What do you think of Glenn Beck?
 

What do you guys think of Beck, I know he's been kicked off fox a while ago and I haven't heard of this guy since. But while on Fox news he made a-lot of controversial statements didn't he? What happened to him?

lol, hell yeah. Everyone I know hates this guy, but I came across one of his supporters and he was literally swearing at me defending him (with such passion), the founding father-libertarianism, gun rights, how he's got 8 million radio listeners and makes millions and he also told me that the muslim brotherhood controls obama because beck was talking about it on his radio show.

From what I heard, whoever listens to this guy needs to have his or her head examined.

lol, I think he and Glenn Beck should team up, they both borderline paranoids.

He is a ****ing moron.

Glenn Beck is a conversative who will never be popular. Many conversatives and liberals hate him with passion.

I really didn't follow him, and was unaware he was kick off of Fox for a long time. There are some things he said are true. One of the last things I remember talk about was the US national debt and the possible consequences of it, well something like that he talked about is still talked about in the mainstream media.

He's educated, yet conservative enough that it almost has to be an act. He's like Madonna of this generation. I'd say Lady Gaga, but even she has more artistic integrity.

Exactly, don't give him any attention. I saw a video of him on youtube a while about about some child genius.

Here is it.


12 Year Old Genius Jacob Barnett on Glenn Beck - YouTube


Never cringed so much in a long time...I mean holy ****. Its almost like a satire.

He only has a high school education.

Dude needs to lose weight.

Rather than burying our heads in the sand, why not use him as an example of what's wrong with media politics. It might be beneficial to others.

Oh, ****. I thought for some reason he went to Cambridge. I don't know where that was stuck in my head. I must be on crack to think Glen Beck was ever in Cambridge. I feel like I heard that somewhere, and it just stuck in my head.

As an aside, I get the majority of my news from Al Jazeera English, so I pay little to no attention to typical American media of late. Al Jazeera is where it's at.

Among other reasons I appreciate him, it's hard not to enjoy a man who is able to cause tantrums on the left so easily.

He's got more predictions lol, god can this guy just stop...


Beck: Common Core Designed To 'Train Us To Be A Serf State' Ruled By China And Islam - YouTube


He's great at predictions you know, he predicted a Romney landslide.....


Glenn Beck's Prediction: "Romney Will Win Big" - YouTube

I used to watch his show off and on everyday till they kicked him off Fox but he did get on my nerves sometimes and I would have to turn him off. He just went too far once in awhile.

Actually Glenn Beck attended the Harvard School of Divinity in Cambridge Massachusetts for a semester and flunked out. Maybe that's how you ended up associating Glenn Beck with Cambridge.

Beck used to be a radio shock jock like Howard Stern who'd do and say outrageous things just to rile up his audience. His career came crashing down when he got addicted to alcohol and drugs.

He reinvented himself as a conservative radio talk show host but most of his ideas are recycled ideas from the right wing conspiracy obsessed John Birch Society.

In the early Fifties, the John Birch Society were among the most strident leaders of red scare in the United States. They believed such notable American leaders as Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy and Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren were all part of a ongoing communist conspiracy that was global in scope and dated back to the beginning of the 20th Century.

At the height of the McCarthy era, the John Birch Society recruited a membership of 100,000 Americans who were gullible enough to accept their paranoid theories of history.

The Birch Society's membership began to decline in the late Fifties when they redbaited the moderate Republican president, Dwight Eisenhower. The Birch Society claimed Eisenhower was a "tool of the communists." It's one thing to attack a liberal Democrat for being sympathetic to socialism, but Eisenhower was moderate Republican and an American war hero who commanded the Allied Forces on the D-Day invasion to rid Europe of their Nazi occupation forces. Many prominent Republicans who previously supported the Birch Society withdrew their support when Birchers began accusing the elected Republican president of being a communist sympathizer.

Glenn Beck is responsible for reviving many of the outlandish, revisionist historical doctrines of the Birch Society. An author with ideological influence on Beck is W. Cleon Skousen , a prolific conservative political writer and an anti-communist supporter of the John Birch Society. Skousen believed that American political, social, and economic elites were working with communists to foist a world government on the United States.

Constitutional scholar Jack Rakove, of Stanford University, inspected Skousen’s books and seminars and pronounced them "a joke that no self-respecting scholar would think is worth a warm pitcher of spit." A 1971 review in the Mormon journal Dialogue also accused Skousen of "inventing fantastic ideas and making inferences that go far beyond the bounds of honest commentary," and also of promoting concepts that were "perilously close" to Nazism.

I think Beck's influence peaked in the United States when he became so drunk on power, he went off the deep-end with his slanderous attacks of public figures, especially Barack Obama. He lost his job at Fox News when Beck made the outrageous claim that Barack Obama has repeatedly shown "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture", saying "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."

Beck's hate mongering remarks about Obama resulted in an organized consumer boycott of his show's advertisers. 57 different advertisers removed their ads from his program, to avoid associating their brands with content that could be considered offensive by potential customers.

Yeah like Glenn supposively doesn't know what the formula for volumes of a cereal box. Either he was lieing about that just to make the kid look more smarter than him, or he really doesn't know Mathematical formulae. Both are equally cringled worthy.

Not that I care about Beck, but you guys on the left, as opposed to you guys on the right, also have your clown. By the name of Piers Morgan. Don't act like the retards only come out of one gate. It's a free-for-all down there in the ridiculous media well.

That's a valid point about PM, to be sure, but I will say that our best (by that I mean to include myself as a member of the "guys on the left), such as Jon Stewart & Stephan Colbert, just mercilessly kick the everlovin' crap outta their (the "guys on the right") best (whoever that is), IMHO.

I don't follow Piers enough but the few clips that I have seen. He clearly shuts down his opponents with sound logic. Feel free to show me some of his faults.

agreed.

if you had said bill maher i'd probably agree with you, but piers morgan?

hmm dunno if i agree with that assessment.

I've never thought of Piers Morgan as a left winger. He spent years working as a journalist for ultra-right winger Rupert Murdoch's tabloid newspapers in the UK. Before replacing Larry King, Morgan was mostly known for participating in various network reality television shows and talent competitions.

His CNN talk show has dismal ratings and if Piers Morgan is some sort of self appointed spokesman from the left, most Americans don't know it because nobody watches his show.

Piers Morgan? Meh. Like Gavin said, I've never thought of him as very left wing. I do agree with you to the extent that the left has Keith Olbermann though. He's certainly every bit a blowhard as Rush Limbaugh. The problem is proportion though. The right seems to have a ton of these people, while the left has only a few.

If you think Piers Morgan is left wing it goes to show just how far right America has become these days.

It's definitely more financially advantageous to be a right wing author. Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Anne Coulter, Michelle Macklin, Michael Savage and Bill O' Reilly sell millions of books. Publishing books is a bigger source of income for them than their salaries as talk show hosts.

By contrast, Keith Olbermann is a failure as an author and is without network talk show because MSNBC thought he was too controversial for prime time television.

Oh ****ing lawl.

Admittedly, I don't know everything about Piers Morgan, and he'd probably surprise me in some aspects. (Like I was surprised that he's religious, which knocks him down a few pegs for me).
I've only seen his most controversial disputes, and they seemed pretty left to me. (Cue gun control) More importantly, I was more making the statement that he's a clown. He seems to think that he can just superimpose Britain as this objective model of why America is wrong, and never seems to be able to dig beyond the face value of the statistics and goes crazy any time anyone tries to point that out or offer an explanation why that is a fruitless venture when considering context.

I don't care who it is, left or right. The moment their ideology becomes impervious to reasonable opposition (especially when their response is simply to insult that opposition), they're a clown.

I thought it was Yale and he just took one course there which wasn't part of a degree program.

I really don't have any opinion of this man. A lot of people despise him so someone has to balance it out. I heard he went vegan a couple years ago. Judging by the looks of him that did not last very long or did it? Bill Clinton went vegan around the same time. I am going to guess he didn't last either.

Glenn has the ultimate bias towards sensationalism and conflict, much like Rush does. He's a loser.

So who is this guy? Save me from Googling.

An American conservative political commentator who is a tremendous moron.

Ah okay, so not really worth taking an interest in then? ;)

I think I can manage not knowing much about this guy! We should list our favourite politicians! Oh wait...there is none.

Don't forget about the crying. Musn't forget the crying.

Oh ****, I just realized that was you Paul. I was wondering where you'd gone. :laughing:

That piers guy is an idiot I'll grant you that...

Isn't this the guy that claimed the Obama administration was behind the Boston bombings, and then went on to claim he had evidence of such?

In other words, just another blowhard like Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage.