I cannot bring myself to watch Glenn Beck, particularly since he has been unleashed in all his paranoid, weeping, untethered-from-reality glory on Faux News, but Stephen Colbert managed to catch the rant-fest host’s reveal of his “9-12 Project to save the nation.”
Protect your keyboards. I have warned you. (Raw Story):
“My Glenn Beck fantasy came true,” Colbert announced on Tuesday. “The fantasy where a hysterical Glenn Beck tells his audience of desperate shut-ins through tears and spittle that vague unnamed enemies have failed them and that it’s time to take angry action.”
“Are you ready to be that person that you were that day after 9/11?” Beck tearfully asked his audience.
Colbert helpfully explained that Beck is attempting to get us to move “beyond the fear we felt on 9/11 to the compassion we felt on 9/12. And hopefully, we’ll all eventually get to the way Glenn felt on 9/9 of 2005.”
On that date, Beck said, “You know, it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims’ families. ... When I see a 9/11 victim family on television of whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh, shut up!’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining.”
Bonus points for the appearance of Chuck Norris!
You have to read some of the comments from Glenn’s army of fans…