Posted on 03/19/2009 6:02:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since moving from CNN to Fox News, the Glenn Beck phenomenon has become the hottest topic today among conservatives. To demonstrate his influence, he recommended an obscure book called The 5,000 Year Leap on his radio and TV show, and today it is #1 on Amazon.
The Obama election and the Democrats takeover of government has re-energized the freedom movement, and more and more conservatives are turning to Glenn Beck as their hero.
Beck actually considers himself a libertarian. I was on the Glenn Beck Show two weeks ago, and he asked all his guests -- Steve Moore, Penn Jillette, and me -- if we were libertarians. We all said yes, and he said, “So I am.” He believes in maximum liberty and strict limits on the government’s powers as enumerated in the U. S. Constitution.
The boyish, articulate Beck is a dogmatic defender of the Constitution, which he believes is being perverted by both political parties in Washington.
His top priority is to “take our country back.” His patriotic enthusiasm is intoxicating, and his show is a hit around the country.
Last Friday on the Glenn Beck Show, he announced his 912 Project and his new website, www.the912project.com. His show is so popular that the site immediately crashed. (It’s now up and running.) 912 is a play on “9-11” and refers to “nine values” and “12 principles” based on the Constitution, and in particular, his favorite book called The 5,000 Year Leap: The Miracle that Changed the World.
Who is the author of The 5,000 Year Leap? My late uncle, W. Cleon Skousen! Cleon Skousen was a constitutional scholar, an FBI agent (and special assistant to J. Edgar Hoover), author of The Naked Communist and the thousand year books about the Bible, and a devoted family man.
In politics, my uncle was passionate about the U. S. Constitution, which he felt was inspired by God and the reason behind America’s success as a nation. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, he ran hundreds of Constitutional seminars around the country.
His book The 5,000 Year Leap outlines 28 reasons why the U. S. Constitution created the miracle we call America, and led the world out of agrarian poverty and into a new modern age of prosperity -- a 5,000 year leap from men plowing fields to walking in space.
Last Friday, Beck passed out to the live audience a new edition of The 5,000 Year Leap, which an introduction by him. He told the audience, “Everyone should read this book.”
Between commercials, he told me that even though he had never met my uncle (he died in 2006), Cleon's book changed his life. He said that a friend, without solicitation, sent him a copy of The 5,000 Year Leap, saying, “Glenn, I don’t know if you’ve ever read this, but it’s the simplest, easiest way for Americans of all ages to understand the simple yet brilliant principles our founders based this country on.”
Glenn read the book, and concluded: "The author [W. Cleon Skousen] was years ahead of his time. And our founders were thousands of years ahead of their time. My hope is that all Americans young and old will spend the time with this book to understand why we are who we are. The words of our founding fathers have a way of reaching across any political divide. They are words of wisdom that I can only describe as divinely inspired. They are here for us to help solve the unsolvable -- and they are the reason why we have for so long been the greatest nation on earth. But most importantly, in these pages, you will find hope." (from the introduction)
Finally, hope we can believe in.
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Mr. Skousen is a renowned financial economist, author and university professor. He has been the editor of the financial advice newsletter, Forecasts & Strategies, for 28 years. Two of his books highlight Milton Friedman's career: "The Making of Modern Economics" and "Vienna and Chicago, Friends or Foes?." Check out his latest book "The Big Three in Economics: Adam Smith, Karl Marx, And John Maynard Keynes" or "Investing in One Lesson" and "EconoPower: How a New Generation of Economists is Transforming the World." He is the producer of FreedomFest, the world's largest gathering of free minds, in Las Vegas every July.
Give him a better time slot and watch him trounce O’reilly.
Beck for President!
Beck, is nailing the Treasury and the Fed on the Trillion Dollar Pump fired up Yesterday on his radio program right now.
Glen should look into this:
EDITORIAL: Guns on a plane (Obama secretly ends program....)
The Washington Times ^ | March 17 2009 | Washington Times Editorial
Posted on Tuesday, March 17, 2009 9:03:27 AM by RecallMoran
After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings.
Now President Obama is quietly ending the federal firearms program, risking public safety on airlines in the name of an anti-gun ideology.
The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots.
This looks like completely unnecessary harassment of the pilots. The 12,000 Federal Flight Deck Officers, the pilots who have been approved to carry guns, are reported to have the best behavior of any federal law enforcement agency. There are no cases where any of them has improperly brandished or used a gun. There are just a few cases where officers have improperly used their IDs.
Fewer than one percent of the officers have any administrative actions brought against them and, we are told, virtually all of those cases “are trumped up.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2208240/posts
Give him that time slot and O'Reilly might well go left to keep what was left of his audience.
Beck is doing a terrific job for the country and we owe him a debt of gratitude.
Yeah- he gets overly dramatic- he’s gloom n doom and so forth. But that’s part of his personality and his contribution is so valuable that his quirks are easily overlooked.
Oh how I wish he didn't have to trounce Blo'Reilly - meaning I hope someday soon, he has that timeslot, and Bill can go back to Inside Edition or wherever.
Yeah, but I still want to see him officially break the ONE REAL Story!
I know, I know, his masters at faux won’t let him do it....well, as soon as it’s safe he’ll be allowed maybe, he can then be first....
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BLITZ GLENN BECK….
February 15, 2009
Re The Glenn Beck program on FoxNews weeknights at 5pm et….
Great Show!
But is it just entertainment or will he go to the absolute heart of everything else?
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I really love his show now that he is on Fox. I wish he would replace O’Reilly, can’t stand that guy.
He was a real "drama queen" over his hospital stay. I was sooo glad when he left that nonsense behind...no pun intended. Except for that, I say, "right on!".
“Give him a better time slot and watch him trounce O’reilly.
Oh how I wish he didn’t have to trounce Blo’Reilly - meaning I hope someday soon, he has that timeslot, and Bill can go back to Inside Edition or wherever.”
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Yowsa, yowsa, yowsa!
Nailing 0’pinhead in the process would be frosting on the bagle!
Due to thousands of complaints to congresscritters, the zero is now backing away from this, claiming that it isn’t true. But knowing how rabidly anti-freedom the zero is, backdoor disarmament of this type is EXACTLY his style.
“the U. S. Constitution, which he felt was inspired by God and the reason behind America’s success as a nation.”
This is in my opinion the whole truth and nothing but the truth. The probability of finding a group of men in one place and time with common goals like the Founding Fathers of this country is so large it could have only happened by an act of God. A “perfect storm” to lead the people of earth to freedon by example.
We, Christian’s and others, have forgotten the intent of our Constitution and I think God may be ignoring us until we again become “Strict Constructionist.” Too many try to use the Constitution for their own purposes instead of remembering it’s original intent.
It comes on at 5 PM here and I don’t get home until after 6 PM at the earliest, but I recorded and watched his show for the first time last night, I was impressed. It is now set to be recorded every day. I can watch it instead of being subjected to Greta’s crap at 9:00 PM.
Beck is within 500,000 of O'Reilly {per Monday 3-16-09 ratings}. 3.5M to 3M.
Besides O’Reilly, name one person who has done more to hold judges accountable for giving lax sentences to criminals for abusing children?
Name anyone, besides O’Reilly who gave Barney Frank and Chris Dodd the business?
I’m sorry O’Reilly hurt your feewings because they are certainly much more important than the good O’Reilly does.
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