What is Beck's "Quarantine" Plan?

[OneWingedShark]

>>“since it is not in his biography, it would be prudent NOT to go around posting such things. I like Beck and it offends ME to read this tripe.”
>
>You are totally correct. It also offends me VERY MUCH!!!.

[snip]

>Hey crazies. Do you have a better plan? Do you have the courage to go public? Do you have his smarts?
>
>No, no, and no.

THAT is offensive; not only are you assuming that I’m a “crazy” but that I have no plan. Further, you assume that “some college student” ‘going public’ would effect anything. And further, you assume that I don’t have his smarts. (I, for one, would love to talk to Mr. Beck in an extended conversation about “stuff”.)

[Er, yes, sometimes I _do_ like to argue... though more in the philosophical sense.]

[OneWingedShark]

>proves my point.........why cannot conservatives stand by their man? he is standing up for us.

How is observing that Mr. Beck might have bipolar personalities related to not standing by him? I observe that I myself might have 1) depressive, 2)bi-polar, 3) insomniac, and/or 4) paranoid tendencies... *shrug* none of these have been diagnosed and are merely self-observation, which is the trap that hypochondriacs get into where they “make a list, check it off, convince themselves they have it, and then worry themselves sick over it”. (IE just because you tend to react in some peculiar fashion or have some symptom, doesn’t mean that’s the end-all of the why-for; for example, it was observed that people that regularly wear hats are more likely to get skin cancer... it’s also true that people that regularly wear hat are more likely to be lighter.)

[OneWingedShark]

Guilt by association & compliance is not unheard of.

[Future Useless Eater]

Beck cleaned up the cable MSM on Thursday, the day the ACORN story broke...
It doesn't seem like the left's boycott is having its desired effect!

The Scoreboard: Thursday, September 10

By Kevin Allocca on Sep 11, 2009 04:36 PM

25-54 demographic: (L +SD)

Total day: FNC: 500 | CNN: 176 | MSNBC: 203 | HLN: 143

Prime: FNC: 813 | CNN: 215 | MSNBC: 408 | HLN: 240

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	958	562	578	918	831	685	659
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	145	123	142	217	242	188	155
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Olbermann:	Maddow:
	184	205	290	552	371	301	265
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Issues:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	99	67	143	282	218	221	170

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

Total Viewers: (L +SD)

Total day: FNC: 1782 | CNN: 643 | MSNBC: 595 | HLN: 344

Prime: FNC: 3042 | CNN: 808 | MSNBC: 1196 | HLN: 674

	5p:	6p:	7p:	8p:	9p:	10p:	11p:
FNC	Beck:	Baier:	Shep:	O'Reilly:	Hannity:	Greta:	O'Reilly:
	3340	2362	2040	3609	2986	2522	1885
CNN	Blitzer:	Blitzer:	Dobbs:	Brown:	King:	Cooper:	Cooper:
	725	658	640	767	965	691	415
MSNBC	Matthews:	EdShow:	Matthews:	Olbermann:	Maddow:	Olbermann:	Maddow:
	650	734	882	1573	1164	853	706
HLN	Prime:	Prime:	Issues:	Grace:	Issues:	Grace:	Showbiz:
	288	273	435	774	675	589	430

Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

[nathanbedford]

I think you have the essence of Glenn Beck.

He has a disturbing tendency to finish other people sentences and interrupt them before they've completed their statement which is often a reply to a question he had asked. I think that is because he is as you have described him, going off in a wholly new direction and assumes that others have intuited the rest of his guest's answer to his question as he has.

I think your insight about his commitment, literally a life and death commitment for him, to serving the truth is key. That means that his motives are pure, his heart is white. However, it may also indicate an impatience with others who disagree with him who are also possessed of white hearts. And, if he does not have a spiritual or psychological mentor at his side, his vision of the truth can easily be distorted into a kind of megalomania. I think that is why he has that psychologist on his show so often and why I intuited that the man is probably treating him or mentoring him somehow.

So we are dealing here with glimpses of genius and a potential for disaster. Incidentally, most of the objections to Winston Churchill could be framed in the same kind of language. Even after the war his professional military men would say things to this effect, "he had a dozen ideas every day and one of them would be good, my job was to prevent the other 11."

I believe Glenn Beck when he says that he is marching to a different drummer. I think you have identified the music. He is not after ratings, he is not after money, he is not really after adulation, he is on a crusade. He has had a spiritual epiphany.

Thank you for sharing your experience, not because it makes us feel warm and cozy, but because it illuminates the subject.

[riri]

He is not after ratings, he is not after money, he is not really after adulation, he is on a crusade

Not to knock him because I adore him but he is a recovering alcoholic. So, my guess is he tends to have an all or nothing personality.

[riri]

I do think that Rush and Hannity are doing the same thing in different ways

Hannity is good for simple thinkers just thinking about this stuff for the first time. He keeps things simple, repeats things a lot. They each have their place. I can't listen to more than 15 minutes of Hannity but I am glad he is out there doing what he does.

[nathanbedford]

Agreed.

He is certainly a fascinating personnel.

[luckystarmom]

I didn’t like Fox and Beck’s coverage. C-span was just the event, and the event was good enough!

[luckystarmom]

I agree. Both republicans and democrats have let us down.

[luckystarmom]

A call from Hillary. Hillary is about to come out swinging.