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2009-09-17 Home Front: Politix
Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?- Calibrate your BS Meter
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Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-17 14:20|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 He's turning over the rocks and shining the light underneath--something the MSM refuses to do; might upset their left wing agenda.
Posted by JohnQC 2009-09-17 16:00||   2009-09-17 16:00|| Front Page Top

#2 Sorry, Glen Beck is a raving lunatic and while not bad for America, he is definitely bad for the conservative movement. He's nucking futs and needs to be taken off the air. He's the Keith Olbermann of the right. Moronic convergence.
Posted by AllahHateMe 2009-09-17 16:04||   2009-09-17 16:04|| Front Page Top

#3 No apology necessary. You've got Karl Marx, Amin al-Husseini Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Osama bin Laden, Richare Reid, and Adolf Hitler. We've got Glen Beck.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-17 16:10||   2009-09-17 16:10|| Front Page Top

#4 I APOLOGIZE......

that you are so amoral and insane that we enjoy when he exposes you to the sunlight.

We Are So Sorry!
(wait don't turn off the sarcasm I may need that later)
Posted by AlmostAnonymous5839">AlmostAnonymous5839  2009-09-17 16:15||   2009-09-17 16:15|| Front Page Top

#5 Maybe if the Legacy Media would get off their collective arses and do some actual reporting, he wouldn't get 3-4 million viewers every evening in a crappy time slot, and more listeners than that in the afternoon.

Just sayin'. (Although I really hope he never ever puts those lederhosen on again. THAT was scary!!)
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-17 16:36||   2009-09-17 16:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Excuse me? Are you stupid? What exactly has he 'exposed'? Other than he looks bad in lederhosen and looks stupid when he cries? He's a birther and a truther. He espouses the views of neo-nazi's and conspiracy nuts. He had nothing to do with breaking ACORN. That was two kids and a camcorder. Just because the legacy media is full of retards doesn't make Beck worth two shits. He's the poster boy of the fringe right who are every bit as bad as the fringe left (Pelosi, Reid, Rangel, et al). If the Republicans fail to pick up some serious seats in the mid-terms it will because of the lunacy he spouts and the brain-dead morons who think he's enlightened. There are quality right-thinking commentators (Rush sometimes, Hannity, O'Reilly, IBD) Beck is not one of them.
Posted by AllahHateMe 2009-09-17 16:46||   2009-09-17 16:46|| Front Page Top

#7 Watching Glenn Beck's show is like watching 15 year old boys present the news. That doesn't mean he is wrong, though. (Is he less annoying and over the top on the radio?)
Posted by SteveS 2009-09-17 17:18||   2009-09-17 17:18|| Front Page Top

#8 “He is having an impact…Beck pushed one of Obama's so-called czars, Van Jones, to resign during Labor Day weekend.”

No Mr. Time Magazine “Journalist”…he didn’t. It was Van Jones that brought down Van Jones. It’s just that Beck is one of the few that believed it was newsworthy that The President of the United States appointed an advisor who is a self avowed “radical communist” and believes GW Bush orchestrated the attacks on 9/11. Or maybe I just missed that issue of Time.
Posted by DepotGuy 2009-09-17 17:55||   2009-09-17 17:55|| Front Page Top

#9 One does not have to "like" the messenger to believe the message.
Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-17 17:58||   2009-09-17 17:58|| Front Page Top

#10 Watching Glenn Beck's show is like watching 15 year old boys present the news.

maybe so, but at least he's presenting news - unlike the other media protection rackets.
Posted by Jumbo Slinerong5015 2009-09-17 18:02||   2009-09-17 18:02|| Front Page Top

#11 I agree with Allah. Glenn Beck is a mouthbreather. I don't see him often, but every time I see him, I can't think about his crying jag about his anal surgery (Youtube it), and think: this is not a guy I will think of an authoritative source ON ANYTHING.
If he's leading people anywhere on the right, it's off a cliff.
Good for him that he ran with the ACORN videos. But he did zero to make it happen.
To quote Barry: "We can do better."
Posted by Mizzou Mafia 2009-09-17 18:53||   2009-09-17 18:53|| Front Page Top

#12 I look at Glenn Beck as a libertarian version of Jon Stewart. The difference is he is putting things on his show that are actually having a positive outcome. He is a megaphone for the folks however flawed he might be.

Chalie Gibbson didn't know about the ACORN scandal the day before Congress starting defunding them. MSM Fringe Media
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-17 19:23||   2009-09-17 19:23|| Front Page Top

#13 BTW, ACORN will not get the $8.5 Billion, with a "B", the was set aside in the Stimulus Bill. I believe Beck helped bring that about by giving the two young patriots a voice. Now it will be up to him to make sure ACORN going by another name does not get that money.

Anyone who does not think Beck helped bring this about should check to see if their head is stuck in rectal defilade.
Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-09-17 19:31||   2009-09-17 19:31|| Front Page Top

#14 
He's a birther and a truther.
No, he's not.

He espouses the views of neo-nazi's (sic) and conspiracy nuts.
No, he doesn't. He HATES conspiracy nuts.

He had nothing to do with breaking ACORN. That was two kids and a camcorder.
Uh, who aired the videos, moron? Not to take anything away from those brave kids. Kudos to them.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-09-17 19:57|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]  2009-09-17 19:57|| Front Page Top

#15 common sense and speaking straight is what this nation needs...screw pc crap our country was born in rebellion and all true patriots should question our govt
like him or not he is telling it straight.

As for the birther -- while i believe the O is from hawaii -- it still bothers me that the O will spend a million in court battles to deny a full public review of the original birth cert...why not just come out with it? and why hide your college student aid papers...you only hide somehting for a reason --
Posted by Dan 2009-09-17 20:16||   2009-09-17 20:16|| Front Page Top

#16 AllahHateMe, please. One of the things he was going off on Van Jones about was that Jones signed that troofer petition back in 2004 along with Rosie O'Donut and Janeane Garofalo. If Beck was a troofer, would he have had a problem with that?

As for your charge he's a nirther...got proof of that? He can't shut up about lots of things, and I'm sure if he was a nirther, there would be plenty of video/audio you could dig up in two minutes on Google.

He is certifiable. But even though he's crazier than a sh!thouse rat, he manages to get information that the Legacy Media has no idea even exists (ie. Charlie Gibson).

(BTW, LGF is not a reliable source of information any longer, ok? And I say that as one of the few people who have been registered to leave comments on that site since 2003 who hasn't gotten banned yet. If you insist on calling anyone who disagrees with you "stupid", maybe the 'Burg isn't the place for you. Send love notes to "Sharmuta", "iceweasel" or "Irish Rose", and maybe you will find a congenial place to spew that kind of immature crap over at Chuckie's.)
Posted by Cornsilk Blondie 2009-09-17 20:21||   2009-09-17 20:21|| Front Page Top

#17 Oooouch! That's gonna cause a big red spot!
Posted by Besoeker 2009-09-17 20:28||   2009-09-17 20:28|| Front Page Top

#18 I like Beck....along w/Mike Church and Andy Wilkow he's a refreshing voice of the new right. W/out him banging this drum many folks would not have tuned in for the full story on Van Jones etc. Some people don't like his delivery but the content is still substantial.
Posted by Broadhead6 2009-09-17 20:47||   2009-09-17 20:47|| Front Page Top

#19 I like Beck's results. His show? Mehhh....
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2009-09-17 21:21||   2009-09-17 21:21|| Front Page Top

#20 BTW, LGF is not a reliable source of information any longer, ok? And I say that as one of the few people who have been registered to leave comments on that site since 2003 who hasn't gotten banned yet.

I more or less went and got myself banned when I looked at the list of the thousand+ people who have been banned, stopped, and thought "I haven't been banned yet. There must be something _wrong_ with me."

Anyway, while I'm here, about Glenn Beck... I've never really liked him, simply because he always seemed to be way over the top and emotional, and seemed to freeze up with emotional responses to questions (like liberal callins to one of his shows) that have _perfectly rational non-emotional responses_.

I also have severe differences with his "a pox on everyone's houses" approach to politics.

That said, he's gone out and turned over a whole heck of a lot of rocks regarding the current administration, and he's gone the extra mile in showcasing a lot of the people out there who are also turning over other rocks.

So, his personality is annoying to me, I disagree with a lot of his politics, and he's going out there and getting the job done.

So I guess this sort of puts me in the same situation Lincoln was regarding Grant. Yeah, he drinks, but let's try to figure out what he's drinking, and give it to my other generals.
Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-09-17 21:37||   2009-09-17 21:37|| Front Page Top

#21 Oh, and fwiw, if you've been on the conservative/libertarian side of the political spectrum, ever, this whole "six degrees of separation/Kevin Bacon/guilt by association/accusation of extremism" bit practiced most recently by the proprietor of lgf isn't anything particularly new or clever. It's something I've seen the far-left shit-brained-assholes practice extensively since about the time I was FIVE. And I'm into middle age now. It's one of those things that the left uses for internal discipline, to keep each other from actually thinking about the issues. "They're all nazis."

It kind of makes it hard for us to take the situation seriously.

One wonders what Hitler would think of the situation.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-09-17 21:47||   2009-09-17 21:47|| Front Page Top

#22 Up here on the Pacific NW is a little town called Mount Vernon. Maybe you've head of it. Seems Beck grew up here and on Sep 25, the mayor is giving him the keys to the city. The libs up here have a serious case of Terminal PantyWaditis.
They are organizing boycotts of any and all merchants here that are not vocalizing their displeasure with the Mayor. And if reports are to be believed, it is having an effect at the cash register. The mayor is not backing down, and there are protests planned at the key handing over ceremony. The 700 seats for the ceremony, BTW, sold out almost immediately.
More as it develops.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2009-09-17 23:39||   2009-09-17 23:39|| Front Page Top

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