Mother Jones: What's Inside Glenn Beck's Brain?

"Transition," already, will ya?

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Shall We Wake Rupert?

Taking Beck’s 9am-noon slot is the local Dom Giordano, currently 6-10pm. Then comes Rush Limbaugh, noon-3pm, and (Michael) Smerconish – who replaces Sean Hannity.

H/T: Mediaite

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"Restoring Honor": There's A Sucker Born Every Minute.

Fox fool Glenn Beck is holding his CrazyFest 2010 in the shadow of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC today, 47 years to the day after Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech. New York Times columnists Charles M. Blow and Bob Herbert agree that the race-baiting Beck is besmirching King's legacy. Here's Blow:

Glenn Beck is the anti-King.
(I find it curious that many of the same people who object so strenuously to the Islamic cultural center proposed for Lower Manhattan, many on the grounds that it is inappropriate and disrespectful, are virtually silent on the impropriety and disrespect inherent in Beck’s giving a speech on the anniversary of King’s address.)
But Beck seems bent on appropriating the civil rights movement. In April, he read his audience the civil rights movement’s commitment card and then said, “Looks to me like the next phase of the 9/12 Project.” (9/12 is a “nonpolitical movement” started by Beck last year to “protect the greatest nation ever created.”) And Beck has said of this rally, “This is a moment, quite honestly, that I think we reclaim the civil rights movement.” Reclaim? From whom?

Herbert agrees:


America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure. On the anniversary of the great 1963 March on Washington he will stand in the shadows of giants — Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Who do you think is more representative of this nation?

Consider a brief sampling of their rhetoric.
Lincoln: “A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
King: “Never succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter.”
Beck: “I think the president is a racist.”

Stephen Colbert summed up Beck thusly: ‎"Who's gonna follow a guy who describes himself as a 'rodeo clown,' I guess, because Glenn Beck and a rodeo clown are so used to working with bullshit?" 

Newt Gingrich Yells "Fire!" (Again.)

I saw this today on HuffPo:

In an interview with Newsmax, Gingrich said that the "secular elites" haven't taken seriously "threats to America," and that Elena Kagan has "no real appreciation of the danger of Sharia," because she "welcomed Saudi money" while serving as the Dean of Harvard University Law School.
"Radical Islamists are people who want to impose on the rest of us Sharia, which is a form of medieval law which would fundamentally end America as we've known it," Gingrich said. "There are disturbing signs that some places ... you see judges succumb to this line of reasoning." He called on "isolating and defeating radicals," while "modernizing" moderates.

Then I remembered something I read a few months ago on ThinkProgress:

Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp — the parent company of Fox News — making him the largest shareholder outside the family of News Corp CEO Rupert Murdoch. Alwaleed has grown close with the Murdoch enterprise, recently endorsing James Murdoch to succeed his father and creating a content-sharing agreement with Fox News for his own media conglomerate, Rotana.

So...using Newt's twisted logic, his home network--Fox News--must have "no real appreciation of the danger of Sharia."

Glenn Beck's gonna freak!

Goebbels' Spawn.

You've heard about the gutless shenanigans emanating from the wretched right that resulted in the abhorrent treatment of former USDA official Shirley Sherrod. You know that the Obama White House, the NAACP, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and some--not all--of what's left of America's media were taken for a ride by Internet scumbag Andrew Breitbart. (If Breitbart is somehow unfamiliar to you, click here for more background on a schmuck.)

Breitbart, of course, is but one in a long (long) line of right-wing propagandists masquerading as truth-tellers. Too bad the Adults in Charge of Knowing Better don't.

Memo to Barack Obama: drop the bipartisan facade and fight the fuck back! And to the rest of you--the Cabinet Secretaries and civil rights organizations and actual newspeople: do your jobs and please--please--begin to actually be the Adults in Charge of Knowing Better...

C'mon America! It's A Race To The F#ckin' Bottom!

Historic Symbols That Mean The Opposite Of What You Think.

From Cracked.com, whose smart-assed humor will teach you more about the world than, ahem, Glenn Beck ever will...

Glenn Beck's "Nazi Tourette's."

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Who The F#ck Is Doc Thompson?

He's Glenn Beck's fill-in, via ThinkProgress:

For years I’ve suggested that racism was in decline and yeah, there are some, you know, incidents that still happen with regards to racism, but most of the claims I’ve said for years, well, they’re not really real. But I realize now that I was wrong. For I now too feel the pain of racism. Racism has been dropped at my front door and the front door of all lighter-skinned Americans. The health care bill the president just singed into law includes a 10 percent tax on all indoor tanning sessions starting July 1st, and I say, who uses tanning? Is it dark-skinned people? I don’t think so. I would guess that most tanning sessions are from light-skinned Americans. Why would the President of the United Stats of America — a man who says he understands racism, a man who has been confronted with racism — why would he sign such a racist law? Why would he agree to do that? Well now I feel the pain of racism.

Doc, it would be an excellent time for you to get drunk and fall asleep in a tanning bed.

Evil Obama Death Panel Is "Coming After" Glenn Beck!

That Trip To GlennBeckistan Made Jon Stewart Sick, Too.

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The entire skewering is here. Enjoy...

Glenn Beck Attacks JohnnyRussia!

Glenn Beck & Eric Massa In Steel Cage Death Match On "America's Craziest People!"

(re: Beck's bogus apology: shouldn't he apologize for wasting people's time every night?)

Maddow To Beck: "Back Off."

Another Glenn Beck Snow Job.

...and Beck's fake news channel employer ramps up the stupidity--even for them:

Everybody In The Whole Cell Block Was Dancin' To The Jailhouse Rock.

That's conservative hero and recent dirty tricks perp James O'Keefe with the epically stupid Glenn Beck a few months back, claiming with an idiot's bravado that a little time in the Crowbar Hotel didn't scare him.

I wonder if Jimmy will like his new bunkmate?

Danger, Scott Brown; Glenn Beck Doesn't Trust You!

Teabaggers are already eating their own tails. Welcome to 2010.

Best Comedy Duo In A Sitcom: Beck/Palin "Two and a Half IQ Points."

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There are millions of Americans who watched Beck/Palin without doubling over in laughter.

Pretty f#ckin' scary, ain't it?

Michelle Malkin And Glenn Beck Share A Brain Stem.

Gee, Michelle; it looks like your fellow fuckwad already used that line--in March '09:

Time to hire a new ghostwriter, honey...

Ya Don't Say! Glenn Beck Is Media Matters' "Misinformer Of The Year 2009."

We call him something a little saltier here at JackRabbit Cafe´...