# Glenn Beck regrets dividing people **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345 "2013-06-07T00:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/41 "2013-06-08T15:26:48Z")
If Glenn Beck wants to quit being such a jerk, he can quit saying things like this: > **[WATCH: Beck Insults First Lady On The Air](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/glenn-beck-michelle-obama-monster_n_3403913?utm_hp_ref=media)** > > WATCH: Beck Insults First Lady On The Air ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/42 "2013-06-08T15:38:53Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Be kinda humiliating if the elephant doesn’t notice. “Suffer, baby. Suffer!” ---
**Author:** ![fumster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9c0ed/32.png) [@fumster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fumster)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/43 "2013-06-08T16:43:20Z")
> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#): > > If Glenn Beck wants to quit being such a jerk, he can quit saying things like this: > > [Glenn Beck Calls Michelle Obama A 'Monster,' 'Lady Macbeth' After Heckler Confrontation (VIDEO) | HuffPost Latest News](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/glenn-beck-michelle-obama-monster_n_3403913.html?utm_hp_ref=media) And none if it even makes sense. It’s just “I hate Obama” Touretes syndrome. She confronts the heckler she is a monster, ignores her, aloof, let’s her speak, weak. It must be so hard to wait til you hear an Obama speak to know what you are against. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/44 "2013-06-08T21:56:21Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > I thought that Glen Beck died from spontaneous combustion a few years back. Almost, his tears of patriotism saved him. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2013, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/45 "2013-06-08T22:17:03Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > He mostly regrets losing his sponsors. They’re looking for his marbles and/or his sense of decency. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/46 "2013-06-09T04:27:40Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Originally it was called “Blatherers”, but it’s readers didn’t understand what the word meant, so it was changed to “Talkers”. More Rock, less talk. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2013, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/47 "2013-06-13T23:01:13Z")
> [@fumster](#): > > And none if it even makes sense. It’s just “I hate Obama” Touretes syndrome. She confronts the heckler she is a monster, ignores her, aloof, let’s her speak, weak. It must be so hard to wait til you hear an Obama speak to know what you are against. Wait - Glenn Beck has “I Hate Obama” Tourettes? I thought he had [Nazi Tourettes](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-may-12-2010/back-in-black---glenn-beck-s-nazi-tourette-s)! ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/48 "2013-06-14T00:49:11Z")
I gotta say, I have to admire the stealth brag in that apology. “America is politically divided, public discourse is more vitriolic than a Scottish mother-in-law ? I did that. It’s aaaaall me, baby”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2013, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/49 "2013-06-14T02:51:20Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > I gotta say, I have to admire the stealth brag in that apology. “America is politically divided, public discourse is more vitriolic than a Scottish mother-in-law ? I did that. It’s aaaaall me, baby”. TVTropes oughta have a page for that but I can’t find it. ---
**Author:** ![Philliam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/philliam/32/3011_2.png) [@Philliam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philliam)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/50 "2013-06-15T23:00:34Z")
> [@White SIFL](#): > > Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. Dang, you’re pretty harsh there - what did the poor horse do to deserve that? The embarrassment would have been punishment enough. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2013, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/51 "2013-06-16T00:34:48Z")
…and my Ipod on shuffle just started playing “Tears Of A Clown”. > [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > He mostly regrets losing his sponsors. Well, at least he chose to invest all of his money in gold for the last 6 months. I’m sure he’ll be just fine… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345.md?page=2)