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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 12:00 AM

The poetry of Glenn Beck

Every day the Fox News pundit feels the pain and suffering of average Americans. Now it's time to experience his free verse.

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Monday, March 30, 2009 06:15 PM

Beck be gone!

I really hate to say this,but a Howard Beale type ending for this hatemonger wouldn't make me sad!I mean Howard was his hero and all.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:16 PM

whacked

At first when I heard a few of the odd, off the wall things Glenn Beck has said, I attributed it to the way anybody occasionally misspeaks by not thinking first. However, it's becoming quite apparent that Glenn Beck is thinking before he speaks. The only conclusion I can draw is that he is batshit nuts. I do not mean that jokingly. Compare him to any other mainstream conservative pundit.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:17 PM

PLEASE

MAKE....IT....STOP.....

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:24 PM

I Get It!

Glenn is gonna take the leadership role of the Repelican Party away from Rush!!

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:27 PM

This guy needs an ass kickin'

This punk ass wouldn't last 30 seconds in the real world. I recently confused him with the "Leave Brittany alone" fruitcake.

If Beck wants to start some shit there are plenty of folks ready to stomp his ass into the ground.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:28 PM

Privilege

N: What allows Glenn Beck to babble into a camera, and not in the general direction of frigntened passersby in parks and other heavily populated urban areas. Just think, if Reagan hadn't cut off funding for community mental health centers this guy could be getting the treatment he so desperately needs.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:37 PM

haiku 4 u

Glenn Beck fox news stooge

Hate mongering nazi fuck

Expelled from Rush's ass

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:40 PM

What exactly was the point of this?

The guy is just another phony "everyman" that the right likes to prop up to get the stupid hicks to vote against their best interest. The "voice" of all those disaffected conservatives who he has no more in common with then Obama does. He is a fraud, same as the rest. Pulling down millions of dollars for doing nothing while claiming to represent the "working class". Putting up his qoutes accomplishes what exactly? Bill O'Reilly was on the View this morning. He called Shawn Penn a "tyrant". The same man who, just a few short years ago, said it was un-American to question the president in a time of war. Yes, Bill, do tell us what the definition of a tyrant is and why your not one.

His outrage and fear are as phony as his tears and his acting skills at feigning both make professional wrestling look like an Oscar worthy performance. Everything about this man is phony. While all those angry, broke, bigoted hicks continure to fall for the bait, he sits in his posh mansion laughing at how he suckered all those stupid rubes into voting republican yet again. He gets to sleep soundly knowing he'll never have to worry about anything ever again while his audience can't even afford to get sick but that's okay because thanks to him, they care more about those filthy sodomites they'll never meet getting married or barely literate Mexicans coming over and stealing their jobs.

It scares me that people look at this guy and can't tell he is fake. That "tears for America" routine alone should have gotten people to wake up. Maybe we really are headed for an Idiocracy.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:44 PM

What do you expect...

...from a girl with an obvious case of penis envy?

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:47 PM

Pelase stop talking about Glenn

Your giving Glenn, the moron, more attention than he deserves.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:48 PM

refusing to believe

I just don't fucking believe this "Swedish Meatball" story. This couldn't possibly be the content of a major media broadcast, anytime anyplace.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:50 PM

Brilliance!

This,

To me

Is sheer,

Poetry.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:55 PM

The poet laureate

..of the neo-conservative pimp-o-cracy.

encore! encore!

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:55 PM

Beck is a homegrown fascist. He is dangerous.

Yes, Beck is a buffoon, but a dangerous buffoon (he wouldn't be the first). We should not underestimate him nor his ignorant and armed fans.

Monday, March 30, 2009 06:59 PM

White Man's Affirmative Action

'nuff said. I'll just bring him up the next time that a blowhard starts in on Affirmative Action.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:12 PM

So sweet and so cold.

"Meatballs" is the best poem William Carlos Williams never wrote.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:14 PM

I worry for Glenn Beck

I'm afraid for his safety. If he keeps up all this gun-baiting rhetoric, it's possible some crazy person might go and murder him, or even a big group of crazy people. I have a crazy people expert here to interview about it.

Me: So, like, what do you think?

Expert: Dude, like totally! What you said! That could really happen! People are pissed!

Me: Really? Do you think so?

Expert: Yeah, dude, I know all these people with guns and they're totally batshit nuts! And they're scared!

Me: Really? What are they scared of?

Expert: Dude, all kinds of shit. Eels. Tree sloths. Clowns. But mostly Glenn Beck.

Me: Holy crap! That sounds serious!

Expert: Yeah dude, I know, right?

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:17 PM

So Salon...

has become the online extension of Fox News?

WTF?

Like there's nothing of SUBSTANCE to write about?

Jesus.

It's not even a slow news day.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:19 PM

I really wouldn't waste one whit of worry on this..."poet"

..there are so many other things in this world so much more worthy of worry.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:20 PM

The Poetry of Glenn Beck

Maybe some of that heroin is still in his blood stream. This also explains his conversion to the LDS (Mormon) Church.

Someone needs to throw a net over this guy and haul him off to Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp before we close it.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:21 PM

this is just stupid

So Salon takes a man who makes all his enemies into straw men and ... Salon makes him into a straw man by mocking his ideas by putting them in an even more deranged context.

Wow! +1 juvenile point for the Salon staff.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:21 PM

I need a show.

This message board shtick isn't getting me anywhere.

Any producers out there? I have better hair than Beck.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:32 PM

Since Whack-Job Beck Seems Likely To Get Bill-O's Spot.

I aint complaining.

Bill-O just makes me mad and want to throw my shoe at whatever electronic device his voice is getting hollered out of, where as Beck is so much of a crank I can just sit back and enjoy his real insanity like I enjoy Colbert's fake insanity.

Disclaimer:

I have no choice, in my profession I have to watch the prime 8 hours (from 3:30 pm to 11:30pm) of the three major cable news networks (CNN, MSNBC, and FAUX) every Monday through Friday.

PS Even the majority of hardcore conservatives think Beck is a crank.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:41 PM

Yeesh

Putting his drivel in pseudo-verse (I refuse to apply the word "poetry" to anything connected with this asshole) doesn't get any more sense out of it, but at least it's easier to ignore.

Monday, March 30, 2009 07:53 PM

Glenn Beck is proto-fascist comfort food for people who find Hannity too difficult.

You know, I think the conservatives have decided to forgo the embarrassment of pretending to have principles after having demogogued every make-believe issue they hold dear, by going straight to self-parody. Why bother with all of the posturing and phony moral outrage when you can have the same crap delivered by a friendly, drooling puppy dog? Do ya' feel let down by your government? Do you crave retaliation? Aww, gee whiz, doncha just love Uhmerika?

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