Glenn Beck. . .

[Cary]

I'm sure DUers have weighed in on this guy before, but I have never seen it and I'm curious as to your take on this guy.

I've seen plenty of complaints about Nancy Grace. But none about Glenn Beck.

He's been hammering home on how important it is for us to "win" in Iraq. I can only listen to him for so long but he reminds me of a bubbly Bill O'Reilly, if there can be such a thing.

[Itchinjim]

1. ...is a dickhead.

n/t.

[Junkdrawer]

39. ...who is fishing for the same liberal audience Limbaugh enjoys...

Let's not give it to him, OK?

[waiting for hope]

2. He's an idiot....

just go to www.mediamatters.org and look the freak up. He's a wanna bee BillO.

[LisaM]

3. I saw him praising Ken Jennings for tithing his Jeopardy winnings

the other day. It made me curious as to whether Beck himself tithes. It's certainly worth finding out, since he was encouraging his audience to do so.

[bryant69]

4. I have a friend who's really into him

I find him obnoxious but would rate him lower than Rush LImbaugh or Dennis Prager or Hannity or O'Reilly on the obnoxious scale - but not by much. He claims to see himself as more of a libertarian than a republican, but I'm not sure myself.

Also he is Mormon, as I'm sure someone here will mention (I am also).

His book is called the "Real America" or Real Americans - or something like that - which pushes all the wrong buttons with me - because I doubt I would make any list of "real Americans."

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[KingFlorez]

5. He's awful

He supports profiling.

[The Night Owl]

6. Glenn Beck thinks he is funny...

Glenn Beck thinks he is funny. And, many right wingers have convinced themselves that he is. Glenn Beck is not funny. Not even close.

Of course, any time I tell right wingers that Beck isn't funny, they accuse me not recognizing his genius because I hate the guy's politics.

:eyes:

[ShortnFiery]

7. If you have not seen complaints about that racist "Ugly American"

Known as Glenn Beck, you must not have been reading in great depth.

Granted, although he insults our intelligence and behaves like a rich 40 something Frat boy, he's a small bit player.

I don't know why CNN has degraded itself to run these obnoxious and shallow people (Nancy Grace & Glenn Beck) during Prime Time. IMO they are pissing on our leg and hope that we'll believe their claims that "It's Raining." :puke:

[QuestionAll...]

9. I haven't seen him on CNN.

what's his day/time slot.
same as the Nancy grace show - don't see it on regular CNN here.

or do you mean cnn headline news?

[ShortnFiery]

16. Yes, I stand corrected: "CNN Headline news during Prime Time" :( eom

[Cary]

10. I'm wondering what CNN thinks it's doing too.

[ShortnFiery]

22. I don't have any idea. One evening I turned on Headline News

to catch "The Headlines" (duh!) and instead, they have Grace's mug spewing some psycho bullshit, talking tongues and lustfully determining all the things that her and Mark Claus could do to whomever has kidnapped the M$M Missing Child of the Month.

Glenn Beck also spews absurd Neo-Conservative views (profiling and torture = GOOD!) and tries to sell them like a manly, fellow fraternity brother type of camaraderie.

Mostly his UGLY and pompous frat rat demeanor (arrogance beyond belief) really disgusts me. I honestly get a Creeped-Out when his little beady eyes stare into the camera.

Basically, he's vomit! :puke:

[ComerPerro]

24. they pretend that Beck and Grace are moderates

While, in reality, Beck is a racist, angry, RW, BushBot, Limbaugh wannabe.

And Grace never met an innocent suspect...

[rodeodance]

8. only watched him once. I would not waste a pie to throw at him.

[Justice Is Comin]

13. Maybe a cow pie.

[RedStateShame]

11. I'd say Glenn Beck is divorced from reality...

...but I don't think they've so much as shaken hands.

[Ioo]

12. He is a small man who wishes he was Bill O'Fallafal - Uber blowhard!

I would rather be forced to listen to the Mark R show on AAR

[NRaleighLiberal]

14. If we all ignore him and no one watches, he will go away. Insignificant.

[dogday]

15. He had on a guy one night who said that during

Katrina, the stuff that they say happened at the convention center, did not happen... It was an urban legend... I fell off my chair....


He is a big ass bigot and spreads the propaganda as high as he can... Little Rush Jr.....

[zbdent]

17. Well, when you consider he "headlined" all those pro-invasion rallies

in 2002 & 03, he has something to lose by us leaving Iraq ... you know, still one of the lower level peons in Bush's SS ...

[Bonhomme Richard]

18. Saw his show once. Guess he lives in CT.

Once was enough.

[w8liftinglady]

19. the only time I can stand Glenn is when he talks about his mom's suicide..

he seems almost human then.

[Ganja Ninja]

20. He just says what everybody's thinking.

Every Bush loving psycho-killer that is.

[BOSSHOG]

21. Beck the DRUG ADDICT AND CHICKENHAWK with a microphone

sound familiar? Oh and he dabbled in religion as well. Of course, he wants "US" to win the war.

Check out a two page pdf bio on the typical right wing hatemongering dumbass with access to a microphone:

http://www.glennbeck.com/newsroom/presskit/2004%20Beck%20Bio.pdf#search=%22glen%20beck%20biography%22

[Cary]

26. Oy!

Thanks for the bio.

What compelled CNN Headline News to give this guy a national audience? How do being a top 40 DJ, alcoholism, and religion qualify him to speak to us as though he's God, with a monopoly on the truth?

[NanceGreggs]

23. Dirty Little Secret ...

I can't resist watching at least a few minutes of Beck's show every night -- it's so bad, it's like watching an SNL or MAD-TV take-off on shows of this ilk.

I never see Beck as being in the same league as O'Reilly or Limbaugh, who are 'misleaders' as opposed to Beck, who is just one of the many 'misled'. He spouts RW talking points with the same naive enthusiasm as a small child talks about Santa Claus or the Tooth Fairy.

The 'humour' bits on his show (obviously a sad attempt to mimic The Daily Show et al) are so ridiculously sophmoric, I feel certain they are written by high schoolers -- you know, the ones who sit at the 'nerdy' table in the cafeteria.

I've no doubt that when there are conferences or seminars for broadcasters, Beck is the guy who shows up with a whoopie cushion, a hand-buzzer, and a bow-tie that squirts water in your face!

Glenn Beck: destined to sit at the 'nerdy' table of RW broadcasting for the rest of his days ...

[ShortnFiery]

28. Hey, nerds can do a hell of a lot better ...

I am a nerd.

Glen Beck is not a nerd, he's a pig who tries to fit in with the other "boys" by acting like a manly man. The kind you want to have a beer or watch a football game with.

In general, I continue to be a nerd, of sorts, some of my friends are nerds ... Dammit, I love nerds!

IMO Glenn Beck is a 40 something wannabe Fraternity Brother, not a beloved Nerd. :-)

[NanceGreggs]

33. I don't think we're using 'nerd' in the same way ...

My idea of a nerd is those guys back in my high school days (a VERY long time ago), who read stories in the tabloids and swallowed them as gospel truth, who passed along school gossip but NEVER got the story straight, and who thought a pile of plastic vomit was the absolute height of hilarity.

That's Glenn Beck in a nutshell. Believes every RW 'fact' he's ever heard regardless of how ridiculous it is, passes along 'gossip' about Liberals and Democrats that have already been completely debunked -- and still laughing at jokes the average third-grader would think beneath their intellectual level.

I doubt that description fits you, or your friends!

:hi:

[ShortnFiery]

40. Oh, OK, that's understood now!

No, I'm talking about kids who graduate H.S. at a young age, high intelligence but underachievers, love tweaking all kinds of electronics, own a half dozen radios with various frequency coverage and twice that many antennas (house/car) that were deemed "essential." Hell! Even their spouses consider them a little on nerdy side.

Oops! I'm giving my self away. :blush:

But I now apologize for our definitions of "NERDS" do not mesh at all. Perhaps I'm a little older and my definition is a little outdated. ;)

On Edit: Now I get it! What to you is a nerd, is to me an wealthy, spoiled, and ultra-arrogant frat rat.

I fully understand now :-).

[RedStateShame]

25. Every time he talks about his alcoholism, take a shot.

[Judi Lynn]

27. He's the right-wing radio mouth who discussed wanting to kill Michael Moor

Wed, May 18, 2005 6:04pm EST
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Radio host Glenn Beck "thinking about killing Michael Moore"

~snip~
From the May 17 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Program:

BECK: Hang on, let me just tell you what I'm thinking. I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out -- is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, "Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore," and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, "Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death." And you know, well, I'm not sure.

Beck's program is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks (owned by radio conglomerate Clear Channel Communications) on more than 160 radio stations across the country to an estimated audience of 6 million listeners. He has previously falsely accused Moore of "taking help and money from Hezbollah" and called Michael Berg, who criticized the Bush administration after his son Nick was beheaded in Iraq, "despicable" and "a scumbag."
(snip)

http://mediamatters.org/items/200505180008

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He's only another right-wing pro-death gas bag. He only serves to advance Neo-con causes, and work continually at hacking away at everyone else. Dirty, vicious, ugly clown. His way of making a living is something a decent person could never find acceptable. He's out there trying to disable dissent.

On edit:

If anyone's interested, here's an address you can use if you'd like to tell the FCC what you think of right-wing hosts making death threats toward "leftists" on their shows:

http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/complaints.html

[Cary]

30. Lovely fellow he is. Eh?

[madinmaryland]

29. Worhtless right wing hack. nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

31. He's a Kurt Vonnegut character.

He's that American that joins the Nazi Party and rants against the Jewish menace.

[William Bloode]

32. I saw him for about 45 seconds.

That was about all i could take. He comes off as pig headed, ignorant, and without a real clue.

[Beelzebud]

34. He's the guy that talked about killing Michael Moore on his radio show.

I guess if you're a right-wing freak, and talk about killing Michael Moore, you get a TV show these days.

[spanone]

35. I won't weigh in cause I don't listen. Heard him once, thank you.

[CoffeeCat]

36. Beck: The fluffy, cuddly Bushbot...

I listen to Beck sometimes.

I predict he surpasses Limbaugh's ratings within a year.

Beck's program is a combination of "SNL"-type skits, commentary on politics/pop culture
and lecturing. Beck delivers like a stand-up comic and he's pretty talented
with character voices, which he uses frequently. The show is fast-paced and
Beck comes off like the charming, zany guy next door who grills everyday in
Hawaiian shorts.

Unfortunately--most of his views follow the Bush agenda--and he props up the
neocon agenda. He's totally pro-Iraq war and he's leading the fight to declare
war on Iran. He's even asserted that we're really in Iraq as a springboard to
spread further war in the Middle East--namely Iran.

He's a total Bush apologist. However, he claims that he's independent, and that
his show isn't really about politics. However, he spends most of his time
discussing politics. He's got nothing nice to say about liberals. He did, however,
condemn ABC for "The Path to 9/11" and he urged his viewers to not watch--because it
contained fiction.

He's a strong advocate for children and he comes out swinging against child molesters.
I know---most people are against child molesters--but Beck will talk about the subject
whereas most talk-show hosts don't. He talks about it often and he's pissed. This is
probably the only area on which I can agree with Beck. I applaud his outrage--when most
talk-show hosts ignore these stories.

So...if you like your neocon Bushisms served up by a fuzzy-wuzzy teddy bear--in a wacky
game-show format--tune in to Glenn Beck.

[Cary]

38. Nice review. n/t

[ShortnFiery]

41. Wow! I can't believe that we are talking about the same person?!?

However, some personalities mesh better with certain audiences. So, thank goodness for Glenn Beck that *someone* finds him likable. ;)

Every time I see him it reminds me of the nasty boys at the Fraternity House across our square. The kind of pompous know-it-alls that you would just love seeing someone kick the crap out of - albeit it would not change their "I'm so wonderful" demeanor.

Yes, I concur with your BushBot analysis, but find it amazing anyone can find someone as arrogant and "all knowing" as Glenn Beck as entertaining, SNL skits or not. :shrug: :hi:

[dkofos]

37. Dumb fucking idiot

Could never stand to listen to more than 5 min. on the radio.
Would have to be blind to watch more than 5 min. on TV.