Now THAT’S Funny! Beck Says He Used To Be “Much More Like Jon Stewart”
Reported by Ellen - April 20, 2010 -
On his Fox News show yesterday (4/19/10), Glenn Beck opened by saying his long-time audience members “might remember a time when my radio show was based in comedy. I used to try to – much more like Jon Stewart, really on the radio… We would look at the news of the day and try to make our points but make ‘em in a funny way. Obviously, I was conservative, where Jon Stewart is not.” I can’t swear to it but I suspect that Beck never had anything like the kind of wry irony that is Stewart’s stock in trade. But then Beck, who has many times been the object of Stewart’s ridicule, took a backhanded swipe at Stewart by suggesting that he has somehow outgrown Stewart by adopting a more mature outlook. Now THAT made me laugh. With video.
Beck continued, with his serious, somber voice, the one he uses before he sheds a tear, “But today, over the last ten years, I have found myself in a position where I never intended on being.” Meaning, of course, the state of the world is so bad that he can’t joke about it any more. “The show is… about as funny as small pox, quite honestly. And there’s a lot of stuff that I do that I don’t want to.”
Ah, yes, if only sensitive, caring Beck could cast off the worries of the world, he wouldn’t have to be such a hate monger. And he could be loved -- like Stewart.
Now THAT made me sad. Not because I believe for one single minute that Beck has gone down this road for any reason than his own self-serving interests. It’s because there are so many Americans willing to listen, watch and even shell out money for all that hate mongering that Beck is “forced” to do. And yet, despite all that success, he can't stop whining.
