Posted on 09/11/2015 12:24:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
An obligatory follow-up to last night’s post. Sounds like my theory was largely correct: It’s not just his personal falling-out with Palin, which he elaborates on in his new Facebook post, or her embrace of the progressive Trump that’s bothering him, it’s the whole damned discombobulating phenomenon of Trumpmania among the tea party and its sympathizers.
Especially its sympathizers in conservative talk radio.
I do not understand her position and love of Trump. He is clearly a progressive, not a small government constitutionalist…
But he is also a bully, sexist, cruel, an ego manic and narcissist in ways that makes Barack Obama seem like Saint Francis…
As Sarah Palin holds a unique place with the tea party, I expect more from her. Perhaps this is wrong of me. To support Trump and ignore his very disturbing policies makes you a populist at best. But I am almost alone in this it seems. At least with almost anyone in my job. Maybe they all have a personal relationship with him or I am just wrong…
What principles that the tea party is founded on is she promoting with her love of trump?…
[My personal grievance with her] was Coupled with total confusion on her love affair with Donald Trump (made worse in my head by my lack of ability to grasp what 30% of small government Self proclaimed constitutionalist, values and religious people see in him.
He apologizes for calling her a “clown” in yesterday’s radio rant but stresses that he stands by all of his other criticisms. The “clown” bit was apparently triggered by watching her be chummy with Trump at Wednesday’s rally against the Iran deal in D.C.; that subject is far too grave, Beck says, for serious conservatives to applaud Trump’s self-serving clownish hijacking of the event. As for the mysterious falling-out with Palin, read the full post for details on the unnamed Iago figure who set Beck, Sean Hannity, and Mark Levin at each other’s throats by spreading lies about them to each other, and whom Beck suspects of pulling the same trick between him and Palin. “Celebrity, fame and TV/radio are poison to humans I believe. At least it has been to me,” he writes. “I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.”
Does he really not understand the appeal of Trumpism, though? I’ve always thought it was a more or less straightforward matter of Trump being willing to throw unusually hard punches at the right’s enemies, whether it’s Obama, the GOP leadership in Washington, illegals, or even John McCain. John Nolte wrote a bit about that yesterday, using Trump’s wisecrack about Carly Fiorina as an example of how he’s willing and able to fight successfully the way the left does. “Nobody votes for punks,” said Nolte. “People respect strength.” That’s the Trump “alpha” persona in a nutshell. The more he shoves Beltway Republicans into lockers, the more atomic wedgies he delivers to his GOP opponents, the more politically incorrect he is, the more the legend of “he fights!” grows. And years before Trump had that reputation, Palin had it. “She fights!” was probably the most popular reason given by righties for idolizing her during her 2009-11 heyday. The two of them have each spent years being scolded repeatedly by “respectable” opinion-makers for things they’ve said and they’ve refused to back down, i.e. apologize, from any of it. They’re both subversive in that sense, a rebuke to the ruling political order. Trump is filling the niche she used to fill because what he lacks in Palin’s conservative principles he makes up for in his greater willingness to groin-punch his enemies. Palin evidently decided that that was close enough to populist conservatism to make nice with Trump. Beck disagreed. That’s the difference.
Here’s her speech at the rally against the Iran deal. Exit quotation from Beck: “It may mean that I don’t have a single listener left in the end but I would rather be true to myself, principles and to my God than to parties, cliques or popularity.” I believe him.
He was having brain issues ... serious ones. He had a traumatic brain test & he was in the bottom 10 percent & the docs told him his brain would stop functioning in 5 - 10 years. There’s a book called “Working Ourselves to Death” (1992) that goes into how physically, with extreme stress, you can work yourself into a spiral that can result in death. With extreme stress & overwork, you get into adrenal fatigue & evidently that brought on his autoimmune issues.
He went to a brain rehab center in TX & after that (plus finding out about the auto immune problem, etc.), I thought I heard him say he had another scan/test & his brain was looking ok, function was back to normal or close to it. I thought he was doing much better overall, although I know he really suffers with peripheral neuropathy - a close family member has it so I know how bad it can be.
I think he’s back on the stress wheel again with the state of the country, his views as to what needs to happen (unity, return to God, etc.) and it’s eating him up. He’s been very tired with a lot of travel. He had to take a month off to rest his vocal cords ... all signs he’s doing too much again, IMO. Anyway, I hope he can find some sort of happy medium & peace - he has a nice family & they need him.
Maybe Glenn should take a year (or two) off, then, to rehab/recuperate and focus on his family.
He feels “called” and driven to do something about the state of the country, babies being butchered, the threat of Islam/ISIS, the state of the world, Obama giving Iran nukes ... pretty much all the horrible stuff going on now. I don’t think he’ll willingly take off, but something has to/is going to “give”. I’m not a Beck “fan” as such, but I think his heart is in the right place even if how he acts on that is a little weird and I follow what is up with him more out of curiosity. I do keep him & his family in my prayers.
The guy who looks for all the world like Howdy Doody called Sarah Palin a “clown????”
Bioya, beck. Go back to rehab and leave us alone!
>> Sounds like Beck is having a hissy fit
Prolly... he needs to regulate what rolls off his tongue despite the obvious emotions.
I turned on Beck one morning during the Bundy standoff and was absolutely flabbergasted by what I heard. He went ballistic on conservatives who supported Bundy, and he did it with the snarky, SNL-Style nastiness that I so despise in the left, complete with those two mocking, jabberwocky idiot savants who “yup yup yup” and giggle along with everything he says. I turned him off that day and have never ventured there again. Took The Blaze off my bookmarks, and “unfriended” all social feeds connected to him (at his request, I might add). Haven’t listened to a damn thing he’s said since.
Instead of bringing people together, which he says he wants to do, he’s pushing a lot of people away. BTW, I have never liked “sidekicks” on radio shows, especially GB’s.
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