Glenn Beck kicked off his radio broadcast this morning by voicing his deep suspicions about President Obama growing emotional while discussing victims of gun violence yesterday, raising the possibility that Obama wiped Vicks under his eye in order to make himself cry.
As a professional crier, Beck knows a thing or two about weeping on air and spent the opening segment of his show questioning Obama’s apparent emotion during yesterday’s press conference precisely because, unlike Beck himself, Obama does not regularly cry on camera. As someone who cries regularly, Beck explained that his tears are obviously genuine whereas the tears of someone like Obama, who does not cry at the drop of a hat, are highly suspect … especially since they seemed to perfectly timed.
“I’m not saying that it’s manufactured, but I’m not not saying that either,” Beck said. “He’s never welled up before. But suddenly, at this crucial moment, where this moment can actually change the course, he cries … I don’t know if anybody else saw this, I was fascinated by the the fact that he reached up to touch his eye before there was any tears. Did anybody notice that? … All you have to do is just have a little bit of Vicks or a little bit of onion or anything on your finger, and then you reach up and you touch your eye. That then is underneath your eyelid and the vapor goes up and you can’t stop crying.”
Beck disingenuously claimed that he was willing to give Obama the benefit of the doubt, which is more than liberals are ever willing to give him, saying that if he were to react to Obama’s tears as liberals react to his, he’d be calling Obama “a lying sack of crap” who has no heart and who is “manufacturing this only to make money and to get his way.”
