Hating on Glenn Beck, in Meter

By Josh Nathan-Kazis April 2, 2010

Really don’t like Glenn Beck? Write a poem about it.

Such is the conceit of Haik U Glenn Beck, a crowd-sourced collection of hundreds of haikus dedicated to the conspiracy-minded Fox News host.

Ticked off by a recent exhortation by Beck to listeners of his syndicated radio show to “run” from churches that employ the term “social justice” on their Web pages, Jewish Funds for Justice created a site that allows witty Beck-haters a creative outlet for their dislike.

Some of our favorites:

And Jesus said to
All his hungry disciples
“Hands off my fish, chumps”
By drudgedevo

Hurling expensive
coffee at the expensive
TV screen now, Ahhh.
By Christopher Buckley

These, and hundreds more, at or on Twitter, under the hashtag #becku

Josh Nathan-Kazis is a staff writer for the Forward. He covers charities and politics, and writes investigations and longform.

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