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Glenn Beck To Alan Simpson: Grover Norquist Is Financed By Sesame Street

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Americans for Tax Reform head Grover Norquist has becoming something of a figure of intrigue as of late, wielding what appears to be significant influence over Congressional Republicans and yesterday raising the eyebrows of former Senator Alan Simpson, who called for an investigation into his funding. On today’s program, Glenn Beck laughed off the idea that Norquist was the “new evil villain,” and that he could possibly be up to no good. “Who is funding Grover Norquist?” he asked his co-hosts, before answering himself: “Why Sesame Street, of course.”

Beck and company had a good laugh with their Simpson imitations, mocking his “peel all the layers of the onion” metaphor by digging deeper and deeper into Norquist’s intentions. “Who knew he was going to grow up and turn into an evil monster?” Beck joked of the beloved Sesame Street character. Then he peeled another “layer of the onion”: “What is with the name Grover? Who names their kid Grover? Why is his middle name Glenn? Is there a connection?” His cohost added somewhat uselessly that “Grover Glenn Norquist doesn’t really roll off the tongue,” but either way, this was clearly a conspiracy to hoard all of the letters “n” by using names that had unnecessary extra ones at the end.

Beck then tried to turn to other mysterious characters– George Soros, Andy Stern, Richard Trumka– but his co-hosts repeatedly stopped him, joking that he had the “wrong guy” and to focus on Norquist instead. Co-host Pat Gray reminded him to keep his eye on the ball as Norquist was “twice as powerful as the Koch brothers, because there’s two of them and only one of Grover.”

They couldn’t keep the act up for long though, finally just caving into laughter. “Who is terrified of Grover Norquist?” Beck asked. “Who is terrified by anyone named Grover?”

The segment from Beck’s radio show below:

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  • Anonymous

    Spin it!

  • Anonymous

    Spin it!

  • Anonymous

    Love me some Glenn!

  • Anonymous

    Did you get paid for this Martel? Really? Look up S-A-T-I-R-E. Speaking of S-C-A-B-S Marty Martel… The next target will be A-I-L-E-S. Why is there no I-N-V-E-S-T-I-G-A-T-I-O-N of this guy and what he knows? Where does he get his scratch to terrify people (libs like you)…?

    Why is there only one “n” in your first name Francine? “Americans for Tax Reform head Grover Norquist has becoming something of a figure of intrigue as of late”… Has becoming?….

    You and Alan Simpson are the joke. And the sad punchline! Lighten up.

  • Anonymous

    its funy becuz they both have the name grover

  • realheadline

    Fast and furious character assisination. Impeach Obama/Holder.

  • Anonymous

    I would think that someone who makes up conspiracies every day in his tiny little mind would just be angry that he didn’t think of it first.

  • Anonymous

    You really should take your meds earlier in the day.  

  • Moosenuts99

    Ladies and germs: Beck’s attempt at “comedy”.

    LEAVE IT TO THE PROS,
    DUDE

  • John

    Grover, big bird and don’t forget Bert and Ernie should all be investigated. Keep peeling on that onion Alan Simpson , you’re bound to discover something.

  • Anonymous

    Yeah, like the pro-forced rape and sodomy clowns on the left.

  • Anonymous

    Brilliant! A personal attack, Martel? That the best you have, because NO ONE ever types something as witty as that. Must have thought about it all by yourself.

  • Anonymous

    But no “n”….. Oh the humanity!!!!

  • Moosenuts99

    HUH WHA HUH?

    What is that even SUPPOSED TO MEAN?

    Or are you projecting?

  • Anonymous

    The “comedy” of Bill Maher with his savage guest Maron and his moron guest Savage when they were advocating the Rape and Sodomy of Bachmann and Santorum. Lefty wing nuts like you said that it was “comedy”. Beck came nowhere near that vile, disgusting, hate speech. He was doing Satire on the radio. Maher et al was not.

    For you, the uninformed… From this site…

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-maher-panel-hits-new-low-with-talk-of-hard-fking-michele-bachmann-and-rick-santorum/

    As the libs said then, if you don’t like it, don’t listen.

    Yo must be a pro, dude.

  • A.R.

    looks like frances is still writing stories about the totally irrelevant beck to keep crazies like you coming to this site

  • Moosenuts99

    With context, I understand your claim. Without it, it just sounded like the ravings of a lunatic.

    Totally understand that Beckers was trying to make a “joke” and attempted “comedy”.

    I’m having a hard time seeing it as SATIRE though. What exactly is he SATIRIZING? Just sounds like he’s making a dopey joke about someone’s name, much like a 3rd grader would. PLEASE TELL ME HOW THIS IS SATIRE

  • Moosenuts99

    Please inform yourself with the definition of SATIRE before you attempt to reply

  • Anonymous

    Wicked intelligent, Martel’s mom.

    NEXT BEST COMEBACK EVER!

    Now read the article, not the posts.

  • Anonymous

    If you do not understand, ‘On today’s program, Glenn Beck laughed off the idea that Norquist was the “new evil villain,” statement, you are incapable of putting anything into context. Murdoch bad. Kock Brothers, bad. Boehner, bad. Palin, bad. Bachmann, Bad. Perry, bad (NOT YET, but when he announces) the lefties will be all over him, and you will run with the blindfolded pack….

    You never argue the idea or the counter-point, oryou go off half-cocked like you did above by throwing out accusations, calling names, and generally trying to distract from the POINT. Beck does that same damn satirical bit all of the time. It is old to those who listen, yet it upsets you. Guns, Mormons, Christians, Pro-life… etc. But you do not know because you do not listen.

    Matthews on the other hand? NO SATIRE. Flat out hate and vile.

    He was not attempting “comedy” no matter ho many times you say it. He was being satirical, and mocking the left who do nothing but set up a BAD guy for you liberals to hate, and you all fall in line, and then TOW THE LINE.

    “What exactly is he SATIRIZING? Just sounds like he’s making a dopey joke about someone’s name, much like a 3rd grader would.” Research it before you try insulting me with the definition of satire, and then try to make a statement supporting your ignorance. A genius like you should not need a lowly one like me to explain anything, right?

    I know what satire is, and I’ll prove it, as well as the fact that you need to find a dictionary. Four words. “Barrack the magic negro.”

    I’ll wait for your response.

  • Anonymous

    Your ignorance and your hatred, led you to go down that road pal. I am by no means a lunatic. The facts re just that, and for you to defend a point, without the facts from different sources, makes you look less than capable of carrying on an intelligent conversation. You go right to the gutter when your statement is challenged, and turns out to be, ignorant.

    At any point, you could have posted, “What do you mean by that? and we may have had a mutual disagreement, but a debate, none the less.

    Think about it.

  • Moosenuts99

    YOU
    STILL
    HAVENT
    EXPLAINED
    HOW
    THIS
    IS
    SATIRE

    AND PLEASE: DO EXPLAIN FOR US ALL
    How “BARACK THE MAGIC NEGRO” IS SATIRE

    “this word does not mean does not mean what you think it means”

    Hahahahahahahahahaha. Dude doesn’t like being told that he sounds like a lunatic when he makes accusations with no context, but then brandishes the RACISM AS SATIRE CARD

    WOW. Hilarious

  • Anonymous

    moosenuts, put the beer down and re-read the facts as well as the replies.

    HINT: REREAD PARAGRAPH 1 and the AUTHOR’S WORDS. MARTEL TELLS YOU WHAT THE SATIRE IS… HINT2: “new evil villain,” which Beck was Satirizing. If you cannot understand that, you are not capable of understanding. I’ve said it 3 times already.

    Satire is primarily a literary genre or form, although in practice it can also be found in the graphic and performing arts. In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.[1] Although satire is usually meant to be funny, its greater purpose is often constructive social criticism, using wit as a weapon.

    A common feature of satire is strong irony or sarcasm—”in satire, irony is militant”[2]—but parody, burlesque, exaggeration, juxtaposition, comparison, analogy, and double entendre
    are all frequently used in satirical speech and writing. This
    “militant” irony or sarcasm often professes to approve (or at least
    accept as natural) the very things the satirist wishes to attack.

    Satire is nowadays found in many artistic forms of expression,
    including literature, plays, commentary, and media such as lyrics. AND ON THE GLENN BECK SHOW.

  • Anonymous

    moosenuts… Your two own statements… and now the magic racism card….

    “Dude doesn’t like being told that he sounds like a lunatic when he makes
    accusations with no context, but then brandishes the RACISM AS SATIRE
    CARD”

    “With context, I understand your claim. Without it, it just sounded like the ravings of a lunatic.”

  • Sean

    Grover Norquist is funded by Haliburton, Blackwater, the Koch brothers, Wal-Mart, Roger Alies, skull & bones and the letter C.

  • Anonymous

    When you don’t have an answer you got to say something.

  • TruDat

    Have you noticed that the libs always look to comedians for the political and economic advice?

  • Anonymous

    Talk about a self-fulfilling comment.

  • Anonymous

    You wonder why Glenn Beck – instead of ripping Alan Simpson – won’t invite him on the show for a debate.  Oh, that’s right – Beck would be bringing a paring knife to a machete fight…

  • Moosenuts99

    Better a
    Comedian than a rodeo clown

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany

    From  Beck’s website.: “Grover Norquist is the most powerful man in the world. Who? Yeah, we aren’t entirely sure who he is either, but Alan Simpson says he is so he must be true. ”

    Seriously. This is the man whose biography is subtitled: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. 

    Ignorance is not stupidity; it means not knowing. Beck has made a fortune of not knowing from people who know even less than he does. He seems informed, unless you know what Beck’s gullible followers do not: the facts. 

    Also from the same board: “Producer Dan Andros decided to do some investigation on this Grover character….”

    Uh, try watching some other channel, Dan,  besides Fox, the channel of right-wing propaganda. Norquist has been all over the real news networks lately. You know, the guy who managed to put a vice on so many elected representative’s heads.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Victor-Tiffany/100001320367593 Victor Tiffany

    From  Beck’s website.: “Grover Norquist is the most powerful man in the world. Who? Yeah, we aren’t entirely sure who he is either, but Alan Simpson says he is so he must be true. ”

    Seriously. This is the man whose biography is subtitled: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance. 

    Ignorance is not stupidity; it means not knowing. Beck has made a fortune of not knowing from people who know even less than he does. He seems informed, unless you know what Beck’s gullible followers do not: the facts. 

    Also from the same board: “Producer Dan Andros decided to do some investigation on this Grover character….”

    Uh, try watching some other channel, Dan,  besides Fox, the channel of right-wing propaganda. Norquist has been all over the real news networks lately. You know, the guy who managed to put a vice on so many elected representative’s heads.

  • Nature Freak

    This book gave me nightmares as a 4 or 5 year old.
    “The Monster at the End of This Book”
    http://www.amazon.com/Monster-Sesame-Street-Birds-Favorites/dp/0375805613
    I still have it in storage.

  • http://www.constitutionallibertarian.co.cc/ DavidKramer

    Beck still gets the leftist twits all apoplectic.

    Eh, eh, eh, that was not funny. That was just infantile. Koch Brothers!!!!!!!

    Oh the humor that leftists give me. You folks are just so funny it makes me sad.

    It is not nice to laugh at those less fortunate, but heck, I am not a perfect person. I will work on it.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Todd-Scheller/100000832449863 Todd Scheller

    Victor, 
    Common Nonsense is about as accurate a Biography as Mason Locke Weems Biography of George Washington, Life of George Washington; with Curious Anecdotes, Equally Honorable to Himself, and Exemplary to His Young Countrymen.

  • Anonymous

    It was reported that the PBS television show’s season premiere will
    include designing a launcher that will send Hubert the Human Cannonball
    flying (we hope safely) into a bucket of blue gelatin.     http://bit.ly/qgwacv

  • Anonymous

    Good to see Gle(2)nn is getting back too his Q Morning Zoo gig, with political attitude!

  • Anonymous

    Good to see Gle(2)nn is getting back too his Q Morning Zoo gig, with political attitude!

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