You know how at the end of Top Gun, Iceman (Val Kilmer) still doesn’t agree with Maverick (Tom Cruise) on just about anything, but he has a renewed respect for his wild and woolly unorthodox style, plus everything is very gay? Today, like every day, we are all Val Kilmer. And surprise! Your new Tom Cruise is Glenn Beck. (Because of Shirley Sherrod.)
Here is Our Most Revered Saint of the Chalkboards on Monday, discussing the firing of your favorite once-and-probably-not-future USDA employee, Shirley Sherrod:
Whether we homosexual radical leftist socialist Al Qaeda fascists like it or not, what this frequently wild-eyed infotainer says matters to a lot of people. Maybe they are mostly the type of people you would not want to be your friend/lover/private dancer, and maybe many of them are aggressively ignorant and/or irrational and/or really annoying, particularly at Thanksgiving when they are your relatives and you have to pretend to like them when actually you want to bury them behind a giant wall of rock-hard congealed turkey fat, “Cask of Amontillado”-style.
But this is exactly why it is a bigger deal for Glenn Beck to defend Shirley Sherrod than it is for, say, our rightly-beloved Rachel Maddow to do so. Rachel Maddow is great! But one would expect Rachel Maddow to probe this matter further and sensibly and liberaliciously analyze it, all while looking smokin’ as heck. One would not expect the same of Monsieur Beck. But he did it!
And after most sentient beings had come around to his way of thinking, Glenn Beck explained why he hadn’t rushed to judge Shirley Sherrod, and it all made sense. Your New Sara was so impressed that she even wrote him an old-fashioned pen-and-paper email to say so! What kind of a crazy world is this, in which such things occur?
I watched Shirley Sherrod on CNN with the handsomest man on television, Mr. Tony “Benincasa” Harris, and I cried. Then I read your Jack Stuef’s barbaric yawp of righteous indignation, and I also cried at this! Theeeen I watched clips from Glenn Beck, and I cried again! Here is why I will never make fun of Glenn Beck for crying on TV: I have cried on my radio show, thrice. If I had a TV show, I would also probably cry on it sometimes!
In short, Glenn Beck and me are like peas in an emotionally unbalanced pod. Do we both not weep? Do we both not bleed? Could we both not benefit from selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors? Sometimes it is nice to realize that you have at least one thing in common with someone whose opinions you mostly abhor. Thank you, Andrew Breitbart and Tom Vilsack, for making this moment of clarity possible!
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Glenn Beck’s whole schtick is his emotional imbalance… If you got him properly medicated he’d be just another old angry white guy!
I would go *so* straight for Rachel Maddow, you have no idea.
Considering that TOP Gun is rather, um, homoerotic the analogy it works.
BTW Sara, will you shoot me down if I sing “You’ve Lost That Loving Feeling”?
Thank you, Sara, for referencing the neat story that gives me my screen name. “For the love of God, Montresor!”
I think you’re only only similar to Beck if your tears were faked using on by Vapo Rub.
Glenn and Sara, up in a tree…
Saw his branch off!
You people have got it all wrong – the correct phrase is “Maclear Dystrophy” – only the red state hicks pronounce it “Macular Dystrophy”..like Nukular.
Anyway, through my vaseline-smeared, Vicks Vaporub-gassed, soon to be maclear-dystrophized eyes, that dude in the sexy flightsuit looks awful like our old Deciderer-in Chief.
Fuck SSRIs, the weight gain is so not worth it, I much prefer my emotional roller-coaster to being chubby.
[re=623129]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Really, can Tom Cruise make a movie that is not homoerotic?
With respect to the numerous videos above: NICE FUCKING TRY.
“You know how at the end of Top Gun … ”
Um, no. It was unpossible to keep watching that movie for that Long, so I’ll have to take your word for it. But Glenn Beck finding fault with the NAACP and/or the Obama admin?!?! Well dog my cats!
Fox is reporting that the FBI is investigating a letter-sized envelope mailed to Glen Beck that contained a “suspicious substance.”
And then Glenn asked aloud “why are the Muslim families responsible for 9/11 permitted to have a special day all their own at Six Flags? And on September 12th no less?! Why does this even need to be made public? Couldn’t they secretly identify themselves on their special day at the park by all, say, wearing the same color shirts. I’ve heard other groups do that.”
So, weepiness aside, it’s ok to hate Glenn “The Seratonanator” Beck for his tears, though earnest, are still lacrimosa diaboli.
FOX News reporters off to stalk AARP members who have to eat Fido’s food to survive;
http://js-kit.com/blob/h0_7LN3Ry_YOvJJ32_n0JG.jpg
i refuse to give undue credit to people saying common sense things just because they’re otherwise routinely stupid.
it’s like when ron paul stood at his miniature podium during the republican primary debates and criticized the iraq war, therefore everyone must love him because he’s saying things that literally any reasonable person on earth would say. he just happens to be surrounded by fools. oh. he also wants to withdraw from the united nations…
if glenn beck wants my grudging respect, he can make a salient point more than once every two years.
But isn’t Beck defending Sherrod just as a way to attack the NAACP? What am I missing?
You know, most days when I can’t follow a post on here, I think, eh, I’m getting too old. Today, however, I think I’m getting too sane.
[re=623140]Prommie[/re]:
Taps… maybe. Otherwise, you’re probably right. Top Gun cranks the homoerotic up to 11. A movie that my 15 year old self loved at the time and now I cringe in great shame at the memory.
[re=623140]Prommie[/re]: For real. During Jerry McGuire, all I kept thinking was, When is the camera going to offer us, the viewers, a long, loving, lingering gaze at Renee Zellwiger with her shirt off for a change? This is sexism!
Today, we are all crying-butt-scratching-hand-sniffing-Glenn Beck.
“barbaric yawp of righteous indignation”
Does that mean Jack Stuef = Ethan Hawke? And Glenn Beck = sweaty toothed madman?
>[...]orthodox style, plus everything is very gay?
Alright, I’ll be the fall guy/straight man with the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekXxi9IKZSA
[re=623129]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Please sing it, that would take my breath away…
Big fucking deal! While everyone isinflicting cunnilingus and fellatio on themselves and the rest of us, the real story is this woman Shirley Sherrod. Talk about a graceful, poised and articulate presence. The Brazillionaire is not big on the morality play thing but hers is a story that inspires. Glenn Beck…here boy (pat, pat)! Now go suck a telephone pole!
Sara, rather than being a ghey wingman with ruffled feathers, how’s ’bout Glenn putting on his fav burka and walking point through some Afghan mine fields?
and then everyone turns to Breitbart and says you really are the king of all the douche people.
Baby Tiny Tears defending Shirley does not impress me in the least. He’s a whack job. Just because Charles Manson also liked the Beatles does not make me like Charles Manson.
Yeah, sorry, Sara, but I don’t see Beck as all that much of an SSRI sort of guy. Lithium, sure. One of your atypical antipsychotics, like Respiradone, certainly. Maybe even something a bit harsher, like one of your first-gens like Thorazine. But my point is basically that I’ve always gotten much more of a “manic episode with paranoid delusions verging on psychosis” vibe from Beck than an “anxiety disorder” vibe. And if it is the former, SSRI’s would be liable to make things worse, not better. Which, don’t get me wrong, would be hilarious to witness, but.
Honestly, it’s kinda scary to me how many of those drugs I know about from personal experience.
[re=623150]Darkness[/re]: I think I’m getting too sober.
[re=623151]ManchuCandidate[/re]: You want cringing shame? When the Village People hit the national scene during my high school years in Mass., me (and all my bristling with testosterone friends) had no clue…NONE…that they were a bunch of “quee-ahs.” Honest to god, I saw them on Dick Clark and he was telling them, “I betcha the babes go crazy for you in those outfits.”
Ok, I don’t really cringe. More like laugh myself silly.
[re=623151]ManchuCandidate[/re]: “Taps” is crazy gay! A bunch of adolescent military mens all huddled together holding their guns, showering and whatnot, and fighting against “the man” who wants to break up their little love nest. I hear that movie is constantly being checked out at the Vatican library.
Weepy Glenn Beck Can Be Your Wingman Anytime
Only if you also like hitting yourself on the head with a hammer because it feels so good when you stop.
Beck getting the back of any female, black and or librul./progressive is smokescreen for him co-opting the civil rights movement and the whole “9/12″ idiocy.
That being said; Nice fucking blingee!
[re=623148]fictional character[/re]:
I second that emotion. When this leaky tub finally shows a pattern of organic.,rational thought-as opposed to the ravages of his organic brain dementia , which is increasingly obvious- maybe he’ll prove himself to be above reproach. Maybe. Probably not. The sickness is deep.
Re: R. Maddow: After I saw that yearbook photo of her in the Lisa Simpson pearls, with the teased up bangs, I must admit.that I pictured some beeve-on-beeve action that would rival an episode of NOVA.
[re=623172]proudgrampa[/re]: Just keep drinking responsively?
[re=623143]user-of-owls[/re]:
Probably hookworm infestation prevention powder. Palin must be going on his show.
Hmm, I’m not willing to give Beck credit on this one. Yeah, he said Shirley deserves her job back, but in the same breath he also manages to disparage the NAACP and lob in a Black Panthers non-sequitur. So he’s really just the same piece of shit he always was.
[re=623170]mumblyjoe[/re]: I took some Thorazine once because it seemed like a good idea at the time. Didn’t like how it made me feel so I took a bunch of crank and some acid. So I was tripping and speeding my brains out but because of the Thorazine I hardly noticed. Weird and annoying. I never tried Thorazine again.
Sara, I refer you to another movie, “The Crying Game.” If you recall, things were not quite as they seemed. Then, there was that shocker of a twist at the end and all the crying stopped.
Well, seeing as Glenn Beck came within a hair’s breadth of inciting the murder of my friends who work at the Tides Foundation, no, I’m not going to approve of Sara’s even partial rehabilitation. Fuck Glenn Beck in all his myriad forms. Fuck him high and low. Fuck him when he’s right and when he’s wrong. Fuck him for his entire Mormon God eternity on his own fucking planet. Fuck him.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/organization_targeted_by_anti-govt_ca_shooting_suspect_was_frequent_topic_on_glenn_becks_show_video.php
Well I thank you also because yeah, thought you guys were kidding about Glenn Beck yesterday (or Beck’s support with *ahem* his usual provisions…)
(…because I’m too lazy and in love with you to be seeing other homosexual radical leftist socialist Al Qaeda fascisti web sights.)
Yes, he is rather sincere in his erratic haphazard hysterical outbursts of paranoia and hate. I’m with [re=623149]Katydid[/re] on this one.
Please never compare yourself to him again, Sara. It gives me that unclean feeling down there.
Even a broken clock…
Listening to Beck for even 10 minutes is like listening to De Caprio’s character in “Shutter Island,” except De Caprio’s character is really handsome and is receiving the treatment he needs.
[re=623162]Sleeves[/re]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyN8VN4BSzM
[re=623170]mumblyjoe[/re]: Always saw Beck as a bi-polar manic guy too. And like a great many bipolar people, he is also a substance abuser of the highest order.
If you’ve ever had an ex-girlfriend banging on your door sobbing her head off and yelling so the neighbors can hear at 4AM and then calling the police because she swore you must be dead because you wouldn’t answer the door for her crazy ass at 4AM, you know what I’m talking about.
[re=623205]x111e7thst[/re]: There was this episode of House where he dropped acid to cure a migrane, and then took an SSRI to supposedly reverse the acid trip. I’m used to junk medicine in House, but this one literally made no sense to me: SSRIs are known for sending manic-phase bipolar people off the deep end, for example, and both pychadelics and SSRIS are seratonin agonists. Taking an SSRI while your brain is already swimming in seratonin would, best case, make someone completely trip balls, and worst case, kill them. And in fact, the patient of the week was suffering serotnin syndrome at that very moment, so this was triply inane.
I love the soap opera elements, but even Scrubs and Gray’s get the medicine right more often than House does, and those shows really more about doctors having whiny sex than anything else.
[re=623173]user-of-owls[/re]: Oh man, during The Village People craze, I was in high school in Redneckville, Florida, spending my time going muddin’ in 4 wheel drives, dipping snuff, and otherwise rednecking about, and we all loved The Village People. So so so fucking clueless. We adored Queen, too, had no fucking idea. But that was those days, I think. When you look back at almost every single male in a TV comedy from the 60s, how many do you now realize were flaming queens? Darren Stevens, the Brady dad, just about all of them. Charles Nelson Riley, did you know, or did you just think he talked funny? And Merv Griffin, even. Gomer Pyle, how in the world could Gomer Pyle be gay? Liberace, there was something funny about the way even our parents talked about him, Liberace, we had our suspicions, but all the rest, clueless, I tells ya. This probably sounds unbelievable to the youngs around here.
[re=623223]Gorillionaire[/re]: yeah, but the crazy sex is the best sex, admit it.
[re=623205]x111e7thst[/re]: It worked pretty well if you did too much acid and speed–one big ass tab of thorazine worked like an ACME 5,000 lb. weight falling on Wile E. Coyote. Slowed you down real good.
[re=623140]Prommie[/re]: Eyes Wide Shut — one of the most unerotic sex movies of all time. Every scene with Cruise and Nicole Kidman features him trying to squeeze an emotion out of his tiny face, and every other scene is tedious bullshit.
[re=623229]Prommie[/re]: Were people really that clueless back in the 70s? Pretty much all of the Village People’s lyrics were about the gay sex; hell they had a song called Fire Island, that includes the refrain “don’t go in the bushes”. Their biggest hit is YMCA, and that’s hardly subtle.
[re=623223]Gorillionaire[/re]: Try a bipolar girlfriend (no pychosis, but struggled with finding a decent med regimen the entire time I knew her) and a bipolar roommate (hella psychosis, of the “‘words in foreign languages’ keep entering my brain” sort, and med non-compliant, and hoarded hundreds of library books, also) at the same time. It was sort of a rough year, not in the least because of my own issues as intimated above, which are different, but sort of lend themselves to my not being a good support network, for many of the same reasons you wouldn’t want any other sort of robot to be your support network.
Jesus Fucking Christ on a pony, Benincasa. This was so outrageous I’m typing this on my iPhone, but I just had to say, if Glen Beck hadn’t spent the last year saying he believes health care reform will mean the government will kill Trig, that Van Jones is a convicted felon (followed by his explanation that he only said that because he doesn’t know the difference between “successful plaintiff” and “convicted felon”), or that James Vonn Brunn was forced to do what he did by too much political correctness, or that Eric Holder going to Afghanistan is weird because attorneys general never go overseas (which they do all the time,esp to advise foreign governments on how to craft a legal system), or that he’s going BLIND, for Pete’s sake, because he has myopiea, probably because he doesn’t know the difference between “reading glasses” and “fake prop reading glasses you wear on TV because you’re stupid and ugly, and hey, glasses cover up your face and maybe make you look smart,” or any of the millions of other retarded things he’s said that i missed because I only spend five minutes a year listening to his show, maybe, just maybe I’d feel slightly encouraged by his ersatz perspicacity.
[re=623232]Prommie[/re]: It can be quite exhilirating but I would rate it just slightly under toking some killer weed while on vacation and doing it at the bed and breakfast house and being discreetly asked to check out the next day sex.
[re=623253]Rajul[/re]: On the internet, history constantly re-starts 48 hours ago.
[re=623229]Prommie[/re]: Do those people not do any research whatsoever? It would’ve taken a three-minute call to the first stoner they could think of to inform them that B-complex is the antidote for acid. Really, make sure you have some handy when you’re tripping, so if you have a bad time you can stop. Never had to use it myself, but I still keep some around just in case.
[re=623247]JMP[/re]: “Let’s start off with the Village People’s ‘YMCA’ and Donna Summer’s ‘Bad Girls,’ two exciting testaments to the social sensibilities of Disco. One of them is about meeting adolescent homosexuals in a public gymnasium, and the other is a celebration of prostitution.” –Mark Slackmeyer, ca. 1979
[re=623173]user-of-owls[/re]: LOL. Hopefully Mr. Clark (who fought asshole racists like Mr. Beck back in the 50′s & 60′s in his own way) was being a smartass. But color me guilty of naivete too, for my friends & I were all in love with Freddie Mercury from Queen back in the early 70′s. Way before the mustache…and before we saw what his teeth looked like.
[re=623247]JMP[/re]: yes, yes we were that clueless.
[re=623276]Libbygirl[/re]: The VH-1, I think it was, biography of Freddie Mercury begins with the words “Born on the island of Zanzibar to Zoroastrian Persion parents, . . .”
If Freddie Mercury didn’t exist, noone could have made him up, thats for sure. And have you ever heard his lisp, when speaking?
Meh, Erick son of Erick did the same thing the other night and Steuf mentioned it too. But if you read Erick’s post you saw that he also spent several paragraphs saying things like “Fuck those black congressmen who claimed they were called names by racist Tea Partiers during the health care debate because that never happened and they are huge liars and Lord knows I don’t want my batshit crazy readers to think I’m going soft on the black folk but yeah this one woman did get railroaded.” My feeling with Beck, like with E son of E, is “Please don’t try to help, crazy man.”
[re=623229]Prommie[/re]: Haha. I love it when this subject comes up because every time it does someone drops a name that make me say OMG, Really!?, and then I think about it for about 2 seconds and then say, oh, yeah, I guess he was pretty obvious, I just never considered it.
So anyway: <OMG! Jim Nabors? Really!? You known, now it seems kinda obvious…
[re=623290]Prommie[/re]: >yes, yes we were that clueless.
I’m still batting about .333
[re=623220]Buttery1000[/re]: Thank you!
Also and also, I believe YMCA was inspired by the book City of Night by John Rechy, about a male hustler, said book having been published around 1960. I suppose everyone in the ’70s was too zonked out on coke and whip-its to do the research, though.
[re=623275]DoktorZoom[/re]: Jawohl, mein disco Füerher!
[re=623298]Sleeves[/re]: [re=623296]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: We didn’t even know fucking Her Royal Majesty Elton John was gay, for the love of God, can you imagine? yet for some reason, the rumors flew about Rod Stewart and David Bowie.
[re=623247]JMP[/re]: [re=623290]Prommie[/re]: [re=623296]Lascauxcaveman[/re]: (and others)
I am absolutely not kidding. As Prommie said, we had no idea whatsoever. It’s hard to describe now, but at the time the very idea that popular entertainers were not just flamers, but were openly singing flamer perv songs, was just unthinkable. I bumped, I grinded…hell, I did the Hustle…to the songs trying to sex up the girlies.
Now what makes this majestically weird in my case is that during the same time, me and buddies would routinely drive up Rte. Six from the sleepy Cape town we were in to Provincetown where the action was. God, I remember getting tanked on the patio of Cafe Blase for crissakes. So it is not that I lacked exposure to the gay community. And yet, and yet…it wasn’t until YEARS later that I looked at the Village People and said, “NO! What the fuck?!”
Although I disagree with your analysis I did enjoy reading this, Sara.
I think this is a ploy many on the right, especially Glenn Beck, have where they will try to say something reasonable and respectable once in a while to prove that the other things they say might be reasonable. It’s like when a Libertarian will say pot shouldn’t be illegal.
This also works because Beck and others can use it to attack the Obama Administration for canning her in the first place and for being “cowards” on race. These people love talking about Holder’s comment about how we’re a nation of cowards when it comes to race and I’ve heard some already use that as a means to talk about how it is Obama that is a coward whereas the Right is able to appear to have the reasonable high road.
I would have a lot more respect for Beck and Erickson, who is also pulling a similar move, if they were to savage Breitbart. Seriously, fuck that guy. He’s the worst. They won’t turn against him, though, and instead are ignoring what he said.
This whole story also gets the media to stop talking about that Tea Party Express asshole and instead focusing on how mean and/or cowardly Obama is in handling race.
Instead of talking about how the Teabaggers are racist, which they are, we’re instead talking about this. I’d rather discuss how a group of openly homophobic and horrifically anti-Muslim assholes only manage to not say the N Word because of how it’d play out in the media. I’d rather talk about how Beck’s favorite writer, Skousen, once wrote a forward to a book that had parts calling MLK a Communisit revolutionary who should be put to death. Instead we’re talking about how cowardly the Obama Administration is on race and we’ll get a thousand more stories about this.
Not that every Conservative Shit Head is making sense on this. Mark Levin was on the Andy Group this morning and fuming over how horrible this woman still is. He then went on a tirade about how liberals never seem happy, although the while sounding as though he was about to have a rage fueled stroke.
But hey, not a bad piece Sara. Maybe I’ll come around to your stuff and the first few posts didn’t jive with my sense of humor is all that happened.
To paraphrase a great American, Rocky Balboa, if I can change and you can change then we all can change.
[re=623309]Prommie[/re]: Ha! Yes! I forgot about Her Mincingness. Totally true again.
I don’t understand this blingee.
Until Beck attacks Fox News and Breitfart he’s still a pathetic waste of air.
After reading Sara’s post above, if you had told me that the thread would turn (quickly!) into a conversation on the gayness 70s-era musicians, and the relative obliviousness of wonkette commentators regarding said gayness, I would not have believed you. So clearly I lack imagination.
[re=623313]OldOneEye[/re]: Better still, no one on earth is talking about the financial reform legislation that is being signed today. Legislation that most people think is a really good thing. So yeah, this was an awesome, awesome way for Breitbart to steal the spotlight from something important and meaningful, and point it instead at something that is retarded.
O’Reilly may have apologized then segued to more subtle race-baiting, and Beck may be rewriting history trying to say he never went after her, but Limbaugh ain’t having it. He’s still holding on to his original point no matter what. The man is simply incapable of admitting he was wrong about anything.
“Gay Top Cruise”-related blog post commenting Internets tradition mandates that Quentin Tarantino’s definitive statement on the subject be noted and linked to.
So, for all none of you who haven’t seen it, here’s the embelished (i.e. super fucking gay) edit of Quentin’s HI-larious speecharino.
BUT SARA, WAIT!
What about “Maverick’s” dead backseat buddy, Nick “Goose” Bradshaw?! How come no one ever dreams of being gay for “Goose”? (“User-of-Owls” excepted, of course…)
Is it because they’re afraid of the perky pecan pie lady who fucked Forrest Gump?
[re=623129]ManchuCandidate[/re]: [re=623164]JMP[/re]: Watch it you two — flirting like that will take you right. In. To…The danger zone!
[re=623327]ArugulaTeleprompterz[/re]: So clearly I lack imagination.
Well, you could take some acid, that might help.
[re=623220]Buttery1000[/re]: [re=623162]Sleeves[/re]: Shit, sorry Buttery Sleeves — I don’t have all the gay-ass YouTube URLs memorized yet.
[re=623309]Prommie[/re]: [re=623313]OldOneEye[/re]: I was there too. Three guys in my immediate circle in HS were totally gay, and for a while, gay for me. I never figured out why they all signed up for the same Power Weightlifting class I mentioned I was taking, until 3 years after graduation I ran into one of them at gig my band was playing at. After the show, we went back to his apartment and … whoops, the the Penthouse Gay Forum version.
After the show, we went down to the College Inn Pub with two of my bandmates, and over a few pitchers of Redhook he told me hilarious stories about their rivalry over me. It was all very sweet and naive and weirdly flattering, and ironic also, because other guys (and me) in the straight side of my circle had a tendency to compete over the same attractive young ladies simultaneously and still managed to stay good friends because the ones we were after never gave any of us the time of day.
I should write all this stuff up and hand it over the producers of Glee; done correctly, it would be a decent idea for a spinoff. Maybe call it Chagrin or something.
Beck’s inadvertent lucid moment had nothing to do with the merits of the issue. He knew Breitbart had been caught with his hand in the girl scout, and it was necessary to create some separation.
Ever watch sharks react when one of their number is wounded? Yeah – it’s kinda like that. Not pretty.
[re=623327]ArugulaTeleprompterz[/re]: [re=623386]user-of-owls[/re]: Or please see the recent Silver thread, 4:49 PM on Wed July 21 2010.
That’s more legal and occult and I-don’t-care-Nate.
[re=623309]Prommie[/re]: Well, I believe Bowie is bi so the rumors about him were probably true.
Allusion to “The Cask of Amontillado” = immediate and absolute win.
Beck U’s fall term can’t start soon enough for me.
[re=623311]user-of-owls et al.[/re]: Rob Halford.
And, “bi” the way, rough boy Pete Townshend.
[re=623309]Prommie[/re]: [re=623437]JMP[/re]: Mick Jagger did not have sexual relations with that man, Mr. Bowie.
Now it’s the NAACP’s fault that she lost her job?
Yes, I raped that woman, but she had it coming. Did you see how she was dressed?
nemo me impune lacessit!
[re=623129]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Once when I was at my first college, Emerson College, and living in the Netherlands (I never smoked pot there! Can you believe this?!)I was with all my classmates in a bar, eating French fries with mayo and ketchup. This was in the Fall of 2000, and the bartender used to make fun of us for not having a president yet, because of the Hanging Chads and also the Lies. And that song came on the jukebox, and all 30 boys made me stand on a chair and they all sang it to me. It remains one of the greatest moments of my life, and I WAS ONCE ON MTV’S TRL so you know the bar is set high.
[re=623149]Katydid[/re]: I definitely see that point, but I honestly don’t think that’s his only motivation. Then again, how can any of us know the mind of God, or Glenn Beck (SAME DIFF)? Also, you are a very nice person.
[re=623176]Joshua Norton[/re]: It is fitting that the King of the USA should have Calvin as his most sacred avatar. Hooray!
[re=623214]itgetter[/re]: My boyfriend just taught me that saying for the first time! It was his reaction as well.
[re=623313]OldOneEye[/re]: Thank you! I really appreciate that.
Ms. Benincasa — While I do believe that it is important to realize that each human being is unique, and that it is possible for even the most vile and self-obsessed to occasionally display a flash of genuine compassion, I also feel that it is important to base one’s overall evaluation of other folks on their long-term average behavior.
Beck, like Limbaugh, is a profit-driven con man who has found a lucrative audience that will pay handsomely to have its stereotypes reinforced. 95% or more of his public speech is aimed at reinforcing those beliefs, with no regard at all to what some of us still call, quaintly, “objective truth”. Occasionally, people write stuff that suggests that, in private life, Beck is more human than is his public persona. To this I say: “who cares?” His persona contaminates political discourse — his internal beliefs (if any) have been permanently submerged into his public personality.
Well, I see that this is another snark-free comment, so, sorry. But Beck has for many years clearly shown himself to be a “I don’t care about possible consequences of my ranting” douchebag, and random spurts of possible residual humanity should therefore be ignored as irrelevant.
And, while I suppose you already know this, people don’t make fun of Beck for crying on air, they make fun of him for faking it. You cried on air. Did you use Vicks to induce it?
[re=623327]ArugulaTeleprompterz[/re]: What if someone told you that there would also be this awesome side-conversation about the best psychiatric meds to take, while tripping balls?
(Honestly, even I had no idea that’s where my comment would lead, Wonkette comment threads are amazing that way)
[re=623391]Extemporanus[/re]: I don’t know what I like better about that détournement: the vibrating cockpits; the 292 DISLIKEs.
Well.
Well, well, well.
Glenn Beck is now officially definitely gay. Yay!
[re=623313]OldOneEye[/re]: That’s the spirit. I often say that whatever doesn’t make you laugh makes you stronger. And whatever doesn’t kill you wasn’t trying hard enough.
As for Glenn Beck, it was a transparent way to get at the Obama Administration for being spineless, which they were. If Obama stood up to the arseholes, Glenn Beck would’ve called Sherrod a racist who hates white people. But as it was, this was an opportunity to look like a good guy while excoriating the Obama Administration.
http://mediamatters.org/research/201007210055
Media Matters has a clip from Beck’s radio show where he does exactly what you are applauding him for not doing.
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