How Crazy Is Glen Beck

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Poll question: How Crazy Is Glen Beck

It's hard to ask the question without referring to bats , a term for fornication, and excrement but I'll try

[YOY]

1. His job is selling books to idiots.

Crazy drama queen neo-conservative screeches coming from an uneducated fool sells more than honest interviews and curiosity.

[mitchum]

2. Crazy like a brain damaged fox

[arbusto_baboso]

3. He's an active mormon, so there's at least a small amount of actual crazy.

I, however, vote for complete, bugfuck, purple shitstorm, gibbering insanity.

[SidneyCarton]

5. Oh come on, I'm an active Mormon, and I'm no crazier than anyone else on this site

(Though admittedly that might not be the best yardstick to use) Beck is a special Brand XXX type of crazy.

[arbusto_baboso]

9. Better hope your bishop and/or stake president don't find out you post on DU.

You'd likely be disfellowshipped, at the very least.

Didn't you know Ezra Taft Benson said you couldn't be both a good mormon and a good Democrat?

[SidneyCarton]

10. Yes, I've heard President Benson's quote

Funny that James E. Faust, who was recently 2nd Counselor in the First Presidency was a Democrat and never got Excommunicated. If they were going to excommunicate all the liberals in the church, they'd have to excommunicate all the Mormons in Latin America.

[arbusto_baboso]

12. Don't kid yourself. You'd be exed if you ever got vocal about it.

Your church (my former church) is NOT friendly to Dems. It's not an "official" rule that you have to be republican to be mormon, but they find ways of making it otherwise understood. And by that token (do you sell your signs and tokens for money?), finding out official mormon doctrine or membership rules is a lot like nailing jello to a wall.

[SidneyCarton]

14. I think we understand each other very well n/t

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. It would be better for him if he were insane

But if he's a cynical liar and fabricator, who wouldn't hesitate to do or say anything to hurt this country with his outrageous comments in order to make money, then he doesn't have the excuse of being crazy ... he's just pure evil.

[PDittie]

6. I would have voted but there was no

"Crazy as a fucking shithouse rat" option.

[DefenseLawyer]

7. Other.

It's an act AND he is an uneducated idiot, incapable of abstract thought.

[TahitiNut]

8. Sometimes I just think it's the natural progression of the "shock jock" phenomenon.

Ratings through outrage. :shrug:

[Jim__]

11. "It can't be done"

Right. Every other advanced industrial country does it; but, "It can't be done".

If he had an argument, he wouldn't have to scream at her, he could calmly give her answers.

[lpbk2713]

13. Scary crazy.

I've seen him lose touch with reality before. Scary.

[MazeRat7]

15. Hummm... no option for "Crazier than a Shithouse Rat" ? That's my vote. n/t

[Berry Cool]

16. I was disappointed that wasn't an option too, but then it occurred to me to ask:

How crazy IS a shithouse rat, really? Perhaps, compared to Glenn Beck, they're all actually quite sane.

[mwooldri]

17. Could he be crazy enough to be sectioned?

If he really believes what he spouts, then IMO he's sectionable. If it's an act, then heck it's nasty and he should examine what he is doing.

[Orsino]

18. Standard answer:

Ask me how crazy he really is after crazy stops paying so well.

For now, about all we can conclude is that he makes a whole lot of money for supplying a steady stream of pro-corporate, anti-people bullshit--and that he's sane enough to do it consistently, for hours a day, in front of mics and cameras. Doesn't sound completely crazy, does it?

We don't believe for a minute that Fox would trust a genuine Howard Beale, do we?