We told you back when Glenn Beck was a Fox News host that he was a blight on our media and political culture and was doing great harm to the country. Beck now admits as much himself.Returning for an appearance on Fox this week, Beck recalled his time there by conceding he made "an awful lot of mistakes.""I think I played a role," Beck reflected, "in helping tear the country apart. "
You think?
Sure there's reason to be skeptical about Beck's latest public confession. He told Megyn Kelly he regretteddividing Americans while at Fox between 2009 and 2011. But he didn't stop peddling hateful conspiracies when he left for his own independent network. In 2013, as the city of Boston and nation recoiled from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, what did Beck do?He led a mindless crusade against an innocent Saudi national student who was actually injured in the blast.And keep in mind, Beck's network, The Blaze, is currently in the middle of a marketing campaign to convince cable operations around the country to add his channel to their television offerings.It would make sense for Beck to strike a conciliatory public tone in hopes of addressing fears that operators might have about hosting the guy who was too crazy for Fox News.
the one thing to me that is much more alarming than Beck himself is those who patronize his shows the one's that are taking him seriously not so much those who watch as a replacement drug for Jerry Springer.
for those who hear a rallying cry they really need to seek professional help.
Beck told them:
Beck: ‘If you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.’
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/03/30/37168/beck-idiot/
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2009/03/30/37168/beck-idiot/
Of course Beck botched the facts and made stuff up while hosting his show at Fox, and of course Media Matters documented his deliberate misinformation. But he works for Fox, that's what their nighttime hosts are paid to do.What made Beck such an incendiary figure though, and the point Media Matters stressed for years, was that aside from being professional inaccurate, Beck was purposefully fermenting a toxic brand of race-baiting paranoia designed to tap into the darkest fears among his right-wing followers.Beck was pushing a disturbing brand of insurrectionism -- of militia media -- in which the President of the United States wasn't simply criticized for being misguided, or for someone whose policies would set the country back. Instead,the President of the United States was ceaselessly depicted as an enemy of America and to liberty itself; the man at the center of a violent leftist movement designed to topple the Constitution and to eliminate the American way of life.
this makes you wonder why is there a desire to follow a guy like this, and please don't say people are tired and want to revote if that were the case wouldn't they have done it without the likes of people like him, are they that inclined to violence or are they being led into it?
IMO led by right wing instigators that wants to keep the country in turmoil it strengthens their hold on the base you know common enemy thing, but what that base fails to understand they are being armed and given ok laws to kill they are the one's they concentrate on it's good for their lies about how the Pres. is not wanted, liked or doing anything for them. just one thing,
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to convince the world he didn't exist
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