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Fact Check: He was actually in Yale but dropped out at roughly the same time he became financially troubled from his divorce.
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He graduated from Sehome High School in Bellingham, Washington in 1982. Several years later, he took a single theology class at Yale University.
A 2009 profile in GQ states that Beck was admitted to a special program for non-traditional students at Yale University at some unspecified point in time while he was working for a New Haven-area radio station. Senator Joe Lieberman wrote one of Beck's recommendation letters.
Still no one has addressed the issues that he raised:
Communist mentor
William Ayers
Radical college groups
Socialist colege hang outs discussions (his own words)
Palling with Marxist groups (his own words!)
Colunbia University
Tony Resco
Rev Wright
Willian Ayers
The socialists advisors he's surrounded himself with...even one who advocated sterilizing people in their friggin' drinking water!!!
Maybe you are new here.
ALL of that BS was discussed constantly during the campaign, pushed primarily by a small group of extremists.
Fact Check: He was actually in Yale but dropped out at roughly the same time he became financially troubled from his divorce.
Unless Yale has lowered their admission standards, yes, I would stick by my statement that he is very smart. And I would say the same for anybody else that's ever been admitted to Yale even though they've recently gotten a reputation of being more of a liberal school and accused of grade inflation. It still takes intelligence to be admitted to any college, but drive, determination, and financial means for the completion of a degree. I would go even further to claim that intelligence is usually not correlated with academic achievement at all for a large number of reasons and personal circumstances.
I would agree, a college degree is pretty easy to accomplish, so having one doesn't really make you "smarter" then someone who doesn't have one(I slept through almost 4 years of college and passed with a 3.3 average) Just ask Bill Gates how important a college degree is!! On the other hand it cracks me up that people actually listen to this guy and live their life by his beliefs and values. The guy struggles with a suicidal past and is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. I don't think his past makes him at all an expert on moral values, just because he recently asked jesus and god and the holy spirit to come back into his magical fairyland heart and forgive him.
That is an opinion, and obviously where the contention lies. My opinion is opposite of yours, and I feel he is nothing more than a ratings *****, willing to do and say anything to keep a paycheck coming in. What I find so interesting is that he supposedly represents the conservatives who seem to think that own morality in this country, yet he posesses none of these morals, hmmm? Disagreeing with the government is one thing, and expressing those views I believe is necessary. However, what he (and many others) do instead, and with malicious intent, is twist and turn the truth until it resembles nothing that is once was.
Opinions here yes, to each their own, to me Beck is a true boy scout type inside with plenty of morals, he's conservative but libertarian, he did speak out against Bush administration. I see your words... malicious intent and twist and turn of the truth and anytime I read or hear these words I think of one person, Keith Ohlberman! and to a much lesser extent Maddow, but she at least has opposing view guests. The host of Hardball I like, but he can twist at times and Sean Hannity often repeats way too much and harps on important facts that people want to overlook today. Sorry this was supposed to be on Glen Beck.
And I'm not sure what to think. I've been reading so much about him and how people blame him for things so I figured I'd give him a look-see.
I have to ask...is he for real? I mean it does look like a spoof, or like someone trying really hard to ACT like he's spoofing, but this is supposed to be serious? He makes funny noises, does silly voices, makes faces and mugs to the camera, does skits, etc.
I've seen Comedy Centrals shows (The Daily Show, Colbert Report) and I KNOW those are joke shows that touch on real issues, is Glen Beck's show satirical?
Did you take Daniel Hannan as satirical? I don't see him that way but maybe he is.
Darn it how many things did you see Beck do that looked satirical? I didn't like him on HeadLine News but I really am one of his now. Did you see him do anything that looked like trying to get people riled to the point of using force to do anything?
He is like many recovering alcoholics..they suddenly find something to crusade about.
You are right about his show being like a "spoof" show but unfortunately some take him seriously and follow him.
The crying all the time got me reaching for my sick bag.
I are one of those silly people who take him seriously and maybe I am really as stupid as those who won't give him a chance.
I read "Common Sense" and became more of a believer in him from that experience. However I don't think you are likely to read that book. I will share my copy if you want to and don't want to spend the money.
1. No, unlike the shows that are appropriately shown on Comedy Central, the Glenn Beck show is no comedy - it's a tragedy.
2. No, that's no act - he really is an idiot. And yes, he's not very funny.
3. You have good instincts. He makes any rational person uncomfortable, especially given his influence on the segment of the population most eager to find someone to blame for their pathetic lives.
The big problem I have with Glenn Beck is not what he says or how he says it - I believe in the Constitution. The problem is that the vast majority of his audience don't know, or cannot comprehend, that Beck is NOT a journalist ... he is an entertainer. And because his audience does not have the reasoning capabilities to discern this crucial difference, they accept what he says as the truth, rather than what it is ... his own twisted opinion.
I have often wondered if the amount of education one has makes him stupider as it goes higher and then age makes it worse. I guess my MS degree along with over 50 more hours beyond it along with my advanced age have made me sever IQ points lower than I was at 13. I really like Beck and watch him every day if I am at home.
I taught American Government for 24 years along with American History and really believe that I know the Constitution fairly well and I also believe in it all the way. Did you throw that part in because you don't think Beck loves it and knows anything about it? I just wondered about that.
I are one of those silly people who take him seriously and maybe I am really as stupid as those who won't give him a chance.
I read "Common Sense" and became more of a believer in him from that experience. However I don't think you are likely to read that book. I will share my copy if you want to and don't want to spend the money.
Are you telling me that Beck is actually trying to be serious? He cracks me up with his writhing around and his crying outbursts.
I taught American Government for 24 years along with American History and really believe that I know the Constitution fairly well and I also believe in it all the way. Did you throw that part in because you don't think Beck loves it and knows anything about it? I just wondered about that.
Sorry - I thought people would connect the second part of my sentence with the first:
"The big problem I have with Glenn Beck is not what he says or how he says it - I believe in the Constitution."
I mentioned the Constitution because of the First Amendment. Beck is free, within the limits set out by the courts already (no shouting "fire" in a crowded theater) to say what he wants. What I am most disappointed in is that people accept some of his most outrageous statements as being true.
Whether a person is stupid or not has nothing to do with the level of formal education achieved or number of degrees hanging on the wall. I believe Beck says stupid things - sometimes, things he knows are not true. And I believe that the way in which he conducts himself on his show (at least, the clips I've managed to watch without heaving) can be best described as idiotic.
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