After taking a day to sleep on Glenn Beck's completely-off-the-rails rant about the communist symbolism hidden in our architecture from a couple of nights ago, I think I've come to a conclusion that I'm willing to stick by: Beck's the greatest performance artist of the 21st century.
Seriously, the man makes Andy Kaufman look like Carrot Top.
There's simply no way that someone who truly believed the paranoid ravings Glenn Beck claims to -- who flaunted his clinical insanity that brazenly -- would be allowed to walk the streets a free man, let alone be given a show on a major cable news network (even Fox). He's faking it. It's an act. It just can't be anything else.
By the way, if this is true -- then Beck's a goddamned genius. I'm talking brilliant beyond words. Anybody who can push the envelope as far as he does and create a ruse this impenetrable deserves some sort of Nobel Prize for Culture Jamming. What Beck's doing could be historic in the annals of subversion. He's punking the planet.
The problem of course is that so many idiots believe every word coming out of his mouth.
Which, if my theory is correct, is the real punchline of the joke.
I hope I am right -- because if not, we really are watching a Howard Beale-style nervous breakdown unfold live on national television.
Either way, Olbermann's take-down of Beck last night was hilarious -- especially the Blazing Saddles clip.
Although, to be honest, Beck's wild-eyed lesson in how to spot the commie infestation all around us brought to mind a couple of scenes from a different movie.
Friday, September 04, 2009
The Art of Noise
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You ever see a commie drink tap water Mandrake?
...Nobel Prize for Culture Jamming.
Dude, that was fucking inspired.
Sounds like News Corp has a tie in deal with Dan Brown's new book, The Lost Symbol. If I were Sony, I'd be suing.
This is the first time I have ever watched a clip of Beck, and I have to agree that he is either a genius at manipulation or batshit crazy.
The scary part, is that it could be both.
I'm of the same opinion. I mean, he lives in New Canaan in the heart of what I call Rich Bitch Connecticut (and I grew up there, so I know what I'm talking about). I have to imagine his kids go to one of the many private schools out there, and routinely have tremendously amusing conversations with their classmates about the things he gets away with saying on TV.
They probably have to apologize to some of their friends because their parents watch the show and actually agree with what Glenn's saying.
The dinner table talk in that family alone is something I'd pay to witness...
"Dude, dad, that stuff about the liberal conspiracy involving Japanese anime, where the hell did you come up with that??"
"First all, no cursing at the dinner table. And secondly, I have no idea. It just slipped out, and I was going to backtrack, but I got a huge thumbs up from the producers, so I just kind of went with it. Had to throw in some pensive sighs and a few god-bless-americas in order to stall and come up with someplace to go with it. Almost had to resort to some false crying and talking about the children, but I got a flash of inspiration just in time."
"So… does this mean I need to throw out my Princess Mononoke DVD?"
"No, but the next time anyone tries to get me to watch that Pokemon or DragonBall Z crap, I'm invoking veto rights. You know, for the children."
Hate to burst your Keith buble, but every taling head on TV (OK, cavle "news") is there for the entertainment value and to hawk books.
The only one who seems to take himself seriously is Matthews.
Anne Coulter and Glenn Beck are performance artists. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't paying attention.
Well I've been to a world's fair, a rodeo, and a picnic, and that's the stupidest thing I ever heard come out of a pair of earphones.
Funny you should say that...I was thinking the SAME THING. I used to listen to Beck, years ago. And I thought that he was pretty funny...right of me, but he had the ability to call out Republicans, too, if they were out of line. So...what the fuck happened? I've asked myself, and others who, like me, listened to him before the TV show. No one seems to know. But - and a friend told me that he saw exactly this on some blogs, and that he thought Cesca's was one of them - I've heard for a while now that Sean Hannity doesn't believe any of what he peddles, that it's all for the buck. But I do agree with some of the sentiments expressed - even if it IS all a show, it's a very dangerous one; too much validation for too many major kooks out there. Gun-totin' kooks, at that.
Hey, BTW...speaking of Cesca: What happened to the "goddamn" in his blog title? It's now just "Bob Cesca's Awesome Blog."
A bunch of us were sitting around the other day having the classic geek conversation about how so little in the science fiction movies in our childhood has come to pass. Where is that Pan-Am flight to the moon? We tried to figure out which movie from that era actually got the most right and we realized - Network.
Someone needs to stab glen beck in the cock- if they can find one small enough to do the job.
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