Glenn Beck: The Tea Party Supporting Gingrich Over Obama ‘Must Be About Race’

mediaite.com ^ | December 10th, 2011 | Frances Martel

[Berlin_Freeper]

Glenn Beck has made no secret of how much he dislikes Newt Gingrich– not even to Newt Gingrich’s face. But he has yet to confront his supporters until last night, when he reasoned to Freedom Watch host Judge Andrew Napolitano that there was very little difference between Gingrich and President Barack Obama– so much so that the only possible explanation for Tea Partiers rallying around Gingrich is “Obama’s race.”

[Berlin_Freeper]

Same here.

I was cutting Beck a huge amount of slack when others were tuning him out long ago, before he was even kicked off of FOX.

Looking back, it was bound to end badly.

[InterceptPoint]

Thanks for the input. I think you have Glen Beck nailed.

[Godzilla]

Beck is having delusions of adequacy. Enough green jello for him.

[newzjunkey]

I'm overjoyed Beck never had a speck of credibility with me.

Am I to guess Romney is his guy?

[ml/nj]

Didn't Beck used to make a big deal about all the Communists that Obama pals around with? The closest I remember Gingrich getting to a Communist was when he sat on that couch with Nancy Pelosi.

ML/NJ

[GoldenPup]

FOX didn't dump him, he quit.

Both parties agreed to make it look like that, but his ratings had dropped to less than 50% of his earlier numbers, and he was becoming increasingly "unmanagable". Fact is, if Fox wanted him, he would still be there.

[driftless2]

If people want to pay money to hear or see some political personality, I have no objections. But it appears quite a few of these people think they're so important that conservative listeners, most of whom aren't nearly as wealthy as the personalities, will eagerly fork over money to hear or watch them. I love Rush, but there's no way I going to subscribe to Rush/24 or whatever it's called. I'm not going to pay to watch Beck either, despite the fact I like him as well.

If every conservative media personality wanted people to pay for the privilege of listening to or watching them do their thing, they, the listeners, wouldn't be able to pay their bills. Screw them, I aint a gonna pay to listen or watch any of them. Beck should not have let his head get so big and stayed with FOX.

[itsahoot]

Ales was told to sack Beck because the planned republican candidate was to be Romney

You just pull that out of your @ss or do you have facts? There were about three supporters of Newt on this forum until they trashed all the others, now he is a saint?

No longer a mystery to me why we always lose.

[itsahoot]

Fact is, if Fox wanted him, he would still be there.

B$

[maine-iac7]

Beck has jumped the shark on this one.

After his vicious radio attack on Newt a few days ago, followed by Bachmann on his TV show - over half a hour of warm and fuzzy chit chat, with lots of nice closeups - but no real questions until the very end.

He asked her a hypothetical - if the country dissolved into chaos and the National Guard had to be called out across the country, “What would you do?”

“I would talk to the people,” Bachmann said, “I would talk to the people and ask them what they want.”

Wow. That should do it.

BTW, Beck let it slip, after all these years of not saying what party he follows - “I’m a libertarian.!”

So that answers some questions.

Anyway, I canceled my subscription that night.

[maine-iac7]

Beck is in the process of imploding. Once his money runs out he will be gone

That's what I'm thinking. He's in the process of building his studio in Texas - He feels it's imperative to get his family out of NYC - and I agree with that. Just his bodyguard bill must be astronomical.

In addition, he's used to carrying and that's not allowed where he is.

But I wonder if he isn't going to get overextended, money wise.

Actually, I'm wondering if he isn't already over extended - mentally.

[Jay Santos CP]

Beck is a fraud.

I listen to him pretty often. I think there's some sincerity there, but I'd agree it's mostly shtick. Which in the final analysis, would make him a fraud.

[maine-iac7]

Glenn is backing Bachmann -

sorry to take away you Mormon slams

[Yankee]

I used to suspect that Glenn Beck was an a__hole. Now he's confirmed it for me.

My s___list has been growing exponentially lately. Time to add another name.

Glenn Beck

[LibertyRocks]

Glenn Beck is wrong on this one...
If anything it is the exodus of people leaving Cain that have propelled Newt so it isn't a logical conclusion. I believe the reason is that Newt is the least frightening of all the EVILSCandidates left standing in many ways.

Also, people are extremely sentimental about the Reagan era (for good reason, imo), and Newt has a measure of trust that is still there even if it is somewhat tenuous.

[UnwashedPeasant]

Glenn Beck is an insane genius.

He has moments of brilliance and moments of madness

[Elsie]

Well, Glen is a student of History and he always looks at history with a hard eye.

Not MORMON history!

THAT has been ignored!

[Pan_Yans Wife]

Ailes did not renew Beck’s contract because Beck questioned if Obama was racist, before he understood what Black Liberation Theology was all about. Beck went to the same dangerous race question that bit Limbaugh when he was working with the NFL. Conservatives have to remember... YOU CANNOT GO THERE, BECAUSE IT IS A TRAP!

Beck goes on and on about being a self-educated man. The problem is he doesn’t know his own limitations and he has bought into the lies of Mormonism. He now sees himself as someone close to George Washington.

He’s a fool.

[JohnBrownUSA]

Hey! Gingrich likes to loudly proclaim with great fanfare his knowledge of history. So guess what? I am a historian myself. I take one look at Gingrich’s political history, and all I see is a politician who consistently allies with Obama-lite limited-big-government progressivism.

“Those who cannot remember Gingrich’s RINO past are condemning America again to repeat it.”

[Elsie]

“Those who cannot remember Gingrich’s RINO past are condemning America again to repeat it.”

Likewise...

“Those who cannot remember Romney’s RINO past are condemning America again to repeat it.”