Everyone in the media wants a piece of Glenn Beck. They want him for ratings, they want him for web hits. How else do you explain the fact that Gawker, although it’s a very liberal outlet, writes about Beck daily?
Time Magazine? Beck is currently on the cover.
Beck makes weekly appearances on The O’Reilly Factor. He’s been a guest on Greta. He’s on Fox & Friends at least once a week.
EVERYONE in the media wants a piece of Glenn Beck but very few of the other people in the media seem to get Glenn Beck.
Peter Wehner, a conservative writer at Commentary Magazine, penned a poorly informed piece on Beck today warning that Beck is bad for Conservatives.
He claims that Beck is a spinner of conspiracy theories. Wrong. Beck is a disprover of conspiracy theories. He exposed the ridiculous stories about FEMA camps for what they are: ridiculous.
Is Wehner talking about the fact that Beck often discusses Obama’s ties to ACORN, the Apollo Foundation and members of the Weather Underground? Newsflash Mr. Wehner, those aren’t conspiracy theories, they’re proven and true.
Is it a conspiracy that there was a 9/11 Truther and self described Marxist in Obama’s White House? Well that conspiracy kinda led to the resignation of Van Jones. Are we imagining these things or are they really happening?
Wehner says Beck is too “Libertarian.” Well what the hell is wrong with that? Is it wrong to be a Conservative Libertarian? If a person is a Conservative Libertarian, are they automatically a rabid Ron Paul supporter? Guess what… Ron Paul is not wrong about everything. Many people who don’t count themselves “Ron Paul supporters” agree with Paul on a great many things, particularly liberty and the out of control spending in Washington.
Besides, lots of Libertarians vote Republican, particularly the Conservative ones.
Now the latest person to want a piece of Glenn Beck is Katie Couric. Can you blame her? People might actually watch her show if Glenn Beck is her interview subject. Beck is going to be on her new web show @Katie Couric tomorrow, 9/22 at 7 pm. Here’s a clip from the show which is already making big waves on the blogosphere. Why? Because Beck says he might have voted for Hillary over McCain, then says Obama is better for the country than McCain. Watch:
Shocking, isn’t it?
How can Beck say such a thing?!
I think I know what Beck is saying. I think he’s saying that if McCain were elected we never would have had such a revival of Conservative Libertarian thought in this country as we’ve seen with the Tea Parties and the town hall protests. Would McCain have been better on foreign policy and defense? Absolutely. Would McCain have been better on spending? Tough to say.
If Obama has done anything well, he woke up American conservatism with an air raid siren and maybe got a few more Conservatives interested in real small government ideals which are supposed to be part of the GOP’s core.
I’ll use this opportunity to address Mr. Wehner’s last concern about Glenn Beck. He isn’t comfortable with Beck saying there’s no difference between the parties. On that I’ll just simply point out that as long as Republicans don’t mind bigger government and bigger spending, Glenn Beck is right. There is no difference.
Oh, sorry. Is my Libertarianism showing?
More at Memeorandum.
September 25th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
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September 26th, 2009 at 6:15 pm
Spot-on Aleister. I posted this over at TCOTS on the 23rd:
For the long-term domestic future of this country, I think it was a good thing that Barack Hussein Obama got elected because, instead of the creeping, leisurely, and stealthy drift to less freedom we have been living with, like a slow-growing cancer, for one hundred years, BHO and his fellow radicals are now fully out in the open and giving it to us good and hard [which we deserve]. Sometimes you need to be hit upside the head with a 2×4 before you realize how badly things are screwed-up. And the openly radical Leftists are pure virgin fir.
John McCain made no secret of his deep admiration for Teddy Roosevelt. TR was a progressive, but he was also of his time and not as radical as later Leftists would be. I think Cranky John is cut from the same cloth. He has a conservative instinct like Teddy did, but he also sees government, domestically, as a helper. If he had been elected, he would have continued the slow and remorseless walk to more government intervention in our lives. The unknown and unnamed Leftist bureaucrats who have been regulating us towards fascism would have been allowed to carry on with out interference by any of the ‘moderates’ or squishy conservatives he appointed.
By his radical actions and schemes, BHO has awoken a slumbering and mentally obese American public to the insidious cancer that’s been poisoning the Republic since TR and Woodrow Wilson. The Leftists have wielded the 2×4. Many of us have gotten the message and are now engaged deeply in a civil rebellion whose aim is to restore The Constitution and repair the damage inflicted by the engineers of the Left. Domestically, therefore, I’m glad John McCain did not win.*
When it comes to matters outside of the boundaries of the United States, the reverse is true. Barack Hussein Obama, through his arrogance and appalling ignorance of history, has placed this country in a great deal of danger. While John McCain would not have been as tough as Ronald Reagan, he would not have consorted with murderous dictators, apologized for his country, or have betrayed our long-standing allies. Like TR, he would have shown a strong and determined face to the world. Conservatives would have still been disappointed as he basically continued the foreign policy of Geroge W. Bush, but that’s a lot better than being terrified as we are now because we have an immature narcissist who has made us more vulnerable than we’ve been since before Pearl Harbor.
Glenn Beck is quite wrong to think that Hillary would have been any better. Unleashed on us, like Obama she would have pushed for just as radical an agenda. She is, after all, an Alinskyite too.
We’re stuck with what we’ve got. All we can do is fight back to save our country and reverse the damage inflicted and restore her glory. This war is not going to be easy, and there’s a good chance that we will lose. But, we have to keep fighting these evil forces. If not for any other reason than it is the right thing to do.
*Sarah Palin should be glad too because she would have been muzzled very tightly in a ‘centrist’ McCain Administration. She would have had to endure defending the decrepit actions of a decrepit old fool.