We’ll take as a given that Glenn Beck is crazy, in the same league as Michelle Bachman and people who show up at police stations wearing aluminium foil hats demanding the cops make Martians stop beaming radio signals into their head.
Who besides Beck would invite PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk on television to join him in criticising Nobel Prize winning former Vice President Al Gore for only cutting back on the amount of meat he eats, not eliminating it from his diet entirely, and then using this as the basis for lashing out at Gore’s new book, Our Choice?
Who other than His Nuttiness would praise nurses for their knowledge, care, and understanding when they tended to him after he was hospitalised following botched hemorrhoid surgery only to turn on them a year later for supporting health care reform so people who don’t have Fox News’ lush group plan can get insurance?
Who else would provide Jon Stewart with such rich, delicious fodder for parody on a Daily Show segment? Beck’s emergency appendectomy this week gave Stewart an opening to tear out his appendix using a scalpel of satire.
Yet another reason why Stewart provides the most-incisive coverage of news on television.
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beck is a joke. he represents what so many Americans think it should be – socially backward, white, mean-spirited, and stupid.
beck is a joke. he represents what so many Americans think it should be – socially backward, white, mean-spirited, and stupid.
Perfect! Simply perfect. Thanks, Charley for finding this and writing about it.
Perfect! Simply perfect. Thanks, Charley for finding this and writing about it.
If this showed up at RedState or WND, the loonies on the right would find their heads exploding. Too bad most of Glenn Beck’s viewers are older and rural because they’re probably asleep when Daily Show airs and never saw it.
Even tho I saw the show when Stewart did this, thanks for posting it again. It is even funnier the second time!!!
If this showed up at RedState or WND, the loonies on the right would find their heads exploding. Too bad most of Glenn Beck’s viewers are older and rural because they’re probably asleep when Daily Show airs and never saw it.
Even tho I saw the show when Stewart did this, thanks for posting it again. It is even funnier the second time!!!
Wonderful! Thanks for the laugh. May Jon Stewart live forever!
Wonderful! Thanks for the laugh. May Jon Stewart live forever!
Wonderful! Thanks for the laugh. May Jon Stewart live forever!