Gawker's "Best of Beck" clip compilation

There are a few moments they missed, but THIS clip compilation affords a good summary of Beck thus far.

Slate on Beck

There is a new Slate piece on the impact and the appeal of Glenn Beck HERE.

It's essentially a bio of Beck, detailing his morning zoo/shock jock days and how that translated, via CNN of all places, into the current FOX News coup. There are some links to some good YouTube clips, but nothing like you would have found here. :)

Green room - or rubber room?

Watching a trainwreck

The Tennessean ran an article that openly wondered: Why does anyone watch Glenn Beck?

Beck is appointment television for Robert Lehman, a stay-at-home dad who lives in Wichita, Kan. He's a regular even though he's a Democrat who considers Beck a "nut."

"It's very difficult to describe why you watch him," Lehman said. "But it is captivating. It's an interesting show and it moves very quickly."

Lehman had it right in the first quoted paragraph:



The Tennessean continues:

Except for Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, Beck has more viewers than any other cable news show, and he's on at a time many people are at work.

This isn't the first time Beck's popularity among the unemployed, and/or shut-ins, has been noted. Hmm.

Beck confusingly claims "protests out in the streets" urged by foreigners...

... and he claimed this only a few days removed from his own promotion of the tax day tea-bagging protests.

You see, Beck not only hosted his own tea bagging rally in San Antonio, Texas, but at that time he also discussed Texas' secession from the United States.

GLENN BECK: [I]f you don't think that some of these Marxist revolutionary courses that are being taught out in California, the Marxist revolutionary influences in our own unions, in our own businesses, in our own uh, you know, protests out in the streets -- if you think those are spontaneously happening by Americans, you're an idiot.

Yes, you're an idiot if you don't know that Marxists and foreigners are behind "protests out in the streets" in America. But ... are these excluding or including the protests Glenn Beck is involved in...? Let me guess!

Glenn Beck chats with Texas governor, who floats possibility of Texas secession

For the heavily FOX-promoted, corporate lobby-sponsored tax day "tea parties" across the US, Glenn Beck spoke with Texas governor Rick Perry. Perry as of late has been floating the idea of Texas seceding from the union while affirming that if the tea parties are full of "right-wing extremists [...] I am right there with you."

BECK: You know, I talked to the governor earlier today, and I don't know how popular or not popular he is here, but I tell you, his words ring true to an awful lot of people not just in Texas, but I think a lot of people all around the country. There are movements -- they've taken the original documents between James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, and in several states, I believe it's 23 now, they are passing this in their legislature, which says you don't have any more rights in the Constitution than those that are outlined, and federal government, you need to back off.

VAN SUSTEREN: You know, from here, Glenn, listening to Governor Perry last night and watching your crowd and listening to the things that are coming out of Texas -- I don't want to be too dramatic, but it almost seems like Texas is going to secede from the rest of the nation.

BECK: I mean, I don't know (INAUDIBLE) can we get this (INAUDIBLE) back here? This is on the jib (ph) back over here. This says, Texas independence. Greta, what most people don't understand is I lived in Texas for about four years, and I have to tell you, when you first come down to Texas, you're, like, OK, the boots and the hats and the horns on the car on the car, and within -- within a year, you want the boots and the hats and the horns on your car. And the reason is -- correct me if I'm wrong -- these people love America. They just think Texas does America best!

Transcript here.

Texas news station WFAA reported: "Fox News talk-show host Glenn Beck is broadcasting from the Alamo in San Antonio, where rocker Ted Nugent will perform the national anthem."

The crowd here was excited to see the live broadcast of the Glenn Beck Show. Beck is the suddenly popular Fox News commentator who, depending on who you ask, is either the symptom or the salvation of a sick society. "He don't sugar coat the truth," Jim White, a native south Texan said. "Oh my god, oh my god, there he is! I love Glenn Beck!" a woman in a U.S. Marine Corps t-shirt yelled as she ran towards the cable news celebrity.

[Source.]

Joy.

Tea Party day

Not the meltdown I was hoping for...

...but I'll take it!

Man passes out on the Glenn Beck show as he explains the economic crisis:



Wow.

This gets weirder and weirder.

Go here for more info.

Glenn Beck comedy tour commercial :(

Dear God kill me now!!!

:(

You will read the following and think to yourself, "Surely this must be an Onion article?" And then a little part of you will die inside when you click the link below and realize that no, no it is not an Onion article.

Fox's Glenn Beck announces comedy tour
By DAVID BAUDER
Sun Apr 12, 10:56 am ET

NEW YORK – Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel's latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the first week of June.

Beck calls his act a "poor man's Seinfeld" and intends to mix topical humor with his modern-day reimagining of Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense."

More here.

Glenn Beck douses guest in gasoline

Look, just watch.

Speaking of butt hurt, that is how Michael Savage feels re: Glenn Beck

The last Glenn Beck Blubber Watch post reminded readers how Glenn Beck had - according to his own televised admission - become suicidal after having surgery on his hemorrhoids. Beck referred to this as his "ass surgery" on TV.

Now conservative radio host Michael Savage says he is butt hurt, too. But it's because he feels Glenn Beck - whom Savage refers to as the "hemorrhoid with eyes" - has plagiarized his shtick:



Savage also suspects Beck will have an on-air meltdown any day. Maybe he reads this blog? :)

This video is from Media Matters, with a hat tip to Shane!

Glenn Beck's traumatic "ass surgery" [sic] almost led to suicide, he says

Why do conservative commentators always end up having medical issues with their bums?

Columnist and Bush White House press secretary Tony Snow contracted colon cancer. Rush Limbaugh got out of Vietnam by having his private doctor tell the Army he had an anal cyst. And Glenn Beck, too, had what he referred to on his show as "ass surgery."



Gawker has video of a bedridden Glenn recounting his eye-opening, traumatic hinder surgery, which he says caused him to reflect on "the real meaning of compassion."

The most dramatic part of the monologue in the Gawker video starts at about 3:54. It is here.

"I had one of the darker moments of my life. And I've, you know, had some pretty dark times. [Bawww?] .. This stuff took me into places that, uh, started on Thursday ... and by Sunday night I was, uh, full-fledged suicidal. [Bawww?] And if they had come in Saturday night with a handgun and told me I could have taken more medicine or blown my brains out, I would have just taken the handgun. And ended it."

Yep, ass surgery.

Glenn Beck's muppet noises

This speaks for itself.

"The Glenn Beck Apocalypse"

Stephen Colbert addresses Glenn Beck's emotional instability, Part 2

Stephen Colbert announces his own "10/31" project to complement Glenn Beck's ludicrously maudlin "9/12" project.

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Glenn Beck almost - ALMOST! - has the mother of all meltdowns on his "9/12" show

Paranoid conservatives: YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!!! Glenn nobly soldiers on under the oppressive communist regime under which we all now live, rallying his, uh, "troops." "From all across the political spectrum." Riiigght.

This includes Chuck Norris.

Indeed, notice how Glenn almost loses his shit exactly after they show Chuck Norris on live camera.

Anyway, this is the closest Glenn has come to having a full-fledged televised meltdown. Get out your popcorn. Once Glenn has his total meltdown -- and it's only a matter of time -- this blog will call it a day.

So, come on, Glenn. Do it! Do it!



Okay, so what is up with his shoes here?

Stephen Colbert addresses Glenn Beck, Part 1

I'm glad I'm not the only one who's noticed how bizarre Beck's behavior has been.

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Even Joe Scarborough thinks Beck is a bit much

On MSNBC's show The Morning Joe, a panel of folks discussed Glenn Beck's predilection for maudlin displays of choked-up emotion.

Enjoy as even bona fide conservative Joe Scarborough stifles laughter at Beck's near-breakdowns:

The Young Turks debate the sincerity of Glenn Beck's emotional moments

Does Glenn Beck really get all choked up with sentimentality when he starts to lose his shit on air, or is it a manipulative, evangelical, Jimmy Swaggart kind of thing?

The Young Turks debated this recently. I am with host Cenk Uygur; I think Beck's quavering displays are emotion are real. His co-host does not.

You be the judge:

Glenn Beck almost loses it in early February

Professional broadcasting at its finest.

Glenn begins to "BAAWWW!!" at about 18 seconds.

Enjoy.



Beck: "I made a promise to [the missing girl's] father. However, I had to break that promise. Because I am working at a network [FOX?] that will follow through on that story. I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares - BAWWWW! - I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country!"

Not to worry: no one thinks you're a journalist, Glenn. And if anyone reading this can decipher what he said above, get in touch!

Glenn Beck's 1st show on FOX: Big surprise - he almost baawwws

Glenn Beck launched his new show on FOX with special guest Sarah Palin.

While introducing Governor Palin, Beck chokes up. On his very first FOX show.

The barely-restrained "BAWWWWW" starts at 16 seconds. Enjoy.