Colbert on Beck: "Insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain"

by: Daniel De Groot

Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 21:00

The only downside of the CNBC comeuppance delivered by Jon Stewart on Wednesday night is that it overshadowed this brilliant takedown of Glenn Beck's "war room" delusions from last week. Instant classic, particularly Colbert's "craziest" scenario at the end:

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(Canadians go here for the clip) Some notes on Beck inside...

Daniel De Groot :: Colbert on Beck: "Insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain"

I'm glad Beck has risen to Colbert's radar because unfortunate as it is, his nonsense is sticking as his ratings on Fox are much higher than he ever managed with CNN Headline News.

I fondly remember the times Atrios used to mock Beck's ratings, but I always kept in mind the possibility that Beck's formerly crummy ratings were more a product of no one watching Headline News, rather than his show being terrible.

We still haven't hit peak wingnut, and one can hope Beck's ratings are just curious onlookers to his trains-full-of-puppies-colliding level disaster of a show, but it seems there is ever more audience for angry white men shouting foolishness on TV. No recession on the Crazy Exchange.

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Colbert on Beck: "Insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain" | 1 comments

Of Course There's An Audience For Beck's Ravings (4.00 / 1)

The "Militia" types never went anywhere. They're just for all that government tyranny stuff when their guy's in charge. Now that he's not anymore, it's back to business as usual.

Difference is, now we've got Colbert.

"You know what they say -- those of us who fail history... doomed to repeat it in summer school." -- Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 6, Episode 3

by: Paul Rosenberg @ Sat Mar 07, 2009 at 06:00:58 AM CST

Colbert on Beck: "Insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain" | 1 comments

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Colbert on Beck: "Insane ramblings of a syphilitic brain"

by: Daniel De Groot

Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 21:00