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The Right & the Wrong (Conservative Talker Glenn Beck Puts His Own Failings Up Front)
Washington ComPost ^ | Friday, January 26, 2007 | David Segal

Posted on 01/26/2007 5:50:29 AM PST by 7thson

The set of Glenn Beck's talk show on CNN Headline News looks like the rooftop patio of a posh apartment, complete with simulated bricks and a huge photo-realist mural of a SoHo block. Beck is standing in the middle of this fake aerie, riffing about porn.

He avoids X-rated movies and magazines, he says, but won't offer the righteous condemnations you'd expect from the God-fearing conservative that he constantly reminds viewers he is. Porn isn't for him -- but neither is legislating morality.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: cnn; glennbeck; islam; talkshowhosts
Did a quick search and did not see this. Thought it was an okay article and I know there are some Beck fans on FR - Glenn Beck not Jeff Beck, though there are probably fans of him here, also.
1 posted on 01/26/2007 5:50:32 AM PST by 7thson
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To: 7thson

I like Glenn Beck more with each day.....

Jeff Beck rocks too.


2 posted on 01/26/2007 5:54:29 AM PST by NOLA_homebrewer
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To: 7thson

This business about legislating morality is the absolute stupidest notion to come down the liberal pike. Governments, including our own, have been legislating morality since day 0. There are a myriad of laws already on the books.


3 posted on 01/26/2007 6:01:01 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: NOLA_homebrewer

Ain't superstitious...


4 posted on 01/26/2007 6:01:36 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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To: NOLA_homebrewer

Truth!


5 posted on 01/26/2007 6:05:40 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: Kerretarded

Ping.


6 posted on 01/26/2007 6:06:22 AM PST by lysie
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To: Neoliberalnot
Governments, including our own, have been legislating morality since day 0.

I think that's the point.

7 posted on 01/26/2007 6:06:27 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (LF for President! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1771780/posts)
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To: NOLA_homebrewer

But he's a mormon... ask any FReeper who opposes Romney, Mormons are bad people. (/sarc)


8 posted on 01/26/2007 6:07:06 AM PST by Lunatic Fringe (LF for President! http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1771780/posts)
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To: Neoliberalnot
This business about legislating morality is the absolute stupidest notion to come down the liberal pike. Governments, including our own, have been legislating morality since day 0. There are a myriad of laws already on the books.

Yup! Like the "Blue Laws," and the the laws that "gave birth" to the ice cream sundae (since it was illegal to sell ice cream sodas on Sundays). Or the time that the MO state legislature made sex illegal (yes, even between married couples). Yup... No law that legislates morality should ever be stricken from the book either...

Mark

9 posted on 01/26/2007 6:28:52 AM PST by MarkL (When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Ping.


10 posted on 01/26/2007 7:30:41 AM PST by cgk (I don't see myself as a conservative. I see myself as a religious, right-wing, wacko extremist.)
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To: Lunatic Fringe

Well, it is part of the function of government in order to stabilize society. Many people act like it is something new or a big deal that you can't have sex in public view.


11 posted on 01/26/2007 8:12:21 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: MarkL

or how bout sex in mainstreet with your sister or defecation in your own front yard at noon.


12 posted on 01/26/2007 8:13:55 AM PST by Neoliberalnot
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To: Lunatic Fringe
But he's a mormon... ask any FReeper who opposes Romney, Mormons are bad people. (/sarc)

I may oppose Romney, but not because he is a Mormon. I simply can't vote for someone that the voters of Massachusetts put into power because they also vote Kerry and Kennedy back in over and over.
13 posted on 01/26/2007 8:37:05 AM PST by Eagle of Liberty (Islamists are like children. You cannot reason. They only understand rewards and punishments.)
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To: MarkL

Blue laws = faith-based tyranny.


14 posted on 01/27/2007 2:22:07 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: Neoliberalnot
or how bout sex in mainstreet with your sister or defecation in your own front yard at noon.

The first one makes the sex drives of witnesses go haywire (which interferes with their thinking) and the second one is a public health menace. These can rationally be banned.

15 posted on 01/27/2007 2:23:52 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (“Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.” —H. L. Mencken)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There is an excuse for every law on the books.


16 posted on 01/27/2007 2:44:03 PM PST by Neoliberalnot
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