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News & ArtsWednesday, September 23, 2009
Politics / Media Glenn Beckwatch: A Blast From the Past
Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:32 AM
Slog Tipper Ari wants us all to remember a time when we could take Glenn Beck and his no-nonsense ways seriously. This is back when he was in his element: gimmick-free, feathered, leather-jacket wearing and...WATCH OUT FOR THAT MONKEY, GLENN BECK!
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I wish that chimp would have eaten his face off...or strangled him and shoved his corpse in a wall.
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Isn't he really just doing the same thing now, just with a serial killer haircut and more weeping?
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And with all the cheesy ex-radio hosts, trashy ex-tabloid TV talking heads, and perma-blonde former beauty queens, and disgraced White House flunkies populating its ranks, it's clear that Fox Entertainment's standards for journalistic pedigree are positively blue ribbon.
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A couple days after Kelly’s wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, ‘We hear you had a miscarriage,’ ” remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. “When Terry said, ‘Yes,’ Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce [Kelly] apparently can’t do anything right — about he can’t even have a baby.
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OMG, I didn't realize that was him. I grew up listening to them. Tim Hattrick stuck around for a while, but I seem to remember his partner being John Geesie (sp?).
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Did Glenn Beckwatch catch his Katie Couric comment about how Obama (or Hillary) were better choices than McCain, yesterday? It had the right wing all confused for most of the day trying to decide how to react...
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I am told by someone who went to high school with that bastard that he consumed copius amounts of cocaine in the 80s. Please, op researchers, go find the evidence. Grainy photos, afadavits, whatever, it's gotta be there. Hypocritical fuckwad.
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@ 12 I think's it's been admitted to and is part of the public record. Salon has been doing a piece on ol' Glenn for the last 3 days. no one (on the right) seems to care.
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@12 - yeah, @13 is right. He's an admitted former alcoholic and substance abuser. Went to AA. Found religion. Etc.
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Really, the Salon.com 3-part series is very good stuff. It's long, but it's fun, kinda. Esp. part two, it makes morning zoo DJ competitiveness sound like something straight out of "Ron Burgundy." And yes, lots of the co-caine. (And nothing to disprove the rumors that he raped and murdered that girl.)
Part 1 (with links to 2 & 3):
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/0…
To me, the part that actually made me laugh was his weeks-long on-air invention of fictional, underground amusement park in Baltimore, which he got many people searching for on opening day and had the whole city abuzz with his antics. This made me chuckle for a few minutes, until I realized that he just did the same fuckin' thing with his "FEMA concentration camp!" story, but... that's not a harmless prank.
Two great sentences from part 3 today:
"Whatever humiliations he suffered, Orson Welles never dressed up as a banana."
and
"While the show is technically amateurish, Beck displays, even at this early stage in his crossover period, a surprisingly mature command of being both obstinate and uninformed."
Part 1 (with links to 2 & 3):
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/0…
To me, the part that actually made me laugh was his weeks-long on-air invention of fictional, underground amusement park in Baltimore, which he got many people searching for on opening day and had the whole city abuzz with his antics. This made me chuckle for a few minutes, until I realized that he just did the same fuckin' thing with his "FEMA concentration camp!" story, but... that's not a harmless prank.
Two great sentences from part 3 today:
"Whatever humiliations he suffered, Orson Welles never dressed up as a banana."
and
"While the show is technically amateurish, Beck displays, even at this early stage in his crossover period, a surprisingly mature command of being both obstinate and uninformed."
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Beck became a self-taught genius. He put books in every room so he could become well learned. And he didn't just read like you or I do. No, no. He read books that contradicted each other. In doing so, Glenn Beck became a well balanced juggernaut of knowledge. He has a few more adjectives than the F-word in his arsenal. Like the way people who don't like people want to stuff them in a wall, what pent-up hatred.
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