GOING CRAZY WITH GLENN BECK

"I was a dirtbag and liar, but I'm not now!"

Glenn Beck has problems. After screaming, weeping, and ranting that Obama was a racist who hated whites and white culture, several sponsors dropped his show--but that's not what I mean. What I mean is Beck is nuts. Whacko, crazy, off his rocker, cuckoo for Coco Puffs. Watch him give this weirdly disoriented self-serving rant that verges on evangelical testifying. He sounds like a character in "Idiocracy," a comedy set in the not too distant future where idiots rule, and the population has been dumbed down to a manageable level.

How bad could it be? He's on the cover of Time Magazine, though probably not under the best of circumstances. Read Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America? at Time.

According to Beck, he quit the booze and bad behavior and saw the light. According to Harper's, he shares plenty of characteristics with patients in Katherine van Wormer’s Addiction Treatment: A Strengths Perspective, a book that "summarizes the professional literature with respect to dry drunks by identifying a number of recurrent traits, including an exaggerated self-importance or pomposity; grandiose behavior; a rigid, judgmental outlook; impatience; regressive infantile behavior; irresponsible behavior; irrational rationalization; projection; and overreaction."

Sounds about right.

(Read this story on Beck in Harper's, and another here.)


Recently, Salon ran a feature called "The Making of Glenn Beck." Evidently, he lied about his history of trouble and redemption, the cornerstone of the Beck myth. He fudged some facts, you could say. Loud and obnoxious from the start, he worked his way through the annoying world of morning drive-time--"zoo radio culture"--zig-zagging through drink and drugs and a nicely fictionalized biography as he barked and cried his way to becoming a leading conservative pundit on Fox News. Read the article at Salon.

Here's another clip (courtesy of The Young Turks) in which Beck goes nuts on a caller about health care. Clearly, Beck is not well. Looks like he could use some health care himself--more specifically, mental health care. I'm sure he can afford it.

TEABAGGING THE TEABAGGERS

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Jon Stewart takes on the teabaggers in this clip from the Daily Show. Just so you know where we stand, we believe health care should be a right and not a luxury. Call us liberal, but we don't think people should die because they lack money.

COUNTERPOINT:

Of course, there's another side to the story, and here are a couple "teabaggers" to present their perspective:

Selfishness is always a selling point for morons--that is, until they get some debilitating disease that threatens their meager savings, and then they'll be first in line for Medicare, Medicaid, all that "socialist" jazz they're crying about. Talk is cheap. Empathy might be too much to ask, but give this guy an impacted wisdom tooth and he'd probably join the fricking Red Army for some Novocaine.

This guy is scary. I don't know where to begin with his idiotic sign. Is it racist, antisemitic, historically ignorant--or all of the above? They used to call these types "The Lunatic Fringe." They come out of their caves every so often to fight against integration, against fluoridation, against the abolition of slavery, against witches. Their world is changing and it scares them shitless. We've always had frightened, selfish people dragging their heals as humanity strives for progress and enlightenment, only now they have their own TV shows.

FOX HOST ON RACIAL PURITY

Brian Kilmeade is an ignorant assclown. Kilmeade, the host of Fox and Friends, laments the loss of racial purity in the American people because people aren't marrying their own ethnic group. Is he running for some Nazi journalism award? Clearly, Kilmeade hasn't read a book on race or ethnicity since the turn of the last century when ethnic stereotypes and racial quotas had the thinnest veneer of academic approval. Of course, that view was swept aside by modern science, but apparently nobody told Kilmeade.

Don't confuse him with the facts. He's got his job at Fox. What happened?

The conversation concerned recent scientific data that suggests people in long term marriages tend to experience less Alzheimer's Disease then those in short term marriages. An interesting notion that could provoke an intelligent repsonse. Not from Kilmeade. Never at a loss for ignorance, he leaps into nostalgia for the pure (master?) race.



"We keep marrying other species and other ethnics," he says. "The problem is the Swedes have pure genes. They marry other Swedes, that's the rule. Finns marry other Finns; they have a pure society. In America we marry everybody. We will marry Italians and Irish."

Reminds me of the latest Nixon tapes to be released, wherein the ex-president says abortion is generally wrong, but it's okay if it concerns a mixed race couple.

PROP 8: THE MUSICAL!

warning: this is humor. As you may know, Proposition 8 was a California ballot measure that amended the state Constitution to restrict the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman and eliminated the right of same-sex couples to marry.

Come on, people! Get over it. Let 'em marry.

As expected, O'Reilly and the Fox News cretins are outraged--not with the limitation of civil rights, of course, but with the musical. Certain evangelical churches and branches of the American Taliban are warning people not to watch this "video virus." God forbid, you think for yourself! And God forbid you actually see it--you will have to pluck your eyes out, per the Bible.

Just kidding!

Keith Olbermann has the story.

FAIR AND BALANCED ELECTION COVERAGE

Here are some great FOX moments.

Here's FOX News on Obama and Hillary...and Fidel Castro!


FOX News on Barack Obama:


We all know FOX News is a right-wing propaganda machine, but this is ridiculous. Critical thinkers, take note. These are classic examples of what these moth-eaten wolverines do best. For extra credit, define "fair and balanced."

If FOX had covered the Civil War, it might have looked something like this:

thanks to democraticunderground.com