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Beck: I Want to Poison Pelosi ... Kidding!

Sure, no one likes her, but still...

By Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 7, 2009 10:32 AM CDT

(Newser) – So a few advertisers abandoned Glenn Beck’s show after his last bout of verbal diarrhea—so what? That didn’t stop him from “joking” that he wanted to poison Nancy Pelosi last night on his show, during a skit about hanging out at her “liberal, elitist wine vineyard,” writes the Cajun Boy for Gawker. Now the "endlessly frustrating" Pelosi is “almost universally disliked,” but Beck’s joke to his "audience of angry simpletons" is still “mildly infuriating.”

“Sometimes you watch Beck and you just can't believe what you're seeing and hearing,” he continues, “like you're living in the middle of a bad dream directed by Mike Judge, causing you to just drop your head, take a deep breath in order to summon some semblance of serenity, and think hard about moving to an island or joining the Peace Corps, anything to distance yourself far, far away from all of the idiot noise.”

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In this March 12, 2003 file photo, syndicated radio host Glenn Beck is seen after recording promotional announcements for an upcoming "Rally for America" in Bala Cynwyd, Pa. (AP Photo/Mike Mergen, file)

A fake Nancy Pelosi holds her glass of wine on Glenn Beck's August 6, 2009 show. (tates1a)

FILE - In this May 5, 2009 file photo, newscaster Glenn Beck attends the Time 100 Gala, a celebration of TIME Magazine's 100 most influential people in the world in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, file)

Talk show host Glenn Beck autographs copies of his best-selling book "The Christmas Sweater" at a book signing at the Hasting's bookstore in Tyler, Texas on Thursday Dec. 11, 2008. (AP Photo/Dr. Scott M. Lieberman)

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Beck: I Want to Poison Pelosi ... Kidding!