[Steely Tom]

I decided to try listening to Glenn Beck this last week. I had to turn him off both days I tried; finally I decided to give up on him. Too apocalyptic. I don't know how to take his constant exhortations of doom. OK. I get it. The future is going to be horrible. There's going to be a financial meltdown of unprecidented scope and scale. Everything's going to grind to a halt. I can't imagine, my wife can't imagine, my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren can never possibly imagine the vast, titanic enormity of the pan-societal crack-up that is waiting to engulf us in the very near future. This is pretty much what the two Glenn Beck programs I happened to tune in to this last week were all about. Only Glenn Beck knows, only Glenn Beck appreciates the doom that awaits us.

All right, already. After a certain point it becomes repetitive and boring. Even the doomed can get bored.

[TigerBait]

Are sponsors going to drop out from FAMILY GUY because of the tasteless content there?

Libs support free speech for themselves.

Conservatives need to equal the playing field by targeting a few liberal shows for boycott. Eventually all the companies will realize they can’t pull out of every show and ignore all the complainers.

[freemike]

You know, you just said exactly what I have been feeling. I used to listen to him frequently. I realize he has done some great things with his show. But, a person can only take so much of hearing the same gloom and doom over and over. He couldn’t even find anything good in the Scott Brown victory, he had to trash Brown over that joke Brown told about his daughters. My first thought was, hey, if dad said something dumb about his daughters, that’s for mom and the daughters to take care of. Beck should’ve left it go, but the guy I think is beginning to spiral. I hope he gets his act back together.

[Sir Clancelot]

I agree. I liked him a lot better when he had a sarcastic, humorous view of the progressives and the direction he thinks we are going. While I think he has some points, he is beginning to take himself too seriously, like he thinks he’s a prophet.

[ohioWfan]

You can tell what he's going to say by his tone of voice.

When the apocalytpic voice starts, off goes the radio. He's been doing it a lot lately.

I like it so much better when he's exposing Communists and perverts in the White House and talking about how cool the Tea Party movement is.

I'm sure he'd have more regular listeners if he didn't get so melodramatic so often.

Funny thing - I heard part of his "the sky is falling" monologue one day last week, and turned it off. That same day a caller to Rush asked about the gloom and doom message (said nothing about Beck), and Rush responded with optimism and his faith in the American people and the resilience of the U.S. economy.

It was like a breath of fresh air.

[I see my hands]

"After a certain point it becomes repetitive and boring. Even the doomed can get bored"

For the doomed hunger and thirst will become repetitive but never boring.

If you haven't already.. get remote, get self sufficient, get secure, ASAP.

[Arizona Carolyn]

He did tell his audience what was coming two years before the financial meltdown of 2008 and people before that happened were saying what you just said... until it happened and then it was oops, Beck warned us this was coming.

[I see my hands]

PS: I'm not a fan of Beck.

[red irish]

You are right. I watch his show but dang I had to change the channel I starting thinking about killing my dog. Not really I don’t have a dog! But you are right and he really has nothing to say good about anything.

[lp boonie]

The lecture format gets really old as well. Especially when the depth of analysis isn’t there.

[wiggen]

Since he spoke about bankrupting the system as the only way to get out of our financial mess i’ve had a hard time watching as well.
He does plenty of good but sometimes is too far off the wall.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** I don’t know how to take his constant exhortations of doom.***

Just look at the 1964 SSA publication about how Social Security is set up so it would NEVER run out of money, then look up how the SSA IS runnning out of money and puts your “contribution” in US Treasury bonds.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssa/usa1964-2.html

Self-Supporting

The program is designed so that contributions plus interest on the investments of the social security trust funds will be sufficient to meet all of the costs of benefits and administration, now and into the indefinite future—without any subsidy from the general funds of the Government.

http://www.ssa.gov/history/briefhistory3.html

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/OACT/ProgData/fundFAQ.html#n4

As stated above, money flowing into the trust funds is invested in U. S. Government securities. Because the government spends this borrowed cash, some people see the current increase in the trust fund assets as an accumulation of securities that the government will be unable to make good on in the future. Without legislation to restore long-range solvency of the trust funds, redemption of long-term securities prior to maturity would be necessary.
Far from being “worthless IOUs,” the investments held by the trust funds are backed by the full faith and credit of the U. S. Government. The government has always repaid Social Security, with interest. The special-issue securities are, therefore, just as safe as U.S. Savings Bonds or other financial instruments of the Federal government.

[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

Even the doomed can get bored.

LOL!