Comment by Silenus on May 14, 2010 at 7:00pm

i don't think glenn beck believes what he says, himself.

Comment by Shine on May 14, 2010 at 8:36pm

If you haven't done so already, you must watch Wednesday's episode of The Daily Show with Lewis Black's segment on Glenn Beck's "Nazi Tourettes." I can't link it directly, but here is the segment featured on Keith Olberman:


But I agree with the idea that Beck does not actually believe his own shtick. I see him as a dramatic actor performing dangerous, misleading, and inflammatory soliloquies to an audience who mistakes the hyperbolic contrivance for truth.

Comment by James on May 15, 2010 at 12:49am

WOW! Lewis Black is amazing in that video. Now, if we could only show that video to every Glen Beck fan.

Comment by Wesley on May 15, 2010 at 1:09pm

I love Lewis Black... T/A needs a Lewis Black fan club! Maybe we also need a Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin and other nut jobs... 'Stupid things that they've said' fan club too.

Comment by Cara Coleen on May 16, 2010 at 8:34am

Yeah, Black was pretty freakin' awesome. I don't know how anyone could not see what he's saying about Beck, but my mother consistently amazes me...

Comment by RD Lawson on September 30, 2010 at 6:50pm

Beck has the ability to simeltaneously "speak" to different groups of people so that these groups all think he is advancing exactly what they believe.
Libertarians think he's about to join their ranks, Christian fundamentalists think he's going to bring back God to politics, conspiracy theorists think he's going to "expose" well.. whatever.
He's leading all these different groups on and that's why he's popular.

Comment by Matt Coulthurst on September 30, 2010 at 7:45pm

Wesley - check out Dispatches from the Culture Wars over at ScienceBlogs for the Dumbass Quote of the Day posts - some of them are absolutely mind-boggling. Needless to say, Palin and Beck are frequently mentioned.

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