By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--May 3, 2016
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The footage comes to us via Right Wing Watch's YouTube page. Honestly, the Donald Trump connection is the least interesting thing about this video, which is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, hidden in what appears to be a home, meant to look like the set of The West Wing Here are questions I had within the first 30 seconds. Why are Glenn Beck and friends doing a sight gag on a radio show? “Why is this video — arguably the best food-related content since BuzzFeed popped that watermelon — not on Facebook Live? How did Glenn Beck befriend Ron Swanson's stand-in? “Is this Glenn Beck's house? “If so, why does Glenn Beck's house look like a suburban fabrication of the White House? “Did Glenn Beck buy The West Wing set and turn it into a home? “Glenn, tuck in your shirt. “Same goes for all of you, except for that dude in mauve who looks like he's the type to vote Mike Huckabee as a write-in. I like you. You're the CJ of the group. “Am I endeared to Glenn Beck because of this video? “Why would someone covering their face in Cheetos dust make me like them a little more, even if I know, at their core, they're still the type of person that tells you to invest in Goldline? Will we ever eat Cheetos again?”
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“One CNN correspondent asked White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest during a daily briefing: 'I'm just curious – was "Charlie Bit My Finger" or "David After Dentist" not available?' “GloZell screamed to her fans when she heard that she would be included in the mini-cattle-call that she was 'so happy I watched all those episodes of "Veep"!' “The White House intended for the event to draw a younger audience – Americans who get their news from Twitter and Facebook – in the hope of bringing public policy down to the level of the personal. “But it's unclear who actually watched. “At its peak, slightly more than 84,000 were viewing the presentation, according to live counts displayed by YouTube. “Glenn Beck and gang wanted to mock The Donald as the ‘Orange Emperor’. Beck’s downright competitive when it comes to branding and the manufacture of images. Wasn’t it Beck who first suggested that Barack Obama looked an awful lot like the devil in Roma Downey’s ‘The Bible’ series? On that one, Beck was immediately corrected by Downey, who said Obama was a “fellow Christian” and the president got to carry that image ever since. Gags, stints and stunts have been part of the Glenn Beck persona as far back as his CNN days. One thing for sure now that he’s created ‘Cheetos Face’, he’s no longer drinking the Kool Aid, he’s wearing it.
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