Glenn Beck’s Daughter Wanted To Attend Columbia, Fox News Host Not A Fan
Yesterday, Gawker posted a YouTube clip of professional insane person Glenn Beck promoting one of his books. What makes the clip noteworthy is that Beck tries to encourage people outside his usual audience to purchase his book. The way in which he attempts to pitch to liberals is mesmerizing. He says that Harry Potter changed his daughter's life and that he feels like a fraud compared to other authors. And this is a man who thinks that Americans will be using toenail clippings as currency by 2014 at the latest. The most important of the liberal-enticing snippets Beck throws out comes near the end of the video (around 2:20).
I invite you to read the book. And mainly because my middle daughter, she wants to go to Columbia. Do you have any idea of the price of Columbia? Please buy the book. Buy two. Buy three.
If we had to guess which college Glenn Beck's daughter wanted to attend--knowing nothing about her other than the fact that she's Glenn Beck's daughter--we'd have guessed something like Oral Roberts or Liberty. Columbia would be about 316th on our list. Hell, if she likes Harry Potter so much, why doesn't she want to go to Yale?
What's interesting about this video clip is that while it was only put up on YouTube by Simon and Schuster this week, it was made two years ago. Hence why the video sees Beck hawking An Inconvenient Book, which was released in the Fall of 2007. Today, he would have a more difficult time using a video to promote a book of his to liberals, as saying that President Obama hates white people doesn't really endear one to the left. Or sanity. (And by the way, when Brian Kilmeade is the sane one in a conversation, you know that something epically ludicrous was uttered.)
A few months after the video clip was made, Glenn Beck's daughter still desired to attend Columbia. In fact, Beck took his daughter to visit the campus and go on a tour in April of 2008. Beck wrote a long blog post (of course Glenn Beck has a blog!) about the visit and his impression of the school. And yes, his opinion of Columbia is exactly what you imagine it to be: that he thinks it's full of Communists and the French. Some sic-filled highlights after the jump.
I took my daughter to a few universities. Oh, it was fun. It was fantastic. I wore a mustachio so no one could recognize me. I promised my daughter as we drove to our first stop, Columbia University, here in beautiful Midtown Manhattan. Actually it's no longer in Midtown Manhattan, it's in uptown. It's in Harlem. And who doesn't want to let your college Freshman live right in the heart of Harlem.
. . .
I thought, wow, Columbia University dedicated for the advancement of the public good and the glory of almighty God. We must be talking about God in here. This is going to be fantastic. Not so much, not so much.
. . .
Diversity of thought is very important at Columbia University, and I behind my glasses, my hat and my mustachio said, "Oh, really?" I also used a fake accent. "Really, diversity of thought, huh?" They said, absolutely. You know, you probably read that we had Hugo Chavez here. I said, oh, really? Hugo Chavez? Yeah, they had Hugo Chavez but they also wanted out that they had the leader of Iran. You might have seen that on the news. They had the leader of Iran. But they also had the Clintons and the Dalai Lama. There's your diversity of thought. And so I'm read I now. Ooh, I didn't know we had that kind of diversity here, that's great. So you had Chavez and Bill Clinton.
. . .
[T]he man saw no irony, none. The Columbia University's built on the grounds of a former mental institution and that there's only one building left from the mental institution. What do you think that building is used for today?. . .It currently houses the French club. I'm not kidding you.
. . .
There the any library that says is dedicated for the betterment of man and for the glory of almighty God, if you want to understand Western civilization, if you want to understand modern civilization, these are just a few of the books that were on the course curriculum. There was Nicci who, of course, says God is dead and then there was the book called Toward a Feminist Theory of State which was -- you know, that's -- I mean, if you want to understand how to -- it's a page-turner. I just, I loved it. You know what I didn't find? A single founding father. You know what I didn't find? The Federalist Papers. I didn't find anything -- I found Malcolm X.
New York Times bestselling author.
At the end of the post, Glenn Beck says that while he was unimpressed by Columbia and its "Nicci", he loved Princeton. He loved Princeton because he liked one of its professors, Robert George. George is the chairman of the National Organization for Marriage and the man ultimately responsible for the infamous "hurricane of gayness" ad. Of course, Beck only liked George because he knows all the best lines from "The Big Lebowski".
Now, one year after Glenn Beck dressed like Groucho Marx while visiting Columbia, his daughter is likely preparing to start college in a month. However, we have no idea where she was accepted or where she decided to go. Was she allowed to make her own decision and attend her first choice of Barack Obama's alma mater? Did her father put his foot down and refuse to pay money to let his daughter attend a school full of heathens and black people? Or did the Mormon church learn of her desire to attend Columbia, kidnap her back in March, and hold her captive until September when she starts her first semester at BYU? It is something to think about. Nicci would agree.
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July 31st, 2009 at 9:19 am
how is this suppose to be funny? Are you even trying to be entertaining or just bitching about a news personality you don’t like, I honestly can’t tell?
July 31st, 2009 at 10:40 am
Trivial Question:
Don’t people say that Columbia used to be uptown and now it has a feel closer to midtown (as it has been distancing itself from Harlem)?
Also, I agree with pton. This is not really funny, but I guess this is just the direction that Ivygate is heading.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:10 am
I realize this guy is an idiot and that most people reading IvyGate are already aware of the content and stylistic errors of his gem of a blog post; but for lack of other entertainment this afternoon, I’ll go ahead and respond to some of his most grievous oversights (in the highlights and in the full post)
First of all . . . Out of all the Ivies, Columbia is probably the most in favor of the dead, white fathers of Western Civilization club, so he can stop his whining about us not honoring the work of the authors inscribed on Butler
We definitely read The Federalist Papers, the Declaration, the Constitution, Martin Luther King, and Alexis De Tocqueville for the Core . . . I’d say that’s pretty damn patriotic . . . Not to mention we also read the Bible, the writings of Martin Luther, Augustine’s Confessions and various other Christian works
And we’ve had Ann Coulter, John Gilchrist, and other conservatives speak on campus to large crowds (sure there was a bit of an incident with Gilchrist, but it increased Fox News’s viewership for about a week, so he shouldn’t whine about that) . . . Not to mention John McCain once spoke at CC’s class day
And furthermore neither of the religious inscriptions he points out needs must be specifically Christian (though they may have originally intended that way). . . I’m sure he would be pleased to hear that St. Paul’s Chapel does indeed host a relatively well-attended Sunday mass every week . . . But it is also possible for students to be furthering the “glory of the almighty God” and pursuing religion and studies hand in hand by practicing Islam or Judaism or Hinduism or any of the other faiths that are, in addition to several Christian clubs, alive and thriving on campus in various student organizations.
Luckily if this girl was looking at Columbia and NYU, I’d say chances are good that she is perhaps a little less of a reactionary that Mr. Beck . . . If she got in, I hope for her sake that she joins us in the fall (if only because she is bound to piss off her dad more frequently at family dinners when she’s home on vacation)
July 31st, 2009 at 1:19 pm
Uhhhhh… what? I mean, not that I think Columbia is a lot more liberal than any of the other Ivies, or that it’s necessarily a horrible thing… but just because you read “The Federalist Papers, the Declaration, the Constitution, MLK and Alexis De Tocqueville for the Core” doesn’t make you some radical conservative bastion. There’s nothing wrong with these things in the first place. It’s too bad that people don’t associate AMERICAN HISTORY with liberalism anymore. It’s quite possible to celebrate Thanksgiving and Columbus Day and love British literature or believe in American exceptionalism and still be liberal, you know. If not for your derogatory tone towards “dead, white fathers of Western Civilization,” I really couldn’t be sure if you were a conservative student defending your school or a street liberal still railing against a supposedly conservative administration in 2009. Either way, weird and fairly baseless.
July 31st, 2009 at 2:01 pm
Hey @Lion, ever hear of context clues? Lion is obviously defending his school against the charge that it is communist, or else non-patriotic. Of course, you’d know that if you were capable of viewing the world, head neatly removed from ass, as anything other than an overzealous partisan. That’s right, not everyone speaks in code of their loyalties to “Team Ass” or the “Rogue Pachyderms.”
July 31st, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Yeah . .. I was just responding to Beck’s claims in his full post that he looked through the course catalog and decided that we don’t read any of the writings by the notable Americans inscribed on our buildings . . . Which is simply not true . . . I was not trying to claim that reading some basic US History 101 documents that we probably all read in high school anyway makes us either conservative or liberal as an undergraduate instution. No one’s pretending that academia is not generally a left-leaning world. That doesn’t mean we students of liberal instutions are incapable of thinking for ourselves or not being given to tools to do so.
The point is that we are probably the only Ivy that explicitly requires all students to read the work of these people and their fellow significant Western thinkers before graduating (which doesn’t make us necessarily inferior or superior to other schools, but is clearly our claim to fame) . . . I didn’t say that we refrain from thinking critically of pro-American writings any less than we do everything else we read . .. I was just pointing out that Beck doesn’t know what he’s talking about . . . Even though that’s not such a shocking conclusion to draw from many things he’s written. . . It was pretty clear from his assessment of CU that he didn’t have to visit to write what he did. . . He went in wanting to see it as a wholly godless, anti-American institution and had little chance of coming away thinking anything else after an ordinary campus tour from a friendly SEAS kid.
Also, it should be noted that I (as a young multi-ethnic girl) have no beef with dead white men . . . The core is (if it hasn’t become apparent by this point in my comment) one of the reasons I chose Columbia . . . Just because the writers getting educated and having work published, preserved, or copied meticulously by monks back in the day were pretty much uniformly male and European doesn’t make calling them what they are necessarily derogatory.
Roar, lions, roar.
July 31st, 2009 at 6:37 pm
And I do indeed tend to identify as conservative. Le gasp.
July 31st, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Quiet Lion. This isn’t about you or your shitty school. It’s about whether or not level-headed people should stand idly by while partisan hacks hijack each debate. It’s a question of why idiots like Glenn Beck should ever have nationwide audience when, even as a “news caster,” he cannot pronounce Ahmadinejad’s name (and misuses “irony”).
What political party you identify yourself with has no bearing on the content of your statements, but it does say something about what depths you are willing to go to engage an issue. It is a sad irony that viewing the world through red and blue lenses only reduces the dimensionality from 3 to 1. If you consider yourself a reasonable person, and you are reading this, please do us all a favor and tell the next party devotee spouting off about religion, abortion and gay rights (as if these issues are somehow more important than farm subsidies and the use of US military power) tell them to cram it.
July 31st, 2009 at 11:34 pm
“just because you read “The Federalist Papers, the Declaration, the Constitution, MLK and Alexis De Tocqueville for the Core” doesn’t make you some radical conservative bastion.”
Right, if you ignore the actual content of the Federalist Papers, the Constitution, and Tocqueville, I’m sure you can still be a happy, guiltless liberal.
I am glad Columbia makes you guys read the stuff, though. God bless.
-Y’11
August 1st, 2009 at 8:56 pm
Surely you won’t mind citing a specific verse in any those sources which is supposed to drop liberals to their knees in a paroxysm of guilt. And please feel free to use any reference justifying slave ownership. You see, conservatives have just as much to feel guilty about, they’re just assholes enough to not bother.
August 1st, 2009 at 11:52 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWs12ccbOiE&feature=haxa_popt00us09
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:24 pm
In that last comment you inferred both that America’s founding documents are indeed inherently conservative (which is exactly opposite of what you were trying to argue earlier) and that slave-holding is thus something for conservatives specifically to “feel guilty” about. Even if one could call American slavery’s execution and perpetuation a party-linked issue (and your earlier comments lead me to believe you would not), it would be pretty hard to conclude that the Republicans were ever any more at fault than the Democrats (read Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia sometime).
Also, how are you ok calling all conservatives assholes when you earlier condemned “seeing the world through blue and red lenses” as a crime against intellect and humanity?
Non partisan fail.
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:26 pm
oops, I apparently typed b rather than br in attempts to get paragraphs . . . Bold was unintentional
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
“In that last comment you inferred both that America’s founding documents are indeed inherently conservative”
You may have inferred that but I didn’t mean to imply it. I only wanted to point out that if, as @@ suggested, you think that a liberal who reads those documents should feel guilty then there is plenty to feel guilty about for anyone who idolizes their work. Acknowledge the bad with the good before putting them on a pedestal. And I’m sorry, but “ass” is a non partisan term I reserve for anyone who suggests that slave-owners ascended a moral pinnacle inaccessible by any one of us today.
If my comments are abrasive it is only because I have learned a lesson from the partisan hacks. The biggest bully wins. My contribution (and constraint) is to infuse the hollow braggadocio with level-headed reasoning and intellectual honesty not found within the contrived and galvanized parties.
August 2nd, 2009 at 11:28 pm
He wore a disguise? Would anyone honestly recognize him?
August 4th, 2009 at 4:05 am
Another stupid post where Wasserman bitches about a conservative he doesn’t like.
August 4th, 2009 at 11:14 am
i hate to defend this guy, but that’s not a blog post – it’s a transcript from a radio show. He probably didn’t type it himself. Any comment about “Nicci” is a transcription error, not his spelling error.
Ivygate’s gone downhill.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:02 pm
wow who keeps up this wesite, Ivygate? I honestly haven’t heard anything more lame in a very long time. Please leave the nasty presumptions at home and write about something you DO know. Which is absolutely nothing.
August 31st, 2009 at 8:30 pm
oh and among the numerous amounts of irony in this entire discussion,(between glenn and the quotes and the ass who is writing this “blog”, it pretty much abounds on both sides) the most humoring part is that while classifying becks daughter who “we know nothing about” into various non-competitive and christian schools, he forgets that being accepting of others and others views is really the point he was trying to make in this bitter blog? I mean, didn’t he get on beck for being shocked there was no “founding fathers” on the bookshelves? Liberty? i mean i have to say, thank you for at least stooping to Liberty’s level, instead of taking an actual stab with something like BYU.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Nietzcshe. Not Nicci.