http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2009/09/22/commentary-on-glenn-beck/ Defending Liberty and Enlightened Thought Wed, 23 May 2012 06:11:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2009/09/22/commentary-on-glenn-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-223577 Eclectic Radical Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:55:03 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=10248#comment-223577 "But the role Glenn Beck is playing is harmful in its totality. My hunch is that he is a comet blazing across the media sky right now—and will soon flame out. Whether he does or not, he isn’t the face or disposition that should represent modern-day conservatism."   This is 'Sun Belt/West Coast' conservativism at its most unrealistically optimistic. This is the sort of thing that people said about Rush Limbaugh: he was bad for the movement, he was a temporary anomaly, and no one would remember him in a few years time while the short term gains that conservatives picked up would outlast him. This has proven to be far from the truth. Instead, Limbaugh has become conservatism to many people and the RNC Chairman has to apologize for bucking his will. Beck is the next natural step from Limbaugh.   I'm glad that conservatives are criticizing Beck, but I'm curious about to whom Wehner would turn for intellectual depth on the right?   “But the role Glenn Beck is playing is harmful in its totality. My hunch is that he is a comet blazing across the media sky right now—and will soon flame out. Whether he does or not, he isn’t the face or disposition that should represent modern-day conservatism.”
 
This is ‘Sun Belt/West Coast’ conservativism at its most unrealistically optimistic. This is the sort of thing that people said about Rush Limbaugh: he was bad for the movement, he was a temporary anomaly, and no one would remember him in a few years time while the short term gains that conservatives picked up would outlast him. This has proven to be far from the truth. Instead, Limbaugh has become conservatism to many people and the RNC Chairman has to apologize for bucking his will. Beck is the next natural step from Limbaugh.
 
I’m glad that conservatives are criticizing Beck, but I’m curious about to whom Wehner would turn for intellectual depth on the right?
 

]]> http://liberalvaluesblog.com/2009/09/22/commentary-on-glenn-beck/comment-page-1/#comment-223570 Leslie Parsley Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:23:20 +0000 http://liberalvaluesblog.com/?p=10248#comment-223570 A cousin I adore, despite her misguided politics, emailed me a notice of a rally against Obama because the didn't hold a prayer breakfast and because he wouldn't okay a flyover supporting God and country when he was in Colorado. I searched blogs and mainstream meadia and the only thing I found was a statement made by Glenn Beck - another one of his fantacies. A cousin I adore, despite her misguided politics, emailed me a notice of a rally against Obama because the didn’t hold a prayer breakfast and because he wouldn’t okay a flyover supporting God and country when he was in Colorado. I searched blogs and mainstream meadia and the only thing I found was a statement made by Glenn Beck – another one of his fantacies.

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