Stuck on Crazy: Glenn Beck Boils Live Frog On Air?

Image from source, LA Times

You know, very little that Glenn Beck does surprises me anymore. No, the surprising part is that he's a raging success with the birther/deather/tea bagger crowd. So, when I heard that Beck had "boiled a live frog" on air, I thought it was weird, but no weirder than anything else he does.

But the motive behind the whole affair rather baffling. After all, he was trying to illustrate a point with the old adage about a frog sitting in slowly warming water, to one thrown in to already boiling water. Supposedly, the frog will sit in the slowly heated water until he dies, but will hop right out if he's put in the boiling stuff. Beck's frog--if it was really a frog--didn't jump out, and presumably died, disproving the point he was trying to make.

After the stunt, he says it was a rubber frog. But if so, he knew his illustration was going to fail from the outset. So why do it? Possibly to elicit attention like I'm paying him now. He also had to know that animal rights groups would be raving about it. More attention. Doesn't matter if it's negative attention, we've learned that much by now.

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Fox News commentator Glenn Beck throws a frog in boiling water (maybe)

We're not quite sure we can actually believe our eyes -- but it seems that Fox News host Glenn Beck has thrown a live frog into boiling water on his television program.
"You know the old saying ... if you put a frog into boiling water, he's gonna jump right out because he's scalding hot, but if you place the frog in lukewarm water and gradually raise the temperature, the frog won't realize what's happening and die," Beck said to his primarily conservative audience. "Let me get the frogs. . ."

Read more at: Los Angeles Times