Glenn Beck is a moron

25. June 2010 by admin.

I have a particular political bent and I don’t often espouse it but a recent comment by commentary moron Glenn Beck has pissed me off too much.  On a recent episode of O’Reilly’s show, Glenn Beck basically said that soccer (football to the rest of the world) is something that is being stuffed down the throats of Americans and that the world should leave us alone.Excuse me?  His comments basically said curling is better than soccer because at least we can see ourselves playing at curling and we beat Canada every year.  So, Glenn, because the United States has never won a World Cup, the sport cannot mean what, say, baseball or “football” mean to Americans?  Because the United States cannot (yet) compete on the world stage against, oh, the Brazilians or Germans, it means that the game is flawed? 

Typical Beck and typically arrogant US-centric thought and behavior.  At least Bill O’Reilly had it right, the United States is only 350 million of 6 billion people in the world and the rest of the world had made soccer the international sport.But I become emotional.  You see, I have always loved soccer; comes from growing up in Europe and seeing the game from birth.  I was in Germany in 1974 when Germany played Holland for the championship in Germany and won.  That may be the best example of why the United States has so many problems.  Has there ever been a time when the entire nation has been behind a single team?  Even with the Olympic “miracle” when the US beat the Soviet Union in hockey, it was not a celebration in the entire country.  For every World Cup, entire nations come together behind their teams.  When has the United States EVER been behind a team?  For anything?And that doesn’t even begin to challenge Beck’s view on the sport.  He compared it to curling.  Obviously, Beck has the attention span of a flea and suffers from the typical American penchant for bathroom breaks and commercials.  I mean, really, what other sports allow the television networks to pause the game for commercials?  Um…baseball, basketball, football…the “American” sports. 

So, I have to ask if an American athlete from baseball, football, or basketball can handle the stamina needed for a game of soccer?  Could they even play football for 45 minutes straight?  Not that football is even designed to be played for anything more than a couple of minutes in a row.And so, we have a game where the United States is not preeminent, where the athletes have to perform for 45 minutes at a stretch, where any player can actually score, and where the scores are usually quite low.  Glenn Beck must pee his pants every four years when the world, and an increasing contingent of the United States, celebrate the international sport that is soccer.

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