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Originally Posted by PennBF
We are truly lucky to have someone like Glenn Beck who is not an entertainer but rather a watchdog who takes time to do what we should do but instead wait for someone else to do it and then be critical.
Tonight he said the 9/12 plan is to reconnect with the values and principles,
he said America is great and that is what makes it good, and 9/12 is not meant to ever endorse a candidate. He also said The Village's is a wonderful place.
Now maybe someone can tell me how this makes him somone to dislike? How his words are anti American?  |
I dislike him because he comes off to me as disingenuous. He *appears* to me to be a demagogue. He has, IN MY OPINION, tapped into the many insecurities in this country and whipped people up into a frenzy. I wasn't really sure what to make of him until that famous "Obama hates white people" / "I don't hink he hates white people" comment.
I treat him like I do any entertainer. The difference between him and Jon Stewart, just for starters, is Stewart makes me laugh. Beck is trying to make people angry - trying to make them feel threatened.
But when I think about it, I can give you a very personal reason as to why I don't like Mr. Beck. Please don't laugh - I'm serious about this. He reminds me of my ex-wife. My ex-wife ALWAYS just KNEW what I was thinking, no matter what I said. If I did something and she asked me to explain my actions, the explanation didn't matter - she already had it in her head that I must be up to something "nefarious" - I'm not kiddin - she actually used that word IN WRITING when we needed something notarized during the divorce proceeding (which required a xerox of her driver's license and her social security number). The fact that I memorized her license and social secuirity numbers almost 2 decades previously didn't matter.
And that's what gets me - when facts don't matter. I'm sorry, but Occam's Razor is another principle I like to apply. Kind of like "follow the money" as well.
It's not that I 'hate' Glen Beck. I can't say that I'm THAT emotionally invested in an entertainer to "hate" them. It's the followers that can scare me, to be honest. Beck has a platform - and he uses it. You can agree or disagree with him, but don't think for a minute that it's NOT entertainment.
It's kind of like the bumper sticker I saw ages ago that I really liked...
"I love Jesus too - It's his fan club that scares me"