Oh, Betty, you just suffer from Beck Derangement Syndrome!

What was the name of that black anti-Obama YouTube “pastor” that the PUMAs/birthers embraced?  I’m surprised Beck hasn’t had him on yet. Hell, why hasn’t he had on Larry Sinclair?

What was the name of that black anti-Obama YouTube “pastor” that the PUMAs/birthers embraced?

Heh, that Beck rape/murder rumor started on Fark just a day or two ago.

I’m not saying Glenn Beck is a murdering child-rapist, I’m just afraid that he might be.

Hey folks, I don’t know if it’s just me, but I’m steering well clear of that Beck/rape meme. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of REAL things to go after him about, and it risks belittling rape as a reality, IMHO.

YAFB, your feelings are completely valid.  While I find it objectionable that people are spreading rumors that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990, I also find it fascinating that, in a mere 36 hours, it has gone from a single comment thread on Fark to at least seven pages of Google search.

What this tells me is that there’s a lot of people who absolutely detest Mr. Beck and his particular brand of irrational rationality.  His weapon of choice is being turned on him.

Glenn has all the timing of one of Dali’s clocks. After he reduces his audience to sheet-draped yahoos and TalEvangical nutsacks, he gets a black guy wearing a priest’s collar on his show.

Too bad Glenn didn’t take that or the fact that people can spot My[fill-in-the-blank minority] Friend syndrome ten miles off into account when he came up with this cunning plan to get some of his sponsors back.

Perhaps Mr. Beck will need to make some kind of public denial in order to squelch this innuendo.

I disagree. Everyone with half a brain cell knows Glenn prefers the [ahem] company of his equals. That’s why he has a stable of very smelly and heavily drugged goats.

@YAFB—Agreed. The “rape” rumor is an instructive meta-gag on Beck’s pernicious methods and appalling mendacity in presenting himself as an “honest seeker of truth” who’s “just puttin’ it out there.” I doubt, however, that he will ever see the parallels between his own slipshod, irresponsible data-collaging and what the anonymous Internet perps are pulling on him.

Beck is a terrifying example of The Deal With the Devil that 12-Steppers make when they swap chemical addiction for a Redeeming External Absolute (Bill Wilson’s “Higher Power”). Often, that Higher Power is a vague, billowy, mostly benign Christianism. But, in Beck’s case, it has manifested as a bizarre Bircher world-view of Manichean good/evil, wherein nationalism/capitalism (read: flag-fucking and fireworks) are the “Good” side of the equation.

More than Beck—who doesn’t have the self-awareness, courage or intellectual chops to recognize that he’s traded one pathological dependency for another—I blame his staff, his handlers and the cynical shits who employ him for encouraging this weak, insecure basket-of-personal-demons to act out his weird, internal Quest for Forgiveness on a public stage. They are pushing a sick, damaged man to the point of breakdown, just to make a buck. Worse than that, they’re mainstreaming the notion that it’s OK to think like a paranoid, self-loathing drunk on a mission of Creepy Salvation.

Everyone with half a brain cell knows Glenn prefers the [ahem] company of his equals. That’s why he has a stable of very smelly and heavily drugged goats.

See, maybe I’m a hypocrite or something, but I could have got down with spreading that rumor to make the same point.

Mainly because if Fox et al. decide to go all full-metal Palinesque on the “you feckless lieberals falsely accused the man of rape” shit, I’d love them to have to mention the goats for context. (Mind you, the backlash from PETA might be a sight to behold.)

Pumalicious, I have to agree with YAFB; the only lesson from this ill-advised rumourmongering that is likely to get past the tangles of concertina wire in Glen Beck’s head, is that the demonic Acornite Obacommies are willing to STOP AT NOTHING to halt his patriotic crusade to keep the country from being herded en masse into Fema Camps.

“See how SCARED they are of the truth?” he will bellow, and he will enjoy his victimization to the max. That’s all we need.

I don’t believe the rape and murder rumors but why doesn’t Beck produce proof that he didn’t commit these crimes if he wants people to stop spreading such allegations?

I’d have preferred, if people were going to try to simmer Beck in the same sauce he ladles out, that it not have included accusations of rape. I don’t find it funny, nor responding in kind.

Ditto, Polly.

It’s a stupendously dumb and unsubtle way to make a point that’s guaranteed to be spun to Beck’s advantage. And I would have said as much at 11:45, had I known that we’d still be talking about it now.

I completely agree with Mrs. P. et al that Beck is disgusting enough on his own - we don’t need to touch that repulsive rape/murder theme.

I do think we should try and get that goat meme going though.  ;-)