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 agree too. Sometimes conservatives accuse liberals of being a herd, but they seem to behave in similar fashion.
I disagree that Beck has not put himself in a position to lead a movement. I watch Beck regularly and believe he has made big contributions to understanding who are undermining our constitutional form of government. However, today he did a mumble-jumble act that the best I could make out was that ‘birthers are as dangerous and crazy as the commies he has been chasing and certainly do not belong in his grouping of constitutionalists. I consider myself a constitutionalist from my pre-WWII grade school education. I also consider myself as a ‘birther’ more atuned to strict reading of constitutional eligibility than to trying to get BHO to release documents proving his eligibility. Beck, BOR and others on FOX try to get us into their fold but instead end up, I think intentionally, denigrating us. WHY? He should go back to exposing subversives instead of preaching what is needed to be his kind of consttutionalist. WHY NOT?
Rather than working to insult and demean, why don't you try to persuade others to join your side of the discussion? Once you sink to the depths of name calling, you have lost the argument.
You lost me on that one??? Beck is for everything you mentioned, and so am I. Evidently you don’t watch Beck and watch the MSM.
Dont be so sensitive.. its not about You..
To be a progressive is to be a progressive.. their is little difference.. its sedition...
That is funny. He could be on CNN and do fine.
Sooo..... you think Beck does not know the difference between John McLame and Ron Paul?..
Do YOU know the difference between McLAme and Paul?..
Beck is not a leader. He is a television personality who makes money by having people listen to him, regardless of whether or not they believe what he has to say.
Beck isn’t a leader, he’s a word salesman.
Must be tough to find out your hero, the back bencher
didn’t come up with his information first.
You feel hopeless because you need someone to tell you what to do. You are looking for a leader on the television.
I think he's off the third party train. Sarah seems to have burst that dream for him when she emphatically stated that she's a Republican and intends to remain Republican.
My learned husband never missed Glenn Beck's program and thinks he jams more information into one hour than anyone else on TV and I agree with him on that count.
Glenn Beck is not right on all counts and he goes to the exrteme to drive home his POV, and like you, I take issue with him when he compares Bush to Marxist Obama or the 111th GOP congress to Reid and Pelosi's democrat congress.
Roger Ailes has given Beck a remarkable research staff and they've come through with some amazing facts! It is my hope that he will concentrate more on the enemy in the White House and less on the very weak comparisons to the Bush administration, particularly since Obama does more than enough of that.
I might add, that Glenn Beck is a self-described Libertarian with conservative leanings, who usually votes Republican. At least he's been up front about it. It's also quite striking to me that he told Katie Couric that he would have probably voted for Hillary Clinton, yet just last week, he used that clip of Hillary wherein she called herself "a modern progressive." I rest my case. :)
the discussion was about beck saying the democratz and republicans are the same
he does say this - and says it often - it can't be denied - even becktardz admit that (and possibly agree with him)
i don't know if beck knows the difference between mccain and paul
i do know that beck does not openly support ron paul - if he does support ron paul, he hides it on his show
if i do or do not understand the difference between mccain and ron paul, it is not relevant to the post or the thread
i also know that beck was much, much, much more toned down on cnn - i wonder if he compromised his principles and gave in to any cnn demands while there
this i am not sure of - doesn't ron paul caucus with the republicans?
He is, of course, as is anyone with an once of savvy...
Most democrats do not know just being a democrat is a "dis"..
So the illusion is needed so democrats can "save face"..
In my opinion.. but you know I'm right..
We journalists don’t have to step on cockroaches. All we have to do is turn on the kitchen light and watch the critters scurry. - P. J. O’Rourke
going to win? yes
will a third party help the democrats win? absolutely
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