Thursday’s Asshat of the Day

Filed in National by on August 26, 2010

While I could award this to the Potters for their lousy handling of contract-gate and the ethical questions it has raised, enough is being said about it on another thread.

So, in preparation for this weekend’s public teabagging event on the National Mall, today’s winner is Glenn Beck.  Not for organizing his rally to self-aggrandizement, but for his ad promoting it where he compares himself to Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Frederick Douglas, to name a few.

Seriously, the only people he should be comparing himself to are P.T. Barnum (because he sure has suckered a lot of people) or Joseph Goebbels.  I’m not saying Beck is a Nazi, but he emulates everything that Goebbels did in the 1920’s and 1930’s.

Here’s a link to the video, thanks to Media Matters – http://mediamatters.org/blog/201008260017

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  1. Here’s the video

  2. Glenn Beck answers the call of teh crazy. He’s Rosa Parks, FDR, Frederick Douglass and MLK all rolled into one man!

  3. skippertee says:

    I’m seriously considering attending.
    I’ll be barefoot in hospital scrubs that tie at the waist with a broken strait-jacket serving as a cape.
    Does anyone have access to those drops eye doctors use when they want to dilate your pupils? I’d like some to apply occasionally.That way I wouldn’t stand out.