WTF?? Beck has picture of Orson Welles in his office?

[Flubadubya]

OMG... Keith just said along with a picture of Ronald Reagan and other sundry right-wingers, he has a picture of Orson Welles!! This just proves Beck is bat shit crazy.

Cip from Wikipedia re: Orson Welles:

Welles was politically active from the beginning of his career. He remained a man of the left throughout his life, and always defined his political orientation as "progressive." He was a strong supporter of Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, and often spoke out on radio in support of progressive politics. In particular, he was an early and outspoken critic of American racism and the practice of segregation. He campaigned heavily for Roosevelt in the 1944 election. For several years, he wrote a newspaper column on political issues and briefly toyed with running for office. In 1970, Welles narrated (but did not write) a satirical political record on the administration of President Richard Nixon entitled The Begatting of the President.

[Patsy Stone]

1. Maybe he respects the decision

to sell no wine before its time?

:)

[blaze]

2. So. Beck doesn't know shit?

This is a surprise?

:eyes:

Thanks for the post. Beck being Beck I guess.

[Xipe Totec]

4. He knows shit all too well

Sadly, that is the extent of his knowledge.

[blaze]

5. :)

Unfortunately... I think Beck knows the whole media game all too well.

Laughing his way to bank, he is.

[Xipe Totec]

12. Or, in his case, crying

All the way to the bank.



:evilgrin:

[kenny blankenship]

3. Beck admires Welles for being one of the world's greatest hoaxers

think: War of the Worlds radio broadcast

and

F for Fake.

[no_hypocrisy]

6. + 1

[proteus_lives]

9. It's an admission.

Without words.

"I'm making millions and even I don't believe what I'm saying. I'm laughing all the way to the bank."

[Warren DeMontague]

10. Pshaw. That's nothing. Ann Coulter has a life size bronze statue

of Andy Kaufman.

[Xipe Totec]

13. I thought it was surgically removed already n/t

[Posteritatis]

7. I can see any radio personality respecting Welles. (nt)

[protest_dude]

8. Orson Welles was a friend of the Communists...

Orson Welles was a friend of Marxism.

He performed the play "The Cradel Will Rock" by Bertolt Brecht during the WPA. The play was a classic work of "socialist realism" that got the national theatre program cancelled. He also made a classic film, Citizen Kane, that attacked Rupert Murdoch's 1940s equivalent, William Randolph Hearst.

Hmmm....

Based on Beckian logic, Beck is a communist, because he has a picture of a communist in his office... just like Obama is a member of the Weather Underground for having been on a board with 50 other people and Bill Ayers.

Man, if I had a radio-show... enough said...

[Gormy Cuss]

11. Maybe he thinks it's a picture of Harry Lime or Charles Foster Kane.

I can see Beck looking up to either one of them, especially the latter.

[Johonny]

16. +1

[eShirl]

17. or possibly, MacBeth?

"ARGH!! Hot potato, orchestra stalls, puck will make amends."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h--HR7PWfp0

[dorkulon]

14. Well, he played a fictionalized William Randolph Hearst, father of yellow journalism.

Sort of like having a picture of Han Solo on your wall and not giving a crap about Harrison Ford.

But Disney! Most well-known American anti-Semite ever!

[Canuckistanian]

15. I'm surprised it isn't P.T. Barnum

Because that's who Beck is REALLY emulating.

[Arctic Dave]

18. Spot on.

[gleaner]

19. Maybe Beck thinks ....

Welles was actually Citizen Kane.

[Swamp Rat]

20. Beck reminds me of Crusty the Clown