Sometimes it is impossible to just sit back and watch a culture you have no part of do it’s own thing without making a comment. We’ve all been there – who hasn’t said something about how hilarious the Gathering of the Juggalos is at some time or another? I guess that’s why Glenn Beck – someone who doesn’t read comics or follow news about comics and declares them, in his own words, as “stupid” – decided that he needs to talk a bit about Miles Morales on his radio show (which you can listen to above) and find a way to blame Obama for it. Which, you know, makes perfect sense in a world full of crazy people.
So to back up his claim, Glenn Beck reminds us about a million times about how much he doesn’t care and then plays a Michelle Obama quote (that doesn’t even fit in the context). He notes that Spider-Man is now gay as well, which is a new bit of information that we and series writer Brian Michael Bendis didn’t know, and even notes that Spider-Man now looks like Barack Obama (although I thought it was supposed to be Donald Glover). With all this blatant misinformation flying around, it appears that Beck was circling around the one word he really wanted to say – that the new Spider-Man is a menace to society.
It appears that Glenn Beck clearly just wants to be the new J. Jonah Jameson for the new Spider-Man, which seems as good a thought as any because if the new Spider-Man can be half-black half-latino, why can’t the new JJJ just be all-idiot?
Although, the real twist comes when Joe Quesada, former EiC, reveals that Michelle Obama did in fact call him and demand that Spider-Man be biracial.
