Staffers: Glenn Beck rehearses crying jags

[kpete]

Glenn Beck ‘has teared up’ during rehearsals, staffers say

By Sahil Kapur
Monday, March 15th, 2010 -- 1:20 pm

Glenn Beck received a mix of mockery and intrigue last year after crying several times on camera during his Fox News program. Now, the conservative lightning rod's assistants reportedly say he sheds the occasional tear even while rehearsing for the show.

In a Post feature story about the controversial Fox host, Howard Kurtz writes, "Some staffers say they have watched rehearsals, on internal monitors, in which Beck has teared up or paused at the same moments as he later did during the show.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/14/AR2010031402312_pf.html
http://rawstory.com/2010/03/glenn-beck-cries-rehearsing-staffers/

[dionysus]

1. he has to practice because if he accidentally jams that vapor-rub directly into his eyeball, he'd be

screaming...

[rurallib]

2. crap - it's rehearsed. I was hoping someone was kicking him in the

sack to make him cry.

[Quantess]

3. He's a performance artist.

I would like to see his act devolve even more into absurdity. Like, he could go freestyle, goosestepping around the set in a nazi uniform, smashing watermelons (our black president) on his head as tears stream down his face.

[Liberal_in_LA]

4. weird...anything for ratings

[Echo In Light]

5. Why does DU give a shit about this ding-a-ling-Beck?

[NoodleyAppendage]

6. Emotional Incontinence is one of the symptoms of frontal lobe damage

It is also asked as part of a screen for vascular dementia. Go figure. ;)

J

[RainDog]

7. what a TOTAL TWIT!

but, honestly, you have to be a twit on steroids to watch this guy.

he's one reason I got rid of most of my cable service. I'm not gonna pay for this b.s.

[lpbk2713]

8. Didn't Beck tell the ladies on The View that he was "just an entertainer"?

Well, he's a damn poor one at that.

[progressoid]

9. What? It's all an act?

I'm shocked. Shocked I tells ya.

[jgraz]

10. Meanwhile, the rest of us are trying *not* to go into crying jags...

[Catshrink]

11. Rehearsal?

It isn't spontaneous? Who writes the script?

[SpiralHawk]

12. typical republicon chickenhawk phony

ptooey

[Blue Owl]

13. what a weeping wanker

although a fake crybaby like him represents the GOP quite adequately, I must admit...

[classysassy]

14. Just another over paid shill for the wealthy

crooks in america.

[upi402]

15. Sting had it right

News anchors and politicians; "they all seemed like gameshow hosts to me."

[eppur_se_muova]

16. Poor thing ... still ignored by the Academy.

I guess they just don't have a category weird enough to put him in.

"Most overwrought dramatic performance in an editorial commentary"? What?

[Marsala]

17. What? He's faking it? Noooooooooo!

I had no idea at all. Well, at least wrestling is still real.

[Raine]

18. He's uses Vick's vaporub (sp?) to get those tears

rolling down his face. :cry: :silly: