I really am starting to think that Glenn Beck is bipolar. A few weeks ago, he was acting all depressed, saying it’s too late to save the country. Then he went to Washington, DC, claimed to have seen God and got all energized and happy again. Now he’s back to being depressed about America having “gone insane.” And if anyone should know…
Glenn Beck went on an epic rant in front of John Hagee’s Christians United for Israel, claiming that God created America in order to help recreate Israel 160 years later. He falsely claims that there is a star of David on the back of the dollar (there isn’t) and that this was intentionally made to signal a covenant with God. Funny, the religious right of that day didn’t seem to notice this “covenant.” In fact, they spent most of their time ranting about not having one.
David Barton has taken some heat from some fundies for his work with Glenn Beck because Beck is a Mormon, but he told Steve Deace recently that Beck isn’t really a Mormon. He’s really a Christian, you see, but he calls himself a Mormon — and does whole shows defending the truth of Mormonism, by the way — because he’s so loyal to them.
The Obama administration announced the other day that it’s going to delay the implementation of the employer mandate in the health care reform bill and Glenn Beck has a sparkling new conspiracy theory about it. They’re delaying it because it will cause chaos, just like the gay communist Muslims want. Or something.
Glenn Beck’s fraudulent gold company sponsors have fallen on hard times now that the value of gold has dropped to its lowest level in years, but he has a new sponsor that should appeal strongly to his audience: Food Insurance. Freeze dried meals for survivalists. And listen to this wonderfully incoherent live ad he did for them on his show, with Egypt and the founding fathers and whatever else leapt into his mind at the time.
I’ve really had a difficult time dredging up even a tiny bit of give-a-shit about the whole Paula Deen racism thing. I’m glad she’s off the Food Network now, but that would be true no matter why it happened. But I do have to laugh about this hysterical overreaction from Glenn Beck:
In case you’re waiting with great anticipation to see what Glenn Beck’s much-hyped “man in the moon” 4th of July extravaganza, which he claims is going to change the course of the country and the way we celebrate the 4th forever, is going to be like, here’s the trailer. It appears to be just a tour of all the Bible myths, like the Tower of Babel and Noah’s Ark, along with Beck’s melodramatic narration.
Last week, Glenn Beck was all depressed and forlorn, saying that it was too late to save the country. But then he went to a Tea Party rally and guess who showed up? God! And now Beck says he’s back and fired up to save the country from the scourge of rationality.
Walid Shoebat, the right wing’s favorite fake “ex-terrorist,” went on Rick Wiles’ TruNews radio show and he and his son Theodore launched a blistering and incoherent attack on Glenn Beck. Because Beck is leading people to “Chrislam” and this has something to do with deism and…well, just read it. See if you can make any sense out of it.
Here’s a classic Glenn Beck rant about how God is being “driven out of the public square” in America. And this has something to do with Charlie Sheen, Kim Kardashian and Anthony Weiner. He’s mad as hell and he’s not gonna take it anymore!
Glenn Beck went on another of his weird, rambling diatribes on his show the other day, claiming that we are in the “end times” because it all matches up to the Book of Mormon. And then, of course, he gets all weepy eyed.
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