Very well put.
THe only thing I’d say differently is that I once WANTED to like him until he showed himself to be such a comprehensive fraud....which I always sort of suspected. As did Mark Levin, if you listened to him all along.
Beck completely turned me off forever when I was listening to his show one morning and he and his dimwitted sidekick were droning on about how Newt was “as stupid as a shoehorn,” whatever in hell that’s supposed to mean.
In the first place, I guarantee Newt has 20 IQ points on Beck and his sidekick combined. In the second, for all his recent apostacies, Newt did more for the conservative movement in 1994 alone (while Beck was a drunken morning zookeeper) than Beck will do in his entire sorry life.
Beck has a huckster’s talent. Cry the tear when necessary. Regurgiate what you read last night. But he’s got the intellectual depth of your typical 3rd year Poli Sci. student.
Even more sad is that Andrew Wilkow, who I REALLY like, has joined up with his little traveling carnival.
It’ll all collapse soon enough. Then those of us who are serious will welcome the Beck castoffs back with open arms. I for one, won’t even say “I told you so.”
Hank
I will leave it at that.
I really want to like the guy but alarm bells are ringing.
Elmer Gantry
I agree. Mark Levin was right all along. The last straw for me was when I had his radio show on, and he referred to his audience as his "followers."
He bought one of those big custom-made touring buses. That's not remarkable in itself, but what IS unique is that he has an enormous image of himself plastered on the side of it. The ego is really out of control.