Glenn Beck Parodied As The Patient Zero Of 'Obama Derangement Syndrome'

One of the areas of concern cited by Media Matters in their letter to Chris Wallace is Glenn Beck, who the organization criticizes for "engag[ing] in increasingly outrageous, demagogic, and conspiratorial rhetoric." Driving that point home for Media Matters is their hilarious mashup video which neatly summarizes Beck's "news" show -- a cable news venue in which the government is "full of vampires" who are enslaving children as a part of a one-world government scheme and where production assistants have gasoline poured on them. It's all really part of a comedy act that Glenn Beck calls "poor man's Seinfeld" and which the rest of the world refers to as "John Birch Society pamphlets shrieked aloud by a bipolar jackass."

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Comments

[flydoghead]

Is Glenn Beck availible to do children's birthday parties ?

[Tommygun264]

You must really hate your kids. Clowns frighten small children.

[blaising]

OK, that's funny as heck. Now, if you're done Photoshopping those sound bite completely out of context, show GB's wise takes on Barack's takeover of American society.

Go ahead....do it...go ahead...this'll be great...go ahead...go ahead...(crickets)

[flydoghead]

do you understand what Photoshop is ?

[Patricia84]

A short answer: no. A longer one: let's hop ignorance truly is bliss, otherwise I might start feeling sorry for blaising. Especially after his use of (crickets).

[Maury66]

"out of context"

Interesting take, but not so well founded. This is a fair representation of Beck, condensed, but fair and factual.

[saynotocults]

Move to another country.

[asta1968]

You sound like a real expert.........Beck's paranoia really is contagious! I'm so scared! Who will save us? (mighty mouse theme)

[4akinderworld]

In what context would child slavery have anything to do with Barack Obama?

Vampires?

We've also seen plenty of Beck unedited, unplugged and unhinged. The verdict stands. He's over the edge.

[brooklyncitizen]

LET'S STOP TALKING ABOUT HIM.

[ZimboChick]

agreed

[snakeman]

Agreed

[Bingolong]

His radio promo starts out with, "Hello you sick weirdo's..."

?

I always thought it odd, but now I know it is a calling of guards.

!

[ChristineAnn]

I notice Glenn Beck is getting an awful lot of coverage on this site and I don't understand why. He seems so insignificant to me.

[Patricia84]

It is called the train wreck effect.

[Tommygun264]

Because the man is inciting violence - he's ginning up paranoia and calling for violence against our President. Such destructive behavior deserves attention, primarily that of the Secret Service. Don't blame Huffpo for sounding the alarm.

[tierone]

That's awesome!

He's scary.

[dentuso]

Make no mistake. The guy isn't completely nu ts. He's all there. This is brilliant marketing, aimed at an easily exploitable audience who prefers more to be told "they're right" vs. getting information.

It's not good for humanity, for this country, or for the sanity of the poor uneducated twi ts who continue to eat up this gar bage, but it's certainly good for Fox and Beck. And to them - that's all that matters.

[joebaggadonuts]

Any CEO who allows advertising on stations that carry this lunacy should have their bonuses taken away.

[mitsie]

boycott the sponsors

[tierone]

Yertle the Turtle, maybe. But I think more Cecil Turtle, from Looney Tunes.

http://s262.photobucket.com/albums/ii105/ccbaboon/?action=view¤t=cecil-jindal.jpg

[Mannock]

As I always say...Baby Huey.

[x004Ronin]

I thought the "Bad Acting" sub-title was both brutal and extremely effective. Shep Smith was openly mocking Beck. I'm not a "crying expert," but if you buy the fact that those were real tears from Beck, I have a sob story to tell you from my friend, a Nigerian prince, who desperately needs help transferring money...

[redsongia]

This guy seriously needs a girlfriend...or who/whatever.

[carolinecantoo]

I watched it. I vomited in my mouth a little but I got through it. Yuckie poo poo.

[theone718]

LMAORTF I am favoriting that video. How did Beck get on TV? That guy is looooooooooooooony.

[Tracy Hale]

Nooo...he's not si ck....not even a little.

He's completely coherent...yep....

*eyeroll*

[Immhotep]

The depth of his bitterness can't just be about Obama's policies.

[Mannock]

In all fairness, you may be right. Face it, Beck has had a really crappy life, what with parental death, sibling suicide, migraine headaches, acute alcoholism and drug abuse, flunking college in the first semester, a disabled child...I certainly wouldn't want his life for his wages. Also, he probably knows that he isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, judging by the lack of dialogue that he DOESN'T have with guests. For that, you must have some empathy, something that he is incapable of doing.