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Remember Glenn Beck? The former Fox News Channel host, he of the phony tears and tinfoil blackboard, had some thoughts on his radio show today about a recent real estate transaction made by Washington football team quarterback Robert Griffin III.
Specifically, Griffin’s $2.5 million purchase last month of a 9,000-square-foot house on three acres in Aldie, Va., a tony village in Loudoun County. And Beck, as transcribed by D.C. Sports Bog, is fuming mad because, well, he thinks the offer Griffin made must mean the house is sitting atop a “toxic waste dump.”
To Beck, $2.5 million in Northern Virginia is a joke:
I mean, three acres in Virginia. Remember, Virginia is not cheap. It’s never been hit by the housing crisis because of the government. So he’s got this house? It must suck. Three acres in Northern Viriginia? I mean, that’s like buying it out of Manhattan. Northern Virginia is like Manhattan.
Well, first, Northern Virginia is not like Manhattan. The drivers are better in Manhattan, and the real estate is even more expensive. But more importantly, in the annals of better homes and gardens, Griffin’s new digs, at least from the descriptions offered so far, most decidedly do not suck.
For starters, the house is part of a secluded development attached to the high-end Creighton Farms golf course. And it includes, among other amenities behind its stately fieldstone façade, a wet bar, a movie theater, a wine cellar, a Jacuzzi, and an elevator.
Beck also appears to think that’s too modest, especially for one of the NFL’s marquee players. “I mean, I don’t have any idea how much he makes, but do you know anybody who’s a sports figure who doesn’t have like a $15 million sprawling mansion with Hooters girls that park his car all the time?” he said. (For Beck’s future reference, Griffin is entering the second year of a four-year, $21 million contract that included a $14 million signing bonus.)
Who knows what goes through Glenn Beck’s head? Perhaps he’s still fuming over the 2011 sale of his former home in New Canaan, Conn. in which he took about $50,000 less than the initial asking price.
