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View Poll Results: Is Glen Beck Nuts?
Yes 123 32.80%
No 252 67.20%
Voters: 375. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 04-02-2010, 03:04 PM
 
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Glenn Beck has every right to be on the air, his critics have every right to criticize him as well. Criticism does not equal censorship, denying someones right to criticize is censorship.
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Old 04-02-2010, 03:50 PM
 
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Glenn Beck has every right to be on the air, his critics have every right to criticize him as well. Criticism does not equal censorship, denying someones right to criticize is censorship.
Yea, and cutting down on the Nitrous Oxide he breathes should be illegal too... Damn liberals.
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Old 04-02-2010, 04:45 PM
 
Location: Georgia
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Is Glen Beck the crazy relative you politely listen to as he talks, talks, and talks. Why is he on the air? That's my thought. But I have to ask:
Should he be taken off the air?
He's a total moron...He's a low-life scum who makes a small mint off of scaring the hell out of the bottom-feeders in our society, but still...Don't think that is reason to ban him or anything like that. Just have to accept that, sadly, there are people in our country stupid enough to buy this clowns circus act!
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Old 04-03-2010, 06:34 AM
 
Location: Indiana
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do you live in cuba?

Last edited by gysmo; 04-03-2010 at 06:36 AM.. Reason: skip a word
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Old 04-03-2010, 09:06 AM
 
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Wow, trick poll! You ask two completely different questions:

* should he be taken off the air? (my response: NO, I believe in free speech)

* is he nuts? (my response: YES, it's obvious.)

Since your thread title was misleading I voted NO and then saw that your poll asked a different question from the one in the thread title.

By the way, it's Glenn, not Glen. And he's nuts. He calls himself a recovering alcoholic. I call him an alcoholic who probably fell off the wagon a few years ago. I've never seen anyone in AA who was that crazy.

Not to regress but I hit the submit button instead of the preview button - thus the trick poll result.
When I originally saw him on TV my first thought was; here's another Morton Downey Jr.

This type of talk radio/now TV that Limbaugh and now Beck does was inspired by the one and only Morton Downey Jr. The difference is - Morton knew it was entertainment. Morton Downey Jr. was on the air for one year.

Now, are the days of cheap reality shows and Fox. Beck generate a lot of money. He will be on the air until that dries up. I don't care if he's on the air or not. But....

When Beck is yielding a baseball bat or pouring water over someone and pretending its gasoline and holding a match - the implications of violence are there. The intent of that should be questioned. Those visualizations have nothing to do with free speech.

Oh, how times have changed. I prefer the cigarette smoke blowing in your face of Morton
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Old 04-03-2010, 09:46 AM
 
Location: The ends DO NOT justify the means!!!
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Or even Wallace sneering at Rand.
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Old 04-03-2010, 12:39 PM
 
Location: Long Beach
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Glenn Beck is an opportunistic moron.

He is hell bent on destroying this country to make a quick buck. He makes impossible connections that infer what might categorized as bigotted, vitriolic lies.

The people who believe Glen Beck are the most ignorant and heinous people in this country. So it is very fitting he'd have a show on Fox News.

Free speech is what makes America great, and the Beckster takes advantage of that, and our poor education system ($20 to whoever gets that little piece of sarcasm).

I think if Becky and his followers looked into the lies he spouts their world world implode.

I'm gonna call Glenn Beck out...I have a suspicion he's actually the anti-Christ.
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Old 04-03-2010, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Lake Norman, NC
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I don't believe he should be taken off the air. That goes against our principle of freedom and free speech.

However, I don't have the time to listen to him blather on incessantly with his foolishness. I would hope that bad ratings take him and guys like Limbaugh off the air. They are doing more damage to the right than they can ever help!
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Old 04-03-2010, 07:39 PM
 
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Should he be taken off the air?
No, if you don't like him, don't tune in.
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Old 04-04-2010, 11:58 PM
 
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Imagine. At what price a human soul sold?
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