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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 ...


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KEYWORDS: glennbeck; sanitychallenged
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To: PJ-Comix

Beck is essentially a dry alcoholic, political entertainer.


21 posted on 12/08/2016 9:12:36 AM PST by truth_seeker
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To: PJ-Comix

On the way, we passed through a life-size replica of the Oval Office as it might look if inhabited by a President Beck...


That’s not weird. No siree! All quite perfectly normal. Yes. Yes indeed.


22 posted on 12/08/2016 9:13:26 AM PST by Flick Lives (Les Deplorables Triumphant)
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To: reaganaut

Yeah, it’s like they didn’t even have space shuttles planned to go between their planets?

Once one has seen the grace of God in genuine Christianity, one better sees the imitations that fall short elsewhere.


23 posted on 12/08/2016 9:15:23 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: RetiredArmy
"How's your soul?"

Remember that? Beck had no idea how obnoxious it was to ask people that but he was doing it quite a bit. Yeah, like I want to discuss my soul with a Loony Toons.

24 posted on 12/08/2016 9:17:27 AM PST by PJ-Comix (Glenn Beck is one Blood Bucket shy of the Funny Farm)
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To: PJ-Comix
Beck got all suicidal over a minor hemorrhoid operation.

You know his mother committed suicide right?

25 posted on 12/08/2016 9:18:02 AM PST by itsahoot (Three words I don't want to hear, Comprehensive Immigration Reform.)
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To: ari-freedom

The theme shows up in science fiction too, in various dystopias.

The actual Christian thing is for churches to band together, and once they have, to work whatever outreaches are possible. I’d think we’d see a lot of denominational disagreements being set aside if churches were pressed into doing this... not sure about Mormon, but small-o orthodox Christian would have less of a problem.


26 posted on 12/08/2016 9:18:30 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: reaganaut

Andrew Breitbart:

This guy has always been about himself. You know, while you’re sitting there watching him talk about the food shortage stuff, he doesn’t tell you this ties to the Mormon Church. He doesn’t talk to you about his investors. He doesn’t tell you that they’re paying for him to create a crisis. He always talks about Cloward-Piven and how Rahm Emanuel said ‘Don’t let a good crisis go to waste,’ but creating a hysteria that there’s going to be food storages because of chaos that is coming – he is profitting off this as well. There is a financial stake for him with food storage companies that advertise on his site. This guy is a huckster. He’s always been a huckster. It was only a few years ago that he was a shock jock, that he was a morning zoo guy. And he’s been taking people’s content for years and not crediting it.”


27 posted on 12/08/2016 9:19:02 AM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: PJ-Comix

I’d welcome it. “Doing quite wonderfully in Jesus! Wanna join me?”


28 posted on 12/08/2016 9:19:08 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

Hmm. Stupid me. I never connected those dots.


29 posted on 12/08/2016 9:20:51 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: PJ-Comix

But yeah, the soul-auditors who are a million miles from seeing and enjoying salvation themselves are some of the most arrogant people on this blue planet possible.

Yup, there are even those like that on FR.


30 posted on 12/08/2016 9:21:16 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

The most generous thing I can say about that religious milieu is that it is deeply confused and troubled.

There’s enough of an approach to an authentic gospel in some of the literature they use (like KJV bible) that people there, yes, could get tapped by God unto salvation. But oy vey the theology, and the demonic swarming.

Joseph Smith asked the supremely wrong question when he asked “which earthly church is the real one.” The church that is real is the one that is embraced across worldly denominations by one Christ Jesus. It’s Baptist, it’s Catholic, it’s Methodist, it’s Eastern Orthodox, it’s Lutheran, etc. All of which have some wheat and some tares (and Christ is embracing the wheat parts).


31 posted on 12/08/2016 9:26:41 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

Breitbart is right. Most prepper companies are Mormon and some are MLMs (big in Utah). I would not be surprised if he has financial interest.

Preparedness is fine but LDS take it to the extreme and have a less than Christian view of it (hoarding). I had a roomate at BYU who was overly dogmatic about us keeping a 72 hour kit (complete with tent, MREs, shovel to build a latrine etc) in our cars and we lived in Provo.


32 posted on 12/08/2016 9:30:17 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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To: HiTech RedNeck
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33 posted on 12/08/2016 9:31:32 AM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers, all armed conservatives)
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To: PJ-Comix; RetiredArmy; HiTech RedNeck

/”How’s your soul?”/

That is just weird coming from a Mormon. They don’t talk like that.


34 posted on 12/08/2016 9:32:04 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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To: PJ-Comix

Stupid article. I probably know Glenn better than Beinart. He started developing this “a strong man will rise” nonsense back in about 2010 when he began his “Restore” tours. He predicted mass combat in the streets, very Weimar Germany style.

The last time I was on the show, I think around 2014, I was convinced he had completely been taken over by David Barton. I could see Barton’s influence in everything (Barton, of course, conveniently took over the charity side of Mercury when Beck’s long time very competent and decent aide, Joe Kerry, “quit.”) I had already seen major problems in the production side-—they just had no content. There was nothing there anyone wanted to watch. But beginning around 2014, I found that if you weren’t giving Beck’s crew the answers Glenn wanted, they didn’t want you.

He had some really bad history in his programs, and when I countered that, they edited my interviews to make it look like I was agreeing with Barton-—which I did not.

Glenn’s support absolutely made “Patriot’s History of the United States” a bigger hit, but it was already a hit. He did turn it into a bestseller. Now, however, I wish I’d been successful in trying to convince the publishers to remove his endorsement from the book in its latest edition.


35 posted on 12/08/2016 9:33:03 AM PST by LS ("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Amen. Recently a fairly well known Mormon apologist (did radio debates, wrote a book, ect) left Mormonism and became a Christian. The change as been remarkable in a few months - he pulled his book, he was baptized a Christian, he is writing a new book on his conversion and why Mormonism really doesn’t teach grace. He now sees the counterfeit. Fortunately his wife is somewhat supportive so he doesn’t have the fear of losing his family that many do.


36 posted on 12/08/2016 9:34:58 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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To: HiTech RedNeck; ari-freedom

In Haiti, the Mormons refused to align with the Red Cross and instead banded together with a Muslim aid group.


37 posted on 12/08/2016 9:36:16 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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To: PJ-Comix

This sick prick threatened to stab Trump. Screw him.


38 posted on 12/08/2016 9:37:30 AM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: tumblindice

What is that, a plastic jesus?


39 posted on 12/08/2016 9:37:36 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: itsahoot

Mental illness runs in Becks family.

In addition, Beck is a total loon.


40 posted on 12/08/2016 9:38:34 AM PST by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small pittance)
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