Meanwhile, in conservative bloviator land...

Glenn Beck dunks a figure of President Obama in a mason jar of "urine": http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat...puts_obama_in_pee_pee_calls_it_art_video.html

Bill O'Reilly complains how "Gangnam Style" is "sort of like a drug":
http://popwatch.ew.com/2012/11/28/bill-oreilly-gangnam-style/

Fox cranks up the annual bitching about a "War on Christmas"
http://mediamatters.org/video/2012/11/28/foxs-carlson-were-not-nuts-are-we-there-is-a-wa/191542

Never change, guys. Seriously.

Glenn Beck better hand it to me himself for that $25,000 asking price. It's a small price to pay to splash his own urine onto him.

It wasn't even urine. It was Dos Equis beer. And it's a little weird that a recovering alcoholic would use real beer as a prop in a comedy skit.

Maybe he's off the wagon?

Satirizing both "Piss Christ" and Jamie Foxx referring to Obama as "Our Lord and Savior" is genius.

Dumb.

Boring and trivial.

Glenn Beck is many things, but he is not a genius.

Conservatives have Beck. Progressives have Moore.

All stripes of politics have nutbags in them.

I'm sure the man isn't -- but the stunt was.

Nope, we're way past the stage with Republicans where this kind of equivalence will fly.
GOP nutbags are more numerous and more nutty than the others. Dismissing it is to collude with them in fleeing from reality.

Oh, bullshit.

Not bullshit. It's the same with those anti-science guys on the House Science committee. There simply isn't an equivalent.

No, we have Rick Mercer and David Suzuki.

Moore is kinda off into Mel Gibson territory...

How is satirizing a 20 year old artwork and an offhand comment that barely anyone knows about "genius?"

And why was Mr. Beck willing to jeopardize his sobriety for it?

If I were a friend of Glenn Beck I'd certainly encourage him to jeopardize his sobriety as much as possible. He can't possibly be a worse or more incoherent person in a drunken stupor than he is sober. Alcohol is a better and less destructive drug of choice than is Beck's brand of self-righteous idiocy.

It's not just melding the artwork and an off-hand comment: Foxx's openly referring to Obama as "Our Lord and Savior" wasn't even required for Beck's satire to be effective -- how long has "Obamassiah" been a thing around here?

Honestly, Beck could have pulled the same stunt at any time since 2009, but with the trigger Foxx laid down, now was the perfect time. Foxx didn't have to call Obama what he did for the joke to work -- but with him having done that, the joke was elevated to brilliance.

Piss on Obama.

I get it, I just don't find it funny. I think it's hack and kind of gross. But some people find Larry the Cable Guy funny, too.

On a surface level, I agree, it's plenty low-brow. As a commentary on controversial art as well as hero-worship, though, it's simply transcendent.

I'm glad actormike watches all these conservative talk shows so I don't have to.

I don't. But once in a while something filters through.

So Beck is saying he believes Obama is Jesus.

I think it's more about mocking those who seem to equate Obama with Jesus.

On a side note, though, I'm pretty sure that Jamie Foxx was himself satirizing people like that with his comment.

So Beck was mocking Volpone, Sokar, and Muad Dib.

Nope, we're way past the stage with Republicans where this kind of equivalence will fly.
GOP nutbags are more numerous and more nutty than the others. Dismissing it is to collude with them in fleeing from reality.

Apparently the nutbag libs are more numerous (at least in enough states that pack electoral votes) because Obama got elected yet again. Just sayin'

No, because Volpone, Sokar and Muad'Dub are mocking those people, as well. Foxx just did it as satire rather than plain mockery.

Not seeing the difference.

So they're mocking imaginary people.

Indeed. Who take Michael Moore seriously anymore? Who's listening to his (non-existent) daily show religiously? Which high-ranking Dems are taking cues from Moore the way Republicans take cues from Beck or Limbaugh?

And, of course, while Michael Moore is obnoxious, often wrong, and deliberately slovenly, he's not batshit insane like Beck is. If he were a Republican Moore would be Governor of New Jersey, not a wingnut talk show host; as a Democrat he's barely even a bit character.

They were until Jamie Foxx personified the imaginary.

So Beck is mocking Jamie Foxx. It all makes sense now.