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20121128-110405.jpgJust when you thought blackboard and caliphate conspiracy enthusiast Glenn Beck couldn’t get any weirder, he goes and pisses in a jar, sticks an Obama toy doll in there, and calls it art.

Via Charles Johnson at LGF:

Raving freakazoid nut sandwich (and right wing hater extraordinaire) Glenn Beck has come up with another stunt to try to get his name back in the media, and it’s working, of course: How Can You Buy “Obama in Pee Pee” and Glenn’s Other Works of Art?

It’s supposed to be a lame parody of Andres Serrano’s “Piss Christ” — without the art or the creativity. This is how far the loony right has devolved, and it’s a pretty nasty sight.

I just.

I cannot.

[via Little Green Footballs]

[cross-posted at ABLC]

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  7. 7.

    lacp

    He may be nuts, but he’s not stupid – apparently he wants $25,000 for this oeuvre (and it’s not even real piss, it’s beer). Still, a very, very strange man.

  8. 8.

    FormerSwingVoter

    What is with the right-wing’s continued fascination with “Piss Christ”? It was 25 years ago, for chrissake.

  11. 11.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    @Cassidy:

    I think Glenn Beck hopes Democrats/liberals/Obama supporters freak out over this so he can compare thoughtful, reflective Christians upset about the “Piss Christ” sacrilege to the false idol/Obamassiah worshiping Obots. A “how do you like it when we dunk your “God” in urine” eye-for-an-eye.

    ——————————————————

    Neighbor: Roy, can you get sick drinkin’ piss?

    Roy: I think you can.

    Neighbor: Even if it’s your own?

  12. 12.

    ? Martin

    I should add, a quart of pee is impressive. Shame it’s wasted on a guy with a name as short as Glenn Beck. He should be able to get by with no more than half a cup or so.

  13. 13.

    LanceThruster

    Is there anyway to ensure that the urine in question is indeed Beck’s? I’d hate to think that he’d just be employing factories of winos filling jars for him in order to mass produce these delightful artifacts.

    When will the wingnut outrage kick in decrying Glenn comparing Obama to Key-ryest?

  14. 14.

    scav

    @lacp: seriously? he’s on record as demonstrating Obama is someone he’d like to have a beer with and what’s he doing with beer anyway? “I need it for my art installation Bishop”? Riiiiighht.

  17. 17.

    Schlemizel

    @Cassidy:

    I am sure he is hoping we will freak out about this in the same way so he can say we are all anti-Xian hypocrites.

    Gad I hope the ‘willing to be enraged’ segment of the left leaves this alone.

    Let it stand for the mental acuity of its creator

  20. 20.

    Suffern ACE

    @Cassidy: Considering how the Piss Christ controversy was two decades ago, its kind of funny how they never move the fuck on.

    They might be surprised to learn that the concern with “gansta” rap might be a bit dated.

  21. 21.

    Ms. D. Ranged in AZ

    Holy f*ckb@lls! I was eating lunch when I saw that pic….there’s pee on the counter under the jar. Ewwwwwww…….That’s the kind of crap a 10 year old boy would come up with, not a grown man.

  22. 22.

    Schlemizel

    @Cassidy:

    Its such a clumsy attempt I’d like to think everyone can see it from a mile away. But it would only take one guy in Oxnard to write one letter complaining about it for Beck to have his ‘proof’.

    Remember:
    Willard M. Romney says it /does not equal GOP beliefs!
    Some random nut just in Oxnard says it = all liberals everywhere for all time!

    EDIT – quick question: anyone know how to make a not equals sign on this thing?

  23. 23.

    Cassidy

    @Suffern ACE:

    They might be surprised to learn that the concern with “gansta” rap might be a bit dated.

    Ssssshhhh. They still shoot people for that shit.

  24. 24.

    Jay in Oregon

    One of the surefire tells of a right-wing crank is the delusion that the left sees Obama as some kind of messiah figure.

    Any time you hear a “concerned Democrat” or “independent” refer to Obama as “The One” or “Dear Leader”, you know they’re full of shit.

  25. 25.

    Strandedvandal

    Oh if it were actually this weirdo’s biological waste. Some enterprising person could by it, drug test it, and then just think of all the wonderful fun one could have! “We found a large amount of rat feces present, as well as diazapan, estrogen and kit kat bars.”

  26. 26.

    Brian R.

    If it’s really Beck’s piss, we need to buy it and test it to discover just what sorts of hallucinogens he’s on these days.

    I’m guessing some form of high-grade LSD, a sampling of shrooms and maybe some sort of horse tranquilizer.

  27. 27.

    Zifnab

    @Cassidy: That’s what makes it so brilliant! If you call Beck a putz for pulling this stunt, he gets to yank all your liberal Arts funding, while simultaneously admitting you think Obama is Jesus! And if you don’t call Beck a putz, you turn into a conservative!

    BECK CAN’T LOSE!

  29. 29.

    Schlemizel

    Although it occurs to me that we should point out that Beck himself is equating Obama to Christ.

  30. 30.

    Cassidy

    Is it weird that whenever I hear the name Glenn Beck I immediately envision some hallucinogenic hybrid of Pee Wee Herman’s Playhouse, Sprockets, and Capt. Spaulding hawking his fried chicken?

  32. 32.

    quannlace

    If Donald Trump’s kids can hold an intervention of sorts, can’t Beck’s kids do something to put this pathetic loser out of his (and ours) misery?

  38. 38.

    JGabriel

    __
    __
    MaxxLange:

    They are still on the “Piss Christ” thing? Wasn’t that 20 years ago?

    Conservatives still wail about apocryphal hippies spitting on returning war vets, which, if it had happened, would be over forty years ago.

    Conservatives aren’t just haters, they hold grudges too.

    Forever.

    .

  41. 41.

    KyCole

    My son and I listened to his show a few weeks ago just for shits and giggles. We had no idea what he was even talking about. It may as well have been in Arabic.

  42. 42.

    Suffern ACE

    @JGabriel: Unless they were clearly in the wrong. Then the issue is that things went to far. Like “I was all in favor of the VRA, but then the Black Panthers went too far.” Or “I was opposed to the VRA, because Jim Crow would have died on its own, so it didn’t matter anyway.”

  44. 44.

    Supernumerary Charioteer

    I dunno, I actually like hearing about these sorts of things. I can’t get outraged over them, as pathetic as they are. It’s just a nice ‘ha ha, Franco is still dead’ reminder, and then I can get back to work.

  48. 48.

    Bubblegum Tate

    @lacp:

    (and it’s not even real piss, it’s beer)

    What a fuckin’ sellout.

    Still, I bet it doesn’t go unpurchased, considering the drooling troglodytes who make up his audience.

  49. 49.

    Betty Cracker

    Unless I’m very much mistaken, the Obama figurine submerged in the faux-pee is draped in an American flag. Isn’t Beck therefore guilty of some sort of banner blaspheme?

  51. 51.

    Carolinus

    MoDo pens another bizarre Susan Rice column:

    When Rice asked to come to the Hill to meet with some of her Republican critics, it seemed détente was nigh. But somehow the hour-and-a-half powwow caused an escalation, with McCain, Graham and Senator Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire emerging to say they had more reservations than before. Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee, who’s scheduled to meet with Rice on Wednesday, suggested that she would be better suited to run the Democratic National Committee than State. If Rice can’t soothe the egos of some cranky G.O.P. pols, how would she negotiate with China?

    Oh FFS.

  53. 53.

    Bubblegum Tate

    @GregB:

    Wait till Beck sees Serrano’s latest work: Shit Joseph Smith.

    Internets is yours today. Do with it what you will.

  54. 54.

    priscianusjr

    I don’t see where Serrano’s work is any more artistic or creative than Beck’s, but then, Serrano never had his own television show.

  57. 57.

    Amir Khalid

    I don’t get this “work of art”. By analogy with Serrano’s Piss Christ, is Glenn Beck putting Obama on a level with Jesus?

  59. 59.

    Phlip

    @Steeplejack

    I compose most stuff in Word (for spelling reasons) where I just need to go to Insert Symbols Mathematical Operators and pick what you want.

  64. 64.

    Schlemizel

    @Amir Khalid:

    Thats how I’d attack this joke

    Here is a MORMON! who is equating Obama to Christ!

    I’d be beating the hell out of him from that approach as it gets the Christianists who already hate Mormons as cultist up in arms instead of on his side.

    And, as has been noted – thats an AMERICAN FLAG in that piss with the President!

    Beck hates Christ & America
    gitta rope

  69. 69.

    Steeplejack

    @Schlemizel:

    I keep a little text file with cheat notes for codes I use regularly, and I find that once they’re in there I often remember them and don’t need to refer to the text file. Weird how that works.

  70. 70.

    Violet

    Oh good Lord. This is awful. I know Beck is crazy, but this is just beyond. I wonder how wingnuts feel about Beck pissing on an American flag?

  71. 71.

    lol

    Of course, the interesting thing about Piss Christ is that if you just saw the photo, you likely wouldn’t know.

  72. 72.

    jl

    I’m not commenting on it until some one can verify this did not originate as a spoof in The Onion.

    Glenn Beck could be that pathetic, but did he really do it?

  73. 73.

    muddy

    @Steeplejack: I used to do that in college. I would type my notes out that I took in class, so as to better read them for studying purposes, but all it took was typing them out, I never needed to go back to them later. Brains are funny creatures.

  74. 74.

    Seanly

    @JGabriel:

    There’s a vet on my street with a new car that has a bumper sticker which reads “Vietnam Vets Are Not Fonda Jane”. That was over 45 years ago. Most people behind him on the roads are probably wondering why “fond of” is misspelled and who is Jane.

    And this jerk leaves his RV (and the next door neighbor leaves a flatbed trailer) parked on the street 24-7. I’m kinda not fonda these idiots.

  75. 75.

    JWR

    @Misterpuff: I actually read some of Beck’s commenter’s “thoughts”, and yes, “peeing on the anti-christ” does indeed seem to be the hilarious intent. Nice catch.

  77. 77.

    Cassidy

    Someone should bring it ful circle and acution of Glenn Beck dolls in a jar of pee and donate the funds to Planned Parenthood.

  79. 79.

    Cargo

    Glenn Beck just had to get one of the jars of urine he’s been hoarding in his basement for the last four years.

  82. 82.

    Jay

    The big reason this Beck thing ticks me off is that, unlike alot of my fellow Christians, I really dug “Piss Christ.”

    Looking at “Piss Christ” with a cool head and years of reading about the philosophy of art under my belt, I came to think of it this way: somewhere, there’s a poor, sick man who’s lost total control of his body. He’s emotionally jolted, lying in dirt and a puddle of his own urine, and he has this cross, covered in the same urine. It’s dirty, but it’s still a cross, and after all that, the man still has it. Or maybe somewhere, there’s an American soldier who’s been left to die in the same situation.

    Think about it.

    I think Beck knows about the controversy “Piss Christ” caused, but he’s way too dumb to look at the picture critically. What’s he’s doing in this instance is saying, “OK, Obama voters, you mock ‘our’ God (as though all of us think the same way about ‘Piss Christ’ or even know what it is), we’ll mock ‘your’ president.”

    Some of these wingnuts want a civil war, yes. That’s just the Neo-Confederates, though. Beck & his cronies want a holy war.

    Time to call the Beckites the new jihadists.

  83. 83.

    Suffern ACE

    @Carolinus: She’s still really pissed that the Dems blocked Bolton for that SoS job, isn’t she? And then the voters had the nerve to block Bolton for that job again by not electing Romney. That’s the thing about MoDo. She knows a man when she sees one and Susan Rice just isn’t that.

  84. 84.

    muddy

    McCain and crew probably don’t want Susan RIce to be Secretary of State, because then *their* black woman named Rice won’t count as proof of their non-racism anymore.

  87. 87.

    ruemara

    You know, if he put some serious effort into it, it could serve as a decent ripoff of Serrano and neoconservative rebuttal to high art. But that would take more than the “der, huh, I put Obummer inna mah peee, huh” which appeals to the frat-minded brutes.

  89. 89.

    chopper

    i’d say this calls for a jar of piss with a figurine of Reagan in it, but that would be a waste of good piss.

  90. 90.

    Enhanced Mooching Techniques

    @Ash Can:

    How long before this guy just has a complete psychotic meltdown?

    He’s had one already. One of my friends went to high school with him. Beck is a bigger druggie than Limbaugh.

  93. 93.

    Cmm

    @Suffern ACE:

    I will see you Piss Christ and raise you Madelyn Murray O’Hare. The school prayer case was in the 1960s and they still act like that just happened too. I remember her name being raised in my Catholic grade school as a bad person (an ATHEIST) who had made it so our schools don’t get any funding from the state like the publics do. This was in the early 70s and I have no idea how true it was. And her name still comes up in wing nut circles today, as if she hasn’t been dead for years and years.

  94. 94.

    Rich (In Name Only) in Reno

    I think somebody should buy it just so they can turn it over to a reputable lab, say the one Florida wanted to use on welfare applicants, and have it analyzed for whatever dope that crazy boy be taking.

  95. 95.

    D. Mason

    I view Glenn Beck through the same lens as Howard Stern. Within that paradigm this is completely unsurprising. Beck is a remarkably high priced whore and nothing else.

  98. 98.

    1badbaba3

    Glenn Beck seems to have a deep-seated hatred of Obama. Who knew? This is dead brilliant. It’s not a tell at all. I am convinced of Glenn’s obvious superiority, and look forward to his tough, but fair style of leadership. From the looks of this, it is inevitable, innit?

    Beck/Jar of room temperature fake piss ’16! ! ! ‘Cos it’s never too early, before it’s too late.

    Get on the bandwagon today!

  99. 99.

    Fred

    But it has always been the problem of “The Job Creators” that they lack creative originality. That’s why they alway have to put up with the dirty hippies, ’cause they are the ones with all the ideas.
    Righties are just reactionaries who feel it is their god given right to lift anything they like saying “There, I can do it too and besides I thought of it first. So there.”
    Hint to would be wing-nut artists: The secret is smoking pot. Two hits and you’ll have more original ideas than you know what to do with. Down with gubmint regulation!

  100. 100.

    gnomedad

    @Amir Khalid:

    By analogy with Serrano’s Piss Christ, is Glenn Beck putting Obama on a level with Jesus?

    I calmly await “Libruls are ANGRY because they think Obummer is the Messiah!!!”

  103. 103.

    Mike G

    @Cassidy:

    Considering how much they freak out over Piss Christ, this is kinda funny.

    Being solipsistic self-centered assholes who think everyone is as devoid of empathy as they are, Beck and his army of droolers think libruls will freak with outrage the way the Religious Wrong did over Piss Christ. Then they can smirk having “proven” that Political Correctness Is Fascism because shutupshutupshutup

  105. 105.

    Jay in Oregon

    @Jay:

    I don’t remember if this was the intent of the original author, but I remember reading once that “Piss Christ” was a statement on how fundamentalists have degraded the name and image of the Jesus they claim to revere.

  107. 107.

    BruceFromOhio

    …he goes and pisses in a jar, sticks an Obama toy doll in there, and calls it art a revenue stream!

    The Invisible Hand demands the rational self-interest of the market – in action!

    ETA: If I piss in a jar and throw Glenn Beck in there, would you buy it? OK, then would you buy it on a payment plan of three EZ-Pay charges deducted from your checking account? Call now, operators are standing buy!

  108. 108.

    Thurston J. Bowell III

    I’m currently working on an 0bama sculpture,..but I need more ruffage to finish it.

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