Posted on 01/13/2013 10:12:27 AM PST by Hacksaw
Disagreement isn’t hate for sure. Any popular conservative talker is not going to get 100% agreement.
I’m a little jaded concerning most of them, but that’s based on specific stands they have taken.
I don’t listen regularly to Beck - just not my style, not based on many disagreements. But Glenn Beck does seem to arouse outright hate like few others.
Ha! Good point. Comedy Central is where many get their news and views. Often confused with actual journalism.
Beck’s style is a bit too melodramatic for my tastes, but I like his willingness to take a different tack than the other conservative talkers by utilizing other forms of media. I also think that unlike the other conservative talkers Beck may actually have the guts to eventually run for something.
And...cripplecreek brings the winning entry. So true. Truth to a liberal is much like sunlight to a vampire; they burst into flames.
I never liked him either hack
I don’t hate Beck. I stopped listening to him when he said he’d rather vote for obama than Newt. Beck has done a lot of good, but I did not hear why he hated Newt so much as to say that. I thought anyone or anything would have been better than obama.
On his radio show, it’s just too much joking around and not enough on target subjects for any length of time.
It’s easier to hate than to get off you A$$ and see if there are two sides to the story.
Right now, as in today, it's 1860 all over again and, one way or another, it's not going to end peacefully.
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The word hate is thrown around pretty easily. Isn’t it possible not to be a Beck fan without being called a “hater?”
I used to watch his Fox show, but I got sick of the maudlin emotionalism and the Gandhi-obsessed peaceful resistance stuff. When he started referring to Jesus, Gandhi, and MLK as three ‘men’ of the same type, that was it.
His agreement with Jillette....you’re taking out of context here. Both are heavy-Libertarian leaning; that’s the basis for any agreement. They disagree on a hell of a lot else.
I admire the fact he’ll have such people on. It was amazing to watch him interview the lib twit artist that painted the poster of “Obama as a crucified Christ” (although the liar denied any intentional connection....b.s.). Glenn was polite; the guy was floored. It turned into an interesting discussion, and the guy truly got educated.
IOW, not a thing wrong with having a civilized discussion. It’s something the Left is completely incapable of....ever. Also, Beck puts HUGE amounts of his money where his mouth is; I don’t see others doing that.
I just don’t care about him. I can count on the fingers of one hand how many times he’s said anything really important or even interesting to me personally. I wouldn’t necessarily be interested in crossing the street to meet him.
To each their own.
The libs/left hate anyone they can’t control... those they can’t silence.
The others do not continually talk about it, they just do it.
Like what? Hannity writes a book, you hear about it endlessly. Rush has gotten away from writing for years now....but it was the same then. What exactly, aside from their shows, are they doing? Beck keeps a pace that would kill younger men....his output and creativity never cease to amaze me, no matter what you think about the guy.
At least he and his staff are TRYING to make a difference....and in the process, the dude’s rapidly becoming a full-on media mogul. Not just me saying that....even the left.
“Heart Radio”
You can get the radio broadcast, and the audio portion of his TV show, which repeats once or twice a day:
http://www.glennbeck.com/publish/themes/glennbeck/live_player/
So do I. I have learned a neat trick to use on liberals gushing about Obama. I ask them if they have read "Dreams from my Father" or "The Audacity of Hope". Shuts them right up.
He makes the progressive statist see the corruption and hypocrisy of their movement. Uncomfortable to be living, endorsing, and supporting a lie.
Three points come to mind:
1) Rush was the innovator of the 1980s, using the “outside the box” media method of the day, AM radio, to end-run the MSM. Beck is the innovator of the 2010s, using the “outside the box” media method of the day, internet-based live multimedia, to end-run the MSM.
2) Rush is a Boomer, and is getting old and curmudgeonly. (I am a Boomer and I’m getting old and curmudgeonly, so I speak from personal experience.) Beck is a Gen-Xer and is hitting his prime: if the Strauss/Howe generational theories have any credence, and I think they do, Gen-Xers are going to become more conservative as they mature, and Beck rather than Rush is the more obvious generation leader.
3) Rush doesn’t have a solution for the present philosophical crisis of how to organize the high-information conservatives into a coherent whole, while simultaneously reaching the low-information proto-conservatives (mostly Millennials) and bringing them into the fold; Beck does.
Rush is becoming the Grand Old Man of conservative media, but Beck is going to change the balance of power in the society—as Rush did, 25 years ago.
I respectfully disagree that I am taking Glenn out of context on Jillette at all. When you look at what he said, in total, and his fantasy that he is neither on the right or the left - and then his comment about Hagel (delusional) - I submit my comments are in perfect context.
And I also do not agree that he “puts his money where his mouth is” - as he is in every venture he does to make money. Now, NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT, in fact, I believe in that - but please, don’t try and tell me he is running any kind of charity operation.
About 90% of everything he has ever said is fabulous - but about 10% is totally non sequential and counter to his 90%.
Because he had been an addict and beat it. They can’t beat it- and don’t want to beat it. It is bitter resentment of failure.
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