Absolute 100% proof Glenn Beck is Fed Agent to infiltrate patriot movement

[bigron]

[Here are the MSM headlines and articles using Glenn Beck as a supposed representation of patriots, contitutional militia, constitutionalists, ron paul original tea partiers, etc. Just read them and see how this guy is an obvious necessary hook to demonize an entire group of people]



Campaign to Pull Glenn Beck Off the Air Gains Momentum, Here and Abroad

Beck's Fox News show advertisers are dropping like flies. Will the ad exodus take him off-air, or will Fox continue to foot the bill for its propaganda goals?

By Daniela Perdomo, AlterNet
Posted on February 17, 2010, Printed on February 17, 2010
http://www.alternet.org/story/145708/

The movement to pressure Fox News into assessing the financial viability of Glenn Beck's controversial talk show is gaining steam -- particularly overseas. In the United Kingdom, as of Tuesday, Beck's show had run without a single paid advertisement for six days in a row.

Beck, whose popularity and infamy have grown due to his propensity to cry -- literally and figuratively -- for the state of America as he sees it, is the target of a couple of campaigns aimed at connecting the dots for advertisers who pay top dollar (and pounds) for commercials that run during his hourly TV show, which airs every weekday.

On Tuesday it was announced that British advertisers and viewers have resolutely rejected Beck's program, which has become notorious for spewing storylines that have a great deal of traction among right-wing groups. Famously, Beck claimed that Americorps, a federal program which funds community service work, is a covert plot to create a "civilian army" of community organizers -- apparently a terrifying prospect to right-wingers. He also called health care reform "Obama brand reparations" for blacks and Native Americans.

For nearly a week now, SkyNews, a News Corp.-owned channel that airs Fox News programs in Britain, has been running local weather updates and news headlines, instead of paid commercials in the ad slots that bookend Beck's show. This likely comes as a direct result of campaigns by both StopBeck.com and ColorofChange.org, which launched in July last year.

The campaigns were launched as a reaction to Beck's on-air claims that President Obama is a racist who "has a deep-seated hatred for white people." While the remarks actually came during a guest appearance on another Fox News program, "Fox & Friends," the two anti-Beck organizations viewed the incident as part of a "larger pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering" by Beck.

According to StopBeck.com, which organized the U.K. campaign, the number of dropped sponsors for the Glenn Beck show is now up to 116. ColorofChange.org, a Web-based grassroots civil rights group, says domestic dropped sponsors total around 96 or 97, though the number was certainly "well over 100" when adding on the dropped British sponsors.

The move to stop Beck mirrors the move last summer to banish Lou Dobbs from his program at CNN. The Basta Dobbs campaign, led by Presente.org, was fueled by widespread anger at Dobbs' relentlessly anti-immigrant rhetoric, which was bolstered by the same racist fears that fuel a lot of Beck's own hateful brand. By November last year, Dobbs had left CNN in what was officially labeled a resignation, but was probably influenced by the populist pressure to oust him.

While CNN said Dobbs was leaving to pursue his special form of "advocacy journalism," which was no longer in line with CNN's mission as a news organization, it's not necessarily clear that Fox News cares about putting up a newsy front. After all, as Dani McClain, a campaign manager at ColorofChange.org, points out, "Fox has a lot of gall to position itself as a news organization," particularly when advertisers are bowing out left and right. This shows "Fox is a propaganda machine, not a news outlet."

ColorofChange.org's anti-Beck petition has gathered over 285,000 signatures so far. And those numbers have brought results.

Among those who've been moved to drop their sponsorship of Beck's show is Best Western International. "As a global, family-oriented brand with guests of all persuasions and viewpoints, we seek to avoid any controversial programming, regardless of political affiliation," said the hotel chain's spokesman, Troy Rutman, adding that the company doesn't intend to have any additional ad placements during the program.

Other advertisers don't spell out exactly why they've left, instead using euphemisms. One of these is Starkist Co., whose representative Mary Sestric wrote in an e-mail to ColorsofChange.org, "We have chosen to not air our commercial during Glenn Beck's program going forward given a number of alternatives that meet our advertising plan's criteria."

Many who are bowing out claim they simply bought blocks of ad time on Fox News without ever specifying -- or prohibiting -- Beck's program. Nestlé USA spokesperson Cathy Johnson wrote in an e-mail, "Nestlé USA has family friendly programming guidelines in place that are routinely moderated and enforced. However, we are aware of a recent commercial that aired during the Glenn Beck show. Airing the spot on Fox and this program was an error that has been corrected."

"We hope that leadership at Fox will be forced to make a decision due to advertiser exodus," says Dani McClain. "Ideally, we'd like to see Beck at the low end of the AM dial where you hear a lot of people ranting and raving. Either Fox News acknowledges that they aren't a news outlet, or they get rid of Glenn Beck."

So far, it appears Fox News may be opting for the former. Running a one-hour program six days in a row without paid advertising is a money-losing move, but apparently Rupert Murdoch, the stalwart conservative scion who runs News Corp., finds it's worth footing the bill for Beck's time on British airwaves -- for now.

Here in the United States, Glenn Beck's show sports a very different roster of advertisers than it did last year. Ads for Tylenol, Pantene, Toyota-Lexus, Campbell Soup, K-Mart and any other number of household American brands have been replaced by ads for conservative organizations, companies hawking gold and precious metals (which Beck peddles himself), and direct-response advertisers selling all manner of products with unrecognizable brand names and act-now 1-800 number directives.

Fox News has long been considered an enemy of civil rights organizations, but as right-wing fringe movements such as the Birthers, Tea Partiers and Patriots gain steam, Glenn Beck has proven himself even more frightening than the likes of Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, the channel's long-time fear-mongers.

"We think [Beck's] language goes beyond the pale -- beyond what the others are saying," McClain said. "We are specifically concerned about the rhetoric he uses around race. He taps into a fear in this time of economic instability, and he's playing on paranoia and fears that do exist in American society and taking advantage of them."

The question now is whether Glenn Beck's remaining advertisers will react to consumer anger about their financial backing of his hate talk -- or if Beck's gold-pushing and Fox's propaganda goals will be enough to keep him on TV.


Daniela Perdomo is a staff writer and editor of the Progressive Wire and Investigations at AlterNet. Follow her on Twitter. Write her at danielaalternet [at] gmail [dot] com.

© 2010 Independent Media Institute. All rights reserved.
View this story online at: http://www.alternet.org/story/145708/

[bigron]

Beck’s plan for captured Taliban leader: ‘Shoot him in the head’

By David Edwards and Daniel Tencer
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 -- 1:00 pm
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/beck-shoot-taliban-in-head/

The Taliban may be disputing that their number-two, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, was captured by US and Pakistani intelligence earlier this month, but that hasn't stopped Glenn Beck from passing judgment on how the US should handle the situation.

"Shoot him in the head," the radio and TV personality declared on Fox & Friends Tuesday.

"We've just captured the second most wanted guy in Al Qaeda," Beck said, evidently referring to the Taliban leader. "The first thing out of my mind -- shoot him in the head. Shoot him in the head before it goes into a court and we're doing all this nonsense back and forth. He's a bad guy. Shoot him in the head."

"You would shoot him before they even try to get information?" co-host Gretchen Carlson asked.

"If I were in charge, we'd be interrogating him," Beck replied. "And we'd interrogate him, and interrogate him, and interrogate him and then we'd shoot him in the head. ... Shoot him in the head before we all of a sudden release him into, what? Primary schools in New York City? What are we going to do with this guy?"


Like many other Fox News personalities, Beck has been harshly critical of the Obama administration's approach to prosecuting terrorists.

But his loud style, on display Tuesday morning on Fox & Friends, is now making him the subject of a number of biographies.

Washington Post reporter Dana Milbank is writing Tears of a Clown, a biography-slash-primer on Beck, reports Michael Calderone at Politico. In a profile last month, Milbank wrote that "in terms of the political culture, [Beck is] more parasite than host. Yet, by any measure, he's had a huge impact on the body politic."

Milbank described Beck as "the first true demagogue of the information age."

Calderone notes that Milbank isn't the only one writing a book on Beck this year. Salon writer Alexander Zaitchik has Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance.

"Beck, a perverse and high-impact media spectacle, has emerged as a leader in a conservative protest movement that raises troubling questions about the health of American democracy," the book's publisher states.

This video is from Fox News' Fox & Friends, broadcast Feb. 16, 2010.
http://rawreplaymedia.com/media/2010/1002/fox_ff_beck_detainee_100216a.flv

[Triadtropz]

I saw beck say this yesterday morning....he's crazed.

[Georgiacopguy]

Yeah, he's violent, hate filled, and vile. I hate watching his shit, but its best to know ones enemy...I just hate his crap comes on so close to lunch and dinner.

[Triadtropz]

..I just hate his crap comes on so close to lunch and dinner.

LOL....I watch him at dinner time he makes some good points about the Obama progressive movement...

[Georgiacopguy]

Yeah, but then he offsets what he said with his other tripe.

[bigron]

Maddow Slams Glenn Beck For Accusing Her Of Lying (VIDEO)

First Posted: 02-17-10 09:16 AM   |   Updated: 02-17-10 09:43 AM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/maddow-slams-glenn-beck-f_n_465331.html

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow called out Glenn Beck last night for denying that he ever said that snowstorms disprove global warming, and for accusing her of lying about him on the air.

Beck accused Maddow of selectively editing his words to make him appear to say something he didn't, but when he played back the tape of her to prove his point, he cut out the part where she gave the evidence for him saying that snowstorms disprove climate change.

Maddow ended the segment on a somber note:

[Beck] has made a lot of people very afraid about a lot of things, and that tried and true stratgey has reaped big financial rewards for him and Fox News. I think it's between you and your god or you and your conscience as to how much you're willing to stir up Americans' fear and prejudice for profit. But it's between you and me when you accuse me of lying.
WATCH:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/17/maddow-slams-glenn-beck-f_n_465331.html

[bigron]

Seth MacFarlane On Bill Maher Responds To Sarah Palin's Criticism Of Family Guy


http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Seth-MacFarlane-On-Bill-Maher-R

[John_Back_From_The_Club_O]

When GB first appeared on the big 'blow torch' radio I didn't need anyone teling me this guy wasa fraud.  As time went on I always got the sense he would go the way of Howard Stern.

I felt he would be FALSELY packaged and sold as this 'rebel hero' archetype.  Getting him kicked off the air will ONLY give the guy more attention and mileage then he deserves.

If he gets kicked off FOX expect to hear him on Sirrus.

[bigron]

Posted by Amanda Terkel at 5:19 pm
February 23, 2010
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/02/23/right-wing-backlash-to-glenn-beck/

Right-Wing Backlash to Glenn Beck?


This post was originally published on Think Progress.

Over the weekend, Fox News host Glenn Beck delivered a spirited speech to the crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference, where he attacked not only his usual villains — Democrats, Van Jones, and the New Deal — but also the Republican Party, which is supposedly becoming too progressive.


Beck may have received a standing ovation at the convention, but many high-profile conservatives have been less enthusiastic about his GOP criticism. Right-wing pundit Bill Bennett wrote, “The first task of a serious political analyst is to see things as they are. … And there is a difference between the Republican and Democratic parties. To ignore these differences, or propagate the myth that they don’t exist, is not only discouraging, it is dangerous.” The Wall Street Journal’s John Fund said that several Republicans “complained that Mr. Beck is indirectly encouraging third-party candidates to challenge them this year, threatening to divide the conservative vote.”

One of the most prominent voices to jump into the fray is popular right-wing radio host and author Mark Levin, who went on Facebook yesterday and ripped Beck:

I have no idea what philosophy Glenn Beck is promoting. And neither does he. It’s incoherent. One day it’s populist, the next it’s libertarian bordering on anarchy, next it’s conservative but not really, etc. And to what end? I believe he has announced that he is no longer going to endorse candidates because our problems are bigger than politics. Well, of course, our problems are not easily dissected into categories, but to reject politics is to reject the manner in which we try to organize ourselves. [..]

Finally, Beck is fond of congratulating himself for being the only or the first host to criticize George Bush’s spending. This is demonstrably false. … And as someone who fought liberal Republicans in the trenches when campaigning for Reagan in 1976 and 1980, I don’t need lectures from Beck, who was nowhere to be found, about big-spending Republicans.

On his radio show yesterday, Levin added, “Decide what you are. A circus clown, self-identified. Or a thoughtful and wise person. It’s hard to be both. You can’t wear the clown nose and not wear the clown nose at the same time.” He also told Beck to “stop dividing” conservatives at a time when there is unprecedented “unity” in the movement. Listen here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdaTAjwf91k&feature=player_embedded


Levin has been worried about Beck’s ascendancy for some time. In September, Levin repeatedly spoke out when Beck said that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) would have been “worse for the country than Barack Obama” as president, saying, “If you’re not going to be politically sensible and have a strategy and have an end-game, you’ll keep winding up on weekly magazines, you’ll keep making a lot of money, but in the end you won’t make a difference.”

UPDATE

Limbaugh also criticized Beck, saying, “I don’t know how you can say…that the Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats. It would never occur to me to say that. I don’t know what the objective would be.”

[Georgiacopguy]

About time somebody else called him out on his waffling, imprecise, co-opted bullshit.

[bigron]

Rush Limbaugh rebukes Glenn Beck — for attacking Republicans

By Sahil Kapur
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 -- 9:21 am
http://rawstory.com/2010/02/limbaugh-hits-beck-criticizing-republicans/

Fox News host Glenn Beck has been a central target of liberals -- they've even pushed to have advertisers boycott his show for allegedly racist comments he made last year. But now he's getting it from the right. Specifically: Rush Limbaugh.

The Associated Press noted that in Beck's CPAC keynote address, "The conservative commentator [Beck] drew cheers from conservative activists Saturday night in a speech that implored Republicans to renounce profligate ways in Washington, let big banks fail and honor true conservative principles."

Beck said the GOP should confess to its spending problem the way Tiger Woods admitted to having a problem with women.

Limbaugh's response was gentler than he's shown himself to be in the past, but a rare and surefire pushback against the Fox host.

"I would not have said that the only people who can stop Obama should be excoriated for being just as bad," he said according to Mediaite. "It would never occur to me to say that. I don’t know what the objective would be."

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Limbaugh usually doesn't hold back on his criticisms of others, but chose his words carefully when pushing back against the conservative lightning rod and Fox host whose popularity has surged in the last year.

Unlike Beck, who has delivered scathing critiques of Republicans in the past, Limbaugh generally operates closer to party lines.

"I feel liberated," Limbaugh said after Democrats won control of Congress in 2006. "I no longer am going to have to carry the water for people who I don't think deserve having their water carried."

Mark Levin, also a popular conservative radio host, issued Beck a similar warning for criticizing the GOP. "Stop dividing us," he said. "Republicans deserve reinforcements."

While Beck has in recent months lambasted the Wall Street bailout as an example of the GOP's spendthrift ways, he repeatedly defended the policy immediately after the 2008 collapse when President Bush first implemented it.

"I think the bailout is the right thing to do," Beck said on his Fox show days after the meltdown. He echoed the same stance at a later day.

The following video is from Limbaugh's radio show, snipped by Mediaite.
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[America2]

Try telling this to Rapture Ready

[worcesteradam]

finally Glenn Beck is on the right side of the argument

[Georgiacopguy]

You meant correct, correct? He is as far from the right as he is the middle. In fact we should make a whole new political category for him. The asshole fringe. Glenn Beck, founding member of the asshole fringe movement... I like it, lets print the shirts. Lulz

finally Glenn Beck is on the right side of the argument

[worcesteradam]

yea, sort of

if he is upsetting the establishment republican right, it will be interesting to see what happens

[Georgiacopguy]

I hope they eat their own personally. I'd like to see a seasoned citizen (kudos Rush... lulz... get it, two Rush references in one sentence....lmao) like Rush tear into and devour Beck in one pill popping bite(three references).

[TheCaliKid]

You reap what you sow. Beck will be a nobody in a few years - he pretty much already is.

[sc10000]

Beck is finished. Goodbye dirtbag & enjoy your $50 million.

[bigron]

[Here are the MSM headlines and articles using Glenn Beck as a supposed representation of patriots, contitutional militia, constitutionalists, ron paul original tea partiers, etc. Just read them and see how this guy is an obvious necessary hook to demonize an entire group of people]



Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?

Posted by Amy Sullivan Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:40 am
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?xid=huffpo-direct

When Glenn Beck told listeners of his radio show on March 2 that they should "run as fast as you can" from any church that preached "social or economic justice" because those were code words for Communism and Nazism, he probably thought he was tweaking a few crunchy religious liberals who didn't listen to the show anyway. Instead he managed to outrage Christians in most mainline Protestant denominations, African-American congregations, Hispanic churches, and Catholics--who first heard the term "social justice" in papal encyclicals and have a little something in their tradition called "Catholic social teaching." (Not to mention the teaching of a certain fellow from Nazareth who was always blathering on about justice...)

He also managed to bring the National Council of Churches--once a powerful umbrella organization for Christian churches--out from hibernation, in the form of a withering response from leader Peg Chemberlin. Progressive evangelical leader Jim Wallis, taking a page from his conservative counterparts, is calling for Christians to boycott Beck's shows. And Beck has given the folks who come up with slogans every week for church signs plenty of material to work with.After initially doubling-down on his statements, Beck is now trying to walk them back somewhat, making a distinction between religious injunctions for individuals to help the poor and the broader notion that society has an obligation to care for the "least of these." But as religious scholar and blogger Mark Silk points out, that's not what Beck's own tradition--the Latter-Day Saints--believes:

"Not to belabor the point, but the Judeo-Christian tradition from which Beck's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints springs expects the poor to be provided for as a matter of public law. And indeed, in the days when the LDS Church ran its corner of North America as a theocracy, that's just what it did."

And Philip Barlow, a professor of Mormon history at Utah State University, told the New York Times that, "One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it's a vast tract on social justice," adding, "A lot of Latter-Day Saints would think that Beck was asking them to leave their own church."

The term "Social Gospel" has been considered a dirty phrase by conservatives for a while now. But if that's what Beck meant, he has quickly learned the consequences of sloppy language. And in any event, he has certainly discovered the dangers of publicly practicing theology without a license.



Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?xid=huffpo-direct#ixzz0iFKlQhmb

[Dok]

Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?

Because hes Mormon. duh.

[Celticknot]

Well...Glenn Beck said " Run as fast you can from any church preaching social or economic justice." No where did I see that Glenn Beck said he hated Jesus.

It's called putting words in people's mouths and putting thoughts in their head. I suggest you stay out of that arena...

Why Does Glenn Beck Hate Jesus?

Posted by Amy Sullivan Sunday, March 14, 2010 at 4:40 am
http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?xid=huffpo-direct

When Glenn Beck told listeners of his radio show on March 2 that they should "run as fast as you can" from any church that preached "social or economic justice" because those were code words for Communism and Nazism, he probably thought he was tweaking a few crunchy religious liberals who didn't listen to the show anyway. Instead he managed to outrage Christians in most mainline Protestant denominations, African-American congregations, Hispanic churches, and Catholics--who first heard the term "social justice" in papal encyclicals and have a little something in their tradition called "Catholic social teaching." (Not to mention the teaching of a certain fellow from Nazareth who was always blathering on about justice...)

He also managed to bring the National Council of Churches--once a powerful umbrella organization for Christian churches--out from hibernation, in the form of a withering response from leader Peg Chemberlin. Progressive evangelical leader Jim Wallis, taking a page from his conservative counterparts, is calling for Christians to boycott Beck's shows. And Beck has given the folks who come up with slogans every week for church signs plenty of material to work with.After initially doubling-down on his statements, Beck is now trying to walk them back somewhat, making a distinction between religious injunctions for individuals to help the poor and the broader notion that society has an obligation to care for the "least of these." But as religious scholar and blogger Mark Silk points out, that's not what Beck's own tradition--the Latter-Day Saints--believes:

"Not to belabor the point, but the Judeo-Christian tradition from which Beck's Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints springs expects the poor to be provided for as a matter of public law. And indeed, in the days when the LDS Church ran its corner of North America as a theocracy, that's just what it did."

And Philip Barlow, a professor of Mormon history at Utah State University, told the New York Times that, "One way to read the Book of Mormon is that it's a vast tract on social justice," adding, "A lot of Latter-Day Saints would think that Beck was asking them to leave their own church."

The term "Social Gospel" has been considered a dirty phrase by conservatives for a while now. But if that's what Beck meant, he has quickly learned the consequences of sloppy language. And in any event, he has certainly discovered the dangers of publicly practicing theology without a license.



Read more: http://swampland.blogs.time.com/2010/03/14/why-does-glenn-beck-hate-jesus/?xid=huffpo-direct#ixzz0iFKlQhmb

[bigron]

Glenn Beck ‘has teared up’ during rehearsals, staffers say


By Sahil Kapur
Monday, March 15th, 2010 -- 1:20 pm

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/glenn-beck-cries-rehearsing-staffers/ 

Glenn Beck received a mix of mockery and intrigue last year after crying several times on camera during his Fox News program. Now, the conservative lightning rod's assistants reportedly say he sheds the occasional tear even while rehearsing for the show.

In a Post feature story about the controversial Fox host, Howard Kurtz writes, "Some staffers say they have watched rehearsals, on internal monitors, in which Beck has teared up or paused at the same moments as he later did during the show."

Observers have speculated that his crying may simply be an act to boost ratings. But according to the Chris Balfe, president of Beck's production company Mercury Radio Arts, the fact that Beck does it both on and off camera is a mark of his sincerity.

"Glenn reacts the same way to issues whether he knows people are watching or not, and is proud to show his emotions, unlike the cowardly, two-faced critics who hide behind anonymity," Balfe told Kurtz.

Beck has wept on his show when discussing his love for America and separately while pining for a "simpler time."

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"Love him or hate him, Beck is a talented, often funny broadcaster, a recovering alcoholic with an unabashedly emotional style," wrote Kurtz.

His on-camera crying was met with so much fascination and amusement that somebody created a Facebook fan page called "Seeing Glenn Beck Cry." Armed with an image of the right-wing host weeping, it currently has 390 members.

Comedian and faux conservative Stephen Colbert mocked Beck's tear-ups last April by pretending to be choked up about it: "I'm sorry. I just love Glenn Beck's sanity -- and I fear for it."

Kurtz writes about how Beck's "blinding burst of stardom" since the election of Barack Obama has overshadowed most of Fox News, alleging it's a worrying point for some in the organization who believe he's becoming the "face of the network."

"Beck has become a constant topic of conversation among Fox journalists, some of whom say they believe he uses distorted or inflammatory rhetoric that undermines their credibility," Kurtz notes.

[jofortruth]

Then Beck, get a job where you don't have to lie to Americans, if you love America so much!   It's time to grow up and find who your real loyalty should be to, and quit serving the elite who are hell bent on destroying YOUR COUNTRY! The same goes for everyone in the Media who spouts lies to the people on behalf of your MASTERS. Do you guys love being slaves or what? 

If you guys love your Country, then leave your job and start a news organization that will truly serve the public, instead of working for the Elite who only tell us what they want us to know and lie incessantly!

[New Whirled Order]

I'd cry on demand too if I was getting paid $50,000,000 like Beck.

[Dig]

ONE OF THE BEST VIDEO SEGMENTS OF ALL TIME...


Colbert weeps for Glenn Beck's sanity
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/glenn-beck-cries-rehearsing-staffers/../../../news/2008/Colbert_weeps_for_Glenn_Becks_sanity_0401.html
David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Wednesday April 1, 2009

Glenn Beck of Fox News astonished many viewers recently when he repeatedly reduced himself to tears while announcing his "9.12 Project" to save the nation.

However, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert expressed only pleasure with Beck's performance.

"My Glenn Beck fantasy came true," Colbert announced on Tuesday. "The fantasy where a hysterical Glenn Beck tells his audience of desperate shut-ins through tears and spittle that vague unnamed enemies have failed them and that it's time to take angry action."

"Are you ready to be that person that you were that day after 9/11?" Beck tearfully asked his audience.

Colbert helpfully explained that Beck is attempting to get us to move "beyond the fear we felt on 9/11 to the compassion we felt on 9/12. And hopefully, we'll all eventually get to the way Glenn felt on 9/9 of 2005."

On that date, Beck said, "You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families. ... When I see a 9/11 victim family on television of whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."

"Good point!" Colbert exclaimed, as his audience gasped in shock. "The 9.12 Project is not for families directly affected by 9/11 -- just people building their careers on it."

"I'm sorry," Beck apologized during another of his bouts of weeping. "I just love my country -- and I fear for it."

This heartfelt declaration choked Colbert up as well. "I'm sorry," he gasped. "I just love Glenn Beck's sanity -- and I fear for it."

Colbert then announced his own forthcoming 10.31 Project -- which apparently involves ghosts, witches, jack o' lanterns, and bats in the belfry. "Go house to house on your block," he urged his audience, "ring doorbells, and demand that your neighbors make a tangible commitment to America -- preferably in the form of a sugary treat."

This video is from Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, broadcast Mar. 31, 2009.




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[g1rlg0ne]

On that date, Beck said, "You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families. ... When I see a 9/11 victim family on television of whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."

Oh my! I never knew he said that! I generally tend to avoid him like the plague. That's DISGUSTING, though. I mean, THAT...ugh...disgusting and "un-American."

[fireflyblue711]

Glen cries for Vick's Vapor Rub -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g

this article has to be a joke - it's known that he uses this to "tear up"

[wfy9621]

Just a few years ago, his whole modus operandi was to pant and sweat about the Muslim threat every day. Every day.

[bigron]

Posted by Tana Ganeva at 12:59 pm
March 15, 2010
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/03/15/everyone-at-fox-hates-glenn-beck-too-advertisers-drop-network-because-of-him/

Everyone At Fox Hates Glenn Beck Too

Fox News staffers who are somehow still convinced they work for a journalism outfit are worried about what Glenn Beck is doing to the Fox News brand, according to Howard Kurtz’ media notes today:

With his celebrity fueled by a Time cover story, best-selling books, cheerleading role at protest rallies and steady stream of divisive remarks, Beck is drawing big ratings. But there is a deep split within Fox between those — led by Chairman Roger Ailes — who are supportive, and many journalists who are worried about the prospect that Beck is becoming the face of the network.

Beck has become a constant topic of conversation among Fox journalists, some of whom say they believe he uses distorted or inflammatory rhetoric and that undermines their credibility.


It’s not just Fox’s sterling reputation that’s at stake though. Several boycott campaigns have scared off tons of advertisers from Beck’s show, so despite his high ratings — Beck’s numbers often surpass Hannity’s and are  topped only by O’Reilly’s (who has a better time slot) — he has come to rely on smaller companies and weird shit like Goldline International. Fox has always implausibly claimed that advertiser boycotts geared at Beck don’t hurt the network because the ad time just goes to other shows (odd that, since Beck’s time slot should be worth more money) According to Kurtz though, several large companies have entirely pulled their advertising from network because of Beck, including Apple. Kurtz also says network executives believe they’d get higher ad rates if Beck didn’t terrify advertisers.

Roger Ailes is still  a big fan though, according to the piece. Bill O’Reilly is also not above exploiting Beck’s popularity, inviting Beck to co-headline his (unfortunately titled) Bold & Fresh tour, and promoting him on his show.  How long can Beck ply his schtick till there are real consequences at the network?

[John Bannon]

Fox’s sterling reputation ? 

[bigron]

Best. Daily Show. Ever? Jon Stewart parodies Glenn Beck




http://rawstory.com/2010/03/daily-show-jon-stewart-parodies-glenn-beck/

[gorky]

That was funny!

[ImJustAPatsy]

Stewart did a bit on Beck a few months back that was pretty funny. South Park also did a great bit on Beck. Glenn Beck is such a twit. The whole chalkboard thing is such an insulting gimmick, I think. It shows that the people who follow him are idiots, because he has to spell everything out for them in some condensed, nonsensical history lesson full of misrepresented facts and down right lies. Then when someone listens to him and blows up something, he can distance himself from that persons actions because he doesn't advocate violence, when in the same breath he's saying, "WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING. WAKE UP AMERICA. THROW THE BUMS OUT! DO WHATEVER IT TAKES!"

I'd like Glenn Beck's address so I can send him some tissues and a box of tampons.

[agentbluescreen]

That was funny!

Oh Yes indeed, Evil, Vicious, Criminal, Satanic, Luciferian, Beelzebub-like, Metastasizing, Malignant, Fascist, Social justice-like, Communist, Nazi, Hitler-like, Aushwitz-like, Marx-like, Mussolini-like, Lenin-like, Stalinesque, Bush-like, Reagan-like, FDR-like, Maoist, Polpotian, Castroist, Islamist, Baathist, Regulatarian, Bloodthirsty, Cancerous, Radical Control Freak:

TOTALITARIAN PROGRESSIVISM!


OMG John should have a veritable ball with Alex Jones lately!

"Save us from the bloodthirsty communist nurses and doctors in black armored communist ambulances and black storm troop Satan suits coming after us with 'free" MEDICINE!!!! To have their way with our wives and daughters!"

LOL

Just a word to the wise, this ridiculous crazed Ron Paul-diseased "neo-libertarianist" nonsense is getting both humiliating and embarrassing.

[phosphene]

If immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then John Sttewart did a 15 minute, commercial-free, advertisement for Glenn Beck. I found the whole thing very weird.

[Damascus]

Beck is making a lot of real things ridiculous, while John then makes the slam dunk on the whole misrepresented truth movement.

[agentbluescreen]

If immitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then John Sttewart did a 15 minute, commercial-free, advertisement for Glenn Beck. I found the whole thing very weird.

It was pure satire, he totally destroyed Glennda and her sicko cointel disinfo propaganda pulpit.

[phosphene]

It was pure satire, he totally destroyed Glennda and her sicko cointel disinfo propaganda pulpit.

That bit was a Glenn Beck advertisement, disguised as satire.

I call it the "sour milk" syndrome. "ewwww, this milk is sour.....try it!" Don't want to try the sour milk for yourself? Then I'll give you a 15 minute long detailed description about exactly why this milk is sour. Why is John Stewart talking about sour milk? because he wants you to try it for yourself.

[ImJustAPatsy]

I don't think people on these boards have much of a sense of humor