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Glenn Beck is now beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insane

It is 2011 people and we are still seeking the words and advice of self proclaimed doomsday prophets!? WTF is wrong with us!?

You name one end of times prophet that has been correct and then you will have a reason to listen to these nut bags... of course we would all be dead but seeing as we aren't I think its time to put down the book of revelations and deal with actual corporal problems we face. The anti-christ is the last thing on my lists of problems America faces right behind the U.S.S.R and the Japanese empire.
 
Biscuit said:
It is 2011 people and we are still seeking the words and advice of self proclaimed doomsday prophets!? WTF is wrong with us!?

You name one end of times prophet that has been correct and then you will have a reason to listen to these nut bags... of course we would all be dead but seeing as we aren't I think its time to put down the book of revelations and deal with actual corporal problems we face. The anti-christ is the last thing on my lists of problems America faces right behind the U.S.S.R and the Japanese empire.
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Don't forget all the out-of-work secretaries, buggy drivers, elevator operators, typewriter repairmen, milkmen and Ceylonian mercenaries from Yugoslavia.

But you know, one end-times prophet will be right eventually, and then he'll tell us all 'told you so' :D
 
C_Felix said:
I'm starting to think GB has more in common with Andy Kaufman than Rush or Hannity.

I'm starting to think that GB is a performance artist (and the joke is on [some] of us.)
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In 15 years, this is going to be f-ing HILARIOUS!
 
Puppycow said:
Just one of many recent examples: Beck has a man on his show who literally claims to be a prophet, and who wrote an article in World Nut Daily comparing Obama to the Antichrist. And he's presenting this guy as an expert on "the end times" and claiming that the protests in Wisconsin have something to do with the end times.
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That reminds me of another very fascinating prophetic figure. This man, known as the Mahdi (or rightly guided one), is known little throughout the Western world, but is awaited with an increasing fervency by many of the world's roughly 1.3 billion Muslims.
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In Shia and Sunni eschatology, the Mahdi is the prophesied redeemer of Islam who will stay on Earth for seven, nine or nineteen years
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If Obama steps down before his eighth year then he is making Biden President! He truly is the antichrist!
 
Dancing David said:
Crazy sells
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FTW.

I recall a couple of decades ago listening to Tom Lykas, a left-ish radio talk show host. At some point he realized that saying outrageous things about women boosted ratings, so he slowly shifted to making sexist statements on the radio until his shows were largely him beakin' off about women and them calling in all outraged.
 
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Corsair 115 said:
Glenn Beck = Howard Beal of Network.

Beck had best hope it ends a little better for him than it did Mr. Beal. :D
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Thing is Beck himself makes that comparasion.
Since I am convinced that Beck does not buy half the crap he says, I would say that Lonesome Rhodes (Andy Griffith) in "A Face In The Crowd" is a better comparasion.
 
a_unique_person said:
How are his ratings going. That is all Fox cares about.
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They are going down, bigtime.
In this case it is about the ratings. It's not about the actual income Beck gets for Fox, that has never been that much, few of the big money advertisers want to be identified with Beck and don't buy ads on his show, but Beck's one time big ratings did act as what is called in the TV business a "Locomotive" his large ratings spilled over to other Fox shows, but since his ratings are dropping He seems to be vulnerable.
And that several of the more mainstream conservative writers he is fighting with have a lot of influence with Fox, I think his career elevator is going down.
 
dudalb said:
They are going down, bigtime.
In this case it is about the ratings. It's not about the actual income Beck gets for Fox, that has never been that much, few of the big money advertisers want to be identified with Beck and don't buy ads on his show, but Beck's one time big ratings did act as what is called in the TV business a "Locomotive" his large ratings spilled over to other Fox shows, but since his ratings are dropping He seems to be vulnerable.
And that several of the more mainstream conservative writers he is fighting with have a lot of influence with Fox, I think his career elevator is going down.
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According to this, he's way down and trending that way continues.

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101270008

The first sign of the eminent demise will be when Fox moves his time slot around.

He reminds me of Morton Downey, Jr. back in the 1980's, not Howard Beale.
 
IDB87 said:
Has no one told him that the person shining the flash-light in the back of the room means the act is over?
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Or maybe Rupert Murdoch will call Beck in to a darkened room for a Ned Beatty in Network Moment.
 
BTW I cannot recommend the Elia Kazan film "A Face In The Crowd " enough. It's the story of the rise and fall of a TV/Radio demogogue, played by Andy Griffith in an incredible performance.
 
Puppycow said:
Glenn Beck is now beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insane

It's hardly worth commenting on every stupid thing Glenn Beck says anymore, but lately he has really gone way, way, way too far down the rabbit hole of his own fevered imagination.
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Here's Beck's Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 tv show:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video...-23-2011-richard-trumpka-and-the-white-house/

39:55 minutes, no commercials, but you get a little free live Obama thrown in.

Just so we can see where you're coming from, please show us some examples of his obvious "beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insanity" from this episode. What do you find so unacceptable, objectionable and/or so very troubling here?
 
Puppycow said:
Just one of many recent examples: Beck has a man on his show who literally claims to be a prophet, and who wrote an article in World Nut Daily comparing Obama to the Antichrist. And he's presenting this guy as an expert on "the end times" and claiming that the protests in Wisconsin have something to do with the end times.
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There are plenty of people in the USA who believe in those End Times lock stock and barrel Puppycow! Beck plays to that demographic, and that scares the brown stuff out of me.
 
JudeBrando said:
Here's Beck's Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 tv show:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video...-23-2011-richard-trumpka-and-the-white-house/

39:55 minutes, no commercials, but you get a little free live Obama thrown in.

Just so we can see where you're coming from, please show us some examples of his obvious "beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insanity" from this episode. What do you find so unacceptable, objectionable and/or so very troubling here?
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Ummmmmmmm, that he has brought on a writer for World Net Daily as a consultant for his show? Maybe? Possibly?

Have you ever read (red) World Net Daily?
 
JudeBrando said:
Here's Beck's Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 tv show:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video...-23-2011-richard-trumpka-and-the-white-house/

39:55 minutes, no commercials, but you get a little free live Obama thrown in.

Just so we can see where you're coming from, please show us some examples of his obvious "beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insanity" from this episode. What do you find so unacceptable, objectionable and/or so very troubling here?
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Two words: Sample size.

That one episode may lack the claimed "beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insanity" does not mean it is not present in other episodes.
 
Corsair 115 said:
Two words: Sample size.

That one episode may lack the claimed "beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insanity" does not mean it is not present in other episodes.
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In other news, here's hours of footage of Ted Bundy not killing people. How can anyone say he's a murderer? :rolleyes:
 
JudeBrando said:
Here's Beck's Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011 tv show:

http://www.watchglennbeck.com/video...-23-2011-richard-trumpka-and-the-white-house/

39:55 minutes, no commercials, but you get a little free live Obama thrown in.

Just so we can see where you're coming from, please show us some examples of his obvious "beyond drooling-raving-on-the-streetcorner insanity" from this episode. What do you find so unacceptable, objectionable and/or so very troubling here?
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Where have you been for the past couple of years?
Have you read about the kook CT's that he has been pushing? Like his Teddy Roosevelt was an evil leftist rants?
Or some of his wacky history lessons?


And picking a single episode is pretty weak. You have to look at Beck's overall record, and his overall record is one of pushing crazy?
Or are you one of these guys who defends anybody on the Political Right no matter what they Do?

ANd, btw, his remarks on Reform Jews on Wendesday's show has raised a storm of controversy
 
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Beck is very, very suspicious. He's been very, very suspicious for a long time. Over time, his deep suspicions have jelled into a conspiracy theory.*

Doesn't mean he's crazy. I don't blame him for being suspicious. Basically, there are three kinds of people:

1. those who look at all the crazy crap the monkeys are doing, and see a pattern suggesting a vast crazy-monkey conspiracy is and has been going on for a long time, on the grounds that even monkeys could not jack up so consistently for so long by mere accident.

2. those who look at all the crazy monkey crap, decide it's par for the course on a crazy monkeyball, and discount the possibility of a massive monkey conspiracy on the grounds that the monkeys frankly do not appear capable of maintaining such a vast conspiracy for such a long time.

3. those who know something is happening, don't know what it is, and don't really care to think about it.

*Happens to the best of us. Even our current Secretary of State, Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton, once bemoaned the "vast right wing conspiracy". She saw an apparent pattern. Like seeing a cloud that's the spitting image of Newt Gingrich. Only to learn later that Bill really did have sex with that woman, and did in fact lie about it to a grand jury. Proving that you can't trust apparent patterns.
 
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