Posted on 09/29/2009 9:01:39 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
>There’s a certain childishness, a kind of wacky immaturity, that Beck exhibits, and it bugs serious people. He’s not on a par with Limbaugh or O’Reilly.
Humor is a good way to gain an audience and cope with serious situations.
ORLY and Rush’s former TV shows were very silly.
"And piggybacking on the efforts of others, Beck has displayed tremendous marketing ability, or his handlers have, in making the absolute best use of it... He deserves praise and full credit for that.
So he piggy-backed on others and his handlers have marketed him well, yet Beck deserves full credit. Interesting.
The author needs to point his admittedly weak verbal weapon at the enemy, not at his fellows in the trenches.
I agree with the internment camp stuff. I read the bill, and it was clear it was not what it was pushed to be by some.
But, the rest of this article doesn’t make sense. Beck has done a great deal of good.
Stopped reading right there.
When I saw the picture of Hilton leaving a plane in a pair of Richard Simmons shorts and a tank top, all at once I understood the phrase “need to wash my eyes out with Clorox”. Even another queer couldn’t have found that enticing-but then one never knows when it comes to perverts.
Beck is no Levin or Limbaugh when it comes to original thought true. Still, does it matter that Breitbart came to Beck with the ACORN video. And his 9/12 project, as campy as it was, is about a year old. I never thought Beck was trying to take credit for the 9/12 tea party, I just thought he was trying to promote it.
If the author thinks Beck’s crime is reporting on a story that someone else has already spoken about, then every radio / TV host in the country is guilty. If he thinks it is a bad thing that Beck can actually draw huge ratings while focusing on ACORN for days, or even weeks, I think he doesn’t understand the good that accomplishes. The left has been effective over the years because they are so persistant in hammering away at a person, or issue. We could learn something from the looney left in that regard.
Oh and Beck didn’t replace Gibson, Gibson had been gone for more than a year before Beck got that time slot.
Beck isn’t even my third favorite hosts when it comes to in depth analysis, but this blood feud that Levin (my second favorite) and his allies have with Beck is just not productive.
apparently, levin and this guy don’t think Beck is an intellectual. Levin thinks he is smarter than everyone else. But the bottom line is that Beck has accomplished more than Levin other than Levin selling a lot of copies of his book with Rush’s help.
I really believe Levin thinks he is exponentially more intelligent than Beck, but Beck is getting all of the attention and Levin can’t figure that out.
It's very simple: the U.S. is and always has been a two-party system. One or the other WILL govern. Third parties always elect the worst of the options. There is no alternative to a Republican Party that is responsive to the people, no matter what Beck says. And the more he says that crap, the more he's damaging any real hope for salvation here.
Here’s another scenario (”Hussein has a lot white of white friends”) which we can flip to see how it plays if the subject is white. What is the reaction when a clueless, if not racist, white person says “some of my best friends are black?” I myself never had a problem with that phrase,depending on the context, but it has come to be, by the race-baiters, the defining slogan of a hypocritical or clueless white racist.
This represents my only serious concerns involving Beck. Otherwise, I doubt I’d be much interested in him at all. He’s called Barack Obama a racist, for one. I’m appalled by my friends on the right who seem so willing to pass that remark off as insignificant — almost pretending it was never said. It was outrageous, undeserved, and represents nothing but the very kind of racist cudgel the left has been falsely charging the right with being for years.
What kind of nit-wit is this guy??? Obama IS a racist! Read his books. He wants to drain every drop of white blood out of his body...he's said so. Look how he treats his mother. He spent 20 years nodding and amening Rev. Wright! Don't tell me he's not a racist.
I KNOW we're in the battle against evil as a Christian, and I have been on my knees in prayer for years for this nation and praying for it to be a righteous nation.
When I referred to "the enemy" I was well aware that our enemies are inspired by and fueled by THE ENEMY.
THAT is why we shouldn't be doing what YOU are doing, and picking petty and useless fights, taking your eyes off the real goal of releasing the Enemy's grip on this nation.
Now please, fight the REAL fight, and not the one you keep picking on this thread. PLEASE.
I love the pounding this guy is getting in the coments section below his article. Makes me feel a lot better.
bmwcyle wrote:
I don’t know if some people even on our side want to answer that question.
That depends on your definition of “our side.’ For me, most of my family and most of my friends and acquaintances, “our side” would not include any who favor communism or “big governmenbt” over individual liberty and responsibility.
If you are dividing the “sides” by party affiliation, R versus D, then I don’t have a side. I’m closer to the R side, but there are many with “R’s” who I consider to be on “the other side.” They also favor big government. They believe in tax rate cuts as a way to increase government revenues and finance even more government programs. This is how they want to “save Medicare and Social Security.” Read the links in my sig for more about this.
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Pajamas Media is close to LGF; CJ co-founded it. It was a big deal (big LULZ) when they got in a slap fight and mutually delinked.
http://www.foundingbloggers.com/wordpress/2009/09/lgf-delinks-pajamas-media/
They definitely don't like Glen Beck.
When Beck can't control his emotional diarrhea of the mouth, as was case with Katie Couric last week, and spews off the wall statements that gives the enemies of conservatism more ammunition to undermine rightwing politics with, we should stand up and speak out.
While grassroots conservatives and traditionalists are driving the agenda on the right, the GOP remains in a deep coma. The idea that the GOP is making headway against Democrats is ridiculous. Americans aren't embracing Republicans, as much as they are rejecting the Obama/Democrat agenda. When Republicans decide to offer a legitimate agenda of their own, then we can talk about making gains in 2010 and 2012. Not until then.
LOL, how true.
Have you ever watched the movie 'Network'?
The “Tea Parties” got their momentum from BUSH.
Austin Tea Party Crate Dumping: 2007-12-16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_AoCfKfpXE
Events like these won Glenn Beck over to our side.
Glenn Beck is one of the few people we have who has the guts to call a spade a spade. This guy is just plain wrong.
I don’t know if Obama is a racist, but his comments about that Harvard professor were racist. Beck may go overboard sometimes, but I think he is basically honest.
I think that point is that Glenn Beck did not get a half-million people to Washington. The Tea Party movement was around way before Glenn Beck was pushing it. Glenn reported it, promoted it, but it isn’t his movement.
Or is it now? That would be a shame, because the Tea Party movement was not about partisanship, it was about saving the country.
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