Glenn Beck=“chalk” full of nuts.

One folk, one nation, one Beck.

Thank goodness that link was there, or I wouldna believed ya.

How many people did you get to come see you speak Jesse?

In a hundred years, people will talk about this period in history and mention Glenn Beck in the same way current historians mention Father Coughlin.

Casp: does Glenn Beck ask for the reacharound, or do you just give it to him out of pure love?

“Glenn Beck has launched a new news site called The Blaze, which is a truly fantastic news source for Glenn Beck.”

...“The Blaze”?  Why not “Beck for Beckernecks” or “BeckerneckLand” or “The Beckerneck”?...

Well, he wouldn’t be a modern conservative pundit if he didn’t have BS “independent” support. It’s TheBlaze is to Beck as The Tobacco Institute was to the cancer-stick industry.

How many people did you get to come see you speak Jesse?

By your “logic,” Two and a Half Men is a better show than Mad Men.

Chairman Beck’s Little Red Website…

One folk, one nation, one Beck.

That sounds familiar.  Reminds me a little of “Ein Volk, ein Reich, <strike>Ayn Rand</strike> Ein Fuhrer.”  Purely coincidence I’m sure, since we wouldn’t want to prematurely end a thread mocking a megalomaniac by invoking the Godwin rule.

Jesse’s audience is limited to people who can think and speak in full sentences and are able to cite and follow sources.
Of course, being a black man limits his audience to people who aren’t bigots as well.

Jesse, we got PZ Myers to vist the Soggy Northwest, when are you coming to Seattle.
I bet you get a bigger crowd than Beck.

Ah, the Intarweb’s version of a vanity-press published book paid-for book review.

Except it never ends.  Hooray.

“Glenn Beck, it’s what plants crave!”

“Glenn Beck, it’s what plants crave!”

Glenn Beck:  The Smarts Mutilator…

BlackBloc, I admit I had no idea who Father Coughlin was, but your comment got me to read his Wikipedia page, and this part stuck out:

“On December 18, 1938 two thousand of Coughlin’s followers marched in New York protesting potential asylum law changes that would allow more Jews (including refugees from Hitler’s persecution) into the U.S., chanting, ‘Send Jews back where they came from in leaky boats!’”

Nothing ever changes, does it?

America has this amazingly long history of isolationist/nativist/racist (because frankly in America all three go hand in hand) that seems to flare up every so often.  We had a fairly quiet 20 years or so but now it’s time to turn up the volume on idiots like Glenn Beck and watch as America wallows in its own filth. 

I wonder how much propaganda one man can generate before it starts to implode upon himself.  His house of card lies held up by his followers stupidity can’t stand forever.

Obligatory Onion link: http://www.theonion.com/video/victim-in-fatal-car-accident-tragically-not-glenn,14380/

Gracchus, it never ceases to surprise how so many people confuse quantity with quality..

All this guy has to do is put out an eponymous magazine with himself on every cover, and he’ll have beaten out Oprah Winfrey for most self-obsessed media celebrity.

(Actually, I think Oprah is retiring, so Glenn will have the title to himself. If she actually does retire. I’ll believe it when it happens.)

I wonder how much propaganda one man can generate before it starts to implode upon himself.  His house of card lies held up by his followers stupidity can’t stand forever.

Comment #18: Xeranar

We’d have to ask Stalin.

w00t!  Avoided Godwin-ing myself!

I believe we’re entering the <strike>Al Franken</strike> Glenn Beck decade…

“How many people did you get to come see you speak Jesse?”

This is about the most childish thing I have ever heard.  This ranks with the “no, you’re a towel” comeback from Towelie to Cartman, except that was fictional.

I believe we’re entering the <strike>Al Franken</strike> Glenn Beck decade…

He’s bad enough, he’s dumb enough, why not him?

@11, @22:

Purely coincidence I’m sure, since we wouldn’t want to prematurely end a thread mocking a megalomaniac by invoking the Godwin rule.

Godwin only applies if there’s no valid comparison; if the shoe fits, though….

Glenn Beck: Because it could always burn a little more.

Any unintentional comedy in the title “The Blaze”? Odd obliviousness for someone whose core audience always struck me liking their beer cold, their TV loud, and their homosexuals fllllaaaming.

(/Homer)

Thread hijack @Cynickal-

PZ was up here and I missed him? Damn my living in the backwater shithole part of the state…

Beck: When it absolutely, positively has to destroy intellect overnight.

Any unintentional comedy in the title “The Blaze”?

First thing that came to mind for me was “blazin’ up a doobie”—and I’m not even a pothead.

That sounds familiar.  Reminds me a little of “Ein Volk, ein Reich, Ayn Rand Ein Fuhrer.”

No, really?

Purely coincidence I’m sure, since we wouldn’t want to prematurely end a thread mocking a megalomaniac by invoking the Godwin rule.

Quirk’s Exception.  So nah-nah-neener-nah-nah to you.

BTW, 30 comments and still no Know-Nothing troll to tell us how Mekskin “illegal alien gangs” are undermining our hardworking, white American way of life and paving the way for Islamofascist socialists. Guess the banning of our proud racist troll threw a scare into the others.

[sorry, wrong thread on comment 32]

PZ was up here and I missed him? Damn my living in the backwater shithole part of the state…
Comment #29: TheRealistMom

Yeah, he was doing his 30th? (40th?) School reunion and stopped at Pike Brewery where he was mobbed by drunken fan <strike>boys</strike> atheists.

We need Jesse to come over and show us he can hold his liquer better.  (Or at least dance on the table better)

Steve @19:

Thank you so much.  After the day I’ve had, I really needed that. 

We need Jesse to come over and show us he can hold his liquer better.  (Or at least dance on the table better)

PZ danced on a table? We couldn’t get him to do that in Fargo!

We’d have to ask Stalin.

w00t!  Avoided Godwin-ing myself!

Stalin had pre-internet media dominated and absolute control of the government bureaucracy.  The more apt comparison is Father Coughlin.  He lasted about two decades before collapsing but Beck has already risen higher than Coughlin did and in the modern age of short attention spans will most likely fall far sooner.  An election cycle or two and no republican control of the federal government should just about do Beck in.