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Beck Celebrates Bin Laden’s Death With Cookies, Confetti, And A Marching Band

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Today, Glenn Beck began his show solemnly. While he praised the military’s actions in capturing and killing Osama bin Laden, he was greatly disturbed by the celebrations he saw last night. He asked whether Americans cheering the death of this man was any different than people in the Middle East cheering on 9/11. And then he gave this a little thought, eventually deciding, “If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em!” Within seconds, the set was filled with a marching band and refreshments.

Yes, I’ve never regretted having to write a headline more than with this post. I’d have loved to have just called this post “Beck Admonishes Americans For Crude Celebrations” and allow you to discover the joke itself, that just seems like asking for trouble. Besides, it’s never fun to be accused of misunderstanding something

Anyway, after that raucous opening, Beck continued in high spirits. He brought up the debate of whether or not to show the pictures of Bin Laden’s body which are apparently quite gruesome. Quoting ABC News’ report that “brains and blood” are visible, Beck pointed out that he’d wanted to see the guy look like that for 10 years. Beck then played a clip of a modern video game, arguing that most Americans could probably handle it.

This morning on his radio show, Beck had complained about the burial at sea that Bin Laden had gotten, offering up some creative alternatives for the terrorists’ final resting place. He had a new one this afternoon, recommending that Bin Laden was sewn up in a football and buried under the 50 yard line at the New Meadowlands Stadium so that he would spend eternity “in New Jersey.” (Normally I’d be prepared to send my own Special Forces task force after someone who dissed the great state of New Jersey like that but, I’ll admit, that was a pretty funny line)

However, Beck didn’t stay jovial the whole show. Towards the end of his opening monologue, Beck began listing all of the attacks Al Queda has perpetrated and the names of the Americans that have died, reminding the audience why a small gesture like a marching band feels so good right now.

You’re probably wondering how I can call a whole marching band a “small gesture.” Well, that’s just in comparison to what came towards the end of the episode. Beck looked into the camera, thanked the President, and plugged the red phone back in. Yes, he promised it was for one day only, but still. It was clearly a day of celebration on Glenn Beck this afternoon.

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  • Dem4Ever

    The answer is “yes” there is a difference.  The moslims were celebrating the mass murder of innocent men, women and children.  We were celebrating the death of that mass murderer.

  • danker

    First he defeats and embarrasses the birthers,now he takes out Osama Bin laden.This guy is just too damn good!

  • Skippy

    Oh, dear.

    The Baboon again doesn’t know what to do; whine and moan or celebrate?

    The stupid red telephone, again? Why? Is Beck and his viewers soooooo stupid to believe anyone will call them?

    Just go away, stupid sht flinging Baboon Beck!

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    Skippy said:
    Oh, dear.

    The Baboon again doesn’t know what to do; whine and moan or celebrate?

    The stupid red telephone, again? Why? Is Beck and his viewers soooooo stupid to believe anyone will call them?

    Just go away, stupid sht flinging Baboon Beck!

    You just can’t seem to stand it that Beck’s actually a decent man. How pathetic.

  • TucsonTerpFan

    Poor, poor Skippy…so sad that Beck scores again!

    Skippy, call me, we’ll do lunch!

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Spontaneous celebrations are normal given the circumstances.
    Planning a celebration with bands and party favors are callow and immature.

    How does Beck always manage to embarrass America?

    _______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

  • Jaurez

    Longstocking, whine and moan much?

  • Skippy

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    You just can’t seem to stand it that Beck’s actually a decent man. How pathetic.

    The sht flinging Baboon Beck is a loser.

    Limpo looks down on him.
    Billdo laughs at his conspiracy theories.
    El Baldo One despises his lack of a consistent ideology.
    KKKlownnity was envious of his sudden popularity.
    Gomer called the Baboon on his baseless attacks.

    Yeah. I bet the Baboon is actually a good father when he is not abusing his children.

  • Zandandido

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Spontaneous celebrations are normal given the circumstances.
    Planning a celebration with bands and party favors are callow and immature.

    How does Beck always manage to embarrass America?

    _______________________________________________________________
    CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT…

    Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, Jaurez
    WCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershow
    TeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekim
    mdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

    So when Americans celebrated the death of OBL/UBL are “embarrassing” America? People celebrate in their own way.

  • Zandandido

    Skippy said:
    The sht flinging Baboon Beck is a loser.

    Limpo looks down on him.
    Billdo laughs at his conspiracy theories.
    El Baldo One despises his lack of a consistent ideology.
    KKKlownnity was envious of his sudden popularity.
    Gomer called the Baboon on his baseless attacks.

    Yeah. I bet the Baboon is actually a good father when he is not abusing his children.

    Yeahhh…. Glenn Beck is the loser. He’s the one making 10s of millions of dollars and you are whining, moaning, and just down right bitching on a blog. So sad.

  • Zandandido

    Zandandido said:
    So when Americans celebrated the death of OBL/UBL are “embarrassing” America? People celebrate in their own way.

    I was jumping up and down like a freaking little school boy. Made me very happy to find out that he truly is dead.

  • puck30

    Skippy said:
    stupid sht flinging Baboon Beck!

    Wow! you know the only other person (maybe) I know that says that is…………Burger Bovine!

    Well it could be two…..er people (huminoids?). Now Skippy you and BB remember to always put your helmets on before you board the short bus.

  • puck30

    Skippy said:
    when he is not abusing his children

    BB Skippy did your parents ever ask you to run away from home?

    I heard every Christmas they gave you a one way Greyhound Bus ticket for a present.

  • Skippy

    Zandandido said:
    Yeahhh…. Glenn Beck is the loser. He’s the one making 10s of millions of dollars and you are whining, moaning, and just down right bitching on a blog. So sad.

    I am not a whore. A demented whore at that. With a bodyguard to protect his stinking arse.

    I can actually say proudly to anyone, – the sick ignorant loser who called the President of the United States of America “a racist” is Glenn Beck.

    But you go ahead and buy his kool-aid.

  • notsofast

    Skippy said:
    Skippy says:
    May 2, 2011 at 7:54 pm Skippy(Quote)
    Thumb up 3 Thumb down 16

    I bet you greased you hole especially well last night, son!

  • notsofast

    Skippy said:
    But you go ahead and buy his kool-aid.

    Sorry, son, “Kool-Aid” is an officially race coded word .

    You must be a racist.

  • Zandandido

    Skippy said:
    I am not a whore. A demented whore at that. With a bodyguard to protect his stinking arse.

    I can actually say proudly to anyone, – the sick ignorant loser who called the President of the United States of America “a racist” is Glenn Beck.

    But you go ahead and buy his kool-aid.

    So Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann are “whores”? If I got death threats and I didn’t have a private police force, I’m have a bodyguard. What about the sick ignorant loser that keeps bringing up the birther issue, aka Chris Matthews? Oh wait, they are the good guys. And I’m obviously a racist for bring that up. Boo-hoo.

  • Dirk

    notsofast said:
    Sorry, son, “Kool-Aid” is an officially race coded word .

    You must be a racist.

    You must be a pedophile. Son.

  • illusive man

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Spontaneous celebrations are normal given the circumstances.Planning a celebration with bands and party favors are callow and immature. How does Beck always manage to embarrass America? _______________________________________________________________CAUTION: BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THESE EX-BIRTHERS, THEY ARE ARMED AND IGNORANT… Dem4Ever, The Lantern of Truth, juan, Arkansas Steve, murf, JaurezWCinWI, Barack Must Go, NOBAMA, Colorado_Conservative, gordonbloyershowTeaPartyPatriot, notsofast, Severian, Dronetek, TfT, mitchflorida, skoorbekimmdanielson, Harry Flashman, OxyCon and NORBIT

    I think ignorance is best defined as someone who makes jokes about people killed in tornadoes.
    Just so you know.

  • Dirk

    notsofast said:
    I bet you greased you hole especially well last night, son!

    Wishful thinking on your part.

  • Jaurez

    Zandandido said:
    So Chris Matthews, Ed Schultz, Keith Olbermann are “whores”?

    I believe that’s what longstocking is saying.

  • notsofast

    Dirk said:
    Dirk says:
    May 2, 2011 at 8:23 pm Dirk(Quote)

    Get yours oiled Garth!

    LOL

  • ChrisNH

    It will be awesome watching Leftist media hacks drip with rabies more than usual when they realize that people will move on from this event to things that Obama is still screwing up. Leftist RACERS will scream and drip rabies and get all offended when they realize the ‘bounce’ Obama should receive is short-lived. Heck, the stock market LOST ground today, which should tell you all you need to know. Leftist RACERS think this somehow paves the way for an easy Obama re-election. But people don’t give a flying Eff about this in the face of high unemployment and gas prices that are strangling families while they watch Obama laugh about it.

    Osama’s dead: BFD—> dead-cat-bounce.

  • Dirk

    notsofast said:
    Get yours oiled Garth!

    LOL

    You are repeating your mullets mantra. Bend over and grab your ankles, here comes the mullet followed by the trailer park trash. That’s a good day for you. Hope you are taking birth control sweet pea.

  • Dirk

    ChrisNH said:
    It will be awesome watching Leftist media hacks drip with rabies more than usual when they realize that people will move on from this event to things that Obama is still screwing up. Leftist RACERS will scream and drip rabies and get all offended when they realize the ‘bounce’ Obama should receive is short-lived. Heck, the stock market LOST ground today, which should tell you all you need to know. Leftist RACERS think this somehow paves the way for an easy Obama re-election. But people don’t give a flying Eff about this in the face of high unemployment and gas prices that are strangling families while they watch Obama laugh about it.

    Osama’s dead: BFD—> dead-cat-bounce.

    Based on your idiotic comments you need to be tested for rabies.

  • Skippy

    puck30 said:
    Wow! you know the only other person (maybe) I know that says that is…………Burger Bovine!

    Well it could be two…..er people (huminoids?). Now Skippy you and BB remember to always put your helmets on before you board the short bus.

    Stupid phuck, Jeff Merrill has a prize for you in his barn.

    Maybe you can join him pretending he doesn’t jack off horses for a living, and giving him a hand.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Zandandido said:
    So when Americans celebrated the death of OBL/UBL are “embarrassing” America? People celebrate in their own way.

    There is a difference between a celebration and a TV production.

  • tgk

    Geez oh Pete you liberals are just the MOST angry rude people!!! Beck says what you ALL have been saying and lauding all day and yet you losers STILL don’t have ONE decent thing to say.

    But oh man all you republicans BETTER give Obama the credit and respect we want you to (which MOST have been doing all day anyway). Kiss Off you HATEMONGERS.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    tgk said:
    Kiss Off you HATEMONGERS.

    lol…I love the smell of an angry teagagger.

    Smells like……victory.

  • Zandandido

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    There is a difference between a celebration and a TV production.

    He was celebrating. But since you have an obvious vendetta against him, if he does anything that seems normal or great. You still have to sit down and run that stick up your butt when it comes to him. It sounds like people can only celebrate in a “certain” way, that is up to “your” standards. Glenn can celebrate his own way. Just as you, I, President Obama, Donald Trump, Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, and Muhammad himself can celebrate in our own ways. Get that stick out of your ass and just be damn happy.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    Zandandido said:
    He was celebrating. But since you have an obvious vendetta against him, if he does anything that seems normal or great. You still have to sit down and run that stick up your butt when it comes to him. It sounds like people can only celebrate in a “certain” way, that is up to “your” standards. Glenn can celebrate his own way. Just as you, I, President Obama, Donald Trump, Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi, and Muhammad himself can celebrate in our own ways. Get that stick out of your ass and just be damn happy.

    lol…can you imagine the guy who baked the cookies?….

    “Hey dude, what are you doing?”

    “Oh, I’m making some death cookies for the Glenn Beck Show”

    Lets save the bands and confetti for when our troops come home.

  • Zandandido

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    lol…can you imagine the guy who baked the cookies?….

    “Hey dude, what are you doing?”

    “Oh, I’m making some death cookies for the Glenn Beck Show”

    Lets save the bands and confetti for when our troops come home.

    Wow, talking about the death of somebody who DIDN’T KILL 3000 AMERICANS. How much Glenn Beck did in the way of bands, confetti, and cookies is not EVEN close to how much I’d be happy with when the men and women of our U.S. Army comes home. NOT even close, not by a long-shot. I’d like a parade that lasts 6 days praising every single member.

  • tgk

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    lol…can you imagine the guy who baked the cookies?….

    “Hey dude, what are you doing?”

    “Oh, I’m making some death cookies for the Glenn Beck Show”

    Lets save the bands and confetti for when our troops come home.

    How about you just say: I don’t care what he says or does, my HATE for Glenn Beck (and ALL conservatives for that matter) overrides everything? That would be SO much more honest and believable.

  • BeckFinallyDemoted

    tgk said:
    How about you just say: I don’t care what he says or does, my HATE for Glenn Beck (and ALL conservatives for that matter) overrides everything? That would be SO much more honest and believable.

    Alright alright, I’ll say all that. Just give me a minute..

    I have to take my death cake out of the oven.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    Skippy said:
    I am not a whore. A demented whore at that. With a bodyguard to protect his stinking arse.

    I can actually say proudly to anyone, – the sick ignorant loser who called the President of the United States of America “a racist” is Glenn Beck.

    But you go ahead and buy his kool-aid.

    I used to wonder that people grumbled over Beck’s security detail – until I started regularly reading their posts and came to know the reasoning behind it.

  • meena140
  • puck30

    BB Skippy said:
    Stupid phuck, Jeff Merrill has a prize for you in his barn.

    Maybe you can join him pretending he doesn’t jack off horses for a living, and giving him a hand.

    Oh BB Skippy I would’nt do anythimg to get between you and your obsession Jeff, but of course Ollie Crangle might have something to say since he’s been obsessing with Jeff all day.

    Speaking of farms BB Skippy, I hear you were born on a farm. Any more in the litter?

  • puck30

    BB Skippy said:
    I am not a whore.

    I hear you go down for chump change.

  • Paleoconservatarian

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    Alright alright, I’ll say all that. Just give me a minute..

    I have to take my death cake out of the oven.

    meena140 said:
    http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2011/05/sarah-palins-terrible-horrible-no-good.html

    checkout the stains on Palins suit, yuk!

    Glenn Beck Derangement Syndrome and Palin Derangement Syndrome in the same thread, minutes apart. If the two combine it’ll become a supercell of unreasoned hate, and nobody will be safe from the vile invective.

  • Barack Must Go

    This song is what America still is to us ” real ” Americans, although to today’s generation this seems foreign today, and what is actually foreign and many times dangerous is blindly accepted with open arms.

    First you killed God, now you’ve come for America…….too bad for you….she’s neither for sale or for free.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7Wt4XlXUrc&feature=player_embedded#at=22

  • BOMBSHELL

    You people just wait! My daddy–GooberBrainedReject (a.k.a. GBR)–will be here as soon as he gets done cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floors to fill you in on how the evil Glenn Beck created a false message about bin Laden feeding the fishies.

  • X-3

    Has the satire been lost on you morons?

  • puck30

    BOMBSHELL said:
    You people just wait! My daddy–GooberBrainedReject (a.k.a. GBR)–will be here as soon as he gets done cleaning the kitchen and mopping the floors to fill you in on how the evil Glenn Beck created a false message about bin Laden feeding the fishies.

    Oh Bombshell, could you tell your Daddy GBR that I tuned into the radio station he told me to

    GBR said: “Get more details about Beck’s lies and hypocrisies today 7:30 p.m. at http://www.wicb.org. Click on “Listen Live.”

    Well I hate to tell your dad this but there where more people watching the Flying Skunk Farm Cam (22) then your Dad’s doepy show (1)(was probably him) at 7:55.

  • murf

    While CNN was more hesitant yesterday in releasing information , Geraldo went all in on being the first to report the news that we got Bin Laden and you could tell he wanted to be the first to break it wrong or right . Jerry showed genuine emotion and joy. That said he did let the emotions get the best of him towards the end and the Cairo remark was stupid .

  • murf

    Disregard wrong thread

  • Pablo

    BeckFinallyDemoted said:
    There is a difference between a celebration and a TV production.

    What? I thought he was fired.

  • X-3

    puck30 said:
    Well I hate to tell your dad this but there where more people watching the Flying Skunk Farm Cam (22) then your Dad’s doepy show (1)(was probably him) at 7:55.

    Truly funny. When GBR sees these posts about him he will probably scurry away like a roach when the lights come on in the kitchen where he works as a fry cook.

  • murf

    Pablo said:
    What? I thought he was fired.

    It’s hilarious that BFD makes fun of Birthers everyday , yet shows he doesn’t know what ” demoted ” or ” fired ” means everytimes he comments ! LOL

  • Nacho

    Beck “celebrating” didn’t really seem like a celebration. More like a weird staged production that maybe one of his staff came up with.

    He made some really weird and forced connections throughout it and it was just, well, off.

    Yes, I’m a Beck “hater” but that was just kinda strange. Was he attempting to mock the American people?

  • Nacho

    X-3 said:
    Has the satire been lost on you morons?

    Not really, I was trying to give the feverish Beck supporters a chance to understand their reasoning for Beck’s celebration. I ignored watching the video clip at first but then when this thread ran over into the Jon Stewart thread, I decided to give it a look.

    The best part (most amusing) is how Beck made the comparison to the passionate youth across the middle east and north Africa to, once again the threat, the youths celebrating in the streets in the USA last night. That, I do not think was satire or at least intended to be. If it was just this one time, I would buy that. But No way with the quilt stories he weaves. It was a not so hidden dog whistle.

  • fyonista

    It’s one thing to celebrate a victory over a foe – especially one that was this well executed and matches in daring and vision Bin Laden’s victory with the towers – but this, here, is obscene.

  • Pablo

    Nacho said:
    It was a not so hidden dog whistle.

    Dog whistle of what?

  • http://www.zazzle.com/talkingpoints NORBIT Jr.

    Hey Progressives, let’s see who’s more successful & influential in their after-cable lives: Olbermann or Beck?
    Anyone like to wager? LOL
    ——————————

    Shhhhhh…hear that silence?

    That’s the silence of the Progressive’s Anti-War Movement; because you only hear them when there’s a Republican in office – more of a POLITICAL movement than one caring about human rights, wouldn’t you say?!

    Kinda like the naacp’s support not for blacks, but for LIBERAL blacks; like the NOW – support not for women, but for LIBERAL women.
    Hence the double-standard and hypocrisy of these “political rights” PHONIES!

  • X-3

    Nacho said:
    That, I do not think was satire or at least intended to be.

    I didn’t think it was his finest hour, but I saw what he was trying to do, and that was to make fun of the celebrations engaged in by others. Sometimes responding to the absurd with absurdity works and sometimes it just does not. In this case, it did not.

    I do wish he’d given the name (and his appreciation for) that drum corps–they were HOT STUFF!

  • X-3

    Nacho:

    Let me add a couple of things here.

    1. Thanks for your rational presentatiion of your remarks on my post. You have manners.
    2. My take-away on what Beck did is that he illustrated that those who were celebrating the death of UBL are no better than those who celebrate the deaths of innocents and US soldiers by dancing in the streets and handing out candy, etc. I was reminded that we are–or should be–better than folks like that, and to me, that was the whole point he was trying to make.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    While the reactionary morons are celebrating Beck’s stupid rants, let me point out:

    Last year Beck told his flock to tell the truth, over and over, in the months leading up to his 8-28 Mass on the Mall. He claims that he tells the truth, but the CONSERVATIVE site, The Daily Caller, pointed out that Beck said in February, “This is the slogan that I wrote for The Blaze.”

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2011/04/18/thedc-exclusive-conservatives-hit-beck-for-taking-content-without-attribution/#ixzz1LQMCGyWO

    Except he did NOT write that slogan; he bought it. Beck lied, and that is just one clear example. For Beck to lie in such a clear and indisputable way after all of his claims about telling “the truth” makes him a hypocrite. For Beck to lie about writing a slogan about the truth is a hypocrisy inside of another hypocrisy. Beck is layered in hypocrisies!

    22 times during this last year I have shown Beck to be a blatant hypocrite, even when Beck sycophant, Jon Bershad, refuses call him out on it.
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/2011/01/mediaites-bershad-turns-two-blind-eyes.html

    Want to know why Beck’s red phone won’t ring? Because the White House knows that Beck’s reactionary, gullible, brainwashed audience, who are too morally blind to see Beck’s blatant hypocrisies, are not people who ever voted for liberals and never will. They are too morally blind to see Beck’s many hypocrisies: they sure won’t be open to reason, compassion or empathy.

    Beck is supported by the morally stunted.

  • BOMBSHELL

    GooberBrainedReject said:
    I am among the morally stunted.

    You tell ‘em Daddy!

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