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Glenn Beck says he regrets ‘helping tear the country apart’
The Washington Times ^ | 1/22/2014 | Cheryl K. Chumley

Posted on 01/22/2014 6:19:03 PM PST by iowamark

Top television and radio host Glenn Beck said in an interview with Megyn Kelly on Fox News that he regrets some of his time at the cable network, when he hosted his own show, and admitted that he ratcheted rhetoric that helped drive a political wedge in America.

"I remember [my time on Fox] as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes," Mr. Beck said on Fox News on Tuesday night. "I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart."

He also said if he could hit the rewind button, that he'd focus more on uniting, not dividing.

"I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language," he said, Politico reported. "I didn't realize how really fragile the people were...

Mr. Beck's show ran on Fox News between 2009 and 2011...

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beck; glennbeck; homosexualagenda; talkradio
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To: iowamark

Loved how he “educated” us with his many shows on the tangled web of the Communists w/in our country......but I suspect he got most of his material from David Horowitz.

I appreciate his work on this....but I am becoming tired of his show. Pat is amusing....but, for goodness sake....Stu is boring as SNOT....as well as Jeffy. It’s tiring.

I still tune in but I’ve found myself turning on Chris Plante for a refreshing change in the morning.


61 posted on 01/22/2014 6:56:56 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: Steve_Seattle

-— I just get the impression that Beck is emotionally unstable. -—

He’s not without his flaws. But I like him. The good he has done far outweighs the bad.


62 posted on 01/22/2014 6:57:46 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: iowamark

Oh great, next thing you know Beck will cry on script. (Ask Schnitt).


63 posted on 01/22/2014 6:57:54 PM PST by NonValueAdded (It's not the penalty, it's the lack of coverage on 1 Jan. Think about it.)
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To: rabidralph

Ever since the first time I listened to him on AM radio he came across to me as a used car salesman and I don’t know why.


64 posted on 01/22/2014 6:58:00 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; me = independent conservative)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

No, he is taking money from undesirable elements to build what he thinks is an empire to save America... he thinks GOD is guiding him... he says so... and the men that have the money to back him have agendas... and he must meet their demands or he will lose every cent that he has... which he has sunken into his media machine. Beck is in self preservation mode, driven by the same delusion that obama was driven by... “We are the ones that we have been waiting for”... he has a messiah complex... and it is on display every morning.


65 posted on 01/22/2014 6:58:38 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: marron

>> “I don’t understand why he’s throwing dirt on that.” <<

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He’s having his John Roberts moment.


66 posted on 01/22/2014 6:58:43 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: griswold3

Amen Gris... I try hard to vanquish hate from my heart. I do not hate Beck or even dislike the man. I have no respect left for him. I did at one time... but respect is earned and once lost... is mighty hard to regain.


67 posted on 01/22/2014 7:01:10 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: iowamark

Whataqueen


68 posted on 01/22/2014 7:02:01 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Nuc 1.1
"Funny, I don’t recall him dividing the country just reporting the facts."

You took the words right out of my mouth. That was exactly the first thought that came into my mind.

I suppose we need to 'sugar coat' the truth now in his eyes.

69 posted on 01/22/2014 7:07:24 PM PST by LibFreeUSA
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To: Still Thinking

and on what basis do you think he does???


70 posted on 01/22/2014 7:08:13 PM PST by Nifster
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To: Still Thinking
I think he's referring to his weekly diatribes on how the world is going to hell and we'd better prepare.....I actually thank him for that...

wish he would have given us more hope though...and more concrete ideas to change things or ways to prepare other than buying gold...

71 posted on 01/22/2014 7:08:27 PM PST by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: cherry

Levin has given us more info on how to change the course through the Constitution.


72 posted on 01/22/2014 7:10:24 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Great vid by ShorelineMike! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOZjJk6nbD4&feature=plcp)
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To: VerySadAmerican

you obviously need to answer the phone...Alex Jones is calling.... oh and pass the tin foil please


73 posted on 01/22/2014 7:10:28 PM PST by Nifster
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To: iowamark

Mr. Beck is fooling himself. The country is in permanent decline with or without him.


74 posted on 01/22/2014 7:11:31 PM PST by Theodore R. (TX Republicans can't wait until March 4 to nominate Cornball and George P.!)
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To: iowamark

I agree with FREEPERS who have said he had done a lot of good.

His special on Soros was EXCELLENT.

But does he think we need more wishy washy conservatives?

Had this been his approach I don’t think most of us would have ever heard of him.


75 posted on 01/22/2014 7:11:42 PM PST by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (Go Egypt on 0bama)
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To: Nuc 1.1

Gawd! These narcissistic azzholes give themselves waaaay too much credit.


76 posted on 01/22/2014 7:11:57 PM PST by sheana
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

Beck is going “Kinder/Gentler”. Where have I heard that before? That is so weird... it is like someone else already tried that tactic.


77 posted on 01/22/2014 7:13:03 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS! BETTER DEAD THAN RED!)
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To: marron

Are we sure this sudden change of heart didn’t come right after he received some printouts from the NSA. Sort of reminds me of Robert’s flip on Obamacare


79 posted on 01/22/2014 7:13:26 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: iowamark

What happened to Beck?

His only strong point was that he spoke honestly and unapologetically about the subject at hand.

So what if he torqued a few million liberal jaws?

Now he is backing down like run-of-the-mill liberals and politicians.


80 posted on 01/22/2014 7:13:32 PM PST by Iron Munro (Orwell: There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.)
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