printGlenn Beck believes that the blackboard has made him a philosopher king, a teacher. Most of the Glenn Beck Show, unfortunately, is now devoid of useful information. it wasn’t always so. I was, as you recall, a big Beck fan. Since I require information—news, data—I opt for Hardball. A horrible prospect, I know, but Chris Matthews’ currency, however debauched, is the news of the day. The same cannot be said for the Beck hour. Hardball also gets me the progressive perspective. I have to keep abreast of Left-liberal thinking on the issues, since it is never intuitive.
From Beck you get the following:
Sighs.
Nods.
Lots of self-affirmation (Glenn said this and that years ago).
More ego announcements and exhortations to TiVo upcoming segments
Mention of George Soros (who also recognizes Glenn for the threat he is)
Today Beck was pushing for an answer his rapt audience was unable to give him because, mercifully, they do not “think outside the box” like he does (he kept trying to get them to be as “creative”). Beck asked those present in the studio what could transpire when Germany, forced to bailout out Europe, felt backed to the wall. Of course, knowing how he thinks (and he has maligned the Europeans in the past), I knew that what Glenn wanted to hear was this: given their history, the productive and pedantic Germans could well turn to fascism if forced into an economic corner.
In the past, Beck has attempted to provide historical information. Now he only alludes to the need to know history so as not to repeat it, study it, buy books about it (his).
Other repetitive themes:
Dark times are ahead (well, dah!)
Help your neighbors.
Pray
Be true to yourself.
Be honorable
Sign up for my …
I don’t watch Oprah. Why would I watch her conservative, male counterpart? I want the old Beck back but that bloke has left the building and is levitating high above it.
I guess Judge Napolitano, on at 5:00PM at Fox Business, makes up for it all.
“Most of the Glenn Beck Show, unfortunately, is now devoid of useful information.”
Nice to know you see … what I see
The Judge is a pretty fair guy who will have a few leftists and certainly a large number of “conservatives” on his show but he will give a lot of air time to real libertarians (who get ZERO anywhere else other than maybe Stossel). It is certainly better than the usual Bush vs. Obama, O’Reilly vs. Maddow blather.
Napolitano and Stossel alone justify all of Fox’s existence
“Malign” Europe? That would be hard to do. That blood soaked continent has produced some of the greatest evils in history.
And the USA has saved it twice, and unfortunately some of my relatives died and were maimed in the process.
I had a number of World War Two vets in the family who said that if the Germans ever get the chance, they’ll try it again.
Let em.
Let the Europeans stew in their own atheistic juice.