Glenn Beck Goes After Barbara Bush, Calling Her The “Oatmeal Box Lady”

Glenn Beck was not happy with Barbara Bush’s oh-so-thinly veiled attack on Sarah Palin from over the weekend. Although he says the former first lady is his “favorite Bush,” he called her comments “really insulting” and called her the “oatmeal box lady,” apparently comparing her to the man in the Quaker Oats logo (Who, it turns out, isn’t William Penn. Huh. You learn something new every day).

While Beck felt the comments were condescending, he basically waved them away by saying that Bush isn’t “a political animal” and pointing out that her husband, the “politician” of the couple, claims to not know what the Tea Party is. He ends by saying that George H. W. Bush was very progressive and was the first president to use the term “New World Order.” And you thought there’d be no George Soros connection.

Really though, it’s interesting to hear the Bushes, such stalwarts of the Republican community for so long, get dumped on like this. The family that brought us two presidents is even compared (very jokingly!) to the Wayans and Jackson families.

However, if you’re going to feel bad for anyone, feel bad for Larry King. Beck claims that the TV host makes Barbara Bush “look like she’s 30”. Now that’s insulting!

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