Look, I can’t read his mind, but all those protesters out there have to be making his life a living hell, day after day, and he goes on TV and radio day after day telling the truth only to be called a liar, a conspiracy theorist and every other name in the book.
Then, when what he predicts comes true, he is either ignored or belittled. He gets no credit except from us second-class Tea Party citizens and all the while he has to live with death threats, threats to his family, his co-workers (who can’t be very happy about all this going on near their studios) and he lives with it 24 hours a day 7 days a week.
All while dealing with his creeping medical condition that could make him blind.
Now, nobody made him pick this life but as far as I’m concerned he’s doing God’s work teaching people about marxism, islam, liberalism and all its intertwined tentacles, so that we can understand and fight it.
If I were fighting as hard as he is, I’d be angry at times too. It helps.
I think he’ll be ok. He seems to be calming down now.
God help Glenn Beck.
Mrs. GBC, on the other hand, loves the show and says he is just passionate about his cause.
He’s very passionate, but he makes a lot of mistakes. In part that’s because he’s learning all the time. He himself admits he never read a book in the decades before 9/11/2001. It’s hard to make up for a lifetime of ignorance in 9 years, especially when it’s your job to talk for 4 hours a day, like you know everything.
He has guests on who fundamentailly disagree with each other, and he will agree with both. At times he’s a libertarian/Austrian school guy. Then he flips back to being a CNBC / mainstream conservative on financial issues.
At times he’s interviewing revisionist Historians who hold Lincoln a notch above the devil, the next week he’s back to praising him.
His main effort was both self-aggrandizing and massively defocusing to the organic TEA Party movement. The TEA Party movement had a wonderful focus on the most unifying theme possible for conservatives: Taxed Enough Already. The Liberal-built government is too damn big and needs to be taken down to size. Into this he injected his quasi-religion 9/12er mumbo jumbo, where we all supposed to go tot DC and “restore honor”.
He made us all do penance for “racism” one more time. It turns out the thing we have do to save America is bow down to the memory of MLK, and find obscure black patriots from the Revolutionary era and raise them up to a level equal with Jefferson and Washington.
He’s not merely race-blind, he’s an active supporter of the current anti-White liberal zeitgeist.
For all these reasons he is no longer someone I have much interest in hearing from. Certainly his heart is in the right place, but his ego and influence have so overgrown his real wisdom, knowledge and ability that it’s like watching a man who can’t swim in the deep end every time I turn him on.
We need real leadership in our movement. He is definately NOT the man to provide it.
Good post.
There are times I think Beck is off the deep end, but every time I do, and I take a moment to really listen to what he says, I realize he’s right.
He’s got a lot to deal with, security and health-wise, but he doesn’t give up and he doesn’t hide. We could use more Becks.