FOX NEWS HOST SUFFERS SEVERE COMEDIC THRASHING AT HANDS OF SC’S FAVORITE SON

While I can generally appreciate political pundit Glenn Beck’s position on most issues, I often find his “build a bunker and prepare for Armageddon” approach to be obnoxious and disingenuous.

But it turns out we do have something in common: we both cry.

He cries to boost ratings, and I cried from laughing so hard when I watched South Carolina native Stephen Colbert rip Beck a new one Tuesday night on his Comedy Central show “The Colbert Report.”

Perhaps the biggest tearjerker of the entire eight minute segment was when Colbert showed a clip of Beck discussing his “9-12″ project — which is devoted to making Americans feels like the did the day after the worst terrorist attacks in U.S. history.

“We weren’t told how to behave that day after 9/11, we just knew,” Beck said in the clip. “It was right, it was the opposite of what we feel today. Are you ready to be the person you were that day after 9/11, on 9/12?”

Colbert then shouted “Ready!” while decked out in a gas mask, wearing adult diapers, and holding a shotgun.

By the time I was able to wipe the tears from my eyes, Colbert struck with the second best part of the segment.

“Now, by 9/12, Glenn doesn’t just mean the day after 9/11,” Colbert said. “It also stands for his nine principles and 12 values that will move us beyond the complacency we felt on 9/10, and beyond the fear we felt on 9/11, to the compassion we felt on 9/12.

“And hopefully, we’ll all eventually get to the way Glenn felt on 9/9 of 2005.”

Colbert then played a clip from Beck’s radio show of that day pointing the hypocrisy of the now-chocked-up FOX News host.

“You know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims’ families?” Beck said. “I don’t hate all of them. I hate probably about 10 of them.

“But when I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I’m just like, ‘Oh, shut up!’ I’m so sick of them because they’re always complaining. And we did our best for them.”

Colbert hammered it home by saying, “Good point. The 9/12 project is not for families directly effected by 9/11, just people building their careers on it.”

Lastly, Colbert touched on Beck’s neverending ability to cry over, well… pretty much everything.

“I’m sorry,” a chocked-up Beck said on his 9/12 project debut show. “I just love my country and I fear for it.”

When the camera came back to Colbert, he too was choked up. “I’m sorry,” Colbert said. “I just love Glenn Beck’s sanity and I fear for it.”