He’s very passionate, but he makes a lot of mistakes. In part that’s because he’s learning all the time. He himself admits he never read a book in the decades before 9/11/2001. It’s hard to make up for a lifetime of ignorance in 9 years, especially when it’s your job to talk for 4 hours a day, like you know everything.
He has guests on who fundamentailly disagree with each other, and he will agree with both. At times he’s a libertarian/Austrian school guy. Then he flips back to being a CNBC / mainstream conservative on financial issues.
At times he’s interviewing revisionist Historians who hold Lincoln a notch above the devil, the next week he’s back to praising him.
His main effort was both self-aggrandizing and massively defocusing to the organic TEA Party movement. The TEA Party movement had a wonderful focus on the most unifying theme possible for conservatives: Taxed Enough Already. The Liberal-built government is too damn big and needs to be taken down to size. Into this he injected his quasi-religion 9/12er mumbo jumbo, where we all supposed to go tot DC and “restore honor”.
He made us all do penance for “racism” one more time. It turns out the thing we have do to save America is bow down to the memory of MLK, and find obscure black patriots from the Revolutionary era and raise them up to a level equal with Jefferson and Washington.
He’s not merely race-blind, he’s an active supporter of the current anti-White liberal zeitgeist.
For all these reasons he is no longer someone I have much interest in hearing from. Certainly his heart is in the right place, but his ego and influence have so overgrown his real wisdom, knowledge and ability that it’s like watching a man who can’t swim in the deep end every time I turn him on.
We need real leadership in our movement. He is definately NOT the man to provide it.
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“We need real leadership in our movement. He is definately NOT the man to provide it.”
Ditto that. He is right on with his information, his warnings, etc.. However, he is too emotional to be the leader we need right now.
I agree with many of your points. I never felt a kinship with the 9/12 movement. I thought it was a strange sorta almost-a-tea-party thing that had its place for some people but wasn't a movement for all like the Tea Party.
I have less problem with some of his mistakes as I, too, am auto-didactic and understand the pitfalls of that kind of thing. So, I guess I sympathetic and forgive him more often maybe than I should.
But the service he is doing in getting this message out is so very, very important that it overrides just about any flaw you can point out.
He may not be a leader of the Constitutional Conservative movement, per se, and he stumbles as a prophet at times, but he is absolutely indispensible as a teacher and historian.
We really need Glenn Beck to keep teaching.
he is educating a lot of citizens
Everytime I try to watch or listen to Beck, I recall his mentor was the kook Cleon Skousen.
What we might Expect in the Next Twenty-Five Years
If this looks like too much, try Summary of what we might expect in the next twenty-five years
Then add the fact that Glenn is an alcoholic to the mix.