About us Login Get email updates
Quick Clip
Print

Beck's "secret" is that he doesn't "waste your time" and he and audience "talk like adults"

March 02, 2010 5:23 pm ET

From the March 2 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:

Please upgrade your flash player. The video for this item requires a newer version of Flash Player. If you are unable to install flash you can download a QuickTime version of the video.

EMBED

Previously:

Beck imitates Obama pouring gasoline on "average American"; says: "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire? ... We didn't vote to lose the Republic"

Beck portrays Obama, Democrats as vampires "going after the blood of our businesses," suggests "driv[ing] a stake through the heart of the bloodsuckers"

Beck boils "fake" frog because, under Obama, "we've been tossed quickly into boiling water"

Expand All Expand 1st Level Collapse All Add Comment
    • Author by pete592 (March 02, 2010 5:24 pm ET)
      8  
      Thanks, Becky. I'll remember that next time you're barking like a dog or imitating Fozzy Bear.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by Dradeeus (March 02, 2010 5:29 pm ET)
        3  
        Or playing with toys, or drawing on an elementary school blackboard...
        Report Abuse
    • Author by raddave43 (March 02, 2010 5:29 pm ET)
         
      Bark Bark, Arf Arf, Woof Woof!!! Why does he have a TV that looks like it is from the 50s?
      Report Abuse
      • Author by Canadian Observer (March 02, 2010 6:12 pm ET)
           
        That's exactly what I was thinking; it's not the craziest thing he's ever done or said but it is the most recent madness.

        I like how he said "I'm not going to waste your time.....today"
        Report Abuse
      • Author by Unreality (March 02, 2010 6:39 pm ET)
           
        That's a modern color set...from the '60s.

        He doesn't want to upset his core audience, most of whom still have a TV that looks like that.
        Report Abuse
        • Author by John Paradox (March 02, 2010 7:42 pm ET)
             
          So, since it's apparently a set that doesn't have a remote (remember when they were called 'clickers'?), that would explain why his audience can't change channels.
          Report Abuse
    • Author by pete592 (March 02, 2010 5:29 pm ET)
      3  
      This is the secret of his success? Wow, I was way off. Here I thought it was his sociopathic exploitation of peoples' rational fears about our current economic conditions in an effort enrich himself.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by Dradeeus (March 02, 2010 5:35 pm ET)
      1  
      I think the bigger point is that, if you really talk to your audience like adults, they don't need to be told that, on your own show.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by Dradeeus (March 02, 2010 5:35 pm ET)
         
      I think the bigger point is that, if you really talk to your audience like adults, they don't need to be told that, on your own show.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by Dhalgren (March 02, 2010 5:36 pm ET)
         
      All he does is talk down to his audience, waste their time, and act like a fool. He hit the trifecta.
      Report Abuse
      • Author by Unreality (March 02, 2010 6:40 pm ET)
           
        80% of Americans did not read a single book last year.

        I assert Beck is talking UP to his audience.
        Report Abuse
    • Author by pete592 (March 02, 2010 5:37 pm ET)
      6  
      Here's Glenn talking like an adult...
      [http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/GlennBeckImpression.flv.jpg]
      Here's Glenn talking like an adult...
      [http://cache.gawker.com/assets/stills/GBECKbarbie.flv.jpg]
      Report Abuse
      • Author by leftofwhat (March 02, 2010 5:54 pm ET)
           
        He is a Pee Wee Herman wannabe but has no chance of topping Pee Wee.www.peewee.com
        Report Abuse
        • Author by Unreality (March 02, 2010 6:42 pm ET)
          1  
          Hey, don't dis PeeWee. Paul has a sense of humor and he's a decent human being who doesn't seek to profit from people's misfortune or gullibility.
          Report Abuse
          • Author by leftofwhat (March 02, 2010 6:53 pm ET)
               
            Easy now.I love Paul's sense of humor and enjoyed his weekly show and his movies.Beck steals his schtick and turns it into an ugly thing.
            Report Abuse
    • Author by Jason86 (March 02, 2010 5:38 pm ET)
      3  
      BARK,BARK,BARK,BARK!!!!

      (Kermit The Frog Voice) Oh jeez well look here buy GOLD!!! yeahhhhh!!!

      Get off MY PHONE!!!!!!!!

      Real mature?
      Report Abuse
    • Author by New Frontier (March 02, 2010 6:33 pm ET)
      2  
      Beck: "I don't talk down to you".
      You talk to them with flash cards and dolls, you blithering, deranged lying moron.
      Report Abuse
    • Author by internet soldier (March 02, 2010 6:35 pm ET)
      1  
      "I talk like a big stwong gwownup".
      Report Abuse
    • Author by shaggles (March 02, 2010 6:49 pm ET)
         
      HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
      Report Abuse
    • Author by aj.physics (March 02, 2010 9:48 pm ET)
         
      I think if he was to talk like an adult, he would not tell his viewers what to think, what to say, what will happen it x,y, and z occur, but would have a real discussion like say Talk of the Nation on NPR... oops that's a liberal media out let that is telling you what to think, I forgot, I've been brain washed.
      Report Abuse