Thread: Jon Stewart does Glenn Beck

Quote: Originally Posted by Tengu Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video? Well, first you have to be familiar with the insanity that is Glenn Beck. Stewart does a brilliant parody of Beck's ravings. It's also on Hulu - can you get that?

Quote: Originally Posted by HPL And really, it gives hope to us all, because now we know that even if you have a debilitating mental illness, you can still have a successful talk show. Heck, it might even help your chances.

'The communists who want to socialize your Nazism!' is just a brilliant line.

More alarming than his shock-jock career- if only to me- is that he came to Fox from CNN. Again- this is a man with NO journalistic training who makes no pretenses of being a journalist, in fact vehemently denies it, and in fact never completed a college class, and yet he had a show on CNN. Between him, Nancy Grace, Lou Dobbs, and Jane Velez Mitchell I think I know why they go by the acronym: no announcer could say "We're Cable...

Quote: Originally Posted by singular1 Linked in Post #9 - the 10/31 Project. Thank you! I'm hyperventilating over here -- NOBODY rocks the gas mask/adult diaper look like Stephen Colbert.

Quote: Originally Posted by DanBlather It's not Beck who is scary, it's the people that watch him and make his show one of the most popular on cable. The world is full of crazy people, I just don't understand when the American population lost the ability to see when people are lunatics. It's not just American's, but I know what you mean. How could some of the most ruthless people have such a large following? This...

Got it. Thanks.

Quote: Originally Posted by Tengu Can someone post a transcript or description for those of us who don't live in the US, and thus, can't watch the video? Are you living in an "Axis of Evil" country, because I can watch it all here in Australia.

Quote: Originally Posted by Sampiro His Beck parody was a beautiful thing, but last week's take-down of Fox's news-entertainment-let's literally make the news" methods was on par with anything Thomas Nast ever did, the sort of thing that should be shown in classes. The entire first 12 minutes or so really, but particular the parts beginning around 5:00 about "news v. opinion" (in which he uses...

Quote: Originally Posted by maladroit I saw this comment over at the freep today, thought you might like to giggle along with me. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-.../2380040/posts "As you watch the clip it becomes increasingly obvious Stewart is actually doing a parody on Beck's show though I don't think it is all that obvious in the very beginning." This does seem unusual, but then again, keep in mind these...