Me too.
Used to listen to him before he was a "big TV star" and his radio program was funny as hell, "Friday's Moron Football" was a hoot.
He then discovered TV, and large ratings, and his lewisnky buddy Pat, that gives him every verbal back and front rub that he can without puking on the radio.
He's not stupid, and a lot of what he says is real but he thinks of himself as the 12th Imam, and he's really just a junior joe smith.
But, he did talk with Billy {Graham, the Evangelical guru in case you didn't know} just yesterday.
Glenn is too full of Glenn.
Glenn has some idiosyncrasies, admittedly a recovering alcoholic and ADD, but he is probably also gifted in the academic sense, he is definitly intellegent and intellectually curious. Born and baptised Catholic, he is a Mormon who says he married into it, and also that he doesn’t know exactly what it teaches. Combine all that and the obsessive interest in politics/religion, and human history, I think he speaks above the head of his audience because they can’t stay with him regardless whether they agree with him or not. He wears one out, like a number of brainy professors will.
He is a semester course given in an hour. Every day. But, because we can’t keep up doesn’t mean we should rule him out. My 2 cents.
He hires people who, apparently, have the job of bursting his bubble and dragging him back to reality. That, it seems to me is the main job of his radio sidekicks—to the extent he lets them do the job, that is.
The pseudo-documentary on Beck’s own Insider Extreme of a Brian Sack-hosted parody retrospective of a 2012-2020 Glenn Beck Presidency is pretty darn funny, and very directly skewers Beck on the megalomania issue.
And, the fact that Beck is still talking to people like Billy Graham indicates to me that he’s still questioning and seeking answers. This is never, ever a bad thing—until you stop questioning and start assuming you know all the answers.
Beck is an acquired taste, to be sure. But he’s been uncannily right over the past couple of years about how the world has come to this point. Which is why, back when the Beck boycotts were really getting started, I decided to drop the coin on an Insider Extreme subscription.
It would certainly be nice if someone else, somewhere else in the major media would start picking up on at least some of what he says and really seriously began looking into it, and reporting the results (preferably without the crying and shouting).
That would be a positive development.
12th............thats funny