Yesterday Jon Stewart devoted an entire segment of his show to Glenn Beck's recent appendicitis and how the incident may be part of a larger Nazi conspiracy to takeover Glenn Beck's body. Beck stated that he laughed at the SNL parody done of him and one now wonders whether Beck will also laugh along with Stewart's imitation. Whether you consider the parody very close to the actual Beck or completely absurd it certainly does provide some good comedy.

Watch the clip yourself and notice the following themes from Beck's show:

(1) A condemnation of mainstream media and an accusation that they purposefully hiding something from you.

(2) A harken back to a better or purer time with the accompanying criticisms that these ideals have been forgotten in current times.

(3) The effective use of pause and a gradual buildup to climatic points of revelation.

(4) A ridicule of intellectuals and the well-educated who may contradict his thinking.

(5) A comparison of his opponents to an evil figure from the past. In Stewart's parody it is Hitler though Stalin, Mao, and Karl Marx are the preferred references of Beck.

(6) A blackboard illustrating a number of "connections" which combine to make an overall conspiracy of much larger proportions.

(7) An appeal to patriotism and an expression that the country may be in peril if he is not listened to.

(8) An outburst of emotion which contributes to the audience perception that he really believes what he is saying.

www.examiner.com/x-5738-Po...conspiracy

www.thedailyshow.com/

This is really a "must see."