Fox News host Glenn Beck's national domination

Washington Post ^ | 1/2/2010 | Dana Milbank

[reaganaut]

I didn’t trust beck the first time I saw him. I could not put my finger on it for the longest time.

Hubby loved him but is starting to question his trustworthiness.

[paulycy]

GB is a bit melodramatic for my taste, but I frequently tune him in. He is prone to hyperbole, but he strives for truth. He installed a hotline for the Obama Administration to use to call him any time he is wrong, and he has yet to receive a single call. Like, Rush Limbaugh, GB is a national treasure.

You just nailed exactly how I feel about Glenn Beck. Thanks for saving me the need to type this myself, FRiend. :0)

[fhayek]

One of my big problems with liberals (and Thomas Sowell referenced this on Rush's show the day Walter Williams was hosting), is that they do not acknowledge trade-offs when they propose new policies and programs. Glenn Beck's unpardonable sin is that he focuses on the costs, trade-offs and pitfalls inherent in massive government programs proposed by the left. Do these liberals really believe that you can spend trillions of dollars that you do not have without any negative consequences?

[highlander_UW]

It's official: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.

Glenn Beck hasn't promoted the global warming scam, the pope has, even if out of ignorance.

[ozark hilljilly]

“Instead of calling the lies for what they are, the party embraces her hate-speak and works in concert with Fox News and their Glenn Beck liar-drone to reinforce Palin’s vile mouth.”

That doesn't even read like American English! Sounds like a Babelfish translation from the original Soviet lingo.

[TheCipher]

I love when the left does the ‘laundry list’ of all the negatives on anyone on our side

Yeah, I love how they refer to Beck as The 45-year-old recovering alcoholic, but not Obama as the former drug user

[padre35]

Yeah, Beck goes over the top more than the British Army did in WWI, but he also does the best job of vetting the information that he presents on a daily basis.

Imho he is the savviest of the Radio Talk Show host/Media Types, Dana references “FEMA camps” but he fails to mention that Beck also debunked them on his TV and Radio show.

Milbank referneces Mein Kampf, but does not add the context that the Nazi’s used to exterminate the physically handicapped under their healthcare/political plans.

Milbunk is simply making the case as to why DinoMedia is dying, they simply do not do their homework.

[Notwithstanding]

Dana has a girlie name.

[LostInBayport]

The writing of this Dana Milbank person is proof positive of why Glenn scares leftists bleepless. He talks about ‘falsehoods’ and then a sentence later recites a list of topics Glenn brought up, implying that those are the ‘falsehoods’ without having to explain his suggestion. The problem for this Milbank person and his ilk is that Beck is very careful to provide his listeners/viewers/readers with sources, much like Ann Coulter does in her books.

The result? They attack the man, mentioning his alcoholism and his religion, but can’t disprove the facts he raises. They end up sounding like angry schoolchildren upset at truths spoken to them. In other words, THEY LOSE. BADLY.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Right up their with Obama’s “Some people say...” or “They say...”

[KeyLargo]

More about Milbank here:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/11/06/wapos-milbank-decries-hateful-gruesome-hill-protest-thrown-party-no-tast

[highlander_UW]

An Obama "civilian national security force" like Hitler's SS or Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard? An administration official advocating forced abortions and sterilization agents in drinking water? Beck trafficked in them all in 2009.

It's Obama that called for a civilian national security force "just as well funded" as the military, and it's one of Obama's czars who wrote a book advocating sterilization agents in the drinking water. Calling these lies is itself a lie.

[gunnyg]

just another run-of-the-mill opportunist faux-stooge....

[paulycy]

Hubby loved him but is starting to question his trustworthiness.

One of Glenn Beck's strengths is that he admits he's speculating on a lot of what he says so he can get away with a lot of stuff others can't.

One of his weaknesses is that if his speculations turn out to be wrong more often than right he will lose credibility and viewership.

He's walking a fine line here and so far it's paying off. I watch. I like him. But I trust but verify when it comes to just about anybody, and Glenn Beck is definitely in that category.

[hosepipe]

Mandela defeated nothing.. western sanctions defeated apartheid.. Mandel was and still is a global communist apparatchik.. like Obama and most all american democrat congressmen are...

Mandela is an Affirmative Action victim guilty of sedition and espionage.. to South Africa.. He brought forth much worse crimes against black people than apartheid ever did.. and still do..

97% of black american voters voted for Obama.. and are ignorant of Mandelas crimes..
3% are smart..

[highlander_UW]

Didn’t Obama say as much in his book?

I believe you're correct. I believe Beck was quoting from Obama's own book about that part.

[ozark hilljilly]

Didn’t Obama say as much in his book?

Yes, I most certainly believe he did. But that's different, lol. His black half gets a pass on that.

[cripplecreek]

That doesn't even read like American English! Sounds like a Babelfish translation from the original Soviet lingo.

That's because there are only so many ways you can put the same words together in a sentence to say essentially the same thing day after day after day.

[PoloSec]

“He goes where others are forbidden by conscience”

He goes to the Truth.

Every time these stupid liberals write stuff like this, Becks viewers and listeners increase by the thousands, keep writing your lies, the truth grows brighter with each lie you tell.

[padre35]

Have to go with Billy Graham over Beck though.

I “like” Beck, cannot say I admire him, he is far to unstable/emotional for admiration imho.