A Great Write-Up Of Glenn Beck's "Comedy" Special
Reported by Ellen - May 27, 2009 -
Joseph Childers, at True/Slant has written a great review of Glenn Beck's "comedy" special, Unelectable. It's called, I watched Glenn Beck’s entire comedy special and all I got was this stupid blog post.
Childers writes,
Economist George Stigler once quipped that the plural of anecdote isn’t data. I’d like to propose a comedic corollary to that: The aggregate of whine isn’t humor. It’s annoyance - at least for me. Most comedy specials are a merciful ninety minutes or less, but Glenn Beck’s brings the same lack of empathy to his ‘entertainment’ as he does to his politics. Unelectable has an unconscionable two-hour running time and it’s hard not to be claw-your-eyes-out bored by ten minutes in. It’s a plodding slog, a never-ending parade of every single thing that gets Beck’s easily gotten goat. The main thread of Unelectable is how – you guessed it – unelectable Glenn Beck would be as a politician because he just can’t stop telling so much damn truth. Humble, this one. Then there are the threadbare themes like liberals love terrorists, liberals hate America, liberals want to protect widdle owls over jobs, liberalszzzzzzzzzzz. Remember the 2004 Bush campaign? Good, you won’t need to rent this, then.You can read the rest of the post here. (H/T reader Larry for the link.)
