Getting theatrical: Beck speaks in drawl, gets down on knees to rail against funding for police, firefighers, teachers
August 05, 2010 5:44 pm ET
From the August 5 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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You used to get under my skin by the things you would say on your Program!
Today as in must days you just make me Laugh! The things you come up with ... the dots you Connect... Union teachers to Union firemen to Union cops/pigs(your word) to Fear you Push it on your Viewers .
U b a Funny Boy !
Example:
You made me laugh when you went a ranting about The Gun Violence in Cities that are loosing Police Officers to pay for an Opera House..... Yet, You Glenn ... you are in Favor of the Right to Bear Arms !
U b a Funny Boy !
So these people are apparently deadbeats now? Will beck go before a crowd of union cops or fireman to make this statement? Or, as usual, will he cower behind his microphone?
These areas of expertise are essential services that must be provided by government. If their jobs and wages are on the chopping block, whose job is safe? Do you really think that if we cut salaries and funds to these services that any other job is safe from drastic wage cuts?
The leaders of the cons know that if we continue on this path, every job holder will be in a wage competition with someone in Bangladesh.
Instead, be a "great American," get out the garden hose, and try to extinguish your own house if it catches fire. Same goes if someone breaks into your house, and robs it (with you at home). Don't sneak into a closet and call the cops; just deal with it.
That's what Sean Hannity would do.
And, if you were speaking at a GLAAD convention -- not that you ever would -- you'd probably speak with a lisp, right Becky?
How is this helpful or even relevant?
Rich guys like Nostradumbass can certainly afford their own private bodyguards, and can install sprinkler systems in their homes. See? Problem solved.
Oh, and the rest of us? Buy a gun and don't smoke in the house.
Glenn Lee Beck:
Do you pre-record your program?
I ask only for one reason.. at 4pm Elena Kagan was conformed to the Supreme Court of America ... POWER TO THE PEOPLE !
You, Glenn did not mention anything about it today on your Program!
I know that the Conformation of Elena Kagan must have Made your Head EXPLODE!
Do you pre-record your program?
I am sorry MMFA for my Question to the BeckerHead !
Rally Cry!
Beck's performance in this piece, while sound on a technical basis (his body technique and vocal modulation were well synchronized, for instance), was hurt both by the material he was using, and his dependence on his own stereotype.
The material (for which he must also take responsibility) was fantastic only in the sense that it was pure fantasy, but that is not its worst flaw. Even if his intention is to create a dislike of the cities named, it is unlikely to be successful with a majority of people. Talking nasty about people is never attractive.
The whole "drawl" business is not well executed. It was neither consistent nor accurate. Here, Beck's facial gymnastics and wild verbal garnishes only served to remove any credibility or authority his message was intended to convey. In other words, anyone who takes this seriously cannot themselves be serious.
<takes off critic hat, laughs and points>