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Fox News' Glenn Beck's right-wing rants go way too far, critics charge
NY Daily News ^ | 9/14/09 | David Saltonstall

Posted on 09/14/2009 11:29:45 AM PDT by pissant

Glenn Beck, the hottest right-wing voice on the air, worried aloud to his listeners the other day that powerful, sinister forces trying to destroy America might soon "shoot me in the head."

But there's fear among his critics, including calmer conservatives, that the victim more likely will be one of Beck's many broadcast targets.

After a summer of mob anger at town hall meetings on health care - some of which featured gun-toting protesters - and a burst of Beck-fanned hysteria over President Obama's back-to-school speech last week, the former top 40 deejay has emerged as a goofy dark prince of the right.

His gift for spinning apocalyptic visions of the future is matched only by his melodramatic skill to gin up his listeners.

"'The world is going to hell in a handbasket' - I think that pretty much summarizes Glenn Beck," said Charles Dunn, a Regent University professor and author of "The Future of Conservatism."

"But I also think he's become the head cheerleader of getting people to respond - the tea parties, the health care town halls."

"Glenn is great at what he does," added Michael Smerconish, a conservative whose show runs in New York on WOR, the same station as Beck's show. "But I just wonder - at what cost?

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: democrats; drivebymedia; enemedia; foxnews; glennbeck; liberalfascism; liberalmedia; lping; mediabias; msm; obama; obamedia; whinycommies
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I reckon Chrissy Matthews and Madcow's are right in sync with America
1 posted on 09/14/2009 11:29:46 AM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

Hmmm...Mr. Beck hitting a little too close to home?


2 posted on 09/14/2009 11:30:49 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Stay together, pay the soldiers and forget everything else" Lucius Septimus Severus)
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To: pissant

I hope he’s just getting started!!!


3 posted on 09/14/2009 11:31:14 AM PDT by dalereed
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To: pissant

And they do this a week after an pro life activist is shot, but we hear crickets over such an actual crime.


4 posted on 09/14/2009 11:31:29 AM PDT by SeminoleSoldier
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To: pissant

Yeah...with a ‘thrill up their leg’...and that wasn’t too far or disgusting?

Go Glenn...keep ranting, just don’t have a heart attack or a stroke when you’re doing it. We’re all behind ya!


5 posted on 09/14/2009 11:32:40 AM PDT by USAHOME
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To: pissant

NY Daily News= NYT lite


6 posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:02 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: pissant

Madcow is a “Bull”, right up to and including the adam’s apple.


7 posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:03 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (It's not an Obama "Administration"....it's a "Regime")
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To: pissant

It is the Main Stream Media that has emerged as a “dark prince”, but I would not call them goofy, they are “sinister” and dangerous and often verge on treason.


8 posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:15 AM PDT by tentmaker
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” After a summer of mob anger at town hall meetings on health care - some of which featured gun-toting protesters - and a burst of Beck-fanned hysteria “

‘Mob anger’, ‘gun-toting protesters’...

Who’s fanning hysteria???


9 posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:35 AM PDT by Uncle Ike (Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
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"But there's fear among his critics, including calmer conservatives, that the victim more likely will be one of Beck's many broadcast targets."

"Victimhood" is one of the Left's most cherished roles.

They and they alone are capable of such status in their eyes.

10 posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:49 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (u)
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To: pissant

Heh. Fox News is laughing all the way to the bank.


11 posted on 09/14/2009 11:33:57 AM PDT by pray4liberty (I'm going to make me a T shirt that says "You Lie.")
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To: pissant

Smerconish is not a conservative.


12 posted on 09/14/2009 11:34:00 AM PDT by conservativebuckeye
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To: SMARTY

Hmmm...Mr. Beck hitting a little too close to home?
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He is. My lib hubby spits nails at the mention of his name. LOL! I’ll just keep on watching him. ;-P


13 posted on 09/14/2009 11:34:26 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (http://www.muckety.com/7BECFF40501E647D3741343C37265A57.map)
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To: pissant
critics charge

Name them!

14 posted on 09/14/2009 11:34:38 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: pissant

Critics? Like Sissy Matthews, and Crybaby Oldermann?


15 posted on 09/14/2009 11:34:51 AM PDT by CodeToad (If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
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To: All

ACORN busted again, this time in NYC:

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16 posted on 09/14/2009 11:35:21 AM PDT by Rodney Dangerfield (Birthers - People who insisted Sarah Palin provide a DNA test to prove Trig is hers.)
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To: pissant
"But I also think he's become the head cheerleader of getting people to respond - the tea parties, the health care town halls."

Because he's the ONLY one pointing out many of the atrocities being committed against the United States.

18 posted on 09/14/2009 11:35:48 AM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (u)
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To: pissant

If your not taking flak, your not over the target.


19 posted on 09/14/2009 11:36:18 AM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: pissant

The truth does this to liberals.


20 posted on 09/14/2009 11:37:27 AM PDT by Tarpon (The Joker's plan -- Slavery by debt so large it can never be repaid...)
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