[lbo-talk] robert nails it - was Re: Glenn Beck breaks down in tears, blubbers on-air AGAIN

[SA]

wrobert at uci.edu wrote:


> this is remarkable material.  It's
> as if Beck watched Network and didn't realize that it was satire. 

Fox News’s Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful Rising Star
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&pagewanted=all


> In an interview, Mr. Beck, who recently rewatched the 1976 film 
> “Network,” said he identified with the character of Howard Beale, the 
> unhinged TV news anchorman who declares on the air that he is “mad as 
> hell.”
>
> “I think that’s the way people feel,” Mr. Beck said. “That’s the way I 
> feel.”

SA