# Glenn Beck is Robert Fucking Langdon **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [September 4, 2009, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829 "2009-09-04T04:57:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 4, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/21 "2009-09-04T14:13:32Z")
So Rockefeller was a Commie Nazi? Figures. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/22 "2009-09-04T14:23:06Z")
Been done with being even MSTie-style entertained by the batshittiness of one Glenn Beck for a while now. I change the channel when they show his ridiculous clownish antics on any station. Makes for watching a lot less bad and irritating television, which is fine by me. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/23 "2009-09-04T14:28:29Z")
Beck makes me long for the Good Old Days, when the Right took their marching orders from somebody sane and respectable, like Nancy Reagan’s astrologer. ---
**Author:** ![DoctorJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctorj/32/2904_2.png) [@DoctorJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DoctorJ)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/24 "2009-09-04T14:41:18Z")
> [@](#): > > I like how he kept being surprised, nay, astonished by the realisations his observations forced him to come to. I can’t stand to watch the man for any extended period of time, but I often find him on in our staff lounge as I’m walking through. He always seems to be exaggerating his emotions and talking slowly like people do when they’re talking to children. (I even hated that when I was a kid.) ---
**Author:** ![joebuck20](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/74df32/32.png) [@joebuck20](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/joebuck20)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/25 "2009-09-04T14:42:47Z")
> [@Kolga](#): > > It is utterly frightening to me that millions of people get their “news” and information from this man, who clearly has either developed some sort of delusional disorder, or is live-action trolling. Well, he’s basically said himself that he’s a clown. [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?\_r=1&scp=1&sq=“glenn%20beck”%20and%20clown&st=cse](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22glenn%20beck%22%20and%20clown&st=cse) But the guy started out as a morning drive time DJ. A big part of that job, at least if he was anything like the morning DJs in most of the places I’ve lived in, is \*pretending \*to know a lot about politics. Think the Simpsons episode where the DJs got in trouble for offering Bart an elephant in a radio contest, and management threatened to replace with a machine that said stuff like “So, what about that congress.” That’s exagerated I know, but one of the things they do is make broad assertions on some out-of-context sound clip or bit of information they heard somewhere. Nuance is virtually non-existent in their political conversations. Combine that with a tendency many DJs have to lay on the madman shtick thick, and you can see how Beck is very much a product of that world. He’s basically Mancow but without the strippers, fart jokes and sex talk that might offend the religious wing of the Republican party. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/26 "2009-09-04T14:49:56Z")
> [@wierdaaron](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlLM5lCNJg](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szlLM5lCNJg) > > If you watch that entire video without dying, you win a prize: insanity. > > I pit anybody who can defend that video as anything but utter, complete, raving horse shit. Against my better judgment I’m going to check this out after work. If I lose my sanity, you, wierdaaron, will face the initiation you seem to have … cleverly avoided … until now. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/27 "2009-09-04T14:54:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Beck makes me long for the Good Old Days, when the Right took their marching orders from somebody sane and respectable, like Nancy Reagan’s astrologer. Hey, don’t pick on [Becky Vesey](http://www.heinleinsociety.org/concordance/V_HC.htm#alexandravesant)!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/28 "2009-09-04T15:03:16Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > I think _every_ office building should be adorned with a painting of a science fiction dragonfly-man with a huge hand for a penis. Why do you hate America? ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/29 "2009-09-04T15:28:03Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > (It’s a very weird painting. [Here](http://personal.lse.ac.uk/Morett/Various.images/man%20at%20the%20crossroads%20rivera.jpg)’s a big copy of it.) Is that Charles Darwin giving a ‘yo, dude’ gesture to the lower left? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/30 "2009-09-04T15:40:08Z")
No. He’s pointing at the parrot, with a “He said it, not me!” gesture. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/31 "2009-09-04T15:43:37Z")
Looks like Darwin to me, too. ---
**Author:** ![smithsb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smithsb/32/12107_2.png) [@smithsb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smithsb)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/32 "2009-09-04T15:53:10Z")
I believe Beck is kind of an “anti-Jon Stewart” from a Bizzaro world. Sort of an anti-comedy comedy. My longest viewing period has been 45 seconds. I had to manually raise my jaw closed. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/33 "2009-09-04T15:57:52Z")
Do you have access to tequila and bong water? Glen can be pretty enjoyable in the grip of giggling fits. Or course, so can the Weather Channel, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/34 "2009-09-04T15:59:02Z")
> [@commasense](#): > > Why do you hate America? Not enough dragonfly-men. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/35 "2009-09-04T16:10:29Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > Is that Charles Darwin giving a ‘yo, dude’ gesture to the lower left? > [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > Looks like Darwin to me, too. I asked the same question when we studied this is college, and was told it was not Darwin. I can’t remember who the professor said it was, though. Maybe Galileo? ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/36 "2009-09-04T16:12:53Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Well, he’s basically said himself that he’s a clown. > [http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?\_r=1&scp=1&sq=“glenn%20beck”%20and%20clown&st=cse](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%22glenn%20beck%22%20and%20clown&st=cse) One quote from that article fascinated me: "The conservative writer David Frum said Mr. Beck’s success “is a product of the collapse of conservatism as an organized political force, and the rise of conservatism as an alienated cultural sensibility.” It’s sad that legitimate conservative concerns about an issue (like big government, too much spending, and rationing for Health Care) fall flat in public discourse in favor for psychotic ramblings (Nazi/Obama, death panels, Obama’ brownshirts). ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/37 "2009-09-04T16:35:23Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > I asked the same question when we studied this is college, and was told it was not Darwin. I can’t remember who the professor said it was, though. Maybe Galileo? Clearly it’s Hitler in disguise. (The parrot is Goering.) ---
**Author:** ![statij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@statij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/statij)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/38 "2009-09-04T16:36:04Z")
Why would there be a statue of an angry Kenny Rogers in that painting? Beck may be on to something here. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/39 "2009-09-04T16:41:51Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Saw it on Olberman, he kept trying to make fun of it, but fell flat because the thing itself is impervious to snark. Actually I thought[Olbie was great in slamming this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctXlo1r7AIk&feature=related), especially when he points out that Beck himself also works in Rockefeller Center. So the Rockefellers, by some accounts the first billionaires in U.S. history and a family that contributed Republican politicians, were really Commies. \*Some say Henry Ford was the first billionaire, others say Mellon, but they were all early billionaires. ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2009, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-is-robert-fucking-langdon/508829/40 "2009-09-04T16:42:52Z")
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