“He too often sounds like a crazed cult leader proclaiming the end of the world is just around the corner.”
Ha! That’s EXACTLY it! I couldn’t quite put my finger on the description.
I remember when I used to get excited about those hyped stories of his. Yeah, they turned out to be as groundbreaking as Hannity’s supreme announcement that Lynyrd Skynyrd would be at his stupid Freedom Concert. (Can’t believe I still remember that...)
Say what you will about Doc Savage, but he’s the only one on talk radio I can stand to listen to. I’ve tuned out the golfer, the wallbanger, and the hemorrhoid with eyes :P
The warning signs were always there with Beck, what with the endless crying and emotional outbursts. Most conservatives, at least in my experience, try to look at issues logically rather than emotionally. It is one of the things that sets conservatives apart from bleeding heart liberals. Though I guess to be fair to Glenn, I am not sure how sincere his crying really is much of the time.
Anyway it seems to me he has decided to become a libertarian because he believes that is the direction the country may be going. So he combines that with a bunch of preachy blather that he assumes will keep traditional conservatives in his corner.
I still give Glenn Beck credit for exposing Van Jones and showing what some of these left wing “charities” really are, but when he had his moment on the mall he seems to have decided he could be America’s spiritual leader and I don’t need or want that from a talk show host. Now his show and media operation strike me as some kind of cult more than anything else.
I suppose each right of center talk show host has his/her place and considering the entire mainstream media is liberal we probably ought to be thankful for every crumb we can get, but for me Mark Levin is the most cerebral and intellectual of the bunch. Yeah, I could do without all the “get off the phone you big dope” stuff, but I do believe Mark at least knows his stuff. One of the problems with all these shows is that you can only scream to the heavens and warn of imminent national destruction so many times before people tune out. I guess with all his experience Rush is a little more circumspect about it all, but even he has become a bit stale to me.
Anyway, Glenn can go feed the illegals on his own dime as far as I am concerned. The only money I’m willing to chip in is for diesel and jet fuel to bus and fly them home.