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Glenn Beck Injures Back After Coffee Table Incident

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Glenn Beck, flying high from his parody on last night’s episode of The Simpsons, had a run-in with a coffee table that caused him to throw out his back, taking him out of commission for today’s episode of GBTV. It was unclear his current medical status. According to his website, he will be back on the air as soon as possible.

RELATED: The Simpsons Take On Fox News And Glenn Beck

GBTV reports:

Did he decide to just take a vacation? Has the news of the day finally made his head explode? Has he decided to move his show to a new time? No, he just threw his back out while jumping onto a coffee table* on the new GBTV set. Apparently, he was just a little too enthusiastic about all the changes that were happening in Texas. Don’t worry – he’s fine (although his back hurts… a lot) and he will be back on air as soon as possible (just not Monday night).

*Updated: Glenn was just bending over the table. Stu exaggerated to make Glenn sound athletic and cool

(h/t GBTV)

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  • Jonathan Cantor

    Thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family. Though I don’t agree with him on most things, I don’t like seeing him get injured. 

  • Anonymous

    America’s “pain in the a$$” learns how karma operates.  Ouch!
    How’s that little online webcast going for you?
    What, the networks have stopped calling.
    Buh bye!

  • 12voltman1

    Dufus klutz.

  • Anonymous

    The dollar signs in your comment indicate a subconcious twinge of jealousy. 

    Paging Dr. Freud !!

  • http://mediamatters.org/ Leedog

    Usually when one jumps on the coffee table in their home, they’ve had too much to drink!!

  • Anonymous

    How does someone without a backbone hurt his back?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t stand the man. But having suffered for many years with back pain, I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.

  • Anonymous

    Nothing on Tony Blankley though?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Peter-Flynn/1206363468 Peter Flynn

    Quick! Somebody get him six bottles of Vicodin, some Wild Turkey and an eight ball!

  • Anonymous

    maybe rolling around in his $40 million he made at fox and selling bogus gold will make his back feel better.. if not, at least he can use that money to afford health care that 90% of america can’t afford.

  • DoNotMindMe

    Jealousy is surely in the air.

  • Anonymous

    You’ll have to cite something, anything that shows he made $40 million from Fox.

  • Anonymous

    Must be something about being uber-dramatic and coffee tables:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIwTYL1fwJk&feature=related

  • Pablo

    Bogus gold? Perhaps he should have invested in something real like Hopenchange™!

  • Anonymous

    Poor Glenn hurt his back kicking in his TV set as he watched the Simpsons last night.

    I guess it kinda sucks when America is laughing at you.

  • http://twitter.com/milynily w. jo gibson

    Poor Glen slipped in his tears

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Racing to get a seat at his Circle Jerk radio show.

  • Anonymous

    What little spine he had left is finally rejecting the host… sad, really… when you think about it.

    This is a cover story for something else… Beck is just trying to metaphorically blame coffee tables for this nation’s ills… either that, or he’s a crazy jackass that thinks he’s 12.

  • Anonymous

    Glenn was bending over the coffee table to entertain Sean Hannity “Danny Thomas-style.”

  • Anonymous

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/watch-clips-of-the-simpsons-spoofing-beck-that-glenn-loves/

    Sounds like he is furious. Just like when South Park did an episode on him.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZAuTDVuD7o

    It must suck to be so irrelevant. Imagine having SNL, South Park, and now The Simpsons all making fun of you.

  • Anonymous

    Seems like it was 2 million per year.  Chump change.
    The real money is in merchandise, ghost written books and scamming evangelicals/patriots into his “Restore” campaigns.

  • Anonymous

    Haven’t read the new posting policy?
    The new PC is in effect.

  • Pablo

    You were touching yourself when you wrote that, weren’t you?

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Roger-Rickards/1082264578 Roger Rickards

    When Beck actually dies an enema will allow his corpse to be interned in a matchbox.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_OJ766ICBQDKEJY34J252S7J5CE Pat Mulligan

    couldnt happen to a nicer guy  who cares

  • Anonymous

    I doubt it was the first time Beck has been bent over a coffee table or other flat surface.

  • Anonymous

    The spelled “Drinking Binge Incident” wrong…

  • Anonymous

    Not in my case.
    It’s just hatred, with a hearty helping of disgust.

    Otoh, he sure did a good job of fleecing you rubes, morons, and patsies.

  • Anonymous

    It wasn’t bogus gold, it was vastly overpriced gold, and vastly overgraded gold coins.

  • Anonymous

    At least you got the reference. But I’m sorry to disappoint you; I can only type using two hands.

  • Anonymous

    I know a Dr in San Antonio that does back surgery called minimumly invasion tubular retraction.  He did my sons back and my son walked out of the hospital that afternoon. Yes it was a ruptured disk.    The Dr makes a small insision, no cutting muscles and no weeks of recovery.  Hope you get this message passed along to you.  Mother in San Marcos, Tx

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JHT236V2PL5AF7DU2H6KTKGCBU Michael W

    God is punishing Glenn Beck.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_EC2LG45C6UPVCBEVNLKOGYR3FA Moshe Jakob

    He was bending over his coffee table – for Rush Limbaugh.

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