Glenn Beck is irresponsible in his leadership

me ^ | 02/18/10 | Jen Kuznicki

[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.

[sloop]

she is rightfully worried that his talk of third party will put obozo back in office another 4 years - or give obozo a democrat congress

all this talk about ‘ignoring’ seems dangerous to me

[jenk]

really? You don't want to move the country toward the constitution? you don't want to reread the founders? You don't want a balanced budget? You don't want a strong national defense? You don't want freedom? You don't want to live without fear? You don't want a civil society? You don't want a return to manufacturing? You don't want capitalism?

Or you just don't like it when someone tells Beck something he needs to know.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

He did a thing today comparing ‘birthers’ to 9-11 conspiracy nuts and saying Rats and Pubbies are exactly the same.

I am starting to agree with you.

[jenk]

Are you calling me a RINO?

[AFreeBird]

I think Beck is doing yeoman's work in trying to educate a lot of people as to what our Republic really is. Don't like his research - do your own. No one has said he is a leader, least of all himself. All he is trying to do is to get people thinking. If you don't like what he has to say, or if you disagree with it, he'll be the first one to tell you that's fine. Just as long as you're thinking for yourself.

Tell me how many other TV personalities are out there doing the same thing? How many are bringing in his number of viewers, and at five o'clock no less!

[sloop]

i agree

i guess my point is that beck's intro led me to believe that he wants to be a leader - and he does seem to have a lotta rabid followers

[jenk]

you are childish—my opinion is great

[andy58-in-nh]

I think the "end" you seek is a return to Constitutional governance; a retraction of Federal power and its rightful return to the American people as individuals to design their own lives and control their own fortunes. Glenn Beck has made it plain that such is his end.

The road that we need to take in order to achieve such an end is unclear and not yet visible because of the variety and nature of the threats we face, from without as well as from within. Patience is as much a virtue as courage. When the time comes, you need to know what to do, and why.

[paulycy]

So do you ever say anything that isn’t a personal insult or accusation?

Your style is boring.

[Sir Beowolf]

Love the Tag line

[jenk]

BUT THE EFFECTS OF HIS DENIAL OF LEADERSHIP RESPONSIBILITY IS WHAT I AM POINTING TO

and don't call names just because i nailed it

[jenk]

you started it

[SoCalPol]

You are really reaching to the point of a total lie trying to place Sarah Palin with Truthers.
This is a smear, lie, an attempt to take support away from her.
It won’t work. Sarah Palin is a Conservative Republican
who is not into your world of loons

Ron Paul, Alex Jones, Chuck Baldwin, Lew Rockwell,
and the rest of the anti war, 9/11 Truthers are part of
the NeoLeft.

Sarah Palin is the only Conservative who can beat Obama and this has your anti war NeoLeft loons in a fit.

[Sir Beowolf]

You got to hit it to Nail It

[jenk]

i’m willing to bet that if Beck asked his audience to jump like lemmings, a lot would

[jenk]

yes, and now I’ve shown you how

[SumProVita]

“...Glenn Beck’s strange thought process ...

Could you describe that? ;-)

[paulycy]

I didn't address you at all in the first place. I was talking to someone else.

I left this thread long ago when you couldn't understand a simple statement.

Go away.

[SumProVita]

Your tagline seem so appropriate at the moment. ;-))

[Sir Beowolf]

So how have you educated Me