Glenn Beck – Beck to the Future!

After the election of Barack Obama, Glenn Beck has skyrocketed near the top of the Wingnut talking head group. Although not yet able to topple Rush from the top, Glenn Beck has cemented his number two slot, dethroning and worrying competitors Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity. Beck’s radio and tv show has mutated from yet another right wing radio show to one of the most vocal and ridiculous critics of Barack Obama. Beck’s ability to cry for just about everything, along with his constant grandstanding with gimmicks such as The 9-12 Project, have made him a rallying point. The Teabaggers are basically his babies. Just imagine them shooting out of Beck’s vagina, screeching about socialism and “Where’s the Birth Certificate??” Or don’t, because that is disturbing.

Glenn Beck started out on morning zoo radio shows, doing a variety of them across the country during the 1990s. One such job was with Tim Hattrick on Y95 in Phoenix, AZ. A commercial of this has appeared on YouTube:

Glenn Beck’s radio talk show premiered in 2000. His original shows weren’t anywhere near as extreme as now, as you can see thanks to the Wayback Machine archives of his old websites! Check out these archives

There are a few things that would make modern fans cringe. Heck, there are things that make me cringe, like this:

Can’t bleach my eyes enough!!!

How about a Celebrity Death Pool?

The Glenn Beck Celebrity Death Pool

You get get to pick five famous people (four from our Top 20 and 1 write-in) you think might die between now and March 31, 2001. You only get to enter once. The person with the most dead celebrities wins the Glenn Beck Celebrity Death Pool Trophy and a chance to be on the #1 Ranked Glenn Beck Program. Did we mention it’s FREE!

Sounds just dumb until you see…is that St. Ronald Reagan??? Better not let your Wingnut fans see you were predicting their hero to be dead as a doornail for fun and games!

1999 book recommendations:

RELIGIOUS SOURCES

* The Bible
* The Gnostic Scriptures
* The Qur’an
* Christology in Context – De Jonge
* On First Principals – Origen
* Jewish Antiquities – Josephus

The Qur’an is not a misprint, he also recommends it in 2001!

Glenn Beck – Qur’an reader! Qur’an recommender. I am sure now he will say it was recommended so that you could know your enemy, but that doesn’t sound like pre-9-11 Wingnut thinking to me. And “da’wah” means the teaching of Islam.