Glenn Beck just did 2,937,000 on Tuesday. Do you enjoy just making up bullsh!t out of thin air as you go along to try to support your pathetic arguments?
Posted on 02/22/2010 3:28:25 PM PST by Gargantua
There exists the possibility that every person who ever ran for a national government office, be they Senator, Representative, or President, were all intrinsically and incurably evil since childhood. The greater probability, however, is that they started out in life as fairly ordinary people. People who, once they got to D.C. and became part of The Machine, it picked away at their charity, nibbled at the edges of their decency, and eventually completely consumed their integrity.
This would explain why they all seem to be reprobate, lying, scheming trash who care little if anything for those whom they were sent to “represent,” and care only about lining their own pockets to ensure getting re-elected. When ambition becomes avarice, it makes any number of lies, evasions, and justifications seem honorable. It also stands on its head the very process it would otherwise have chosen to serve.
Were this phenomenon of the “Mysteriously Transforming Humans” the sole province of the Beltway Banditry, our plight would be so much less grave. The truth is that this propensity for power to corrupt transcends the hallowed halls of Congress and the White House. It pervades Hollywood’s hoi palloi, academia’s acolytes and even television’s talking-heads.
Enter Glenn Beck. As he assumed the position before the cameras center stage on Fox, fresh from other entertainment-oriented pursuits, it seemed his was a benevolent mission to uplift the downtrodden, shine light into corners that loved darkness, and speak truth to the powers that putrefy all which they touch within our governmental institutions.
Right from the start he was lucid if loony, biting with wit and sarcasm, brilliant at connecting dots and ferreting out hoodlums, and humble when and where he himself became a part of the commentary. It was refreshing, informative, and truly revolutionary in the sense that nobody was doing what he was doing. He was the new Paul Revere’s church steeple, shining like a klieg light with the message “Three if by Government!.” (credits to the Freeper who came up with this tagline)
Then a terrible thing happened. His ratings went through the roof. Millions upon millions of people started watching him each night, eager for his next exposé laden performance, and hanging upon his every winsome word. No doubt there were accolades from his co-workers and media bosses. There were most assuredly many who told him how great he was. And, it seems, he started believing them.
He went from assailing those whose vile goal it was to overturn our Constitution and do harm to our glorious National Heritage, to referring in the same breath and with the same disdain to both the “Truthers” who believe the U.S. Government was complicit in 9/11, and the good people here in America who wonder why our President refuses to produce his birth certificate. Birthers, he now calls us--and it’s meant as an insult.
He went from warning us about the politicians who would tell us what to think and whom to believe, to setting himself up as an authority telling us who we should and should not vote for. Deb Medina? NO! George Washington? YES! Sarah Palin? (He’ll let us know once he makes up his mind.)
The once great and finely focused corruption-seeking missile has devolved into a self-promoting pundit who seems now to care more about what he cares about (replete with his own self-servingly tortured rationalizations) than that which is best for us, and for America.
Nobody is perfect. I cannot sit here and tell you that, were I in his shoes, the same fate would not befall me. I can, however, tell you what a huge disappointment it is when we find out that one of our heroes is in truth just another jerk. I was in awe of Glenn when he was our knight in flabby cheeks. Now I’m just sad. America is losing one its few truly brilliant beacons, and a damn shame it is.
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You have on problem with your post. That article has proved to be complete bunk.
Nice try buttpirate.
Glenn Beck’s ratings are slipping? Nice try again buttpirate.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/02/22/cable-news-ratings-for-friday-february-19-2010/42690#more-42690
5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck – 2,633,000 viewers (708,000) (1,204,000)
Situation Room—645,000 viewers (195,000) (262,000)
Winter Olympics Update – 414,000 viewers (150,000) (210,000)
Winter Olympics —1,699,000 viewers (759,000) (887,000)
Prime News —239,000 viewers (108,000) (130,000)
Yes.. FNC is going to dump Glenn Beck buttpirate.
Los Vegas Ron: Care to point out what he has said or put up on the board is wrong?
Yes, I care.
To quote Melville's Bartleby the Scrivener, "'I would prefer not to,' said he."
To do what you ask requires that I had recorded all his lectures and had the time and interest to go back through them to point out in the history of ideas (and their effect) his analytical, IMHO, flaws. Likr his kissing cousin at MSNBC, an equally brilliant person, there is always some measure of truth in the assertions . . . as laid out in some linear fashion either he or Rachel champions.
Thank you, ever so much, for challenging my post. Do appreciate it, I do.
R.
You may be fairly new but the use of someone’s name in the manner that you did is frowned upon.
Also, my statement was his ratings are slipping, he was drawing almost 3 million a day.
Nice try.
Glenn Beck just did 2,937,000 on Tuesday. Do you enjoy just making up bullsh!t out of thin air as you go along to try to support your pathetic arguments?
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