Posted on 06/08/2010 3:40:36 PM PDT by NYer
Heads up! There are 78 comments (that I have not read) at the above link.
I’m happy just listening to Rush or reading FR and Drudge, fortunately.
I like Beck. I also like Limbaugh, Graham, Severin, and McPhee.
Beck is not perfect and sometimes I cringe at what he says. I can say the same for Mark Shea. Both of them also share some excellent insights.
We must all keep an open mind, continually asking God for the gift of discernment. Thus, our open minds will not allow our brains to fall out....
;-/
Heh. :)
I listen to the Jesse Lee Peterson show sometimes, in the mornings, or the Jerry Doyle show in the afternoon when I’m working on supper.
I’m glad we have a free market in radio news, so that a listener of whatever taste can find a broadcaster who is edifying. My husband likes Sean Hannity, but I think he’s a twink.
Beck isn’t right about everything, but one thing he does that most people who like to pontificate don’t is he challenges people to read it for themselves. Hence books he talks about that were seemingly going nowhere end up on Amazon’s top 10 list and have to be back ordered.
It takes a lot of courage to do what he does because there’s always people looking for one mistake who will try to nail him to the wall with it. I’ve got to hand it to him for trying to wake people up and at least raise the question about whether America was intended to a bastion of socialism when it could mean losing his career. Helen Thomas showed us that one false move, one moment of carelessness can end it and it’s really no different for him.
Self-righteousness leads to all kinds of hypocrisy.
Shea puffed up.
No, Shea setting the historical record straight. Whether or not Beck knowing presented a false historical setting is between him and the mormon polytheistic realm.
Beck is neither a Biblical scholar, nor a Christian. I take his comments on Biblical matters as uninformed twattle.
Those looking for accurate Church history from conservative talk radio would be better off listening to Flapp Jackson in the Morning this Morning, he’s the real Church history scholar DJ.
Freegards
Which is too bad because he is hilarious and quite sharp.
But I guess we all have our Achille's Heels.
When Catholic Communists Attack!
Many of the comments were clearly made by the “social justice” nutjobs.
The most wicked collectivist is the religious collectivist.
They tend to burn people alive, hang them on crosses, and basically raise up hell...always in the name of God, of course.
Abandon all hope ye who enters this “church.”
The radio show has lost some edge since the TV shows started up. I get the impression that most of the new fans only know him from the TV stuff, and have no idea of how funny/edgy the radio show used to be.
Now that he has Pat and Stu sitting in with him he rarely sobs like he was doing for a while there, the shows are better too.
I do think the TV shows are good for conservatism.
Freegards
Be careful. Rush is a showman, just like Beck, and his true loyalties are not what they seem. Drudge is a guy who looks for what is interesting and what will lead. Both are good sources, but should not be trusted to give the complete story.
ping!
As I have said before, if Beck is this sloppy on something so easily researched (read Goggle), then how can people trust him on things are are harder to research?
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