Donald Duck meets another cartoon figure, Glenn Beck
Donald Duck was always the Everyman in the Disney menagerie, a fact used to greatl effect in this little bit of political brilliance.
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josef nix
October 4th, 2010
7:00 am
I don’t care who you are, thass funny!
Good chuckle for starting the week. Thanks. Y’all play nice, now….off to work I go…
Doggone/GA
October 4th, 2010
7:03 am
Josef…did you notice the wrong word early in the closed captioning?
JohnnyReb
October 4th, 2010
7:05 am
Cute and funny; Beck would laugh also. I listen to Beck on the radio and watch his TV program almost every day of the week. He is not the enemy. I won’t be around to debate that; it’s off to work I go.
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
7:12 am
Good one, Jay. I especially enjoyed the ending.
arnold
October 4th, 2010
7:20 am
I’m not sure whether to laugh or cry.
Normal
October 4th, 2010
7:27 am
That sure does explain a lot, Johnny Reb…
Mick
October 4th, 2010
7:34 am
**He is not the enemy**
No, but he doesn’t help matters any by whipping up conspiracies that may provoke someone on the fringe into a reaction. Rodeo clown laughing and crying all the way to the bank.
stands for decibels
October 4th, 2010
7:35 am
Brilliant.
Although if this mashup attracts the kind of attention it deserves, God help Rebellious Pixels after the Disney enforcers get done with them (him/her…)
Thomas Paine's Ghostwriter
October 4th, 2010
7:42 am
Bookman’s commenters can’t relate to the national dialogue unless it’s depicted in a cartoon. It’s like when Beetoven’s Fifth was set to disco music in the 70’s. And I thought we couldn’t get any worse. If only Bush had animated the proof of WMDs in Iraq, eh?
This cartoon will appeal to the thinkers here. Bookman knows his audience.
Del
October 4th, 2010
7:44 am
Well the left is so desperate they’ve come up with cartoons. Must admit it was enjoyable to see a Donald Duck cartoon after so many years. Enjoy the day.
AmVet
October 4th, 2010
7:45 am
Donald and gang was brilliant entertainment for children.
Is Beck really just pathetic entertainment for grown children?
(Be afraid, be very afraid…)
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
7:53 am
Is Beck really just pathetic entertainment for grown children?
He is pathetic. I suspect his only regret in life is only having one soul to sell. Then again, what would Rupert do with two of them. I suppose he could sell one to that Saudi Prince and keep the other one for himself.
Peadawg
October 4th, 2010
7:59 am
Good one, Jay.
How about this one: “Bozo the Clown meets another clown, Barrack Obama”
Eric
October 4th, 2010
8:02 am
That’s brilliant, Peabrain. Just brilliant!
barking frog
October 4th, 2010
8:09 am
Beck! Duck! Incoming!
Peadawg
October 4th, 2010
8:11 am
Or…..”Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey found another circus to run, the White House”
kayaker 71
October 4th, 2010
8:13 am
Beck’s assessment of where we are is pretty well on target, despite the efforts to demonize him. 28 days and counting.
Bubba Bob
October 4th, 2010
8:18 am
Won’t see me defending Beck.
However, I will ask again…who are the Beck’s on the left? You bash the right all the time. Be honest and bash the same behavior on the left.
AmVet
October 4th, 2010
8:23 am
Typical.
According to the putzes who adore him and his shtick, the guy who makes a living by DEMONIZING just about anybody and everybody he doesn’t like is now the poor misunderstood soul who is demonized.
One of the more successful tactics in the neo-con’s Playbook of Sleaze. (Forewords by Lee Atwater, Newt Gingrich and Karl Rove.)
OK, off to pay for endless welfare for the wealthy…
stands for decibels
October 4th, 2010
8:24 am
who are the Beck’s on the left?
Mike Malloy, Randi Rhodes. Nowhere near as popular or influential. Neither of whom have basic-cable TeeVee exposure.
The Boner's Tan Line
October 4th, 2010
8:34 am
True story.
One night the Boner and Glenn Beck went out tomcatting. They brought some women back to the Boner’s manse and began having a good old time, drinking and carrying on, until they were getting down to the real nitty gritty, and found out the women were not – women.
The Boner was so mad he began screaming at the top of his lungs HELL NO YOU’RE NOT to the “women”.
Poor Glenn Beck. He just cowered down in a corner with a blanket, crying like a little baby.
Well, the guests got dressed as fast as they could and took off out the door.
After an hour or so, the Boner calmed down somewhat, and old Glenn stopped crying and got up off the floor.
They started arguing, each blaming the other for the mishap. The Boner soon grew tired of it and got his gun and ran Glenn off.
They eventually made up, but they haven’t been out on the town together anymore – as far as I know.
Paul
October 4th, 2010
8:34 am
Income inequality. Wall Street owns our government. View of people working together for benefit of all. Characterizing some element of political society as Nazis.
Gosh Jay, sounds like he’s quoting from your columns and the charges of Progressives across the country. Well, except for the part about exposing how the administration talked a good game to help people in danger of home foreclosure, but their ineffective actions, failed programs and people deciding their ‘help’ was worthless was really a ‘cry me a river’ cover.
Seriously, it i>is funny how much of what Beck says sounds like it could be said by many left-wing pundits across the country. The really funny part is, their readers and listeners don’t realize it.
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
8:38 am
I have not noticed Beck’s words being compared to those of left-wing pundits. I wonder if anyone has some examples to share with us.
JKL2
October 4th, 2010
8:39 am
I’m not a big fan of him on the radio, but the TV show is excellent. I know all that history is tough to understand for you left wingers. I guess that’s why you try to rewrite it all the time…
joe matarotz
October 4th, 2010
8:39 am
Have you ever taken a shot at Keith Olbermann, Jay? Just wondering…
Pennsylvanian
October 4th, 2010
8:44 am
Funny how the libs spend so much time discussing Glenn Beck. Why do libs care what Glenn Beck says or does? Are they afraid of him?
Paul
October 4th, 2010
8:48 am
TaxPayer
Listen to the beginning. Fat cats getting richer and richer. Income gap at an 80-year high. The words about people working together. Haves getting more, have nots getting less. Gov’t isn’t helping.
Not all of those words were in Beck’s voice. But it’s stuff he says.
Haywood Jablome
October 4th, 2010
8:52 am
I don’t like Beck’s style.
Are there no other choices for chubby, pasty, crack-pot, substance-abusing pundits?
Pennsylvanian
October 4th, 2010
8:53 am
Everybody like the new rule that we will need a doctor’s prescription for ‘OTC’ meds and vitamins in order to use HSA funds?
Vinny
October 4th, 2010
8:54 am
I sure am looking forward to seeing ol’ Barry Obama politically neutered come November. It’s time to stop him from bleeding America to death.
Paul
October 4th, 2010
8:54 am
As we’re back on Fox again, I thought this was interesting.
Many people, and a lot of posters here, talk about how Fox isn’t ‘fair and balanced.’ They criticize for putting forth a right-wing agenda, at the same time making the case that other major outlets are not biased.
Well, there appears to be a big hole in that ‘we want the news to be nonideological’ line. Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox, appeared before Rep Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, to talk about immigration reform. This is what she said to Murdoch:
““Mr. Murdoch….you have the possibility of doing some real education, you’re very powerful with your media network and you’re able to disseminate a lot of information and to frame issues. And for Mr. Murcdoch, it does not appear that what you are talking about today and the way you are discussing it is the way it is discussed on Fox, for example. Why are you here with a basically decent proposal talking about the advantage of immigrants to our economy, but I don’t see that it is being promoted on Fox? … What’s the difference between you being here and what you do not do with your media network?”
So, it appears The Left wants news unbiased, unless it’s a a position on an issue they care about. Then they want the owner to direct the coverage, to make the case Libs want. They want the news outlets to promote the viewpoints dear to Libs.
So it really appears Libs are upset, not that there is evident bias, but that the bias does not go their way.
http://videos.mediaite.com/video/Rep-Maxine-Waters-vs-Fox-News
BTW, Mr. Murdoch replied that they represent all views on Fox and he invited her to appear. Her response?
“No. I don’t want to.”
So much for political courage from Rep. Waters.
Doggone/GA
October 4th, 2010
8:57 am
“So, it appears The Left wants news unbiased”
Nope, not necessarily. But if an organization with “news” in it’s name also advertises itself as “Fair and balanced” then they should BE fair and balanced…or find another slogan.
Paul
October 4th, 2010
8:58 am
“Are there no other choices for chubby, pasty, crack-pot, substance-abusing pundits?”
Took some on the Left less than 20 minutes to realize they couldn’t counter with argument so they had to resort to personal ridicule.
Well, at least it’s longer than it usually takes them.
Call it like it is
October 4th, 2010
8:58 am
Hell, if Beck is Donald Duck, what is Jon Stewart?
GLEN BECK
October 4th, 2010
9:00 am
keith olbermann just can’t stop talking about me and Fox news. he he he.
Paul
October 4th, 2010
9:00 am
Doggone/GA
I almost put your line in my post, as I just knew it was coming.
If you’d listen to the video, Murdoch says all views are represented.
Now, any response to the point that The Left apparently wants a ‘fair and balanced’ network to ‘frame the discussion’ according to what The Left wants? Rep Waters obviously blows past the ‘fair and balanced’ slogan.
Pennsylvanian
October 4th, 2010
9:01 am
Rep. Waters apparently forgot to take her anti-stupid meds.
Curious Observer
October 4th, 2010
9:02 am
The ever-present brainless among us will continue to blame the current government for problems originating in the previous years. Beck merely echoes the sentiments of the plutocrats and the ignorant. Ironically, the same party that got us into this mess will be elected to get us out of it.
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
9:03 am
Fortunately, I cannot become tainted by Rupert’s opinion shows since I do not watch them. Apparently, there are many right-wingers here that worship at Beck’s (Rupert’s) feet though. Good for them.
Doggone/GA
October 4th, 2010
9:06 am
“Rep Waters obviously blows past the ‘fair and balanced’ slogan”
I don’t speak for Rep Waters…only for myself
Keep up the good fight!
October 4th, 2010
9:07 am
Donald is great!….Beck is just Goofy and that can be preceded with an adjective that starts with F and ends in ING.
DifferentDrummer
October 4th, 2010
9:10 am
Only in America could a psychopath like Glenn Beck make millions selling right-wing ideology to a huge, nightly audience of idiots.
@@
October 4th, 2010
9:12 am
I’m in total agreement with Paul, who said:
Seriously, it i>is funny how much of what Beck says sounds like it could be said by many left-wing pundits across the country. The really funny part is, their readers and listeners don’t realize it.
I heard Al Sharpton say basically the same thing over the weekend.
“The government has bailed out the banks…they’ve bailed out the corporations…now it’s time to bail out the American worker.” Somethin’ like that.
What’s with the subtitles? You’d think after all these years, Donald Duck would’ve learned to speak english.
Schnirt!
N-GA
October 4th, 2010
9:13 am
time: 2013
place: Arizona-Mexico border
background: President Palin and the GOP-led Congress have come up with a solution to the illegal immigrant problem AND the illegal drug problem
action: invade Mexico and crush all the cartels, then declare Mexico a US Territory and make all Mexicans US citizens. Auction off Mexico’s oil reserves to US oil companies.
Mr. Snarky
October 4th, 2010
9:15 am
That was nice…poor Donald, he always seems to get the short end of the stick.
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
9:16 am
I do enjoy Jon Stewart’s shows where he portrays Beck and others from Rupert’s harem for the low-life prostitutes that they most surely are. By the way, I wonder how long it will be before Hannity takes clips from that rally over the weekend and claims that those folks attended Glen Beck’s or some other right wing pundit’s rally. Hopefully someone like Maddow or Stewart or Colbert will still be around to share the truth with us when those from Fox pull their next stunt.
TaxPayer
October 4th, 2010
9:18 am
funny how much of what Beck says sounds like it could be said by many left-wing pundits across the country.
I think the key word there is “could”. Of course, y’all feel free to post some examples of “did” whenever you feel like it.
@@
October 4th, 2010
9:23 am
On the immigration issue, I’ve never seen Beck as an anti-immigration advocate. To the contrary…
I don’t know how many people watched Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck talk yesterday on Fox News, at a specially arranged room in Battery Park, with a view of the Statue of Liberty and New York harbor. When Glenn Beck brought up immigration at the end of the broadcast, it was nearly the most substantive policy exchange they had.
Both Beck and Palin quickly agreed that the immigration system needed to be “streamlined.” It’s interesting that two of the main opinion-makers for the conservative wing of the Republican Party and Tea Party movement seemed so hip to the idea of making it “easier to bring people in,” as Beck put it, which perhaps isn’t the stance they would be expected to take.
http://trueslant.com/marceloballve/2010/01/14/glenn-beck-and-sarah-palin-on-immigration-reform/
Paul
October 4th, 2010
9:26 am
TaxPayer
Already did, twice, extracted from the video. Right at the beginning.
Or is your point left wing pundits don’t care about the income gap, giveaways to Wall Street and people getting their houses foreclosed? ‘Cause if that’s it, you are correct – you won’t find examples from Beck to answer your question.
Paul
October 4th, 2010
9:27 am
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That’s the problem with ideologues – facts don’t matter. Following the script does.