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Is Glenn Beck a Disciple of Crackpot Ron Paul?
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | Septembe 15, 2009 | David Swindle

Posted on 09/15/2009 6:20:51 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative

Glenn Beck

In the recent dialogue between David Frum and David Horowitz about the place of Glenn Beck and other bold talkers in the Conservative Movement Frum shot out a claim which threw Horowitz off guard:

Third – how do we define “our side”? Horowitz harshly condemns Obama appointee Van Jones. Van Jones was eventually forced to resign not because of any of the allegations Glenn Beck hurled at him, but because the Gateway Pundit blog unearthed evidence that Van Jones had consorted with 9/11 denialists. So that’s the other side, right? Except… the American politician who most closely associates with 9/11 denialists is Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul. And who acts as Paul’s chief TV enthusiast and publicist? Glenn Beck of course.
Horowitz was puzzled by Frum's charge that Beck embraced the embarrassing Paul:
Ron Paul is a crackpot, a conspiracy nut and a public menace. His crank views of the economy have a lot of Republicans snookered enough to ignore the fact that he is an anti-Semite and an America-hater — fundamentally at odds with America’s role in the world as the guardian of freedom. I have to confess that I am not familiar with Beck’s promotion of Paul. If David wants to engage this I would have to review Beck’s statements about Paul first.
So let's review Beck's statements on Paul a bit and see if Frum was correct in grouping Beck with the kooks of the Whack-Job Right.

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1 posted on 09/15/2009 6:20:51 PM PDT by HorowitzianConservative
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Glenn Beck is feared by both sides. He is the only person who goes after both liberals and conservatives, and the only commentator I will watch now on TV.


2 posted on 09/15/2009 6:23:16 PM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

I don’t care if Beck is a faggot! He is exposing Obama’s criminal regime, and and nobody else had the guts to do it.


3 posted on 09/15/2009 6:23:54 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

I’ve heard Glenn Beck say Ron Paul has some good points, but then he goes off into crazy land. Glenn is not a fan of Paul’s


4 posted on 09/15/2009 6:24:30 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

‘America’s role in the world as the guardian of freedom’

Joy. /s

’ we are not obliged to promote or defend those rights everywhere in the world to the detriment (if not destruction) of our own society.’

Mark Levin


5 posted on 09/15/2009 6:24:37 PM PDT by BGHater (Insanity is voting for Republicans and expecting Conservatism.)
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To: TommyDale

Minor correction, Tommy. Beck doesn’t go after conservatives, he goes after big government(bought and paid for RINO’s)

Otherwise,

BUMP!


6 posted on 09/15/2009 6:25:44 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Pray for, and support our troops(heroes) !! And vote out the RINO's!!)
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To: divine_moment_of_facts

Let me say that again.. Glenn says Paul goes off into crazy land.


7 posted on 09/15/2009 6:25:57 PM PDT by divine_moment_of_facts (“Cap and Trade bill tells us how to live.. Health Care bill tells us how to die.” Bauer and Rose)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Ron Paul is not all wrong. It is just when he is wrong he is over the top. Ron Paul understands the Constitution.


8 posted on 09/15/2009 6:27:27 PM PDT by bmwcyle (We need more Joe Wilson's.)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

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9 posted on 09/15/2009 6:27:36 PM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (Markets and Marxists Don't Mix! Audit the FED NOW!)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Glenn had Ron Paul on ONCE during his reign at Fox. That’s it. And they talked about the Fed, TARP and gold, not some vast conspiracy to exterminate the Jews, like Charles Johnson of the increasingly irrelevant blog LGF, and David Frum seem to believe. What else can explain their hysteria? They really seem to think Glenn is in league with an anti-Semetic, White Supremacist cabal—that non-existent non-threat with which LGF is obsessed each and every day.


10 posted on 09/15/2009 6:28:01 PM PDT by montag813 (qui)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Ron Paul is not a crackpot. He’s a solid Constitutionalist who has gone off on a few screwy tangents, but I’ll take him over 99% of Republicans any day.


11 posted on 09/15/2009 6:28:16 PM PDT by giotto
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Frum is not a conservative and not on our side.


12 posted on 09/15/2009 6:29:18 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck. (Let them eat arugula!))
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Are Frum and Horowitz neocons? Yes, they are.


13 posted on 09/15/2009 6:29:38 PM PDT by ruination
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To: bmwcyle

Ron Paul is a very smart man. I do not agree with everything but he is 100 times better than most politicians.


14 posted on 09/15/2009 6:30:55 PM PDT by Frantzie (Lou Dobbs & Glenn Beck- American Heroes! Bill O'Reilly = Liar)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Don’t care.


15 posted on 09/15/2009 6:39:36 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

He goes after anyone who is doing a bad job in government, or being a hypocrite. I doubt he would hesitate to go after anyone who is violating the public trust.


16 posted on 09/15/2009 6:39:44 PM PDT by TommyDale (Independent - I already left the GOP because they were too liberal)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Thank you David Horowitz for proving that campus commie to power obsessed neoconservative is not a very far leap.


17 posted on 09/15/2009 6:41:17 PM PDT by Commander8 (Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth? Galatians 4:16)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

I’m quite capable of distiniguishing when someone is right on and when they are off the track.

When Beck is right on I’ll praise him from the rooftops. When he’s wrong it doesn’t bother me to say so, and it also doesn’t take anything away from when he’s right.

He’s the only one out there really doing the work that journalists used to do. Before the election no journalists bothered or dared to dig into O’s background, or the real connections between O and Ayers, or the real nature of Acorn, or the real nature of O’s connections with Acorn, or the real nature of what O was doing all those years. No journalists bothered to hunt down anyone who knew O’s grandparents, or his mom, or even O himself to give anyone any idea who these people were.

They still haven’t. Now that someone with a platform finally does it they are going bananas. Beck didn’t sink Van Jones, he just played the tapes and O fired him.

Beck isn’t going after Acorn, he just plays the tapes. Its going to take someone in government with some nerve to do the real work of taking them down and dismantling them, and meanwhile Beck is hanging way out there, exposed as all get-out, hoping someone will take what he’s found and actually run with it.

The press has gone into circle-the-wagon mode, defending what real journalists would investigate. There are a couple dozen more czars out there, and no one except Beck and a few others are even interested to know who they are.

I don’t care if you’ve got pictures of Beck french-kissing Santa, he’s more man than anyone else I can think of in the media or in politics right now. Thats the tragedy, that what he’s doing should be the rule instead of the rarest of exceptions.


18 posted on 09/15/2009 6:43:45 PM PDT by marron
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To: giotto

[Ron Paul is not a crackpot. He’s a solid Constitutionalist who has gone off on a few screwy tangents, but I’ll take him over 99% of Republicans any day.]

Same here. I have some quibbles about Ron Paul’s foreign policy views and some other disagreements in a few other areas, but I’d prefer to see people like him in Congress over most other Republicans and certainly over every other Democrat.


19 posted on 09/15/2009 6:46:26 PM PDT by spinestein (The answer is 42.)
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To: HorowitzianConservative

Ron Paul is antisemitic?


20 posted on 09/15/2009 6:53:54 PM PDT by blackminorca
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