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. Read the rest of this entry »