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It's been a long week of tech for Angels in America: Millennium Approaches, and thus i haven't had a great deal of time to post here.

But as I was catching up on some 'net reading I ran across this on boingboing and thought you might like it. It's a remix of a bunch of old Donald Duck clips blended with Glenn Beck's rantings.

High-larious.

Glenn Beck: Plagiarist

I thought I had posted this before, but I couldn't find it. This is Dave Foley (with a brief appearance by Kevin McDonald) of Kids in the Hall in a sketch circa 1990.

One must assume that a young and impressionable Glenn Beck (assuming he wasn't wasted on vicodin and gin at the time) internalized this awesomely paranoid, fear-mongering persona and later regurgitated it as his own.



A few weeks ago, Keith Olbermann had Foley on his show to comment on the sketch and its similarities to Beck's wackadoo persona.

dave foley/glenn beck

I think the Kids in the Hall could sue Glenn Beck for copyright violation. This is predates his schtik by nearly two decades.

glenn beck didn't rape and murder a young girl in 1990

Okay, I am honestly trying to get some work done, but this is just irresistible.

Seems some peeps are fed up with the Blond Bloviator using the tired, tried and true technique from Fox News, in which anchors say something like, 'Some are saying...' or 'There is a rumor that...' and then spew out whatever bullshit talking points they were handed by the RNC.

Enter GlennBeckRapedAndMurderedAYoungGirlIn1990.com

Here's a taste:

"This site exists to try and help examine the vicious rumour that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. We don't claim to know the truth -- only that the rumour floating around saying that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990 should be discussed. So we're going to do our part to try and help get to the bottom of this.

Why won't Glenn Beck deny these allegations? We're not accusing Glenn Beck of raping and murdering a young girl in 1990 - in fact, we think he didn't! But we can't help but wonder, since he has failed to deny these horrible allegations. Why won't he deny that he raped and killed a young girl in 1990?"

Beck's response? Sue them for copyright infringement, thus drawing even more attention to the site.



These guys just keep on getting smarter.

ADDENDUM: and to paraphrase the originator of this joke (Gilbert Gottfried, who used it during a roast of Bob Saget): "We don't for sure that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. It's entirely possible that he murdered her first, and then raped her."