I hear you, but Glenn is too much of a national treasure for our nation to miss his crucial teachings.
I. for one, have gotten along quite well with an absolute minimum of attention paide to GB.
Nice writing, btw.
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.
>>>I hear you, but Glenn is too much of a national treasure for our nation to miss his crucial teachings.
Beck a ‘national treasure” ??? Whiskey tango foxtrot are you smoking???
He’s a media personality. Nothing more. 200 years from now, people won’t be looking back at Beck the way we look back today at Washington, Franklin, et al.
“nation treasure”? He is a talk show guy that has gone off the deep end. How do you subscribe, national treasure to that?
To much of a national treasure? I’m sorry, but having attended the 1st 9/12 March on DC, I find him to be less than honorable. Clearly he observed the size of that crowd but did he report it accurately? No. What he did was organize HIS event for the next year that just happened to be scheduled 3 weeks before 9/12. Then he promoted it heavily while not mentioning the 9/12 event. I have many friends that changed their plans to attend HIS event instead of 9/12. I suspect this is just as he planned.
Even with that, HIS event was about half of the prior year 9/12 attendance.
I find him to be self-serving. He has devoted his program to Newt-bashing while hardly giving a mention to the father of and the first person to IMPLEMENT Obamacare/Romneycare... He continues to drag up PAST statements of Newt while completely ignoring Romney’s CURRENT statement that the individual mandate IS A CONSERVATIVE VALUE. Which is the “progressive” here?
He lost me when he subverted the 9/12 event for his personal agrandizement. His style of sarcastic ridicule is wearing thin. I suspect his ax to grind with Newt is Newt’s marital issues. Is Newt a slimeball? Of course he is, he’s a politician. If he can eliminate the deficit (which he did), I don’t CARE how is marriage(s) work(ed) out. If he can shrink the welfare state (which he has), I don’t CARE what his past statements were.
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I totally agree with you on that. He has said that he isn't mad at the Tea Party, but at himself for failing to "do his job" to expose progressivism (Big Government) on both sides.
Glenn is unbelievably courageous, somewhat eccentric and perhaps even a little paranoid concerning Gingrich. That said, let's take Glenn's advice and examine Newt closely. In the end, "we will all suffer or rejoice together" - from today's show.
Great job!
“I hear you, but Glenn is too much of a national treasure for our nation to miss his crucial teachings.”
Beck has done some worthwhile things, but, sorry, national treasure? I think that’s how he views himself, maybe. A couple of weeks ago he referred to his audience as his “followers”———a very telling slip, IMO.
National treasure? Beck went off the deep end a long time ago. He has been increasingly inserting Mormonism into his speeches and diatribes but using words that most outsiders would not realize are Mormon ideas or definitions or phrases.
He tells his followers to do the reasearch themselves but he doesn’t even fact check with Google on certain things and just repeats Mormon ‘pat answers’ (especially with Christian church history).
Beck is pulling a bait and switch, claiming to support Santorum so he can ‘resign’ himself to supporting Mitt when that has been his goal all along. Feigned neutratlity is a classic Mormon technique.
Frankly, I think Beck could do some good in the future and get off this insane hamster wheel if he did his own research into what his church really teaches, what the Bible really says instead of reading through LDS glasses, repented and came to Christ.
As it is now, he is on the slippery slope of brainwashing and cognitive dissonance and it is showing big time.