Glenn Beck: A Man for His Time
Like Johnny Caspar in Miller’s Crossing, when I’m wrong I don’t like being reminded of the fact. Yet askew I was six months ago concerning Glenn Beck. My first impression of the host of the blockbuster Fox News program that bears his name was that, despite its obvious content value, Beck’s hyper-emotive, overly familiar style made it unfit for long-term consumption. I believed this for the same reasons I get the heebie-jeebies from Oprah or the prospects of repeating kindergarten, but wrong is wrong. I hereby offer up an article of contrition. Not only has Mr. Beck grown on me; I also acknowledge that he is one of the finest warriors in all of conservadom. So let us rally around our — suddenly famous — flag bearer.
And rally we must because the left has placed him at the center of their character assassination machine. This is predictable as what else could they do with a sixty-minute, five-day-a-week program that functions as a siege engine upon the castle of pseudo-liberalism, addressing corruption, the follies of statism, government chicanery, and the disinterest of politicians in the welfare of their constituents?
Beck has even declared war on our entire political class — those Mark Levin terms “our new robber barons” — and he single-handedly took down President Obama’s “green jobs czar,” the bombastic scandal previously known as Van Jones.
Further, his investigation into the politicization of the National Endowment for the Arts resulted in demotion for one of its partisan advocates and, without the stalwart host’s volleys, many of us would have never heard of the Apollo Alliance or the Tides Foundation.
With the exception of Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe, and Hannah Giles, Mr. Beck has proven to be the most powerful and recurring nightmare that the nefarious embezzlers who run ACORN have ever faced.
Beck recently exposed the attempt on the part of one educator to indoctrinate students by showing a heinous leftist video called “The Story of Stuff.” Sadly, in my time, I witnessed a vile and unusual teacher try to pass off worse.
As a result of the Fox superstar’s devout efforts, his foes are now attempting to censor and ridicule him.
Yes, rather than refute his positions and statements, the left has reverted to their time-tested and anti-democratic methods of seeking to silence via boycott of corporate sponsor. Color for Change led the assault, which is not surprising given that one of its co-founders was the aforementioned radical, Van Jones.
Happily, the boycott has been totally ineffective. The size of Glenn’s audience has swelled in the days since, even though the level of hate the Democrats have for him rivals their ire for Sarah Palin.
The comparison is apt as, like the former Alaskan governor, Mr. Beck gets results. The foment surrounding him was (allegedly) a product of Beck’s terming President Obama a racist with “a deep-seated hatred for white people.”
In keeping with the nuanced debating tactics of “I know you are but what am I,” the pseudo-liberals gesticulated that no, (shazam!) Glenn Beck was the racist for daring to suggest that our partisan politician-in-chief had a jaded mindset regarding the majority population of the United States.
The cartoon was interesting, however inaccurate. In fact, we are all immegrants, as far as can be decerned, we, including our “native americans” have always immagrated from other lands
The one really bad outcome of all this is the actions of the the wealthy (generally) or the better educated immigrants to help edicate the earlier immigrants into the mainstream of American life. This failure to incorporate them into our lifes will cause us serious problems in the years to come.
Besides being a Patriot, I consider Beck a very brave man. He and his family require round the clock protection due to the issues that he brings to light.
Glenn Beck is schooled in the art of political and rhetorical door kicking. He’s going to bust into someone’s office, create a huge mess, walk away and end up being right to do it. Don’t like him–too bad. Get used to it.
Great column. I like Glenn Beck and he does great work.
Now, if we could only get him to focus on the Violence Against Women Act and its civil rights abuses…even two minutes in one show…hey, I can dream, can’t I?
UsaBruce,
I concur. I’m more worried about Mr. Beck’s safety than the President’s. I just think the citizens that don’t support the President’s outlook wish him no physical harm. I cannot say that about Beck’s opposition. It’s scary-hateful.
We like him because “HE FIGHTS”
“You know you’re over the target when you start taking flak.”
I can’t believe Fox has this guy on at such a rotten time slot… Imagine this guys numbers if he was on actually at a decent time.
Glenn’s success rests on the fact that he’s tapped into the majority’s psyche and is saying the things that we’re saying and asking the questions we’re asking among ourselves.
Beck didn’t put those thoughts and questions into the minds of the public; the questions were already there. If they weren’t, the public would never have rallied behind him to the degree they have.
The only difference is that he has the public platform to ask those who have the answers. They know that people like Beck and Limbaugh have exposed the truth. And that smell that’s in the air is…..fear.
Stephen King lost his mojo years ago. God knows why he sold his soul to Progressive devils. Ten to one Beck will sell more copies of his latest book than King will of his upcoming overblown heavily-padded book based on an idea he ripped off from a much better writer.
Steve Sailer and I saw clearly that Barack Obama was going to stick it good and hard to white people. It was patently obvious that he had unresolved with America’s majority race. Obama’s campaign exploited the race card whenever it was convenient. Even Bill “America’s first black president” Clinton was slimed. Obama’s not so subtle campaign message was “vote for me and prove you are not a racist. I will provide white Americans with absolution for their past sins.” Why in heaven’s name would anyone think this nonsense would cease once Obama entered the White House? Commonsense dictated otherwise, but too many well meaning white voters were easily guilt tripped. And this remains a problem even today! Obama’s biggest advantage is his ability to continue manipulating them. Rasmussen’s daily polls still show Obama with a personal favorable rating around 50%. I strongly suspect his numbers would be down to 41-42% if he were white.
Glen is out there fighting and keeps his pulse on the beating hearts of the average Americans. That’s why we love him so much.
Sign up at http://www.handsoffamerica.net to join others like Beck who want to take our country back.
Glen is awesome because he is out there fighting everyday for what is right and keeps his finger on the pulse of average Americans.
Sign up at http://www.handsoffamerica.net to join other who love Glen and want to take our country back.
If the John Birch Society was detrimental to the conservative cause, why did the left expend so much energy trying to destroy it?
Good for you Bernie. Confession is good for the soul.
Beck is melodramatic but not nearly as melodramatic as Barack Obama imitating MLK, complete with quavering voice, in his campaign Yes We Can speech.
Beck is a great entertainer, able to shed light on corruption which suits his agenda, like ACORN, while ignoring other corruption which does not suit his agenda, like Haliburton. As a conservative, though, Barry Goldwater wouldn’t even give him the time of day.
Well, maybe. Then again . . .
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103889.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
“his foes are now attempting to censor (him)”
Example please.
Ah, yes, the scandal that is Halliburton. You need to find a new tape Robert. That one is pretty worn out.
And, by the way. Nearly a million white Union soldiers were killed or maimed to end slavery. There should be no such thing as “white guilt”. It is a shameful construct of the Democrat Party and it’s past time to end it.
Beck needs O’Reilly’s time slot.
We really like Beck. The left cannot attack the content of his program, so try to make a clown of him. Unfortunately there are many Americans that look no further than a magazine cover. Maybe that’s why we are in the mess we’re in with our racist president and his cronies.
Conservatives need to back Beck. Where is a right wing mag that will defend him? oh, there are none..typical. Republicans are all smoke and slick hair with no substance. Beck’s our modern day Paul Revere. We also like Palin.
Thanks for admitting you were mistaken about Beck.
Many of those that voted “color” will do so again, no matter.
Glenn Back, Michael Savage, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levine….all are a breath of fresh air for this alternative-media starved Canadian. Anyone who speaks their OWN mind and is not a drone, is okay in my book.
Beck could use Hannity’s time slot. Love him, but in my opinion Hannity has grown stale.
Thanks for your public admission that your opinion of Beck was wrong.
I’ll start reading you again.
BTW, he IS a clown, and he is almost always right. Court jesters can run empires, you know.
Beck is just a propagandist, a liar, and embarrassment to thinking conservatives.
I consider Glenn to be a very big asset to the conservative community.
thank you Glenn Beck
for the troll looking for an example of the left trying to censor Beck
…how about the left pressuring sponsers from boycotting his program. how does that work for you.
ask George Soros for better matterial …
typical garbage from trolls. they cannot think for themselves.
Beck is a breath of fresh air and should get Shep’s time slot.
Ok arthur, I’ll bite. First, what is a “thinking conservative”? And instead of just calling Beck a propagandist and a liar, give examples…crickets chirping…still waiting…didn’t think so.
#16 Robert – name the corruption at Halliburton. if you can conjur any up, it will PALE compared to SEIU, ACORN, Congress, GE, the Democrat Party, AND the ENTIRE Bojangles administration.
#24 arthur – I consider m yself a thinking conservative, and I am proud of him. Who do you see standing up for us? Lindsay Graham, mcCain,Boehner,? “traditional” conservatives and the GOP have led us into being cannon fodder for the left.
GO GLENN BECK! We need you to keep charging ahead.
…the last thing the Democrats and their co-conspirators in the press want is a logical discussion of that proposition (or any other) because they would surely lose.
On any and all topics, facts do so get in the way of what the Left has deemed the preferred narrative.
…(Obama’s) ongoing love affair with the hue of his father’s skin.
While, from the point of view of character, Barack Hussein Obama Sr. was something of a slime ball.
As you say, leftists do so bitterly cling to their narratives.
Their biggest threat is the truth.
As they have no substantive arguments in opposition, we get, instead, the incessant yakking, writing and dissembling in an attempt to re-cast and re-construct any event or person in the light of their narrative, to try to make themselves look correct. (e.g.: so the IOC wasn’t moved by the Obamas’ sob stories ? (“Get your nutty American inspirationalism off me!”) Must be because IOC members are still holding resentments for America’s long tenure under GWB, n’est-ce pas ?)
Leftists go to incredible lengths and depths to attempt to demean and destroy the truth tellers.
It would be funny if it weren’t so pathetic.
Un-civil war is brewing between the tired old pseudo-con politicians like McCain (and that peculiar looking school-marm tailing him named Lindsey – psst: that lady on your arm seriously looks like a dude, John), and the genuine conservative like… like… I can’t think of any.
Remember when Glen Beck was being swarmed by the main stream media and Rush went on his show and got the highest rating evah. Good on em both.
Obama is not an empty man, he is a hidden man.
He may be an empty suit, but that is another thing.
Obama’s smooth talk is designed to set aside our fears of what he truly is.
His talent is hiding his extreme past in plain sight. His past is so radical, that he still could not cover it up without the spin, censorship and whitewash of the leftist media.
So we have a double problem.
Beck with his enthusiasm is the antidote.
This makes him dangerous to the Dreams of Bill Ayres. This is why Glen Beck is attacked so much.
We admire Beck because of qualities we yearned for in W, Nurse Frist, Coach Hastert and the D.C. GOP. He is a Rat Killer.
I listen to Mr. Beck sometimes. He makes some very interesting points. However, his views on President Obama need to be challenged. If Mr. Beck is NOT afraid of an open debate, he should articulate his views in an open forum, and not hide behind his microphone.
Check out my blog on google: thehonestyproject365.blogspot.com
“On any and all topics, facts do so get in the way of what the Left has deemed the preferred narrative.”
Like garlic to a vampire.
I first heard Beck while on our honeymoon in Savannah, and part similar. It was Nov 5, 2002 – the day of elections where the GOP swamped the Dems as reaction to “put up or shut up” about Iraq. Anyway, the meme that year – and still to this day – was that the GOP was going to do its normal heinous widespread “Voter Suppression” with a touch of violence/intimidation.
Well, as my far better half and I drove our rental car about the area we were nearly on floor laughing as Beck went from one caller to another mocking the “Voter Suppression” going on in part of Georgia. Hilarious stuff.
For what it’s worth, Mr. Beck finds a way to get to the core of issues in a way that seems humorous… while being painfully true… and today, with all the subterfuge going on in DC his truth seems to having a powerful effect.
http://www.clebertoledo.com.br/blogs/cinemateca/administracao/files/images/man-behind-the-curtain.jpg
The left is so obvious. They hate who they are afraid of the most. The more they hate them, the more we love them.
So, how about when it comes time to pick the candidates for the next Pres and VP, we just selct the 2 people they hate the most. Can you say landslide victory?
Right now….Palin and Beck. I suspect that Palin is the most hated, but Beck is moving up fast.
Oh, you say, “But two of them don’t know anything on how to run our country”. Hey, they will still know more then the guy in the oval office now.
Pajamasmedia is focusing a lot of energy on Glenn Beck.
I know I won’t convince anyone, but as a conservative who thinks Liberty and Tyranny is a great book, who thinks Hannity may get a little winded, but is a sincere guy–remember he broke some of the ACORN story too—Glenn makes a warning bell go off for me.
Remember the Left can use attacks against a figure to make them MORE popular. I think their psy-ops have grown v. sophisticated.
If Glenn continues to push the “a pox on both their houses”, “the Republicans are the same as Democrats”, a third party might be a nifty thing, line, step back and say-is this going to help the Democrats win?
I know I’m a Loon, but why completely trust Fox?
Say you were a Lefty media mogul–Merdoch wanted Hillary to be President remember, he’s married to a Chinese spy–wouldn’t you want all the Right’s eyes and ears on your channel, so that you could influence them, could introduce whatever pundits you wished? Sure you would sound conservative on some issues, but if the audience trusted you, you could shape ideas.
christopher; I could have given you examples in the past, but i stopped watching beck over a year ago (for the reasons i stated) and can no longer remember specifics.
I agree with the author:
Beck is indeed radioactive, extremely hazardous – even a little exposure can cause violent and potentially fatal disease.
The left attacks Beck because he is “just a dimwitted freak” – much like Palin and Bush. The right continually offends the sensibilities of intelligent persons by touting these sub-par spokespersons as their new leadership. Beck is not a significant threat to the Democrats – he is really more of a threat to our political discourse. Abandoning reason and logic for showmanship only marginalizes the GOP in the eyes of the critical observer. Yes, the faithful lap it up, and there is great profit in this for Fox – but it does nothing productive for the political process.
I do agree with the author that Beck is a man for his time – he perfectly represents the anti-intellectual, pop-psych perversion that the Republicans have become. The right has much more to fear from Beck and Palin than the left – but the left will keep attacking these two as convenient targets that prevent any other conservative voices from being taken seriously.
Promoting the dimwitted as the future of the GOP, the Republicans have clearly reached a new low in recruitment, while also making progress in presenting honestly the true face of the party. Crazy, but true. Palin and Beck are the best gifts the left could ever hope for.
Peace.
DS
#29 “name the corruption at Halliburton. if you can conjur any up, it will PALE compared to SEIU, ACORN, Congress, GE, the Democrat Party, AND the ENTIRE Bojangles administration.”
So electrocuting Soldiers to death, kidnapping a rape victim, serving contanimated food and water to Soldiers, none of these compares to ACORN? Really?
See, here is a slight difference between hard-right Conservatives, like I believe you are, and Libertarians, like I am trying to be. You will see only what serves your idealogy, and come up with some reason to excuse the behavior which benefits your side. That is why you will come up with some excuse for the behavior of Halliburton, which has been a great service to the likes of Dick Cheney. Now, I recognize that there are corrupt elements in ACORN, and they should be cut off from federal funding. And there are corrupt elements in organizations like Halliburton, which will never be cut off, mainly because they can afford to produce intense lobbying efforts. But they are still corrupt, and you will not choose to see that, because the hard-right idealogy is more important than actual concepts of Justice.
Blah blah Left. Yada yada Right. Who cares.
Beck is exposing a lot of creeps that mean to do harm to our country. That’s why we love him.
Now Lindsey Graham has come out against Beck. That should add to his crediblity.
Good piece. When I first heard Glenn Beck I reacted thinking he was melodramatic, but the more I listen I find him to be factually correct and realize why the melodrama is there- we are in dire straits.
Finally someone at FOX who takes a stand! That wishy washy O’Reilly makes me ill. He has kids himself so why is he agreeable to the country as it crashes and burns-as long as he gets an interview with the driver.(Obama).
Beck makes a very dull subject so interesting you want for more. I agree with him wholeheartedly and am glad finally someone is bringing the unrest and disgust of Americans with their government to the forefront. ENOUGH with these self involved opportunists who care not that their country is being trashed….(the head trasher being Obama..Go GET HIM GLENN…!!
You know I wish public figures would keep their damn opinions to themselves. If they want to express them keep it to their little circle of friends, or keep it low key so it can at least be ignored.
I hate having to stop supporting a writer, actor, singer, or director because they’ve shown themselves to be idiots politically. I don’t want my money going from my pocket to theirs and then into someone like Obama’s. Granted I haven’t bought or read a Stephen King book in a while but I do have quite a collection of his earlier stuff in hardback.
Like this whole Polanski thing…there are so many idiots I have to avoid its going to be tedious just making sure I’m not supporting one of those stupid and morally bankrupt (anyone who can condone or excuse the rape of a child is morally bankrupt in my book) crowd.
45. Scott:
Chuck Norris, Billy Ray Cyrus, Charlie Daniels, Ted Nugent, Jon Voight, John Rich, Danny Aiello, and of course, Carrie Prejean.
26:
And a boycott isn’t censorship. If it were, then 1st Amendment champions wouldn’t be making noise about boycotting Hollywood.
39. David S:
Sshhhhh. Don’t enlighten the sleeping giant. Let them continue to eat their own. We know how they like to eat. Mmm, Cheetos.
Leftists go to incredible lengths and depths to attempt to demean and destroy the truth tellers.
Case in point, #39, the ubiquitous David S
So #46, you have now named the 8 hollywood types that have actually spoken out against Dear Leader. By the way, what is a boycott supposed to accomplish? Don’t even try to respond because I am saying this because I am sick and tired of your mindless drivel. Got it TROLL?
Honorable journalists correct their mistakes. Congratulations to Mr Chapin!
There hasn’t been a smear job like the attacks on Beck since the hits on Ezra Taft Benson in the 1950s and Robert Welch in the 1960s. Like the rattlesnake, the vipers of the left are condemned to rattle before they bite, but only fools call it music.
As for Barry Goldwater being the REAL conservative, the fact is that Goldwater was on the political spectrum about where John McCain is — a brave and cantankerous man of little intelectual acuity who blustered honorably about things he sensed were wrong but seldom understand. Goldwater’s book Conscience of a Conservative, for instance, was written by Brent Bozell and never even read by Goldwater until after it was published by a corporate shell in Kentucky belonging to Clarence Manion, dean of the Notre Dame Law School, with first copies mailed out of the offices of conservative industrialists Fred Koch and Robert Love in Wichita, Kansas. All three incidentally were (gasp, shudder) John Birchers, as was Bill Buckley’s mother and many another patriotic American of the era.
Like Benson and Welch, Beck apparently writes his own books. MUST be crazy.
He lists Glenn’s religious conversion, alcoholism and ADHD like he’s exposing him. Anyone listening to his radio show for more than 5 minutes would have gotten that info from Glenn himself!
Beck’s loony conspiracy theories pose a problem for thinking conservatives. Unfortunately, the Washington DC establishment keeps validating Beck’s theories.
Masterful put down of Hollywood celebrities
Many Hollow-wood types seem to be in The One’s pocket simply as a fashion statement. And to know that, like Congresscritters, all the clamps and regulations One’s government would impose onto “healthcare” won’t affect them personally. They’ll just jet off to, oh India or somewhere, to get the work done.
And you’re just as welcome to avoid supporting their work as I am. In fact your list is rather short and easy to implement N&T.
1) You leftie types don’t like movies or shows where men are strong, decisive, and do some butt kicking.
2) Lefites don’t listen to Country music, and I use that therm loosely when mentioning Billy Ray Cyrus, except perhaps a small following for the Dixie Chicks.
3) See #2 above for Rockabilly music too.
4) Lefties don’t really like 24 anyway so its not that big a loss and skipping about 2 movies a year isn’t that bad. Besides BrAnjolina kinda off-sets anything he does, they adopt kids and leftie causes like American kids were collecting Pokemon a few years ago.
5) We’re also aware that Leftie men don’t really like beautiful women, they are either gay or are so emasculated by their femi-nazi wives they wouldn’t dare watch a beauty contest.
No boycotting isn’t censorship, but when federal funds are being sent to the organizations (who are very politically left) promoting the boycott it becomes “fishy” to quote flag@whitehouse.gov.
While the democrats are in power I think its important the “other side” continue to have a say. Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Coulter and Wilson are an important, integral part of our national political scene. I think democrats and left leaning folks are too tough on some of these folks at times. Entertainment and Celebrity has always been as much a part of the political scene as the serious side for liberals as well as conservatives. Good Luck to all of them.
#24….quite a statement. Please give us facts to back yourself up.
*****
I do not understand all the flack with Beck..
WHAT IS WRONG WITH BECK TELLING THE TRUTH?
No matter how it is presented, the truth is the truth .
He gives facts. Facts that you are encouraged to check out.
.lindsay graham>> who cares??? He should work on grounding the party and trying to understand why people are leaving. I don’t think presenting the facts is cynical. Suposition, yes, facts, NO.
Memo to number 16, Robert V-BARRY GOLDWATER ended up in his second marriage marrying the founder of the ECOTERRORIST group EARTH FIRST. AFTERWARDS, Mr Goldwater became just another phony RINO late in his career. As for Mr Beck, he is a GREAT AMERICAN and a GREAT PATRIOT harkening back to the days when you said what you meant and meant what you said. By todays standards Mr Beck is FAR more conservative than Barry Goldwater EVER was. Read his books sometime, filled with wit and humor and tons of common sense. Any conservative who cant figure that out shouldnt call himself a conservative.
Beck is a great american. And as for or Poster # 16 who brings up the name of Barry Goldwater, dont forget this about Goldwater. After his first wife died, several years later Goldwater got re-married to a much younger women. The women he married was the co-founder of EARTH FIRST, the ECONAZI group that has been on the FBIS 10 most wanted list more than once. Goldwater sold out and be came a RINO late in his career. Something tells me I dont see any kind of likelihood that Beck will sell out like Goldwater did.
20.gracie: “Beck needs O’Reilly’s time slot.”
Nah. It’d be better to give him Hannity’s slot or Greta’s. O’Reilly is top dog right now; better to leave him be.
Hey, good news, Glenn just said he’s not a rodeo clown anymore. He’s a dad. Whew! That was close.
54. Scott:
Let’s see . . . “strong, decisive men . . . butts . . . cowboys . . . Jack Bauer . . . Pokeman . . . gay . . . emasculated”
I’m no psychiatrist, but . . . what set you off? Was it Billy Ray?
55. Poor Citizen:
And to Jon Stewart and Bill Maher?
The first time I watched Beck my reaction was “who is this guy?” the melodrama etc… was not something I would normally have put up with, I do not watch any talk shows, including late night because I think they are so inane. But Beck was saying things that I knew was spot on. Particularly progressive history and those calling themselves progressives today are the descendants of the original progressives, with 60′s radicalism thrown in. There was a reason these people called themselves the New Left. The Students for a Democratic Society was a direct offshoot of the early 20 century League for Industrial Democracy which was founded by Upton Sinclair, Norman Thomas, Clarance Darrow and Jack London among a few others. They have little relevance anymore, but at one time that was not the case. A near direct line can be drawn from those early progressive NGO to those of today.
The thing is only Beck is willing to talk about this and what the aims of these people are, and frankly has been. I’ll take the melodrama in order to get the truth out there. In fact I’ve gotten where I actually enjoy his style, which surprises myself.
Unfortunately there are lots on the right who don’t care for Beck because they are right sided progressives, but progressives none the less, and too many confuse conservatives for right sided progressives. There may be much to admire about Teddy Roosevelt, but as a conservative I also find much to not admire. The problem is that lots of people see TR as a conservative because he was a Republican, as if the two are always synonymous, which of course is not the case. But those who believe they are conservatives because they are Republican don’t get it, which is why they don’t get Beck.
I am crazy for Glenn Beck. He brings the truth to America like it or not. Of course, with humor, wit and sometimes sarcasm. But he nails it every time. There is no more democratic party, it is dead. Died a long time ago. What is there under its name is a socialist movement. We better be afraid and we better heed the the words of this great American, Glenn Beck. Lindsay Graham is an ass. Instead of supporting Beck as he should, he caves to the left I guess to keep them happy. I just got Beck’s book “Arguing With Idiots” and I must say its great, really great. I agree with a writer above that O’Reilly has no fire left. He whitewashes almost everything he talks about. He is to me a sell-out. I don’t watch him anymore. Hannity on the other hand still tries hard to bring the news as it should be heard, meaning the unadulterated truth. But the people who make up his panel from the left irritate me so much I have stopped watching that part of his segments, especially that idiot Bob Bechtel.
Glenn Beck is so brilliant, his infinite wisdom spouts from both ends. I, someone very close to Mr. Beck’s more photogenic end am now on Twitter! Check it out! @glennbecksanus
I also am a fan of Mr.Beck. But looking back a year or so, Sean Hannity looks like a prophet.He was exactly right about Obama.
“Once we sign our rights over to international law, the Constitution is officially dead.” – Glenn Beck
It’s ironic that Beck has bypassed US courts and went straight to WIPO regarding a web site critical of him.
53. tanstaafl:
“Masterful put down of Hollywood celebrities”
Yep, if by masterful you mean, bland, derivative, reactionary, and humorless. There’s a reason you people don’t make movies (Kirk Cameron epics aside).
Hey, Glen or Glenda today implored the media to quit “looking at my past.” Nw why would someone who spends 24 hours a day looking into other people’s pasts worry about somebody looking into his? Anybody?
69. Now and Then:
You are the biggest dork! You can find all about Glenn’s past if you just listen to him. He tells it all, alcohol, drugs, etc., etc., unlike your pres who hides all of his past. See anything he has written around? And I don’t mean the books, since ayers did those. How about his transcript at his universities, as editor of the law review – the editor usually writes quite a bit. Gee nothing. Where did he register for the draft? Or did he? Glenn has changed his life. He has to spend multi bucks on security for him and his family because of people like YOU! He is a GREAT AMERICAN. I wish Sean was a better sport because I like them both.
I don’t miss his show on fox even running home from jr high to get home as close to 3:00 as I can.
Contradict him if you can. Apparently, the white house hasn’t been able to.
“bland, derivative, reactionary, and humorless”
Damn, Now and Then. I think you have just described Hollyweird’s offerings for the past decade. You mean it’s a bastion of the GOP? Who knew?
Beck has been very open about his life. The left wants to make it “big news”..well, it’s not. We know about his past, drugs, alcohol and the fact that he has worked very hard to change his life, got married, has kids,has the left by the short hairs….
Like we have all said…show us where he has lied.
tick tick tick….zzzzzz
The left has trouble with an honest man.
Pretty bad that in America you can’t tell the truth without putting you or your family in jeopardy.
Oh yeah, where did Obama register for the draft? He’ll never tell…..does Kenya keep those kinds of records???
THE LIBERALS WILL TELL YOU WHEN A PERSON IS THE RIGHT KIND OF CONSERVATIVE BY HOW HARD THEY ATTACK THEM.
70. utahna:
“alcohol, drugs, etc., etc.” . . . let’s hear more about that etc, etc. Adn what about the people he associated with? And what about the people on his staff now?
“the editor usually writes quite a bit” . . . actually, no
“Where did he register for the draft? Or did he?” No, he didn’t. There is no draft.
“He has to spend multi bucks on security for him and his family because of people like YOU!” . . . Who’s buying all the guns and ammo? Who’s taking guns to rallies?
“Contradict him if you can.” . . . No need, he contardicts himself.
Congratulations, though, you’re doing a good job of represeting conservatives’ junior high school values.
“just a dimwitted freak”
classic projection by the simple minded.(enlightened class)
Peace. Now and Later.
Now and Then clearly has no male sons of combat age. Register yee must in case of crisis. punishable by law. Emergency powers notwithstanding.
How can you tell the difference between a lying democrat and republican?
The republican knows when he’s lying. The democrat calls it semantics.
You are starting to pick fly poop out of pepper with your nonsense.
There is no “draft” registration but all young men register with Selective Services when they turn 18. A lot of people refer to as registering for the draft, fly poop.
“The law says that all 18-year-old men (including U.S.
citizens living abroad and non-citizen immigrant males
18-25 residing in the U.S.) must register. The only
young men exempt from registration are non-citizen
males who are in the U.S. temporarily as tourists,
diplomats and their family members or foreign
exchange students; incarcerated or institutionalized
men; men on active duty in the Armed Forces; and
students at U.S. military academies”
Beck does not contradict himself. If you are going to make such statements, please give us facts, times, dates, what was said?
The left/liberals are angry because for a change there is someone who is telling America exactly what is going on in our country. Telling us facts, not crap like they feed us.
Beck is definitely an alfa-male.
With the slobbering-panting-wtting their pant over Obama MSM, we need the likes of Beck, Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Hewitt, etc.
What other outlets (besides FOX) do conservatives have????
PBS? Nightly News (choose any outlet)? New York Times? How about your local newspaper? How about Hollywood?
Conservatives are fed up with the MSM and I would say are handily helping with their demise by either ignoring or laughing at the tripe they sell for news. We certainly aren’t BUYING it!! The MSM is leaving at least half the population’s dollars on the table because they are too stupid to report the truth. How smart is that???
For the leftists who bemoan the likes of Beck, they can savor the sugar coated spin offered up by the MSM.
Right there is no draft, a mere technicality, if you have any common sense you know what the registration is. You know young men register when they are 18:
The law says that all 18-year-old men (including U.S.
citizens living abroad and non-citizen immigrant males
18-25 residing in the U.S.) must register. The only
young men exempt from registration are non-citizen
males who are in the U.S. temporarily as tourists,
diplomats and their family members or foreign
exchange students; incarcerated or institutionalized
men; men on active duty in the Armed Forces; and
students at U.S. military academies
You’re trying to pick fly $#it out of pepper with your irrational comments.
Beck does not contradict himself. When you make these accusations, tell us facts…times, dates, what exactly was said…
Maybe because that’s where I work….
You still have to register even though there isn’t a draft – what country do you live in?
The fellow who brought the gun to the rally was actually (hold on, it’s coming) yes, a democrat who voted for dukakis. What a surprise and by the way he was black.
Contradicts himself- give me facts, quotes, etc.
Well, yes, since my husband was on the law review, most editors do.
Etc., etc., – read his books, listen to him and he’ll tell you about etc, etc.
He has changed his life. He is an honorable man. Has the pres changed his life? Has he given up his bad habits? Don’t think so.
Are you talking about the zero, when you mention the people he associates with or has associated with. You’ve got to be kidding. Do you really think that anyone has the associations that the zero has?
Get a clue!
Jr high values – you should be so lucky.
Contradictions?
http://www.tvsquad.com/2009/08/14/what-you-missed-last-night-glenn-beck-debates-glenn-beck-on-hea/
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2964
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI_0Kt_e3Go
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/beck-tearily-praises-911-widows-work
You’re welcome.
Even better . . .
http://www.redstateupdate.com/video/is-it-racist-to-hate-obama
As others say, if the Leftards like Now & Then and the other trolls complain, you must be close. Look what they did to SP, Joe the Plumber and now Beck. The politics of personal destruction.
I love Beck.. this article is a joke. Could this author possibly add a few more “links” to his work and give credit to the bottle washer too? Honestly, ALL THESE LINKS are annoying and look like “harry-high-shcool.”
Beck was very ill in 08. The hospital and doctor that he went to were negligent. That has nothing to do with the general system. I got a MRSA infection during breast cancer surgery, it was the fault of the hospital/dr not the system in general. America does have the best medical care available.
You can tear Beck down all you want…it does not change the fact that what he is telling about our nation and the actions being taken by politicians etc is the truth. It is fact that can be “checked out”. It’s not his “opinion”, it’s facts that we can look into ourselves.
Some of you merely want to kill the messenger because he tells the truth.
Y’all asked for contradictions. I gave em to ya. Now you deny them. That’s called, what’s the word . . . DENIAL. And so your fate is sealed, banished to the heap of irrelevance that is the conservative movement.
Is conservatism racist? Hmm. Let me put it this way, there’s nothing harder in the world than being a black Republican.
87 your links are NOT addressing the fact that Glen Beck HAS given us real check able information on our government and it’s actions, ACORN etc.
Information that has caused an uproar, but NOT “disproved”.
Your disliking Beck does not change these facts. We are interested in what our government is up to. Politicians dislike Beck because he has us demanding they level with us and tell the truth…not that it does any good with the DEMS…yet
Hard to be black and Repub? Well, I don’t know. I’m not black and not a Repub. But, the black people that I do know are Dems. They are on welfare, state assistance etc. They don’t want that taken away. In the south it is a way of life for many. Also, there are many whites that do the same. Make of that what you will, I don’t care. We weigh the issues and vote for the person we feel best suits our ideals. Plus, Obama got the votes he did because of his color, dispite his lack of executive experience.
Beck is NOT wrong in his reporting of Obama, ACORN etc. All his facts have borne out to the truth.
“Most” conservatives have core values of working for what you get.. If disagreeing with Obama and the course he is wanting to take our country on is racists, then count me in the racists column.
You dislike Beck merely because you do not want to face the facts that he has revealed about our government, or you just want to have something to quibble about on these blogs.
I too love Glenn.
But, he scares me, with his third-party talk.
Our only hope as conservatives is WITHIN the Republican party.. along with Lindsey Graham and all the other meatheads!
88. Now and Then:
Is conservatism racist? Hmm. Let me put it this way, there’s nothing harder in the world than being a black Republican.
Are you out of your mind? The only problem the blacks have is with the members of the dem party. Look what they (dems) did to Thomas, Powell(when he was a repub), Condelisa Rice and any other black who dares stray off of the welfare train. If you are black, try being a republ for a week and see what your libs say about/to you.
Now & Then are you out of your mind? Look at what the dems have done to Justice Thomas; Powell (when he was a repub); Condelissa (?) Rice. The jokes about Rice were terrible. Did I hear a dem condemn them? They were called Uncle Toms etc. The only problem the blacks face is from the dems, who feel they have strayed off of the reservation and need to be ridiculed so they come back.
Calling All Libs:
Why is it that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin need round-the-clock protection from you but Michael Moore and Van Jones need none from us?
Just curious.
@93. james:
Why is it that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin need round-the-clock protection from you but Michael Moore and Van Jones need none from us?
Like you, Beck and Palin are severely paranoid. There is no way the left wants to do them any harm – they are much more valuable alive.
Peace.
DS
It could be because they are threatened? There is no paranoid about it. How would you like to have the red shirted hordes of acorn coming after you?
To All RE “Now & Then’s” deluge of crap RE Beck kicking out Van Jones -
Now & Then would better save his wits (??) for ratiocinating the incoming Obamaczar’s crash, this time at Breitbart’s TV hand – the tape with Kevin Jennings (Obama’s school safety czar) publicly LAMENTING in a speech in Iowa the HETEROSEXUAL INDOCTRINATION in the nation’s schools is out on Breitbart and Drudge. Obama sure will love this additional proof of enlightenment (Jennings’ oration) -
Now, N&T, this is for you, you sprightly mind: it’s Monday afternoon – can you publicly (on PJM, at least) anticipate how long do you will remain Jennings in his White House seat?
A day?
Two?
’till the week-end?
Come buddy, provide an insider’s view -
RE #94/David S RE #93/james:
1) Why is it that Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin need round-the-clock protection from you but Michael Moore and Van Jones need none from us?
2) Like you, Beck and Palin are severely paranoid. There is no way the left wants to do them any harm – they are much more valuable alive.
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David S, stupid lefty: in 1917, all your lefty revolutionaries returning to Russia from Swiss, Germany, Finland, etc. (about thirty of them) had served time before in the Czarist institutions for various offenses, generally combinations political/criminal (Stalin at the time was exiled in Siberia for postal robbery) – but, all your collection of noble Spartacuses were ALIVE (very, indeed very few, about a dozen or so of “revolutionaries” hed been executed in Russia in the years before the revolution).
So, there they are, David’s Spartacuses, returning in 1917 alive in Russia from not such a bad exile in Europe – and in the following twenty years, David’s noble revolutionaries succeeded to murder more than 28 million Russians, ruin Spain, join Hitler in starting the most murderous war ever on this planet, then, after 1945, those Spartacuses managed to push the murder numbers via communist revolutions & regimes across the world towards 100 million dead people.
Is there a difference between Derjinsky, Yagoda, Stalin, Pol Pot and Michael Moore and Van Jones? The only difference is that Moore, Van Jones (and you trolls) didn’t have the opportunity to fulfill y/self –
Also, why would one in sound mind not try to defend him/herself when hearing that a lefty moved in the neighborhood?
96. misanthropicus:
First, I’m not your “Come buddy.” Save that for the closeted conspirators around here.
Second, Jennings isn’t going anywhere.
RE #96/98 Now & Then:
“Kids are being aggressively recruited to become heterosexual in this country” – Kevin Jennings, Obama’s Schoolchildren Safety Czar.
Misanthropicus: [...] it’s Monday afternoon – can you publicly (on PJM, at least) anticipate how long do you think Jennings will remain in his White House seat?” (the Jennings oration is on Breitbart and Drudge).
Now & Then: “Jennings isn’t going anywhere.”
Misanthropicus (furthering): Remember that Monday a few weeks ago when everybody was swearing that Van Jones would go nowhere? It took three days for Barry to kick him out from his office.
“Kids are being aggressively recruited to become heterosexual in this country” – right was Bill Clinton when talking about this relentless right-wing conspiracy!
Now & Then, in this Jennings matter, I’ll give the chance to wiggle out via a countdown: how many more days will Jennings last in the office? ’till Thursday? Friday? Over the weekend? (Remember how rapid Joycelyn and Lani went under the bus?)
Come buddy, give it a shot -
RE Now & Then:
By the way N&T, you also owe me an explanation: why before the 1917 revolution in Russia the authorities there executed (along years) only about two dozen of Spartacuses (and probably rightfully so), while after the revolution the Spartacuses managed to murder about 100 million people across the world.
Come, buddy, come with something intelligent -
“You owe me . . . ”
Clearly, nothing more was required after that.
Now, as for people being recruited into heterosexuality, I can understand your outrage, you being heterophobic and all. Relax . . . do some laundry . . . whip up a quiche . . . invite the boys over for some movies featuring strong disciplined men kicking butt . . . maybe some cowboys . . . Pokeman? . . . I’m sure you fellas will think of something to soothe your savage brow.
Beck is only preaching to the choir. Pretty much anyone who is not a die-hard right-winger sees him for the tool he is. It may make you supporters feel good to think he is important, but the rest of the planet could care less about anything he has to say. In fact, I can tell you right now what he’s going to say…..
Obama bad.
Anything remotely related to Obama bad.
Conservative good.
etc, etc, etc.
He has no real insight into anything. He is completely biased about everything. He holds no standards that apply equally. If its a Democrat….it is bad. If it is a Republican… it is good. He’s perfectly suited for the Fox propagand channel; you know, the place where Republicans can go hide from the truth and just hear what they want to hear.
And now he’s a martyr. Well boo hoo. Just like the quitter Palin he can dish it out but can’t take it. Poor poor pitiful Glenn.
If this is what’s become of the conservative movement, you guys have hit rock bottom.
BTW: The left doesn’t fear nor hate him, they think he’s a joke. They just laugh and laugh and laugh. The more influence he has on your side, the less influence your side has. He makes you all look like a bunch of ignorant losers.
RE #102/usafirst: [...] If this is what’s become of the conservative movement, you guys have hit rock bottom. [...]
Usafirst, here’s something referring to a point of your above majestic discharge of inteligence – the general view is that the Reps will gain around 30 seats next fall in elections. Is this your notion of a political group having hit political “rock bottom”?
Can you reconcile this assessment with your definition of “rock bottom” – in case your prior intellectual effort hasn’t exhausted you?
Just remember people, Glenn Beck leaves out vital and key facts, elements, on just about every story he reports.
Email me, and I’ll give a very simple example of this practice,
hence it blows Foxs slogan right out of the water!
This is nor serious
Glenn i s a good man, a wonderful comedian
but our nation faces serious threats: attacks with WMD that kremlin gave to their stooges in Korea and Iran
And a serious political confrontation that marxists put so much effort to create in the homeland by colliding left radicals and right wing people
It is very dangerous times
Clowns should take a hike
It’s such a shame that Glenn has been after acorn and look how that has turned out. Too bad about jones – he had to resign in the middle of the night. Let’s just get this clear – he goes after both parties and if you don’t know that you are as ignorant as you think the repubs are, and you also have never listened to him. But that is what the dems do, get their talking points in the morning from rham and don’t realize how stupid they all look.
The left is afraid of him. Glenn has them pegged.
Gotta be a supporter of that Mr.Beck.
Now having a look back in time at least a few years, that Hannity guy seems like some sort of doomsayer.He was spot on when he talked about Obama.
Glenn Beck recommends former FBI Special Agent W. Cleon Skousen and the John Birch Society as knowledgeable and reliable sources of information.
FBI FILES ON JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY:
http://ernie1241.googlepages.com/jbs-1
FBI FILES ON W. CLEON SKOUSEN:
http://ernie1241.googlepages.com/skousen
#103 misanthropicus:
Whose ‘general view’? The Repubs?
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Taking credit for something that you think will happen and presenting that to support your argument is a bit of a stretch. If this is the kind of logic that you rely upon, it is easy to see the appeal of Glen Beck, as his arguments tend to be pretty thin as well.
I stand by my initial assessment. Beck only appeals to those who already want to believe him. He possesses no real power of persuasion to anyone else. His arguments are generally pretty laughable. Hell, he doesn’t even believe in evolution. What a dolt. Is he really what you want in a spokesman?
“Beck is only preaching to the choir. Pretty much anyone who is not a die-hard right-winger sees him for the tool he is.”
Quite a large Choir. In a land governed by snout counting, that is important. Don’t know if it’s a fact or not, but O’riley at one point claimed ratings higher then the rest of the Coable news shows combined. Beck is beating him. Not sure if that was in his time slot or whatever.
Anyway, if Beck can get half his viewers out to vote he is way ahead of CNN or MSNBC.
Since CNN and it’s ilk are just doing the same thing Beck is with a different slant, then you need to think about the size of that choir.
I assure you that CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC and the White House are.
Especially the White House. D.C. Bob knows exactly what will happen once the Usurper’s approval rating drop below 40%, which isn’t far off. The Media will turn on the White House, just like the pack of mangy curs they are.
After all, they will see FOX getting the ratings and pulling down the big bucks while they are cutting back and afraid to look in their in box because there might be a pink slip there. So they will all head for the bandwagon at about the same time. Knowing that the slowest ones to the wagon will be walking, if not crawling. It will look like the lifeboat scene from Titanic. Keep in mind also that the fringe, moonbatty left isn’t happy with Berry either. He has been in office 11 months now and still no utopia. Obviously there is a conspiracy someplace.
Meanwhile, back on topic, The Tea Party needs to put up a platform that will eliminate as much of the corruption as possible from Congress. Then endorse politicians that embrace that platform in a bi-partisan manner.
After all, BOTH parties are corrupt, so it would be half a job cleaning up one party. When BOTH parties are competing to clean up their own house, the Tea Baggers will have won. Regardless of who gets elected or which party controls Congress. If the TeaBaggers are clever enough, they won’t actually have to get any candidates elected. Even trying would let the settled parties corrupt the tea baggers.
There are more ways to do that then there are to skin a cat. The Tea Baggers need to work out a platform. Do it without any Party mavens in the room. No Lawyers, judges or wanna-be “leaders” or self styled elites either. Half-a-dozen house wives, 2 firefighters, a cop or three and a truck driver should do it. Maybe a Appliance Salesman too.
Regular people with common sense.
Unquestionably believe that which you said. Your favorite reason appeared to be on the web the simplest thing to be aware of. I say to you, I certainly get irked while people think about worries that they plainly do not know about. You managed to hit the nail upon the top and defined out the whole thing without having side effect , people can take a signal. Will probably be back to get more. Thanks