{"id":10335,"date":"2013-08-09T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-09T18:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10335"},"modified":"2013-08-09T12:42:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-09T19:42:58","slug":"glenn-beck-challenges-anybody-who-thinks-im-a-nincompoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=10335","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Beck Challenges &#8220;Anybody Who Thinks I&#8217;m A Nincompoop&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4042\/4259593001_7afd608c53_o.jpg\" alt=\"Pope Glenn Beck\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Setting the stage for a stampede that could flatten Dallas, Glenn Beck took to the airwaves (video below) to glorify himself and lay down the gauntlet for his critics:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I challenge you&#8230;for anybody who thinks I&#8217;m a nincompoop, I challenge you to find anyone on planet earth who has had the direction and the specifics as right as I have and we have over the last six years. I challenge you! Bring me the names.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It goes without saying that there are millions of rational people who know that Beck is a nincompoop (or some other variety of poop). Fortunately for Beck, very few of them care what he says or would waste their time responding to his challenge. Since I have plenty of free time, I&#8217;ll pick up the gauntlet and point out that, contrary to his own inflated impression of himself, he has gotten more things wrong over the years than Nostra Dumbass.<\/p>\n<p>Beck, while admitting that he is often <em>&#8220;wrong on timing,&#8221;<\/em> is terribly concerned now that <em>&#8220;we are about to have an economic impact the likes of which the globe has never seen.&#8221;<\/em> He predicts that it will <em>&#8220;slide the entire globe into chaos.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Humor\/perfect-storm.jpg\" alt=\"Perfect Storm\" \/><\/center><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>All of this fear mongering is reminiscent of his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=3925\" target=\"_blank\">frequent <em>&#8220;Perfect Storm&#8221;<\/em> admonitions<\/a> that he insisted would presage the arrival of the End Times. So far, none of the dozen or more warnings he so ominously delivered over the past few years has swept us off the face of the Earth or into chaos. Nor has his predictions of a global Muslim\/Socialist Caliphate overtaking the world come to pass. And we&#8217;re still waiting for his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9908\" target=\"_blank\">promised unveiling of information<\/a> so devastating that it would <em>&#8220;take down pretty much the whole power structure.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The real challenge would be for anyone to find something that Beck has said that was accurate. Amid his scrambled brain full of conspiracies theories, he couldn&#8217;t even get right the matter of whether or not he has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9832\" target=\"_blank\">ever been called a conspiracy theorist<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xtR_Y0Vv5Mk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/News-Corpse\/117899091558228?v=wall\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Like me on Facebook\">Be Sure To \u201cLIKE\u201d News Corpse On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Setting the stage for a stampede that could flatten Dallas, Glenn Beck took to the airwaves (video below) to glorify himself and lay down the gauntlet for his critics: &#8220;I challenge you&#8230;for anybody who thinks I&#8217;m a nincompoop, I challenge you to find anyone on planet earth who has had the direction and the specifics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#GlennBeck Challenges \"Anybody Who Thinks I'm A Nincompoop\"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,16],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-10335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-wankery","tag-glenn-beck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2GH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9158,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=9158","url_meta":{"origin":10335,"position":0},"title":"Let&#8217;s Get Ready To CRUMBLE: Glenn Beck Ducks WWE Challenge","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/24\/2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Beck and professional wrestling. 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It's all there in a hilarious send up of Beck's traitorous appendix. Everyday it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":4697,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=4697","url_meta":{"origin":10335,"position":2},"title":"Glenn Beck Is Afraid To Debate Van Jones","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/20\/2011","format":false,"excerpt":"On Saturday at the Netroots Nation conference, keynote speaker Van Jones spoke about the new movement to Rebuild the American Dream. In the course of his remarks he had a message for his old adversary, Glenn Beck: Jones: \"I issue a personal challenge to my beloved brother Glenn Beck. 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But just\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;General&quot;","block_context":{"text":"General","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?cat=1"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1797,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1797","url_meta":{"origin":10335,"position":4},"title":"Finally! Black Leaders Unite To Challenge Glenn Beck","author":"Mark NC","date":"6\/21\/2010","format":false,"excerpt":"For several months Glenn Beck has been promoting an event in Washington, D.C., that he pretends has something to do with Restoring Honor for American soldiers. 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