Glenn Beck's 'TheBlaze' airs inflammatory rape segment

In an attempt to illustrate that the White House's recent efforts to end sexual assault on college campuses are based on exaggerated data, Glenn Beck's program TheBlaze aired a segment with Stu Burguiere that turned out to be far more inflammatory than informational.

Burguiere started the segment by lambasting the two studies cited by the Obama administration in their report filed late last month. The 2007 Campus Sexual Assault report and the 2010 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey both state that nearly one in five female students and the same ratio of women in general have reportedly been sexually assaulted.

Many of the women reported being under the influence of alcohol or drugs, a fact that Burguiere seemed to take particular issue with. He attempted to take apart the language of the study—the NIPSVS asked, "When you were drunk, high, drugged, or passed out and unable to consent, how many people have ever had sex with you?"—exclaiming that it is in fact possible to consent to sex while drunk.

TheBlaze episode ended with a skit featuring two men, one dressed as a blonde woman, acting out "questions the study actually used to determine if a woman was raped." After every question, each of which obviously did not denote rape, but rather sexual coercion, Burguiere jumped out with a giant red arrow marked "RAPE," and pointed it toward the actors.

"Pressuring someone to have sex with you by telling them lies," he said, "is the same as rape."

Ultimately, the sketch took a sensitive, dehumanizing situation and mocked it without presenting proper, opposing research.