What is he talking about?! Nothing I've ever heard Glen Beck say makes any sense whatsoever. So he's saying that liberals are wrong for thinking oil companies are bad, and the reason we're wrong is because Rockefeller was a secret communist? Or is he saying that when we poo-poo oil companies we're really dissing on our own people because Rockefeller was a communist, which means all oil companies are communist, and since all liberals are communists, we're hypocrites for hating oil companies? Whenever I see Glen Beck, I feel like I'm on drugs. #dailyshowglennbeck
I made it about 4 minutes into that Glen Beck video. That man is a raving lunatic. Which I knew, but I'd never seen in action quite like that before. I'm dumbfounded. #dailyshowglennbeck
@Dictator for Life: I watched both clips in their entirety and now I feel like I'm on drugs. I kept waiting in vain for a cogent point to be made (as I always do with Glen). No, there is no point. They just gave a mentally ill man a public outlet for his crazy. #dailyshowglennbeck
I am so thankful that I don't know if his impression is spot on because I've never watched Glenn Beck. I suppose I should watch the GB clips you have above but I kind of like living in my naive world of not knowing his mannerisms/craziness. #dailyshowglennbeck
I think if he had a chance (and was a real person), Fox Mulder would have to shake Glenn Beck really hard and tell him to chill the fuck out with his conspiracy theories. #dailyshowglennbeck
The authorities cut out my gallbladder in 2007 and I'm now wondering if it was used to support socialism. Communists could have pelted my gallstones at voters to force them to elect Obama, and here we are now, all forced to become Nazis and grow rectangle mustaches. #dailyshowglennbeck
@Newsgirl: Now I understand why the surgeon asked about my policy positions before telling me I could keep my gallbladder. I guess I was socialist enough. #dailyshowglennbeck
@Newsgirl: They took my gallbladder out when I was SIXTEEN. Which was during the CLINTON administration. It all makes so much more sense now. #dailyshowglennbeck
@Newsgirl: "They" took my tonsils during the Carter years. See, just like Glen said, it's been in the MAKING FOR YEARS!!!! How could we all have been so blind?
*hides face in hands with shame* #dailyshowglennbeck
@Newsgirl: I had my tonsils out during the first month of the Obama administration, but I made the appointment before Obama was elected. What does it all mean? Who took my tonsils, liberals or conservatives? I don't even know! #dailyshowglennbeck
@SparklyTempest: I mean, it's just lazy! If I was going to go to all the trouble to get myself a colonial outfit sure as shootin' I'd get some old timey shoes too! #dailyshowglennbeck
The thing that drives me insane about Glenn Beck is that while he may indeed be playing a character of sorts, many people who watch his show do not get that. His show is on at primetime and marketed as a respectable news outlet by Fox, despite it's complete lack of journalism or veracity, thereby gaining an air of legitimacy.
I have been witness to countless conversations in which I have heard people state that they admire Glenn Beck for telling the truth and it scares the daylights out of me. Regardless of your ideology, Beck's blatant race-baiting, chauvinism, and hate-mongering is destructive and dangerous. People who actually believe the things that Glenn Beck says (possibly in jest, I really don't know) feel vindicated that there is a voice on primetime television spreading their beliefs. It absolutely makes me sick to my stomach. #dailyshowglennbeck
@Tchotchke: IE: My father. Less than 5 minutes of actual fact checking, by my boyfriend, generally in the midst of hearing my father repeat the paranoid bullshit to me, proves it all wrong. But no amount of actual evidence will convince him that Glenn Beck is full of paranoid, alarmist , fear-mongering horse shit.
Like he was convinced since the Dems had a majority that they were gonna bust in the house and take all his guns away. #dailyshowglennbeck
@DeedleDee: And my m-i-l. She believes the Southern Poverty Law Center is a radical organization somehow caught up in ACORN because they investigate hate groups. So my SO made a donation to the SPLC in her name for her birthday. She cried and hung up on him when she found out. But now their newsletters are coming to her house, filled with left-wing propaganda so she can't avoid it. ha!
I'm also nearly convinced she's a birther but knows enough not to say so in front of her family. #dailyshowglennbeck
@willwriteforfood: It's sad with all of the information that is readily available that people willfully remain so deluded and ignorant, especially if you happen to be related to them. #dailyshowglennbeck
Glenn Beck went to the "If I make a silly face and say it in a silly voice, then it automatically makes it wrong" school of arguing.
Glenn Beck: Obama is a Marxist.
Me: No, he's not. He's not even close to a Marxist.
Glenn Beck: (in a silly voice, with over the top hand gestures) Ohhhh! Noooo, he's noooot! He's nooot even clooooose to a MARXIST!
(Glenn Beck considers argument won) #dailyshowglennbeck
@morninggloria: Ok, not being that familar with Glenn Beck, from that description, I'm now picturing him as a Scooby Doo villian, pretending to be a ghost to keep you away from the house he wants to develop/the truth. #dailyshowglennbeck
@morninggloria: Seriously on the silly voice thing. Any time he does it now, I immediately think the Kermit the Frog bit that Colbert did and just crack up:
@SomeAuthorGirl: They should just come out with a line of tinfoil hats. They already have oven roasting bags and pre-cut sheets and whatever else. #dailyshowglennbeck
@SomeAuthorGirl: His delusional connections sort of remind me of Russel Crowe's character in "A Beautiful Mind," except not smart or sympathetic. #dailyshowglennbeck
@morninggloria: I'd really like to see ol' GB map his way out of a paper bag. It will involve at least 23 principles, 43 commandments, 8 packages of chalk, and a stout pair of boots. #dailyshowglennbeck
I knew as soon as I saw that skit last night it was going to be here today. It was absolutely hilarious. I ended up watching the rerun, too (hooray sick days!). It's amazing how much stuff is on that board for you to miss. It took me until the rerun to notice the random "hammer and sickle" note on the bottom corner. #dailyshowglennbeck
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*hides face in hands with shame* #dailyshowglennbeck
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Sure he appears without his tinfoil hat, but he makes up for it with his knee breeches. #dailyshowglennbeck
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And is he defaming Cons while he's at it? #dailyshowglennbeck
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That might explain some things. #dailyshowglennbeck
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I have been witness to countless conversations in which I have heard people state that they admire Glenn Beck for telling the truth and it scares the daylights out of me. Regardless of your ideology, Beck's blatant race-baiting, chauvinism, and hate-mongering is destructive and dangerous. People who actually believe the things that Glenn Beck says (possibly in jest, I really don't know) feel vindicated that there is a voice on primetime television spreading their beliefs. It absolutely makes me sick to my stomach. #dailyshowglennbeck
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Like he was convinced since the Dems had a majority that they were gonna bust in the house and take all his guns away. #dailyshowglennbeck
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I'm also nearly convinced she's a birther but knows enough not to say so in front of her family. #dailyshowglennbeck
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The call is coming from inside the building! Inside the building!!!! #dailyshowglennbeck
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Glenn Beck: Obama is a Marxist.
Me: No, he's not. He's not even close to a Marxist.
Glenn Beck: (in a silly voice, with over the top hand gestures) Ohhhh! Noooo, he's noooot! He's nooot even clooooose to a MARXIST!
(Glenn Beck considers argument won) #dailyshowglennbeck
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[www.colbertnation.com] #dailyshowglennbeck
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Glenn Beck, singlehandedly keeping Reynolds foil products sliding off the production line. #dailyshowglennbeck
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I hope I'm wrong :(
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