Ezra Klein: Glenn Beck Throws a Frog into Boiling Water

[flpoljunkie]

Tab Dump

No tab dump today. Instead, here's Glenn Beck killing a frog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9nVpO1Dvfk&feature=player_embedded

Well then.

By Ezra Klein | September 23, 2009; 6:37 PM ET

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/09/tab_dump_79.html#comments

[lillypaddle]

1. What a sick fuck

Glenn Beck is. Where's PETA when ya need 'em?

[knowbody0]

2. how dense must he be to think any living creature

would not be harmed by boiling water?

[Submariner]

3. I'm beginning to see why his mother and brother killed themselves

[Xipe Totec]

4. Headline: Toady croaks Kermit n/t

[Jennicut]

5. If you watch closely it looks like there is nothing in his hands and he only pretends to catch the

frog and throw it in the water. But he is still a sick fuck. Or going overboard trying to "entertain" the stupid masses.

[PretzelWarrior]

6. Beck is crazy--not stupid. This is another ratings ploy. I seriously doubt...

he would be so desperate to keep his ratings juiced that he would be okay with the backlash sure to come his way if he boiled a frog on tv.

[MrScorpio]

7. Beck is crazy and stupid

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6611243&mesg_id=6611243

[Colobo]

8. I can't understand how some people take that clown seriously.

[LLStarks]

9. Glenn Beck hates life. nt

[agentS]

10. Maybe I'm nutz but I heard a splash and saw a droplet in the air.

Beck is crazy enough to do it. And now to scar a generation of children...

[tinrobot]

11. Looked kind of fake to me.

But he's kind of a fake as well.

[quantass]

12. No killing -- You can see the frog jumped out of his hand while in cage and...

as expected when watched closely nothing was tossed into the pot since the frog was not in there in the first place. The station would prolly get serious animal rights suits and advertisers going exodus if they even saw a hint of an object flying into that pot (which there was none).

[DinahMoeHum]

13. Sorry, but methinks this was all SLEIGHT OF HAND AND CAMERA.

Apparently, when he was a very young man, he used to perform magic/conjuring tricks.

From Part 1 of the Salon.com series by Alexander Zaitchik:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/21/glenn_beck/

(snip)
Radio wasn't Beck's only childhood obsession that presaged a future in show business. When not practicing intonation with his cassette machine, he conquered his fear of audiences by performing magic tricks. During junior high he appeared on small local stages dressed in a tux. Behind him a hand-painted sign announced: "Now Showing The Magician Glenn Beck."
(snip)

:evilfrown:

[flpoljunkie]

14. Perhaps, but cruel and depraved nonetheless.