Glenn Beck, The Most Disturbing Personality on Cable Television

The Most Disturbing Personality on Cable Television

It’s hard to tell how much of what Beck says is sincere and how much is for show. Whatever the case, and even taking into account the entire MSNBC lineup, Glenn Beck has become the most disturbing personality on cable television. One cannot watch him for any length of time without being struck by his affinity for conspiracies and for portraying himself as the great decoder of events. Political movements are not just wrong; they are infiltrated by a web of malevolent forces. Others see the shadows on the wall; Beck alone sees the men casting them. The danger when one paints the world in such conspiratorial terms is that it devalues the rational side of politics. It encourages a cast of mind that looks to expose enemies rather than to engage in arguments. Few things, after all, are as they appear.

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It looks to me like it’s only a matter of time — and I suspect not much time — until he blows apart professionally. If and when that happens, one can only hope that conservatism as a movement will have created enough distance from Beck to mitigate the damage.

The real reason Glenn Beck hates Google ...

Glenn Beck: Boycott Google ... Maybe, sort of, not really

Beck has found a new bogey man this week ... GOOGLE. He's not saying that people should boycott Google, just don't use it because we have to be careful who we do business with these days. Um, OK.

Does he come up with this 5 minutes before the show? If not Google, what will Glenn use the next time he wants to connect two unrelated events? Hello, Yahoo.

Conservative pundit Glenn Beck said he will no longer use Google or its products because of perceived ties to government agencies and its involvement in the uprising in Egypt, he said on his Fox television program Wednesday.

"I'm really not sure that I want my search engine involved in government overthrows, good or bad," Beck said on his Fox show. "There is a strange thing going on with this search engine and our government. And we all have to choose who we do business with."

However, most of his vitriol was aimed at Google working with "hardcore leftists."

More: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/blogs/press-here/Glenn-Beck-Doesnt-Trust-Google-116382729.html?dr

Bill Kristol on Glenn Beck: He's Marginalizing Himself

Glenn has cranked up the crazy to new levels this week. I sure wish he would quit calling himself a Libertarian or Conservative, since people assume real Libertarian Conservatives are remotely like Glenn. Even Bill Kristol of the Weekly Standard calls Glenn out on his paranoia and conspiracy theories this week.

Now, people are more than entitled to their own opinions of how best to accomplish that democratic end. And it's a sign of health that a political and intellectual movement does not respond to a complicated set of developments with one voice.

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He's marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Nor is it a sign of health when other American conservatives are so fearful of a popular awakening that they side with the dictator against the democrats. Rather, it's a sign of fearfulness unworthy of Americans, of short-sightedness uncharacteristic of conservatives, of excuse-making for thuggery unworthy of the American conservative tradition.

from Stand for Freedom by William Kristol, The Weekly Standard

The Glenn Beck Review: Beck's anti-Semitism addressed by Jonathon Schell

The Glenn Beck Review: Beck's anti-Semitism addressed by Jonathon Schell: "Home Disclaimer Contents For Glenn Beck Share This URL The following article, 'An Now: Anti-Semitism' by Jonathan Schell, is being repr..."

Glenn Beck's 2 AM Letter to Sarah Palin ...

Hey, Glenn, I know. You ARE doing more harm.

“I wrote Sarah Palin a letter last night about 2 in the morning,” Beck said on his radio show in September. “And I said: ‘Sarah, I don’t know if I’m doing more harm or more good. I don’t know anymore.’ ” - Being Glenn Beck NY Times article

Glenn Beck for the bailout before he was against it ...

"The "REAL STORY" is the $700 billion that you`re hearing about now is not only, I believe, necessary, it is also not nearly enough, and all of the weasels in Washington know it." ---Glenn Beck 9/22/2008