2,501 views

Watch
- Search Videos
  
  Advanced search »
- Submit a New Video
Discuss
About
- Try clicking on the various channels to see videos posted to that channel - if you're into music you can click the Music channel to get more music sifts - go on and explore! Use the "hotness" when you have opened the channel link to get videos that have gotten a lot of votes, or use "newness" to have a look at the new sifts.
  When browsing sifts you like, have a look at the Related Posts list to see other related videos, click the tags under the video title to see more sifts tagged with the same tags or have a look at other sifts from the same user in the More Posts By list. If the sifted video is in a play list, have a look at the play list to see other interesting videos the Sift users have linked together.
  Enter the Sift Lounge to chat with online sifters about anything and everything, or read interesting posts in the Sift Talk forum.
  The Top New Videos list is always full of interesting, current videos. It is always recommended that you have a look through the Top New Videos, but also have a look at these:
  - Upcoming Unsifted Videos - active video submissions that neither are published to the front page nor archived to the submitter's personal queue
- Have you seen a really funny, surprising, scary, interesting, cute or in any other way extra good quality video?
  Post and share it here - VideoSift is the best video aggregator on the Web, where we share, discuss, promote, and interact with the best videos out there on the web. Post it here, and share it with the large community of video-interested users. And - you are guaranteed to find more very good videos here already!
  Mind you, we only share videos you discover that someone else has made; if you "self link," by posting a video you have made, have posted or have interests in, you risk the ban hammer - read the posting guidelines before posting. The sift is NOT for promoting your own videos - it is for sharing videos others have made.
  Submit a Video Now »
Login

Post has been Discarded

Glen Beck Cries For A Simpler Time

submitted by Sagemind

1 decade 4 years 6 months ago

Glenn Beck Cries AGAIN On Air, Pining For A Simpler Time In America.
I truly think he would make a good Minister - And that scares me. :P
This isn't news - It's a soliloquy (and I have no idea what his point is or what he is talking about or what it has to do with anything...!)

Glenn Beck was in the middle of pining for a 'simpler time' in America when he decided the best way to illustrate this idea was to show two advertisements from said 'simpler time.' One was a classic Coca-Cola ad, the other a Kodak ad.

These examples of Americana were so moving to Beck that he just couldn't help himself; he begins to tear up.

4 Comments

IronDwarf

says...

Just because things seemed "simpler" and "more pure" doesn't mean they ever were; you were just young and mostly ignorant of what was happening in the world. This bullshit nostalgia and sentimentality that reinforces that times were somehow better and that we were better off is just that: bullshit. Glenn Beck needs to shut his fat, lying, phony, overacting goddamn mouth.

For some reference, a few things that happened in 1979 (the year that Coke ad aired): Three Mile Island, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power in Iran, the Sino-Vietnamese War, the San Francisco riots over the Dan White verdict, the Ixtoc I oil spill. That's just a few things in the first 6 months of the year. Great times back then.