IMHO....it’s because he has a crack research team that digs up connections, backgrounds, history, quotes, videos....you name it....on very powerful people on the left.
As someone here put it once very, very well: Rush, et al comment on the news; Beck MAKES news.
BTW, it’s not just libs. There are plenty here on FR that seem to loathe the man. I don’t get it at all.
I don’t get either.. I think it is mostly due to the fact that he is a Mormon..
I think part of it is your perception. Beck comes off as a little boy being picked on, while Rush comes off as the man who is the one doing the picking. Beck shows much more emtion as well.
Having said that, Glenn just recently tried to mock “the far left and the far right yelling at each other” as if he’s somehow outside of the ideological specturm himself, almost an Obama-esque “rising above it all” nonsense. He also just said he was in agreement with pro drug pro anything goes sexually Penn Jillette...this just a year after Beck said we must turn to God.
So, maybe it’s the intellectual inconsistency.....
That part I do get. He's a Mormon. Something which most of us could not give a flying f*** about, but it a show stopper for others.
I don’t “loathe” Beck, but he often comes off as a cry-baby. He is also insipidly boring when he gets out the chalkboard. :P
As for the Mormonism, that isn’t the issue; it his synchronicity. He equates Mormonism to traditional Christianity and confuses the lines between the two. It’s as off-putting to believers as androgyny used to be for the majority of people.
You can respect another’s faith without trying to co-opt it as your own. Dennis Prager is the best example of this behavior. He doesn’t pretend to be a Christian to be a conservative.