Glenn Beck Uses Cupcakes To Explain Inflation (VIDEO)

Glenn Beck went all-in on his Tuesday show, using cupcakes for an extended metaphor about the money supply and inflation.

Beck began by saying that food prices were rising out of control. He then walked over to a table filled with different foods, and zeroed in on the cupcakes.

"I speak the language of food and cupcakes," he said, adding that he now has to stay away from them for his health. "Hello cupcakes," he said to the cupcakes. "I miss you. Do you miss me?"

Beck then went on to spin a tale of cupcake swapping and hoarding. It used to be, he said, that "everyone had their own cupcakes," or gold reserves, and their currency was backed by their cupcakes," until the U.S. decided it wanted to "hold all our cupcakes" and forced a change.

"We started eating all the cupcakes," he said.

For the full cupcake lesson, watch below.

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Comments

[tinka]

04:02 PM on 03/07/2011

Does he ever tire of being a condescending squawker to the American people? What he claims as educational is patronizing at best.

[MadMoll]

11:44 AM on 03/07/2011

And, so, the groundlings learn that a unified currency is evil.

[builderman55]

11:28 AM on 03/07/2011

Actually, Beck recently told a confidante (Cheatwood I think) that he receives messages FROM cupcakes. I just think it's important that we know...

[16BitGenocide]

03:01 AM on 03/07/2011

So, we just make fun of his presentation? Not what he said...? Just more of the same 'ad hominem' attack...

I see nothing wrong with this video in all honesty. He gets his point across, does he not?

[builderman55]

11:31 AM on 03/07/2011

Ummm, shouldn't you be listening to the cupcake lecture again? HuffPost is obviously a little too intelligent for you... Beck has NOTHING of any value to offer of substance in our current situation. As he himself said, he is a rodeo clown, all apologies to rodeo clowns...

[trekbette]

07:54 PM on 03/06/2011

My first question would be "Were the cupcakes responding to him?"

[diversityreport]

03:40 PM on 03/06/2011

I think Beck looks super comfy surrounded by cupcakes. He's finally found his niche. I'm going to enroll him in the Cupcake of the Month club so he never runs out. Keep eating those cupcakes, Glenn.

[ThePeoriaKid]

03:10 PM on 03/06/2011

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

Hunter S. Thompson

[archarabia]

12:05 PM on 03/06/2011

"... their currency was backed by their cupcakes." Glen Beck is a good example of why we need to invest more in education. Maybe if he'd had enuf $$ to go to college, instead of a rambling fool he could have been a serious thinker, albeit a conservative one.

[K.J. Dwyer]

10:22 AM on 03/06/2011

Health, smealth, Glenn. Go ahead. Have a cupcake. Have forty. In fact, keep eating cupcakes so you can't talk with your mouth otherwise occupied. Just keep eating cupcakes so we don't have to listen to your moronic drivel another minute.

[16BitGenocide]

02:57 AM on 03/07/2011

You actually DON'T have to listen to it... you must go seek it out to in order listen to it. OR of course read this website, which has an unusual obsession with the guy.

[ZeraLee]

04:42 AM on 03/06/2011

This guy does too many birthday parties for preschoolers. He doesn't seem to have the yeast idea how the economy works. If this pop-up book exposition were an aberration, it could be chalked up to low blood sugar. I especially like how his years seem to be almost two months long.

Maybe he is setting himself up for a reverse Twinkie Defense.

What a macaroon.

[blknightowl]

01:08 AM on 03/06/2011

People, this is what happens when you mix LSD trips with Fraggle Rock.

The man is a cartoon.

[Last Gasp]

08:47 PM on 03/05/2011

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COPY the above link and post it repeatedly under every story about beck.

[blknightowl]

01:09 AM on 03/06/2011

ROF LOL....You do know that Beck was a dropout druggie? No, he has never read a book on Economics.

[JeauxSchmeaux]

02:54 PM on 03/05/2011

Beck has to resort to such childish methods because he has to bring it down to his audience's level.

[Modest1981]

11:44 PM on 03/05/2011

Or to his own level.

[JeauxSchmeaux]

02:59 AM on 03/06/2011

Yeah, they're pretty interchangeable, But Beck found a way to make money selling his paranoid hallucinations, so, I would guess that makes Beck just a little bit smarter than the typical rube that watches his show..

[melpomene9]

02:46 PM on 03/05/2011

thanks for explaining that to me beck. had there not been cupcakes involved i think would NEVER have understood what you were trying to say.

sheesh. how old are his viewers??? he talks like all his viewers have a below average IQ. hmmm...

[weopine]

10:01 PM on 03/07/2011

@melpomene9 "all his viewers have a below average IQ. hmmm... " no, all those below average IQ'ers are here at Huffpo feigning intellectual superiority.

[glaze]

09:53 PM on 03/25/2011

Such as yourself.