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The Cleveland Steamer
12-07-2009, 07:44 PM
What substances did Beck abuse?
longhair75
12-07-2009, 08:00 PM
Truth, Justice and the American Way.
samclem
12-07-2009, 08:01 PM
What substances did Beck abuse?

Link?
Miller
12-07-2009, 08:07 PM
I once saw him bitchslap a carton of sodium bicarbonate.
garygnu
12-07-2009, 08:15 PM
The frontal lobes of his viewers cerebral cortices?
joebuck20
12-07-2009, 08:20 PM
Apparently he was a major pothead back in the day.
Duke
12-07-2009, 08:25 PM
What substances did Beck abuse?

Allegedly, a young girl in 1990. Yes, this is an allegation, but is he ever going to answer that allegation? Because I don't think anybody can argue that a young girl can count as a "substance", and nobody with even a passing knowledge of US law can say rape and murder doesn't count as "abuse". Those are known facts, people.

So it's time for Glenn Beck to stand up and face these awful, awful, allegations.
Stranger On A Train
12-07-2009, 09:00 PM
If I were Glenn Beck, I'd use anything I could to escape, if but temporarily, from the reality of being Glenn Beck. It's as Alec Guinness said about his decision to be written out of the Star Wars franchise: "I just couldn't go on saying those bloody awful, banal lines." There should be an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act allowing Glenn Beck to use whatever substances he needs to in whatever quantities required to dull the pain of being Glenn Beck.

Stranger
Mr. Moto
12-07-2009, 09:03 PM
Gee, he worked in radio in the 1980s. The fact that he used cocaine is noteworthy I guess - it would be more of a shock if he never touched the stuff.

This isn't to excuse Beck - who isn't my style even if I am in sympathy with many of his political positions.
The Tooth
12-07-2009, 09:11 PM
If I were Glenn Beck, I'd use anything I could to escape, if but temporarily, from the reality of being Glenn Beck.

Ballpeenerol!

It's as Alec Guinness said about his decision to be written out of the Star Wars franchise: "I just couldn't go on saying those bloody awful, banal lines." There should be an amendment to the Controlled Substances Act allowing Glenn Beck to use whatever substances he needs to in whatever quantities required to dull the pain of being Glenn Beck.

Ballpeenerol is known to penetrate the blood-brain barrier in large doses.
RikWriter
12-08-2009, 06:10 AM
Allegedly, a young girl in 1990. Yes, this is an allegation, but is he ever going to answer that allegation? Because I don't think anybody can argue that a young girl can count as a "substance", and nobody with even a passing knowledge of US law can say rape and murder doesn't count as "abuse". Those are known facts, people.

So it's time for Glenn Beck to stand up and face these awful, awful, allegations.

No, actually he doesn't have to face them until and unless someone provides evidence that it actually happened. Just accusing someone of something isn't proof, although you'd think by the attitudes of some people that it is.
Simplicio
12-08-2009, 06:20 AM
Wow, Rikwriter, didn't think I'd ever see anyone actually fall for that bit.

Anyhoo, Beck is a member of AA, so apparently he was an alcoholic, and that's the drug I usually hear most often referenced when people talk about his past problems, though apparently he was also pot as well.

Whether his addictions led him to the horrible acts that may or may not have happened in 1990, well, it would be irresponsible to speculate.
BobLibDem
12-08-2009, 06:23 AM
He abuses Vick's Vapo Rub (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g). When the show calls for him to cry, he rubs a little Vick's under the eye.
Speak to me Maddie!
12-08-2009, 07:15 AM
He has talked openly and often about his alcoholism and pot use. He also claims to have regularly used cocaine. He says he decided to become Mormon as a part of his recovery process, though he claims to have gone sober in 1994 and he didn't join the LDS church until right after his second marriage in 1999. I would imagine his second wife was Mormon and thats why he converted.
RikWriter
12-08-2009, 07:28 AM
Wow, Rikwriter, didn't think I'd ever see anyone actually fall for that bit.


I might not have, if I hadn't heard a lot of people say it seriously.
Miller
12-08-2009, 03:59 PM
No, actually he doesn't have to face them until and unless someone provides evidence that it actually happened. Just accusing someone of something isn't proof, although you'd think by the attitudes of some people that it is.

Specifically, people such as Glenn Beck.
lissener
12-08-2009, 04:08 PM
no, actually he doesn't have to face them until and unless someone provides evidence that it actually happened. Just accusing someone of something isn't proof, although you'd think by the attitudes of some people that it is.

Whoosh!
lissener
12-08-2009, 04:10 PM
I might not have, if I hadn't heard a lot of people say it seriously.That's exactly the point: people parrot the ludicrous bullshit that Glenn Beck spews as if it's the gospel truth.
RikWriter
12-08-2009, 04:18 PM
That's exactly the point: people parrot the ludicrous bullshit that Glenn Beck spews as if it's the gospel truth.

I don't listen to Beck, so I don't know. I've heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly.
whole bean
12-08-2009, 04:39 PM
I don't listen to Beck, so I don't know. I've heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly.

then the joke was a success
MsWhatsit
12-08-2009, 04:40 PM
God dammit, here I thought I was going to have some more fodder for my '10 Death Pool list. Hmph.
Beadalin
12-08-2009, 04:55 PM
I don't listen to Beck, so I don't know. I've heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly.
I can't even express how delightful this is.
Lobohan
12-08-2009, 05:00 PM
I don't listen to Beck, so I don't know. I've heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly.Well seeing as the only other person who knows what happened that night was raped and murdered, I suppose we're at Beck's mercy. I just wish he'd address it so we'd know once and for all.
Exapno Mapcase
12-08-2009, 05:21 PM
I've heard the accusations about him though and heard them said earnestly.

Really? Do you have proof of this?
gaffa
12-08-2009, 05:30 PM
Whoosh!
Nothing but net!
emarkp
12-08-2009, 06:28 PM
He has talked openly and often about his alcoholism and pot use. He also claims to have regularly used cocaine. He says he decided to become Mormon as a part of his recovery process, though he claims to have gone sober in 1994 and he didn't join the LDS church until right after his second marriage in 1999. I would imagine his second wife was Mormon and thats why he converted.

Glenn has talked openly about his history. He's specifically named pot, cocaine, and (his favorite) Jack Daniel's. Though he's also said "if it exists, he'd tried it." All from his time before talk radio.

He's told the story numerous times that he decided to get clean after a blackout (not his first) during which he'd told his kids a story and they asked him to tell it again the next day.

His conversion to Mormonism happened when his wife-to-be said they needed to find religion. They went "church-shopping" together and eventually joined the LDS church (along with his daughters, but I don't believe his ex-wife joined).

Glenn's long time best friend Pat Gray (who was LDS the whole time, and had to stop working with Glenn because Pat said it was killing him) baptized him.
caligulathegod
12-10-2009, 07:31 AM
He abuses Vick's Vapo Rub (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g). When the show calls for him to cry, he rubs a little Vick's under the eye.

I'm not going to say he doesn't fake it, but that video is for a photo shoot and they were trying to get him to "cry" for the stills. This isn't necessarily what he does to cry for his shows.