Posted on 07/22/2009 4:41:04 AM PDT by Federalist Patriot
Here is video of Glenn Beck talking with Bill O'Reilly last night and explaining his nuclear explosion on radio last week when Beck totally lost it with a woman who was challenging his views on Obama's Government Health Care Plan. . . . . (Watch Video)
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Just a little bit of drama?
IMO, he looked and sounded like a lefty jerk.
Yes!
I don’t particularly like GB’s “schtick”, which is what it is.
I like and find myself in agreement with with most folks that enjoy his program or his books and I have a few friends that are very into him.
“What would YOU do to make the health care system better!?”
Two even better words - free enterprise.
1. Have insuers sell plans for only what the consumer needs/wants as there are for auto insurance (i.e., catastrophic plan only and plans that do not cover what one will not need).
2. Tort reform.
3. For individuals purchasing their own plans, tax credit.
Although Glenn can be over the top @ times, I have to credit him with turning my sister-in-law from a moderate to a conservative. :) She was voting for HIllary clinton, and I got her to listen to him for a few times and she was hooked. Now she can’t stand Hillary and is now trying to convert her whole family.
4. MSAs — CASH!
“I don’t particularly like GB’s “schtick”, which is what it is.”
Same here. I enjoyed John Gibson’s and Laura Ingrams’s shows. Always turn off Glen. Kind of like finger nails on a blackboard IMO.
In defense of Beck......
There are others on FOX News trying to communicate the same message. In a sense they are preaching to the choir. We listen, we applaud, we nod, “amen”.
Glenn Beck goes a few steps further. He “shouts from the rooftops” so to speak. He is just enough outrageous that he catches the 5th grade attention span of those that might not otherwise hear the message.
Personally I love him for that reason. Five PM EST everyday I spend that hour on my tread mill (trying to loose a few pounds of menopausal fat, doncha know!) all the while avidly watching Beck and cheering him on. It’s one of my favorite hours of the day and I look forward to it.
Forget the tax credit. That only adds to the price the insurers will charge by artificially increasing demand, and it will put government in the position of dictating what qualifies for the credit, and what doesn’t, which will regulate what type policies will be available.
Agreed. I don’t have cable so I don’t watch him regularly but I’ve seen individual clips. My 85-year-old mother watches regularly. So I’ve heard what comes across to “regular” viewers day-in-day out.
His use of facial expressions and gestures etc. are a matter of taste. To some tastes (including my own) they seem overdone. But for a lot of people, it connects.
He’s a teacher, at least that’s what I have concluded—he works hard at finding ways to illustrate his points. All gifted leaders/orators/rhetoricians (schtickers, if you must use that word) through the centuries face the challenge of finding the proper examples, illustrations, object lessons to get their points across. It seems to me that Beck is unusually good at this. It takes work to put yourself in the place of your listeners/viewers and try to imagine what it is that will in just the right way get your point across. Beck speaks to the average guy with well-chosen “lesson plans.” I think that’s how he wins converts beyond speaking to the choir.
Rush tends to use humor, irony, satire etc. combined with CONFIDENCE—”we conservatives won’t be lap-dog apologetic anymore, we’ll take it to the liberals.” And that also has its role to play. Rush gathered together, created a huge national townhall meeting place for conservatives who already knew what they knew. He’s done a tremendous service to the cause. But he does it differently than Beck. People tuning in to Rush for the first time have to set aside prejudices and presuppositions and listen openmindedly for a few weeks. That’s an awful lot to ask of people who are inclined against you. Yet Rush still makes converts. That’s to his great credit.
Hannity just bludgeons his way around, repeating and repeating and repeating.
Beck, with his “lesson plans” and “object lesssons” is not going to win over the closeminded first-time viewer, to be sure. But given a slight openness, he can persuade the average guy quicker than Rush because with Rush you have to work your way through his schtick, recognize where he’s satirizing or mocking, account for it and then assess his point and agree or disagree.
Beck has unembarrassed passion. Rush’s passion is expressed more subtly. Both are good but different.
AMEN!
We need to stop the mandated coverage for things like maternity care for males who cannot have babies, nor can they use the coverage for any female they might impregnate.....
Well said!
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