It’s no news that Fox’s Glenn Beck is a raving lunatic, but even given that, I still cannot believe that he just threw a frog into boiling water on national television.
Glenn: next time, try out your zany ideas off camera first.
[h/t: Skepchick]
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10 Comments
It looks like he didn’t actually throw the frog in. But then what was the point? I think *pretending* to throw a frog into boiling water is sufficiently disastery.
Given it was Glenn Beck, I was worrying about Carla Bruni.
It appears it was a fake frog. Rather like the host.
I get the metaphor with the boiling frog. However, switching it out for a fake frog that wasn’t going to hop out of water… It seems like an example fail. What is the metaphor supposed to be when the frog doesn’t jump out of boiling water?
glenn beck is a modern day mashup of the town crier and a village idiot. who has a tv show. and is an idiot.
That does about sum it up.
Looked like he tossed it in and it just died.
Did he ever have a frog — real or fake — in his hand? The frogs in the glass case are real, but it looked to me as though Beck brought out his hands pretending to have a frog concealed in them but actually having nothing, just as he was pretending to have some frog-analogy idea in his head , but that’s empty too.
I think he is playing everyone, all the way to the bank!
US television is a real pleasure to watch: you can fake the execution of a living creature but you cannot say “bullshit” on air. I just love the exquisite morality of it (even without being part of the Peter Singer-PETA axis of Good).
We are talking about Glenn Beck. Just remember he is that guy:
He did indeed pick up a frog… but the whole sequence was pre-taped and then edited it in. He did a follow-up segment where he explains how he did it. But, when he tried to explain WHY he did it, it was a little unclear.