[jobim]

Even if you don't like Ike, we need to see that he is running the Atlantic Theater with great skill...

Even if you don't like Edison, it appears his electric light will be useful in the future...

I have no understanding of the multitude on FR who bash Beck on these threads, so much so that you are forced to begin one with your opening caveat.

What TV show in American history has furnished the public with such a steady stream of vital information as Beck has, at least since August when I discovered him?

Constitutionalists in our country, who I presume are the majority here on FR, engage in these petty potshots while Rome burns. Incredible.

[nomad]

The problem is he gets too sappy, playful or emotional. It doesn`t convey a professional image, which gives his detractors the opening to attack his overall credibility. The left is expert at the politics of personal destruction, why give them any ammo?

I think Glenn Beck is evidence that the spirit and love of freedom in an honest and honorable media personality has not gone the way of the Dodo Bird. God bless Glenn Beck, he is a real patriot!

[The_Reader_David]

The problems with Beck are that his style is a bit over the top, and that he sometimes shoots from the hip and get things wrong, both of which make him an easy target for the left, and dilute his effectiveness.

He does indeed bring out things that no one else in mass media gets in front of the public—popularizing Jonah Goldberg’s historical work, and the story at the center of this thread being the most important examples I can think of—and we can all be grateful to him for that, but we don’t have to like him, particularly when his style or an inaccuracy blunts the benefit of his work.