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Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance
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There is a vast difference between ideas and ideologies; ideas question and liberate, while ideologies justify and dictate. Generally, when an ideology forms, it is based on a set of beliefs originally set forth by one person. Those beliefs become an "-ism" when adepts, followers, and factotums create an organization to contain and disseminate what is now a mixture of facts and faith. As they expand, ideological movements divide and redivide.
from Blessed Unrest, by Paul Hawken
I was interested in reading this book about Glenn Beck, because I’ve never seen his TV show, except in videos on the internet. Mostly I’ve heard about the crazy, malicious things he’s said and done.
The author of this book isn’t objective; he obviously has contempt for Beck – and after reading what Glenn Beck has done, especially behind the scenes of his shows, it’s easy to understand the contempt. Beck, an extremely ambitious and very nasty man, switched from alcohol and cocaine to the much more potent drugs of religion and self-righteousness. Now he’s passing himself off as a historian and messiah.
There have always been crazy people; my concern with Glenn Beck is why so many people seem to believe his hateful ravings. Fear and hatred, combined with prejudice and ignorance, are powerful forces – there are no national or cultural boundaries, and the ideology or religion doesn’t matter: where unrestrained anger rules, violence follows. As much as he rails against Nazis and communists, he knows very little about those movements and the people in them, or he would recognize his own emotions and processes. And that would be an appalling vision in the mirror, for a man who has always been mentally and emotionally unstable.
Success is as dangerous as failure.
Hope is as hollow as fear.
What does it mean that success is as dangerous as failure?
Whether you go up the ladder or down it,
your position is shaky.
When you stand with your two feet on the ground,
you will always keep your balance.
What does it mean that hope is as hollow as fear?
Hope and fear are both phantoms
that arise from thinking of the self.
When we don’t see the self as self,
what do we have to fear?
See the world as your self.
Have faith in the way things are.
Love the world as your self;
then you can care for all things.
~ Tao Te Ching
www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2010052023/glenn-becks-commo…
America has this long tradition of twisted, odd, widely beloved and yet darkly dangerous right-wing cultural impresarios that pop up out of our landscape like cultural tornadoes, leaving huge swaths of derangement and destruction in their wake. Aimee Semple McPherson. Father Coughlin. Joe McCarthy. Once in a while, when the cultural cross-currents intersect just so, they rise on the whirlwind, gather huge followings, and lead their followers on a furious high-velocity turn that blows across the countryside in desperate pursuit of a utopia only they can see. These maunderings are typically mercifully short and usually end in disaster, for both the people who started the storm as well as those who got swept away in it. And all is forgotten—until the next time.
The next time, in this case, arrived on 9/11/01; and the tornado took on the form of Glenn Beck. It only seems like Glenn Beck has been with us forever. It’s hard to remember a time when his endless rants weren’t filling hours of TV time on Headline News, and more recently dominating everything else on FOX. But Beck was basically going nowhere fast before 9/11—the event that saved his failing TV career, turned this know-nothing showman into a leading political theorist, and catapulted him into the very eye of the far-right’s always-churning cultural storm.
It’s high time somebody took a critical look at the full arc of Beck’s character and career. That somebody turned out to be Alex Zaitchik, who had already spent quite a bit of time covering the right wing. Zaitchik’s book, Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, hits the bookshelves this week. Besides being an engaging telling of Beck’s personal tale, "Common Nonsense" examines Beck’s character and motivations in a way that might help progressives get a better handle on who he is, what he means to do to America, and what we’re really up against.
mediamatters.org/columns/201006040059
www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-glenn-beck-called-…
mediamatters.org/search/tag/glenn_beck
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck
Glenn Beck’s Christmas Road Show
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Glenn Beck in his last Christmas Road Show ever. He kept the audience laughing and shedding a tear here and there with his great stories about his family Christmas adventures and helping everyone remember what’s important about Christmas. It was a much better show than I expected.
This particular shot was when he told of a heart rendering story about his Grandmother’s passing away immediately after finishing what she loved doing… making her sugar cookies for all her children and grandchildren. It was the way she would have chosen to go, Glenn thought…
Glenn Beck as The Mad ‘Hater’
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Glenn Beck The Mad "Hater" in Crazyland. Become a fan/hater "on facebook:
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RT @Devilpig666: Brock Lesner just lost his job to a Mexican. Glenn Beck is angry. – by chris_graves (chris g)
RT @Devilpig666: Brock Lesner just lost his job to a Mexican. Glenn Beck is angry. – by TheNeek77 (Niko Dimitriou)
RT @Devilpig666: Brock Lesner just lost his job to a Mexican. Glenn Beck is angry. – by thejillthompson (Jill Thompson)
Glenn Beck Trivia!
Who does Glenn Beck like for President?
Answer by Jim H
Romney
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