I think it's time to start a Glenn Beck mental health fund

[sknabt]

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Yes, I realize when I go to a circus the clowns are supposed to make me laugh. However, while Glenn's clown act at the right-wing circus known as Fox News is often funny it's also disturbing because with a crackpot like Beck one never knows where reality ends and his rich fantasy world begins.

[Decider]

1. Fox Strategy: Dumb it Down

I have no problem with satire to make a point. I do have a problem with Faux sending a 24 hour barrage with no liberal viewpoints, and hosts calling other Faux hosts as panelists.

They really think people will absorb their nonsense. It makes me think of the 3rd Reich.

[whathehell]

4. All of this crap was unleashed during the Reagan Administration

when the did away with the Fairness Doctrine, which had been law for forty pluse years prior to that.

It's why a lot of people want it back.

[Enthusiast]

15. I want it back

We can have it back. Why allow this bullshit to go unchallenged?

[irish.lambchop]

2. He's a shovel-ready project . . .

just created three new jobs - two people in white coats to carry him away and one to wipe the foam from his mouth.

[burythehatchet]

6. haha, well done

:thumbsup:
although I read it as shovels ready to cover him up with dirt.

[madrchsod]

3. the rantings of a mad man....

[rolltideroll]

5. Anyone want to speed up his program

and overlay the Benny Hill theme? If we could get video of him being chased by bears riding tricycles wearing soviet uniforms, that would be even better.

[ginnyinWI]

7. OMG, he reminds me of crazy former Inspector Dreyfus

--you know, the old rival of Inspector Clouseau in the Pink Panther movies. All that's missing is the maniacal, "hee-hee-hee-hee-heeee!"

"Every day in every way, I'm getting better and better!" :crazy:

[Moostache]

8. This *MIGHT* be funny if the country weren't in the toilet...

Beck and the rest of the SFHMB (Shit-Flinging Howler Monkey Brigade)can do all of us a great big favor by either emigrating to a "non-communist" country or simply picking up the nearest firearm they can find and having a nice bullet sandwich from their own hands.

I refuse to any longer suffer the ignorance and hatred of fools without pointing out that they are devoid of reason, absent ideas and morally abhorrent to sane people! We got here because of his and his cohorts slavish devotion to a failed philosophy...they HAD their chance and their time with the bully pulpit. They earned "teh fail" as an overall grade and now they act as if Americans are actually pining for their return!

[Hulk]

9. He's playing all of us for fools.

The more outrageous he gets, the more coverage he gets. His exposure now is 10 times what the sick SOB had on CNN.

He's no dummy, although he tries to show us he is a real clown. He knows exactly what he is doing and he knows exactly how we perceive him....but his ratings are going up, up, up....and he'll be writing books soon and having speaking engagements where his stooges actually give him their easily earned money to pay for his foolishness.

[libodem]

11. That is exactly why I find him so disturbing

because he acts so happy and thinks he so funny. And his looks are fairly innocuous. He looks like a male version of Rebbecca of Sunny Brook Farm. All smiles and giggles, Mr Sunshine, telling outrageous lies as if they were absolute truth. And he's able to propagate Absolute Truth because he believes in the 'One True Church" and testifies to it every Sunday for 3 hours. He's more dangerous than Limbaugh because he doesn't advertise his brand as Republican he opts for Libertarian or some middle of the road label. DANGEROUS. Plus he's hopped up on legal methamphetamine. His mom committed suicide so he likely to be manic-depressive, manic phase, any way. That boy needs to come DOWN!!!!

[sknabt]

12. He's almost as big as Rush and I don't mean his butt size

I know several right-wing droolers who've dumped Rush for Beck. He's on fire. The other day he shared a poll that showed him right behind Rush Limbaugh with the Kool Aid crowd.

I think his attraction is he's more of a ham-it-up attention grabber type than even Rush is with his caller abortions and racist jingles. Every minute Beck's rubber facing some shot for the camera and using crazy props like cakes with California painted with icing he scrapes off in glee as he pronounces the state should be dumped from the union.

But as people point out he knows exactly what he's doing and he has major influence on the far right. He's convincing droolers the Democrats are bringing upon America the end of times.

[republicansarewhores]

10. Buzzword jackhole.

Does Comrade Asshole even KNOW what a communist is?

RAW

[underpants]

13. His interview with the Communist Party of America head- Beck asks questions and interrupts

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=280723&mesg_id=280723

[wundermaus]

14. Hey Glenn, Call me! You know you want to...

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