Just don't be a liberal for once.....

Okay...I removed this for now as an explaination to those of you who read it earlier, and Josh I saved your comments -- as you can see by the date of the post "Sunday, June 12, 2005" it's not Sunday yet - lol I wasn't done writing it and had not only not finished it but waited to see if I felt the same the next day as my initial impression after the show was pretty un-entertained.

I thought if I changed the date to Sunday it would save what I had written and not post it till I had a chance to finish it....obviously I was wrong - lol

So when I re-do it I will include Josh's comments since while he disagrees with me, his input was important.

UPDATE:

Here's part of what I wrote last night and finished, spelling corrected and etc..and of course the date fixed to today's date. Guess I have to find another way to save "drafts" in the future.

Okay so I tried...Glenn Beck was in Toledo today. First show sold out within minutes so they added a second show at 11:00 p.m. tonight. Won't go into any of the how and why details of ending up going however....I knew from hearing him a few times I didn't agree with a lot of his points, that's okay...the show was supposed to be humor...I like humor...I get humor....I can do this and I might even have a good time....I can say one thing with 100% certainty...people that go to his show are as he aptly calls them "sick twisted freaks".

It started out promising with him talking about how he was sick of politics and hated politics. I laughed at some of his jokes and thought "wow I was wrong about this he is funny". Yeah okay he made fun of Michael Moore, old but no big deal since I don't like Moore anyway. Then a few stabs at Michael Coleman, to be expected given what happened on his show with Coleman. On to making fun of George Voinivich for crying...okay so far about what I expected as not finding that funny but hey some people have been entertained by that so no real bitch...I saw his wife and his new son Raph and Glenn as well earlier in the day -- didn't "meet" them as in a traditional meeting but was about five feet from them and took pictures of them. He appears as if he really loves his wife and his son.

Until he's on the stage then making fun of her from everything to the size vehicle she wants to saying the owners manual says it needs premium gas to shopping. He does the regular stand up comic wife bitching stuff and he has created this "voice" for her that makes her sound immature, whiney, grating. Parts of this were funny especially his declaring the waiting area outside of the dressing rooms was purgatory. But the way he came across as it was funny to demean her started getting me bugged. I realize he’s not the first entertainer to do this and there are female ones that use their spouses too (Roseann Barr is of course less funny than he was), that to me just isn’t something I enjoy – especially the voice he made when he was being “her”.

The next thing was a video clip like what we had in school with the old projectors on parenting...where we learned a new word "prositots" and how parents thru their inability to say no have created these prositots. So "in humor" he describes sitting in purgatory with another man who has his daughter come out of the dressing room..Glenn is freaking because thinks this dress isn't appropriate and spends quite amount of time focusing on her lack of breasts. Well the girl flounces out, yet the father says the dress looks fine... Glenn's wife comes out it appears he's being released from purgatory only to discover shoes are needed....which leads to a whole spiel about Oprah’s 800 dollar shoes. Okay as a woman who doesn’t like to shop nor did I have a clue as to anything about Oprah’s shoes, (may come as a shock...but I don't watch Oprah) it’s not my personal cup of humor tea to have the whole stereotypical “women love to shop” bs. I did laugh at the men must have steel behind their eyes which is why they are automatically drawn to look at women’s butts. That and the part he shared about his elderly father confirming it’s something that never stops was funny.

When he started talking about his mom, her canning and the fruit cellar horror story, that was funny and something many of us with dark creepy basements could laugh about. The rest of what he talked about has been done over and over again – like how many times have you heard stories about putting tissue paper or whatever in your pants to avoid having a spanking hurt…..Again, this for me is probably personal since if you happened to have a parent who went way over the line of acceptable discipline you aren’t going to feel as if this is something “missing” or even funny. The problem isn’t people don’t spank their kids anymore the problem is a lot of them don’t use discipline at all – As he basically admitted since his father had only spanked him twice, it’s not the spanking alone that makes a kid behave.

Next the change in tone to the emotional part Josh wrote about. As a parent and a liberal even I understand what he was trying to do, however it didn’t fit with what he had just done earlier, he goes from making fun of his wife, to teachers, to calling girls “prositots” to claiming part of the problem is other people and teachers can’t spank our kids, then trying to create a warm fuzzy moment encouraging us to create memory moments with our kids. Maybe some parents out there aren’t silly enough, and if it encourages them then that would be something positive. Given I have the reputation of having light saber battles among other things with my kids for me I already knew that and to be honest what was funny in the first part was diminished by the over-emotional ending. He stated on his radio show that this was going to not be an emotional show; that it was going to be funny – from what I’ve been told anyway, since I don’t listen to him often. If I was a regular listener I would have also known that he admits often what a wonderful person his wife is and how lucky he is to have her. But all I could base it on is what I know….

So in the end? You can be a liberal and enjoy it probably if you are a liberal guy, but for a liberal like me? I would have much rather been taken to see the Moody Blues when they are coming than to have seen Glenn Beck on Ice…it left me rather….cold……