Has anyone wondered...how did Glenn Beck get wealthy so quickly?

I have wondered about Beck for a while, but loved his exposure of the communist network in the US. Since he left FOX...he seems to have changed...and the immediate disregard to the Bundy situation really made me sick. Beck didn't even give the guy the benefit of the doubt and touted the NYT version.

I know he has risen to fame since 2001, ghost written several books, had rallies, etc....but to have a network, now? A base in NY....a major website (so buggy and full of cookies it puts me off).

And claims to be for the liberty movement but cowers at an old gent saying (what he considers) off-colored remarks? Hello 1st Amdmt!

"I’m just left scratching my head as to why he won’t stand up for the liberty of Bundy and the gov overreach".

Bill O'Reilly is the same way...seems to browbeat anyone who stands up for Bundy. Kind of hard to figure.. But then again, O'Reilly is pretty much a schmuck anyways..! (IMO)

But I don't think Becks a fraud....a little squirrely at times, that's for sure..!

I think one of the problems we're cursed with is Beck, O'Reilly and a lot of the BIG time orators on their 50,000 watt podiums are just as disconnected from the common man as the politicians are... They never go out into the woods to hunt squirrel, get a deer or to do much of anything out in the country side....they don't have to deal with those arrogant ba$$tards (BLM & USFS) but once in a great while, if ever... I'll tell you real quick they are a bunch of snotty son-of-a-guns.!

Sorry for the slow response...my clerical ability's real stink...

Beck didn’t change. He has Add and he has other health issues which resulted in him going to various doctors. But you guys don’t want to address the 2500 dollar gorilla in the room. Glenn Beck and Alex Jones have been feuding since 2006 when Glenn Beck called out the 9-11 conspiracies on HLN.

Glenn was attacking Jones over the BLM and other issues lately. Beck came out against Jones and the other conspiracy guys in the BLM situation because Bundy aligned himself with them and the conservatives blended in with the other guys.

Beck didn’t like the way Jones and others were conducting themselves. So he called him out, that lead to Jones calling him out.

But actually last Tuesday Beck said he wanted to give up caring what Jones does. Just like Jones himself had given up attacking Beck for a year.

It boils down to Beck calling out Jones and his supporters over their tactics in the BLM situation.

Some people disagreed with his non-violent approach. Beck was attacking Alex Jones, but also Pete Santielli and Adam Kokesh, probably in a indirect way. But then he started naming Jones site InfoWars. Because Glenn didn’t like that Jones wanted to fight against The BLM and that people were calling revolution. He had said that if they fire the first shots it would be bad for conservatives. And that Beck wanted to solve the issues that Bundy had not start fighting. It angered people who were angry at the BLM and atb the conflict that went down last month.

Since Glenn went after Jones, then Jones took it as Beck coming after him and wanting to defame him. So Jones started calling Beck a traitor and a fraud. He ever did an article attacking The Blaze and Glenn Beck written by a reporter on the site.

Beck and Jones went at it for a week. The article on InfoWars went after every host on The Blaze as being fraud. Called into question Beck’s operation. Jones then said Beck was a CIA agent or something. Beck then tried to say if any violence broke out and conservatives got blamed for firing the first shot or if anything happened to ruin the tea party movement then blood is in the hands of Jones and others like him. So Jones aid he might sue Glenn.

But Glenn then came out and said He doesn’t care what Jones does or says anymore. Glenn said they just disagree on strategy. So if you like Jones or others calling for armed conflict or a insurrection then fine. He over his views and opinions on three shows.

On one of them he told people if they dislike me so much or disagree with me, you don’t have to follow me or care about me. So Glenn told people to not follow him if they were only badmouthing him and didn’t like his approach. It was no skin off of his back. So that angered people too.

Hence all the anti-Beck folks have been having a field day with this.

I should add that after the Bundy video came out. Glenn began questioning some of Bundy’s motives and stances. But he said last Tuesday that he has no dislike of Bundy. However, Bundy was rude to one of his reporters and yelled at him so Beck backed off from sending his guys to interview him and Beck end any communication he had with him. Bundy was also refusing to do radio interviews by that time anyways except very few places like Alex Jones’ show. And then Bundy got armed security.

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