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Glenn Beck gets wine spilled on him, cries about it
By Danielle GibsonJune 29th, 2011, 11:02 amComments (21)
If you're going to go to a picnic, you have to deal with the ants. And the over-sensitive Fox News anchors. Glenn Beck threw a hissy-fit after being "verbally assaulted" at an outdoor film screening this past Monday night in New York City, and subsequently took to his website and television show to express his sadness. Beck and his wife, Tania, and daughter were taking in a showing of Bryant Park's outdoor film series (this week's film was Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps) when the liberal and vocal crowd heckled him and shouted that they hated conservatives and Republicans. As if that wasn't enough, wine was spilled, perhaps purposefully, on Beck's blanket. Beck was all too happy to recount these horrific events in detail, and is crying foul at the public's treatment when he was with his family.
I've been to a movie showing at Bryant Park, and emotions do run high. It's hot and everyone is drunk and cramped together; blankets overlap, personal space is invaded, things are spilled, and you would not believe the leg cramps. But that's just part of the picnic in New York experience. I don't doubt that the negative behavior of the crowd was real and palpable, but come on. It's spilled wine. If anything, I feel more sympathy for the person who spilled even an ounce of that sweet sweet nectar of life than for Beck.
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Commentarium (21 Comments)
@GB - If you want to be liked by the public, don't be a raging douchebag.
For obvious reasons, I detest seeing that raging douchebag abbreviated to GB. Cut it out, please.
This is the news? An unpleasant person encountered people that don't like him, and someone spilled wine on his picnic blanket? Oh the humanity. How could it be?
Here's a headline that equally NOT shocking: News website reports on meaningless trivia - pretending that it's the news.
Simmer down, dude. Pretty sure Nerve isn't a "news" site. Might I suggest some other outlet for important daily news? I think you're using the Internet wrong (or exactly right, since complaining about retarded shit is basically what the Internet is for ... well, that and kittens, and porn).
It says “NEWS” at the top of this page, as well as the home page where this story is offered for review.
Yes, I know that this is all supposed to be gonzo journalism, but this story simply has no merit to justify publication. And I suspect that Hunter S. Thompson would agree.
I do recognize and “sometimes” appreciate that this website pushes its own agenda to the extreme, but this is just a little too transparent. Is there so little going on in the world today that the “NEWS” is a worthless piece about a guy getting dissed in the park and someone spilling some wine?
And just to clarify: I’m not upset – just disgusted.
Okay, I take it all back. It does also say “comedy” in small print at the top of this page. So what the heck. I don’t think it’s funny, but I’ll try to laugh.
@Gimmeabreak
Nerve does not constitute Gonzo journalism. At least, not in Thompson's definition of it. That would entail the writer being in Bryant Park and possibly interacting in the events she's writing about.
I had NO IDEA this was a news website . . . . I'm outta here.
He can dish it out, but he can't take it. Agree with @anon -- what a raging douchebag.
Takes one to know one, evidently.
OH WHAT A COMEBACK LOL
Let me respond in a manner Stud Muffin will understand: I'm rubber, and you're glue; everything you say bounces off me and sticks to you. So nyahh.
Beck threw wine on people and accosted their families in a public park?
I think I'll find profrobert and his family and dish back some of his hate.
You realize that Beck's a recovering alcoholic right? "Accidentally" spilling wine on him and his family is uncalled for, and it is certainly not an appropriate method of expressing political disagreements. By becoming hate filled aren't we playing into his argument, while slowly becoming the bigots we all claim to despise?
I kind of doubt most of Beck's haters have done research into his personal life. I didn't know he was a recovering alcoholic, and I've been a twelve-stepper since I was a teenager. Do you think it would have been any different if it had been soda?
Firstly, the phrase 'know your enemy' seems extremely pertinent here. If your going to express political beliefs research and know your enemy's beliefs and history. Second, yes I for one do believe it would have been different if it had been soda. The attack wouldn't have seemed so personal and malicious. And last, say it was soda, that doesn't make purposely harassing a man and his family moral or justified.
I'm torn on this. On one hand, you are responsible for the shit you say and you CAN AND SHOULD be called on it in a public square. On the other hand, dude was there with his family.
yeah, I mean it is a valid response: but would some neo-con respectfully decline to to heckle Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow because they were in public with a loved one? That's life as a media personality.
As a conservative, I might well have something to say to KO or RM but 1. I wouldn't do it in front of their kids, and, 2. It certainly wouldn't involve an assault.
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