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Explain Glen Beck to me (1 Viewer)

More specifically what are his leanings and agenda? Just saw a YouTube video of his where he shows one of the head honchos in Syria cutting out the heart and liver of someone he just killed and "eating" it. Flash to Putin asking why the US is backing this nutter. What's Beck's angle?

 
Glenn Beck may have raped and murdered a young girl in 1990

 
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He is a part of a long tradition of media personalities who combine flamboyance and charismatic personality with populism and a certain amount of nativism and outright bigotry. Americans have always had a taste for this sort of thing, dating back to Father Coughlin from the time radio began. Beck's main theme is that the world and this country are controlled by outside,secret forces who are in charge of everything that happens; none of it is accidental or coincidental. And the target and victim of all of these conspiracies is the white, middle class, middle aged Christian American male, who only wants to do right by his family and his country and is baffled by everything that is going on.

This is nothing new, but Beck is particularly good at peddling it.

 
timschochet said:
He is a part of a long tradition of media personalities who combine flamboyance and charismatic personality with populism and a certain amount of nativism and outright bigotry. Americans have always had a taste for this sort of thing, dating back to Father Coughlin from the time radio began. Beck's main theme is that the world and this country are controlled by outside,secret forces who are in charge of everything that happens; none of it is accidental or coincidental. And the target and victim of all of these conspiracies is the white, middle class, middle aged Christian American male, who only wants to do right by his family and his country and is baffled by everything that is going on.

This is nothing new, but Beck is particularly good at peddling it.
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I'll admit that I havent listened to Beck regularly in years. He was a local afternoon radio guy here in Tampa in the late 90's and went into national syndication in early 2002. He was hilariously funny when he was a local guy. But I never got the Alex Jones conspiracy vibe from him even when I listened to him in the mid 2000's.

 
GTBilly said:
More specifically what are his leanings and agenda? Just saw a YouTube video of his where he shows one of the head honchos in Syria cutting out the heart and liver of someone he just killed and "eating" it. Flash to Putin asking why the US is backing this nutter. What's Beck's angle?
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He's a paranoid whack job. For the most part he is aligned with the anti-government/tea party/conservative movements, but his paranoid beliefs trump everything else. So occasionally he'll say things that might seem left-ish.

 
Spanky267 said:
timschochet said:
He is a part of a long tradition of media personalities who combine flamboyance and charismatic personality with populism and a certain amount of nativism and outright bigotry. Americans have always had a taste for this sort of thing, dating back to Father Coughlin from the time radio began. Beck's main theme is that the world and this country are controlled by outside,secret forces who are in charge of everything that happens; none of it is accidental or coincidental. And the target and victim of all of these conspiracies is the white, middle class, middle aged Christian American male, who only wants to do right by his family and his country and is baffled by everything that is going on.

This is nothing new, but Beck is particularly good at peddling it.
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I'll admit that I havent listened to Beck regularly in years. He was a local afternoon radio guy here in Tampa in the late 90's and went into national syndication in early 2002. He was hilariously funny when he was a local guy. But I never got the Alex Jones conspiracy vibe from him even when I listened to him in the mid 2000's.
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Alex Jones is more direct, and also more ridiculous. Beck is a little bit more subtle (compared to Jones, which means not much!). When he was on Fox, the best part was when he would draw lines criss crossed on a chalkboard showing how everybody is connected to everybody else! By the end there were always so many lines it was a huge mess.

 
I watched him a couple of times when he was on HLN and he seemed like a funny guy when he talked about lighter topics. But when he would begin talking about politics, he became a raving madman.

 
I watched an episode where he lost his #### about how there were hidden messages in the paintings and sculptures around Rockefeller Center and that they were brain washing MSNBC.

 
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He sounds like a bad man. To prove what a morally superior person I am, I am banning him from all of my fantasy leagues.

 
He appeals to people like my father in law that think the world is out to get them. One thing that's interesting about his members only website is that it runs a lot of light airy wacky stories like the kind of stuff that gets shared around here and then throws in some kind of "Obama/Reid/Pelosi is the devil" stuff every third or fourth story. Seems very manipulative.

 
GTBilly said:
More specifically what are his leanings and agenda? Just saw a YouTube video of his where he shows one of the head honchos in Syria cutting out the heart and liver of someone he just killed and "eating" it. Flash to Putin asking why the US is backing this nutter. What's Beck's angle?
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Former drug addict and schizophrenic. Tea Party Mormon

Don't believe anything the government tells you, absolutely nothing. But there's a 21yo kid who found some golden plates in the woods of western NY, he's the guy with the answers.

Imagine if Alex Jones, Timothy Leary, and Mitt Romney all simultaneously impregnated Miss Piggy and she had a kid. That's him.

 
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GTBilly said:
More specifically what are his leanings and agenda? Just saw a YouTube video of his where he shows one of the head honchos in Syria cutting out the heart and liver of someone he just killed and "eating" it. Flash to Putin asking why the US is backing this nutter. What's Beck's angle?
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Former drug addict and schizophrenic. Tea Party Mormon

Don't believe anything the government tells you, absolutely nothing. But there's a 21yo kid who found some golden plates in the woods of western NY, he's the guy with the answers.

Imagine if Alex Jones, Timothy Leary, and Mitt Romney all simultaneously impregnated Miss Piggy and she had a kid. That's him.
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:hot: Why even think of mentioning a good man like Mitt with a creep like Leary & that jackass

 
timschochet said:
He is a part of a long tradition of media personalities who combine flamboyance and charismatic personality with populism and a certain amount of nativism and outright bigotry. Americans have always had a taste for this sort of thing, dating back to Father Coughlin from the time radio began. Beck's main theme is that the world and this country are controlled by outside,secret forces who are in charge of everything that happens; none of it is accidental or coincidental. And the target and victim of all of these conspiracies is the white, middle class, middle aged Christian American male, who only wants to do right by his family and his country and is baffled by everything that is going on.

This is nothing new, but Beck is particularly good at peddling it.
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He called the caliphate thing

 
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