Posted on 03/19/2009 6:02:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since moving from CNN to Fox News, the Glenn Beck phenomenon has become the hottest topic today among conservatives. To demonstrate his influence, he recommended an obscure book called The 5,000 Year Leap on his radio and TV show, and today it is #1 on Amazon.
The Obama election and the Democrats takeover of government has re-energized the freedom movement, and more and more conservatives are turning to Glenn Beck as their hero.
Beck actually considers himself a libertarian. I was on the Glenn Beck Show two weeks ago, and he asked all his guests -- Steve Moore, Penn Jillette, and me -- if we were libertarians. We all said yes, and he said, “So I am.” He believes in maximum liberty and strict limits on the government’s powers as enumerated in the U. S. Constitution.
The boyish, articulate Beck is a dogmatic defender of the Constitution, which he believes is being perverted by both political parties in Washington.
His top priority is to “take our country back.” His patriotic enthusiasm is intoxicating, and his show is a hit around the country.
Last Friday on the Glenn Beck Show, he announced his 912 Project and his new website, www.the912project.com. His show is so popular that the site immediately crashed. (It’s now up and running.) 912 is a play on “9-11” and refers to “nine values” and “12 principles” based on the Constitution, and in particular, his favorite book called The 5,000 Year Leap: The Miracle that Changed the World.
Who is the author of The 5,000 Year Leap? My late uncle, W. Cleon Skousen! Cleon Skousen was a constitutional scholar, an FBI agent (and special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover), author of The Naked Communist and the thousand year books about the Bible, and a devoted family man.
In politics, my uncle was passionate about the U. S. Constitution, which he felt was inspired by God and the reason behind America’s success as a nation. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he ran hundreds of Constitutional seminars around the country.
His book The 5,000 Year Leap outlines 28 reasons why the U. S. Constitution created the miracle we call America, and led the world out of agrarian poverty and into a new modern age of prosperity -- a 5,000 year leap from men plowing fields to walking in space.
Last Friday, Beck passed out to the live audience a new edition of The 5,000 Year Leap, which an introduction by him. He told the audience, “Everyone should read this book.”
Between commercials, he told me that even though he had never met my uncle (he died in 2006), Cleon's book changed his life. He said that a friend, without solicitation, sent him a copy of The 5,000 Year Leap, saying, “Glenn, I don’t know if you’ve ever read this, but it’s the simplest, easiest way for Americans of all ages to understand the simple yet brilliant principles our founders based this country on.”
Glenn read the book, and concluded: "The author [W. Cleon Skousen] was years ahead of his time. And our founders were thousands of years ahead of their time. My hope is that all Americans young and old will spend the time with this book to understand why we are who we are. The words of our founding fathers have a way of reaching across any political divide. They are words of wisdom that I can only describe as divinely inspired. They are here for us to help solve the unsolvable -- and they are the reason why we have for so long been the greatest nation on earth. But most importantly, in these pages, you will find hope." (from the introduction)
Finally, hope we can believe in.
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Mr. Skousen is a renowned financial economist, author and university professor. He has been the editor of the financial advice newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, for 28 years. Two of his books highlight Milton Friedman's career: "The Making of Modern Economics" and "Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?." Check out his latest book "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, And John Maynard Keynes" or "Investing in One Lesson" and "EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World." He is the producer of FreedomFest, the world's largest gathering of free minds, in Las Vegas every July.
You know what? I don’t care what his religion is. He really understands the Constitution, the founding principles of our country, and LOVES THEM. And he’s willing to fight for them, and bring as many people along for the ride as possible.
I wish him every success - not only with his show, but even more so, in his efforts to bring our country back to its founding principles.
I’ve started listening to XM as well, and I am very impressed by young Andrew Wilcow. He’s part of the next generation of smart, courageous, funny, absolutely unapologetic conservatives.
His Soviet-style Obama Messiah theme is a work of brilliance. Even more interesting was the fact he couldn’t get any of his usual singers-for-hire to record it. His dad found a few of his buddies, I think.
Essentially what happened during his hospital stay?
add me please
Conservatives are looking for a leader who is NOT afraid of the truth. And would sacrifice all that he has for the love of country. Glenn Beck is far from being a politician(he doesn’t lie). But we need someone with principles and God knows he has those and a pair to go with them.
I’m with you 100% (or 110% if I were a member of ACORN). I was just trying to point out that some on this forum can’t look past his religion to get to the meat of his content. I love America, he loves America, and true conservatives must band together to preserve Her!
We aren’t Black, White, Male, Female, Mormon, or Catholic. We are American. And because we’re American, we get to be what we want.
Most Mormons are pretty good people. I doubt we would be screeching with daily fright if Congress was all Mormon, although Harry Reid would have to be excommunicated to not be a minority of one with his socialist, wacky nonsense.
Simple option: get yourself an almanac...
Bobo was a dog he ‘created’ for the radio show. He talked about killing Bobo and had listeners really believing he was going to put Bobo down. The called in to beg him not to. At the end, he explained Bobo was fictional and tied all of it in to the Terri Schaivo case. Very effective at getting across his point.
“Yeah, but IMO this is a very big reason that the “American, God-Loving people” are hated so”
Well, we were inspired by God, but I don’t think you have to wear your religion on your sleeve to use an old expression. I personally prefer people who walk the walk and instead of talk the talk. You do better to live by example than tell everyone else how to live. In other words be one don’t tell me how good a one you are. Those that want to change the Constitution to their taste, even whe the Constitution is silent on the subject, are in my opinion failures at convincing people that they are right and want to force their ways on others. We should do everything we can to convince people to do the right thing but if they fail God will be their judge not us. At some point you just have to pray for people or you become what we have been fighting. NOW FOR THE ATTACKS.
The only problem that I can see is that many of the original 13 are the worst of the lot.
A sure measure of Glen Beck’s value is the way he makes liberal heads explode!
Occasionally when I’m feeling bloody minded I go wade through the sewer over at DU just to see what offal the gators are regurgitating....
Beck drives them nuts right up there with Limbaugh and Hannity.
As I said, he has since defended FR as not being anywhere in the same league as the Daily Kos, but no, he hasn’t gotten on his knees to ask for your forgiveness. Enjoy your grudge.
LOL! Did I do something in your Post Toasties today?
Sorry, if so!
Look, I didn’t say Bill was the worst of the worst. It’s kind of like making brownies with a little bit of cat poop in it, less than a gram—nothing, really, but if I know about it, I don’t care how good the rest of it is, I’m sure not gonna eat it and say, hey, it’s just a little bit of cat poop!
A matter of principle, really, not a grudge. Bill can keep saving the whales or whatever he’s done, that’s cool.
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