Comments on: Glenn Beck’s Mentor? Meet W. Cleon Skousen, Bestseller

By: ernie1242

ernie1242 — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 17:22:36 +0000

swatpup — Significantly, you do not dispute any specific item in my Skousen report. If, as you falsely claim, I was “trying to discredit everything about the man” I certainly would not have bothered to quote extensively from his FBI performance reports which are uniformly very positive.

Apparently, you don’t understand the purpose of historical research. It is to discover new factual information. Researchers do not care if interested parties approve or disapprove of what is discovered. The objective is to better inform the discussion about whatever matters are under scrutiny.

Since you cannot provide any FACTUAL data to answer the question “What did J. Edgar Hoover and senior FBI officials think about W. Cleon Skousen?” —- which was the question that I started with — you, instead, prefer ad hominem slurs against me for revealing what I discovered. Shame on you!

More info: ernie1241@aol.com

By: swatpup102

swatpup102 — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:54:17 +0000

Ernie, I’ve read Skousen’s books and I’ve read your website trying to discredit everything about the man. You know what you sound like to me? A history professor at a liberal university that is determined to get your message out about the founding of this nation and world history that removes religion from the picture. It was well known that there were established customs and laws before the time of moses, but the ten commandments were to be the definitive way to live your life by gods standards. There is 0 evidence Moses could have possibly known about hammurabi’s code if it was before moses. To think that there was no other system of government in the way the founding of this nation created, and that the extreme religious views of the vast majority of the population of the western world at the time of the founding played no part, is 100% pure ignorance on your part. Quote after quote of our founders shows that most believed in some way of a god and his morality. Don’t look to Skousen for this idea, look to the documents and quotes of our founders. Try harder before putting your liberal viewpoint of skewed world history out as fact, because most with eyes to see and ears to hear can see and hear right past your fallacious claims.

By: ernie1241

ernie1241 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:56:55 +0000

In reply to clearlydeparted, Yes I have read several of Skousen’s books, cover-to-cover, and unlike yourself I also have obtained and read his entire FBI file which reveals that Skousen (and his admirers like Beck) have misrepresented his FBI career.

Contrary to his admirer’s claims, Skousen was never “a top aide” or “administrative assistant” to J. Edgar Hoover nor was he regarded as an authority on communism while he served in the FBI. In fact, most of Skousen’s assignments were administrative in nature or unrelated to internal security matters.

For details, see my report on Skousen which is based upon his FBI files:
http://ernie1241.googlepages.com/skousen

By: SuperSmart

SuperSmart — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:15:56 +0000

Yes, Captain, his ratings will certainly climb as the zombie morons who feed on Beck’s race-baiting slop continue to find his trough. And along the same token, this FNC growth will certainly continue until one of these idiots takes things too far and does something awful. Hopefully a real man (or woman) on the right will stand up and denounce this hate for what it is before that happens.

And on a slightly related tangent: I wonder if the more traditional Christian members of Beck’s audience realize that he isn’t one of them and is in fact a Mormon.

By: CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:20:47 +0000

This is hilarious that Time/Warner wants to go after Glen Beck. They must be upset because Beck only got around 400,000 viewers when he was on CNN HLN, but he moves over to a credible news network and his ratings go up 6 to 7 times what he was doing at HLN.

Let the wingnuts keep attacking him. Just helps to increase his ratings!

By: Chris Jones

Chris Jones — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 17:19:03 +0000

You can try and discredit Beck all you want, but you’ll fail. Beck has a far bigger following than any of the clowns in the state controlled media.

By: clearlydeparted

clearlydeparted — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:56:59 +0000

I wonder if any of the people criticizing Beck and Skousen have ever listened to more than a few minutes of Beck’s show, or have actually read any of Skousen’s books from cover to cover. How hypocritical is it to formulate an opinion based on a 3-page article from a source with an agenda that is obviously hostile to Beck and Skousen while simultaneously criticizing people who listen to Beck for being “blind followers”?