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Glenn Beck is playing a character with a personality and a style that is laser focused at the souls of an intended audience. It doesn't take many minutes of viewing his television show to see that he's mashing up the most effective and successful aspects of Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and '60s Bircher author Cleon Skousen, and filtering it all through the performance techniques of a televangelist. Bob Cesca: Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud
You can't see my reply but others can and I want to say that I agree with the interviewer about what actually took place there yesterday. The black woman at 2:45 told him what was wrong with calling her an African-American very well and turned out to be an independent.
Darn it, meson I would have to give you a rep point for this post even if there is a chance that you didn't really know what you had posted. However, I can't rep someone who has me on ignore.
Glenn Beck is playing a character with a personality and a style that is laser focused at the souls of an intended audience. It doesn't take many minutes of viewing his television show to see that he's mashing up the most effective and successful aspects of Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and '60s Bircher author Cleon Skousen, and filtering it all through the performance techniques of a televangelist. Bob Cesca: Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud
Is it possible for me to skip this link since it is so obvious what it is all about? Well I will skip it until you send out the left leaning police to enforce the reading of it.
Glenn Beck is playing a character with a personality and a style that is laser focused at the souls of an intended audience. It doesn't take many minutes of viewing his television show to see that he's mashing up the most effective and successful aspects of Rush Limbaugh, Alex Jones and '60s Bircher author Cleon Skousen, and filtering it all through the performance techniques of a televangelist. Bob Cesca: Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud
I get that feeling too.
I feel like such an outsider sometimes and totally can't relate to the appeal of Beck/Palin. I wasn't wrapped up in Obama fever either in case anyone cares. I've always been resistant to magnetic preachers, dynamic speakers, group think, etc. and have been accused in the past of having a hardened heart, no feelings, lack of emotion, and more. I also avoid crowded gatherings even if I appreciate the reason behind it because I don't like seeing people "caught up" in anything. I don't ever want to be "caught up" in anything either. The worst thing in the world someone could say about me is that "she is a huge follower of....". I know I'm weird, most people crave that sort of thing but I IMMEDIATELY see red flags when anyone holds that much sway over others.
The mainstream media is going berserk over Beck's rally. It was a peaceful rally with no racist signs to photograph and send to Huffington Post so they don't know how to report on it other than to fudge around with attendance numbers and claim it had no bite, or whatever. Beck wins again without even trying.
Also, thanks to their support of the Ground Zero victory mosque the mainstream media has inadvertently cut its own tongue out, knowing they cannot complain about Beck's "insensitive" rally on the day and in the same place of MLK's iconic 'I Have A Dream' speech.
Hypocrisy in the left's definition of 'tolerance'
"Commentators have noted the hypocrisy of those that claim that "sensitivity" has no place in the decision to build a Islamic center 2 blocks from ground zero, for them this is a constitutional issue. Many of those same pundits also think it is paramount to consider the "sensitivity" of some people if Glenn Beck chooses to exercise his first amendment rights. When Mr. Beck chooses a date for practical reasons, he is lambasted as being insensitive and told that he should move his event. His fellow Fox News host Greta Van Susteren had this to say on her blog: "Yes he has a First Amendment right to do it...but what about the wisdom of it? Glenn should move his event. It does not help heal the country on so many fronts if we poke a stick in eyes." Isn't this the same argument used by those that opposed the building of the ground zero Islamic center? An argument, not over constitutionality, but of propriety?"
It sounds like a legit charity and it sounds it's well run. I do have difficulty understanding the connection though. He wasn't charging anything so I don't get how it was a fund-raiser.
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Originally Posted by roysoldboy
it was a different class of people. These people were tax payers, I think.
LOL! I think the real difference was that this was a group of older folks who pay more attention to picking up their trash.
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Originally Posted by lifelongMOgal
The financial statements of 501(c)3 organizations are available to anyone. Why so snarky and unwilling to do your own homework? Are you so unwilling to acknowledge the amount of charity funds provided by Beck, O'Reilly, Limbaugh, and other conservative talk-show hosts? Why wouldn't you want the children of our men and women in uniform to benefit from Beck's event?
Please answer Driller1's question: why do you hate these children?
I don't think anyone said they did hate these kids. I think a lot of us question the ulterior motive in raising money in this manner.
The guesstimates of the numbers were quite varied to say the least!
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Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.), offered the biggest figure. Shortly after the event, the
Washington Post reports, she said, "We're not going to let anyone get away with saying there
were less than a million here today - because we were witnesses."
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