Since I can't think of everything, I would like some suggestions on how to utterly destroy G. Beck

[MrScorpio]

My observations:

Glenn Beck, without a shadow of a doubt and without any hint of hyperbole, is quite clearly the stupidest person ever to appear on national television.

Glenn Beck is an ill-tempered, evil motherfucker.

Glenn Beck is deathly afraid of anything that is more ethnic than Wonder Bread.

Glenn Beck is self-obsessed attention whore.

Glenn Beck's unhinged paranoia is of biblical proportions. (Dogs and cats sleeping together, real wrath of God stuff)

Glenn Beck is a text book dry drunk, who has replaced substance abuse with stupidity abuse.

Glenn Beck is poised to take himself down, we just need to grease the skids.

Your input please.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. That's easy. Spread the truth about him.

Go to Salon.com and read the three part series on Beck's "professional" history and spread the word. Especially this bit:

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/22/glenn_beck...

"Glenn Beck was the king of dirty tricks," says Guy Zapoleon, KZZP's program director. "It may seem mild in retrospect, but at the time that wedding prank was nasty and over the line. Beck was always desperate for ratings and attention."

The animosity between Beck and Kelly continued to deepen. When Beck and Hattrick produced a local version of Orson Welles' "War of the Worlds" for Halloween -- a recurring motif in Beck's life and career -- Kelly told a local reporter that the bit was a stupid rip-off of a syndicated gag. The slight outraged Beck, who got his revenge with what may rank as one of the cruelest bits in the history of morning radio. "A couple days after Kelly's wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, 'We hear you had a miscarriage,' " remembers Brad Miller, a former Y95 DJ and Clear Channel programmer. "When Terry said, 'Yes,' Beck proceeded to joke about how Bruce apparently can't do anything right -- about he can't even have a baby."

[Doctor_J]

3. Yeah....I don't think that will work

His subjects, like those of Limpballs, don't care if their rulers are drug addicts, pedophiles, liars, or criminals. Telling the truth about King Glenn will accomplish nothing.

[MrScorpio]

4. I spent the morning reading all three parts

The part you just excerpted was the part that stuck with me the most.

It's clear, unmitigated proof that he's a very evil man.

[PADemD]

8. HTTP 404 - File not found

I just tried the link, and it did not work.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. try this: damaged goods

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/22/glenn_beck_two/index.html

[rvablue]

17. OMG! no_hypocrisy, this is the first time I've seen this and it is disgusting!

You reallly should make this an OP. I thought I'd done my bit of reading on this charlatan and I've never come across this.

How utterly, completely heartless to say that to a woman who has just miscarried.

Did you hear the one when he threatened to torture a puppy if his listeners didn't buy his book and get him on the NYT bestseller list? When it didn't happen the following week, he played a tape of whining puppy, mimicing that he was torturing it. His listeners freaked out and flooded the station with calls of disgust and Crybaby Beck went on the air with his waterworks routine to make "amends."

[thincaboutit]

18. Check out Glenn in this NEW video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZEkXbFFz_I

[hlthe2b]

2. I find it fascinating that his minions overlook his being Morman...

though they certainly do not in the case of Mittens Romney--among the infinite ironies among the RW haters...

[MNDemNY]

6. I thought he converted to Catholicism.

[Lucy Goosey]

26. Raised Catholic, converted to Mormonism, actually. eom

[MNDemNY]

36. Wow, even worse, those fuckin mormans are CRAZY.

[hlthe2b]

30. Nope, that was Newt Gingrich...

Beck is Mormon.

[Buzz Clik]

5. ignore him.

[FSogol]

7. Correct, ignore him. He's doing a good job of destroying himself.

By 2012 he'll be in rehab and re-finding Jesus.

[MrScorpio]

10. I would wholeheartly agree with that assessment

However, we can't control the attention he gets.

For example, he's going to Seattle to give a speech in the ballpark there.

What would be perfect is that no one bought tickets for the event, and he'd lose big bucks renting the joint.

You know, giving the party and no one came thing?


Since he can't be neutralized in the media, I think there should be a way of getting his supporters to abandon him.

[derby378]

22. Ignoring cancer, however, doesn't make it go away

Sometimes you simply need a trip to the oncologist.

[Buzz Clik]

25. True, very true. Beck is not cancer. He's a pimple. It will go away.

[Atticus]

34. "Mega Dittos!" No---wait----that's the other-----never mind. nt

[LuvNewcastle]

9. I don't know how you would do this, seeing

as how I'm computer-challenged, but you could make up a dancing Beck in his Mormon magic underwear and send that around. Derisive humor is a good way to get at people like that.

[lamp_shade]

11. The only way is to get a few powerful repubs to publicly denounce his behavior. n/t

[MrScorpio]

12. Excellent point

I like the cut of your jib

[no_hypocrisy]

14. The only ones who have come forward to my knowledge is Mark Levin

who has criticized Beck as "pathetic".

[LondonReign2]

23. And if anyone knows pathetic

its Mark Levine. That guy is just as unhinged as Baby Beck. The only reason he might have spoken out, I imagine, is that he is jealous that his brand of crazy hasn't landed him a prime Fox spot the way Beck's brand of crazy has done for Beck.

[AspenRose]

29. I think Joey Scar said something too.

Transportation Secretary LaHood mentioned something about corrosive political discourse but I'm not sure if he specifically mentioned Beck.

[cbdo2007]

15. Don't watch/listen - get everyone else to not watch/listen

His viewers/listeners would drop by 10% if just the DU crowd would stop watching/listening. I've tried to get people to stop though and many people here are absolutely obsessed with him.

[TheCowsCameHome]

16. Give him an enema.

There'll be nothing left but the bottle.

[Altoid_Cyclist]

19. Is it possible that Rove is acting as his PR man?

So many of those descriptions sound like "W" that it makes my skin crawl.
Although I don't think that **** was actually sober all of the time.

[slackmaster]

20. Turn off your TV

It works every time.

[UTUSN]

21. The truth is always the ultimate weapon: Spread this far and wide::

Whacked BecKKK's whacked hero:
One Willard Cleon Skousen, who worked/retired from the FBI and went on to be investigated by Miss HOOVER's FBI to the tune of 2,000 pages. I've always thought it was brilliant of LIMBOsevic that his main thrust in attempting to make Conservativism respectable when he first started was to ---purposefully, deliberately--- distance himself from the kooks, the BIRCHERs, the Trilateralists, etc. He would cut off all callers who started ranting on these topics. The same way he still cuts off those true followers who slip and let loose their true racist selves---------------INSTEAD of "disguising" themselves.


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http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/index.html

Meet the man who changed Glenn Beck's life

Cleon Skousen was a right-wing crank whom even conservatives despised. Then Beck discovered him

By Alexander Zaitchik



.... But more interesting than the contents of "The 5,000 Year Leap," and more revealing for what it says about 912ers and the Glenn Beck Nation, is the book's author. W. Cleon Skousen was not a historian so much as a player in the history of the American far right; less a scholar of the republic than a threat to it. At least, that was the judgment of J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which maintained a file on Skousen for years that eventually totaled some 2,000 pages. Before he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen's own Mormon church publicly distanced itself from the foundation that Skousen founded and that has published previous editions of "The 5,000 Year Leap."

As Beck knows, to focus solely on "The 5,000 Year Leap" is to sell the author short. When he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen had authored more than a dozen books and pamphlets on the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy. It is a body of work that does much to explain Glenn Beck's bizarre conspiratorial mash-up of recent months, which decries a new darkness at noon and finds strange symbols carefully coded in the retired lobby art of Rockefeller Center. It also suggests that the modern base of the Republican Party is headed to a very strange place. ....

...The city's ultraconservative mayor, J. Bracken Lee, fired him in 1960 for excessive zeal in raiding private clubs where the Mormon elite enjoyed their cards. "Skousen conducted his office as Chief of Police in exactly the same manner in which the Communists operate their government," Lee wrote to a friend explaining his firing of Skousen. The man is a master of half-truths. In at least three instances I have proven him to be a liar. He is a very dangerous man (and) one of the greatest spenders of public funds of anyone who ever served in any capacity in Salt Lake City government." ....

...Skousen laid low for much of the '60s. But he reemerged at the end of the decade peddling a new and improved conspiracy that merged left with right: the global capitalist mega-plot of the "dynastic rich." Families like the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds, Skousen now believed, used left forces -- from Ho Chi Minh to the American civil rights movement -- to serve their own power. ....

"Skousen's personal position," wrote a dismayed Quigley, "seems to me perilously close to the 'exclusive uniformity' which I see in Nazism and in the Radical Right in this country. In fact, his position has echoes of the original Nazi 25-point plan." ....

Skousen may have been too extreme for the Quorum of the Twelve in Salt Lake City, but he soon found rehabilitation on the intellectual margins of Reagan's Washington. In 1980, Skousen was appointed to the newly founded Council for National Policy, a think tank that brought together leading religious conservatives and served as the unofficial brain trust of the new administration. At the Council, Skousen distinguished himself by becoming an early proponent of privatizing Social Security. He also formed relationships with other evangelical church leaders and aligned the LDS church with an increasingly religious GOP. ....

..."The Making of America." Besides bursting with factual errors, Skousen's book characterized African-American children as "pickaninnies" and described American slave owners as the "worst victims" of the slavery system. ....

"The 5,000 Year Leap" is not the only Skousen title to find new life on the 912 circuit. The president of the National Center for Constitutional Studies, Dr. Earl Taylor Jr., is currently touring the country offering daylong seminars to 912 chapters based on Skousen's "Making of America." For $25, participants will receive a bagged lunch and stories about America's religious Founders and their happy slaves. An ad for Taylor's "Making of America" seminar, currently featured on the Web site of the Tampa 912 Project, claims that Skousen's book is "considered a great masterpiece to Constitutional students (and is) the 'granddaddy' of all books on the United States Constitution."

Like so much declaimed by W. Cleon Skousen and his 21st century acolyte Glenn Beck, this last statement is fantasy. But it is also a profitable and popular one. In coming to terms with a movement that has an ever more tenuous relationship with accepted fact, we relearn that perennial lesson grasped even by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI. Fantasies can have serious consequences.

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[The Animator]

24. Ignoring him won't solve the problem... half the country will still think he's some kind of prophet.

I like Bill Maher's suggestion. The quickest way to discredit something, is to make it a laughing stock. I would go one step further. Don't just laugh at Beck, laugh at the people who believe him. When confronted by a frothing RWer, as soon as he say "Glenn Beck says..." just laugh... laugh right in their fucking faces... they hate that... especially if the two of you have an audience.

"ZOMG heheh,
You listen to Glenn Beck?
And you believed him?
What the hell is wrong with you?"
At this point, if you feel it appropriate, just start rolling on the floor.

Stand up comics are our best line of defense against stupidity. Cause they can spot stupidity a mile off. Dismiss it as irrelevant with a well timed quip, they are never afraid to call bullshit on national television, and above all, they know how the handle hecklers.

[Zoeisright]

27. Um, eat popcorn and watch?

He's doing a great job all by himself.

[LaydeeBug]

28. A Da Capo Assault, my friend...

In order to get Glenn Beck, you have to get Fox News.

Rupert Murdoch.

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[berni_mccoy]

32. As we used to say with Bush, he could eat a baby live on t.v. and his followers would praise him.

That's how fanatical his supporters have become.

[MrScorpio]

33. What if he as taped while making fun of his fat fans?

A real live Lonesome Roads moment.

[berni_mccoy]

35. His fans would say

"Damn Straight I'm Fat, and that Glenn Beck is one funny fellow! Hyuck!"

[LWolf]

37. Instead of destroying Beck, why not work on

destroying privately owned media, making them all public and neutral?