Glenn Beck – Man of the Year?
TIME's Man of the Year?
On Sept. 14 the Senate overwhelmingly voted to cut off all federal funds to ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau severed its ties to the organization. This followed Beck’s masterly promotion of a series of videos made by two guerrilla filmmakers who posed as a pimp and prostitute while visiting ACORN offices around the country. ~ TIME Magazine
Now the House has pulled the plug on ACORN. TIME credits Beck with much of the left’s current heartburn. More here.
(I’ve been hogging the posts here lately and will lay low for a while. My apologies for being so “active” lately.)
Yeah, Davy, goodness sakes! This is a blog that people check and read with frequency! How dare you post and fulfill their expectations!
Every time the right comes up with a new star (Rush…then Hannity…now Beck) I have Billy Joel’s Entertainer running through my head. My liberal friends watch Beck mainly b/c he’s an act and I have to admit, so do a lot of my conservative friends. I can’t imagine that Beck actually takes himself seriously, but I think he realized that using essentially a Colbert/Stewart like shtick with serious, every day issues produces results. More power to him.
But to think that this guy is actually fostering serious, public dialogue is fanciful. He’s a far, far cry from Buckley and we conservatives would be wise to realize his limited, but effective, place in our little world…
Hey Alberto. “Effective” is the operative word here my friend. Some pseudo conservative talking head chick recently expressed concern that Beck was not “elegant.” Good Lord.
Due to our current situation, I’ll take “effective” over “dialogue” & “elegant” any day. I’m not looking to impress these fascists, I want to see them defeated. These hyper-leftists are not interested in “dialogue” their only interest is power and taking away my liberty.
Wouldn’t you love to have seen Beck and Buckley go one on one for about an hour? Now THAT would have been entertaining!
Best,
DB
DB, we’re in total agreement. I’ve just seen the Rod Dreher’s and Sullivan’s of the world decry this guy b/c he’s essentially a rabble rouser and he’s muddling the possibility of real dialogue. My retort: so what! There’s room for confronting the nation’s problems in a public manner in multiple levels and sometimes propaganda is a good thing. Why? Because it makes the absurd ridiculously simple to understand and in the twitter age, that’s very necessary.
Keep hogging the posts if they keep being entertaining and well informed.
Glad to see Time is not being partisan with Beck…NOT! Jeeze Louise, even The New Yorker gave Michael Savage a fair report, at least according to Savage.
And while I agree Beck does not take himself that seriously, but he is sincere in what he is doing. And you have to have that to make it work. A demagoge? Yeah there is some of that, along with a double serving of populist pandering, but the issues Beck brings up he believes in.
Jonah Goldberg said it well the other day, if the guy is selling less government and more freedom, that is not exactly the dangerous sort of demogoge you typically think of.
As I’ve noted before, the bottom line concerning Beck’s recent efforts:
1.Van Jones is gone.
2. Acorn has been neutered, totally discredited, defunded, and their reputation (did they have one?) ruined.
3. Others are on the radar.
That’s change we can believe in.
Now I’m going into seclusion for a while, but not very long.
;o)
No need to lay low, man. If you want to post something, do it!
keep posting. makes up for my wildly uninformed and random wtf posts
Yeah, Davy, don’t worry about “hogging.” Speak your mind, man.
As I will, because I don’t want this blog to turn into the Glenn Beck cheering section.
That Time makes Glenn Beck the poster boy for opposition to the president’s [and this lefty-led congress'] is entirely predictable.
Much easier to bring down one man than millions.
As for Wm. F. Buckley, I think he’d have been unnerved at Beck’s unnuanced populism, just as he gave his imprimatur to Rush Limbaugh, a far more thoughtful and cautious man.
Glenn Beck is not my leader, although the media is attempting to paint him that way.
“Mad Man,” indeed, as if they don’t mean to sell “madman.”
I’m not “mad,” just disgusted and angry, and most of all, alarmed. Not the same thing, although that’s the new ABC/NBC/NYT/Time complicit narrative, which you show right here with on cover of Time.
I don’t trust Time at all – I think libs are seeing Beck as a straw-man in actual flesh that they can take down when he inevitably has a meltdown. In the same way that the Dems touted Palin’s debating skills leading up to the VP debate so she would disappoint, etc.
I just can’t help seeing Mel Gibson’s past and Glen Beck’s future. He is clearly an unstable man who cannot keep this up. Nevertheless, he is doing some great stuff now. I will applaud him on a case-by-case basis but I will not “join forces” with him.
I forgot to echo the sentiments above – no need to stop blogging as long as you have material!
Mr. Younger Now, you hit the nail on the head with Mel Gibson and Sarah Palin [who was indeed unqualified---you had to know what the "Bush Doctrine" is, sorry].
I won’t call Glenn Beck unstable, because the tears might be part of his “shtick,” an act, not the real thing.
But Wm. F. Buckley never cried in public over political issues, and would have been deeply offended at such shtick. WFB, who was always supremely confident of the strength of his arguments on behalf of conservatism, would have seen tears as cheating.
If you can bring your audience to tears with your words, that’s one thing.
Starting the crying is another.
When they lose
Walter CronkiteJay Leno, have they lost the country?Leno had Michael Moore on the other night.
Limbaugh, breaking his MSM silence, is booked for next Thursday.
Can’t wait to see the ratings. Drudge, at least, will report them.
Regardless, props to Leno for rolling the dice without loading them first.
One will seldom win a multi-front war with one type of weapon, one strategy, one tactic. So what if Beck isn’t Buckley? I strongly doubt Buckley would have stirred the masses for town hall protests — and get the attention of reps and Senators — the way Beck and other rabble-rousers have. Beck will reach thousands of folks, and viscerally inspire them, in ways that intellectuals don’t. That’s okay. Rabble-rousers, intellectuals, academics, bloggers, FOX News talking heads — they all have a role to play in this political war.
Good to see Time is acting
fair, balanced and ethical…well it is not so good to see Time is acting, well like Newsweek.Jeeze Louise, even The New Yorker gave Michael Savage a fair shake. What gives?
Dan:
Excellent points. What was it Ronald Reagan said . . ?
“You can accomplish a whole lot if you don’t care who gets the credit.”
If Maxine Waters “saw the light” and took up our cause, I’d cheer her on!