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I see no indication that Beck is promoting his Mormonism at all. Au contraire, his preachiness is more in the style of that piano-thumpin', southern tent revival, evangelistic, get down on your knees, tithing, old-time religion.

I don't see Mormon elders, Catholic priests, Rabbis, Lutherans, etal on his panels. More often than not it's southern Baptist-type folks, black lay people, non-denominational Protestant educators, authors, academics, and so forth.

However, whatever he's doing lately, it ain't for me, a daily listener from the day he started.

I tuned him out three of his last five shows. I'm a religious person (Missouri Synod Lutheran), but I don't particularly appreciate political ideology in my sermons on Sundays nor do I like over-emotional sermonizing in my afternoon TV programs.

I also don't care to sit through the maudlin confessionals and tedious testimonials from his "40 Days and 40 Nights" self-introspection groups which very much remind me of the liberal, group leader-driven "sensitivity training" circles we conservatives were actively and correctly exposing in the seventies.

Nor do I appreciate Beck's constant and sickening moral equivalencies between the two major parties or between Bush and Obama.......nor do I like MLK Jr. or Mahatma Gandhi consistently being pushed down our throats as some kind of temporal gods we should revere and emulate.

I have no problem with folks who enjoy Beck programs and his particular style......but I personally am more and more turned off by it and I'm finding more productive things to do when he's starts proselytizing and rambling on about this and that, never really making a coherent point except doing and being "good". Does he feel we're all still little kids in Sunday School?

Glenn is unparalleled when he sticks to history and/or exposing marxists, communists, radicals and the like in government, putting together the great panels of authors, thinkers, historians and educators whom I'm riveted by, and commenting on some critical political news of the day.

I hope Beck doesn't blow the great opportunity he (and WE have, also) has, i.e., being privileged to have an hour of prime time before a huge audience. If he continues the Aimee Semple McPherson bit, he'll be left with an audience of loyal fundamentalist-types and handfuls of Libertarians and other third-partyers here and there.......and his program will not be renewed.

Here's to his getting his valuable efforts back on track....and here's to his good health, of course.

Leni