On Campus - by Ned Resnikoff on Friday, November 13, 2009 10:00 - 7 Comments - 734 views
Remember Stephen Colbert’s Christmas special from a couple years back? Remember how funny that was? Well good news! If you think that was awesome, think about how fantastic it is that the real, non-ironic doppleganger of Colbert’s narcissistic stage person will be bringing his own lame Christmas special to NYU’s Skirball center.
Glenn Beck, he of the golden tears and incitements to revolution, will be reading from his modern-day holiday classic, A Christmas Sweater, which Publishers Weekly praises as “a weak attempt at a holiday classic in the vein of It’s a Wonderful Life.”
I haven’t been able to find any info on tickets yet, but believe me, figuring out some way into this event is my project for the next three weeks. It’s going to be glorious: readings from the Good Book (no, not The Bible), awkward, gratuitous crying, and live music! Presumably it will all wrap up with the greatest Christmas tradition of all: Glenn Beck peddling his merchandise and toxic right-wing ideology. God bless us, everyone!
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I vote for seeing this high.
@Josh: That sounds like a pretty good way to fuck yourself up for life.
Evil Republican
“Nobody *I* know voted for Nixon!” Just because you’ve walled yourself off to 50% of the NYU population doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
Actually, I take that back. We just don’t care. We’re laughing in our dorms at the left. This silly show is for grandparents from Ossining.
Pat McClellan
@Evil Republican: Judging from your monicker I’m assuming that you’re kidding, but on the off chance that you aren’t, do you seriously think that 50% of the NYU population even leans conservative, let alone buys into the shit Glenn Beck sells? And as a follow up, are you fucking retarded?
@EvilRepublican:
Q: Even if 50% of NYU watched Glenn Beck religiously, would it make this event any less stupid?
A: No. No it wouldn’t.
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They keep showing commercials for this in movie theatres around the city and–I SHIT YOU NOT–a quote from the promo is, “Tears will flow and hearts will ache.” He tells some kind of story about his mother and something tragic that happened in his childhood, I don’t know. It’s a very weird promo.