“Wow, so Glenn Beck didn’t realize that was an important day in African-American history? I find that… totally plausible,” Jon Stewart riffed. “But where some people see insensitivity, Glenn Beck sees… an ‘insensitunity,” he added, about Beck insisting his followers were going to “reclaim the civil rights movement.”
Stewart then played a montage of Beck angrily decrying the government telling people what to do, contrasting it with another montage of Beck telling people what to do.
“So you’re mad at the government for telling us what to do because that’s your job?” he asked, and then moved towards a side-by-side comparison of Beck’s ‘Beck University’ segments and VH-1’s ‘Tool Academy.’
Stephen Colbert, on the other hand, opened his show by saying “Tonight! Glenn Beck re-founds America. I assume our new constitution will be written in chalk!”
After playing clips of Beck implying that he might get assassinated for trying to put on this march, as well as comparing himself to King, Gandhi, Howard Beale and even Jesus, Colbert shared an incredulous realization: “Glenn’s not just a talk show host. He’s the Mighty Morphin Power Martyr! He’s the savior! The one foretold! Soon, Glenn will be appearing in America’s grilled cheese sandwiches, instead of the current arrangement where grilled cheese sandwiches appear inside Glenn!”
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I missed the Colbert Report, but the Daily Show on this was great!
I saw both shows, and they were right on target, as usual.
All those people showing up to the Glenn Beck thing really make me think that 2 parallel universes exist in this country. And that P.T. Barnum was oh so right. Never underestimate the power of stupid.
What amazed me is that Beck's people told the attendees to not bring signs.
"Freedom of Speech" denied???????
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