Mercury

I haven't watched much Glenn Beck since he left CNN but man I used to love his show. He's like a teacher who is masterful at keeping your attention. I love his logic and it seems he's still got it, even with FOX.

Here's some recent examples of Glenn Beck's keen sense of right and wrong.







Someone please tell me where Glenn Beck is off. I literally smile ear to ear when I listen to him speak.

Human-yo

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Flamingnun

bromance alert

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verklingen

the epitome of ridiculousness

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Mercury

^You guys are focusing on the goofs rather than the information. People love to pick apart commentators for their gaffs and bloopers, totally dismissing the other 99% of the show which is pure intelligence.

shelbert008

dude at the very beginning of your first video he clearly displays his bad facts by not even calculating his math properly. He printed 45,000 pages of it and there were 20,000 left. So there's 60,000 in total. Five thousand pages is quite a difference. I think anyone with common sense can understand that our tax code is fucked up, but he has a terrible way of trying to get his points across. Republicans seem to have that problem quite a bit, just like staunch democrats.

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Waves

glen beck is so emo

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cantSEEme

lol! hella bromance.

glen beck has said that the families of mourning 9/11 victims should "get over it". cant remember his true words, but thats what it boils down to. fuck glen beck. he's a hypocritical crazy fuck on the radio, he was a hypocritical crazy fuck on headline news, and he's an even bigger hypocritical crying crazy fuck @ fox.

Kompressor

Glenn Beck: The Fears of a Clown



On March 23, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled the Obama Administration's toxic-bank-assets plan. The stock markets cheered the news, sending the Dow up 497 points.

This meant one thing: it was time for Glenn Beck to break out the Jenga set.

The new populist superstar of Fox News has made a refrain of predicting that government policies are leading to disaster — dark, ruinous, blood-in-the-streets kind of disaster. Pausing for a 17-minute speech rebutting his critics for calling him "dangerous" and "crazy," he took out the block-tower game. On opposite sides of the tower were written the words solution and problem, taxpayer and children. Then he spent much of the hour critiquing the plan, all the while pulling pieces from the wobbling tower and stacking them on top. (Read an interview with Glenn Beck.)

For Beck, Jenga is a metaphor for the plan's risk. But it is also a metaphor for Beck's show, which teeters from humor to predictions of apocalypse to self-esteem sermons to fits of weeping. ("I'm sorry. I just love my country. And I fear for it.") This is what makes it so compelling: the breathless feeling that at any moment, everything could spectacularly collapse.

A year ago, with Fox News in an election-year ratings slump, some TV observers (like me) wondered if its conservative commentators could thrive in an Obama era. The answer is yes, and how. Fox roared back and has more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined.

It's succeeded partly because of its veteran stars Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. But to Hannity's tax-cut Republicanism and O'Reilly's grumpy social conservatism, Beck adds an au courant strain of grievance. Beck had a similar program on Headline News (which I appeared on once), on which he at one point asked a Muslim Congressman to "prove to me that you are not working with our enemies." After he moved to Fox in January, his audience exploded to 2 million-plus viewers — unheard of at 5 p.m. His hook, for the age of economic anxiety: whereas O'Reilly embodies anger and Hannity brashness, Beck embraces fear. (See pictures of Bill O'Reilly's career in journalism.)

Fear of what? Take your pick. Fear that the U.S. is on a long march to fascism. (As evidence, Beck cited — on April Fools' Day but apparently seriously — the inclusion of fasces on the Mercury dime in 1916.) That fat cats and bureaucratic "bloodsuckers" are plundering your future. That Mexico will collapse and chaos will pour over the border. That America believes too little in God and too much in global warming. That "they" — Big Government, Big Business, Big Media — are against you. Above all, that you, small-town, small-business America — Palinville — have been forgotten. Dismissed. Laughed at. Just like him. (See the top 10 TV feuds.)

It's hard to identify a Beck ideology so much as a set of attitudes, sometimes contradictory ones. He channels anger against Wall Street but defends the bonuses for AIG executives. He devoted a segment to debunking a conspiracy theory about FEMA "concentration camps" but has warned that the AmeriCorps program "indoctrinates your child into community service."

What unites Beck's disparate themes is a sense of siege. On March 13, he served up a kind of fear combo platter — war, chaos, totalitarianism, financial ruin — with the 9/12 Project, a tearful call to viewers to rediscover the common purpose they felt after 9/11. In 2001, that common purpose involved cable-news talkers' dialing down the us-vs.-them shtick for a day or two; now Beck urged viewers to reject the notion that "they" have all the power. "They don't surround us," he declared. "We surround them."

Beck's surround sound plays like a mix of colonial pamphleteering, Great Depression demagoguery and the movie Red Dawn. But is he serious? He describes himself as a "rodeo clown," and he is a talented TV showman — joking and self-effacing, with a gift for big visuals and low-tech explainer stunts like his Jenga bit. Unlike O'Reilly et al., he's not a shouter. He calls his program "the fusion of entertainment and enlightenment."

Then again, he recently devoted a "War Room" episode to gaming out an American economic collapse in 2014 — the result of debt and high taxes — including the rise of "Mad Max" militias and civil unrest. Because if anything spells laff riot, it's the breakdown of lawful society! Whether Beck is stirring up frightening social currents or just playing in them, his material and its resonance are deadly serious.

Of course, I'm a "them." And if there's one thing we thems love, it's tarring dissenters as scary. As he played with his Jenga tower, Beck made just that point, introducing his next guest, former Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. "Remember," Beck said sarcastically, "he is a dangerous militia member!"

Then a wooden piece gave way, and the whole toy edifice came crashing down.

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OldMan&TheWeed

For Glenn Beck, we're all a joke.

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crookedhatinator45

for the love of Pete! gb has gone waaaaaaaaaaaaay off the deep-end

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Human-yo

i think if glenn and i could have a heart to heart he'd realize how wrong he is.

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LOL@ OP being owned.

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LetsPlayYourWay

Yup, he still has that Bat shit crazy thing going on...now even more so on FOX.

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Ego Tripping

Talking heads, talking heads, talking heads. Write a check, their mouth opens.

They say 'the revolution won't be televised.' That's BS, Fox will report any god damn thing that translates to ratings.

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ProfessorMurder

He makes Stephen Colbert look rational and heterosexual.

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The tea parties were promoted by FreedomWorks, a conservative nonprofit advocacy group based in Washington and led by former Republican House Majority Leader Dick Armey of Texas, who is now a lobbyist. and then hijacked by a lot of GOP heads (who are in need of something to gain some ground after the lost election) and GOP-aligned media corporations (Fox News for example)

The tea parties never had a distinct defined purpose. It was just a clusterfuck of people upset that Obama won. They have even hired a PR manager I've heard. Anything but grassroots.

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CommonSensi

Hey, yeah I used to listen to Glenn Beck until this video about legalizing. If your a true pothead this should piss you off. I respect everyone's opinion but why the disrespect to the man who is trying to be professional and give you solid reasoning why weed should be legal? Typical Fox news, they are "fair and balanced" up until they interrupt you and roll their eyes like you are crap for smoking weed. Did that woman really say that weed was worse than alcohol and tobacco combined? Sounds like propaganda to me. There is absolutely no evidence any where to that. The ONLY negative thing about weed is when you smoke the burned plant matter. Any carbon based matter when burned creates carbon monoxide. Yay for vaporizers! But to give Mr. Beck credit, I have heard him one other issues and he is a good debater.

cantSEEme

lol! watch out, you're about to get your ass handed to you by ppl (person, specifically) who thinks that burning plant matter is healthy in your lungs. but yeah, glen beck = douchefag.

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This weekend on Fox News, Glenn Beck, with both of his unregistered semi-automatics a’ blazin’, cut down Obama’s economic policy then boiled the carcass in a simmering cauldron of right-wing, president-bashing, extremist hate talk leaving nothing but a NUTshell. His epiphany: The president claims that we are in a serious economic crisis due to overspending – and the only way out is to spend more in order to keep our economy going.

A Fox News contributor and psychologist explained that the American public reacts euphorically to Obama by over-spending in the absence of an appropriate stimulus, “and I don’t mean Stimulus Package.” Supporting his assertion, the psychologist affirmed Beck’s analysis that there is no data to support the president’s conclusion and NUTshell policy to spend more in order to counteract overspending. The American populace, reacting to Obama’s economic policy (in the absence of supporting data) was compared to someone with bi-polar disorder in a manic phase. Treatment for the related euphoria and subsequent self-destructive behaviors would NOT be to affirm the delusions. Instead the individual would be given medication (perhaps rational, data supported policies?), “preferably in the form of suppositories, thereby preventing him or her from regurgitating the medication in order to preserve the delusional euphoria,” commented an off-air, self-proclaimed right-wing extremist psychologist. Beck’s guest psychologist further explained that the patient, having received appropriate medication, would be told that things would be fine now, and he or she will come out of the delusional thoughts and resulting behavior without harm.

“What are these right-wing extremists thinking?” asked an intellectual for the moderate viewpoint. He went on to comment:

1. Spending in order to counter overspending is effective and well-loved by the American people, particularly executives of AIG, for example, and a large, cultural cross-section of citizens who also receive government handouts and do not need to pay taxes.

2. This attack on the thoughts, perspectives and policies of the vast majority of progressive Americans is an attack on free speech and thus an attack on our very republic, itself.

3. There is no doubt in any of our nation’s brilliant universities that this type of hate-speech comes from none other than the “tea-banging rednecks who hate the fact that we have a black president.”

4. This is obviously nothing more than an attempt to push the right-wing anti-choice, woman-hating agenda, promulgated and fostered by surreptitious elements within the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church cleverly disguises its underhanded agenda of power-seeking by overtly claiming to protect fetuses as if they were human, when we all know that fetuses are nothing more than a burdensome extension of a woman’s body and are of no use other than scientific stem cell research. Just because all significant medical advances have thus far come exclusively from adult-stem cell research, while embryonic stem-cell research is exorbitantly expensive is no reason for the Catholic Church to oppose embryonic stem-cell research based upon purported moral and ethical grounds. They just don’t want to admit to ‘possibilities’ or the great good and psychological healing that women attain through abortion.

5. Of course the anti-American National Rifle Association is no doubt a part of this right-wing conspiracy as evinced by this group pushing their death-mongering agenda that holds the Constitution and the Bill of Rights as more important than well-meaning moderate activist groups like Acorn. Just because violent crime rates sky rocket in societies where gun ownership is severely restricted is no reason to keep up the killing.

6. Glenn Beck lacks any foresight or insight. And anyone that pals around with him, Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity needs a psychologist, and not the quack Beck had on his show this weekend.

7. This type of hate speech should not be tolerated. The ‘fairness doctrine’ should extend to the cable networks and anyone who publicly fosters this hate-mongering should be prosecuted with the support of the “full weight of the Obama administration’s press-corps.” Long prison terms should be implemented to silence these radicals and keep them from infecting our “Great Society.”

Although the debate rages on between right-wing extremists like returning military personnel, and peace-loving moderates like Bill Ayers, this exchange clearly demonstrates the intellectuals amongst the moderates have established the upper-hand.

Glenn Beck Boils Obama Economic Policies