Glenn Beck On The Jay Leno Show: Both Parties “Betrayed The Country”

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by Joe Coscarelli | 11:50 pm, December 18th, 2009

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Welcome to prime time, Glenn Beck. The Fox News host took a quick trip to Studio 11 in Burbank, California on Friday night, appearing on The Jay Leno Show to discuss his whirlwind year and political affiliation, as well as bake his grandma’s sugar cookies.

Earlier on Friday night, Beck tweeted the following message from his oft-ignored Twitter account: “Tonight 20minutes with jay leno. We flew out, did the show And now flying right back. Think of the co2! Was it worth warming the globe? 10p.” And what a show it was.

Here at Mediaite, we’ve tracked Beck’s every move — from his own trail of tears and 9/12 to a talk with Barbara Walters — and judging by tonight’s interview, the man does not seem to be letting up any time soon.

During his turn on Walters’ Most Fascinating People special, we commented on the strangeness of “seeing Beck out in the real world, outside the vacuum of his nightly show, interacting with other mainstream media types.” Tonight was a similar experience as Leno welcomed the “popular and controversial broadcaster” to his nighttime show for a little chat.

Clad in a purple tie and barely matching button-down, Beck strolls out to audience applause and Leno starts right off, calling Beck a “polarizing figure” — a claim Glenn denies, playing humble and coy. Beck speaks of background and substance abuse problems — getting grave for a minute before shaking off a burning question Leno tries to sneak in:

“What party do you align yourself with?” Leno asks. Beck makes a Christmas party joke, before commenting, “I hate both of them really. They both betrayed the country, I think.” I’m a liberatarian, Beck says. “I voted for Joe Lieberman, I voted for George W. Bush — both of which I regretted.”

“We have an honor problem. We have a truth problem in the country,” he continues, sounding fairly reasonable throughout. He admits reluctantly that Hillary Clinton would have been his candidate of choice over John McCain but puts it poetically: “That’s like, gee, do I want to hang myself or shoot myself?” Then he plugs the moms and dads in the Tea Party Movement and 9/12 party.

Leno attempts to play sober realist to Beck’s grandiose populism, even making a fair case in Beck-ian terms for President Barack Obama, but it basically becomes a charm-off, and like most nights, Leno falls short. To be fair though, it might be Leno’s best interview in recent memory, if only because they both come off likable enough. But hey, it’s Glenn Beck’s world and we just live in it.

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Fidoohki

What surprised me was the applause he got. Sure there was some boos but they were
practically drowned out by it. Makes me feel like there might be hope for us yet.
BJL411

Glenn Beck is just one of the fringe lunatics on the right who are destroying this country and feeding the dumbed down society who listen to them.

I hate Jay Leno. Never once watched him on the Tonight Show and I hear his new show is going under (yeh!). He can claim all he wants that he’s not a right winger.. but it is burned in my brain the time I saw him publically out there campaigning for Bush.. fk him too.

Glenn hates both parties my azz.. He’s a right wing shill and paid to do so, just like Lush Dimbulb. They’re all lunatics and it’s embarrassing to see so many stupid people in this country who actually buy into their dumbed-down antics.
ImNotBlue

Here at Mediaite, we’ve tracked Beck’s every move…

Yeah, no kidding. It’s almost like an obsession… But then again, we’ve been saying that for months.

BJL411 says:
December 19, 2009 at 8:11 am

What a well reasoned, well thought out, intellectual comment.

Ugh.
SWWT

Wow. Let’s just all hate all people of different ideological beliefs. That sounds about right.
Fidoohki

..well I did til BJL441′s little rant. Go back to your ‘everyone must think alike’ mantra and leave those who get it alone.
Fidoohki

err BJL411′s post… sigh
rmbltmbl

Loved it when Beck said there is a difference between wisdom and education. Though it felt slightly awkward, I thought the show was alright.
dhg

BJL’s post is as much an indication of what’s wrong as Beck is if not more.Hate never solved anything no matter where it comes from.Beck is right though,both parties have let us down,regularly and still are every day.
MikeLI631

This Beck appearance, shows how DESPARATE Leno is for ratings.

And you can’t blame him, because the format is DEAD !

Watching Lopez’s, nightly, BREAK-NECK SPEED, TROLLING for significance, in that same format, is more interesting.

The Race is, how long it will take Lopez, finally, to either collapse from sheer exhaustion, OR the see the show, implode, from irrelavance.

Somewhere Johnny Carson is laughing at these weak CLOWNS !
m

I love it when Beck trashes Republicans. I hope he creates a third party so all the conservative vote gets split in this country. Will virtually guarantee Democratic domination in the electorate.

We’ve all got our hopes and dreams.
StewartIII

ChickaBOOMer: Beck Does Leno
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2009/12/beck-does-leno.html
hkyplayer

Hey M
Your right if there is a third party the welfare, food stamp, depend on the government society will be the dominate party and we will see America quickly slip to a third world category.
America will have no ambition or innovative minds because there will be no need to prosper.

America is not perfect nation and it might take another 100 years but if you take “fee will and responsibility” out of the hands of the people we will fail.
Ted

hkyplayer – Boo hoo, third world country, gov’t dominated society, we’re all gonna die!! Big baby. Don’t get all bunched up about it because the nutty and erudite Glenn Beck has a plan and coincidentally its a 100 year plan. Hooray for Glenn, he’s got our back!!!
Nachi

And Little Boy/Girk/Whatever Blue is an expert on “obsessions.”

Leno’s show is an on-going disappointment. Appealing now to the lowest of mentalities on the totem pole. Awful. Childish. Child-like. Empty. Sad. His inclusion of Beck – and the unfortunate cohabitation which brought him forth – really hit a new low. A desperate attempt to grab a few new viewers from the ranks of the lowest of the generic masses. Twas a painful show of stark simplicity. A sign of the times. Jay has yet to learn that: When you dance with the Devil, he doesn’t “change.” He changes “you.”
http://www.facebook.com/people/Vivian-Hackler/1432489874 Vivian Hackler

Have any of you rightwing-bashers even watched Beck’s show? He states, then verifies each argument that he makes. That is why they got rid of Van Jones and will soon get rid of other liberal, America haters in the government. He is trying to bring back the freedoms that the government is slowly trying to take away . I used to be a liberal until I started seeing how the Democrats are intentionally keeping minorities beholding to them through welfare and other entitlements. Education and information, which Beck promotes, is what is important. Not your narrow views, based on the media trends and those of TV personalities (Michael Moore). Maybe Jay was trying to be “fair and balanced” on his show!!!!
Ted

Vivian – And I was Queen of England before someone looked up my skirt and then they took my crown away. Beck doesn’t verify squat. If there are America haters its people like you who continue to dumb everything down to insipid teabagging bumper stickers. However, if you think Beck promotes education that would explain your post.
m

Beck said that art inside a GE building was socialist and thus MSNBC was a part of a socialist-marxist global conspiracy somehow. He’s an unstable and insane human being. It’s quite sad to the testament of human nature that people watch him and gobble up everything he says.
penocea

I once considered myself pretty Liberal which I had thought meant tolerance and wishing all people happiness and joy. It is now the Conservative Movement I find more attracted to. The reason is that the Liberal message now goes something like this, “We are your Intellectual Superior and we know what is best for you, therefore we are going to dictate to you how you should live your life according to our ideology. That means that You, the average person, are not allowed to be selfish. You will behave in ways that make Me, your Liberal Leader, feel good. And if you do not, we will call you Racists, Terrorists, and accuse you of wanting ’people to die’.

I am feeling more hate coming from the Left than I have in 30 years and I no longer want to be apart of it.
ImNotBlue

m says:
December 19, 2009 at 1:43 pm

Um… do you think this is similar to how the far left is fighting with the Democrats currently? You know… Olbermann saying he’d go to jail before accepting ObamaCare? Looks like the left has quite a few problems with its different factions… now doesn’t it? Any words about them?

Nachi says:
December 19, 2009 at 2:45 pm

And Little Boy/Girk/Whatever Blue is an expert on “obsessions.”

Yes, you figured it out. I’m a “girk.”

m says:
December 19, 2009 at 7:34 pm

Well… no he didn’t. But I’m sure if you repeat the lie enough, someone will believe you (try Ted… he WANTS to believe, because it helps feed his hate, without him having to actually learn anything).
Ted

ImNotBlue but IAmAnIdiot – Well, duh, yes he did. Maybe its English you have a problem with or perhaps you haven’t had your daily big bowl of Glenn Beck Stupid, and you’re getting irritable. You ought to drop Glenn an email and let him no of your mind reading powers…he’d appreciate that.
timzank

Wow, almost another entire thread of comments devoted to “I know you are but what am I?”. Another intellectually stimulating Sunday.
ImNotBlue

Ted says:
December 20, 2009 at 11:54 am

Personal attack, personal attack, lie, personal attack, lie, personal attack.

Writing like Ted is like filling out a MadLib (ironically titled as such). He’s so far detached from reality and facts, that all he knows how to do is call names, attempt to annoy, and make a fool out of himself.

Ted… I’m sure there’s snow to be shoveled… go do something productive, will ya?