The next Oprah.

Glen Beck is a comlete sold out corporate whore phony.

Fuck him!

He's not built right for me...

He'd start crying if he heard you say that.

Beck is attempting to educate the Un-educated and the sleeping.

I should have been on tv 2 decades ago. I was and still am preaching what Beck is preaching over 2 and half decades ago.

The slow (not so slow, now) march of communists in our Universities and Government are putting the hammer down so to speak. The wall they're going to hit though (people who actually produce and want to produce) will dismantle them.

What's happening today is nothing new, Folks.

Glen Beck is a comlete sold out corporate whore phony.

Fuck him!

#2 | Posted by JeffnDenmark

That must be why UPS stopped advertising during his show

Beck is attempting to educate the Un-educated and the sleeping.

Another dipshit convinced of their own intellectual prowess.

Beck is attempting to educate the Un-educated

You're right in one aspect - his audience is largely uneducated. As far as "educating" them, it's a case of the blind leading the blind.

ZOMBIE

Check out this video of interviews during Beck's Tea Party shindig if you haven't seen it yet. Education seems to be a bad word to this crowd, who are highly uninformed about the very issues they're protesting.

6:23 on is hilarious!

As far as "educating" them, it's a case of the blind leading the blind.

#9 | Posted by ZombieHunter

I doubt if Beck himself is blind. Beck is gathering the uneducated unto himself, for obvious reasons. Once he's hooked them, I think those who tune in Beck are an easily held and persuaded audience. The minions make Beck millions.

Hilarious in a painful way, au.

You libs are funny. Your opinions of yourself are nothing less than tremendously over inflated.

You give little, it's likely you don't even know your own neighbor let alone do unto him, you believe that's the job of government.

You'd do well to read the above link I provided but you won't. You don't want education you want to follow with blind faith all the while projecting that is what others do.

You aren't educated you're indoctrinated. Thinking is beyond your ability, you're little trained parrots. That's it.

Glenn Beck is popular because he understands how manipulate really stupid people and he is very good at it.

I'm guessing washbrain is a fan of Beck.

You dumbasses don't have a clue what you're asking for. You think you do but you don't.

You want to FORCE others to participate in your little socialistic dream. FORCING anyone to do anything isn't LIBERTY. But you dumbasses think you're going to get something for nothing and allow yourself to believe someone else should have to do the heavy lifting. I've seen your types all my life and you're very easy to out produce. It's Sloths always are. You bitch and moan and play the victim never realizing you are your own worst enemy.

Dumb as stumps.

You don't debate ideas. You only talk about people.

There is no need to further mention any polticians name once it has been mentioned and their idea put forth.

You can't defend your ideas because they always amount to you're the victim.

Weakling sluggards.

you're little trained parrots. That's it.

#13 | Posted by Washboard

Why don't you give us an example of some of the education you believe you're getting from Glenn.

"I've seen your types all my life..."

Yeah...all 13 yrs of it.

Real man of the world is what you are.

"Why Glenn Beck Is Really The Most Watched Cable News Host"

Not enough good network comedy out there.

"Why Glenn Beck Is Really The Most Watched Cable News Host"

For the same reason medieval types crowded around, ankle deep in mud and horse manure to watch the village idiot perform the herky-jerky St. Vitus Dance?

Glenn Beck is popular because he understands how manipulate really stupid people and he is very good at it.

#14 | Posted by Angrydad

Beck's behind Acorn too? I knew he was squealing too loud.

This whole country's just like my flock of sheep!....
Rednecks, crackers, hillbillies, hausfraus, shut-ins, pea-pickers - everybody that's got to jump when somebody else blows the whistle....
They're mine! I own 'em! They think like I do. Only they're even more stupid than I am, so I gotta think for 'em.

Lonesome Rhodes
A Face in the Crowd

I find it sad how reflexively easy it is for those on the left to discount those who watch/listen to Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, FOX, etc... as being ignorant. Such condescension and contempt is unbecoming, but moreover serves to distract from the debate.

Beck is attempting to educate the Un-educated and the sleeping.
Another dipshit convinced of their own intellectual prowess.
#8 | POSTED BY JPW AT 2010-01-30 07:31 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

Beck is attempting to educate the Un-educated
You're right in one aspect - his audience is largely uneducated. As far as "educating" them, it's a case of the blind leading the blind.
#9 | POSTED BY ZOMBIEHUNTER AT 2010-01-30 10:38 PM | REPLY | FLAG:

Look who's judging, two of the most noxious government shills in DR.

"I'm not just an entertainer. I'm an influence, a wielder of opinion, a force... a force!"

Lonesome Rhodes
A Face in the Crowd

I doubt if Beck himself is blind.

Beck is a former wacky radio DJ who discovered he could switch to political talk and build a bigger audience. He's been on the radio since age 13 and never went to college. I don't see any reason to think he's particularly intelligent. He's just a gasbag who tries to plug into whatever trends are hot at the moment. These days, it's angry populism. In three years it could be new-age mysticism.

I don't see any reason to think he's particularly intelligent. He's just a gasbag who tries to plug into whatever trends are hot at the moment. These days, it's angry populism. In three years it could be new-age mysticism.

That more and more Americans are becoming concerned about the direction this country is going is no passing fad. Rcade suffers from the conceit that the problem (government) is the solution.

YEAH!

He is educating America!

Why I remember as if it was Yesterday Beck Railing on for a Whole Week about the 9 Billion in Tax Dollars gone missing in Iraq!
And the Time he trained his Chalk Board on the Bush Administrations wiretapping of americans
And how he took on the super secrete "Energy Task Force" to tell us Why we were paying 4+ bucks a gallon.

Yup, beck is just an educator --- whose job it is to sell commercials

#27 | Posted by rcade

Beck's more on-target than he is off. That's why the left is hellbent to discredit him in any way, shape or form that they can. All the WH has to do is call the red phone and 'splain where Becks's wrong, but nooooo...they can't do it.

The govt needs to find a way to get Beck out of the picture. I would suggest railroading him on tax charges or something of that nature. There is always dirt on people.

The govt needs to find a way to get Beck out of the picture. I would suggest railroading him on tax charges or something of that nature. There is always dirt on people.

#31 | Posted by jackass at 2010-01-31 09:34 AM |

This is an example of what could possibly be in the near future. Don't wait til you see the whites of their eyes.

Thought I'd post this line again. Even if just one is enlightened, even if only a little, the few seconds it took to post again will have been worth it.

That more and more Americans are becoming concerned about the direction this country is going is no passing fad.

We'll see. I think that dissatisfaction is cyclical, and if the economy snaps back into shape Americans will happily go back to being myopic consumers maxxing out our credit cards and ignoring DC and the rest of the world as much as possible.

The govt needs to find a way to get Beck out of the picture. I would suggest railroading him on tax charges or something of that nature. There is always dirt on people.

#31 | Posted by jackass at 2010-01-31 09:34 AM |

This is an example of what could possibly be in the near future. Don't wait til you see the whites of their eyes.

#32 | Posted by Washboard

The Clintons audited O'Reilly four years in a row.

Try to take Beck off the air and you will only make him stronger.

"I think that dissatisfaction is cyclical, and if the economy snaps back into shape Americans will happily go back to being myopic consumers maxxing out our credit cards and ignoring DC and the rest of the world as much as possible." - RCade

I disagree, as the government is requesting more and more control and becomes more intrusive in our lives the more we will care about what happens in DC. From housing, education and healthcare....

When I read the following article, I was not surprised but saddened by the intrusion of the government when people asked for help. Ignore the Obama bashing, but understand, if this is a true situation. It is facist in nature. It also explains why so many people have refused these "loans", they don't want the government intruding into thier lives.

"I figured that I'd go ahead and get the Obama loan'" Dave told me as he explained the difficulty he had with his mortgage. By "Obama loan," he was referring to the "Making Home Affordable" program, the Obama Administration's effort to prevent home foreclosures and to "help" those who have difficulty keeping up with their loan payments.

The program enabled Dave to get his house re-financed, which in turn lowered his monthly payment amount. But for all the good that the program provided, there were strings attached.

Dave's credit score was dramatically lowered in the process. Then, because of his lower credit score, two of his charge card accounts were cancelled. And now, so Dave told me, "the feds" (I presume by this he meant employees of the U.S. Department of the Treasury) monitor his checking and savings accounts, to make sure that he maintains a certain "minimum balance," while also ensuring that he does not exceed a certain "maximum balance."

"I think that dissatisfaction is cyclical, and if the economy snaps back into shape Americans will happily go back to being myopic consumers maxxing out our credit cards and ignoring DC and the rest of the world as much as possible." - RCade

We've had some forty-five or fifty years of the cycle that began in the 60's and this administration may very well be the catalyst that starts the pendulum swinging the other way. What impresses me more than anything is the way "common" conservatives are becoming much more politically active. I well remember the "liberal" (progressive) activists and their protests over these last decades but have been surprised lately to see things like the Tea Parties and Town Halls. I know our little friends want to spin the elections in VA, NJ, and most of all Massachusetts but I think they are a harbinger. As far as I'm concerned, it's about time. James Lewis says it pretty well.

"The Left have advocated suicidal policies, and now they have found their way to power. But ultimately this is a failure of the American people, of our pathetic excuse for a media, and of the anti-American hatred that pervades the Left."

Try to take Beck off the air and you will only make him stronger.

He's not Obi-Wan or something. The man is an unstable dimwit who is popular with the numerous unstable dimwits in this country. Nobody needs to take him off the air - on the contrary, fools like that invariably hang themselves if you give them enough rope. Beck's lapdogs in trailer parks and militia bunkers will eventually catch on.

The man is an unstable dimwit who is popular with the numerous unstable dimwits in this country. Nobody needs to take him off the air - on the contrary, fools like that invariably hang themselves if you give them enough rope. Beck's lapdogs in trailer parks and militia bunkers will eventually catch on.

#38 | Posted by ZombieHunter

The dimwits in America don't vote son. He does live TV 5 hours a week in addition, to his radio show. He will not hang himself.

It is so typical or your ilk sterotyping a whole group as stupid because you disagree with them. It is part of the reason why Dems are starting to lose elections again. Coakley was a know it all and so was Corzine. Batter up.

"The man is an unstable dimwit who is popular with the numerous unstable dimwits in this country."

He must not be THAT much of a dimwit. He's rakin' it in by the bushels...his book too. I had never watched him until all my little leftist-socialist friends on the DR bitched about him so much it made me curious. I haven't seen anything he's said be debunked either. He must have one hell of a research department.
You should quit watching all the health care negotiations on C-Span and watch him once in a while. Maybe you'll learn a little something. (I know, you watch him now, don't you? You hate all your heroes being decloaked, that's why you load up your trousers and bitch on the DR...LOL)

fools like that invariably hang themselves if you give them enough rope. Beck's lapdogs in trailer parks and militia bunkers will eventually catch on.

#38 | Posted by ZombieHunter

You mean like obama is doing?

Notice how most hear don't speak to his popularity, they just insult him and his audience. Mostly the same libs who promoted the HC bills, as if on a mission from God!

Beck covers important news stories that main stream media refuses to cover. From Climategate to Van Jones to Anita Dunn to Jon Edwards, Beck goes where the 'media' dares not. Many here insult the intelligence of his viewers with the same animosity used against tea party protesters, red states, republicans, etc. Like Obama's your 'list' of enemies is growing daily...and eventually is so inclusive even the 'educated' will see your folly for what it is.....HATE

You mean like obama is doing?

Obama has done some very foolish things in his first year in office - namely waste a huge amount of political capital on an ill-conceived health insurance reform bill. Of the few things that Obama has actually done (or even undertaken) in his first year, I've disagreed with a good portion. He's really kind of a do-nothing president. Nevertheless, I have nothing but contempt for teabagging filth who parade their ignorance in front of Fox News cameras. They're accomplishing even less than Obama.

Beck goes where the 'media' dares not

Namely, Beck rushes headlong into irrational tirades based on arguments from ignorance and paranoid delusions. That's hardly a virtue. It's telling, however, that such foolishness attracts a large audience. It confirms what many have suspected for a long time - there are a lot of mindless partisan idiots in America.

Mostly the same libs who promoted the HC bills, as if on a mission from God!

What of them? I don't think anybody involved in this health care debate actually knows what they're arguing about. They're just regurgitating the talking points of their favorite demagogues, whether those are Beck, Limbaugh, Olbermann, or whoever.

Many here insult the intelligence of his viewers with the same animosity used against tea party protesters, red states, republicans, etc.

In the case of the Beck audience and teabaggers, the insult is appropriate. You have to be a fucking idiot to believe that shit.

As humans we have a moral obligation to other humans to WARN them of pitfalls. That's it. The idea that consequence can be removed is extemely illogical and only even considered by those with little ability to THINK. aka un-intelligent.

Some people learn from others mistakes, some people learn from their own mistakes, in either case, they find liberty in their freedom to choose. Then there's the people who just don't/won't learn. No amount of government subsidies will ever fix that, rather, in fact, it only enables it.

Consequence is a teacher that can NEVER be removed by any political system.

An easy example put forth by Andreamackris's article. Also
further and irrefutable proof that there is no such thing as Something for Nothing.

Look who's judging, two of the most noxious government shills in DR.

Government shill?

Oh that's right, "government shill" is code for anyone who doesn't agree with your little fantasy world.

As for yourself, see my above comment about dipshits and intellectual prowess.

#24 | POSTED BY OOHRAH
"I find it sad how reflexively easy it is for those on the left to discount those who watch/listen to Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, FOX, etc... as being ignorant. Such condescension and contempt is unbecoming, but moreover serves to distract from the debate."

Agreed.
However...
#13 | POSTED BY WASHBOARD
"You aren't educated you're indoctrinated. Thinking is beyond your ability, you're little trained parrots."
#16 | POSTED BY WASHBOARD
"You dumbasses don't have a clue"
"Dumb as stumps."

I think you'll agree the left has no monopoly on this.
Sorry to pick on Washboard, but he's the most vocal example on this thread. Apparently AFK is napping.

That's why the left is hellbent to discredit him in any way, shape or form that they can.
#30 | Posted by American1st

Nobody has to work as discrediting Glennnn "The University of I Don't Remember" Beck. He does much of the heavy lifting in that department all by his lonesome.

I don't see any reason to think he's particularly intelligent.

#27 | Posted by rcade

I wasn't trying to imply that Glenn is significantly intelligent. I was merely trying to point out that he (probably with significant help) is smart and charismatic enough to attract and keep an audience by playing out an ideology that is easily embraced by the same said audience.

I wasn't trying to imply that Glenn is significantly intelligent. I was merely trying to point out that he (probably with significant help) is smart and charismatic enough to attract and keep an audience by playing out an ideology that is easily embraced by the same said audience.

#47 | Posted by Whatsleft

That's a good analysis. Are you in sales or marketing? Have a friend who looks at things the same way.

I tried to listen to Beck before he was really famous. He wasn't that interesting. I thought Savage was at least mildly entertaining. Hannity is the worst though.

Hey DAnni, how did that boycott against Beck work out for you?

Bwahahahahahaha!

#45 THE
Certainly. It's not confined to one side of the aisle. My impression is, however, that the DR left plays that card quite a bit more often. Perhaps that's because this, being a lefty blog, will naturally run more stories on lightning rods like Beck, Rush, etc.

But you're referencing what one DR person says to another. I was referring to what DR lefties say pretty much whenever any story about Rush/Hannity/Beck, etc appears here. The DR lefties' emphasis appears to be on how dumb their listeners are, as a whole.

I realize it comes with the territory... being on a political blog and all... it's just my observation.

How can he be the most watched cable news host?

Isn't everyone on the DR?

My teens and their friends will ask, "DID YOU SEE BECK TODAY?!?" I dvr it, but one will always have to spoil the show for me - one good thing, teens are beginning to watch and I cannot discount that - they find it newsworthy AND entertaining!

Blen Beck teaches them what they won't get taught at govt controlled schools.

He has made them bolder when confronting their teachers.

Beck's more on-target than he is off. That's why the left is hellbent to discredit him in any way, shape or form that they can. All the WH has to do is call the red phone and 'splain where Becks's wrong, but nooooo...they can't do it.

#30 | Posted by American1st at 2010-01-31 09:11 AM | Reply | Flag

They certainly didn't mind doing that to BCBSNC. Hear the CEO just 'retired'.

"Why Glenn Beck Is Really The Most Watched Cable News Host"

That's easy. Only mentally retarded shit have cable or watch TV.

Thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from.
~Pink Floyd

OK, we get the point, you can't afford cable TV and are jealous.

#57 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2010-02-01 10:39 AM | Reply | Flag: Those who watch TV are stupid. Those that wait for it to show up on the net are smart.

Whatever you say Zat.

#62 | Posted by SHEEPLESHEPERD at 2010-02-01 11:03 AM | Reply | Flag: Makes up shit.

If you wait for it to show up on the net, you should go back to watching cable TV.

Glben Beck is exposing the progressive scumbags in both major parties. This is the kind of stuff people don't learn in school, but ought to.

Member, are you capable of defining "progressivism" and explaining what's wrong with it?

Progressivism is similar to marsim, except without the marsit fixation on revolution. Progressives want to resdistribute the wealth throught centralized government power. They believe that the Constitituon is a "livnng dcoument" and that the Declaration of Independence is just a list of grievances against King George, that the first part about people having natural rights should be ignored. Progressives are utopian, they believe humanity can be made into a perfect race where everyone acts saintly. This goes against human nature. People will always behave the same, in general terms, even if traditions and customs and laws change. That is what is wrong with progressivism.

Okay, so we've established you really don't know what "progressivism" means.

Okay, so we've established you really don't know what "progressivism" means.

Progressivism is similar to marsim, except without the marsit fixation on revolution.
#67 | Posted by member2586

Did you learn that scoping around Uranus?

Do you deny that the PROGRESSIVE income tax was designed to redistribute wealth throught government power?

Okay, so we've established you really don't know what "progressivism" means.

#68 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis

Again, Doc, you are on the wrong side of the truth. Why do you do that? It's almost like you are challenged to get people to believe lies (like Michael Moore).

Member pretty much nailed what a "Progressive" is. Why are you saying that he doesn't know?

Do you have another definition?

#67 | Posted by member2586

Sounds about right to me.

BRAVO