GLEN BECK, CFM (Certified Fear Monger)
Born: 10-Feb-1964, Seattle, WA.
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality, Radio Personality
Party Affiliation: His own
State of Mind: Borderline Psychotic
New to the scene, and in bed with FOX VIEWS, NOT NEWS, with supposed recent freedom from drug and alcohol abuse, Glen Beck is infatuated with, himself first, and then draws parallels with the Nazi's. Let me clarify, I don't believe he is a NAZI sympathizer. He is however a NAZI glorifier. He just uses them a lot because they infuriate people. He's more like a NAZI glorifier missing the jack boots and garish uniforms. He goes into these fits and sessions where even Goebbels would be proud.
He is on a fast track and already has earned a paltry 32 million dollars this year doing his thing. It’s easy to try to explain him, obviously those drugs he took had long time retention and today he’s nuttier than ever. But there are those who "relish nut cases as we say because they are in the same pickle". They hear what they want to hear, blame the other guy and they are fulfilled. For some the rhetoric is the same and it is like a fix.
But he is also sharp as a tack and knows how to instigate, infuriate and irritate enough to make good money at it. He’s also hard to write about because you would be endorsing his untruths. Just looking around the web I found a myriad of his worst comments and acts by many others who see through him. Frankly he isn’t worth the time, there are enough shock jocks out there.
BEST DESCRIPTION - COMMUNITY DISORGANIZER
But his survival this long makes me worry about the state of mind of some of our citizens in his audience. And it’s a different kind of audience, possibly a few intelligent ones out there in the mix, but as the placards and signs indicated they might get smoked by fifth graders. Especially at the last TEA PARTY facade where 2 of 5 placards were spelled wrong or had bad conventions. Racial overtones and something you would expect at a KKK convention.
He constantly makes reference to the Nazi's, 142 times last year on his shows. He compares them to the current administration. This really does little, unless you got a lot of extra white bedsheets and traffic cones with eyeholes cut out. But they do hurt those who don't need to be reminded of what those bastards did. I grew up knowing much of my elders had tattoos on their arms. Those references belong in the Holocaust Museums not talk radio nor TV parading around in NAZI uniforms. It serves him well.
He is just another ex-alcoholic druggie using shock jock. He came from radio and does have appeal to the FOX crowd of anti-anything. He is typical of Herr Rupert Murdoch’s clone and agitator partisans known as the ANAL-ists because all they spew is XXXX. Adding wire-tapping and other devious methods of business like paying for news and creating it when it doesn't exist.
STEVEN COLBERT
Known to say anything, even despicable thoughts, he was tackled by the super funny and very intelligent Steven Colbert. Colbert took a shot at him about one of his tirades in 2005. Colbert used a classic "Daily Show" tactic, exposing the hypocrisy of Beck's 9-12 project by highlighting comments he made on September 9, 2005.
Beck’s quote was "This is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this," Beck said on his radio program that day, "you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families? I don't hate all of them. I hate probably about 10 of them. But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them."
On another show Colbert summed it up in a unique way. "He said, 'Let's start doing some Glenn Beck stuff but in praise of Glenn Beck,'" said Colbert. "But every time we do one, he will have done something dumber. He raised the stupid bar and now it's nearly inapproachable." "I worry that if we use that as a model...if somebody doesn't believe what they're saying, it's very hard to out-stupid them," said a decidedly analytical Colbert. "Because then there's no place to sink our hook into, there's no mountain to climb there. I can't climb Glenn Beck since there's nothing there."
GLEN BECK COMMENTARY (ABYSMAL DRIVEL)
2003 - “Every night I get down on my knees and pray that Dennis Kucinich will burst into flames.”
2005 - "I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it."
2005 - "When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining."
2005 - “The only Katrina victims we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.”
2006 - “Let me tell you something, there ain’t nothing better than looking at a hot, naked chick.”
2006, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, appeared on Glenn Beck. Beck told him, “I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, “Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.”
The incident earned Beck a spot on the alternative weekly Buffalo Beast ’s list of 2006’s most loathsome people. The paper wrote, “It’s like someone found a manic, doom-prophesying hobo in a sandwich board, shaved him, shot him full of Zoloft and gave him a show.” That’s sums him up. But wait there is more.
BOOK REVIEW: The Overton Window by Glen Beck
MISSED OPPORTUNITY
One of the media blogs described Beck as one who likes to "scrawl wild conspiracy theories on a chalkboard." In the "Overton Window', which is an old storyline as you will see, “socialist forces” are plotting to overthrow America. How do we define "socialist forces". I thought we solved that one in "Red Dawn". Oh, these are "political socialist forces". Not recruited, but elected.
Hasn’t this been played out before? Why didn’t Beck communicate with the boys in Hollywood for this type of script first? Movies really make money. Stars are available, like Kiefer Sutherland who’s looking for a good conspiracy after the TV show 24 hours finished.
Or how could I have missed this? I had forgotten the dean of conspiracy movies, hero moves, grunts, grimacing, and fast hands, Steven Seagal? This book is literally right up his Aikido 7th Dan Black belt Gi. This is his kind of cannon fodder, unfortunately, I think he already made five or six similar stories and movies. Some of them pure Cannon Farter.
RUPERT MURDOCK WISHED HE WAS HIS SON
FOX News, the conspiratorial Mecca of the Earth host describes Becks work of "faction," or fiction "with plot rooted in fact". Well, since he is on their payroll, that’s Like Sarah Palin endorsing Sean Hannity. Goebbels telling you what a great party animal Hitler was.
How does Murdock do it? Slam so many nut-cases on one channel. Money, follow the money. You see a normal corporation or agency doesn't want these people around for the long term but Beck won't last since 400 of the advertisers on Fox backed off.
Steven Livingston in the Washington Post, who I have a lot of respect for his writings, wrote; The success of Glenn Beck's novel, “The Overton Window” will be measured not by its literary value (none), or its contribution to the thriller genre (small), or the money it rakes in (considerable), but rather by the rebelliousness it incites among anti-government extremists.
If the book is found tucked into the ammo boxes of self-proclaimed patriots and recited at “Tea Party” assemblies, then Beck will have achieved his goal. The story line, which fictionalizes Beck's well-known paranoia about a secret Big Government plan to crush the liberties of well-meaning citizens, is an extended call to arms, a rallying cry to his angry foot soldiers long stirred by his ranting on FOX News.
As the last line of the book warns, "We're everywhere… The fight starts tomorrow."
BECK AND POT STIRRING
I agree, first, it’s one of those things that Beck does best, he know how to stir the pot to the point of spilling over and that worries me because he says things that at the right time and place a moron will take literally and the end result is something stupid happening. As I have written about here before, seven of them, were arrested by the FBI and planning to kill police. Some of these lower forms might have only differed from the troglodytes by the fact they clipped their nails.
As I said in my index page, I like comparisons. Glen Becks reference to the NAZI’s and the Third Reich all the time has made me believe he has a personal agenda. He is doing the modern day job of Goebbels and uses his philosophy of tell it often, tell it loud, and make it a good lie, not something small. You will stir the masses. It worked 70 years ago and can work again. A 32 million dollar paycheck for simply being an insulting, arrogant screwball is not a bad idea, however.
We have enough bad things occurring in some areas, similar to the same conditions that brought the party to the forefront, jobs, mortgages, war, depression, a very unstable economy and the decimation of the middle class, making the poor and the rich distance each other. Some one from the Marx- Stalin era once said, “the soil is rich for a revolution’. I don’t think he was referring to the potato crop.
Is Becks shtick starting to sound familiar? Look at the cover of his last book. He is seen wearing a NAZI uniform and I hate to make the assumption he looks proud in it. As a Jew who has heard enough about the holocaust, my family deeper than many of you know about me, I find him disgusting. As an American who understands 58 million people directly or indirectly because of the Second World War died at the hands of the Axis, I find him even more repulsive.
His adoration and his lack of compassion for those who survived, those who can still see tattoos on their arms and their siblings, he is a carrier of bad memories and pain for those made it out of the death camps. That’s why we do not talk of them, they are ‘treif”. While he promotes a love for Israel which few believe, especially on a Murdoch station, he is no friend to anyone other than himself.