Posted on 01/25/2012 6:08:25 AM PST by RobaWho
Edited on 01/25/2012 8:45:29 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
Dear Glenn,
You have perhaps no bigger fan of your philosophy, nor a more eager consumer of your many books, broadcasts and events, than me. One of the more memorable events in my life was attending your Restoring Honor rally in Washington, D.C., and sharing breakfast with you, several hundred supporters and Gov. Sarah Palin, in support of the Special Operations Warrior Fund. Never will I forget hearing you announce, "Ladies and gentleman, security just notified me that we should all go soon, because the crowd is already filled beyond the reflecting pool." Thank you for the greatness of your vision and the amazing courage of your convictions.
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Melodramatic Beck is showing too much confidence, and too little self knowledge. A pity, because he is right on in so many other areas.
He’s trying to kick an important crew-member out of the aircraft. The termites in Washington are making us less free and less safe, and Beck treating Gingrich like another termite. Whatever he is, Gingrich is not Obama.
Save it for Obama Mr. Beck.
Thanks for your letter.
Beck is a deeply flawed individual, but he played out his Narcissistic vulnerabilities fairly usefully on TV by educating people about critical history and important aspects of the current landscape.
His radio show, surrounded by fawning lackeys, was always mere juvenile humor by comparison.
The isolation and lack of success of his move to his own “GBTV” seems to have left his underlying insecurities unsupported, and they are predictably flailing about in odd explosions of embarrassing efforts to be relevant, to be loved. His sources of self worth lie outside himself, and they are drying up - never a pretty picture.
But enough psychobabble. Historically, the odds at Gettysburg were not the problem for Lee and his army, but severe tactical blunders were. It’s also interesting to note that it was not even considered by most to be a defeat, or at least a decisive one, until a long time after the fact.
cuban leaf is absolutely correct, and it bears repeating:
Mitt is the mormon. For Beck, that trumps all else.
Exactly. I listen to him not because I’m a member of any “loyal fan club”, but because he sees things that I miss. If I’ve learned anything from Beck, it’s that seemingly-unrelated events often aren’t.
To illustrate: In war documentaries and movies, our attention is directed on the individual or the small-unit “band of brothers”. So we learn to ignore battlefield tactics, campaign strategy, and grand strategy. Our news outlets do the same these days. (How many news articles begin something like this: “Joe Blow enjoys taking his daughters to school. But a new policy currently under consideration could change all that.”)
No wonder we’re unable to see the big picture; we’ve been trained to ignore the chessboard setup and focus on individual pieces one at a time. Glenn Beck is trying to counter that training.
Great analysis regarding Gingrich. Regarding Beck, he’s dead to me.
>>>I hear you, but Glenn is too much of a national treasure for our nation to miss his crucial teachings.
Beck a ‘national treasure” ??? Whiskey tango foxtrot are you smoking???
He’s a media personality. Nothing more. 200 years from now, people won’t be looking back at Beck the way we look back today at Washington, Franklin, et al.
What you mentioned is called the “White Horse Prophecy”.
Essentially meaning, that at some point the Constitution would be ‘hanging by a thread’ and ONLY a saint (mormon) could restore it.
This was posted (IMO) because of Beck’s position on Gingrich.
As I don’t watch Beck (at all) and occasionally catch him on the radio, why are you saying he is “sliding down a spiral of mental illness”?
“nation treasure”? He is a talk show guy that has gone off the deep end. How do you subscribe, national treasure to that?
But he has really gone around the bend on the subject of Gingrich's sudden ascendancy. That said, I do think we ought to leave the issue of personal faith aside, as I don't honestly believe that to be his motivation. His faith is not mine, but Glenn has been most supportive of people of my faith (Judaism). His problem with Newt is, to me at least, clearly a personal one and I hope he prays on it and reconsiders his behavior soon.
Well it was all here on FR for years..Beck just picked up the baton and ran with it when others were calling us kooks. It was disheartening to me that Beck seemed to blow off the real source of his info..the blogs/forums and the people whose collective information he has not to this day acknowledged.
Specifically Jim Rob has done more to educate the world than any other person bar-none in my opinion..others (Ann C. for example) are just getting rich from his efforts and giving him no credit. That does not sit well with me...
Glenn wants it all to be about him too much at times. I realize he does get reigned in and gets the humility back..but humility and thankfulness seems to be far, far from the narrative right now.
My point of view was not an "anti-Newt" bias, but a "pro-Romney" one. Beck seems to overlook Romney's actions and misleading statements. Why?
The Mormon common ground is well known, and will be a source of suspicion regardless of your opinion on that point, or mine.
Whatever it is, it's not rational. It's also self-destructive. I share you hope that Beck reflect on his actions, and makes an adjustment.
GREAT letter. It saddens me to have to cancel my subscription as I am a homeschooler and love The Liberty Treehouse, but I can’t accept the way Glenn has been acting lately. I agree with what everyone has already posted that he has gotten mean and overly aggressive.
I have been very upset because he won’t address the eligibility issue but was willing to “suck it up” since he has been exposing so many other problems with the govt. but now that he is going all out on Newt and mean to callers, I can’t tolerate it any more. :-(
“I seek a political Spartacus,”
I don’t think I’ve read anything, in recent times, that is better reasoned or more reasonable. So brilliant is it that, except for the conclusion, could be applied to any voter’s consideration of any candidate. Thank you for the post.
Mr Beck is somehow different these days. I don’t think it will be possible to restore Glenn Beck. He can’t get me back. Since the beginning of the primary season, he made a decision to play as though he held all the cards. His early arrogant criticism and disregard of Governor Perry left me spinning. What? “How can you come to these conclusions two weeks in,” I asked the radio? “You just said you loved Texas and thought it was well-run!” The hits continued. I switched to other radio shows and heard the same exact jargon. Aha! Concerted effort. I could go on and on to include the meteoric rise of their fellow-talk show host, Herman Cain. Flip the dial and there it was by every talk show host. Jargon. You suddenly got it with the Pied Piper story. Pied Pipers all. Day and night. You were happy that they all felt the same way you did...until they didn’t. Glenn Beck.
I think the talk show industry now feels it can influence the masses just by virtue of the reputation of the host. It’s a gamble. One day no one will be listening. Glenn Beck has gone overboard and Sean Hannity has been swimming along side the life boat for a long while.
I really appreciated this post.
To much of a national treasure? I’m sorry, but having attended the 1st 9/12 March on DC, I find him to be less than honorable. Clearly he observed the size of that crowd but did he report it accurately? No. What he did was organize HIS event for the next year that just happened to be scheduled 3 weeks before 9/12. Then he promoted it heavily while not mentioning the 9/12 event. I have many friends that changed their plans to attend HIS event instead of 9/12. I suspect this is just as he planned.
Even with that, HIS event was about half of the prior year 9/12 attendance.
I find him to be self-serving. He has devoted his program to Newt-bashing while hardly giving a mention to the father of and the first person to IMPLEMENT Obamacare/Romneycare... He continues to drag up PAST statements of Newt while completely ignoring Romney’s CURRENT statement that the individual mandate IS A CONSERVATIVE VALUE. Which is the “progressive” here?
He lost me when he subverted the 9/12 event for his personal agrandizement. His style of sarcastic ridicule is wearing thin. I suspect his ax to grind with Newt is Newt’s marital issues. Is Newt a slimeball? Of course he is, he’s a politician. If he can eliminate the deficit (which he did), I don’t CARE how is marriage(s) work(ed) out. If he can shrink the welfare state (which he has), I don’t CARE what his past statements were.
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