Posted on 03/19/2009 6:02:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
I think the big story is he’s doing much better on Fox than on CNN. And isn’t CNN down a little since he left?
I like Beck’s ideas, but I like Beck because he is sarcastic and funny, without being over-the-top
The amazing part about Beck is that he’s self-educated on all these issues...he learns it the old fashioned way, he reads.
I noticed when O’Reilly was on Beck’s show the other day, he mentioned his Harvard education, LOL, as if that’s some sort of qualification.
Beck’s self-deprecating humor and his zany presentations let him “get away” with saying things that other news hosts wouldn’t dare. His latest excoriation of Frank (complete with his Frank impersonation...which is a hoot) is one example of him telling the truth and making it clear so that people understand.
Glenn Beck does all that and with humor.
Fox ought to bump his slot to prime time. His show is the best thing on television, period.
His over reliance on sarcasm and drama lessens him a bit in my book but overall he’s spot on. Too bad he’s a Mormon. Some rollers are unable to appreciate him because of it.
I’ve been listening to Beck on the radio for about 6 years now. I’ve seen the show once or twice. It looks like a great show, however I’ve turned off ALL TV news. I just don’t trust network TV. I can still listen to his radio program.
Glen’s style does the radio justice. Who doesn’t love moron trivia?
“I noticed when O’Reilly was on Beck’s show the other day, he mentioned his Harvard education, LOL, as if that’s some sort of qualification.”
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Ann Coulter, is another one who is in love with her Ivy League “credentials”. She, at times, even employs one’s college pedigree as some sort of worthiness measuring stick.
I’m a strident AC fan, except for that occasional chink in her armor.
24 comments so far and not one anti-Beck. I’m impressed!
Me too.
The “True Believers” haven’t tripped over this thread yet....
DVR and TIVO; great inventions
But somehow elicits the anti-Mormon responses.
AMEN!
He is spot on.
I once recall a radio show of his one day, about four/five years back, when a left-leaning caller accused Beck of being to influential and possible causing confusion through Beck's use of sarcasm/humor. The caller assumed that too many (presumably conservative) people were not smart enough to separate the sarcasm from reality and would just do the things that Beck requested, blindly, like lemming over a cliff. Beck countered [I'm paraphrasing here] "You mean to tell me that if I were to tell my listeners that eating dog turds was both nutritious and delicious, the at least some of my audience would go out and follow their pet dogs out to the back yard and give 'em a try?" The caller's take was that some people in his audience really would do just that. Eating dog turds became part of his show's theme for the remainder of the week, including a mock advertisement for dog feces.
Some of the funniest radio I've ever heard was from Beck. I don't think he's as much of a libertarian-leaner as he's like to claim but he's a definite asset to the conservative/limited-government cause.
My husband, (a programmer), is convinced that the 9/11 project website crash was due to a denial of service attack. I’m not so sure.
In all of the replies, nobody seems to have picked up on the book itself-the 5000 year leap. Read it, then give it to somebody who might benefit from it, a child, a friend, a raving lefty. The Naked Communist is pretty good but the 5K leap really weaves the constiution and the ideas behind it into action and results. When the Barakracy starts banning books, the 5K leap will be near the top of the list.
A grown man crying in high def is unbecoming. His message is solid, but his teary eyes are better on the radio.
They're trying to mock Beck - and take him down - but Beck knows what he's talking about.
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