The Media

Manchurian Basket Case

Written by Bob Cesca

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.