The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. Because he does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, this makes him the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. Considering the fact that Beck’s personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth.

Glenn Beck consistently demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD, indecisiveness and blindness to truth. In short, Beck, Limbaugh, O Reilly, Hannity, Palin, O Donnell, Coulter and others like them frequently pervert truth, history, facts, religion and the US Constitution when they open their big mouths. Beck is simply part of a national league of pseudo-conservative idiots who make big money by selling lies and half truths to impressionable fools that occupy the lowest levels of society. Basically…tea baggers and registered republicans who are condemned to repeat the mistakes of history.

Dumbo is no harsher than idiot.

Both work equally well.

Joey

I listen to Glen Beck every night. I also listen to CNN on Sunday mornings. I read a great deal and I write a great deal.

Those who critize Beck the most seem to me to know the least. I listen to him the way I used to listen to testimony in court, looking for errors, watching to see if he says something that is patentedly false. (Remember his show is a commentary show and I have seen him bring no charges about anyone without presenting the evidence he thinks backs up what he is saying. So far, it clearly has.

Glen is not wrong about man made global warming, you are.
It doesn’t exist.
He is also not wrong about taxes, again you are.
He is not a racist, but YOU are. And so are those who use race to try to intimidate others. Why is it recism to disagree with a Black President? Didn’t Blacks ever disagree with a White President? Were they racists?
You are ridiculous. I disagree with people who say stupid things no matter their race, creed or color. I disagree with you completely and I don’t even know who you are let alone what you are. I just read what you say and I find it laughable.

As to taxes what the hell do you know about taxes. I will help you to understand. If you spend money you don’t have and then take money from others to pay for your shortfall, and you don’t stop spending, you will only have to come back again and agin to the people that have money – we the taxpayer. That is a sure path to disaster.

No, you have to stay within your means or as close to that as possible. Spending money like a drunk sailor (my apologies to the sailor) without giving it proper thought, is stupidity. That’s what this Administration is doing. That’s what government usually does, but this team is over the top. You see DUMBO, most of the people around the White House these days are ideologues that are part-time “educators” and part time “revolutionaries”, people who know nothing about working for a living. People who have never started or run a business successfully.

There are a number of things we should do to jumpstart out economy but this group doesn’t even know what they are. And please, as much as I can forgive your rantings since you obviously have no idea what you are talking about, let’s heed the words of your own favorite financier: George Soros, who said quite clearly earlier this year that the “no doc” loans (if you want to call them “loans” rather than “handouts”) were the root cause of the financial collapse. Sure others jumped on board and made it worse but screwing up Fannie Mae was the gut cause of this disaster and the Democratic Congress in power since 2007 was the cause of that happening.

I would add, with the complicity of Chris Dodd and Barney Frank who took huge campaign contributions from the folks at Fannie Mae even as they were supposed to be in regulatory positions over Fannie with their respective financial oversight committees. Gee doesn’t that sound like a conflict of interest? Shouldn’t we investigate this? Nah. They are Democrats and Liberals – get outta here!

By the way, Beck has been on the money for this entire year and if you can present evidence that he has been wrong (EVIDENCE like the evidence HE uses), do so in an article. That way, your article might even get read.
I know I’ll read it. I love to analyze and double check “evidence”.

I’ll wait for your article just as I will wait for his red phone to ring. Hasn’t rung this year at all. Damn.

You know the people that criticize Beck the most, listen to him the least. How about that.

God help Freedom with people like you lapping up the Kool-aid. What was your name again?

Beck has about 4.4 million of that listen to him and can ell the difference between the truth and the crap people like you put out. So you can’t win. Notice, who listens to you? I only found this article by accident lol.

Didn’t Newsweek sell for $1.00 last month? Not for a copy, the whole damn magazine, lock stock and barrel! (Yes, it did. It has a lot of debt and no readers. Sad.)

And who reads the Globe and the Times and the Post anymore?
Who watches NBC and MSNBC and even CNN that does a little better lately since they are trying to present a little of both sides. All these so-called news shows are almost off the air, so much so that the President is trying to find a way to fund them too with my tax dollars. Know why? Nah, I’ll let you figure that out. What a pack of losers.

But who listens to them? Almost nobody.

That’s because we are anything but idiots and we can see through people like liberals with no trouble at all. Now for a quiz:

PS Who appointed the first Black man to a cabinet position?
A. George Bush (R)

Q. Who appointed the first Black woman to a cabinet post?
A. George Bush. (R)

Q. Did anyone in the Republican party raise a fuss over either appointment.

A. It didn’t make a ripple.

As Glen says, it’s impossible to argue with idiots.

See you in November.

And as to the meat of the non-Discover-magazine-author’s complaint, let me see if I have this straight: Apparently Mr. Beck’s publisher (an entity that I am sure the reader can agree is NOT in fact, Glenn Beck) attributed a quote penned by Phil (“I am NOT Discover magazine”) Plait on a blog post under the discovermagazine.com domain to Discover magazine rather than to Plait himself? Which is NOT AT ALL the same thing as publicly lambasting a person for the decision of a corporation that publishes that person’s books, got it?

-PoliticalCompass.org

http://politicalcompass.org/analysis2

At the end of the day, Beck can’t back his arguments up with facts or logic. He states unjustified speculation about people motives, unseen links, historical untruths, and so on facts, either knowing they aren’t justified, exhibiting dishonesty or . . . not knowing they aren’t justified, exhibiting paranoid psychosis.

Frankly, I would prefer to think he’s simply dishonest, but I suspect paranoid psychosis. But, unlike Glenn Beck, I am at least aware I can’t know what is in his mind from here, I can only know his actions.

And his actions are that he stirs up hysteria without any regard for truth, facts, or logic.

Jonnan

Paul, you’re right on the unions, they contributed heavily to the downfall of GM and even the left is starting to question their demands for legislative “special treatment”. Fannie and Freddie are corrupt companies as well and they’re still looking for billions in government bucks, they should be audited. Republicans foresaw issues in their lending practices and called for an audit about a year before their collapse, but the Democrats blocked the motion, insisting they were financially sound. Just so happens they donated millions to Dodd, ranking member of the banking committee, and Obama, for the Presidential campaign. That’s a red flag if I’ve ever seen one.

The union is what has destroyed the auto industry and almost every other industry, and the democrat congress forcing Freddy and Fannie to give home loans to people who can’t afford. A guy making 40000/yr should not be in a $500000 home.
Mena, are you kidding…..when the gov controls means of production is just 1 example….wanting to stick it to big business owners with taxes is another….wanting a “sin” tax is another…taking over health care….what do you want. Maybe you don’t know what it is. What’s going to happen is that big business will either move out of the country, start getting rid of employees, or outsourcing.
I still haven’t seen 1 example where socialism works.

I also forgot to mention that even Obama opposes gay marriage, as do the majority of African Americans, which vote Democrat/Liberal 95% of the time. It’s not just a Conservative issue, that’s a common left wing talking point. Just as labeling Conservatives as racist gun toting, Bible thumping rednecks; they may exist, but they don’t hold a political office.

I don’t disagree on the gay marriage issue, but that’s the only case Liberals have on Conservatives for wanting to control everything, typical talking point. Liberals want to control people’s lives like Conservatives, they’re essentially the same for different reasons. I’ve also not known of anybody getting rejected from a job based on race, color, religion, etc., but I’d like to hear all of your evidence supporting that claim. There’s not much evidence to support that claim in the media. Discrimination of that kind is punishable by law, the playing field is level, no need for affirmative action. Liberals represent just as much freedom as Conservatives, as long as you share their views, otherwise you’re demonized.

As for Social engineering, forcing low income government housing in communities that don’t want it there, just happened in my neck of the woods. Making a local secretary in my former high school take down a menorah in her office because a local atheist a-hole parent happened to see it in there! I’m not religious, but who gives him the right to tell her what to do in her own office? This also happens across the country, people alienated for displaying an American flag of all things at work or school. Praying in a classroom to oneself or with a teacher and being suspended. Not allowing senior citizens to pray before a meal because their food is subsidized by the government. Yet, you think Liberals stand for freedom? I beg to differ. Liberals and Conservatives are essentially the same, do as they say or else. They’re also terrible at handing finances, look at NY and California, both run by Liberals, both nearly bankrupt. The conservative states, they’re not too deep in the hole and some are running surpluses, like Montana. Montana even has a Democratic Governor, fiscally conservative of course. I wish he ran my state.

She was elected to a very, very high office, Governor of Alaska. She decided simply to quit her position.

This wasn’t a “job”. She didn’t quit her shelf-stocking job at Wal-Mart.
She abandoned her position as one of the highest elected officials of the USA.

Palin did not have the right to abandon her responsibility. If G. H. W. Bush had decided that he was tired of being criticized and abandoned his post as president of the USA, would he have been handled as gently as S. Palin? Of course not. Any elected official who just up and quit in violation of his or her mandate would be treated like an incompetent idiot.

S. Palin has been handled with kid gloves by everybody on the planet. Any honest person will say that Sarah Palin is very, very stupid, is very corrupt and must never be allowed to have any power over anybody, ever. This walking, talking joke needs to be put in a little box and hidden away from history. She embodies the worst disgraces of the Republicans, The radical Christians and the Conservative (control every aspect of US citizens’ lives) party.

Conservatives, throw this idiot (S. Palin) onto the trash barge and try to recover at least a scrap of credibility.

Because the Liberals are working ferociously to control who marries whom, one of if not the most private of personal decisions that a person can ever make? Who is controlling citizens’ behavior in their private bedrooms? Liberals? Uh…no.
The state-controlled domination of the most private of human activities is only being pursued by the Right-wing Republichristians. Liberals keep their noses out of citizens’ private lives, as they should; as all should.
Today’s Conservatives are doing their utmost to dominate what every citizen does and what every citizen wants. Freedom? Hardly.
“Social engineering”? Please tell me how the social engineering of who marries whom is a liberal agenda. Please.
Please tell me how the social engineering of deciding that marriage forbids two loving men to marry each other or two loving women to marry each other is a liberal agenda.
I’m waiting…

“…forcing people to abide by the laws of a few politicians.”
Are you making a joke? You describe the Republican agenda, which is to force all citizens to abide by the laws of a few politicians (gay marriage, abortion, etc.), and then you twist reality to pretend that it is the agenda of those who represent freedom, the Liberals. I’m stunned by your audacity.

“Same goes for affirmative action, which may have been appropriate in the 1950’s, it’s no longer needed today. It gives an unfair advantage to someone based on skin color over achievement”
Because US businesses are dominated by blacks, by Hispanics and by women.
Oh, wait…they’re not.
Equal opportunity hasn’t yet been achieved. I’m sure that you can relate a few anecdotes of a white man who was passed over for a promotion so a less qualified woman or Hispanic could get the promotion. Please tell us how many women, how many Hispanics, how many blacks, how many gays, how many atheists did not get the jobs or promotions that they earned. Tell us the whole story, not a tiny snapshot.

“Racial discrimination is already considered a hate crime under the law, why do we still need affirmative action?”
Because the upper levels of business and politics are still dominated by white men.
Yes, Obama is at the highest level an American can reach (hurray USA!) but he is an outlier. Except for Obama, all US presidents have been white men. All of them who professed a religion, except JFK, were Protestant Christians. JFK was fiercely attacked (by the Conservatives) because he was a Catholic Christian. There has never been a Jewish, a Shinto or a godless president.
We have a long, long way to go before we can even approach equality. It was only because G. W. Bush was so universally despised and the Republican party so badly discredited that it was even possible for a half-black man to be elected president of the USA. Under any other circumstances Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton would have had no chance against any white, Protestant-Christian man running against them.

Your bizarre fantasy that women and minorities are overwhelming white men is, frankly, puzzling.
The religions of US presidents? Of those who clearly declared their religion affiliation, all but one were Protestant Christian. The one outlier was JFK, a Catholic Christian.
Diversity is out of control!

JJ, the USA is not a furiously boiling melting pot that is crushing white, Christian men under the boots, sandals and bare feet of non (white, male, Christian, whatever) s that you fear so much. The USA remains firmly under the domination of white, Christian men. You are safe. Relax.

Anyways… I’m only afraid of her if she holds an elected office as she’s not equipped mentally to do so. There are plenty of people who I disagree with that, I think, would not destroy the country if at the helm. That being said Sarah Palin and Ron Paul are not among them. I respect Mr. Paul’s consistency in his positions but they’re too uncompromising to deal with the facts on the ground.

@58: When presented with a cohesive reasonable argument from a different point of a view I’m more than willing to hear out the other side if they’re speaking from a point of genuine debate on a complex issue. I don’t abide teaching the bible in science class because it’s not a reasonable argument to be had. Science is science, theology is theology. When presented as theology it gives the disclaimer as such, when it’s science you stop dealing with a “soft” subject and start to take on the spectre of fact. On the other hand if you were to effectively describe why you think the law(which I feel is draconian) in AZ is a good idea then I’d listen to you. I might disagree, but I’d still listen because illegal immigration is a legitimate security concern that has many different angles to it and hearing multiple sources is always a good way to realize the flaws in your own logic and those in the arguments of others. There’s even a chance that I’d change my mind like I have on multiple issues once I’ve seen it from a different yet still sane point of view.

I would like to state that if a person’s knee jerk reaction to something is automatically “OH MY GOD THEY’RE JUST LIKE HITLER” then they’re not exactly the brightest of the bunch. One of my big regrets is that, even though I never claimed Bush was a chimpanzee or retarded, I sounded like an ass for using the Nazi/fascist card as my go to when Bush was president. It diminished my points on that when it was valid since I used it so frequently. The difference was that from 2001-2006 I was in my mid to late teens. The “Tea Party” people are on average older than that and should know better if they want to be taken seriously.

Phil, you are teetering on intellectually dishonesty. I seem to recall you calling Tea Party people Tea Baggers.

How on earth is this intellectual dishonesty? He didn’t say he never uses epithets, he said he doesn’t like using them, and would prefer not to. That doesn’t mean that an occasion never arises where he would use them, as he just did now when he admitted to calling Beck an idiot. No dishonesty here, just lack of reading comprehension on your part. And as for Tea Party people being referred to as Teabaggers, many of them call themselves that. Sure, their critics now use it pejoratively as an insult, but those intellectually deficient teabaggers should’ve thought about that before they decided to call themselves teabaggers.

Not a fan of Beck, he is somewhat of a hack. But it is funny how liberals when presented with an idea outside their own narrow views suddenly are not so liberal.

I have no idea what this is supposed to mean. Are you trying to sound intelligent by being obscure? I consider myself to be liberal on most social issues, but none of my liberal beliefs involves restrictions on calling out stupidity with some well-deserved ad hominems. Don’t like it when stupid people get called out? Tough.

Is it really so important that he write a specific article addressing each instance a prominent space personality expresses an opinion on space policy?

I’m not trying to be hostile here. I just think your expectations are still a bit impractical, and largely met anyway.

That wasn’t about humor. Beck is reaching out to the “silent majority” folks that Nixon pandered to in the 60s/70s. When those are listed they list whatever they can as institutions so that you can know that they don’t like him, and that “they’re not like you and I”. He did the quotes to create a sense that the book is something they don’t want you to know about, and something you shouldn’t read.

But “they” are the elites and what do they know? I found it informative that he neglected to include clips that insulted him from conservative intellectuals/institutions like Christopher Hitchens, The Economist, Atlantic, and The Weekly Standard.

@146: Ron Paul/Sarah Palin 2012! And for all the Palin bashers, she has much more experience in public office than Obama

Obama’s been president for a little more than a year and has been in some form of elected office since 1996 when he was a state senator. Sarah Palin quit halfway through her first term because she missed the attention. There are plenty of serious well thought out conservatives but Paul/Palin would add nothing to a race.