend's insipid, vanity-driven FNC prime-time program to claim he himself wants the president to "fail." He prefaces this with a screed against Obama's "socialist agenda," you know, in order to make their "socialist" charge stick. See, the Republidorks think the voting public didn't hear their asinine name-calling throughout two years of campaigning. They did, which is why the GOP suffered losses for two elections straight.

Anyway, Rush knows damned well how...distasteful such flamboyantly con-servative lunatic rhetoric sounds, though, it was much less boneheded than hinting that the entire voting public was being forced to support for Obama because they suffer the mythical "white guilt," a charge he leveled at the public with aplomb, along with the usual, worn-out drivel about Obama being a media darling. Soon, as one would anticipate, Rush relies on his swine media friends to help him explain that he wants Obama's "socialist" policies, not his entire presidential agenda. As if Barack Obama being a honest-to-goodness "president" who just so happens to be a so-called "socialist" would not have disavowed the fact that Rush was still calling for the man to fail at leading the country out of a crisis. This fucking spite-filled, double-speaking conman moron thinks he's a sage rhetorician. Fat chance!

You have to remember that Wimpbaugh was not the first or only conservative calling for the president's failure around that time back in January. There were other, less prominent con-servative talk radio dorks saying that they wanted Obama to fail, as well. However, Wimpbaugh is such a vainglorious and spoiled rotten brat that he began taking all the oxygen from his dumbassed radio cohorts. See, this "seeking Obama's failure" nonsense was derived, perhaps, from one of those infamous memos that the con-servadorks all repeat on-air. Wimpbaugh got his, and his porcine friends in the televised media sector began airing his reciting it all on his radio show. That act wasn't enough to garner attention from President Obama, so he went on FNC to repeat himself. The idiot didn't realize that that was exactly what the Democratic Party wanted, but Sean Vanity sure liked watching Rush bluster before him...a little too much, again, if you get me.

You know how Jim Cramer threw himself into the fray of criticizing Obama for stupid reasons in order to take heat of of the PR shill Sic Rantelli? Well, we all saw what happened when he had to actually show up to TDS, right? All that [in]famous bluster of Cramer's dried up, and he wallowed in self-pity before the "comedian" he was attempting to goad not three days prior. That's the same thing that would happen to Rush Wimpbaugh if he EVER got into a debate with President Obama. See, Cramer didn't have time to call Obama "Lenin" again, 'cuz he was too busy timidly defending himself against charges that he was bamboozling his viewers.

See, that's what happens to half-steeping chumps in life; they get made fools of before a lot of critically thinking people.

Wimpbaugh was in the same position as Jim Cramer, until his protectors "circled the wagons," as some say.