Beck Craps on the Faithful
Glenn Beck has followers who hang on his every word and swear he’s the only one in media who is telling the truth. He hates to disappoint, but quite honestly, he’s not interested in politics unless there’s money involved.
An article penned by Lacey Rose to appear in the April 26 Forbes magazine states what should be obvious to anyone who’s been paying attention. Of course, Beck’s faithful are not paying attention, so they aren’t going to like this one bit. Glenn says “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” In fact, the only thing he appears to give a crap about is turning everything he touches into gold at the expense of gullible people who believe that he’s just some ordinary populist guy who got mad as hell and can’t take it any more.
We're only in it for the money
According to the article, Beck’s business concerns took in $32 million (yes, 32) in the year ending March 1 2010. His primary stock in trade is paranoid delusional conspiracy theories, character assassination, outright lies, and fighting buzz words designed to put the deranged on the street with loaded weapons. Anyone reading this from a foreign nation may be surprised that Americans would spend this kind of money on this kind of bullshit. But you have to remember our history.
During the last half century we have undergone a massive upheaval of so-called “traditional values”. Those values still have a lot of support among certain groups, for example, Glenn Beck’s Mormon “church”. Racism and sexism are coded into their religion. Black people are cursed by God, and women know their place… or else. The Anglo population is predicted to become a minority during the first half of this new century, which is frightening to White America who identify this nation’s institutions, history, Founders, and so on as being lily-white as the driven snow. Just as America believes in American exceptionalism, white America believes in white exceptionalism.
Glenn Beck has figured out how to tap into this fear and loathing of change. Electing a half-black President couldn’t have come along at a more perfect time for Beck. Think of what he was doing just 2 short years ago at CNN. Sucking wind, for one thing. Now he’s such a darling for Fox that Rupert Murdoch is financing his show out of his own pocket.
All of this is transparent to the Beckerhead consumer. They don’t care about anything other than Beck offers an explanation for their misery and keeps stoking their fear. We like violence in this country. Don’t be surprised if there’s violence on the streets of Washington DC on April 19, the day that Beck’s TeaBaggers are going into the streets armed to celebrate the anniversary of Waco and the Oklahoma City bombing.
Anyone killed or injured in this process is just collateral damage. As long as it brings in more money, it’s good. All good.
Beck Craps on the Faithful – http://glennbeckreport.com/2010/04/beck-craps-on-the-faithful/
William Wexler
11 Apr 10 at 12:56 am
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11 Apr 10 at 1:27 am
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11 Apr 10 at 2:11 am
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11 Apr 10 at 7:25 pm
Seems the only violence has been from the left such as the SEIU. If you knew anything about socialism and the Progressive movement you would be educated enough not to write such an article. You have no facts or supporting docs. Perhaps if you would take some time and open a book at a public library you could learn something. Perhaps you are one the bloggers getting paid by Media Matters. I bet you don’t even know who George Soros is.
Cheers
rwx
27 Jul 10 at 5:50 pm
You failed to mention any violence by SEIU. When and where did that happen? Who got charged and what were the charges?
I actually do know quite a bit about socialism because I am a socialist, and the progressives are the people worldwide that have made societies actually function. What would you like to have facts about? The 40 hour work week? The Civil Rights movement? The end of the Viet Nam war by popular citizen action? Medical treatment for all citizens (unfortunately this is only in nations that are more socialist than we are). Social Security and Medicare? What facts do you want? Please let me know, I’ll be happy to give you facts on anything you want to set your mind at ease that I am definitely qualified to write this article and most of the rest of the website. Quinlan is new here, but he’s qualified, too.
I spend quite a bit of time reading, our town has an excellent college library that is free and open to anyone living here. What are you reading these days? The Overton Window? The 5000 Year Leap? LOL
I’m not currently getting paid by Media Matters but they are an excellent source of information. You ought to go there some evening with some people who don’t suffer from the same problem you do and see what’s actually going on in the media. Oh, your problem? It’s a failed grasp of the Big Picture.
How much would you like to bet about me and the George Soros thing? I’ll take that bet.
BTW, and please don’t take this in anything but the spirit intended, you suck at commenting. I’ll probably catch hell from Quinlan for posting that but I think he probably will agree even if he’s too polite to say it.
-Wexler
admin
27 Jul 10 at 6:18 pm
Rwx…
You’ve really got some gall. Coming on a site run by two ADMITTED socialist progressives, and saying that we know nothing about socialism or the progressive movement. Really, turn that around. I don’t know how rich you are, or how well educated you are, and I don’t presume to. But you can’t take all of your information from Glenn Beck, because all he’s going to do is lie to you and feed you BS opinions devoid of important news. George Soros? Haha. That’s a good one. I’m guessing that you think we socialists know just as much about him as we know about socialism. Which is… nothing? Right. And, as Wexler said… why don’t you show me one instance of violence from SEIU. If you’d like, I can show you a dozen instances that have come from the racist, fundamentalist right. And that would just be off the top of my head.
Oh, and thanks for your comment.
-Quinlan
Qu1n1an
27 Jul 10 at 9:11 pm
Glenn Beck: “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” That people believe this fraud and huckster… http://is.gd/eJ1NY #GOP
Doug Milam
28 Aug 10 at 5:49 pm