This is for a photo shoot. It’s not like he does this for his tv show where we usually see him crying. I don’t see why this is shameful.
Oh yeah, he used Vicks just this once to illicit tears- NEVER before. Yeah right. Glenn Beck is the dumbest, most transparent idiot on Fox News. Whatever your politics, don’t watch this guy, he is just pathetic.
Hey I hate this guy all the way from Australia, but he is doing a photo shoot to promote something, not revving up for a session on fox. Sniping him for this only makes us haters as dopey as him, his supporters and his methods.
Wow… that really shitty blogging John… waaaayyy outta context
Didn’t John or Adam say on No Agenda that he looked like he was a chromosome away from Autism? I guess they had not seem him cry yet huh?
There is something seriously wrong with Glenn Beck, I fear. One of these days, Beck may have a real (not staged) nervous breakdown, stroke, or heart attack and it may happen while he’s on-the-air live. Sadly, no one will feel sorry for him. When Beck “stages” his emotions for TV, viewers eventually won’t know or care if he is serious or not.
I have to disagree, as this is only a photo shoot. Nowhere in the video is it implied that this is what he does for his “show.”
This makes John look more of a tool than Glen Beck. Attempted out of context low blow turns into blowback on John. I expect better, leave this type of hack job to the Keith Olberman’s of the world. (Yes, Glen Beck is a tool)
Isn’t your remark like one crackpot criticizing another crackpot? Besides, I listen to No Agenda and like crackpots.
Listen again. He admits he’s done it before when he says “my eyes are getting used to it” as he pulls up his eyelids to try to get the tears flowing. He is a hate filled, sensationalist phony that takes advantage of idiots.
He just uses vicks for photoshoots, never when it counts on his TV show? How neive are you? You must also believe that pro athletes who get busted for steroids just use them to recover from injuries, cheaters only cheat once, and that Fox is fair and balanced. Come on grow up.
What is stupid is that of all the people out there, Beck will reply to this without any delay. John, you think you got a storm from your Vivek Kundra article, it will be bigger when aimed SOOOOOO poorly as this posting is.
And yes, Beck is a bit of a nut no doubt, but short of his totally outrageous flamboyance, when has he been out and out deceptive? If he was, do you not believe that people like Olberman and Madow would not be just waiting in the wings to pounce like jackals!?!?!?!?!?
For shame Dvorak…
I despise Beck, and his agenda, with every atom of my being, but I don’t see any big deal with using artificial tears for a staged photo shoot.
By hammering away at people, that you disagree with, over every single bit of minutiae just discredits the person making the criticism.
Just like that completely asshole post here blaming Chicago’s lost bid for the Olympics on Obama. Even though the plans to hold them there happened long before Obama even ran for President.
There are many things Beck could be criticized for. Why not focus on those instead?
Wait, you mean that TV and media are FAKE? And people LIE on TV? Oh my god. I’m shocked.
(Another reason why I almost don’t watch TV. I think at most 30 minutes a week.)
Jason, the regular press that pays attention is all over Beck all the time. <a href="http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-august-13-2009/glenn-beck-s-operation" Jon Stewart skewers him regularly.
Also check out crooksandliars.com
Jason said, on October 3rd, 2009 at 1:57 pm
And yes, Beck is a bit of a nut no doubt, but short of his totally outrageous flamboyance, when has he been out and out deceptive?
Are you serious?
Here’s but a small sampling that I found during a brief search…
1.
He said that no other President had never been sworn into office without a Bible. He said he ‘checked’.
He either did not check or checked up his arsegraped butt because he’s lying. John Qunicy Adams used a law book. Franklin Pierce didn’t even swear. He affirmed. Teddy Roosevelt used no Bible. Several Presidents kissed a Bible but did not swear on one.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con…
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pihtml/pinot…
2,
Glenn Beck lied when he said recently that $1.4 million of stimulus momey was used to repair a door at Dyess AFB. The doors repaired were aircraft hangar doors and the cost was not $1.4 million.
The cost was $246000 out of $1.4 million in repairs funding.
3.
In June Beck lied when he said that the US was the ONLY country that had a natural birthright provision. Here is the list of other countries that do:
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/…
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/jun/1...
4.
Glenn Beck lied when he said that the director of White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, “has proposed forcing abortions and putting sterilants in the drinking water to control population.”
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/…
5.
Glenn Beck lied when he said that when users used the government’s cash for clunker site they had to agree that their computers would become government property.
http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/clunkers.asp
What #10 iditaroddog says is 100% on the mark.
I also find it hilarious that the right wing nuts that support Dvoraks normally right leaning posts like drooling puppys are now coming at him like a frothing pit bulls because he posted something a little different.
iditaroddog… Grow a brain…
Why does it have to mean that he uses it on his show?!?!?!
Can it not equally be due to being in that photo shoot for so freaking long??? You ever BEEN to a photo shoot? They last a long freaking time even for tools like Beck…
ALSO!!!!
The last time I checked, it does not take too long and a smelly as shit bathroom that tears you up when you walk into it, stops doing so the longer you stay in the room.
THINK PEOPLE!!!!!
I do not see the big deal? Its just a photographer trying to get a realistic image. Nothing worse then makeup. I guess they could have used a lot of natural tears too. Its not like he was trying to tell a sad story and faking tears which is what the title of the story implied.
context context context john, and here you got me all randy for some beck drama
The thing people are missing, is if he’s willing to do it for a photo-shoot, how can we know he’s not willing to do it on-air.
Thank Olbermann, Maddow, and Shultz for Glenn Beck.
Once the viewing public accepted straight to your face lies and bad showmanship from the left, it was only a matter of time before the right responded in kind.
John Dvorak is falling to the same level as Uncle Dave by creating headlines that fit their agenda and not the truth.
I think Dvorak is a bit jealous of Beck’s numbers, especially in September.
Glenn Beck Viewership Beats The Combined Competition Every Night In September
#12 – Troublemaker
Good post. Fully agree.
Regardless of this being a photo shoot, you definitively have to have a strong stomach to be able to watch Beck.
#15 Nope no problem with this statement. You can ALWAYS trust you government.
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I can’t watch Glenn Beck for more than a few minutes. He reminds me too much of Howard Beale…
“And I asked God, why me?”
“Because you’re on TV, dummy!”
#24.
A strong stomach is not necessary. I can watch Beck with no ill effects. O’Reilly, on the other hand. . . .
The more important question that I don’t see asked is this. Can I use this trick the next time some one wants me to give a sh!t? Life’s a bitch, if it was easy she’d be a slut.
This guy is a mental midget all day long. Katie nailed him with the softest questions and he folded like a cheap tent.
Alfred “First in line for the public option” 1 loves this guy.
You here with the failure to have a brain to know it’s THAT part of him that I like. He is all theatre and Dram for making his point. And hysterically capablurtizinger for it.
What does it say about the status of our culture when a guy like this gets paid *millions* for such behavior? Not much different than Marilyn Manson, really.
#26 Jim w. gives a link to a GQ article that explains the whole back story behind the video.
It also shows Beck for the two faced whining hypocrite that is. Willing to suspend his beliefs (about the left wing photographer) as long as it gets him attention.
Shame on you Mr. Beck
One annoying dude.
Waste of bandwidth also.
So that’s how Hillary did it…dab a little beneath the eye and sniffle…”its so hard…”
Now I have to recheck that Pelosi tear the other day…
Thanks John, great post.
Hey Alfred, glad to see you are posting.
Are we on for that $25,000 bet about Palin winning in a landslide in 2012?
Your words, don’t forget.
re: #28
I didn’t know who Howard Beale was, then I saw the Network “I’m Mad as Hell” clip
As long as yellow journalism drives up ratings, we’re going to have guys like Beck out there sensationalizing their broadcasts. Tears by Vicks? Spare me!
I’m still kind of suspicious of the context of this video having seen photo shoots I have seen the tricks photographers will implement to get the shot and this really isn’t nearly as damming as people are making it out to be. I was expecting to see this lead into a story on his show or something not this stupid shit piss poor job John.
I almost cried when I saw this. The guy is a button pusher and if needs to cry on cue, he will.
Then again its amusing if you think of it as comedy.
“my eyes are getting used to it” – Enough said.
I would take anyone that started crying during their national television show with a grain of salt, whether for dramatic effect or just from emotional problems. Beck occasionally digs up a good story but he’s far from a paragon of virtue.
Oh.
I had no idea.
Hey, Glenn, I’m sorry I called you a pussy.
“F*ck it, we’ll do it live!”
What’s wrong with y’all? It’s obvious with the “puppy-eyed” sad face that he’s doing is for satirical purposes not to fake sincerity like Dvorak is saying it is. Ridiculous.
I’m getting a big kick out of you jealous losers gripe about Beck. He might be good but he’s no Hannity!
Why TF is he always crying anyway?
What kind of loser cries and makes crying his shtick? He’s a grown man for christ sakes. What a little bitch.
He should show some tea-sack and be a man. Of course as an entertainer he is crying all the way to the bank.
OMG you people have no clue about the “industry” Beck is a radio show host and an entertainer. This is a Photo shoot. He is selling books and tv show time. Duh! So what?
But you think he doesn’t believe his own words? You think everyone watching him are easily fooled hicks? Come on. Quit with the “I am smarter than everyone on the other side of my politics” bull crap already. Please! Ridicule ends meaningful dialog – there are idiots and there are really smart individuals on both sides, all Beck is doing is trying to make people see some forgotten values and add so momentum to the movement to have people wake up and see the corruption in both parties that is ripping our union apart.
Why is that so bad?
Republicans and Democrats have spilt the last 10 presidencies 5 and 5. No party has reduced the fed in our lives, and no party has stopped selling us out. Wake up and understand that THIS is why the teaparty movement grows.
If you were hither to unaware that Beck did some things for theatrical effect I’m sorry for your parents.
The man has made it as clear as possible that he goes over the top for theatrical effect on numerous occasions.
What other incites do you have to share? The directions of up and down?
The comments in this thread make it apparent that we really are over as a nation. “Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!”
#46 FU
“all Beck is doing is trying to make people see some forgotten values and add so momentum to the movement to have people wake up and see the corruption in both parties that is ripping our union apart.”
All Beck is doing is pushing peoples buttons in order to fill his own wallet. It saddens me that people are getting their values from these despicable moralising media clowns.
The sad truth is this stuff sells.
I don’t buy it, but/ America is full of dumbshits, like pedro, Alfred1 and Guilherme Cherman who eat this shit up.
This huge gut-reaction knee jerk of a story was in desperate need of some context, so I’ve tried to find it for you guys. This is my guesswork below, but if correct, this info might shakeup the present commentary on this blog.
I’ve asked Glenn to confirm my hunch, but who knows if my question will cut thru the noise.
This appears to be part of the shoot which “TIME Magazine” setup so it could feature Glenn on the cover of its 28-SEP-09 issue. The photo the magazine ultimately chose is not one of him crying, but if you look carefully at the lighting and background and the shirt he’s wearing, you can see it’s a match for the video.
Yes, it’s staged, it seems to me that TIME’s photographer was “making” the picture convey, instantly, a pop-culture feeling about Glenn. That would be what magazine covers are all about (esp. TIME).
The article behind it.
Attention folks: Photo shoots use makeup and sometimes fake crying, they are not real. I hate to burst any bubbles, but in music video’s, people are not really singing, either. That is dubbed in later!
Until 2008 Bill O’Really was the scum bottom of the Conservative Press.
Now Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are competing for the slot.
Say what you want about Glenn Beck but he was instrumental in bringing down Vann Jones and Acorn.
Wow! You know the funny part is that this reaction actually surprises me. Not that sycophants come to Beck’s defense, but that they do so with such mindless zeal. Even when faced with video footage like this, the human capacity to shape reality to fit one’s ideas is amazing.
I got a similar reaction from a piece I wrote about Fox News in general.
People look at facts that support a different idea from the one they currently hold and they freak out. Most people look at the data in my article and tell me that the data must be faulty or biased. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! Not a single person has given any data to support their claims. People who watch Fox are like Glen Beck in that they believe that if you say something with enough passion or conviction that the mere force of your belief will make it factual. IT DOES NOT!
I think it’s rather amusing to watch how people who hate Beck get so sucked into paying more attention to him than other things in their lives that are “more important to them”. It’s all so entertaining, and isn’t that the point?
I guess the passion of Beck’s supporters are also indicative of the general IQ level of the right wing nuts. Don’t question, just believe.
That they would fall for and believe with such sincerity Beck’s bullshit is a Pied Piper effect. Goebbels would be proud of him.
The guy’s a turd. A rich one, but still a turd.
phony
Ironic: thinking about Glenn Beck brings tears to my eyes.
Dvorak exposes yet another fraud! Next up: supermodels don’t actually look as hot without makeup! Shocking!
The studio uses these photos to upload into the teleprompter while GB is televising his show. Any photo can be superimposed to fit the story as he so tells it.
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