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Must Watch: Glenn Beck Spoofs Bob Costas, Blasts ‘Beer Drinking and Car Driving Culture’

Dec. 10, 2012 7:20pm Jason Howerton

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During his show on TheBlazeTV Monday, Glenn Beck spoofed NBC’s Bob Costas after he failed to address the tragic death of Dallas Cowboys linebacker Jerry Brown the same way in which he addressed the gun-related murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. Beck didn’t cut corners either as he fully embraced Costas’ character with a brown wig.

During a Sunday Night Football halftime show earlier this month, Costas infamously blasted the “gun culture” in the U.S. and read a portion of sports columnist Jason Whitlock’s column, saying if “Belcher didn’t possess a gun, he and Kasandra Perkins would both be alive today.”

“I’m filling in for Bob Costas today,” Beck began. “And we are going to do our best to continue his tradition of exceptional sports analysis along with exceptionally idiotic and logically flawed current events commentary.”

“As you might know, tragedy struck the NFL over the weekend yet again,” he added. “Linebacker Jerry brown was killed in a pre-dawn automobile accident. The driver of the vehicle, fellow teammate, Josh Brent, is charged with intoxication man slaughter after failing a sobriety test at the scene.”

(TheBlazeTV)

Here’s what Beck “thought” Costas was going to say on the NFL’s most recent death during Sunday Night Football this week, but didn’t:

“Our current beer drinking and car driving culture ensures that more routine nights out with friends will end in the ultimate tragedy. That more innocent road trips will leave even more youngsters and babies strewn across the road. Roads bloodied. People dead. Beer doesn’t enhance our lives or our society.”

He continued: “Beer brings out the worst in all of us…. beer goggles, liquid courage, liquid logic. ‘I’m OK to drive’ when you’re clearly hammered out of your mind! If Josh Brent didn’t have access to alcohol or own a car, he would not be in jail today, Jerry Brown would be alive.”

Beck went on to joke that NBC and the NFL failed to address the “beer culture” and “car culture” because the vast majority of commercials aired during football games are for beer and car companies. Then he took a shot at Costas’ hair.

“But Bob Costas and his incredibly natural looking hair color sat there silently. Why Bob? It could be bob was bought off by big beer or big car, I’m not sure which one it was. Maybe both of them,” Beck joked.

So in order to free Costas from the “chains that have been placed around his neck by corporate beer, car masters” Beck created a Twitter hashtag, #FreeBobCostas, so he would be able to apply the logic of his gun views to drinking and driving accidents.

“I want you to just hashtag #FreeBobCostas on Twitter,” he added. “If you want to see his free speech restored and the folly of his anti-gun logic on display on all other areas of life.”

Once he was done having fun, Beck went on to explain that society’s problems will never be solved through regulation and banning things, but by teaching personal responsibility.

Watch the entire segment via TheBlazeTV below:

This story has been updated to reflect that Jovan Belcher played for the Kansas City Chiefs.

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pushinginto
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:40pm
Like I said, Blaze TV should have an SNL type show with skits. It would be a hit.

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- TexasKnight
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:21pm
  It would actually put me over the top and start paying for a subscription.
  I love Beck’s humor on the radio, his TV show, not so much.
  Does anyone else remeber the radio show he did years ago on Feb. 15 for men that forgot valentines day, and Beck took the blame? Funiest show I have ever heard. I was calling friends and even my wife to listen. It is when I first became a Beck show fan.
  
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- Brother Winston Smith
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:00am
  I Doubt it. FAKE-conservative/libertarian Beck outed himself as a progressive, by supporting progressive republicans during the 2012 race, while REJECTING AND SMEARING real conservatives. I doubt humor will renew his credibility. He’s as finished as his leftist republican party.
  
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- DRSAVAGE24
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 1:21am
  That’s a good idea. Would be nice if he got his network on directv and cable. Perhaps in the future.
  
  This is one area where the left is light years ahead of us from the Saul Alinsky handbook. They are very good at using humor and ridicule to discredit conservatives.
  
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- SPIKETAC
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 3:41am
  @TexasKnight
  I really hope you get this. I believe I know where you can purchase that radio skit. It is in the Glenn Beck Audio and Video store. Does this at all sound like what you are looking for: Quite possibly our favorite show of the year-the “Couple of the Year” presentation. We try and bail the slugs of our audience out of the doghouse for forgetting Valentine’s Day. Get the famous “8 months pregnant” call, the “I love you” pauses, and even a never before aired call of Glenn telling the truth to an unsuspecting wife, whose husband blew it. Plus, a bonus track from 2004′s show, where technical problems made it possible for the wife to hear us laughing at her. Needless to say, she hangs up. Guaranteed to make you feel like a slime ball just for listening, but also guaranteed to make you NEVER forget Valentine’s Day again. If this is what you are looking for then here is the link: http://glennbeck.shop.musictoday.com/Product.aspx?cp=29940_39632&pc=BXCD025X I hope this was of help to you.
  
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- poorrichard09
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 7:45am
  Someone needs to write an article claiming “the Triple-A is the new KKK.” :-D
  
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- Pearsontech
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 10:01am
  Thought that was kinda what BS of A was supposed to be.
  
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- Hemhum95
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 12:38pm
  Agreed. Beck’s humor is what got me interested in listening/watching. Wit’s his best asset, and now that I’m used to Beck humor– comparitively Rush Limbaugh sounds very boring/ repetitive. Conservatives (the choir) don’t need preaching, or explaining, since we are the ones that “get it” and just want a Laugh-outlet. This humor could draw in more young peeps to be conservative without knowing it.
  
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OneWithGodistheMajority
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:32pm
Hope Costa doesn’t commit suicide!

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- Ishmot2
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:53pm
  He can’t because he doesn’t own a gun. But if he dose it with a beer and a car I hope he just drives off a cliff!
  
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uzeguize
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:29pm
When I found out Costas was a Yankees fan I knew not to trust anything out of his pie hole. Whitlock is just a big black nobody racist.

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- TreeTrimmerJim
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 10:33am
  What did you think when you found out Bob Beckel was the donut hole?
  
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uzeguize
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:20pm
It is about the culture. Dummy

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- saranda
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:52pm
  Sadly, gb will never recognize the truth in your comment. If he cant see a conspiracy he cant see anything.
  
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uzeguize
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:18pm
Costas, Whitlock and the pansy liberals a match made in hell.

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MCGIRV
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:18pm
Corporate beer,car, masters. Ha ha ha !

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48Straights
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:11pm
The only difference between Saturday Night Live and Glen Beck TV is SNL is funnier,has better actors, is more relevant and free.

I may be an old timer but there was a time when Beck was a leader among men. Now he is just another boring SNL nobody. Is this clip and a bottle of urine the best his TV show has to offer?

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- uzeguize
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:22pm
  You are free to be a loser too. What a great America.
  
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scawarren
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 10:06pm
Not a fan of Beck’s but this was funny as heck :)

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perry1980
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:44pm
ban all beer! right after you ban all guns and cars.

Beck is right.

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FaithfulFriend
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:40pm
I laughed as hard as I have in a long time today seeing this portion of the show! Plus when Stu put the magnifying glass up towards his mouth…. very funny.

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DougHuffman
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:01pm
Well, I’ve an inexpensive gin in hand to ease my soreness from two hours on my thirty years old tractor plowing snow and then cleaning the edges with a shovel. Here’s to gin and tractors.

My 2003 diesel VW is tucked in the garage where it’s warm and dry and starts nicely. Screw this post-modern rabble that would be a culture, wanna-bees all.

Good people ought to be armed as they will, with wits and Guns and the Truth. God Bless Bitter Clingers, damn progressive and wannabes.

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- HappyConservative
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:19pm
  Amen! Now, in fun…remember this tune? I’m 53 and it’s before my prime but I got hooked on it with the Kill Bill movies!
  I think it is quite apropo – Here’ s to you Costas!
  
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5Xl0Qry-hA
  
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scrapadapolis
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:58pm
alcohol legal,guns legal,cars legal..bob beckel should be banned

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catty
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:51pm
I guess his AA folks are real proud!

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bornagaincowgirl
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:49pm
Love that ****…and them eyebrows.

The problem obviously isn’t with guns, beer, cars, or any “objects”. The problem is man’s sinful heart, e.g. Cain murdered Abel. The only solution to that is Jesus Christ.

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skimmer57
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:47pm
Let the hilarity ensue. Last week a jar of urine and now this. It’s comic genious! Clever, witty, brilliant! You Mr. Beck are a true American treasure. What will it be next week? Maybe some arm farts? How about some knock knock jokes. I know. How about the ole dollar bill on a fishing line in a poor neighborhood!

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The Third Archon
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:39pm
“MUST WATCH: GLENN BECK SPOOFS BOB COSTAS, BLASTS ‘BEER DRINKING AND CAR DRIVING CULTURE’’”
Yeah, those two are totally analogous…except:
(1) Cars are more-or-less necessary in the modern world (certainly motorized transportation is), whereas guns strictly speaking are not (and neither is alcohol for that matter).
(2) Cars were not designed for the express purpose of killing other living things, whereas guns are. And in fact, guns are FAR more cost-efficient at doing so.

Now I’m not saying the we SHOULDN’T have a cultural value of gun ownership–on the contrary, I think it has several useful functions, the main one being that it makes illegitimate exercises of political authority more expense and thus present a higher bar to it occurring, because where it does, it always runs the risk of causing citizens to raise hell in a far more violent and destructive fashion that would be the case if there was not a culture of private ownership. That’s a benefit one might reasonably decide is worth the cost-benefit trade-off of increased risks of more deadly violence, and that is a GOOD reason for the cultural value. But as usual, Glenn Beck wouldn’t know how to construct a good argument if it was staring at him from his chalkboard, and paints things in the most simplistic absolutist terms–”guns have ABSOLUTELY no costs, and ONLY benefits.” Please–either say something intelligent, or stop wasting everyone’s time.

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- HappyConservative
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:02pm
  Oh whatever Archon. Quite frankly I couldnt tolerate reading your useless drivel all the way to the end. When you liberals take away private gun ownership you will see the violent crime rates quadruple. The only thing holding back some thug from robbing a 7-11 is that the guy behind the counter might pull a gun. Liberal ******** can’t figure it out that criminals will ALWAYS have access to weaponry. So yeah, smart move! Disarm America! That’ll solve it! Gosh darn those awful guns. Liberals aren’t worth the price of a postage stamp. I can’t resist this for a deserved leftie..
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTU2Y0VFH0E
  
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- pantokrator
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:04pm
  The purpose of the weapons/objects is irrelevant. The fact is that there are far more people killed in car accidents than from law-abiding citizens with firearms. Also, guns may be more or less unnecessary, but you don’t need a gun to kill someone. The point is that taking away guns will not solve our problems. The only thing that solves it is through a stronger, more morally-structured culture. This is a cultural problem, not a gun problem.
  
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- GoodStuff
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:39pm
  “Cars are more-or-less necessary in the modern world…whereas guns strictly speaking are not.”
  
  Tell that to the woman about to be raped and murdered.
  
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NOT A CRAZY
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:35pm
Nailed it!! Good job Glenn. Bob Costas is an asshat.

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- rawmilker
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 11:02pm
  if there were no plastic surgeons….costas old face would be alive today…..
  
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- DIR
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 10:37am
  What you say couldn’t be more true, but Costas would still be brain dead, a common problem that plagues most libs, not to mention bad gas.
  
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skimmer57
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:28pm
Polarized– I bet you live in a red state. Are you a top tenner? Soft hands I bet! Maybe if Bishop Mitt could have gotten you and your ilk off the porn sites and to the polls you could have won.

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- NOT A CRAZY
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:39pm
  I guess it goes without saying that Skimmer is a…
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:46pm
  whats the matter skimmy ..ya get too nervous that you forgot to post on ur own thread
  give me ur phone number if you wanna hear my voice ..it will scare the pee out of you
  my hands lol … i’ve been on my feet working with my hands all my life in manufacturing
  you sissy ….and no i live in a Blue State ….post ur number dillweed
  
  btw… you seem to be the one obsessed with P0rn …so you must live in a red state and spend your days on p0rn sites to bring those stats of yours up ..
  
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- skimmer57
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:08pm
  Polarized– On your feet all day working with your hands. Well rocket scientist send me your resume (that would be a work history, some references and your education) if that’s confusing look up resume. Maybe just maybe I’ll let you wash my cars!
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 9:15pm
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  awwwwwwww Slimmer … i knew you were Chicken ..lol
  
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integrican
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:14pm
“I drink better, when I drive.” hic……

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HumbleMan
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:08pm
One thing is for certain, if neither of them had a car … they both be alive today.

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- Smokey_Bojangles
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:26pm
  Ban Cars! Over half of automobile fatalities are caused by sober drivers.
  
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integrican
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:07pm
“I drink better, when I drive!!!!”

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- catty
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:53pm
  that is hilarious, I hope your kids are in the car!!
  
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bonesiii
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:06pm
I kinda agree about the beer one, though. :P

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skimmer57
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 7:48pm
Glenn says it’s about personnel responsibility. He needs to have a restoring honor ho down in the state of Utah! Utah leads the nation in the down load of pornography.Eight out of the top ten states that down load porn are GOP states! So much for the religious right and the moral majority.Guns God and Gold! HYPOCRITES!

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- ABQ
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 7:57pm
  Hey Skimmer
  What the h*** is wrong with you????
  
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- Polarized America
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 7:58pm
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  well looky here. Skimmer knows how to look up stuff on the internet
  i bet you’ve had a high Heart rate waiting to announcer ur new found talent
  …bravo skimmer …but i bet you picked that up from another poster from another site
  loser
  
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- FISH_BONE
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:04pm
  Actually, according to Men’s Health “Orlando is the number one consumer of adult entertainment media.” But that doesn’t really have anything to do with this article. Try to stay on topic.
  
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- charles116
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:30pm
  They can’t handle the truth.
  
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- LDSmommy
  Posted on December 11, 2012 at 4:34am
  Skimmer…so what? Those same people in Utah are donating their time and money to help others. Who gives a fig if they’re watching porn? They aren’t sitting on their butts collecting welfare and the ones (with the ‘personal responsibility’ you find so funny) that are getting help are trying to get on their own unlike the lefties that just embrace the ‘gifts’ they’re getting from the government. So h#ll with you. Give us God, Guns, Gold and PORN…we’re STILL better than you.
  Not GOP, but not YOU.
  
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GodGunsandFreedom
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 7:47pm
I am sure Glenn scared his whole viewing audience with the spooky wig.

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The-Monk
Posted on December 10, 2012 at 7:32pm
Now I know why Glenn has the **** he has. { : )

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- chips1
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:36pm
  **** today, gone tomorrow.
  
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- The-Monk
  Posted on December 10, 2012 at 8:49pm
  Hi Chips1,
  
  Not me… looks like I’m going to die with a full head of ****. LOL
  
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