“It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
- Carlos Ruiz Safon
Glenn Beck, who hosts an afternoon cartoon show for slow adults, is taking his act on the road this weekend to the delight of people who enjoy The Wiggles but don’t think they do enough Nazi stuff. This must be a very important thing that Beck is doing Saturday because the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, which normally provides college scholarships for children of special operations personnel killed in action or in training, has decided to front the $2 million to put on this cavalcade of speechifyin’, so, sorry kids, how’s University of Phoenix sound? Good. Good. That’s our little troopers.
Anyway, Glenn Beck will be dispensing platitudes, banalities, hokum, and commonsense conservative corn by the bushel full to a pasty-white crowd of lawnchair-Americans, founder-humpers, birthers, teabaggers, flat-earthers, Button Gwinnett-impersonators and Kenyans-stole-my-Medicare oldsters who manage to make it to the speech without taking the wrong turn and being eaten by the cannibals of Georgetown.
And what a speech it will be….for the billions of survivors (give or take):
In a new promo posted on a “Producers’ Blog” at his website, Beck humbly places the rally in the context of the moon landing, the Montgomery bus boycott, Iwo Jima, the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and other landmark historical events. It also not-so-subtly suggests that Beck is following in the tradition of Martin Luther King (which is a farce), Abraham Lincoln, most of the Founding Fathers, Martha Washington, the Wright Brothers, and other notable historical figures.
Also. Too.
Beck, who is both admired and assailed for his faith-based patriotism and his brash criticism of President Obama, plans in part to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as an American hero. He will speak on the anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech, from the spot where King delivered it.
I’m not sure if Beck can quite scale the heights of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, but we can only hope that he meets the pathos and heartfelt sentiments of his I Smell Ass and Suicide soliloquy.




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My God, does this cry out for a Ken Mehlman/Glenn Beck joke or what?
You’re determined to make us long for the return of the Malkin cheerleader video, aren’t you?
Thank you for posting proof that Glen is indeed the First Victim of the new Victim-American Revolution. He gave his ass to the cause of Taking back our freedom to keep our Medicare Prescription Benefits that we deserve – morphine, Toradol, Fentanyl patches, Percocet every three hours, and a synthetic morphine drip.
We are Taking back our Victimtude from those who abuse its priveledges in section 8 housing and fried food stamp chicken and chitlins. We are the rent-seeking Victims of big black dick brothas and we are goin to the mountaintop to seek our just rent and full medicare coverage of assrip surgery.
A couple weeks ago, I was watching a CSPAN book thingee at a bookshop in the DC area. The book was something about American history, interesting enough that I watched.
During the Q&A, a 30-ish, reasonably kempt, white guy asked if the author could address differences between the author’s position on something, versus Glen Beck’s position on the same historical matter.
I swear to gawd, right through the teevee, I could feel the whole room go very chilly and dead silent, into a socially-terrified embarrassment shared by all, as everyone tried to figure out how the author would handle this absurdity gracefully.
It was very awkward for about two minutes, and then the author got things back on track. My point is how widely shared, in a straight-forward, semi-random, public discussion, was the revulsion over having an audience member treat Beck as intellectually competent.
We are starbursts
We are Guldens
We drive hundred year old cars, and
We have to get ourselves
back to the Olive Garden
Remember that Forbes article wherein Beck hinted that he didn’t really mean any of it but hey, being a performing clown for America’s idiots is an easy way to make a shitload of personal income?
What the hospital staff didn’t tell him was they transplanted his brain into his newly tightened asshole and his bowel now empties through his mouth.
I suppose a lightning strike is too much to hope for?
“In a new promo posted on a “Producers’ Blog” at his website…”
Producers’ Blog???? The memory is vague..but..
Oh wait, I get it now. Beck is Zero Mostel. Who’s Gene Wilder? Scarborough? Ailes? Pigeon guy? Probably Kristol. I can just see them sitting around Fox, saying “This rally has to close HERE, on PAGE TWO.”
But everything goes horribly wrong….
Fred Sanford, you were no match for Glen Beck.
That was some radical surgery indeed; and yet, strangely, nobody has noticed any difference in Beck… almost as if nothing really changed…
“Faith-based patriotism” is a phrase that drips with teh stupid. If there really was a God, surely he’d sack up and whip out the big smoting iron when he hears that “Beck [...] plans in part to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. as an American hero. [...]” I mean, how much more of an insult to one of His great servants can you get?
Love the spelling of “certificate” by the guy cloaked in the flag above.
Beck has an enormous ass. He reminds me of the Ned Beatty character in Deliverance and the fat ass cry baby new con in The Shawshank Redemption.
Don’t take the brown Metamucil.
It’s not fat, his ass is just distended because he pulls facts out of it so often.
It’s unfortunate the author felt the obligation to handle the question with any tact. The proper answer in that situation is “I don’t give a flying fuck what some undermedicated, undereducated huckster told you to think about [insert subject here]. Keep your pinheaded questions to yourself until you’ve read a real book on the topic.”
We are starbursts
We are Guldens
We drive hundred year old cars, and
We have to get ourselves
back to the Olive Garden
You can turn off the Internets for today, Mr. President. We have ourselves a winner.
Heh. “Beckstock”
If Beck manages to get Jimi back to perform the National Anthem, then I’m in.
United States Code:
TITLE 4 – CHAPTER 1 – Section 8 “Respect for flag”
Paragraph (d) “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery.”
I concur doctor.
A-fucking-men.
Ah, yes – the Abbie Hoffman clause.
And I’d call Mr. TBogg’s captions rimshots but that’d be taken the wrong way.
I recommend this as his march song.
I’m guessing the attendance will be on par with the number who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Although I don’t if any of the Beckstockers can actually manage to read the Declaration.
Adam Gopnik in The New Yorker of August 30 has a great review of some books about Churchill, in which he points out that “a patriot [is] imbued with a love of place and people” and “a nationalist [is] infuriated by a hatred of aliens and imaginary enemies.” I think that pretty much sums up the whole us vs. the teabaggers+wingnuts thing. For people who claim to love Amurka so much, they sure do hate practically everybody in it.
Interesting that both both Beck and Limbaugh had anus-related conditions that were incapacitating.
Coincidence, OR…?
Fixed it for ya.