No One in the Media Gets Glenn Beck
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?
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