Media

See Glenn Gut a Fish On-Air…to Prove a Point About the Media

Yes, you read that headline right. It’s probably best to let Glennbeck.com explain:

There isn’t much more to say about this other than you have to watch it to believe it. Glenn’s love for props went to a new level (yeah, pretty sure this beats the frog) as he decided to gut fish (poorly) while giving commentary on the state of the mainstream media. Seriously, where were the producers (Stu? Pat? Tiffany?) to stop him when he started just going to town on the fish head? Those of us in the newsroom all thought he was going to lose a finger!

Here’s the video that is sure to become a media classic:

Comments (151)

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  • beckfan101
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:15pm

    Haaahhh! I thought he might lose a finger too…..poor Glenn. Thats one point made I think I will remember for some time! NOT TO MENTION, the little fish mouth moving while Obama was talking! Haaahhhhhhhh………………

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    • The Noodle Fish
      Posted on November 11, 2011 at 9:02pm

      I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you drank coffee. A lot of coffee.

      :)

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  • leader30m
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:14pm

    Liberal morons think hamburgers grow on trees. Make them all head knockers at the meat processing plant. I’m going deer hunting and putting some back straps in the freezer.

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:19pm

      Oh I missed this whole fish gutting publicity stunt probably because it didn’t tv. lol.

      It aired on Glenn’s private youtube that you pay for.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:35pm

      Growing on Trees! Ha Ha.

      I guess you have never been Ham-Bushed!

      TEA

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    • Bible Quotin' Science Fearin' Conservative American
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:03pm

      I do not, in fact, pay a premium to watch a specific program like you suckers. Anything worth seeing will be reshown here for free.

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    • jb.kibs
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:31pm

      The initiation of force has already been made upon the American People, We have a Right and Duty to defend ourselves from tyranny.

      what responsible reporter hides news audio and video? None.

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    • Pardawg
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:40pm

      Right there with ya, brother!

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:40pm

      MONICNE

      My father sat in a university class in the 19060s where a woman once asked a professor how they put the skins on potatoes. Either he was lying to me or he wasn’t. If he wasn’t lying to me, you should be scared!

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:54pm

      “We [Arabs] have become extinct,” said Syrian poet Adonis in a March 11 Dubai television interview transcribed by the Israeli media monitor MEMRI, [1] but ignored by the mainstream Western media. The prognosis by Adonis, the only Arabic writer on the Nobel Prize short list, for the Arab prospect has become more bleak over the years, and his latest pronouncement has a Spenglerian finality.

      “We have become extinct … We have the masses of people, but a people becomes extinct when it no longer has a creative capacity, and the capacity to change its world … The great Sumerians became extinct, the great Greeks became extinct, and the Pharaohs became extinct,” he said.

      …

      If the Arabs are so inept that they cannot be democratic by themselves, they can never be democratic through the intervention of others. If we want to be democratic, we must be so by ourselves. But the preconditions for democracy do not exist in Arab society, and cannot exist unless religion is re-examined in a new and accurate way, and unless religion becomes a personal and spiritual experience, which must be respected.
      The trouble, he added, is that Arabs do not want to be free. Asked why Arabs glorify dictatorships, Adonis responded as follows:
      I believe it has to do with the concept of “oneness”, which is reflected – in practical or political terms – in the concept of the hero, the savior, or the leader. This concept offers an inner sense of security to people who are afraid of freedom {

      Susan Harkins  
    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:57pm

      Understand Glenn’s skit by “reading between the (newspaper) lines.”

      Cleaning fish on an Arabic newspaper while discussing “media” & “extinction”.

      I dont think I am reading too much into it….in fact…just enough :-)

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    • Markf
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Bible quotin conservative
      I pay for it…..it is worth every penny.
      Regards,
      Markf

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    • WeveAlreadyWon
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:52pm

      How to tell a Troll… they make a comment and end it with “LOL”.
      Noone that is not a pimply faced meth head, Jon Stewrat, Kieth Olberman fan or a Obummer voter for “hope and change” tool even uses “LOL”. Most 10 year olds these days even call it “old School”..get out of your momma’s basement.

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  • florida123
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Glenn is becoming part of the problem, why hasnt he commented on Abramoffs interview with CBS 60 minutes, Not one Journalist has made a peep about the REAL problem in this country. Abramof is screaming it from the roof tops no one is listening

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:18pm

      Not one reporter is talking about corruption in politics? Really? Not one reporter has talked about how special interests group control our government with lobbyists? Really?

      I would love it if Glenn did a special on this particular facet of the corruption that is DC, but this is just that… another facet. We know money is setting government policy. We just don’t how to fix it. How do you make it so the people with all the power can’t figure out how to translate that power into personal wealth? It’s a difficult problem, as this story demonstrates. Favors can be traded based on future promises. How do you block that?

      It is absolutely essential that we figure out how to get money out of politics. But how do we do that in a manner that can’t easily be worked around?

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    • firstHat
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:52pm

      @DrFrost (the name makes me think of CS Lewis)

      Actually, though I think you are on the right track, we do know how to fix it and Glenn is on about it all the time. Influence of capitalism on government (and of government in capitalism) happens when government regulates too much.

      As long as there is over regulation and a labyrinthine tax system, there is influence to buy.

      Cut back regulation to the bare minimum so that a *well* educated population regulate capitalism (through demand), simplify the tax structure so that industries no longer can buy loopholes and stop the federal (and state) governments from funding industries and we may finally begin to take the crony out of capitalism.

      Until then we will have this mess and capitalism rather than cronyism will be blamed.

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    • tifosa
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:54pm

      Guess who gets it? Many of the Occupyers. Not the ones you’re shown, but the ones we see on open mic and at GA.

      “Jack Abramoff may be the most notorious and crooked lobbyist of our time. He was at the center of a massive scandal of brazen corruption and influence peddling. As a REPUBLICAN LOBBYIST starting in the mid 1990s, he became a master at showering gifts on lawmakers in return for their votes on legislation and tax breaks favorable to his clients (insert 1%.) He was so good at it, he took home $20 million a year.”
      They get that it happens on both sides. This is EXACTLY the point of OWS. Credit to you FL123!

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    • firstHat
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:05pm

      @tifosa
      The problem with OWS is that, while like the Tea party it hates crony capitalism, it also looks at the the problem backwards. It vilifies capitalism when cronyism (and the over reach of government) are the real problems.

      For instance, the banks wouldn’t have needed the bail out if there had not been regulations encouraging (sometimes forcing) the banks to make bad loans. Did some capitalists jump on board and take more than their share? Yup, but it was fanny and freddy government out there supporting the whole scam. All of that disrupted any normally operating self regulation (an integral part of a healthy capitalist system) that would have curbed the whole mess.

      Lesson: It is NOT the capitalist system that failed, It is NOT capitalism that is “naturally” predatory, it is government that has reached beyond its required responsibility of protecting individual rights that is our enemy.

      So you see, OWS has got the chicken and the egg all mucked up

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    • tifosa
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 3:06pm

      Top 3 industries’ expenditures on lobbying in 2009:

      Pharmaceuticals/Health Products almost $2M
      Insurance & Oil & Gas – each over $120M

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:11pm

      @Florida, who said “Glenn is becoming part of the problem”

      Since when does my GBTV subscription money go toward funding YOUR concerns over GLENNs equipment and resources?

      Why dont you tell me how much that you PERSONALLY SPENT getting this message out. Why should Glenn spend $5000 per minute, dealing with a message that YOU deem important (so much so that you claim Glenn is becoming a problem for not doing it). As a matter of fact, if you are not paying Glenn for any services on HIS equipment, then what in the hell, are you doing, posting that garbage on The Blaze (his equipment/servers) which I am helping to fund, when I am quite content on the content that he provides me?

      Florida — put up, or shut up; but stop whining because you are not directing the show. You want a show? You want to voice your concerns? BUILD ONE and do it yourself. Take responsibility, so that I can then get on YOUR server and posting services, and claim that YOU are becoming part of the problem, for not providing the information that I am getting from GBTV/The Blaze.

      Starting to get the picture, dear?

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    • taxpro4u03
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 5:41pm

      He (Glenn) won’t simply because… _____________ fill in the blank. I didn‘t do my homework on this clown but I can ’almost‘ betcha the ’powers that be’ needed a scapegoat, and the time he spent in the ‘joint’ were quite a bit more comfy than MOST American homes.

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  • doctroprint
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:02pm

    I as well thought his fingers were gone. It is entertaining to watch Glenn just relax, speak and act as he wishes to help bring the point into focus. Nobody else can do it, and its refreshing. Do not be afraid to call a spade a spade and towing the line for someone else is not going to cut it anymore! All media has a line to follow so the truth will never see light…..not until now! Glenn has upset the apple cart and he could care less what anyone thinks. Good job Glenn, and to the troll’s, yes, I am a sick twisted freak..and at least my media…is totally unafraid!

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  • duckwalker
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:59am

    You sick twisted freak,,, I luv ya. you had me when you poke your finger threw Larry’s eye socket. I’m now a member of GBTV.

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    • mbriz
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:24pm

      sucker.

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    • Brad Wesselmann
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:18pm

      Welcome to the party! ;-)

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    • Primekid
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:21pm

      I a sucker too. :D I’m being taken for all that I am worth to watch a TV program that I choose to watch. A program that I chose to watch because someone is speaking their mind, speak the truth and uses common sense the same way that I do. What? I am buying a product or service that I chose to buy with my own money, of my own free will. I am such a sucker!!

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    • EqualJustice
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:49pm

      ME THREE! I love GBTV.. these fools don’t kow WHAT they are missing. I bet the Dictator or his internet czar, MR. LEE are paying to watch! :)

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    • joyceram
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:06pm

      Good for you!

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    • mastice
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 8:50pm

      @mbriz
      So if you watch, and pay for, GBTV you are a ‘sucker’? I suppose watching some reality show about finding the perfect mate, on an ad based channel, on the cable/satellite you pay for constitutes a far better and intelligent use of your time?

      So who was the ‘sucker’ again? Oh that’s right… anyone who decides to pay their own money for a product that they want.

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  • grudgywoof
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:38am

    I guess I get it? The monologue was great but the butchering was a bit much. I laughed a little (uncomfortably). I have said this before Glenn, I love your show and will continue to watch but I think an hour is better than two.

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    • jzs
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:59am

      I’d say Glenn is a hypocrite. Demonizing people he doesn’t like is what he does for a living.

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    • TriforcePlayer
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:55pm

      Oh gimme a break

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    • COFemale
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:14pm

      Oh to the contrary JZS. The people Glenn talks about demonizes themselves, he just points it out to everyone else. Just like you are responsible how you present yourself to the people on this forum will determine how they treat you. If you call us names and make wild accusations, we will call you on it. Is that demonizing you? I think not. We are pointing out the flaws of your thinking.

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    • spfoam1
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 2:53pm

      @JZS…if that is what you think then either you don’t watch him or you are a certified idiot.

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    • Susan Harkins
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:42pm

      @JZS, who says “I’d say Glenn is a hypocrite. Demonizing people he doesn’t like is what he does for a living.”

      Good thing he has a loyal patriotic Constitution-loving and hypocritical audience that is equally critical of Hitler, Stalin, Obozo, Rothchildes, etc; and who demonizes communists, socialists, control-freaks, unconstituational czars, crony capitalists, etc.

      P.S. – Glenn had better keep “demonizing said people that he[we] doesnt[dont] like”, because we are paying for him to do just that.

      P.S.S – Oh, by the way…why are you here? Did Politico get too boring for ya?

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  • Vechorik
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:25am

    I liked Glenn’s show better when it was SHORTER. He tends to drag things out now and 2 hours to watch is not possible for me (most days).

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:30am

      Whoa, totally agree…

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    • aggiebrewer
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:38am

      I tend to agree with Vechorik on show’s length. keep in mind he had like 37-38 min to fill on Fox with commercials. Now with news breaks and commercials he prob has 1:40 or so. That is a lot of time to fill. By in large, if you listen to the radio show you get most of what he goes over at night on the TV show. I think I will get the basic membership next time. Love the i-tunes commercial free radio show!
      Just my opinion.

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  • BloodyArtist22
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:23am

    I have never in my life seen someone actually hack at a fish. I’ve seen a bat, a slice, a gunshot, a firecracker…NEVER hacked to a deader death. LOL…and the fish thing didn’t make sense to me except add some humour to keep my interest. I would’ve just liked the dry and less fishy truth about the media. Or more issues involving the cover-ups of Occupy. God I had a scary dream about Occupy and how it came up to my town and there were shootings while I was driving through town. This Occupy stuff will spread like the plague. Grab your guns and defend your family. Thank God for the 2nd Amendment.

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  • blazingaway
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:21am

    The reality is that there is no audio.
    The press just makes crap up to sell advertising space.
    They are mindless dolts.
    Therefore they have no standards, no integrity, no redeeming values.
    This is just another means for them to attack Israel and provoke the Jews so as to blame them for the problems of the world.

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  • SamIamTwo
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:20am

    Glenn I hope you take lessons if you decide to do a sky diving metaphor about the economy.

    Stay Chill

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  • MONICNE
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:14am

    God Bless Glenn Beck (GBGB) as we approach 11-11-11, let’s honor Glenn for his respect for Vietnam Veterans everywhere.

    TEA

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    • stablepar
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:17pm

      don’t forget the usmc birthday on 11-10-11. semper fi

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  • warhorse_03826
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:06am

    an arabic newspaper? he got fish guts on mohammed’s name!!!!!!!!!!!death to glenn beck!!!!!!

    ULULULULULULU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    /sarc

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  • InversionTheory
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:04am

    Fish, guests, the media and the OWS crowd…stink after 3 days.

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  • SEOhio
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:04am

    PLEASE someone teach him how to clean a fish! And take the cleaver away!!! I thought for sure fingers were going to go flying.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:09am

      LOL, yeah and a real man would not use gloves. J/K GB…but still yet..

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    • seljo1701
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:17am

      Yes, I was cringing at every chop…chop….chop. I thought for sure headline were going to be “severed finger found in GBTV fish sticks”…. customer suing. Glenn, I’m glad you still have all of your fingers. =D

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    • blazingaway
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:23am

      YES …. Never give a cleaver to someone who doesn’t know how to use it properly unless you hope they will lose a finger or two

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:24am

      Oh PS: the supposed knife appears to be a bread knife. LOL

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    • GeoInSD
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 1:47pm

      Yes. With his lousy and unsafe technique, I was waiting for him to chop off the tips of a few fingers.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 4:45pm

      I know one thing. Glenn does not get to clean the fish on the fly-in fishing trip in Canada.

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  • Amy
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:00am

    One of the biggest curiosities of our time. Why? Why do so many in the print, digital, and media think they are right with their wrong thinking?

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  • searching for the Truth
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:54am

    I enjoy your stories. I don’t believe them to be fish tales.

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  • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:49am

    Here comes PETA.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:47am

    GB’s imagination is running dry. It happens to the4 best of them, and the worst of them, too, apparently.

    (That’s your cue, Joe 1234. Post your dingleberry thought.)

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    • drago
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:55am

      @your sensei aka encinom
      All of us here at The Blaze know your brain, what little you had, has been fried do to drug abuse, so why do you keep coming here to prove it? You seriously need to go back to your video games, and your lego set…..

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    • loriann12
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:05am

      No, she’s not 400 pounds….she’ probably about 65 lbs and under 12. She has a Japanese anime character for her avatar.

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:11am

      She or he is simply a liberal PW.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:17am

      Good job, Joe. Nice to see you respond so well to training.

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    • aggiebrewer
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:41am

      Just ignore Sensei and he will go away. He or she thrives on confrontation.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:46am

      Wow, Joe, degrees, eh? Tell us about them. I didn’t take you to be a product of our leftist high education indoctrination in this country. What were your fields of study? What is your expertise? What degrees do you hold? (Be careful, you never know who knows what out here in the great wide world.)

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:01pm

      Joe. No degrees, eh? Well, that’s OK. Not everybody can be educated. The world needs clean the honey buckets, too, and I want to thank you for filling that role.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:28pm

      Joey . .. No, I don’t collect welfare. Nor do I have a problem with Welfare helping people who truly need it. I’m retired, actually. I’m thinking of going back to school to get my 14th degree. No wait, 15th. It’s part of my rich fantasy life.

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    • your sensei
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 12:57pm

      Joe . . .You’re really not very bright. Sorry, you know me, I like to keep everything positive, but your relentless nescience is becoming tiresome. Either step up your game or I’ll have to toss you on my ash heap of the vanquished.

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  • Cat
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:47am

    Something really scrod up here

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  • garyM
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:46am

    I was worried about Glenn’s fingers as well. I have cleaned lots of fish in my life and it took Glenn about 20 times longer to clean those fish than I once could have. There is a much better method. I know the fish cleaning was to prove some kind of point. I was wondering if Glenn heard a comment from O’Reilly or some other refined news media person saying that watching the Glenn Beck news media was like watching someone cleaning fish is why he did it. I love Glenn‘s down to earth personality and approach and I love the fact that he doesn’t pretend to be something he is not. We need more people like Glenn in media and all walks of life. Watching and listening to most news personalities makes my butt want a dip of snuff! Especially the news media blonde’s who show everyone their cleavage and legs up to the crotch and talk in the seductive type voice as though they would love to show everyone their nipples and a Sharon Stone shot!

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    • mils
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:58am

      GARYM….
      YOU are obviously speaking of FOX news “personalities”….
      although…some other networks are following a little bit..FOX has the most ridiculous ladies…on the order of one of those russian networks where they strip as they give the weather…

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    • SamIamTwo
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:12am

      mils

      You’ve been entertaining sinful thoughts, no doubt. LOL

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  • MUSE_FENDERTAMA
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:45am

    Very nice, Glenn.
    Nothing more potent than a gut-wrenching metaphor to prove a point.
    Keep up the good work.

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:44am

    Glenn, keep the day job, and good points about the media.

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  • HTuttle
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:35am

    I buy the NYTimes when I need that much fishpaper.

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  • GJPinks
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:34am

    Does this mean there is something fishy in the news? Or is he protesting the unions wanting to work for scale?

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    • countryfirst
      Posted on November 9, 2011 at 11:05am

      It would have been better if he was to clean some bottom feeders. But hell he was having trouble with the ones he had.

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  • JLGunner
    Posted on November 9, 2011 at 10:26am

    I love a good fish story.

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