Glenn Beck? You know, that conservative pundit who was even too crazy for FOX news? (The network let him go in 2010.) He’s on a mission to destroy the FOX TV show, Glee. Because there’s nothing more dangerous than a little TV show about singing high schoolers. (Via TalkingPointsMemo)
“A year ago I was watching the show ‘Glee’ with my wife and we watched it like this,” Beck said making the motion of his jaw dropping. “It’s horrifying some of the things that they’re teaching high schoolers.But it’s brilliantly done. It’s brilliantly done.”
“I said at the end of it, we lose,” he said. “There’s no way to beat that.”
Actually, Beck was frothing at the mouth about Glee last year. He watched the episode that ended with the kids performing “Sing” by My Chemical Romance. This totally freaked Beck out, for reasons I still don’t quite understand. Beck accused Glee of spreading propaganda “This is propaganda and it’s an anthem, and it’s an anthem saying join us. How can you and I possibly win against that?”
I swear this guy is going to end up in a padded room, in a straight jacket muttering to himself.
Beck also said, “All of the characters are extremely good looking, extremely talented…Everybody in here is somebody that your kids would want to be like. Except everybody is sleeping with everybody else, there’s no values, self gratification.” There’s nothing that goes on in Glee that doesn’t happen in high schools every day. I’d say the depictions are fairly tame, in comparison. Beck is clueless. Or in deep denial.
Beck was feeling pretty helpless when he made those statements a year ago. But no more. He’s putting together his own Glee-like show. One that stands for conservative family values. He’s calling it the “the Oedipus Project,” “because the left will be making out with me,” he explained to BuzzFeed this week. The plan is to produce a conservative alternative to “Glee” that is covert enough in its conservatism to not turn people away.
“We’ve spent a year now trying to put together a push-back with artists with music, but not the stereotypical conservative Lee Greenwood music,” he told the crowd at the Faith & Freedom Coalition conference in Washington Friday.
Well. Good luck with THAT.
So…who is going to broadcast Beck’s masterpiece? He’s not on broadcast TV anymore. His show is streamed online, so his chances of reaching as many people as Glee, which airs on network TV are pretty slim.
At any rate, he plans on debuting this “Oedipus Project” during a three-day “Restoring Love” extravaganza at Cowboy Stadium in Texas.
Gosh. I hope there is video.
Watch Beck talk about his war against Glee below.
