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Glenn Beck’s Regrets (Biggest Regret must be Betting WRONG against Trump)
The Atlantic ^ | January/February 2017 | PETER BEINART

Posted on 12/08/2016 8:48:01 AM PST by PJ-Comix

Glenn Beck looks like the dad in a Disney movie. He’s earnest, geeky, pink, and slightly bulbous. His idea of salty language is bullcrap.

The atmosphere at Beck’s Mercury Studios, outside Dallas, is similarly soothing, provided you ignore the references to genocide and civilizational collapse. In October, when most commentators considered a Donald Trump presidency a remote possibility, I followed audience members onto the set of The Glenn Beck Program, which airs on Beck’s website, theblaze.com. On the way, we passed through a life-size replica of the Oval Office as it might look if inhabited by a President Beck, complete with a portrait of Ronald Reagan and a large Norman Rockwell print of a Boy Scout.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: glennbeck; sanitychallenged
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In the mid-1990s, Beck was, by his own account, a “despicable human being,” a divorced, alcoholic, drug-addicted shock jock for a Connecticut radio station. He once put on a banana suit and leaped into a pool of Styrofoam. He repeatedly considered suicide.

And recently he put on a pair of swim goggles and rolled his face in a bowl of Cheetos. And he is supposed to be cured? 2017 could spell the end of Beck when his "empire" goes down in a Blaze due to alienating about 99% of his original audience.

1 posted on 12/08/2016 8:48:01 AM PST by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

Cheetos. So desperately opposed to a virtually haloed Donald Trump that this was the only way he could think to mock the guy.

God’s trying to get through to that fellow that life doesn’t have to be so bad after all.


2 posted on 12/08/2016 8:51:00 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Being severely mentally ill?


3 posted on 12/08/2016 8:51:16 AM PST by OKSooner (www.greatagain.gov <= Go here to put a note in the suggestion box!)
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To: PJ-Comix

Like, just eat the Cheetos and be happy.


4 posted on 12/08/2016 8:51:32 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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And he is supposed to be cured?

He's what people would consider the new norm.

5 posted on 12/08/2016 8:52:01 AM PST by HarleyD
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To: OKSooner

Everybody’s a little crazy. It’s just that with some people, it’s a lot more noticeable to a lot more people.


6 posted on 12/08/2016 8:52:18 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PJ-Comix

Beck’s fans should emerge from their underground bunkers. Time to be part of America’s success, not hide from it


7 posted on 12/08/2016 8:53:16 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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Prepping for the apocalypse has been a big Mormon thang, has it not?

Turns out the main apocalypse right now is the one of the pessimism that they are embracing.


8 posted on 12/08/2016 8:56:36 AM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ari-freedom

Andrew Breitbart hated this guy. One big reason is that Beck attempted to hijack the Tea Party movement with an ego-tripping D.C. event featuring him. Remember that?


9 posted on 12/08/2016 8:58:32 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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Urban Dictionary: schadenboner www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?defid=5540523&term=schadenboner Schadenboner. An extreme degree of pleasure from the misfortune of assholes. Beck is in the top ten of never Trump a$$holes. So Beck have a terrible eight years with President Trump. If you are still alive have eight more fun packed years with President Pence.


10 posted on 12/08/2016 8:58:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Hey, whining losers,Trump will just go ahead & make things better for us without you!!!!")
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Glenn who?


11 posted on 12/08/2016 8:59:18 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (WaPo: An Fake News Site by their own admission.)
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Glen Beck needs a true come-to-Jesus experience. Everyone can have a future with Jesus. .. He is only a prayer away! http://www.thereishopeinjesus.com/


12 posted on 12/08/2016 8:59:20 AM PST by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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Glenn “Stabby The Clown” Beck threatened to stab Trump to death. This sis seriously ill person who is likely an un-medicated manic depressive who should be in a hospital not roaming our streets.


13 posted on 12/08/2016 9:02:10 AM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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I mean an ego-tripping D.C. event featuring Beck, not Breitbart. Yeah, Andrew Breitbart really disliked Beck and got his number right.


14 posted on 12/08/2016 9:02:58 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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I’m still chuckling over when Beck got all suicidal over a minor hemorrhoid operation.


15 posted on 12/08/2016 9:04:17 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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The only reason that the Atlantic would offer Mr. Irrelevant aka Stabby a platform is the hope that he would say something nasty about the Don. Bet Peter Bonehead was disappoint.


16 posted on 12/08/2016 9:06:05 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Protocol: "President Trump"; subsequent references "The President" or "Pres. Trump". NO "POTUS")
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Not cured but a dry drunk who is suffering extreme cognitive dissonace related to his Mormonism (although I am beginning to think that he no longer believes but is staying only to keep his marriage together).


17 posted on 12/08/2016 9:06:22 AM PST by reaganaut (Yes I am female, yes I love guns, yes I carry and yes I reload and handload my own ammo.)
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Ppppppppppppppp in his Wheaties. I hate the loud mouth Beck. He is nothing but a loud mouthed punk.


18 posted on 12/08/2016 9:07:56 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Believe or not, we R in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! RU saved?)
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//Prepping for the apocalypse has been a big Mormon thang, has it not?//

Yes, LDS leaders have taught that Mormons will go back to “Zion” (Missouri) during the Millenium in hand carts. Food storage and ‘prepping’ is considered a key practice, esp in Utah and has been taught at church.

Among most exmormons however, they lament the amount of wasted food and the view that the survival stuff was to be for their family not shared. There is a hoarding mentality there as well.


19 posted on 12/08/2016 9:11:36 AM PST by reaganaut (Yes I am female, yes I love guns, yes I carry and yes I reload and handload my own ammo.)
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It’s great that people stocked up and learned to be more self reliant but they pushed this whole attitude of withdrawing from civilization. Neo-luddism and fear mongering


20 posted on 12/08/2016 9:11:55 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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