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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 12:00 AM

Glenn Beck gives his take on Hoffman loss

The Fox News host says "what's coming next year" will "dwarf 1994"

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Wednesday, November 4, 2009 03:51 PM

Oh yes, a speedy recovery indeed.

Because no one serves up crazy like this guy.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 03:52 PM

I've Never Watched Beck

Nor heard his radio show. Is he usually that incoherent? If so, it would explain the adoration of the Palinites.

My question to people like Beck and Limpballs is, if they are so sure they know what needs to be done and how to do it, and are just absolutely positive that a majority of people in this country agree with them, why don't they run for office?

I'm sick of these losers. Put up or shut up.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:01 PM

Re: speedy recovery

I hope he dies from complications. And I don't say that lightly. This man is not just crazy, but crazy with followers and, therefore, really dangerous.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:01 PM

A speedy recovery ...

and a long retirement....preferably in a state mental institution.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:02 PM

They are positive the majority of the country agrees with them...

...because they create that idea out of thin air. It's no different than anyone who starts out saying "Americans want...". They want what you are thinking? They want the things that support the same opinion you do? How Convenient for you!

It's typical BS no matter who says it. If you say something like, the facts show that Americans care about X, Y, and Z and then back it up with polling or other data, then you can get somewhere. But that's not what any of the people like Beck do. They believe in everything they think.

I'd like someone to hang on to this and shove it in his face in 2010 when we don't dwarf anything. Wonder how he'll spin that off. But then again, we Americans have such short attention spans anyway it's not going to matter.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:06 PM

Title of the Gawker article...

Simply awesome.

I guess this can be added to all the other Beck predictions, to be unremembered as soon applicable.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:07 PM

Tragedy.

And here's their case: Well, you know, this just shows the failure of the tea party. Okay. Let's just go through this. Let's just go through this. If I heard that one more time last night, I was going to blow my head off.

Why, oh why, couldn't he have heard it one last time????

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:10 PM

Glenn Becks

And other train wrecks

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:16 PM

Speak for yourself

"Salon wishes him a speedy recovery."

Salon's readers pointedly do not. Since he clearly wants anyone in America to the left of Adolph Hitler to die, many of us do not wish him to recover at all. I don't particularly want him to suffer unduly, just to be sufficiently disabled that we never have to listen to his insane ramblings or look at his imbecile face ever again.

If appendicitis doesn't do it, can I suggest a bracing regimen of bubonic plague?

Please watch this helpful documentary:

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/victim_in_fatal_car_accident

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:23 PM

What's coming next year...

So, Beck's suggesting that next year he and Palin and Limbaugh are gonna hijack races all over the country, rubbing out moderates so that Democrats who normally wouldn't have had a chance will win?

Bring it on!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:26 PM

Beck and Koppelman - BBF!

i wonder if the object of your desire is as infatuated with you as you are with him.

Beck is gay and there is nothing wrong with it so go for it.

Best wishes.

Go ahead, ask him over to watch some sports on TV.

Spandex, balls and goal posts should set the mood.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:32 PM

Joan Walsh Would Literally Kill Every Person on this Forum...

...to pull an audience the size of Beck's.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:34 PM

Maybe he should do 'reruns'

Here's the first episode of "The Best Of Glenn Beck" while he recovers (again) from medical treatment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bX1rLv_hNeI&feature=related

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:36 PM

My dear underanothername,

Limpballs?

You must be some kind of woman, right?

The kind that has never been intimate with testicles.

No doubt Pfizer will come up for a pill that can treat "limp balls syndrome,"

My balls are firm, robust and manly.

You should worry more about them becoming soft and squishy, not limp. Nobody wants soft and squishy balls, unless they are really heavy in Computer Based Training.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:37 PM

they shouldve removed his brain at the same time.

his brain is as useless as his appendix anyway.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:39 PM

I smell some projected creepiness here tonight.

Oh, hi stinky!

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:39 PM

Ah, Stinky

As always, elevating the tone and content the discourse to the pooh-pooh, "Heh-heh, you said HARD" level of a junior high school locker room.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:49 PM

This sounds familiar.

And it wasn't particularly surprising that Beck, like some of his ideological allies, would say the defeat was really a win.

I've seen that kind of logic before... Oh yeah:

"Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 04:50 PM

yeah yeah. Because we liberals are so gallant

he should recover. But speedily? You're a better man than I am, Alex. Meanwhile, there should be an award for the most creative yet desperate spin. Beck wins on this one, with Erick the Erick a close second.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009 05:03 PM

a tempest-in-a-teapot

This is what we learned from this off year election is that voting out the old and voting for slightly different candidates for the next four years is completely reasonable. I don’t remember either Republican candidates in New Jersey and Virginia promising to refuse to accept any help the federal government might offer (like stimulus money). The Republican candidate in up-state New York did vote for the stimulus money and that got her hounded and vilified by every Radical Wrong in the country. The storm that dove her out and blessed the third party candidate because he rode the rhetoric, who would have voted against the stimulus package turned out to be a tempest-in-a -teapot. Hoffman was ahead in the polls. This district had voted Republican for so long no one could remember when it hadn’t. Beck and his minions went into New York to get out the vote for Hoffman. And still, Hoffman lost.

Honesty from anyone at fox news is not expected, nor is self-reflection. If Hoffman had won Beck would have been basking in the glory of MAKING IT HAPPEN.

For all of his paranoia it was his vision of a perfect world that drove people to the polls to vote against his candidate.

I’m curious; did Hoffman really not live in the 23 District? I mean, if a Dem had tried that (remember Hilary and her choice to move to a congressional district where her chances of winning a Senate seat were good?). Maybe I’m just reading the wrong blogs.

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