The Media

Manchurian Basket Case

Glenn Beck had one of his famous schizoid embolisms today. Among other things, he seriously claimed that the national debt is "one and a quarter quadrillion dollars." At around 2:47 in the video below, he totally loses his shpadoinkle and starts screaming and karate chopping his desk.

And finally, did you notice the teleprompter?

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Beck on March 25:

So I mean, it really bothers me, this teleprompter. … It bothers me that this man doesn’t — this man is always on prompter. You want to talk about a Manchurian candidate — that’s it! Who’s writing every word for this man? […] Is it bothering anyone else but me? We have a fraud in office, at least that’s the way it feels to me.