I Come Not To Praise Glenn Beck, But To Bury Him (Why he hurts the right more than he helps)

Pajamas Media ^ | 9/28/2009 | David Riehl

[dalereed]

Screw this jerk!!!

[Snurple]

Full disclosure — yes, Mark Levin has become something of a dear and trusted friend. But please don’t mistake this as carping or defense on his behalf.

LOL....Im sure.

[dawn53]

Full disclosure — yes, Mark Levin has become something of a dear and trusted friend.

LOL, as if we couldn't tell.

[Steve Van Doorn]

yeah but don’t they have what amounts to an editor that can say ‘go away don’t bother me lib’?

[PapaBear3625]

From the 9/12 tea party march, to Van Jones, the NEA scandal, and ACORN, none of these were the genuine work of Glenn Beck. He did no heavy lifting on any of those stories other than ginning up noise around them on his show, often milking them for days while, to genuine observers, all the facts were out there for anyone of a mind to find them out.

The author is missing the entire point. Yes "all the facts were out there for anyone of a mind to find them out". THAT WAS THE PROBLEM! You had to be willing to expend energy looking for the data!

What Beck did was to package the data into an easily digestible form, and make sure that PEOPLE ACTUALLY SAW IT.

[astyanax]

Even if you were to assume the worst about Glenn Beck was true, how does that hurt the republican party?
That’s the equivalent of claiming no one votes for democrats anymore because of Michael Moore.
Some serious contortions are required to attempt (much less accept) that premise.

[MNlurker]

LOL

I don’t listen to either Beck/Levin they’re not my cup of tea. I do give kudos to Beck for uncovering things though...envy is unattractive no matter which side of the aisle you’re on. In this case Levin comes off as the Michelle Obama to Beck’s Carla Bruni.

[Dick Bachert]

Yep.

Maybe the infiltration goes all the way to the top?

[PapaBear3625]

He may have a hatred for whites, but as for evidence in his daily life, he has surrounded himself with people of all races. To my chagrin, they are all extreme leftists.

This just means that he wanted people who would be the most use to him, not that he loved white folks.

The Mafia had employed lots of blacks in the Harlem drug trade, while still having massive contempt for blacks. Blacks were just useful.

[gimme1ibertee]

Many may think Beck and Levin are off-the-hook nuts, but I appreciate all that they are doing for America-and that means more than what he does for the party.
They don't give a damn what anyone else thinks,they speak their mind and work the nerves of the left on a regular basis.
Works for me.

[fish hawk]

It didn't take but to read the fist few sentences to find the fault with this article. Quote, “Glenn Beck deserves credit for what he is doing to hurt Obama”. Wrong wrong wrong. Glenn is not doing what he does to “hurt” Obama. He is merely seeking out and telling the TRUTH about all the wrongs that are going on in today's politics. Lately I've seen him elbow the Republicans in the guts as much as Democrats. That alone tells me he is looking after us, the masses more than just “going after Obama”.

[Las Vegas Ron]

civility is nothing but a self-imposed handicap.

Amen

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I agree with some of the points made in the article. Beck is certainly a self promoter, but again what big personality is not? I’m pretty sure that most of the Beck fans also are fans of Levin so I don’t get the point. What the media ignores Levin and promotes Beck because they think Beck is nuts? Beck has written some thoughtful books also.

The reason that they are looking at Beck is because his TV ratings have exploded this year since he’s gone to Fox. You can’t ignore that. Levin does not have a national TV show.

As for the racism comment, that came as I recall because of Obama’s knee jerk reaction to the Gates imbrogglio. The situation was a white cop and a black man and without any information (he admitted that) he assumed that the white cop was wrong and said the white cop acted stupidly. That is the defintion of racism, making assumptions about particular people based soley on the color of their skin. I.E. the cop was white so he must have acted stupidly. I believe that Rush made similar comments saying that Obama was racist also.

[Responsibility2nd]

Was Pajamas Media ever a conservative site?

It seems now they post nothing but anti-Beck crapola.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2350830/posts

[Logical me]

Why don’t they just leave him alone and let him do his thing?

Because the left are scared crap. King Obama had to somehow cut into Beck's show three times last week. I witnessed two of the cuts. They fear him.

[Lilpug15]

Well said!

[Rockingham]

Glenn Beck is a bundle of energy and a work in progress. Sometimes, Beck misfires or aims in the wrong direction, but over time, he has improved and will continue to do so. A year from now, he will be better yet, with a larger audience and his early mistakes forgotten.

[gimme1ibertee]

We’ll be denounced en masse as a bunch of wild-eyed conspiracy freaks and racists.

The tea parties made that happen,not anything Glenn Beck has said or done.Who gives a crap what they think of us anyway? All this nicey-nicey stuff has brought us the milquetoast GOP we have to endure in Congress.

[sport]

we’re supposed to continue doing what we’ve been doing, letting socialism and tyranny creep up and take over, just so we don’t “appear kooky”?

that is what more than a few on this forum believe. That, and to show that we are not, "like them". Everything we do to fight back, there are those that critize it.

[Dixie Yooper]

Last night's, Friday show with the Mom's had so much potential, until the subject turned to required vaccinations and Ron Paul. I happen to believe that required vaccinations for TB, Polio and any other epidemics are some of the many things that separate us from becoming a 3rd world country. As far as Ron Paul goes, I've seen Lyndon LaRouche campaign ads before. Now I'm going to go to Mark Levin's website and listen to The Great One’s broadcast from last night.