The problem now is that we have a shortage of ordinary minds in Washington DC.
Posted on 11/23/2009 6:44:21 AM PST by PJ-Comix
Um...Let me guess. Nancy Franklin is somewhat less than enamored with Glenn Beck. In fact, she downright hates and despises him as you can see in her New Yorker article. Ironically Franklin accuses Beck of spreading venom in her incredibly venomous story which concludes by comparing him to the character of Lonesome Rhodes in the excellent 1957 film, A Face in the Crowd.
A few of the "love notes" tossed in Beck's direction:
Glenn Beck, the energetically hateful, truth-twisting radio and Fox News Channel talk-show host, was absent from the airwaves for a week...
The persona that Beck has cobbled together over the past few years combines a determination to draw attention to himself, because what he has to say is so important, with an outsized, in-your-face show of modesty...
Beck looks cherubic, with his boyish crewcut, his rubbery, expressive face, his wide eyes, and his seemingly innocent smile, but he has a wizened heart and a sulfurous outlook on American life and politics.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
PING!
Apparently, Nancy takes her marching orders from Olbermann.
Yeah, it’s not Glenn Beck who resembles Lonesome Rhodes, and apparently the American people are starting to get a clue about that. Unfortunately, the press is not.
Note how the press and the libs never attack the arguments of people on the right - instead, they attack the messenger. Is this the best they can do or are they going for the “ricidule” strategy?
Bill Clinton always reminded me of Lonesome Rhodes.
Vitajex? They hate Beck, Palin, Limbaugh, Levine, Hannity, et. al. So what? Let them rant and rave and spill their venom. The people know the truth, or soon will.
Actually....Obama IS ‘Lonesome Rhodes’.
“They’re drinkin’ the juice.”
Article? So off base he would have been picked off cluelessly.
Vitajex. Probably the BEST commercial of all time for a product that doesn’t exist.
The problem now is that we have a shortage of ordinary minds in Washington DC.
She has worked for the New Yorker for over 30 years;and has lived in Manhatten her entire life. She makes her living watching movies and TV. What a great perspective on the country one must have from that vantage point.
Hey, Gladnick. If you want me to believe this....how about a few examples?
A Face in the Crowd is one of my favorite films—I saw and bookmarked this from a few years ago (it was in American Thinker)—this guy nailed it—I think you’ll like it, as do I:
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2007/02/all_is_vanity.html
February 22, 2007
All is Vanity....
James M. McKain
Vanity Fair recently brought out its Hollywood issue for 2007. Among the many articles is one about the famous 1957 film A Face in the Crowd. One of Elia Kazan’s greatest films, it deals with the swift rise and swifter decline in the public eye of one Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes, played by Andy Griffith.
This film has been hailed as a cautionary tale of the susceptibility of the American public to demagoguery, and how public relations, slick packaging, shadowy cabals using appealing frontmen to advance their views, and the media all help to pull the wool over our eyes, if we’re not careful. True to form for Vanity Fair, it seconds that motion, and the article mentions that there are similarities in the film’s message to the careers of Joseph McCarthy, George W. Bush, Ronald Reagan, and John McCain (!). Even George Allen is referenced, with the writer calling Rhodes’ climactic fall from grace a “macaca moment”.
In the film, the Rhodes character is a petty grifter from small-town Arkansas, who is discovered by chance one day, when a television producer passes through his town. He becomes a TV personality, moves to the big city, and soon wins over the entire country with nothing more than a gift of gab, a charming smile, and a carefully coiffed hairstyle.
Underneath the thin veneer of smarmy, phony charm, however, he is revealed to actually be a cold-eyed, amoral sociopath; a priapic bully with a taste for jailbait girls, whose only genuine interest in other people lies in using them in his quest for power, or to help gratify his desires.
Based on the above description, what modern American political figure does that remind you most of? Hint: Vanity Fair does not mention him in the article - not once.
She doesn’t know Glen Beck and I doubt if she has even seen his program. He and Sarah Palin have done so much for this nation that it is hard to judge their impact. The 9-12 movement, tea parties, Death Panels, the organizations to re-construct Conservatism—all are not hate filled or racist—they are the voice of a large segment of the nation.
Hate is not what its about—its about Liberty, its about Freedom. Yes, he is a traditionalist. Yes, he’s not for the trendy cause the Same-sex marriage or legal drugs. He’s not a hippie liberal with ideas in his head placed there by Utopians. Yes, he promotes himself and does get things wrong sometimes. BUT, he’s right more times than he is wrong. His ideas are sound and should be discussed even if you dis-agree with them.
Um...Have you ever heard of the concept of quoting SOMEBODY ELSE?
“Bill Clinton always reminded me of Lonesome Rhodes.”
Me too. He also reminded me of the politician in “The Dead Zone” book.
I’d say he’s more like Howard Beal in Network.
Actually, Glenn Beck reminds me of the Gary Cooper character in “Meet John Doe” or to a lesser degree Jimmy Stewart in “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington”. I think he is very sincere and either very brave or very naive in taking on the big boys like he’s doing. I hope he wins but I’m really scared for him. God bless him for trying. He seems like America’s only hope right now. We should all be praying for him and his family.
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