Glenn Beck Wants To Be The Next Walt Disney

[big_dog]

Glenn Beck appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources for the second week in a row (why) and told host Brian Stelter that he was modeling himself less after Edward R. Murrow and more after Walt Disney. He specified that this did not mean Beckland theme parks, but did mean…whatever this next bit says:

“Disney was an innovator on everything. We went to space because of Walt Disney. You know, Walt Disney brought his animator that did the Seven Dwarfs and said ‘I’ve got this Nazi scientist that I need you to meet, Wernher Von Braun.’ The year is 1954 or ’55. He said, ‘He thinks we can put a man in space. I want you to tell that story.’

“In 1955 just before he opens the park he starts his TV show, Disneyland, he has a special called ‘Man in Space.’ The story goes that Eisenhower called him up and said, ‘Walt, you son of a bitch, you did it. I’ve been trying to convince the people at the Pentagon. I don’t need that. You just convinced the American people.’ A world without Walt Disney, America without Walt Disney, not just the parks, is a very different place. He affected our culture in a positive way.”
Watch the clip below, via CNN http://www.mediaite.com/tv/glenn-beck-wants-to-be-the-next-walt-disney/

[2naSalit]

1. Well

He does live in a fantasy world of his own making...

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Ba dum tssssh!

a DUzy if I ever saw one.

[2naSalit]

5. Why

thankyouthankyouthankyou!

I just couldn't resist the temptation.

[LuvNewcastle]

2. Every time I see Beck I think of Dopey.

[2naSalit]

8. He reminds me of

the dopey boy who once lived next door when I was a first-grader (I never liked that kid in the first place). He came over to my yard, uninvited, while I was eating a popscicle which I had to beg my mom to buy. He told me he could have my popscicle, I told him, that it was mine and he should ask his mom to get him one. Then he reached over and grabbed the whole thing off the stick, shoved it in his mouth and ran away. Unfortunately for him I was not stunned for long, I chased after him and beat him up somewhat, mostly I was trying to spank him on his bottom as parents used to do to naughty kids. He cried and told his mom that I beat him up for no reason and his mom called the cops on my mom. This was back in the early 1960s mind you. Beck looks a lot like that kid.

[KG]

4. da fuq?

[CBGLuthier]

6. An anti Semitic union buster who took credit for other's work?

[pinboy3niner]

7. It's A Smelly World, After All

Sorry 'bout the earworm.

[Enthusiast]

9. Not Disney, loony toons.

[mmonk]

10. Goofey likes this thread.

[rug]

11. He can't even be the next Goofy.