Glenn Beck cries again, on the airwaves, is he mentally unstable or a sissy? (suspected, racist)
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I dont get it, liberals are always saying the conservatives need to get in touch with their emotions, and when one does you think that they are mentally unstable or a sissy. try looking in the mirror before you accuse someone of that next time.
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His crying over the abuse and suicide thing was appropriate enough, but I've seen him go bonkers and become irrational for no good reason on his show. I'd say he's somewhat unstable, but more importantly he's a typical rightwing creep working to help the rich get richer, at the expense of the poor and middle class Americans.
What bothers me about Glenn Beck's antics are not necessarily that he cries. It's that his antics are so pathetic and false that it should make anyone with a grain of skepticism attenuate themselves to what he's doing.
Most people are hard-wired to respond to other humans crying as one of the following: emotional distress or angst, physical danger, wanting or needing something (this is often seen in children and babies), or a combination of those wherein one may lead to the other. For example, a claustrophobic in severe emotional distress in regards to their overreactive sensitivity to a confined area may cry. In that case, the emotional distress of sensing the perceived physical danger of a confined area would most likely be the cause.
Either way, we humans have characteristics within us that are most often associated with our young in regards to crying. When children cry, our first reaction as human beings is usually "What's wrong and how do I make it stop?" In a weird twist of fate, this often produces a variety of outcomes. Crying immediately grants attention and the little human is able to pick up on this. Thus, crying is reinforced as an attention-getting tool. Most parents of a two or three year old toddler will most likely agree with me. The parent, however, must respond and it becomes a bit of a catch-22. If the parent responds, they may reinforce an unwanted behavior but if they don't they run the risk of ignoring what may be a very bad problem.
Yet, I do not believe crying is an inherently negative thing. Certain studies have shown that crying relieves stress, and again, that certain chemicals like dopamine are released in the brain when crying begins. In many cases, especially when emotional stress is involved, crying is rather natural.
On the other hand, crying can have its limits and it becomes a little obvious when someone is using it as a tool (much like a three year old might) as opposed to someone who's truly experiencing pain. Though I don't have much documented proof, I've often suspected that crying can become cross-wired in the brain during various emotional experiences such as that something like strong compassion for something and emotional distress trigger the same physical response, i.e., crying.
In a lot of ways, this is what I see Glenn Beck doing. It's as though his compassion for the topics he talks about are cross-wired with heavy emotion and he has a physical reaction to it in the form of crying. The problem is that while in certain social interactions this is certainly acceptable, being the host of a radio show to whom millions of people look to for their opinion and ideas, crying triggers an unnecessary state of heightened response and alertness. His crying plays on our innate instinct as human beings to respond to crying in a way that says "We must help this man!" Regardless of whether we consciously experience things this way or not, anybody who sees Beck as "one of their own" has a lot of subconscious activity going on that tells them "Something is wrong. We must alleviate his pain." In this way, it's as though he is duping people who already agree with him to share in his pain and suffering and to be on an extraordinarily heightened state of alert.
For anyone who has been in a grocery store with a three-year old who won't stop crying, you all know there is absolutely nothing that can be done to shut them up. They will cry until every single head in the store is looking your way in a manner that says "Shut that baby up before I start crying!" And, in many ways, the general response of the GOP, and in particular the Tea Party, has been that of a crying three year old. No matter what is done, what is said, what actions are meant to calm that crying three year old down, it just won't shut up and stop crying for more than three seconds. You can give it lollipops and candy or make monkey faces at it or play peek-a-boo and it will cry. It will cry until it just tires itself out, makes everyone in the store angry at it, and leave a training diaper full of crap on the floor for the store clerk to mop up.
Crying has a place in many forms of social interaction. It is a positive tool to be used amongst humans to communicate our fears, emotions, and sometimes even our desires. But, it should not hold a place in politics or political broadcasting because anyone who is so tied to their ideas that they will cry over them speaks to the fact that there is not a single way to change their mind, to speak to them with any amount of intelligence or to even have a genuine civil discourse with them.
Glenn Beck is using the tools of a three-year old to get his way with his followers. In a rather human way, they respond to his childish antics like that of a frightful parent - "What's wrong Glennie-poo? What ever can I do to make it better?! What if I call Obama a Socialist for you one more time? Would you like that, Glennie-poo? OK! Here we go... Obama is a Socialist!"
There was probably quite a bit more to that interview than we saw. The guy is emotional, so what? He's been thru a lot, and works very hard. I am saddened to think that companies would actually choose not to advertise with him, because they were pressured by the libs. It's not good when a political party has so much influence on corporations - obviously the demorats do. They threaten anyone that dares to challange them, or get in their way.
It is also a shame that his family has to live in fear, just because he exposes the progressive agenda.
He is currently reaching out to college students, helping them navigate away from being indoctrinated in todays colleges, by becoming entrepreneurs and skipping college altogether. Because degrees often don't really teach them what they need to know to be sucdessful in the business world. It's a way to get hired, if you want to work for someone else. He encourages independence from gov't programs, as much as possible.
He is a courageous man, who's success has come at great cost. Of course the libs hate him, that is what they do to their enemies, seek and destroy.
I wish him well.
His whole show is satirical. He makes more sarcastic jokes than anythig. When he gets emotional he's usually talking about something he feels compassionate about. Is that not something you can relate to in these times, even if you disagree 110% with him about everything?
It's not like these times are run-of-the-mill and emotions and rhetoric aren't high..
I think he's crying because he is privately tormented over the failure of his efforts to discredit this President. What a fool.
You're right.
The president is much better at doing that himself.
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