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I Come Not to Praise Glenn Beck, But to Bury Him

September 29, 2009 - 12:24 am - by Dan Riehl
Emery Calame
2009-09-29 10:34:27

homero,

Goofball and kookie are my honest impressions of the guy and his show. They are not liberal labels. They are what I see when I watch his show.

Sure he is passionate. But he also squeals, bellows (GET OFF OF MY PHONE!!!!), shrieks, whispers, weeps, uses robot voices to read questionable statements from a czar, uses multiple bizarre camera angles, does frequent drama stunts (like coating a cast member in “gasoline”, wrapping a dead fish in newspaper, boiling a rubber frog)

The guy’s show and behavior on that show is pretty hammy and over the top and he acts in strangely hyper and highly emotionally tempestuous manner.

He covers some odd subject matter too and sometimes ends such with a “what do you think?” type of ending.

So I am a bit ambivatlent about him but again, I cut him soem slack because he’s kicking butt and taking names while those who would warn us of his sinister influence, and the supposed politcal jeopardy he protends for the right, have not.

But as I said previously, I felt that same way about a certain anti-jihad blogger once and that did not turn out so well, so maybe I’m not a great choice to defend Back from his critics on the right.