Posted on 11/09/2016 7:26:02 AM PST by Rennes Templar
Glenn Beck is a changed man, and for that he credits the Obamas.
The political commentator who rose to prominence as a conservative firebrand scrawling conspiratorial arguments across a chalkboard on Fox News now says President Obama made him a “better man” and that he was moved by first lady Michelle Obama’s remarks while campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
In a short but revealing profile titled “Glenn Beck Tries Out Decency,” published on the New Yorker’s website Monday, Beck made several revelations about his recent worldview that came as a shock to supporters and critics. He said he regrets accusing President Obama of racism. In July 2009, Beck provoked intense backlash for saying the commander in chief had a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”
“I did a lot of freaking out about Barack Obama,” Beck told the magazine. “Obama made me a better man.”
“There are things unique to the African-American experience that I cannot relate to,” he told the New Yorker. “I had to listen to them.”
Beck also admitted to being mesmerized by a recent Michelle Obama speech in New Hampshire on behalf of Clinton, in which she criticized Republican candidate Donald Trump’s past behavior around women.
“It doesn’t matter what party you belong to — Democrat, Republican, Independent — no woman deserves to be treated this way,” the first lady said.
For Beck, it was “the most effective political speech I have heard since Ronald Reagan.”
“Those words hit me where I live,” he said. “If you’re a decent human being, those words were dead on.”
According to the New Yorker profile, Beck considers himself a supporter of Black Lives Matter, the prominent activist network protesting what it considers systemic police brutality against African-Americans.
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He made more sense when he was on drugs and booze
And Hillary picked Kaine over Glen Beck?
Beck is going down the tubes.
Go away Beck, you’re not even a footnote.
FUBAR. Completely out of his mind. This is a great way for Beck to continue his losses in listeners and viewers.
If you think a ‘new-castrati’ is a better type of man. XD
Glenn can’t hear anybody right now. He is presently neck deep in a vat of whiskey pondering where the hell he went wrong.
From today on, this man’s name should never be uttered on this forum again. For patently obvious reasons.
It’s a new day in America and he is NOT on the agenda.
I don’t think he’s nuts, I think he’s gaming the system in a desperate bid to stay relevant.
Huckster supreme.
What!!!
Glenn Beck?? Seems like I remember somebody by that name..... no, no I dont.
Could we make a rule on 1 January....to just not mention Glenn Beck ever again on FreeRepublic?
I am usually for free speech and open comments. But if you cross the line and are just a plain nutcase.....well....it’s not worth giving him any platform or moment of fame.
...after the MONTHS and MONTHS where he meticulously detailed the commie rats Obama was installing throughout places of governmental power - unelected...
And now, he’s just kinda changed his mind??? ALL those dirty appointments were swell? Obamas a great guy after all?!?
Glenn has tapeworms eating his brain.
Yeah, I don’t know what’s happened with him! I used to like Beck a lot. He was just a local host in Tampa at the time of 9/11 and I started listening to him and liked his show. But something weird has happened to him in the last 1-1/2 years. I didn’t even have a problem with him not endorsing Trump. I too was a Ted Cruz guy (still am) but I also knew that I needed to get behind the nominee (I am so happy that Trump won!).
Beck becomes Ed Schultz.
I wish someone would make him...go away.
If by “better man” you mean “high functioning member of society whose opinion counted for something to schizophrenic mess with cheeto crumbs on his face” then yes, I agree.
Bit by bit he’s a David Brock in progress.
Certainly seems so.
The only thing better about Beck is that he is now marginalized and we won’t have to hear from him anymore.
Good riddance to the enemy.
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