We need to save the concept of “Funny” and the attempts made to be “Funny”

Ah, okay. I think I might have misunderstood your argument earlier.
I still don’t think it’s inappropriate to be cruel to Beck, but I can see your point about using others for that end. So, yes, I’d be willing to admit that my joke was tasteless (although, in my defense, I was thinking of using an even worse one).

But I was tasteless in a way the video was not: it *didn’t* exploit anyone’s tragedy, just the fictional death of a fictional person. So I suppose one could say that it exploits the concept of death, but that hardly sees tasteless.

And in regards to his influence: there’s a different between a lunatic projecting their own sickness onto your work and actively encouraging people to become lunatics.

Wow. Sarah Palin, is that you?

That’s right… because if someone reads a story, a book, or links to a YouTube video… well, clearly they’ve got their inspiration! Heck, I don’t know how The Beatles were never arrested after Charles Manson sited “Helter Skelter” as a “prophecy.” Clearly, they too were guilty.

But here’s the thing that your warped little mind can’t seem to understand… it’s not about Beck. He’s a celebrity; being attacked by lunatics with no class is part of the job. But to evoke other innocent people who have been victimized by a terrible crime (murder, rape, etc.), so that a group of fanatics can attack someone they POLITICALLY DISAGREE WITH is shameful. See… it’s not Beck, it’s the people you exploit to get to Beck.

You are a classless, disrespectful, terrible excuse for a civilized individual if you think that exploiting tragedy, in the name of attack Beck, is somehow acceptable.

ipod accessories

Well, I was joking, but maybe you’re right. That is a cruel thing to say, and surely Beck doesn’t deserve–

“Indeed, according to the Anti-Defamation League, the alleged killer posted a YouTube clip to Stormfront of top-rated Fox News host Glenn Beck contemplating the existence of FEMA-managed concentration camps. … by co-opting conspiratorial rhetoric from the farthest shores of the right, mainstream conservative talkers can inflame the passions of paranoiacs like Poplawski to a dangerous degree.”

WOOPS nope, Beck is responsible for the deaths of at least three people (I made a mistake in my second comment, I thought the shooter in Knoxville had read Beck, but I was wrong–he was just reading Savage, Hannity, and O’Reilly) and doesn’t deserve any sort of pity.

Nice job being a sanctimonious tool though.

Glenn Beck can suit himself. He’s a public figure.

Well, that’s what I’ve said. Disgusting and disrespectful as the attacks are… he is a public figure, he’ll get over it. But using rape, murder, and a teens death as methods of attacking Beck, is an insult to the real victims of those crimes. It’s essentially the “Hitler” analogy, just on a much more singular level… it insults the victims more than it mocks Beck.

Crowley says:
November 4, 2009 at 8:57 pm
@Kevin
Hey, to be fair, those family members killed themselves because they foresaw what Beck would become.

Wow… what a proudly terrible person you are. A truly disgraceful human being.

All this nonsense about “civility” and “tolerance” is the reason Liberalism is in its death throes. You have no obligation to be tolerant of intolerance.

Glenn Beck can suit himself. He’s a public figure. A controversial one at that. This Onion piece, just like the rape-murder rumors (?) about Beck, are perfectly fine ways to satire his rhetorical style.

That said… I this is a similar situation. The attack on Beck, TO Beck is something a celebrity has to deal with (I guess). However, to exploit someone else’s tragedy (real or imagined) in an effort to attack someone else (even in jest), is tasteless.

But as I said, and as Jelp illustrates, expect “the ends to justify the means” in this tale. It’s an attack on Beck… so couldn’t be “that bad.” As I said before… disgusting.