Why Glenn Beck’s Media Empire Is Burning Down

Daily Beast ^ | 2/2/16 | Lloyd Grove

[Duke C.]

Glenn Beck was thanked by Ted Cruz in his Iowa victory speech, but for all his ‘mad genius,’ the right-wing media firebrand’s media company has become an abyss of backbiting and paranoia.

Glenn Beck is beset by apocalyptic visions, sinister conspiracy theories, mind-blowing prophecies, mysterious illnesses, miraculous cures, and, yes, copious waterworks.

But of all of the hobgoblins fluttering through his mind, consistency isn’t one of them.

Beck regularly contradicts himself in word and deed—a trait that his less charitable associates call hypocrisy.

[blam]

I agree but, that guy is gone.

After the Trump attacks, I'm done with him.

[WyCoKsRepublican]

I remember when Beck was on CNN News Network and touted his conservatism. I thought it was great and said to myself “it’s a matter of time before CNN lets him go. Then the FOX gig, which was good to a point.........and I stress to a point. He seemed to be coming “unhinged”, an emotional basket case. He used to be entertaining, now he’s all over the chart and just not fun anymore. It’s sad. He does have some serious issues. As to why Cruz embraces Beck, I have not the foggiest idea.

[ETL]

he went over the edge and turned into a drama queen.

He got into the drama queen and crazy antics stuff mainly to make the show more entertaining so that people with short attention spans and other various learning difficulties would stay tuned long enough to learn something. If he hadn't done it most audience members would probably have been bored to tears and changed the channel, and remained as ignorant on the subject as they were from the beginning.

[Psalm 144]

“But of all of the hobgoblins fluttering through his mind, consistency isn’t one of them.”

Great line. Jealous.

[ETL]

But there are a bunch of legit reasons for attacking Trump. The guy is a major league phony. A potentially very dangerous one.

[joethedrummer]

Why?

Maybe because of Glenn’s crazy behavior;
-his telling us he has a gravely dangerous finding to tell us, then giggling with his cohorts for the next 20 minutes;
-...a story SOOOO important that your kids lives depend on you knowing.... just subscribe to Glennbeck.com to find out!...
- setting up the BIGGEST news scandal of our lifetime! For 4 segments, then.... Tune in on Monday to hear it!!!!

Etc...

Ain’t nobody got time fo dat!

[joethedrummer]

Granted, he was great on his Fox TV hour. Just outstanding.
But since that ended, he’s so whacko. For reals.

Poor guy couldn’t handle the success.

[Rusty0604]

I listened to him for a few minutes a few months ago while driving. It was non stop Trump bashing.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

So are we still in a cold war with Russia?

For real, and try not to spam the thread with endless links and personal opinion. I’m asking since you’ve deemed yourself the only one who understands Russia and the grave danger we are facing. Thanks

[TomServo]

He’s been riding the crazy train since the 90’s.

[ETL]

So are we still in a cold war with Russia?

Obviously.

How Russia arms America's southern neighbors

Ioan Grillo
May 9, 2014

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil -- Russia's push into Ukraine has put many on edge. But less known is that Russia is also strengthening its military links south of the Rio Grande and re-establishing itself as a power in the region.

Vladimir Putin has been strengthening military links here, and Russia is now the largest arms dealer to governments in Latin America, surpassing the United States.

Russia has even floated the possibility of building new military bases in Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua, and putting its warships permanently in the Caribbean.

In the midst of the Ukraine crisis, Russia's top diplomat Sergei Lavrov recently visited Cuba, Peru, Chile, and Nicaragua, where he announced that Russia would also pour money into the new Central American canal project. ..."

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/americas/140508/russian-arms-military-trade-latin-america
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Russia Boosts Arms, Training for Leftist Latin Militaries

Moscow defense minister inks deals with Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua for joint exercises

BY: Bill Gertz
February 20, 2015

Russia agreed to provide military training for three leftist regimes in Latin America and increase military visits and exercises following a visit last week to the region by Moscow's Defense Minister Sergei Shoygu, Pentagon officials said.

Shoygu met with defense and military leaders in Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua and signed several agreements on warship visits and military training during the visit, which ran from Feb. 11 to 14. It is not clear whether any new arms deals were completed during the visit.

Defense officials said the Russian leader is seeking bases in the region for strategic bomber flights that Shoygu recently promised would include flights over the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean.

http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-boosts-arms-training-for-leftist-latin-militaries/

[ETL]

From Investor's Business Daily, Jan 2012:

Obama To Betray Missile Defense Secrets To Moscow

Investor's Business Daily ^ | January 9, 2012 | IBD staff

Appeasement: From ObamaCare to recess appointments, honoring the Constitution has not been an administration hallmark. But when it comes to betraying secrets to mollify the Russians, it becomes a document the president hides behind.

It was bad enough that the 2012 defense authorization bill signed by President Obama set America on a downward spiral of military mediocrity.

He also issued a signing statement, something he once opposed, saying that language in the bill aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on the U.S. Standard Missile-3 - linchpin of our missile defense - might impinge on his constitutional foreign-policy authority.

Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they'd be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.

The president is required to certify that any technology shared will not be passed on to third parties such as China, North Korea or Iran, that the Russians will not use transferred secrets to develop countermeasures and that the Russians are reciprocating in sharing missile-defense technology. ..."

"In his signing statement, Obama said he would treat these legal restrictions as 'non-binding' and that 'my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 (sic) in a manner that does not interfere with the president's constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications.'

Betraying our secrets is easy for a president who betrayed allies Poland and the Czech Republic to placate Moscow.

Poland was to host ground-based interceptors such as those we've deployed in California and Alaska, with missile-tracking radar deployed in the Czech Republic.

Obama pulled the plug when Moscow objected. Never mind, he said, we have a better approach: a four-phase plan that calls for using three versions of the Navy's Standard SM-3 interceptor missile that forms the backbone of its Aegis missile-defense system.

The fourth phase consists of a missile still on the drawing board scheduled for deployment by 2020, a version of the SM-3 called the Block IIB. It would intercept hostile missiles in the "early intercept" phase before an enemy missile could release its warheads and decoys. The Russians want the SM-3's secrets, and Obama appears to be willing to turn them over.

The president wants to save the New Start Treaty, which the Russians have threatened to abandon if we try to fully implement President Reagan's dream of defeating a nuclear missile attack.

Russia has unilaterally asserted that any qualitative or quantitative improvement in U.S. missile defenses would be grounds for withdrawal from the treaty.

Read More At Investor's Business Daily:
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/010912-597158-obama-gives-russia-missile-defense-secrets.htm#ixzz3jXmMbVwY
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March 2012...

"Obama was talking with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev when neither of them realized that their conversation was being picked up by microphones. Here is what they said:

Obama: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this, this can be solved, but it's important for him to give me space."

Medvedev: "Yeah, I understand. I understand your message about space. Space for you ..."

Obama: "This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."

Medvedev: "I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

"This is my last election. After my election I have more flexibility." That statement tells us much about the president's mindset.

The specific mention of missile defense is worrisome enough. Mr. Obama has retreated from the missile defense plan that was negotiated with European allies during the George W. Bush administration. Apparently, he is signaling Moscow that he intends to retreat further. The clear implication from the president's comments is that he cannot tell the American people before the election what he plans to do after the election.

In addition, there is the phrase "on all these issues," implying more is at stake than just missile defense."

Article: Obama plans double cross on missile defense
When it comes to keeping America safe, we shouldn't be too flexible:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/29/obama-plans-double-cross-on-missile-defense/print/
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[ETL]

Cruz 'gets it' on the complex situation in Syria, regarding Russia's broader (expansionist) agenda there and elsewhere. Trump either doesn't or is in cahoots with Putin on it.

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Ted Cruz on ISIS, Russia, Obama, missile defense, and the New START Treaty with Russia...

"If we want to actually dismantle ISIS, we need to dramatically change course. We need a real, robust campaign that maximizes our overwhelming air advantage.

We need to focus our efforts not on trying to create friends, but on supporting our real ones, especially the Kurds in Iraq and Syria who have actually had success against ISIS."

-snip-

"We can redouble our efforts to develop the defensive weapons that neutralized the offensive Soviet threat -- particularly missile defense, which has seen a 25% budget reduction under Obama, according to an analysis from the conservative Heritage Foundation, and has been constrained by bad arms deals like New START.

We should not only move quickly to install the canceled interceptor sites Putin opposed in Poland and the Czech Republic, but also to develop the next generation of systems that will only increase his discomfiture.

These options do not entail a ground war in Syria, yet would effectively shake us free from the failed policies that have brought us to our current impasse.

These options set us on a new path that puts Putin on notice that the United States is reclaiming our traditional role as leader of the free world."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

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"I think it would be a mistake to get involved in the Syrian civil war. There have been voices in Washington eager for us to send our sons and daughters over to fight that civil war for some time. I haven't been one of them. I think the touchstone of U.S. military policy should be protecting the national security of this country."

"What we're seeing Putin in Russia do is a direct response to the profound weakness of Obama over six and a half years.

Putin views Obama as weak, as ineffective, and frankly, as a laughingstock. And, as a result, he is moving in, he is invading his neighbors, like Ukraine, he's kidnapping Estonians, and he's moving into Syria to gain a stronger foothold in the Middle East."

https://www.tedcruz.org/news/icymi-cruz-we-have-no-business-getting-in-the-middle-of-the-syrian-civil-war-goal-should-be-to-defeat-isis/

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Ted Cruz:
"We need a coherent plan to address both the specific crisis in Syria and the challenge posed more broadly by Putin's resurgent Russia.

The good news is that America still has options, if our leaders can summon the will to exercise them.

For starters, in Syria we can't double down on the failed strategies that have given Putin his opportunity to intervene.

We are now two years out from President Obama's proposed intervention after al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. ..."

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/09/opinions/cruz-syria-putin/index.html

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Saw this slow-mo train wreck a mile away. Too many irons in the fire with manic-depression is disastrous.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

The article reads like a case study in why a lot of businesses fail.

The founder or longtime owner alienates the people that helped him build it from nothing.

They leave, and the owner brings in a bunch of "whiz kids" who promptly destroy everything.

And it's all downhill from there.

The guy described in the article is one of many "organizational management" experts out there now. They're nothing but frauds.

They're experts on how organizations are supposed to work, but have never run an organization before.

The Army likes to get these guys to give lectures to officers about organization efficiency and crap like that. What a joke.

Personally, Beck lost me after the Boston Marathon bombing when he claimed for days that he had information that would "shake the foundations of Western civilization" or some such nonsense.

Nothing ever came of it that I know of.

[poconopundit]

It will be interesting to see if Cruz brings Beck to New Hampshire.   My sense is that Beck does not play well in New England.

[ground_fog]

Beck made alot of good points back in the day , especially on the Federal Reserve, etc but he is just a bad messenger. It’s almost like he exposed the truth but hurt the cause because he is a horrible unstable mental patient.

I think the Rothschilds and the Bilderbergs have drugged him lol

[Flavious_Maximus]

When he came out for homosexual marriage and illegal alien amnesty, his show and credibility went down the toilet.

It also does not help that his show is full of guys with cartoon voices.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

I’ll try and delve into it all, but will say, if Russia is able to do all that, a big thank you to barry is in order, right?

[HarleyLady27]

because he's a whack job? back on the booze and off the meds?