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February 4, 2010
Go F-ck Yourself, Glenn Beck
I know, I know. He's an escaped mental patient who somehow weaseled his way into having a television show and I probably shouldn't be letting his psychopathic rants get to me. But this one hit close to home:
BECK: He chose to use his name, Barack, for a reason. To identify, not with America -- you don't take the name Barack to identify with America. You take the name Barack to identify with what? Your heritage? The heritage, maybe, of your father in Kenya, who is a radical? Really? Searching for something to give him any kind of meaning, just as he was searching later in life for religion.
In other words, the name "Barack" isn't really an American name. Never mind that "America" isn't an American name either. It's Italian.
Which leads me to the close to home part. I really admire the president for dropping "Barry" and going with his given Barack name. It's something I'm not quite brave enough to do at this point -- my given first name being "Roberto." But I probably won't ever use that name since I've identified myself with Bob since the fifth grade (before that, it was Bobby).
Actually, come to think of it, I mispronounce my last name. The proper pronunciation is "CHESS-kuh." I use "SESS-kuh," as did my Italian grandparents who came through Ellis Island. Nevertheless, the correct Italian pronunciation is CHESS-kuh.
When I was in radio, a Top 40 station once insisted that I use a fake radio name. Because my name was too "ethnic." Suffice to say, I endured that insult for far too long. About six months, then I quit.
Anyway, if I were to choose to use my full given name, I'd like to think it would be regarded as being equally as American as the millions upon millions of other immigrant names in the phone book. Speaking of the phone book, there are at least 100 "Glenn Beck" listings at the White Pages website. Probably hundreds more. Does that make his name more American than, say, Eisenhower? Or Petraeus?
But here we are again. Glenn Beck besmirching a noble name. During the campaign, he referred to the president as "Osama," then corrected himself with the excuse, "Unfortunate name." No. You know what? It's a unique and dignified name. Glenn Beck, on the other hand, has an unfortunate face -- because whenever I see it, I want to punch it.
End rant.
Filed under: Glenn Beck || President Obama || Wingnuts
Posted By Bob Cesca | February 4, 2010 5:50 PM
Comments
My family's been in this country since 1640. All you brown people with the funny names should just get the fuck out.
Posted by: Elvis Dingeldein
at February 4, 2010 6:14 PM
Hundreds of Glenn Becks?????? HOLY SHIT!!!!......Talk about your Dick Armey.......
Posted by: Curly Lasagna
at February 4, 2010 6:16 PM
Try being named Chez (won't even say what the "CHEZZ" is short for) Pazienza. Damn Italian parents.
You and I should start our own Mafia. Oh, and if you'd called yourself Roberto when we had dinner that time, I probably would've let you take me home. Makes me wet just thinking about it.
Posted by: Chez Pazienza
at February 4, 2010 6:48 PM
Beck is an example of all the douches out there that refuse to acknowledge that America is a country of immigrants. They are fighting the inevitable browning of America.
My family names are not exotic.....my surname is obviously English and all of my ancestors all the way back to 1066 were white, northern European. But my ancestors were ALL immigrants at one point (from Germany, England, Ireland-those dirty Catholics :), the Netherlands, etc) and I know when they all arrived here on our shores--some legal and some very illegal. Thank the goddess for this country's open borders or I wouldn't exist!
And speaking of name changes....I have a Lebanese friend who had a very Arabic first name. He went off to college changed his name to something incredibly bland and 'Americanized' because he got tired of the teasing. His last name is innocuous enough that not many people would guess his family is Islamic. And to look at, most people assume he is African American and he DOESN'T correct them when they assume that. And this all happened long before 9/11. My friend was and is a truly nice guy, who loves America with all his heart. Beck and people who think like him are odious in the extreme.
Posted by: Irish Girl
at February 4, 2010 6:50 PM
Glenn -- what kind of name is that with two N's? A REAL American only needs one N. Is he trying to be all European or something? Does he not want people to think he is American?
Beck -- could be a German surname. Therefore we will declare it is a German surname. Therefore we KNOW he is a Nazi!
(apologies to all the folks of German descent -- my husband's last name is German and has two N's!)
Posted by: eve
at February 4, 2010 7:19 PM
"Speaking of the phone book, there are at least 100 "Glenn Beck" listings at the White Pages website"
I knew he had multiple personalities, but I didn't think he had that many. Must be some kind of record.
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 4, 2010 7:22 PM
The White Pages....Hm? He really is an ass. And I know what Bob means about wanting to punch him in the face. This is really mean and childish but, sometimes I wish he'd have throat surgery for a strained vocal chord or something and, instead of getting better, he lost the ability to speak. I often wish the same thing for Limbaugh and several duplicitous "Democratic" Senators, and that Independent douchebag. At least I've stopped wishing for their deaths! As I said, it's childish but, sometimes, so am I.
Posted by: roxsteady
at February 4, 2010 7:47 PM
My dad's parents emigrated from the Ukraine back in the early 1990's and I expect changed their last name a bit, but it was still unusual enough to get attention in elementary school. And since the Ukraine was still part of the USSR when I was in elementary school, I got all the usual taunts about being a commie, etc.
And since Beck is incapable of having an adult discussion about issues without crying, he has resorted to school-yard taunts like the big baby that he is. Someone needs to give him a wedgie.
Posted by: Kat
at February 4, 2010 7:48 PM
Kat,
You're one of those hot Russian babes?
:D
Posted by: Political Party Pooper
at February 4, 2010 8:08 PM
What a blatant appeal to the fringe racists Beck pulled on that one. We really have not come that far in this country, have we?
Posted by: Jim in Michigan
at February 4, 2010 8:18 PM
Maybe he used the name Barack because that's his fucking name......arghhhh. I can relate a little bit too because my middle name is Leroy and I was teased by racists back in my childhood who thought it was a black name.
Posted by: Jim in Michigan
at February 4, 2010 8:22 PM
Hot Ukrainian babe, PPP. They take the distinction very seriously.
Posted by: Kat
at February 4, 2010 8:28 PM
Fuck Glenn Beck.
Non-American? I'd love to grind his doughy face under my German boot. Fucking untermensch.
Pardon the language; as the son of an immigrant his brand of infantile nativism replaces my reason with pleasantly violent thoughts.
Posted by: Gottverdammt Klaus
at February 4, 2010 8:35 PM
I'm with Chez: if you say "Roberto Chess-kuh" (or even "pass the sugar" in Eye-talian) it sounds hot.
Posted by: jane
at February 4, 2010 8:44 PM
I wonder if he makes Rupert Murdoch sign his paychecks as Rob Murdock?
Posted by: twoeightnine
at February 4, 2010 9:03 PM
Hundreds of Glenn Becks?????? HOLY SHIT!!!!......Talk about your Dick Armey.......
Awarded: One fresh Internet.
Posted by: Dr. Squid
at February 4, 2010 9:41 PM
As someone with one of them funny sounding, apparently hard-to-pronounce and thoroughly un-American surnames, I say this to Mr. Beck, "FUCK YOU, you assclogged fuckhead douche and the teabag donkey fucks you rode in on!" Me and my size 11 steel toe boots and crispy sardonic wit would love to meet you alone in a dark alley...
Posted by: ZIRGAR
at February 4, 2010 10:31 PM
I always pronounce your name "CHESS-ca", Bob. In my mind. And to the people I rave to about your GD Awesome blog.
Speaking as one who re-claimed my Italian pronunciation of both my first and last names. Embrace it. It just sounds and feels better.
Sincerely yours,
~Vincenzo Tortorici
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at February 4, 2010 10:44 PM
What does it say about me that every time i see Glenn Becks face, I'd like to stick my size 13 Timberland as far up his ass as my leg will allow.
There is a special place in Hell for those who receive Rupert paychecks.
Posted by: dswagz
at February 4, 2010 11:41 PM
Meanings of barak and derivations from my Army-supplied copy (still smelling of Kuwaiti sand) of the Hans-Wehr Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic: to kneel, to bless, to invoke blessings, to sanction, to be blessed, to enjoy or find pleasure or delight, to ask a blessing, to seek a blessing, to be praised, to be sublime.
A bierka is a pool or small pond, which is a sacred item in desert cultures. Check the Old Testament and you'll find that poisoning a well was considered a crime against humanity by the Hebrews.
There are other nouns: a blessing or benediction, etc. There is a negation meaning "misfortune" or "bad luck."
When greeting an Arab with a new child, you should say "mabrook."
Methinks Glenn Beck has gone too far.
Posted by: Matt Osborne
at February 4, 2010 11:56 PM
Roberto Cesca (Chess-kuh) you are my hero! Damn, mf-ers like Beck make me so mad . . . these douchebag, ignorant ass conservatives are lucky progressives are more inclined to reason and discourse. If we were as violent as them, we'd beat their ass!
Posted by: Chad Burns
at February 5, 2010 10:12 AM
LMAO @ Curly Lasagna
Beck is such a fucking stain. I tell everyone I can about the time he called up a rival disc jockey's wife to make jokes about her recent miscarriage. Classy.
Posted by: iLLogicaL
at February 5, 2010 12:16 PM



