Posted on 02/18/2010 3:48:06 PM PST by jenk
Glenn Beck, the latest phenom of the Conservative Movement, jumps the shark nearly every week.
I have not been a fan of his. That said, I believe he is putting the movement in jeopardy.
You could spend a whole day surfing youtube for his latest outlandish behavior, but I do not fault him for that. In the entertainment industry, it is necessary to put on some sort of showmanship. I don’t personally like his brand, but I would not bicker over personal taste.
The problem I see is that he is not uplifting. He is more libertarian than conservative, but his message always seems to end up with the viewer or listener commiserating with him. As if he has accepted being the shepard and just aims to console rather than inspire.
It is not a good path for someone who commands as great an audience as he has.
Beck should lead like a parent, allowing his audience to understand that while exposing what the administration is doing, he encourages them to want to do something about it. He does not do that, instead, he nurtures inaction. Sitting around and learning bad things then mourning for their country will drive people to drink and continue to want to commiserate with others who do the same and cycle continues. The only stimulating thing Beck has done has to do with driving people toward Ron Paul, which is just disgraceful, especially since the Paul followers are isolationists and security-challenged.
I take serious offense with his continuous drive toward a third party. That idea is reprehensible and he should know better, and has been pulled by the ear by many conservatives because of it. Yet, he continues. He seems able enough to repeat quotes from serious scholars and thinkers without telling his audience who said it first, but he hasn’t an inkling how to listen to the message these thinkers give.
Many have wondered if he is just in “it” for himself. There is nothing wrong with being a capitalist, but to steal and put up fronts is no way to lead. The worst kind of capitalist is one who does not govern himself first. Perhaps that is why he doesn’t inspire his viewers and listeners. He doesn’t know how.
Look, I know he has had a past that included drugs and alcohol, and I do not fault him for that. People in glass houses and so on, but his direction is no longer humorous.
Being in management myself, I have always employed the idea of hiring your replacement, then staying one step ahead of them. It encourages healthy competition and drives the best to the top. Sarah Palin was just hired by Fox. If she is given any kind of freedom there, Beck is toast.
I watched the Constitution Town Hall that Hillsdale College gave a while back, and Dr. Larry Arnn said that in order to move the country to where it needs to go, which is toward the Constitution and the Founding, it is going to take a lot of thinking. Mr. Beck needs to start doing that.
Well, I agree with you.
all the energy and time spent ranting about something that was clearly opinion is irrational
I told you to get lost
thank you
I don't know what you are..
Are you a stealth democrat?... i.e. RINO..
A movie well worth watching, ``A Face in the Crowd''. If you think Andy Griffith's depth is only that of Sheriff Taylor or Matlock, you'll be surprised by his portrayal of Lonesome Rhodes in this masterpiece. And Elia Kazan, the director, named names before the HUAC.
Now...gotta get some Vitajex!
He didn't say that.. He said there are both democrat and republican "progressives"..
Like Bush and McLame and probably Romney.. and mostly every democrat..
Beck educates about the "progessives".. which are in ALL parties..
Ref: Alinsky, Cloven-Piven, Antonio Gramsci
And all progessives are the same whether socialist progressives or capitalist progressives.. i.e. the socialization of capitalism..
Know what that means?
It means I'm not a RINO because I work very, very hard. Perhaps you'd like to read about a clean coal plant in Michigan? jennerationx.com Or perhaps you'd like to read my earlier writings. Jennerationx's Weblog Or my website where I give my opinion and use my real name, Hosepipe. JenKuznicki.com
that is still not accurate. Mccain and Bush are not like the democrat progressives.
and you can get bent
Beck has stated what I wrote.
What Beck has to say is old news.
I have been into the history of Marxism, to general Liberal
agenda and what they are doing now as far back
to high school days in early 1960s.
Have read and reasearched on my own.
He really gets excited about his new finds I was already battling the left on several decades ago.
You feel hopeless because you need someone to tell you what to do. You are looking for a leader on the television.
beck has said MANY times that democrats and republicans are the same
many, many times
you have a problem with that?
not everyone is a leader
i am a worker and a follower - a damn good worker
if you think a political party needs all leaders and no workers, you are wrong
if you only value leaders, you are wrong
Glenn Beck stimulates discussion. Your disdain for him is misplaced because he doesn't fulfill your need for him to lead you.
your diagnosis is wrong
here is another reason - becktardz are rude
I did read the post. What it boils down to is dems/repubs are entitled to public seats and nobody else.
I used to like Free Republic.
Go Sarah, Go Rick - 2012 Dream Ticket - and go Cheney - CPAC darling by the sleepy Republicans that simply cannot imagine their gummit would lie to them.
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