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I think we are all people who put our own families and careers first.

Perhaps I didn’t say this the way I intended it, so let me try again.

I believe that the most important outcome for Glenn Beck, is the wellbeing of Glenn Beck. While he presents himself as a historian, he is nothing of the sort. By his own admission, he didn’t know how treacherous W.Wilson was until a couple years ago. Yikes! To be sure, he is a quick study on many things, but he makes me uneasy. I do not, for one second, believe he is on the conservative side. I believe he is on the Glenn Beck Side. What worries me more than anything else is that he is starting to believe his own press clippings. He makes me nervous. And I don’t want him speaking for true conservatives, and being the face of conservatism.

He’s not a scholar in any way. I routinely see him steal the research of others and it bothers me. This is a moral, a character flaw. And I think him taking liberties with such things is the reason he can poop out a book every couple month. I’ve known people who authored books...most take a couple years to do. Someone who writes as fast as he claims to, with a radio show, a family, and a TV show can’t possibly do it himself, unless he “borrows” from others.

I think he is a PT Barnum entertainer, and conservatives should tread lightly.

Ron, I see so many FReepers posting this same criticism, Glenn's only out for ratings, sell a book, etc., etc., they follow this with the "That's it for me" or such, many claim they hold true to Rush. Do none of them recall those precise charges when Rush was first on the national scene from Sacramento? When he was selling his first book? (That he didn't actually write himself, that was a big hit from the lefties) When he had his TV show?? Are memories truly this short?

I laugh out loud at those here who are calling Beck fans "robots" or some other similar moniker, do you know how many times I STILL have to explain ditto-heads are not people who just follow Rush blindly, he coined "mind-numbed robots" specifically because of that? The problem the folks here seems to have is that Glenn is not a party-hack, and figures that if you're going to fix the problems inside the party that claims to embrace conservatism, you'd better start with admitting what the problem is, recognize those in the party suffering from it.