Glenn Beck really seems to have become the new Emmanuel Goldstein for many politically liberal individuals these days. I'm not sure why; perhaps it means that Rush Limbaugh needs to step up his game or something. But I'll tell you -- there's some incredibly nasty stuff that gets said about the guy. For example, these loving sentiments offered by Lizz Winstead, who has been a fairly prominent comedy writer for over a decade now, on a program with excitable Ed Schultz:
LIZZ WINSTEAD (28:59): Ed, I've always wished that somebody would invent, maybe you and I could go into business and do this, if somebody would invent, you know the shock collars that you put on the dog (Schultz laughs) and when they bark they get jarred? If we could make one that actually fact checked and we just put it around Glenn Beck's neck and when he spoke (pause), or just fake tears, if it could detect when tears were actually crocodile tears, and then you just get electrocuted by the water and jarred, like, that would be awesome!
Force him to wear it.
Well, we could applaud Winstead for her entrepreneurial instincts, I guess -- given the state of the economy these days, start up businesses are certainly necessary. But let's think about this for a minute.
I'm going to assume that she really didn't mean Beck should be electrocuted, since that would mean she wants him dead. But really -- a shock collar? Do you remember the outrage we heard from the Left when a few rogue soldiers put dog collars on Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib? That behavior was rightly condemned. So how is it that the idea of putting a shock collar on Beck is amusing?
Guess I just don't get comedy these days.
2 comments:
yeah, next they'll start making jokes about conservative women being gang raped by black men for their own good.
ROTFLMAO!!!
maybe even a feminist might come up with it first?
I'm sure it's the climate of hate created by the Right that's to blame, resulting in enviro-whackos shooting up network headquarters, slashing Muslims who are anti-NY mosque, throwing food at and intimidating campus speakers, rioting at political conventions and G8 conferences and - just today - throwing eggs and shoes at Tony Blair during a book signing.
I'm telling you, it's a natural reaction to all the arrests that are made at Tea Party events.
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