Before you are tempted to respond, please think about it: who in the past year has done more to engage and awaken the American people to the dangers of Progressivism? Who alerted them to the radicals in Obama's Administration? Who has encouraged Americans to learn the history their schools are failing to teach them, and to honor our Founders?
Not Mark Levin, who, for all his legal experience cannot maintain an audience, perhaps (just guessing here) due to his angry on-air persona. Not Bill Bennett, who for all his unquestionable intelligence and thoughtfulness cannot convey an idea in less than 300 words.
No one, not even Rush Limbaugh, has done more in the last year to rouse the American people from their stupor, and yes, Glenn is a funny guy, an entertainer, but he is also dead serious in his love of country. Beck has given voice to dozens of people on his show that Americans never would have heard of otherwise from either the mainstream media or from alternative voices on the Right.
I wouldn't care if he cried crocodile tears every night - not that he does - as long as he continues to waken people to the realization that their country is in deep, deep trouble. It is being stolen from them, and all those "sober, earnest people" in the Republican Party are either aiding the process or doing little or nothing to stop it.
Beck's greatest success, however, has been to engage people not only on the Right, but moderates, libertarians and even some people who fancied themselves "liberal" - until they realized that Obama and his henchmen are anything but "liberal" in the classical sense of the word, which, as Beck explained on his show about the French Revolution, is a term perverted from its original meaning of someone open-minded and freedom-loving to one who denies the value of individual rights in favor of those of the collective.
I'd venture to guess that millions of people in his audience had never before had an introduction to the philosophical antecedents of modern political thought and legal theory, and now, because of Glenn Beck, they crave a deeper understanding. For which, they may go to Bill Bennett, and Mark Levin, among others. And for which, the latter ought to be thanking Mr. Beck, not attacking him in a manner redolent of the kind of envy they both purport to reject as conservatives.
Beck is a useful idiot of the leftist media in this regard; Beck's (I would describe over-the-top) criticism of the GOP at CPAC allows the media to portray the voter/electorate discontent as one that is aimed at all politicians, not just Democrats. Beck's not smart enough to understand that his theatrical and grandiose criticism of the GOP is what will be the next day's soundbite - he talks for an hour or more, but it's the :20 second soundbite of him laying into Republicans is what gets played over and over again. This is what Bennett, and in his own way Levin, were attempting to address.
People aren't mad at incumbents, they're made at profligate spending. But, Beck's rhetoric allows the media to portray it in the exact opposite way. Is this intentional on Becks part? Only time will tell.
That's it. That's exactly it. He's like the evangelist who comes through once a year and gets everyone fired up. Next Sunday you happily go back to your pastor, Rush, Sean, and Mark.
As someone else pointed out, Glenn works from the power of epiphany. A lot of us come from that same position, we're new to all this. We aren't all college graduate intellectuals. When Glenn says it's not about the parties, he wants us to understand it's about US, the electorate, and those who didn't used to vote at all. We have let this happen with our inattention.
God is at work in this nation and he is using secular voices. Mark is Jewish, focus on law. Sean is Catholic,focus on politics. Rush is Protestant, focus on culture. Glenn is Mormon, focus on economics. I don't think that's coincidence. I think it's important.
Mark, I love you, but Glenn's voice is needed. If we left the GOP to their own devices Mitt Romney will be the nominee is 2012. RON Paul just won the CPAC straw poll for crying out loud. Five years ago I did not know there was anything wrong with those things. There are a lot of people out there you should be criticizing other than Glenn. And you should have spoken at CPAC. Your presence would have done a lot more good than the JBS did harm.
Who alerted them to the radicals in Obama's Administration? Who has encouraged Americans to learn the history their schools are failing to teach them, and to honor our Founders?
Not Mark Levin, who, for all his legal experience cannot maintain an audience, perhaps (just guessing here) due to his angry on-air persona. Not Bill Bennett, who for all his unquestionable intelligence and thoughtfulness cannot convey an idea in less than 300 words.
No one, not even Rush Limbaugh,has done more in the last year to rouse the American people from their stupor, and yes, Glenn is a funny guy, an entertainer, but he is also dead serious in his love of country.
Beck has given voice to dozens of people on his show that Americans never would have heard of otherwise from either the mainstream media or from alternative voices on the Right.
AMEN!