”Glen Beck Has Nazi Tourettes”: Video That Made Me Laugh Out Loud

Cidu Bill on May 16th 2010

Filed in Bill Bickel, Daily Show, Glenn Beck, Lewis Black, Nazis, YouTube, humor | 33 responses so far

33 Responses to “”Glen Beck Has Nazi Tourettes”: Video That Made Me Laugh Out Loud”

  1. Sal May 16th 2010 at 10:12 am 1

    That was funny. Glen Beck is such a tool, and he is still on the air. I have no empathy for him. Guess my use of that word makes me a Nazi.

  2. Danny Boy (London Derriere) May 16th 2010 at 10:23 am 2

    Hitler - has only got one ball
    Goering - has two but rather small
    Himmler - is rather sim’lar
    And Goebels - has no balls - at all

    (Tune is “Colonel Bogey March” aka “Bridge on the River Kwai Theme”)

  3. John Bledsoe May 16th 2010 at 10:26 am 3

    Keith Olbermann is such a tool. Not saying Beck is any better, but who ever gets their news from PMSNBC is really sad.

  4. Kamino Neko May 16th 2010 at 10:32 am 4

    I just love the looks on the other people in the clips where Beck is going all ‘Nazi Tourettes’ (I like that phrase)…they seem to be trying quite hard not to facepalm at Beck.

  5. Nicole May 16th 2010 at 11:36 am 5

    John @3

    John you are making an argument of false equivocation. There is no doubt that Keith Obermann has a point of view and presents news in a biased manner. I totally agree with that statement. Now please find anything that Kieth has said that reaches the level of crazy that equating empathy with being a Nazi does.

    Also many voices on the left took Keith to task when he started to get crazy … can you point to any on the right that has has commented on Mr. Beck’s crazy ? Here is an example for you :
    http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-balan/2010/01/25/liberal-columnist-slams-olbermann-over-crazy-sick-scott-brown-attack

  6. AMC May 16th 2010 at 11:51 am 6

    Hey kids, make up news together
    The spotlight’s hitting something
    That’s changing discourse not for better
    We’ll kill reasoned discussion tonight
    So stick around
    You’re gonna hear histrionic tears
    His audience will stay fogbound

    Say, Rush and Rekers, have you seen them yet
    But they’re so spaced out,
    G - G- G- Glennie has tourette’s
    Oh but he’s weird and not wonderful
    Oh Glennie he’s really mean
    Ideas from alcohol and toots, mormon roots
    But can he name a single magazine???
    Ah ha, G - G - Glennie has tourette’s

    Hey kids, plug into the baseless
    Maybe they’re blinded
    But Glennie makes them hurt less
    We shall survive, as long as our anger’s strong
    Where we fight strawmen out in the streets
    To find who’s right and who’s Vietcong

    Say, Newt and Ronnie, have you seen them yet
    Oh, let’s all bow down
    G - G - G - G - Glennie has tourette’s
    Oh but he’s weird and they’re dispensing bull
    Oh Glennie he loves to preen
    He’s loves those jackboots, for all disputes
    A rodeo clown who loves to demean
    Ah ha, G - G - Glennie has tourette’s

    Say, Adolph and Ronnie, have you seen them yet?
    He’ll invoke them before the credits rollout
    G- G - G - G - Glennie has tourette’s

    Oh but he’s cheered as he pulls the wool
    Oh Glennie’s got the future foreseen
    His plan’s to loot all those he recruits
    To rely on hard facts is to blaspheme
    Ah ha, G - G - Glennie has tourette’s
    Glennie, Glennie has tourette’s
    Glennie, Glennie, Glennie, Glennie, Glennie has tourette’s
    Glennie, Glennie, Glennie, Glennie, Glennie, Glennie has tourette’s.

  7. Jeff S. May 16th 2010 at 12:28 pm 7

    Awesome vid (thanks CIDU Bill) and awesome tune (thanks AMC)!

  8. George P May 16th 2010 at 12:47 pm 8

    John, of course you are using Olbermann to excuse, if not defend, Beck. If not, then why did you mention him?

  9. Elyrest May 16th 2010 at 01:09 pm 9

    I always laugh at Lewis Black and I laughed particularly hard at this one. Beck playing the poor little me card is very hard to take. Lewis Black almost exploding is hard to watch without laughing.

    As for Olbermann - I have to agree that he is frequently over the top and is called on it by people who agree with him on most points. I’m not sure why conservatives hate him because he often uses the same means of expression as the commentators they profess to love. The only reason to bring Olbermann up here seems to be to defend Beck.

  10. George P May 16th 2010 at 01:15 pm 10

    Elyrest, they hate him because hate is what they do.

  11. paperboy May 16th 2010 at 01:38 pm 11

    Jeff S.#7- The “tune” is Elton John’s; thank AMC for the lyrics.

  12. Nicole May 16th 2010 at 02:00 pm 12

    John @ 3

    One other note…. even if Obermann is the left’s equivalent of Glen Beck, that doesn’t excuse Glen Beck in anyway. It just would mean that there are two batsh * t crazy people on TV

  13. David N May 16th 2010 at 03:03 pm 13

    That was awesome. You just know Beck is tearing up right now because we’re talking all meanie about him, and enjoying a video. That’s because we’re all Nazis on this board. :D

  14. mitch4 May 16th 2010 at 03:27 pm 14

    Paperboy #1 points out:

    Jeff S.#7- The “tune” is Elton John’s; thank AMC for the lyrics.

    And on the off chance there’s anybody even slower than me following this, the basis song has to be “Benny and the Jets”.

  15. David A. Rooney May 16th 2010 at 05:34 pm 15

    mitch4 - took me a couple of stanzas to get it, too. God Bless Lewis Black. Who else could so creatively defend the Nazis from defamation of character by Glenn Beck.

  16. Rebecca May 16th 2010 at 05:52 pm 16

    That was on the Daily Show originally, right?

  17. Tullia May 16th 2010 at 06:03 pm 17

    Rebecca (16): Yes, it’s from _The Daily Show_.

    I don’t usually laugh more than once during Lewis Black’s rants, but this was excellent. Is it just me, or is _The Daily Show_ on a streak of late? I love the show, but I stopped watching, even on the ‘Net, and then watched a few recent episodes. I was laughing so hard at times that my husband peered into the room and said, “Dare I ask?”

    All the secondary “anchors” seem to have settled into their roles and look comfortable, and the lines are good, and everyone’s delivering them right. Jon Stewart is cranked up into a manic frenzy all the time, which is when I like him best, and he’s slamming Obama on his mistakes and is not toadying up to the administration, which I feared he might do. Go, show!

  18. mkilby May 17th 2010 at 04:31 am 18

    @ CIDU Bill - There appears to be a glitch in the HTML tokens that leaves everything else on this page in a strange Courier font.

  19. Keera May 17th 2010 at 05:12 am 19

    What mkilby @18 said. It’s made the text barely legible.

    Back to the video: This is the first time I’ve watched Lewis Black all the way through. I don’t care for rants, and Black’s voice grates, but his words were so good, I hung in there. Glad I did! Brilliant stuff!

  20. AMC May 17th 2010 at 09:11 am 20

    I guess I should have worked on the back story!

    I get creative when I bring home boring work that I want to avoid doing. But clear? Not so much.

  21. Daniel J. Drazen May 17th 2010 at 09:52 am 21

    Makes me glad we dropped cable 3 years ago because it cost so much.

  22. Dyfsunctional May 17th 2010 at 11:51 am 22

    Isn’t Beck’s brand of hyperbole intentionally a little silly? The guy is definitely coming from a Conservative point of view, but I get the feeling that how far to the right he is is a bit of a leg-pull. I imagine his greatest joy in life is to be quoted out of context, because it makes this character he’s created seem that much more outrageous.

  23. paperboy May 17th 2010 at 02:07 pm 23

    I haven’t seen much of Beck, due to lack of cable T.V. and lack of interest to seek it on YouTube, but I wonder if Dyfsunctional#22 could be on the right track. He sure gets talked about (and the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about). Maybe he’s crying all the way to the bank, driven by Liberal mockery.

  24. Cidu Bill May 17th 2010 at 02:17 pm 24

    I never had any doubt that Beck, OReilly, Coulter and Limbaugh are all just showmen in it for the money and fame. These people seem to be too intelligent to believe some of the things they say.

    Which is actually what makes Sarah Palin so interesting to me. I think she actually is a true believer, one of the “follower” class who accidentally got promoted to “leader,” and I don’t think she understands that her Fox News pals aren’t really on the same page she is.

    Lest you think I’m just picking on conservatives here: Al Sharpton. I mean, come on.

    Michael Moore I’m not sure about, especially as he’s become more (outwardly) radicalized over the years: did he drink the Kool-Aid, or is he just serving it?

  25. paperboy May 17th 2010 at 02:55 pm 25

    I can’t say if Beck, OReilly, Coulter and Limbaugh are all “just” showpersons, or if Al Sharpton and Michael Moore are pandering money-makers, but the key thing is not to focus on the messengers, but the message. These public media figures bring up topics: decide for yourself. You can’t argue the position by mocking the person who said it.

  26. Mark in Boston May 17th 2010 at 04:58 pm 26

    Here’s Thomas Paine on freedom of the press:

    “The writer of this remembers a remark made to him by Mr. Jefferson concerning the English Newspapers which at that time, 1787, while Mr. Jefferson was Minister at Paris, were most vulgarly abusive. The remark applies with equal force to the Federal papers of America. The remark was, that ‘the licentiousness of the press produces the same effect as the restraint of the press was intended to do. The restraint, said he, was to prevent things being told, and the licentiousness of the press prevents things being believed when they are told.’ We have in this state an evidence of the truth of this remark. The number of federal papers in the city and state of New-York are more than five to one to the number of replican papers, yet the majority of the elections go always against the federal papers, which is demonstrative evidence that the licentiousness of those papers are destitute of credit.”

    Back at that time you would not have been able to find a single person who believed War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery and Ignorance is Strength. Now half of the people in the country appear to believe it. I can think of no other reason why Fox News has any credibility with anybody.

  27. Cidu Bill May 17th 2010 at 05:30 pm 27

    Actually, Mark, I have to take exception with part of that: quite a few people believed that the right to hold other people in slavery was an essential part of their own freedom.

  28. mkilby May 17th 2010 at 10:50 pm 28

    @ Bill - Thanks for fixing the font problem (18 + 19).

  29. David B May 18th 2010 at 01:42 am 29

    @Dysfunctional #22: I don’t know whether Beck tries to be over-the-top intentionally silly, but if he is it’s not working—he has a lot of people out there who take everything he says as gospel truth.

  30. Winter Wallaby May 18th 2010 at 02:27 am 30

    David B, there are lots of conservatives who like Stephen Colbert, and don’t know that he’s doing satire:

    http://hij.sagepub.com/cgi/content/short/14/2/212

    These public media figures bring up topics: decide for yourself. You can’t argue the position by mocking the person who said it.

    Paperboy, the topics they bring up are often so ridiculous that mockery strikes me as a perfectly appropriate response. Not all opinions are worth treating seriously.

  31. Rain May 18th 2010 at 12:45 pm 31

    I’m with David B (#29)–even if he really ISN’T that serious about it, he is doing something dangerous by inciting those who ARE that dumb to do stupid, stupid things.

  32. George P May 19th 2010 at 04:49 am 32

    As an example, the whole “War on Christmas” thing is a complete fabrication. What benefit is there in discussing this fiction, other than getting ignorant people worked up?

  33. Lalas May 21st 2010 at 12:43 pm 33

    LB is one of the funniest men ever. I almost peed myself watching this clip.

    “They came for the Jews to kill them. They came for the banks and the car companies to give them $700B!”

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