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Glenn Beck: ‘You Can Identify Everyone In America Today’ As A Character From It’s A Wonderful Life

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by Jon Bershad | 7:07 pm, April 21st, 2011

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It’s been a long strange trip for Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life. When it was first released in 1946, it received mixed reviews. However, it’s now considered an all time classic. And, in 1947, the FBI completed a memo calling the film Communist propaganda. However, today in 2011, Glenn Beck, enemy of Communists everywhere, used the film to explain his ideology and how we’re all being robbed by the evil Federal Reserve.

Come on, folks. Lets take a trip to Bedford Falls with our guardian angel, Glenn Beck.

Yes, it was another instance of our favorite kind of opinion show, the one where the host uses popular film to create a loopy and strained metaphor explaining their point (see: this, this, and definitely this). Beck weaved It’s a Wonderful Life throughout the entire episode, helpfully explaining that every single person he discusses has a correlation in the film.

Well, who’s evil Mr. Potter, the scary banker who tried to bring down the Buildings and Loan and rip people off so that he could gain control of the town? Why, that’s Ben Bernanke, of course! And the unions are Tom, the guy who asked for way too much money even though he only needed a little. And, we, the faithful Beck viewers? We’re little Mrs. Davis, the charming woman who only asked for $17.50, getting a kiss on the cheek from George Bailey himself.

That’s leads to the big question: who is George Bailey, the wonderful hero who can save a town, lasso a moon, and become the hit of a high school dance years after he graduated? Well, Beck promised he’d reveal that by the end of the show.

Half an hour later though, there was nothing.

Here, with absolutely no edits, is an actual g-chat transcript between this writer and one of the Mediaite editors that took place at 5:40 pm:

Me: WHO’S GEORGE BAILEY?!?!??!
Me: WTF
Editor: I KNOW!
Me: AGGHH!
Me: commercial break
Me: still nothing
Editor: Going to give you this video.. then if he names.. I will add
Me: yeah
Me: he will
Me: he’s gonna hold it till the end and then tell us it’s….us

Then, 10 minutes later. Glenn Beck looked in the camera and said this:

“Our George Bailey has to be…you!”

Now, I’m not posting that transcript to brag. It’s just because, midway through today’s show, Fox News aired a commercial promising an upcoming Glenn Beck trivia contest and I just want you all to know that you’re all going down!

Ahem…anyway…

I know what you’re wondering; “How can we be Mrs. Davis and George Bailey at the same time? It’s impossible to kiss yourself on the cheek, I’ve tried.” Well, Beck explained it in the episode’s last segment. After playing a montage of the “Flash Mobs of Goodness” that were held today, Beck said that we all need to be “Mrs. Davis, Jimmy Stewart, and Frank Capra” all rolled into one. Huh. I guess there was a shape-shifting plot in that film that I missed.

This is why I love these movie metaphor episodes. They’ve always got great clips and they’re all just a little bit insane.

Check out two moments from the episode (the reveals of Mr. Potter and George Bailey) from Fox News below:

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve, Frank Capra, Glenn Beck, its a wonderful life, Jimmy Stewart

WCinWI

It’s my second favorite Christmas movie!

1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. A Christmas Story
3. Anything Hallmark Christmas :)
WCinWI

WCinWI said:
It’s my second favorite Christmas movie!

1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. A Christmas Story
3. Anything Hallmark Christmas :)

Take out second. :)
The Lantern of Truth

George Bailey: What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary.
Mary: I’ll take it. Then what?
George Bailey: Well, then you can swallow it, and it’ll all dissolve, see… and the moonbeams would shoot out of your fingers and your toes and the ends of your hair… am I talking too much?

——————————————————————————–

It’s a Wonderful Movie .

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BeckFinallyDemoted

Lemme do one!!!

Dr Strangelove:

Beck = United States Air Force Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper ( Had the paranoid belief that there is a Communist conspiracy involving water fluoridation which will lead to contamination of everyone’s “precious bodily fluids”)

Gingrich = General Buck Turgidson, the war-mongering over-the-top General

Trump = Major T. J. “King” Kong, in charge of dropping the Birther bombs

Palin = Dr. Strangelove, the insane one who could destroy the world.

Obama = Group Captain Lionel Mandrake, the sane one. who tries to save the world.
Skippy

Is he weeping again at the end of the second clip?

In any case, what we REAL murkans need is to see ourselves as Rambo / Walker Texas Ranger / Rocky.
Barack Must Go

You kiss yourself on the cheek in a mirror you dolt. Oh yeah after that performance I highly recommend you keep your day job. Uh Oh, what’s that you say. That was your………Well look on the bright side, I believe unemployment is still at 99 weeks. Good luck to you….
Pablo

You’d think progressives would eat this stuff up. But their boy has the whip hand at the moment, so it’s all good.

Dumb and Dumber. We’re living it, folks.
Thelonious Funk

I forget, which character got his TV show canceled?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Bill Adkins: “You can identify everyone at FIXed News as a character from ‘Downfall.’” First, Megyn Kelly as Magda Goebbels. Steve Doocy as Fegelein. The llittle brown haired guy on Fox and Friends as the drunk giggling at the table. Krauthammer as Goebbels, — this is fun!!!
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Pablo said:
You’d think progressives would eat this stuff up. But their boy has the whip hand at the moment, so it’s all good. Dumb and Dumber. We’re living it, folks.

As in the GOP is dumb and the Tea Party is dumber – no, it’s dumbest.
Pablo

Ooooh, you really got me there, Bill. That’s frigging brilliant. Who helped you with that?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

Pablo said:
Ooooh, you really got me there, Bill. That’s frigging brilliant. Who helped you with that?

Jim Carrey. How about you?
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The Lantern of Truth

Bill Adkins said:
Bill Adkins: “You can identify everyone at FIXed News as a character from ‘Downfall.’” First, Megyn Kelly as Magda Goebbels. Steve Doocy as Fegelein. The llittle brown haired guy on Fox and Friends as the drunk giggling at the table. Krauthammer as Goebbels, — this is fun!!!

Bill Adkins is the head hillbilly in Deliverance .

Not a stretch for Adkins at all in any way .
black and WHITE

With Obama in the White House there’s nothing worderful about life. I don’t even consider the past two years as living at all.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Bill-Adkins/1585417987 Bill Adkins

The Lantern of Truth said:
Bill Adkins is the head hillbilly in Deliverance . Not a stretch for Adkins at all in any way .

Oooh, the Deliverance Game!! Lantern is the kid with the banjo playing with Jon Voight. No, really.
nhyfw88

this website is very good, you can go and see it

http://www.shoes4world.com/
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

Bershad wrote: “Fox News aired a commercial promising an upcoming Glenn Beck trivia contest and I just want you all to know that you’re all going down!”

Uhhh, is it for sycophants only Jon?
X-3

Potterville is HERE.

I find it odd that this is the only takeaway that Bershad could find.
http://twitter.com/SailRabbits Magister

It’s only tangentially related from two different directions and a big hat-tip to former Mediaite editor Hillary Busis, but while Beck’s clips are nice and all, the post could use “A Bit of Fry & Laurie“.
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

“Reporter” Bershad wrote, “Yes, it was another instance of our favorite kind of opinion show,….”

This is just pathetic. Opinion show? Is that what the yellow (as in cowardly) “journalists” are calling Beck’s reactionary, yellow propaganda these days?

Jon, an opinion show starts with facts and renders opinions about those facts. Propagandists like Beck makes up “facts,” spins facts, exaggerates, mocks, name-calls, used gut feelings (truthiness), bad science (on climate change for example), euphemisms, testimonials (Beck’s audience raising their hands), fake authorities (like pseudo-historian Barton), plain-folks, transfer devices (faith, hope and charity), etc. etc. Opinion show? Jon Bershad, where did you learn journalism, the online school, Dillweed University? Glenn Beck is an ignorant genius of reactionary, yellow propaganda Jon; wake up and smell the sulfur.

No wonder Bershad made Olbermann’s worst person of the day list. Bershad, have you even bothered looking around your house to locate your testicles? Call Beck out for what he really is!
black and WHITE

GlennBeckReview said:
“Reporter” Bershad wrote, “Yes, it was another instance of our favorite kind of opinion show,….”

This is just pathetic. Opinion show? Is that what the yellow (as in cowardly) “journalists” are calling Beck’s reactionary, yellow propaganda these days?

Jon, an opinion show starts with facts and renders opinions about those facts. Propagandists like Beck makes up “facts,” spins facts, exaggerates, mocks, name-calls, used gut feelings (truthiness), bad science (on climate change for example), euphemisms, testimonials (Beck’s audience raising their hands), fake authorities (like pseudo-historian Barton), plain-folks, transfer devices (faith, hope and charity), etc. etc. Opinion show? Jon Bershad, where did you learn journalism, the online school, Dillweed University? Glenn Beck is an ignorant genius of reactionary, yellow propaganda Jon; wake up and smell the sulfur.

No wonder Bershad made Olbermann’s worst person of the day list. Bershad, have you even bothered looking around your house to locate your testicles? Call Beck out for what he really is!

I sure hope you don’t own any guns. Really
http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

The over-simplifier, black and WHITE says:

“I sure hope you don’t own any guns. Really”

I do, and if I’m attacked by any of the Beckerheads who have issued threats against me, I will be using it.

Your problem is that you never watch media criticism from the left, so you have no idea what it looks or sounds like.
X-3

GlennBeckReview said:
I do, and if I’m attacked by any of the Beckerheads who have issued threats against me, I will be using it.

You’re not important enough to be threatened. You’re a nobody. Seven “friends,” really?