Glenn Beck Uses Wok, Saucepan, M&Ms To Demonstrate Why Nuclear Power Plants Are Safe

[hatrack]

No, I'm not making this up.

EDIT

Glenn Beck was back from vacation and ready to stick it to the New York Times for suggesting last week that Fox News may not renew his contract at the end of the year because he is "crazy", "apocalyptic" and that he's "kind of a downer to watch" (view clip). He pointed to some recent Times headlines, such as "Japanese scramble to avert nuclear meltdown", which he countered were also fairly apocalyptic and kind of a downer. And so he vowed to shed some sunlight on the Japanese situation and to assure his viewers that while the earthquake and tsunami are very bad things, the nuclear meltdown is really nothing to work up a sweat about.

"The size and magnitude (of the tsunami) is mind-boggling. Thousands today are dead in Japan and missing. But out of all of the things that could go wrong, and they did, of all of the things that would affect the lives of the average Japanese person and affect your life, I'm trying to figure out how it (the meltdown) is even in the top three? I'm looking at this story and, at best, I see a lazy media."

So, determined not to be lumped in with the rest of the lazy journalists who are spreading stories about radiation and broadcasting images of reactors exploding and acting like it's a big deal, Beck decides to demonstrate with the assistance of some props (a wok, a steamer, a saucepan, a cutlery container and some tubes of M&Ms) why we should not be in any fear of falling ill or dying from exposure to radiation.

Beck puts the tubes of M&Ms (which represent nuclear rods) into the cutlery container and then into the steamer (the nuclear reactor) which he seals tightly. Then he places the "nuclear reactor" into a large saucepan and seals it off with an upturned wok. Beck then explains that the footage we saw on our televisions of the reactors exploding was just the upturned wok or lid being blown off the saucepan but that the steamer inside, with the nuclear pellets, was still intact. Having thus reassured his audience that there is nothing whatsoever to worry about, he chastises the mainstream media (like the New York times) once again for their fear-mongering tendencies.

EDIT

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/16/fox-news-glenn-beck

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. The lid has blown off Glenn's wok, that's for sure.

And if the only problem was melted M&Ms we'd all be just fine. Somebody, please put that clown in a rubber room...

[Renew Deal]

2. I think a blender, 2 liter bottle of coke, some mentos, and a popcorn machine would be better props.

:banghead:

[Lucinda]

3. Nooooo....switch the mentos for red hots and I think you've got it!

:hi: Mentos are cooling.

[KansDem]

4. Yeah!

[Vanje]

12. Atomic Fireball

[Renew Deal]

7. lol

Yes, but once the mentos hit the coke :nuke:

[madmax]

5. He plays to his audience.

The more simplistic, absurd the better.

[abelenkpe]

6. He really needs to wear clown nose to complete the image. nt

[JuniperLea]

8. How embarrassing...

I hope they don't think we're all as stupid as Glennie, et al. That article looks to be poking fun at stupid Americans.

[Andy823]

9. I have an idea.

If Beck is so sure there is NO PROBLEM, why doesn't he go over there and do his shows live from those plants that are having the problem? Show the world Glenn that you are right!

[peacetalksforall]

10. No mention of hot, melt, radiate, shelf life, Also the water - I wonder if he thought about

putting his wok on the floor next to a toilet and running a tube from the tank to the lid which he lifts a little to insert the tube.

And his blackboards were there - not being used?

I wonder if he donates the props he buys for his business and takes a tax credit? Or maybe it's in his business to business contract with FOX that they keep the props for the Murdoch Media wing of the Bush Library a la Smithsonian history.

My words? As absurd as his? Hope so.

PS - make that the Murdoch Media wing of the Cheney Library since Cheney is the nuclear broker.

[stockholmer]

11. nuke shill Jay Lehr on Sean Hannity-that he can attest "with the utmost confidence there will not..

...be any health impact of anything that's going at at the Fukushima power plant."

video

http://www.foxnews.com/on-air/hannity/index.html#/v/4585259/nuclear-plant-on-verge-of-nuclear-meltdown-part-1/?playlist_id=86924


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