Just when you thought Beck couldn't possibly go any lower..

[walldude]

he doesn't just cross the line, he obliterates it with a thermonuclear device, then pisses on the ashes while singing Lee Greenwood songs.. I'll let Crooks and Liars take it from here...

OK, I know it's hard to imagine Glenn Beck getting much worse than his history-abusing eliminationist attacks on the progressive movement, or his constant smearing of anyone who works for President Obama as a likely Marxist.

But yesterday, he managed -- by unleashing an all-out attack on President Obama's family, and particularly his mother. It doesn't get much lower than that.

Of course, he opened the attack on Obama's family by saying that he was not attacking them. Really. And then he proceeded immediately to smear them:

I want you to know that I am by no means attacking his family. And in fact, I think after the first five minutes of the show tonight, you're actually going to feel sorry for the little boy, Barry Obama -- the boy, the little one. This little boy. He's so cute! I don't feel sorry for the man, but the tragedy of this kid's childhood is staggering!

http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/maybe-scummiest-glenn-beck-show-ever

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. No matter how low that clown goes, he can always go lower.

There is no bottom to that pit.

[Tony_FLADEM]

2. At least Obama's mother didn't commit suicide

[orion007]

5. The ultimate dry drunk n/t

[rusty quoin]

8. I didn't know that.. It could explain how he takes things so far without

concern for consequences. I don't know. I will think about this new info.

[grantcart]

3. Glen is it really a good idea to talk about mothers when your own mother went insane

and committed suicide?

Cleon Skousen would be sooooooooo proud.

[walldude]

6. Wow is that true?

Never heard about that... Shit that makes this even crazier!

[grantcart]

9. beck is an alcoholic drug addict (recovering) whose mother and step brother committed suicide

and he is also divorced

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glen_Beck

In 1977, William Beck filed for divorce against Mary due to her increasing alcoholism.<10> Glenn and his older sister moved with their mother to Sumner, Washington, attending a Jesuit school<11> in Puyallup. On May 15, 1979, his mother drowned in Puget Sound, just west of Tacoma, Washington.<11> A man who had taken her out in a small boat also drowned. A Tacoma police report stated that Mary Beck "appeared to be a classic drowning victim", but a Coast Guard investigator speculated that she could have intentionally jumped overboard.<11> Beck has described his mother's death as a suicide in interviews during television and radio broadcasts.<10><11>

After their mother's death, Beck and his older sister moved to their father's home in Bellingham, Washington,<9> where Beck graduated from Sehome High School in June 1982.<12> In the aftermath of his mother's death and subsequent suicide of his stepbrother, Beck has said he used "Dr. Jack Daniel's" to cope.<13>

At 18, following high school graduation, Beck relocated to Provo, Utah and worked at radio station KAYK. Feeling he "didn't fit in," Beck left Utah after six months,<14> taking a job at Washington D.C.'s WPGC in February 1983.<15>

While working at WPGC, Beck met his first wife, Claire.<16> The couple married and had two daughters, Mary and Hannah; Mary was born in 1988 with cerebral palsy, the result of a series of strokes at birth.<16> The couple divorced in 1994 amid Beck's struggles with substance abuse. Along with being a recovering alcoholic and drug addict,<17> Beck has been diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.<18><19> He cites the help of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) in his sobriety and attended his first AA meeting in November 1994, the month he states he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis.<18>

[NotThisTime]

12. No wonder he's crazy, he really IS crazy, that's kind of sad in a pathetic way

[mrs_p]

17. what - a jesuit school in puyallup?

the only jesuit school in the area is actually in nearby tacoma and is my high school. i'm in shock and sickened that he went there - though, it looks like he didn't graduate. now it makes sense that he has even heard the term social justice.

[freeplessinseattle]

22. nutjob graduated from my HS 8 years before me, creepy.

way too close for comfort. thank goodness he moved out my town afterwards-to the state I used to live. weird.

Bet he liked Mr. Firebaugh (his real name, odd it sounds so close to Limbaugh) the civics teacher. Strutting around with his belt full of keys for some reason (my friends and I had theories about that), and my most vivid memory was the time he brought his antique gun in to pass around class. Don't think he could do that nowadays.

[chollybocker]

10. Wow. That explains much.

Especially in relation to this particular insane rant. He wants his Mommy. Freud would have a field day.

[Joe Bacon]

4. It's only a matter of time before Beck does this on live TV

He's gonna blow up real good on live TV! It's only a matter of time before we see him go completely off the tracks and have the wheels fall off of his little red wagon!



He will self destruct like an Alka Seltzer Tablet and we'll all get pleasure from seeing his plop plop fizz fizz on live TV!

[walldude]

7. And then watch the replay on Youtube over and over...

:toast:

[Catshrink]

11. I wonder who writes his stuff.

I don't think he's smart enough -- he's too scripted.

[Radical Activist]

13. Great. Now he thinks he's Eli Sunday.

Not a bad comparison really.

http://www.spike.com/video/there-will-be-blood/2926259

[Bolo Boffin]

14. How much fun did Glenn Beck have calling Obama a "boy"?

The evil in this person and the network that continues to subsidize these atrocious attacks...

[WillyT]

15. K & R !!! - Hey WD, Did You Catch Cesca's Piece On Beck ???

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8107916

:hi:

[walldude]

18. Oh man that was great!! Thanks for the link..

:toast:

[protocol rv]

16. USA has a serious problem

I thought politics in Latin America were foul, but USA politics are really dirty. Is it possible for you guys to go protest in front of Fox News? This seems to be a bit too much.

[BlooInBloo]

19. But I would never, ever think that.

[libodem]

20. Batshit of the most foul sort

Slanderous.

[The_Casual_Observer]

21. It's really impossible to even look at that bastard much less watch

it on TV. Beck is crazy & a danger to society.

[Are_grits_groceries]

23. He'd have to look up

to see the bottom of Hell.