The Glenn Beck Report

Hi everyone – this is my first post on the main page of the site. I’m very excited to be contributing over here, and hopefully I can help to bring the site to its full potential. Anyway, today I’ll be posting the first entry in what I hope will become a regular fixture on the site – The Glenn Beck Program Breakdown. In this feature, I will review an entire episode of the Glenn Beck Program, and call him out on his crap minute-by-minute. Note however, that there’s simply too much BS in every episode for me to note it all, so without further ado, let’s begin!

Glenn Beck Program – June 29th, 2010

Minute 0: Accuses the entire New York Times staff of being communists. The media only has a liberal bias, Glenn, because truth has a liberal bias as well.

The only person who loves Canada more than Michael Moore is Glenn Beck. Now he's worried that hockey pucks will have a steep price increase.

Minute 1: Talks about the money that Canadian taxpayers are spending on the G-20 summit. Oh, so now Beck cares about Canada! And here I was thinking that he hated it, and its commie health care system.

Minute 2: He’s showing a hand-drawn chart displaying various countries’ GDP per capita. IT’S ERRONEOUS. You’re full of crap Beck. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita

Minute 7: Just listen to him, going on about the rich keeping their money. He never mentions the poor. He clearly doesn’t care about the lower class.

Minute 8: ‘America, I don’t think you’re stupid. But when a guy gets into a ‘scissors’ lift-’ He repeats the term again at 10 minutes.

Minute 8: He’s going to make a solemn swear – and he puts his left hand up to his right side. Oops.

Minute 9: Discussing a phony timeline that he’s made, says ‘before Christ’. You can’t bring religion into news. This is entertainment, plain and simple. Religion is just another lie anyway.

Minute 12: “This guy in Cambodia… this general area.” He’s unable to pinpoint Cambodia on the globe – he’s not even in the right region.

Minute 12: He’s talking in a mock Russian accent now, clearly intending to be an “evil” character. What’s the purpose of this? Does he realize that the Cold War ended 20 years ago? Xenophobe.

Minute 14: Now he’s talking about Obama wanting to stop drilling for oil. Beck says we should continue to drill, and keep it all for ourselves. Well, yeah, keeping it all four ourselves is the only way that we’ll have enough to last a significant amount of time.

Note: There’s a long break here in which Beck goes in circles, repeating points that he made before.

Minute 25: He’s making an argument that government spending doesn’t work – and, oh, he just lost his own argument. He demonstrates that after WWII, after all the big spending, everything was relatively fine. Unintentionally beating down his own argument, the fool.

Again with the circles. This is how he fills his time apart from lying.

Minute 44: Oh! What do you know. He’s touting his new book in the middle of the show. This is a fiction book by the way. He’s not even using it for excerpts, he’s just giving it airtime.

Minute 45: Talking about the protests at the G-8/G-20 by people wanting to end capitalism. He calls them anarchists despite visual signs advocating communism and socialism. He also displays quotes calling these people servants of the community. Maybe that’s why he doesn’t like them.

Minute 46: He’s referring to that story where Mao was on an ornament on the white house Xmas tree. No, Obama did not put that there – they got community groups to decorate the tree. But I’m sure Beck knows that.

Minute 52: Oop, now he’s slandering the late Senator Robert Byrd. Leave it Beck to disparage the dead.

Minute 53: Talking about Byrd’s former KKK affiliation (which he apologised for on multiple occasions). Really Glenn? Somehow I think that you would have been first in line behind him. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0tgvWxC_6A

Minute 59: ‘White people of America: Warning! you’re going to learn stuff about our country that you didn’t know, but you need to see it. African-Americans: I warn you — you’re gonna find heroes, American heroes, that for some reason have been erased.’ I like how he narrows the whole thing down to these two races. Any Korean or Spanish viewers can just forget about it.

Well, there you have it! Hope you enjoyed it, or at least learned a little something about the brilliance that is Glenn Beck. Look forward to more in the future!

Wexler sez….

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