A Sobering Look at Glenn Beck
By Alexander Zaitchik | AlterNet
April 27, 2009.
Glenn Beck: A Savvy Fraud Who Knows Just How to Please His Audience of Conservative Suckers
Fox News host Glenn Beck has done all the necessary spadework to position himself at the center of a brewing and increasingly paranoid right-wing insurgency.
From challenging Democratic Congressman Keith Ellison to prove he isn't working with Al-Qaida, to taking tearful stands against Barack Obama's Democratic Reich, the self-described "rodeo clown" is pushing his televised tirades and skits closer to the angrier, more unhinged fare of his daily talk radio show, now ranked third nationally, where he has been honing his confessional Molotov-throwing shtick for a decade.
Beck is deft at making himself an elusive and slippery target. As media watchdogs and satirists step up their attacks on Beck's blubbering baboonery, the host has countered with well-practiced public relations aikido. He has embraced comparisons between himself and Network's Howard Beale, who rode an on-air crack-up to record ratings. On his shows and in print, he has claimed at turns to be "crazy," "borderline schizophrenic," and "just a clown."
I'm happy he is out there
speaking something different in his shows. At least it gives people access to some ideas outside of the norm. The fact is, libertarian news media does not exist in TV, so any exposure we get to our values is a plus, in my opinion. The challenge is for people to remember they can disagree with anything the media says. There are, every once in a while, ideas that I agree with that end up in his show, so I'm glad the people get this opportunity. I thought it was not very nice to expose Beck in this article on his personal issues. Let's critique his show and his ideas, not his personal life.
How quickly you all forget
Glenn Beck
Michael Savage
Rush Limbaugh
Roger Hedgecock
Schitt
Lou Dobbs
100% of them were in favor of ALL THE PATRIOT ACTS (convicned their 25M plus audiences of it too), HOMELAND SECURITY (convinced their sheep of it), THE WAR ON TERROR (convinced their sheep), BAILOUTS (convinced their sheep), WAR ON DRUGS (convinced then convincing now -- Glenn Beck wavers on this issue), WAR IN IRAQ (100% of them in favor) --- 100% of them IN FAVOR OF BUSH!!!!
2,000,000 Iraqis Dead
$3 - 9Trillion of New Debt
Hyper-Expansion of Military Colonialism
If these men would have went against these things -- We'd have stopped Bush and prevented Obama!!!
Think on that before you Lobby for Beck
If you let one of them into our movement they will hijack it.
Wah Lah "The Tea Party" -- divide and conquour.
Good Luck with the Abdication to Authority,
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thats true. They basically
thats true. They basically destroyed the country by destroying the Republican party philosophy.
Ventura 2012
HE 's a jerk OK, replace him ????????????
OK so that is that ...NOW WHAT ????
IF you don't have a solution don't poke your eye out ....YOU DON'T pull the chaff till ,the HARVEST..
you-no
hes definately
not the best actor ever............ hes pretty fake, but not a huge fraud
Savvy? Yes. Fraud. No.
Savvy? Yes. Fraud? No.
He is what he is, and he leaves it all out there. 4 hours a day.
Use What We Can
Im not a Beck fan either...but Beck started 9/12 Project
So we take what we can...and we make it better.
But it will only get worse if we dont try.
Freedom is another way to God...A corrupt government is a straight way to hell.
I believe in Hope & Change..I Hope the government will Change
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Beck is a clown
"Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it."
--Jane Wagner
A Republic, If You Can Keep It
Both Beck's credit and blame is he's a follower, not a leader.
Beck's credit is he has profiled a certain market of dissaffected Americans (many of us), plays to it, and is promoting it. He's therefore not so much of a MSM, statist or new-world-order propagandist.
Beck's blame is his contrived, adopted principles. Ron Paul is himself even without his following. Beck, without his patrons, is tabula-rasa in search of a lucrative cause to market to.
Alternet cannot be trusted.
http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Regulated_Resistance.htm
Click on the chart, and check out where their funding comes from. The above article makes some good points, but they are all 1 sided, of the "republicans bad, democrats good" variety. I'm not sticking up for Beck mind you, the guy is playing the same game Alternet is. "Regulated Resistance", or "Controlled Opposition".
EDIT: The link on the picture of the chart is broken and just takes you to a placeholder in German :/ Here's another link to the chart :) http://questionsquestions.net/gatekeepers.html
Keith ubermon wrote that.
Where r all the dem war protesters? Dudes I don't agree with all of you all the time so why should he?
Some of u r baby whiners. U say stuff like alex jones is a sell out. R u people weird? U r like the sometime weird Christians I meet. Never able to fellowship cause your always critical of others. Take the plank out of your eye.
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Sounds like more liberal dribble afraid of Glen Beck (calling
them out, and pulling the plug on their socialist agenda..Beck isn't perfect, but he has turned a few "neo-con FOX news Republicans" onto libertarian/ron paul message..
Jeremy
worh reading and thinking about, but
I doubt alternet would give any non-leftist a fair review.
"Those who take a single
"Those who take a single drop of Beck's tears seriously need simply watch recordings of his stage shows. As he paces the stage, Beck switches the tear-ducts on and off like a switch, sometimes as many as six times in a single hour. He even chokes himself up for slick, produced segments like the trailer for the stage show based on his best-selling (and ghostwritten) Christmas novel, The Christmas Sweater."
Why do some people think it
it is all a charade and that he is putting on a performance? I don't get it. What evidence do these people have that he is not being genuine?
My evidence is 40 years of
My evidence is 40 years of media lies.
Suddenly I should believe there is one "genuine" person on TV? It is simply the structure of the medium that encourages lies. Truth is the least important thing when it comes to selling soap.
I liken this to people watching a soap opera, and suddenly they start to believe that one of the characters on the soap opera is actually not an actor, but is telling us the truth.
So true
Why would anyone believe he's the real deal? Because it's what you want to hear? He's leading us up the garden path
Well
I think that most people on TV are genuine. I might not trust what most of them say, but I think they are being mostly genuine...
I don't think news head are constantly lying. They are just telling the news through their own statist lenses.
Glenn Beck
Is a fine entertainer. That is all.
"Sobering" and alternet.org
"Sobering" and alternet.org should not be used in the same thought.
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