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Glenn Beck Calls Glee a "Nightmare"
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Commentators everywhere keep on lambasting Glee, and not because of stunt casting or inconsistent writing. The show's latest high-profile critic? Glenn Beck.
On Friday, the Fox News host gave the show this "compliment" ...
"I've watched it in stunned horror combined with a sense of admiring awe. It is a brilliant, brilliant show... but it is a horror show... everybody in here is somebody your kids would want to be like, except everyone is sleeping with everyone else.
It's all about self-gratification... it's a nightmare."
Beck's attacks were just the latest on the show, with SNL alum Victoria Jackson and author Bret Easton Ellis delivering particularly blunt, harsh critiques.
As a result, the Fox musical dramedy got a vocal defense from the President of GLAAD, Jarrett Barrios, who told The Hollywood Reporter the following:
"Fair-minded Americans are tuning in by the millions to inclusive shows like 'Glee' and 'Modern Family' because they don’t care whether someone is straight or gay – what they care about is seeing characters and stories they can relate to."
Barrios made his comments in light of the criticism that followed "Born This Way," the 90-minute, self-acceptance and tolerance episode of Glee last week.
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