Well, actually, he may be both.<\/p>\n
On his Fox News program Tuesday, Glenn Beck revealed that he suspects some nefarious, unspecified, malicious entity has it out for him. He beseeched his audience<\/a> to be vigilant on his behalf, lest some dreaded fate befall him:<\/p>\n “If I’m ever in a weird car accident, or I commit suicide or something, after the media stops celebrating my death, could they check into it? Because I’m not suicidal. And I’m a pretty good driver.”<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Apparently Beck thinks that assassins are stalking him, and they plan to disguise his murder as an accident or a suicide. That demonstration of classic paranoia might be sufficient to raise concerns about his mental well being (such as it is). The problem is that part of his comment was not entirely truthful – and I’m not talking about his driving skills.<\/p>\n Beck has written about his suicidal tendencies<\/a> wherein he threatened to snuff himself out on more than one occasion. He even recorded a rambling video<\/a> that included a confession that he was “full-fledged suicidal.”<\/em> Beck is a recovering alcoholic and there is a history of mental illness in his family. His mother committed suicide when he was thirteen. His brother also committed suicide.<\/p>\n Given this background, I think that upon hearing that Beck was in a car accident, or that he committed suicide, I’m not sure that my first thoughts would be of some Illuminati-inspired murder conspiracy.<\/p>\n Or maybe that’s just what they want me to think…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, actually, he may be both. On his Fox News program Tuesday, Glenn Beck revealed that he suspects some nefarious, unspecified, malicious entity has it out for him. He beseeched his audience to be vigilant on his behalf, lest some dreaded fate befall him: “If I’m ever in a weird car accident, or I commit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,15,16],"tags":[33,44],"class_list":["post-1268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-humor","category-wankery","tag-fox-news","tag-glenn-beck"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ks","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1345,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=1345","url_meta":{"origin":1268,"position":0},"title":"Glenn Beck: Fox News Evangelist Of The Coming Obama-Pocalypse","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/29\/2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Glenn Beck's unique brand of asylum-spawned demagoguery has drawn comparisons to some notable cranks in history and fiction. 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