# Glenn Beck: classy guy with an excellent memory **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 29, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129 "2010-05-29T00:55:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/1 "2010-05-29T00:55:28Z")
[ > [@ABC News](#): > > On Wednesday Beck say the media should “leave the families [of politicians] alone.” He was then discussing a story about a journalist working on a book about Sarah Palin who moved into the Wasilla, Alaska house next to former Republican vice presidential candidate. ]([http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/05/glenn-beck-assails-malia-obama-11-for-asking-question-on-many-minds.html](http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2010/05/glenn-beck-assails-malia-obama-11-for-asking-question-on-many-minds.html)) That was Wednesday. Then, on Thursday > [@](#): > > Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck mocked President Obama’s 11-year-old daughter for asking her father what he was doing to stop oil from spilling into the Gulf of Mexico – the very question many Americans have regarding the government’s response to the ongoing disaster. > [@](#): > > “’Did you plug the hole yet, daddy?’ Is that’s their – that’s the level of their education, that they’re coming to – they’re coming to daddy and saying ‘Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?’” Plug the hole!” said Beck. Classy guy. Excellent memory. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/2 "2010-05-29T01:04:22Z")
Glenn Beck is a hypocrite. I know I’m shocked to learn this. Who hasn’t seen Lewis Black on Glenn Beck’s Nazi Tourette’s? Oooh, googling reveals that Keith Olbermann (of whom I’m not a fan) played the entire thing, [so it’s on youtube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s4fj-5zlk&feature=related), which means that people outside of the US can see it. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/3 "2010-05-29T02:14:31Z")
Glenn Beck is a piece of shit and his listeners are morons. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/4 "2010-05-29T02:19:17Z")
> [@snowboarder bo](#): > > glenn beck: Classy guy with an excellent memory **You Lie!** ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/5 "2010-05-29T02:22:19Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Glenn Beck is a piece of shit and his listeners are morons. close, I’d throw stupid in there somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/6 "2010-05-29T04:09:05Z")
Get it through your head, Glenn Beck is a fucking jackass. As I’ve said before, he’s just a schockjock who found his niche talking about right wing politics. He’s Mancow without the strippers, dick jokes or fart noises. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/7 "2010-05-29T04:12:25Z")
You know, now that you mention it, the _Daily Show_ never has strippers. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/8 "2010-05-29T04:21:52Z")
Hey, yeah, what’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/9 "2010-05-29T04:53:17Z")
Wait…Glenn Beck’s show has strippers on it?? I may actually have to tune in to see that… -XT ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/10 "2010-05-29T06:18:28Z")
A bit off topic, but have any others been having flashbacks to the first scene of CARRIE through the entire crisis? “Plug it up! Plug it up! Plug it up!” ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/11 "2010-05-29T06:25:13Z")
I am now! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/12 "2010-05-29T06:51:21Z")
Read the first twenty pages of _Carrie_ when it came out in paper. Stuck on a Greyhound, whaddaya gonna do? Said to myself, this guy is going nowhere, he writes like old people fuck and he’s juvenile, puerile, and disgusting. This Steven King guy, he ain’t gonna sell any books… ---
**Author:** ![infamousmom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/d6d6ee/32.png) [@infamousmom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/infamousmom)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/13 "2010-05-29T06:57:08Z")
Aw, it’s just because he can’t hear himself. His ears got clogged when his head went up his heinie. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/14 "2010-05-29T11:47:52Z")
> [@xtisme](#): > > Wait…Glenn Beck’s show has strippers on it?? I may actually have to tune in to see that… > > -XT He’s never denied having strippers on… ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/15 "2010-05-29T12:02:07Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > A bit off topic, but have any others been having flashbacks to the first scene of CARRIE through the entire crisis? “Plug it up! Plug it up! Plug it up!” THANK YOU! I didn’t want to say anything! ---
**Author:** ![Kal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9de053/32.png) [@Kal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kal)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 12:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/16 "2010-05-29T12:52:35Z")
I think it rather cool that severely disturbed people get their own tv shows in the US. Here, they have to make do with having letters published in newspapers. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/17 "2010-05-29T13:19:18Z")
> [@Kal](#): > > I think it rather cool that severely disturbed people get their own tv shows in the US. > > Here, they have to make do with having letters published in newspapers. Don’t lie. I’ve seen “The F Show” amd “Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares”. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/18 "2010-05-29T13:21:36Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Read the first twenty pages of _Carrie_ when it came out in paper. Stuck on a Greyhound, whaddaya gonna do? Said to myself, this guy is going nowhere, he writes like old people fuck and he’s juvenile, puerile, and disgusting. This Steven King guy, he ain’t gonna sell any books… Since when is being shoddy, obnoxious and stupid any barrier to popularity and success? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/19 "2010-05-29T14:52:20Z")
Silly Dopers. Beck’s comments about leaving the families of politicians alone were obviously only meant to apply to Tea Party nutjob politicians. It was implied. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2010, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129/20 "2010-05-29T15:37:47Z")
He’s [apologizing](http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/41247/) for his comments now. Of course, this is probably the perfect “it’s better to ask for forgiveness than for permission” situation. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-classy-guy-with-an-excellent-memory/541129.md?page=2)