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I was starting to wonder when someone would write about a good piece about the clowns at Fox News. Glenn Beck being the ultimate of Scarry Clowns. Great for a Halloween Cover.

Enumerating. You are:
(1) jealous
(2) hateful
(3) hypocritical
(4) lying
(5) false
(6) inaccurate
(7) without rebuttal
(8) complicit
(9) juvenile
(10) obsolete
Thanks for all you do.

Well, taildragger, if you don't have facts then what do you have? Fiction. I guess I'm all those things you say about tea-baggers and I don't have a brain because I believe facts and not fiction.

Great argument.

I just finished choking down the miserable screed by Hal Crowther. A better title for this item would have been “Drivel of a Pompous Buffon”. It is strangely ironic Crowther turns the phrase “belligerent projection” about Beck. Here is a brief list of how Crowther describes Beck: pudgy, soft, fuzzy-headed pop-eyed Big Bird with a petulant little mouth and braying wheezing voice. Crowther’s delusion of superiority also makes it fine to denigrate freedom of religion (Mormonism) and the second amendment (the NRA.) Crowther’s hateful, spite filled invective drips with resentment and manifestly reflects his own inadequacies. He doesn’t get why Glenn Beck has an audience, and why he is - well, writing for the free paper. While skewering Glenn Beck, he also has to malign (in addition to the obligatory George Bush) Sarah Palin – putting Crowther into the intellectual realm of Sarah Palin’s grandbaby-daddy. What a delightfully balanced thought piece this wasn’t; at least Crowther had the decency to avoid Beck’s family tragedies – oh that’s right, he didn’t, including his daughter’s cerebral palsy. How does this tirade not constitute Hate speech?

I am reminded of the Frank Capra film “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the fine actor Lionel Barrymore being called a “warped, frustrated old man.” Lionel Barrymore was just acting – Hal Crowther is the warped, frustrated old man.

Rather long and rambling at times (like myself!), but towards the end Crowther stops vilifying Beck so much and starts pondering the culture in general, and he's got some really good insights.

For what it's worth, there's no need to worry about Beck. He makes a lot of money now, but so what? He will not be remembered in history at all, even though it seems like he is having a big cultural impact now. Money is not a good measurement of one's impact on society or, more importantly, history. Plus he is actually helping to kill the Republican party--and that's a good thing.

More stupid comments by the hour! I didn't know so many idiots read the Indy. I got an e-mail from somebody else who also opines Crowther "must be jealous" of Beck. Wow! Is somebody putting these mow-rons up to this?

Unreal! Where is this country headed with people who dare us to refute Beck's "facts?" Sounds like the teabaggers and their "facts." Don't people have brains any more?

Guess not! Gaaaaaaah!

Fantastic piece. Although I often despair that these idiots are singing the greek chorus to our doom, sometime I look at it as the death rattle of a species as it heads to extinction. Glenn Beck, however, feeds on attention. He really has no views on anything. He's simply mad, and quite possibly back on meth. I would love to hear what Hunter Thompson would have said about such a vile little creature, the golum of the media world.

I had to laugh when I read this article. I guess Beck is effective. He's pissing off liberals. Thats good enough for me!

Tell Mr. Crowther that Glenn Beck is on FOX not CNN. Get your facts straight before you stick the other foot in your mouth. Glenn Beck is all about facts. Facts equal truth. People usually call other people names when they don't have the facts as is the case with Mr. Crowther, whoever he is.

“…belligerent projection": “Liars call their enemies liars, fascists call their enemies fascists, idiots call their enemies idiots.” “Belligerent Projection” funny after looking and looking, I could not find this phrase anywhere in any literature; maybe I just missed it in my search. . But, after reading this ( cough, gag, whiz ) article I see you ( Mr.Crowther ) also suffer from belligerent projection.

Making reference to Mr. beck’s mother, brother and child’s misfortunes in such a cavalier manner makes one wonder if your children were born with 6 toes or three eyeballs. Of course, genetic purging could rid your family tree of this condition.

Glenn has a message, and people agree with it. Plain and simple. The only argument people can come up with seems to be name-calling. The author is eager to insult and demean another person, which tells me a lot about his personal character. If he hates Glenn so much, he should tell us how he has been offended by what Glenn has presented and provide some intelligent discussion. Talk about needing to pull the log out of your own eye before removing the splinter in someone Else's.

"True, technology had enabled me to pose the question to my far-flung network..."
Really? I think that qualifies as an admission that technology helped.

Congratulations on finding the creator of the song, but the last sentence smacks of a desperate attempt to deny technology of any "victory" in helping an analog person in a digital world. In reality, the cassettes you use are technology, the radio is a huge piece of technology, and the WAMU listener used online technology to deliver the answer.

The author is trying to make a poetic point by painting technology as a big, bad behemoth only composed of Google, but it's just a tool to connect people like anything else, as it did in this case. In this case, Google didn't help, but the technology of radio and Internet comments did.

Glenn Beck will go the way of 1980s televangelists. These nimrods always end up shooting themselves in the foot in their efforts to go to greater extremes for attention.

Reading Crowther is like an insulin shot for the diabetic. Just wish he'd write more for the Indy.

This whole towing business is inhuman. I frequently visit a friend who lives at Colonial Grand at Research Park on 400 Stone Lion Dr. A couple months ago they instituted a parking restriction for non-residents to only park in designated "Visitor" spaces. When they started the rule, there was a period of time where people got warnings instead of fines. After the first couple weeks they turned the whole business over to Chandler's Towing Service in Durham. I've been good, never a warning, until the other night I forgot to move my car to a visitor spot. The next morning I find my car booted and I'm told I have to pay $120 to unboot it. The tow company says they're just doing their job and the apartment manager says it's out of her hands now that the tow company is handling it. So no warning for my mistake. Wouldn't want those tow companies to go out of business for lack of income would we?

good article, Crowther has a talent for shooting fish in a barrel, but he always makes it interesting with the colorful language and detailed research. I think my favorite was "send in the clown" - look it up, great reading.

comments above, as noted by others, only serve to illustrate the point - ha ha they probably want to see palin in office - it's like invasion of the body snatchers - ha ha what happened to your head???

happy halloween

Well...this piece certainly proves the publication is well worth the purchase price!

Oh, for Pete's sake, have your own party! The Hallowe'en scene on Franklin Street had gotten so overgrown and unpleasant that locals avoided it. I applaud the town's decision to scale the party back to something less expensive and less dangerous.

Zach, I'm disappointed in you. Your comments come across as mean-spirited sour grapes.

welcome to the police state! you can't even enjoy your holidays the way you choose, you get to abide by the rules, and be happy about it too, or they might find something else wrong with what you are doing.

Throughout the entire article knocking old Gleen Beck I thought of a new title. The writer should have called it "I Am So Darn Jealous of Gleen Beck I Can't Stand It!" My Mama always told me that if you can't say anything good about anybody, don't say nothing at all." What a waste of paper and time just to make fun of someone's appearance, for heaven's sake. Does the author not have anything better to do or is he glowing in his ability to express his jealousy so eloquently. Get a life, write something "USEFUL!