Not so much drama as dumber as in he brings the dumber
in Fox’s dumb.

Only on Faux Spews would “drama” be defined as ignorance and buffonery.  This clown needs choking.

By Pickn&Grinin;, March 16 at 2:34 am #
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Your right, I don’t really see why people still listen to Beck. Rush and Levin
are much better! And the comment from writeronthestorm about 25% of
the public being terminally stupid. Ya know it’s funny, surveys indicate
that roughly 20%-30% of the population consider themselves liberal! So
I’d say Gallagher was about right!!!!

@ Pickn&Grinin;

Ha, ha, ha, datzs rally funie! You rally nalled dem dadgum liburals!

Your problem is that you’re obviously a conservative or neo-con or republican or reich-winger, or talivangelist or teabagger or birther or deather or any combination of the aforementioned and perhaps a few that I’ve forgotten. I usually classify anyone remotely affiliated with the so-called right under dumber than a brick category. It’s a much simpler way to file.

You see when one considers that a whole is 100% then there is room for the 25% of totally beckshíte crazy righties and the 20-30 percent of decent, liberal minded folk as well. You’re confused about what segment of society makes up that 25% of the really stupid. It’s without a doubt the republican base and their amoral “family valued” leadership.

It’s going to take a while for all of what I’ve just said to sink in so: “jus sit dare pickn anah grinin til it do.” Deliverance much?

Hammond Eggs, March 16 at 2:35 am #

Given the opportunity, Beck will shove you into a gas chamber and not think twice about it.
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So will Limbaugh, or O’Hannity, or O’Reilly.  Beck is stealing their thunder. They are ALL entertainers and they are jealous that Beck is the hottest entertainer of them all.  He’s not actually SAYING anything different, just wilder and crazier.  And he takes risks like Massa, which Limbaugh would NEVER take. Limbaugh is TERRIFIED of actually having to confront anyone—that’s why his audiences are carefully screened ditto-heads.  O’Reilly uses his 6’6” size to intimidate guests and throws them off if they say anything he doesn’t like.

But as bad as Beck is, he’s nowhere NEARLY as bad Ann Coulter-geist, who advocated executing anyone who opposed Bush’s getting us into the illegal Iraq War, anyone who SUGGESTED that Bush&Co; LIED to get us into that war.  She just doesn’t have the audience.

Given the opportunity, Beck will shove you into a gas chamber and not think twice about it.

WriterOnTheStorm, March 15 at 9:27 pm
Good one.
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That a whack job like Beck has a large following speaks
volumes more about the followers than Beck, IMO.

(Note: apologies to those who read this post on another thread, but the fact that
TD currently has two pieces devoted to Beck makes the post all the more
relevant)

The comedian Gallagher had a middling career until he introduced a novelty
routine in which he would smash watermelons into his hapless audience. For
years afterward, he filled stadiums with thousands of people eager to get
pummeled with bits of pulped fruits and vegetables.

But before the edible denouement commenced, the crowd would get a dose of
Gallagher philosophy, the key point of which was that 25% of the population is
terminally stupid. They are stupid beyond help and hope. No matter what the
rest of us say or do, those 25% are going to stick to their guns. At this, the
Homer Simpsons in the front rows laughed as one and muttered, “Yea, all those
rubes out there.”

Gallagher was never able to escape his act and became the watermelon guy in
popular culture, but over time his show developed a layer of irony when he
began implying that his own audience might have been part of that ignoble 25%.
As they drove home from the show, picking watermelon from their hair, some of
them might have even realized that they’d been had.

Of course Gallagher never said that it was always the same 25% of the
population, just that on any given point, 25% could be counted on to NOT get it.
With those kind of numbers, it’s no surprise that a novelty act like Glenn Beck’s
would have some success. But what does surprise is the makeup of his
audience. It seems a good number of the folks tuning in are lefties set abuzz by
Beck’s smash-o-matic political stylings.

Part of the problem, is that so many of the terminally stupid just don’t know it.
Well here’s a hint; if you’re still paying attention to anything Beck says, welcome
to the 25 percent.  C’mon Truthdig, wipe the watermelon off your face. It’s time
to move on.