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.
i don't think ignoring is the way to go
You're the expert on vanity opinions. What do you think it means?
whew, thank you friendly face
I had a DVR'd episode of his HLN show saved from March 08, 5 months or so before the crash. I happened to watch it a year later, and the discussion and panel he had on hit the nail on the head about the pending collapse. They almost described what happened to the day. His stock went up big time when I saw that. No one else on TV was discussing any of that at the time.
I agree with almost all of what you’ve said. But I think that Beck’s appeal to nonviolent resistance (a la Ghandi) is really appropriate right now. We haven’t reached the point where there is no other choice but open revolt. We still have free elections and we can make proper use of them (and we seem to be doing just that). We just need to get our message out and choose wisely, understanding that our adversaries are not merely informed by stupidity but by a true evil to which many of them have willfully blinded themselves.
The Progressive stuff is good to know, but that is not what I am at odds with, mostly.
do you know what you just did? You used liberal talking points to respond to a conservative. That is another thing Beck and Paul’s people do.
jenk— jenk—jenk
There is a button on the remote. and when it is mastered look up Van Jones and Anita dunn
LOl! You are certainly giving me a chuckle or two this evening.
Your dependence on ad hominem and/or straw men is rather humorous. ;-)
if you did, you would see that every sway of Glenn Beck's strange thought process is represented in the people who think of him as a leader.
Beck’s appeal to nonviolent resistance won’t last once the gloves come off. That’s the problem. The Left will provoke an incident that will make it impossible to stand by and submit. I will not fire the first shot. But I will do all in my power to fire the last one.
This is what happened when people think that talk-show hosts are in ‘leadership’ position: they write articles lamenting their ‘leaders’.
he also promised a plan - which i never have heard
That’s pretty much the way I feel about it, too. I hope - and I have faith - that we can avoid violence. I’m a father. I do not want my daughter to grow up in that kind of Hell. But I am prepared, either way.
to what end? His thoughts are garbled with no end game, many who follow him are only sure that they need to do SOMETHING so listening to and repeating him are SOMETHING. They need to know more than the beginning and the flourishing of the progressive movement
Cry me a river. If I don’t like what I hear, I don’t watch. Same reason I don’t watch Keif Olbermann.
Why don’t you spend your time worrying about what Obozo does. He has a real ability to ruin your life. Beck has no power to tax you or take away your liberties.
Beck is a commentator, not a “leader”.
You can only “jump the shark” once.
GB may not be uplifting, but he is commentator and news analyst, not a televangelist. He frequently admits he has always been an optimist about America, but lately has been feeling rather depressed about the economic disaster that is looming. I agree. Things are going to get much, much worse before they get better, if they get better at all. There’s no guarantee that they will. But at least there’s one person on a TV who is willing to tell the truth without sugarcoating it.
Watching or listening to Beck IS OPTIONAL!
Anybody can say follow me. It is the listeners (or viewers) who have to decide who they consider their ‘leaders’.
The article is not entirely off-base.
I think Beck has done a very commendable job exposing the rancid structure of Obama, his appointees, ACORN , SEIU and how each is linked to the other. His weak point is the “manner” in which he appears to do so- as if in half-jest has potential for unserious impact. Further, this creates a SNL caricature and runs the risk of obscuring substance for style.
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