Comments on: Glenn Beck’s Beatles Karaoke Moment

By: Joe Callan

Joe Callan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:07:10 +0000

The most infuriating thing about Glenn Beck’s current popularity among the right is being lumped together with him (and them) simply for disagreeing with our current administration.

I think this proves, without a doubt, that discourse in this country is inevitably tuned to two extremes.

Thank you, Mr. Bush, for starting the whole “you’re with us or you’re with the enemy” battle in terms of our opinions on domestic matters. Now all the ruling party needs to do is seek out the most outrageous voice of the opposing party and claim that this voice reflects the voice of ALL dissent. In this strategy, Mr. Beck has done wonders in serving the Democratic party.

Just as every Ron Paul supporter was lumped together with the tin-foil hats and ludicrous “9/11 truthers,” now every Obama detractor can be lumped with Glenn Beck’s braying. Again, I don’t blame Obama or his administration for this. I blame the level of American discourse that arose from the last eight years of our history.

Or–has it always been this way? Maybe I’m too young and I’m still looking at the forest from the trees.

By: derrickhozw

derrickhozw — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:09:41 +0000

You’re right m, there are going to be consequences, which is why I don’t understand why some are so willing to defend him. http://www.newsy.com/videos/glenn_beck_does_he_help_or_hurt_america. The only good that he’s doing here is to entertain. I can’t even tell whether he’s spewing facts or fallacies anymore.

By: m

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:31:15 +0000

I’m for putting this conversation to a close. I’ve said what I felt needed to be said about this topic.

By: TfT

TfT — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:40:29 +0000

“Olbermann, Matthews, Cooper or Sanchez don’t have to do that to their audiences.” My first question is: What audiences? My second is, I see you conveniently left out the comments by Ed Schultz.

By: m

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 09:42:05 +0000

@TfT
What Beck says and does on is going to have consequences sooner or later. All I hope for is that it doesn’t involve someone hurting anyone else. This is not an absurd notion as it as already happened recently. Ask Bernard Goldberg if one of his books had been on a murders’ hit list. And Bill O’Reilly was dehumanizing George Tiller to the point where a mentally unstable man felt like he had to take it in his own hands.

It’s easy to not claim any responsibility, but when you propagate and continuously foster the sentiment that there are “enemies within”, draw conspiracies on a chalk board, make talk about revolutions – it’s not hard to understand why Beck was required to tell his own audience that using violence would “mess up everything” he’s worked for. The very fact that he has to instruct his own listeners not to use force should serve as an alarm. Olbermann, Matthews, Cooper or Sanchez don’t have to do that to their audiences.

By: Laurie Beth

Laurie Beth — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 03:43:24 +0000

Glenn Beck=Howard Beale. The transformation is complete.

By: MsUnderestimated

MsUnderestimated — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 00:28:19 +0000

Anybody who tries to deflate Glenn’s conclusions, without themselves first offering different ones, are being disingenous at best. Isolate it, target it, and marginalize it. It’s not working. Glenn is bringing more to the public than any other media outlet, and it’s information that we should have been given access to long before Beck came around. He was just the first to have the balls to say what we’ve all suspected.

By: TfT

TfT — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 21:55:13 +0000

The only intellectual dishonesty is coming from you m. For you to suggest that a tv commentator is to blame for anything is absurd on it’s face. I presume you bought into the whole Rush caused the Oklahoma bombing too.

It’s just plan dishonest to make the statement you made in the first place.

By: m

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:23:47 +0000

You’re incredibly intellectually dishonest if you think Anderson Cooper is somehow equivalent of Glenn Beck. But hey – we live in a free country and if it makes you feel better, then good for you.

By: TfT

TfT — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:05:38 +0000

I could, I did, and it makes just as much sense as your statement does.

By: m

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:39:21 +0000

No you couldn’t.

By: TfT

TfT — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 15:17:45 +0000

Oh comon m; I could just as easily say the same thing about what Matthews/Olberman/Schuster/Schutz/Sanchez/Brown/Cooper say on the air.

By: m

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 20:21:12 +0000

Sooner or later what Glenn Beck says on the air is going to have real life consequences. I’m praying it won’t involve bloodshed.

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 18:47:11 +0000

This was the best week of Beck’s show so far. He’s the only one willing to stick his neck out to tell the American people what is really happening to this country. You call him unhinged, I call him right.

By: sarainitaly

sarainitaly — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 17:20:27 +0000

attack the messenger. ridicule and mock…but ignore the content.

how can someone write about the emergency internet story, and then turn around and mock someone who is bringing this type of info to the public?

By: JimW

JimW — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:35:46 +0000

Once you read Glynnis’ piece “The President Wants To Turn Off Your Internet,” you’ll immediately realize how important Glenn Beck’s warnings are. Mr. Beck is so successful because he has something to say; Glynnis MacNicol is a fool because she just has to say something.

By: Puter Boi

Puter Boi — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:04:07 +0000

“The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

By: TfT

TfT — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 14:57:40 +0000

Oh come on Glynnis — you missed the best part of his show. Perhaps Steve will post that segment later today as a follow-up to the story he wrote on misspelling Oligar(c)h.

Thanks for proving Glenn’s point last night — I see your “liberal blogger head going pop”!