Why Glenn Beck is a Poseur
I first thought Glenn Beck a poseur when I saw him on a talk show last spring predicting a Depression, then a revolution. While I think those are unlikely, but possible, alternatives for our near term future, Beck was laughing and giggling when he said it. That means either a) he didn’t truly believe it and was just saying it to get attention or b) he is a vile human being because both of those predictions portend suffering for millions of people. (I find it hard to giggle when realistically contemplating the suffering of millions)
Now, after seeing this, I know he is poseur.
He is either a chronic hysteric or a charlatan, I can’t decide which. This I gathered from listening to him on the radio a while last year. (I haven’t had cable TV since January.)
The people voted for change. It’s just that a depression wasn’t the change they expected. That’s kind of funny when you think about it.
The past 50 years of US military excursions have not been about defending our freedom. Beck is a boob, but he is right on the mark on this subject.
As usual, Beck is 99.99% correct! It is a disgrace what Obama and the fools he has working for him have managed to do to our military, CIA, and economy. In the coming years there will be many people who will remember Jimmy Carter as a successful President when compared to Obama. The one positive outcome of the current administration will be the “voting” revolution next year. Obama will wake up November 3, 2010, to a Republican controlled House and Senate and a nation reinvigerated with HOPE and loking for real CHANGE!
Sneer if you will, but the revelations about ACORN and Obama’s czars (not to mention the illustration of real-time calculation of the trillion-dollar -debt) continue to assure his relevance to the debate….which is what really chaps the hides of the media gatekeepers.
I know you prefer to tread the ‘higher ground’, but I’d challenge you to set aside your judgments long enough to to make the effort to consider and evaluate his arguments (especially within the original Constitutional context, as well as basic principles of liberty).
He’s doing the research that we average shmoes keep waiting to see/hear in the dinosaur media…if that’s ‘posing’, still is undeniable that the market is there, receptive, and responsive .
Blame Obama
Sally, I don’t think all of his arguments are illegitimate; in fact, many of them are the same as the rest of the right are making. Think Mark Levin, Charles Krauthammer, PJMedia.
I just can’t imagine any of those pundits predicting doom for millions of people and giggling while they do it. How can you respect that?
Gregg, I am no fan. His giggles I liken to a nervous laugh to release stress. I see no humor coming from him with his doomsday remarks.
Beck is an actor who is playing to his audience. If he were to go on the air and not be a buffoon, he would sink in the ratings.
The only thing I’m curious about is whether or not he is sane in real life. I suspect he is – he probably goes home at the end of the day and leads a normal life.
I’m trying to come up with someone on the left of similar talents- Maher, maybe, Stewart. But there is a difference – neither of them claim any talent beyond being comedians, so it is admitted right up front that they are playing to the crowd.
Maybe he is comparable to Rosie O’Donnell or Garafola.
Mark T. I suspect Beck is a whole lot saner (and smarter) than the idiots you compared him to – Maher, Garafola, and O’Donnell. I like Stewart but……… I am not sure the word “talent” applies to Maher, Garafola or O’Donnell. Interesting, Beck has higher ratings than any commentator on CNN, MSNBC. Of course considering how poor those networks are doing, I guess it wouldn’t take much to beat them. Of course nobody belts out a rendition of the Star Spangled Banner quite like Rosie O’Donnell.
Gregg: I am not sure Beck was giggling with joy or glee when he was pointing out his concerns. Sometimes people handle stress in different ways……..perhaps he was also just not completely sure if his concerns were valid. I didn’t see the show you are pointing to so I am only guessing.
Never said he wasn’t smart -I only wondered about his sanity, and thought that if he really was playing you guys, as he appears to be, that he is both normal and very smart. Kudos to him.
If you’ve ever seen Beck on the Factor, you’ve seen his and O’Reilly’s interchanges, what one might call playful banter…lots of laughing and joking…as he discusses revolution and depression.
Mr Gregg, I can understand Beck’s reaction because, as I watch this country collapse, my reaction is quite similar…it’s so completely absurd to watch the destruction of our country from within (‘blight’, I call it) while the political and media hacks cheer, deliriously smug in their delusions of righteousness.
I certainly have the highest respect for Krauthammer and Levin, but Beck’s message resonates with those of us who want the truth and a way to take action, stand in solidarity against this perverse obamanation which looms ominously on the horizon.
you posted:
I just can’t imagine any of those pundits predicting doom for millions of people and giggling while they do it. How can you respect that?
I know that all I can do is giggle, or I’ll go insane–because I’ve seen it coming & understand I’m helpless over this situation. Obama presses on, undeterred by common sense, rule of law, or even popular opinion–let alone, heaven forbid, the US Constitution.
While Beck questions the illusions that Obama and his Congressional minions have created, he exhorts Americans, carefully conditioned to ignore or rationalize the jaw-dropping, despicable words and actions of smug elitists and thugs, to realize what’s actually going on under their very noses. stand up and say “enough!”
BTW, do you really believe Obama isn’t giggling over the doom he’s creating for millions of people, here and abroad??
Thanks for listening
Simple question, Sally. How do you know you’re not already there?
Considering the fact that she thinks that Obama is “giggling over the doom he’s creating for millions of people,” I’d say that she crossed that line a long, long time ago.
why, yes, been there and back….about the time my brain began sizzling and spontaneously combusting as a result of the 2006 elections. I struggled to reconcile the cognitive dissonance until I realized in 2008 that I was completely powerless over a smug, condescending and willfully ignorant media commited to the same goals as Obama, & Dems in Congress: shredding the US Constitution and destroying the country.
And, BTW, if the jolly joker & his minions are not giggling, what are they doing??
Why are you so reluctant to recognize the truth that is so in your face? And how, exactly, does dissing my statements make them any less valid.
Just wondering–