Right again, my FRiend. It sounds like you’ve got enough insight on this to be a talking head yourself!
How many times have people like him criticized politicians for trying to have it both ways: paying lip service to conservatism but keeping their feet firmly planted elsewhere? And that’s exactly what he’s doing. I wonder if the Rand Paul, Glenn Beck amalgamation of libertarian conservatism is what we can look forward to in the years to come.
Me, I’ve always been curious about what effect medication may have played on Glenn’s mindset. I distinctly remember the radio show when he came on the air and announced that he was going to start taking ADD medication. Not long after that, the cheerful wit began to fall away from his show like so much scaffolding.
Levin isn’t bad, but I can’t get over how many commercials his show seems to have. I actually might listen to him more often if he had more of an edge. That’s why I like Savage: he mocks, belittles, and humiliates the left, just as it deserves.
I can barely listen to Glenn’s pronouncements anymore, and yet I believe he is the only one putting his money where his mouth is, changing our world
The ADD is near insanity, and I often have to change the channel.
What about the daily aborted Americans? What about Syrian and Iraqi kids and Somali kids. Why don’t these kids being abused by the democrats rate on his diatribes? The democrats caused ALL the suffering of children around the world.
Go after the child abusers first.
Yup, that is precisely what I think. He is trying to have it both ways to keep as much of his current audience as possible and stay relevant (and libertarian hip) enough to capture what he perceives as new libertarian listeners.
I wonder if the Rand Paul, Glenn Beck amalgamation of libertarian conservatism is what we can look forward to in the years to come.
I am afraid so. It's not that there isn't room for some voices like that, it's that I believe Beck has ulterior motives here. It's pretty clear he is trying to get in bed with the libertarianish faction, but trying to combine it with a religious message to sell us on the idea that this is what libertarianism is all about. It's not, and I doubt he is fooling too many people with this new shtick.
Maybe it's because I think Ron Paul is a loon and don't trust Rand very much at all (I think he is much more like his father than he lets on). I think trying to sell this libertarianism to a largely traditional audience as if it's a natural fit comes across as a bunch of BS (and this is coming from someone who has some libertarian leanings but in general believe that crowd is more liberal than anything else).
Levin isn’t bad, but I can’t get over how many commercials his show seems to have.
Gotta agree here. Just.To.Many.Commercials. I can only handle just so much "Goldline" and "Hillsdale College" pitches being thrown at me every 15 minutes. Too many of these shows feel like half the airtime is dedicated to commercials or the sneaky commercials where they mix the sponsor in with their monologue (which I really dislike because I wonder if they think were too foolish to realize what they are doing).