Glenn Beck Cries AGAIN On Air, Pining For A Simpler Time In America (VIDEO)

Glenn Beck was in the middle of pining for a 'simpler time' in America when he decided the best way to illustrate this idea was to show two advertisements from said 'simpler time.' One was a classic Coca-Cola ad, the other a Kodak ad.

These examples of Americana were so moving to Beck that he just couldn't help himself; he begin to tear up (not for the first time). His monologue, which was interrupted a few times by his tears, began with the wisdom that politicians can't take us back to that simpler time; they can only take us farther away. It then devolved into a strange and extended analogy of America as a teenage kid who got dragged to a party he didn't really want to go to, and where his friends poured beer on him, and that ended with dad doing what's right.

Discuss in the comments whether Beck is making any sense at all.

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Comments

[kilgore trout]

11:53 AM on 03/11/2010

A simpler, cleaner, better time in America, before Glenn Beck. It would be nice to go back.

[Matt1Up]

06:50 PM on 11/11/2009

Glenn Beck - The Crying Game

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=qQc_TH4iV­V8

[BrettDRoberts]

08:36 PM on 10/29/2009

Check out this crazy new promotion for Glenn Beck and his Arguing with Idiots book: http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=5ibHFAXGU­wo

[SueMe]

06:46 PM on 10/27/2009

Check out this hilarious spoof of Glenn Beck.

http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=dPd_djDQT­RI

[ratmonkey1]

02:59 PM on 10/20/2009

Beck is nuts:

[Neer]

10:42 PM on 10/19/2009

F you, Glenn Beck.

[rasputin999]

05:01 AM on 10/20/2009

For petes sake will someone section this guy. Before he climbs a tower, carrying a rifle and wearing a clown mask! Come to think of it, ol' Glen don't need no clown mask.
As an Irishman may I say. "ONLY IN AMERICA!".

[jwald1]

04:36 PM on 10/19/2009

To use a commercial with disco playing in the background struck me as funny. This was the hayday of cocain use and self indulgence­. I had expected to see a clip from the fifties or sixties. If Keith Olberman cried on the air even once, these neocos would be having a field day, and calling in to question his masculinit­y. But, it did give me my first laugh of the day.

[ekwati]

11:02 AM on 10/19/2009

Scary that people really believe this guy!

[Crass Innuendo]

09:40 AM on 10/19/2009

Screeching promotes needless complexity­.

Mr Beck's best contributi­on towards ending this intolerabl­e state of affairs would be to step in front of a moving train.

[Parrothead]

07:20 PM on 10/19/2009

I'm still waiting for the gay hooker on meth to be revealed, THEN beck cries.

[evenso]

09:33 AM on 10/19/2009

Good memories always feel good to us, but that's because we forget the hard and painful aspects of the time. This is pure nostalgia for when "daddy knew best", the white man - captain of industry - ruled the day, and the world looked to America (partly because we twisted alot of arms) for all the answers.

A time before we saw the Earth from space, and from the moon, as a big blue marble, our fragile place in the cosmos, showing no national boundaries only humanity. Yes, Glenn, perhaps for some it was a better time.

[jones]

09:28 AM on 10/19/2009

Sometimes I wish for quieter simpler times too.....wh­en there was no Faux news...

[Cye]

08:40 AM on 10/19/2009

This guy is just embarassin­g. It boggles my mind that people find his patented brand of 'rant, waffle and cry' appealing. Its unseemly in its delivery and absurd in its content. Talk about a bridge to nowhere.

Its so silly to weep for an idealised yesterday, as if there were nothing good in the world of today. Coming from Beck it seems less an outpouring of geniune nostalgia, than a cynical appeal to the radically regressive elements of the (largely religious) Right who wish to wind back the clock.

[Hailardri]

08:36 AM on 10/19/2009

Hey, Glenn.....­.

As soon as I finish my time machine I'd like to take you for a ride.

Suck it up, Beck ! Add some power to your pucker (reference to an old ad). These are the good old days !

[John Garner]

08:32 AM on 10/19/2009

Glenn wants us to go back to 1954 were "the gays" were hiding in the closet, woman had to risk death to get an abortion, and "the coloreds"h­ad to ride in the back of the bus. Just make sure Glenn can still get his coke and weed

[AMaitrejean]

05:42 AM on 10/19/2009

"America we've been at a party that we weren't supposed to be at."

Would that party you were referring to be the party that Bush admitted Wallstreet has been in? :

"There's no question about it. Wall Street got drunk ---that's one of the reasons I asked you to turn off the TV cameras -- it got drunk and now it's got a hangover. The question is how long will it sober up and not try to do all these fancy financial instrument­s."

Read more at: http://www­.huffingto­npost.com/­greg-mitch­ell/banned­-bush-vide­o-surface_­b_114363.h­tml

About your analogy, I imagine that is exactly your personalit­y GB...blami­ng everyone else for YOUR actions, "they PROMISED they would leave by midnight." At what point are YOU responsibl­e? Did your friends tie you to a tree? You can't pick up a phone and call home for a ride? Your analogy is a cop-out for little whiner, finger-poi­nters "it's not me, it's everyone else" crybabies. But thanks....­I'll use this video as an example to my sons to be MEN and accept responsibi­lty for their OWN actions.