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Is It Time to Stop Picking on Glenn Beck?
AOL Television ^ | November 17, 2009 | Gary Susman

Posted on 11/20/2009 1:34:35 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia

It's easy to make fun of Glenn Beck. We've done it here, and Beck even does it himself (as on the November cover of his Fusion magazine).

But over the last couple of weeks, as Beck lay recuperating from appendicitis, he's been the target of numerous satirical skewerings, from such parodists as 'Saturday Night Live,' 'The Daily Show,' and 'South Park.' Some of these barbs have gone beyond mocking his on-air antics and have gotten viciously personal. Not that we want to be the Beck-lash police, but to paraphrase a well-known Britney Spears fan, is it time to leave Glenn Beck aloooone?

Beck makes himself an easy target. There's his Vicks Vaporub-induced crying jags, his bizarre conspiracy theories, his distortions of fact (which he often does by quoting people out of context), his (literally) inflammatory rhetoric, the desertion of his show by 80 former advertisers (as a result of said inflammatory rhetoric), and his cult of personality/political movement.

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1 posted on 11/20/2009 1:34:36 PM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

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

Victim in fatal car accident tragically not Glenn Beck

Reminds me of this


2 posted on 11/20/2009 1:38:00 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
his bizarre conspiracy theories, his distortions of fact (which he often does by quoting people out of context), his (literally) inflammatory rhetoric, the desertion of his show by 80 former advertisers (as a result of said inflammatory rhetoric), and his cult of personality/political movement.

All completely fraudulent statements. Rather the writing such ignorant drivel Gary, try actually watching and listening to Beck

3 posted on 11/20/2009 1:38:52 PM PST by MNJohnnie (A conversation with a leftist takes more effort than explaining the tax code to a 3rd grader)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
It's breathtaking how deliberate and incessant are the attacks on Beck and Palin... the two biggest threats to the Maobama Reich. Rush must be enjoying the break. LMAO

;-/

4 posted on 11/20/2009 1:40:05 PM PST by Gargantua (Palin/Rove 2012)
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To: MNJohnnie

Yeah. In an article purporting to be sticking up for Glenn, it spends most of its time attacking him.


5 posted on 11/20/2009 1:40:07 PM PST by Blogger
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To: Gargantua

glenn beck is alot more dangerous than rush these days. Glenn Beck exposes ppl in the Obama admin, which gets them fired. Corruption in ACORN/SEIU etc


6 posted on 11/20/2009 1:42:18 PM PST by 4rcane
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

“Vicks Vaporub-induced crying jags”

Didn’t he do this for a photoshoot? I would be more concerned if he could cry on cue. But since he was taking pics mocking his own self crying, he needed vicks for tears.


7 posted on 11/20/2009 1:44:18 PM PST by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
I agree, but don't you think he invented a caricature of himself which makes it easy for others to make fun of?
8 posted on 11/20/2009 1:44:56 PM PST by 1776 Reborn (Test kids and politicians (bigger idiots) on the Constitution!)
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To: Blogger

That is what I got out of it. Especially that paragraph that talked about why Glenn is an “easy target”.


9 posted on 11/20/2009 1:47:41 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian (I am the Grim FReeper.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

I was shocked to see this coming from AOL. (I skimmed the article when it popped up on my home page). I’ll have to actually read it in more depth now, but I have to admit,, the title alone is shocking to me.


10 posted on 11/20/2009 1:47:45 PM PST by IMissPresidentReagan (ATTENTION RINOS: IT'S NOT THAT I'M TOO FAR RIGHT; IT'S THAT YOU'RE TOO FAR WRONG! fubo funp)
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I think this article is the tactic of pretending like you are defending someone but really the purpose is to establish as "fact" fraudulent statements by including them as givens. For example,

Beck makes himself an easy target. There's his Vicks Vaporub-induced crying jags, his bizarre conspiracy theories, his distortions of fact (which he often does by quoting people out of context), his (literally) inflammatory rhetoric, the desertion of his show by 80 former advertisers (as a result of said inflammatory rhetoric), and his cult of personality/political movement.

11 posted on 11/20/2009 1:49:47 PM PST by Pete (exponential problems require exponential solutions : 29thday.org)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Read the comments at AOL. Love the fact that the Leftist posters there are such obvious liars. They all claim to “have watched Beck” yet make such transparently fraudulent accusations about Beck


12 posted on 11/20/2009 1:50:26 PM PST by MNJohnnie (A conversation with a leftist takes more effort than explaining the tax code to a 3rd grader)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Beck is right. We have radical marxists in the White House.

Liberals have scales of biblical proportions over their eyes.
Hope they are having fun now, because they aren’t just in denial...


13 posted on 11/20/2009 1:51:08 PM PST by two23 (The czars in the WH are commies)
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To: MNJohnnie

Most people who hate Glenn Beck have never even watched or listened to Glenn Beck. Megadittos Rush.


14 posted on 11/20/2009 1:51:19 PM PST by all the best
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To: all the best

Does anyone know why Mark Levin absolutely hates Glenn? On the radio, Levin attacks Glenn more viciously than anybody else.


15 posted on 11/20/2009 1:53:22 PM PST by Cheap_Hessian (I am the Grim FReeper.)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Just because this guy writes for the Village Voice doesn't make him gay!

...or does it?

16 posted on 11/20/2009 1:54:14 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Cheap_Hessian
Does anyone know why Mark Levin absolutely hates Glenn?

My guess:


17 posted on 11/20/2009 1:56:55 PM PST by TexasCajun
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To: Pete

Beck doesnt want mindless robots. He wants a group of free thinking people who wants to know what the hell happened to America.
Mindless robots are on the left. They are people who dont ask questions, wont make decisions and would rather be lead.They are afraid that one day, they will have to think for themseleves.


18 posted on 11/20/2009 1:58:16 PM PST by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: MNJohnnie

It’s like he’s saying “I COULD point out that Glenn Beck is a criminally insane mentally retarded caveman, but I won’t, because I’m above that.”


19 posted on 11/20/2009 1:58:38 PM PST by murdoog ("Aim high. Shoot straight. Praise the Lord. Audit the FED." Gary North)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Too late! Beck has already defused these attempts to mock him, by embracing the humor and laughing at it. You libtards screwed up. He immunized himself. Keep mocking him. Every time he plays them on his show, it reminds ALL of your extreme left bias. Keep it up. Dig your graves.


20 posted on 11/20/2009 2:01:40 PM PST by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (Depression Countdown: 50... 49... 48...)
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