Glenn Beck off his meds: Claims Obama wants to set the average American on fire! (Video)

[Julius Civitatus]

I'm seriously starting to think that the FCC should intervene on the daily exercise in lunacy that is becoming the Glenn Beck show. Every day Beck maps the violent, insane rhetoric a bit more. Now, as a "metaphor" lacking any kind of taste or subtlety, Glenn Beck went on to "illustrate" the latest policy implementations by Obama. Beck did this by pouring liquid from a gas tank (to simulate gasoline) onto an actor, and then light a match by it.

I now it should insane and highly irresponsible, but it is what Beck did in his fringe show yesterday. You can see it here:

http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200904090036

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNp9GSbFQhQ

:wow:
I think Beck is amping the dangerous rhetoric against Democrats, liberals, and particularly against the President at a mere three months from his inauguration. A lunatic viewer of Glenn Beck's show already went on a rampage in Pennsylvania last week (Richard Poplawski). I would like to know if the FCC or the authorities could intervene before Beck's insane and highly irresponsible rhetoric keeps escalating to the point where more wackos like Poplawski decide to "take action" inspired by this paranoid show.

:shrug:

On edit: More links about Beck's latest moment of dementia:

http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2009/04/10/glenn-becks-light-me-on-fire-immigration-momentthe-nuttiness-continues.html

http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/135541/the_rise_of_glenn_beck's_bizarre_media_militia

PS: I think Rupert Murdoch and Fox News are fully COMPLICIT and RESPONSIBLE for any deranged action that may happen as a consequence of the increasingly irresponsible material they are broadcasting.

[polichick]

1. When is this INSANE IDIOT going to be fired??

[Julius Civitatus]

3. Fox won't fire him

Murdoch is happy with his ratings, and his deranged message is in line with the rest of the nuttiness coming from Fox News.

[polichick]

5. Is it possible to prosecute Murdoch for inciting violence??

[Julius Civitatus]

9. Not sure. They would have to prove comment "A" led to action "B"

Not sure if there's any jurisprudence on this subject.
Any precedents of media figures prosecuted for inciting violence, covert or not?

[Botany]

2. 5 minutes just give me 5 minutes w/ Mr. Beck.

The man needs an attitude adjustment real bad.

A college drop out / flunked out person w/ mental problems and a history
of drug and alcohol issues knows more than the man who finished top
in his class @ Harvard Law, was a Professor of Constitutional law @ the
University of Chicago, has written 2 best selling books (do you think
Beck wrote his book), and is a devoted family man? I forgot ran
one of the best campaigns ever .... :rofl:

[jobycom]

4. He can't deal with a black man being president.

All his years of undisguised racist ranting, verbal blackfacing (exaggerated immitation of an African American dialect as perceived by racist whites), and white supremacist assumptions failed to convince America not to elect "one of them." His whole identity is coming unraveled. It would be like a Christian reaching the Pearly Gates only to find that St. Peter was indeed allowing atheists, Muslims, Jews, and Buddhists into Heaven.

All connection with reality has snapped for him. His mind now exists only in a fictional world inside the shell of his skull. And it will get worse until/unless he finally melts down and has to leave the air. Given Fox, that may be never.

[Botany]

7. I predict Mr. Beck will be gone from the air PDQ.

He is not far from being gone.

[Skittles]

6. poor thang is unable to digest his shit taco

it would be fun to watch if it wasn't so pathetic

[Dawgs]

8. What are you talking about? I think it's great that a mentally retarded person has his own show.

Shows we've come a long way as a country.