Go Glenn! The truth hurts....BOTH SIDES OF THE ISLE!!
Looks like Levin’s goons are all over the internets to annoy me today. If the Levin fan club is so scared of a third party then why don’t they start pushing for new leaders to replace Boehner, McConnell, and Steele. I guess they think that whining is more productive.
Levin must not watch Beck's show since Beck has been going off on that triumverate almost daily for the past year. CPAC was a perfect time to point out the problems with the Republican Party, which are many. No, they aren't as bad as the Dems. But, as Beck stated, saying "We don't suck as much as they do" isn't good enough anymore. The GOP has no choice but to be the party of limited government, strong defense, and free markets (or capitalism). If they aren't 100% in these areas, this country will continue its slide. I have not yet seen enough from the GOP to make me think that they truly "get it". Being unified when you're the minority party is easy; if they get back Congress, we'll see how much they've truly changed their ways.
Well, now we know who one of the “Back-Benchers” is.
Tahnk you for posting Marco’s speech...par excellant! If he continues I see a true statesman on the rise.
I want to commend Bill Bennett for his wise piece this morning on the Corner. I agree with him.
Come on. Mr. Levin hates Beck. He's always accusing Beck -- and everyone else but especially Beck -- of stealing his material and research.
Michael Savage hates Beck also. Here at least Levin and Savage are amigos. Savage calls Beck "the hem" for hemorrhoid.
Beck's also got the Republican establishment riled. Mr. William Bennett held his outrage in check but Bennett expressed a lot of outrage on his radio show.
“Moreover, when he does discuss politics, which, ironically, is often, how can he claim today that there is no difference between the two parties when, but for the Republicans in Congress, government-run health care, cap-and-trade, card check, and a long list of other disastrous policies would already be law? The GOP is becoming more conservative thanks to the grass-roots movement and a political uprising across the country, which has even reached into New Jersey and Massachusetts.”
I’m not good at graphics, but my son is working on one for me: a spiral showing the continual decline into socialism.
Difference between Republican and Democrat Parties? There is, but is there ENOUGH yet????
We continue to spiral downward into socialism with government agencies and bureaucracies taking more control of our lives and families regardless of who is in the White House and who is in Congress.
The party that reigns in the federal bureaucracies like the EPA is going to get my support. The Republicans don’t seem to do much about this even when they are in the majority with a Repub president in the White House.
The spiral downward continues.
Reminds me of the line from Back To School,
“He really seems to care. About what I have no idea.”
Oh wow....this thread, is, um....well I have read bits and pieces but have not read it all as we’ve been celebrating my mother-in-laws’ 80th birthday this weekend.
Talk about a “coming to Jesus” moment (among us Jews no less :) ) - a few of our formerly liberal relatives, knowing that my husband and I are residents of the “dark side”, asked us about Glenn and were impressed with him although put off, as we are sometimes, with the histrionics of his bit. They told us that they were reading about the progressives and other American history because of his show. I do believe that a certain Freeper here is getting the kudos he so richly deserves as a result of Glenn’s exposure - er, program - his book was bought several times over the past few weeks by said relatives. I now have a copy of “A Patriot’s History of the United States:..” given to me by a cousin yesterday because I had not gotten around to ordering it yet.
Well....we are returning the favor six-fold by sending a half dozen copies of “Liberty and Tyranny” and “Rescuing Sprite” to our newly converted kin (and a couple of others, heh, heh) who are eagerly awaiting them. We were aggressively touting The Great One - his love of pets and his admirable work with shelters as well of Marks’ love of and vast knowledge of this country. They are going to tune into his show tonight and give it a listen. Patriotism is slowly becoming “cool” again, G-d willing.
Anyway, I do believe that Glenn could word his stance better by targeting the blue-blood establishment Repubics* as being similar with the elite progressives/statists instead of the big lumping together of everyone. That is where the problem lies - the establishment GOP aggressively funding McStain, Crisp, et al against their conservative opponents.
Oh good grief I’m long-winded - sorry. However I am pleased and so excited to witness many in my life come to their senses; however, this online infighting is so distressing. Maybe it is needed to work out the kinks - no one is going to agree all the time on everything - but as a fan of both men I hope at some point that this sniping ends. We need both of ‘em as well as everyone else we can get to fight this foul and fiendish administration that now occupies the White House.
As far as Mr. Bennet is concerned - dude, shoulda played video poker or blackjack instead of the slots. Much better return on your betting dollar. :)
*thanks Mark!
I’m very late getting here, and haven’t read any of the posts yet, but the article itself was fine.
Today on his show FRed Thompson mentioned Beck had said that there is no difference between the parties...
FRed said “Think judges, Glenn. Think judges.”
According to something that writer33 posted elsewhere, this is apparently just sour grapes because Beck and O’Reilly prevented the “Great One” from coming over to FNC.
Mark Levin - good
That's my vote!
Mark is the best of the bunch.
I like Mark and I’m glad he was working for Reagan in 1976. That is usually pretty definitive as regards other folks (Romney, Weld, Lott) who were essentially working against him. I’d be hesistant to use the term fighting...Mark could have signed up for the fighting but instead took a pass.
There has to be a underlining reason why Mark Levin, who after years of bashing Michael Savage, has chose to go after Glenn Beck for nearly a year. Both are technically on the same page of opposing Obama, Democrats and Socialism. But it seems they disagree on specific things from time to time.
It has as much to do with their Point of View as their ideas for the future of Conservatism and the Republican party. Glenn Beck has a different way of doing his shows, radio and tv, than Levin or others for that matter.
Beck is a bit of a Libertarian-Conservative hybrid. He doesn’t want to be suckered into choosing and endorsing candidates and that is good because he has said that people let him down. Such was the case with Scott Brown. His win was great, but as you can see Scott is a liberal and now even Rush Limbaugh is against him and speaking out against him.
Glenn may have made the mistake of bashing Scott a bit to early, as in right after he won, but he said that the actions of Scott didn’t look like he was solid against Obama. For one thing Brown was a fan of McCain and supports Abortion. It is the best you could do in that state and therefore Beck may not want to get involved in picking people he is not sure of or the lesser of two evils. Glenn has said before that he can’t trust politicians to do the right thing so he can’t come to endorse them.
Beck probably doesn’t want to play the games of politics. Whether it is having to choose between two tea party conservatives in a race or having to pick the least rinoish or making enemies with his picks. For example, he has kept a cordial relationship with Sarah Palin despite not agreeing with her on McCain or Fiorina, but he likes her.
But likewise Glenn Beck seems to like Steve King of Iowa, Chuck DeVore of California, Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Chris Christie of New Jersey and others including Nikki Haley and Sarah Palin. He has praised all of them before and had some of them on his tv show.
Beck’s focus is also on teaching history on his television show. He doesn’t do news unless he wants to comment on it. For a while, he focused on what was wrong with Obama’s policies and then with his ideology and helped expose Van Jones and Anita Dunn among many others. Now Beck is doing a variety of different shows with a focus on history among other things on tv. On radio he has three hours to go into the news and discuss his ideas.
He has gotten on both Libertarians and Conservatives’ nerves because he bashed both Trutherism and Birthism as well as going after a Libertarian favorite Alex Jones.
If anything, Beck made the mistake of endearing both Conservatives who agree with Mark Levin and Libertarians who agree with Alex Jones last year. To me, it seems he was walking a tightrope. He finally said stuff that angered both sides. He, however has his own core of fans. Every book he shows on his television show or talks about on his radio or tv shows or writes is a best seller.
Mark Levin is a straight true Republican Conservative. He wants to endorse candidates so that people can donate to them and so that people know whop is worth voting for. But Levin knows these people better and Levin does the tough work of picking candidates to endorse and he is good 96% of the time with his picks, but I don’t agree him at least with one race which is the Senate race in my state of Kansas, but be that as it may for it is two conservatives and Jerry Moran is my choice, but I am not holding his endorsement of Todd Tiahrt, he voted for Amnesty, against him. Everyone who is the most conservative in the Kansas State Congress is for Jerry Moran. But anyways. I digress. It is a tough race and Moran leads.
Levin is a fan of Hannity. Which will rub people here wrong, I guess. Because while Levin comes on FR and is a fan of FR, Hannity trashed this website. Still both men have a friendship. While Glenn Beck seems to have a friendship with Libertarian John Stossel and also with Bill O’Reilly.
Levin only has three hours on radio to use and no tv show. As such he has less hours to use. Levin writes books but he takes longer time to do the books. His books also do very well. And that is good. But he has a need to feud with others on the right.
But then again Beck was busy Feuding with Obama last year and became the number one enemy. He kind of is up there with Rush as a villain of the left. Mark Levin is out there, but is not a number one villain. I mean, Beck is deeply hated as is Rush Limbaugh and even Sean Hannity because Hannity exposed Rev. Wright. Levin, while his book Liberty and Tyranny did anger Liberals a lot, did not get into a feud with the Obama administration. Doesn’t mean he is hated, but no more than Laura Ingraham.
Just go to Crooks and Liars or Media Matters and you’ll see who they go after... Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity.
And thus the dumb liberals don’t monitor everyone on the right such as Levin, Ingraham, Jerry Doyle, Herman Cain and so on.
And so both guys have differences. beck has bashed Bush for bad things he did, but so did Michael Savage and Mark Levin and Sean Hannity. So Levin, can’t claim he was not alone in his anger anymore than Beck.
Levin is great in his way and Beck in his way.