Exactly. I listen to him not because I’m a member of any “loyal fan club”, but because he sees things that I miss. If I’ve learned anything from Beck, it’s that seemingly-unrelated events often aren’t.
To illustrate: In war documentaries and movies, our attention is directed on the individual or the small-unit “band of brothers”. So we learn to ignore battlefield tactics, campaign strategy, and grand strategy. Our news outlets do the same these days. (How many news articles begin something like this: “Joe Blow enjoys taking his daughters to school. But a new policy currently under consideration could change all that.”)
No wonder we’re unable to see the big picture; we’ve been trained to ignore the chessboard setup and focus on individual pieces one at a time. Glenn Beck is trying to counter that training.
Well it was all here on FR for years..Beck just picked up the baton and ran with it when others were calling us kooks. It was disheartening to me that Beck seemed to blow off the real source of his info..the blogs/forums and the people whose collective information he has not to this day acknowledged.
Specifically Jim Rob has done more to educate the world than any other person bar-none in my opinion..others (Ann C. for example) are just getting rich from his efforts and giving him no credit. That does not sit well with me...
Glenn wants it all to be about him too much at times. I realize he does get reigned in and gets the humility back..but humility and thankfulness seems to be far, far from the narrative right now.