Another day, another melodramatic Glenn Beck freakout. And as usual, the object of his freakout is a rule that doesn’t actually exist. Falsely claiming that the University of California had banned phrases like “America is the land of opportunity,” Beck works himself up into a lather about this ends with them shooting people in the head.
The defamation suit filed by Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi against Glenn Beck, who publicly declared him to be the “money man” behind the Boston Marathon bombing, may have just gotten a lot more expensive. The judge has allowed Alharbi to add a count of unjust enrichment, which could push the damages should Beck lose much higher.
Donald Trump is running for president and Glenn Beck is not happy about it. Seems he has a bone or two to pick with Trump — who doesn’t? — but in this case it’s mostly psychological projection. Trump, he says, is a raging egomaniac and an asshole and Beck doesn’t like the competition.
Glenn Beck has become the Cal Ripken of the right wing. Day in, day out you can always rely on him being there, churning out bullshit and finding a way to link everything in the entire world to Adolf Hitler or Josef Stalin. Yes, even the Rachel Dolezal controversy:
Glenn Beck recently announced that he was going to become the next Martin Luther King by fighting for the right of Christians to discriminate against gay people (pretty much the opposite of what King stood for, of course). Now he wants you to know that he’s only doing what God told him to do.
Glenn Beck sees red whenever he thinks about Michelle Obama and he’s particularly bothered by the fact that she has spoken about racism in public speeches lately. But he has a theory to explain that, a theory based on the lie that the Obamas tell people that they can’t make it.
Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s syndrome has reared its ugly head, this time during, of all things, a discussion about the Texas cop who went all Dirty Harry on black teenagers at a pool party. Like pretty much everything else in the known universe, this reminds him of the Third Reich.
Last week, Glenn Beck bleated on incessantly about how he was going to make a huge announcement this week and telling his followers, “I believe my entire life has led to this point.” Like his many previous announcements of this type, it turned out to be self-aggrandizing bullshit. Guess what? He’s going to be the Martin Luther King of those who oppose gay marriage.
Glenn Beck, ever the melodramatist, is holding a conference this week called “Future Conference: What You Thought Was Coming … Is Here Now.” It’s being hosted by far-right megapreacher Jim Garlow at his church. And — cue the dramatic music — they’ve got thousands of pastors prepared to die over…well, something.
Here’s an interesting development in the defamation suit against Glenn Beck filed by Abdulrahman Alharbi, the Saudi student he slandered by declaring over and over again that he was the “money man” behind the Boston Marathon bombing. The lawyers for both sides will get access to FBI files on their investigation into Alharbi, which totally exonerated him.
Brayton’s law: There is nothing so gobsmackingly stupid that it won’t be said by some Christian righter. Corollary: Chances are good that it will be Glenn Beck. He says that the massive flooding going on in Texas right now, which appears to have ended the years-long drought, is all due to Rick Perry’s 2011 prayer rally.
Glenn Beck fired up his trusty outrage machine on Monday and was simply beside himself that Michelle Obama would talk about racism while giving the commencement address at Tuskegee University, home to one of the most outrageous instances of racism in American history. That means she hates America, of course, in the mind of blinkered assholes like Beck and his co-hosts.
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