have i told you how much i hate glenn beck? i have this weird hatred/fascination thing going on with the dude. during my morning commute, when i’m running late, i usually catch the first 10-15 minutes of his program and i’ve listened as it got progressively get CRAZIER and CRAZIER.
if you think his TV show on fox news is bad - his radio show is ten times more fucking insane. when you think of the craziest right-wing nutjob tea party person, they’re the ones who are galvanized and inspired by glenn beck.
it’s BAD NEWS. i normally don’t think any of these right-wing conservative talk radio hosts are anything to get in a fuss about, but glenn beck is actually DANGEROUS, i think. it’s not just conservatism, because it’s wrapped up in this doomsday christian terror thing as well.. and it just gets all these nutjobs into a fever pitch.
i know most of you probably don’t listen to the dude, so next time you have a radio nearby - try to listen to the first five minutes of his show. when it starts out with the crazy over-dramatic music that completely rips off the band muse, you’ll know things are heading in a bad direction. (by the way, side note - glenn beck loves the band muse, and they totally hate him for it. so he hired studio monkeys to write a rip-off apocalyptic-sounding theme song)
once you’ve heard the first five minutes, then listen to the first commercial break. years ago on the glenn beck show, you had a wide variety of your standard AM talk radio commercials - pajamagrams, vermont teddy bear company, dog food, identity theft prevention, what have you.. now, it’s downright creepy. his only advertisers are for companies that sell crazy post-apocalyptic shit. just wait till you hear glenn beck schilling for the fucking gold buying companies - falling just short of telling you to turn all your assets to gold for when the world economy crumbles and there’s looting in the streets. then there’s a company called food insurance that sells 72-hour emergency apocalypse food kits. i shit you not. their website states “emergency food doesn’t have to be bland and unsatisfying”. hell, i can just see the line they WANT to put in there: “eat in style while you wait for jesus christ to come and the plagues of locusts descend upon mankind”. the greatest ad, however, is the ad for buying PLANT SEEDS. yes, plant seeds. the ad goes on to state that when the government collapses, you’re going to need to plant your own crops and you should be ready with seeds! they’ll be worth MORE than gold!
glenn beck has the third most listened-to show in all of america. be afraid. be very afraid.
