Comments on: Glenn Beck Crying On Cue Using Vicks under His Eyes

By: DeeBee

DeeBee — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 06:42:39 +0000

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.

By: Billy Bob

Billy Bob — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 04:53:10 +0000

Dvorak exposes yet another fraud! Next up: supermodels don’t actually look as hot without makeup! Shocking!

By: audion

audion — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 22:03:24 +0000

Ironic: thinking about Glenn Beck brings tears to my eyes.

By: socialist from dubuque

socialist from dubuque — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 16:35:10 +0000

phony

By: derspankster

derspankster — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:04:21 +0000

The guy’s a turd. A rich one, but still a turd.

By: Mr. Fusion

Mr. Fusion — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 14:31:50 +0000

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.

By: Beck U

Beck U — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:49:03 +0000

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?

By: JScott

JScott — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 13:47:40 +0000

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!

By: Sky3c

Sky3c — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:56:32 +0000

Say what you want about Glenn Beck but he was instrumental in bringing down Vann Jones and Acorn.

By: Dallas

Dallas — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:42:39 +0000

Until 2008 Bill O’Really was the scum bottom of the Conservative Press.

Now Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are competing for the slot.

By: dannythedog

dannythedog — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 12:04:08 +0000

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!

By: andrew.skretvedt

andrew.skretvedt — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:03:47 +0000

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 cover.

The article behind it.

By: noname

noname — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 07:00:01 +0000

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.

By: Hugh Ripper

Hugh Ripper — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 06:15:33 +0000

#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.

By: sb

sb — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 05:45:11 +0000

The comments in this thread make it apparent that we really are over as a nation. “Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!”