After taking a day to sleep on Glenn Beck's completely-off-the-rails rant about the communist symbolism hidden in our architecture from a couple of nights ago, I think I've come to a conclusion that I'm willing to stick by: Beck's the greatest performance artist of the 21st century.
Seriously, the man makes Andy Kaufman look like Carrot Top.
There's simply no way that someone who truly believed the paranoid ravings Glenn Beck claims to -- who flaunted his clinical insanity that brazenly -- would be allowed to walk the streets a free man, let alone be given a show on a major cable news network (even Fox). He's faking it. It's an act. It just can't be anything else.
By the way, if this is true -- then Beck's a goddamned genius. I'm talking brilliant beyond words. Anybody who can push the envelope as far as he does and create a ruse this impenetrable deserves some sort of Nobel Prize for Culture Jamming. What Beck's doing could be historic in the annals of subversion. He's punking the planet.
The problem of course is that so many idiots believe every word coming out of his mouth.
Which, if my theory is correct, is the real punchline of the joke.
I hope I am right -- because if not, we really are watching a Howard Beale-style nervous breakdown unfold live on national television.
Either way, Olbermann's take-down of Beck last night was hilarious -- especially the Blazing Saddles clip.
Although, to be honest, Beck's wild-eyed lesson in how to spot the commie infestation all around us brought to mind a couple of scenes from a different movie.
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