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Has Glenn Beck Replaced Rush Limbaugh as Titular Head of the Republican Party? (Left Confused)
Examiner ^ | 9/8/9 | Karen Harper

Posted on 09/08/2009 2:38:08 PM PDT by nickcarraway

It would seem that Beck has stolen the crown from Limbaugh. Just a few short months ago, Limbaugh was widely known as the man behind the strings of elected officials in the Republican party but it seems that he has now been replaced by another entertainer. This time, Glenn Beck, a television show host on the Fox cable network that calls itself a news network, often weeps and rails as he talks to his audience. He often contradicts his own words from one moment to the next and yet he has a viewership of some 3 million people, according to TV by the numbers beating out Bill O'Reilly.

But it's not just about ratings. The town hall theater that health insurer giants like United health Care influenced by urging their own employees to attend was largely aided by people who are avid fans of Glenn Beck. While waiting in line to get into my own local town hall meeting I talked to the people standing around me. The woman standing just behind me told me, "I get all of my information from Glenn Beck. You should too." She was holding out printed information she got from Glenn Beck (presumably from his website).

Another woman came around passing out fliers for the town hall travelers with information on the next trip. She too said Glenn Beck tells her everything she needs to know.

I wonder what Rush Limbaugh thinks about Glenn Beck so easily stealing the crown from his head making him (Beck) the new king of the GOP.

Limbaugh has an enormous ego, and in fact has taken credit for creating the falsehood that global warming is a hoax. On the other hand, he professed to be annoyed at being portrayed and talked about on MSNBC a few months ago and seemed to want to be out of mainstream news. Now that he is out of the news and on the back burner, perhaps he is content to bestow his crown on the head of the weeping irrational Glenn Beck. We shall see.

One thing is clear, there is no leader of the Republican party who is an elected representative. My vote for titular head of the Republican party is Glenn Beck. He has happily spread the birther movement, the deather movement and his minions, elected Republicans like Chuck Grassley, (R), Iowa, have followed his calling and repeated his rantings to his own constiutents at county fairs and town hall meetings.

The Republican party is desperate and now they seem to have chosen a leader even more unconscionable than Rush Limbaugh.

If Rush Limbaugh was like the Tony Soprano of the the GOP, Glenn Beck is more like the Michael Scott of the GOP. Beck weeps and laughs and cajoles and makes analogies that are incomprehensible.

Beck's most recent ranting has been about Rockefeller Center. He has gone over the architectural designs of the NBC building bit by bit interpreting the meaning of the building that was built in the 20th century. He concludes that John D. Rockefeller was a liberal progressive. Don't laugh, his followers probably have no idea that John D. Rockefeller was one of the great capitailst robber barons of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Plus, he fails to mention that his own Fox building is part of Rockefeller Center.

But if you want to know what the Republican party is doing these days, simply watch the Glenn Beck show. Then wait a day or two and you will hear Grassley or some other Republican who isn't too busy covering up their affairs or attending creepy C Street meetings parroting Beck's words to town hall meetings and in interviews on television.

Glenn Beck is the best the GOP can do?


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1 posted on 09/08/2009 2:38:10 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

What will they do when they figure out that Rush and Glenn are acting together rather than against each other?


2 posted on 09/08/2009 2:39:41 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: nickcarraway
I noticed this since he went to FNC...I think Rush would love to pass on the baton too. Retire and Golf the world via EIB1.
3 posted on 09/08/2009 2:40:21 PM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: cripplecreek

Double-Trouble for the Commie Leftists!


4 posted on 09/08/2009 2:40:25 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: nickcarraway

Rush, Hannity, and Beck are tops but there is only one “Great One”http://www.marklevinshow.com/home.asp


5 posted on 09/08/2009 2:42:29 PM PDT by DogBarkTree (Support Sarah. http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/sarahpalin?ref=nf)
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Limbaugh was widely known as the man behind the strings of elected officials in the Republican party

Huh? Name one. Seriously.
6 posted on 09/08/2009 2:42:59 PM PDT by Question Liberal Authority (No health care reform without TORT reform!)
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To: cripplecreek
"What will they do when they figure out that Rush and Glenn are acting together rather than against each other?"

Play no part in this game, the left would like the get us divided and fighting amoungst ourselves...there is plenty of 'credit' for our successes to go around.

7 posted on 09/08/2009 2:43:36 PM PDT by blam
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"Heh-heh-heh. 'Titular.'"

8 posted on 09/08/2009 2:43:41 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle (http://www.conservatives4palin.com/)
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Not to get too off topic... But does anyone know the background on the apparent friction between Beck and Hannity???

They never mention one another. Ever. There’s definitely something there.


9 posted on 09/08/2009 2:44:20 PM PDT by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: nickcarraway
Dimwitted rant by another multi-ethnic weirdo from San Francisco.

A degree in Anthropology, but she knows for a fact that Global Warming is real.

Reality is slipping away from her quickly...

10 posted on 09/08/2009 2:44:34 PM PDT by Regulator (Welcome to Zimbabwe! Now hand over your property)
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Rush is the defacto voice of the Republican Party.

Glenn is the defacto voice of the patriot movement.


11 posted on 09/08/2009 2:45:09 PM PDT by RAO1125 (Neoconservatism:Failed. Socialism:Failing (again). Next up: Libertarianism)
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This faux reporter is a LIAR
I call BS on this
“The woman standing just behind me told me, “I get all of my information from Glenn Beck. You should too.” She was holding out printed information she got from Glenn Beck (presumably from his website).

Another woman came around passing out fliers for the town hall travelers with information on the next trip. She too said Glenn Beck tells her everything she needs to know.”

LIAR name these people. prove to us these women actually said this.
Good Lord this lib s will lie about anything


12 posted on 09/08/2009 2:45:20 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: DogBarkTree

All of these men are Great Americans. God bless them all and keep up the fight!


13 posted on 09/08/2009 2:45:23 PM PDT by halo66
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To: nickcarraway

No, no, no.

colon powell is the titular head of the (R) party. Rush abdicated and Glenn is a Mormon.

Didn’t you get the memo?


14 posted on 09/08/2009 2:46:06 PM PDT by Dr.Zoidberg (Warning: Sarcasm/humor is always engaged. Failure to recognize this may lead to misunderstandings.)
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To: nickcarraway

Conservatives are our own leaders. We don’t need to go to others to be told what to think.


15 posted on 09/08/2009 2:46:09 PM PDT by pnh102 (Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
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To: nickcarraway

Please. “Titular head” means the person who actually holds the title. The “titular head is Michael Steele. I think she means something else. Perhaps the “de facto head.” Or the “actual head.” But not the “titular head.”


16 posted on 09/08/2009 2:46:26 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: cripplecreek

Rush is still the man. But he can always use help.


17 posted on 09/08/2009 2:46:36 PM PDT by carjic (Laid off since Dec 08...HELP!)
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To: nickcarraway

Are Rachel Maddow, Keith Olberman, and Chris Matthews the best the Democrats can do? Are they even in competition with Rush and Glen, or are they competing just to keep their own newsstation afloat?


18 posted on 09/08/2009 2:46:45 PM PDT by Wee-Weed Up
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To: nickcarraway

I wonder what Rush Limbaugh thinks about Glenn Beck so easily stealing the crown from his head making him (Beck) the new king of the GOP.

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Idiot statement. Rush was just on the GB show. The both of them are unanimous in their opposition of Obama.


19 posted on 09/08/2009 2:47:17 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (I am Legend)
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To: nickcarraway

A majority of the Left have been “confused” for a *long* time now.


20 posted on 09/08/2009 2:47:24 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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