Glenn Beck is an ex-DJ turned talk show host with a gift for off-the-cuff BS, like Rush. He’s a man with a supposedly former substance abuse problem, like Rush. Divorced, too, like Rush. These are people who are calling for a return to traditional values? Sounds like “do as I say, not as I did,” to me.
But unlike Rush, Glenn brings a religious element to his illogical rants. Do the Evangelicals who constitute a lot of Sarah Palin’s base of support know that Beck joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints? [Note: this site is currently being hosted in Utah.] As someone who used to attend an Assemblies of God church, I assure you that Evangelicals don’t consider Mormons to be Christians. If that’s no longer the case, then Mitt Romney is your man, folks. He came up with the health care plan in Massachusetts that was the model for the national plan.
The way Beck talks sometimes reminds me of Jim Jones. Why would anybody find some sort of assurance in his bizarre, disjointed tirades? A return to honor and values? What values? What does that mean? I really don’t get it.
The title of this post is, as Denro noted above, a nod to the Firesign Theatre record, “How Can You Be In Two Places At Once, When You’re Not Anywhere At All?”
As for me, I love the visual pun that heads up this controversial blog! 😉
Glenn Becks’ life is an “open book”…his history has been revealed. Barack Obama’s history; his school records (from high school on) and his financial records have been sealed since the moment he was picked to speak at that Democrat Convention while he was just an Illinios senator. Why?
I certainly do not think Obama is a muslim (although he plays one on TV) but his current life-pattern does not indicate that he is a Christian either. (I’m okay with that though…it’s his policies that I object to.)
I never questioned Beck’s right to hold the rally. Also, if it’s OK that Beck changed his ways, why do so many tea party members refuse to believe Obama changed his life, especially considering he wasn’t a Muslim in the first place? His father was, but he wasn’t. And I believe strongly in the concept of secular, progressive government.
Oh. good point, Paul! I neglected to say that Sharpton is a total huckster. Frankly, I consider him to be insignificant, and have ever since the first time I became aware of him, during the sordid Tawana Brawley case. I don’t understand how Sharpton had any credibility after that.
Palin, on the other hand, may be an idiot.
How DARE someone hold a rally urging people to come together in a peaceful, non-violent way to encourage a resistance to the secular-progressive ideology? Imagine the gall of a “sinner” (aren’t we all?) who has tried to change his life in a more positive way and is now asking others to recognize that we humans are not the most important beings in the universe. Are there no criticisms of the race-baiting huckster, Al Sharpton’s “rally”???
Only Mitch Miller is a more controversial and divisive topic on this blog!
Of course Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are divorced! Who could stand to put up with such arrogant, pompous blowhards as they are, day in and out, year in and out? Their sizeable salaries can’t, in the end, compensate the spouses enough for their obnoxious, know-it-all traits.
Besides, usually people with alcohol or drug problems are self-medicating, rather than fighting their personal demons. Of those who quit using, not that many CONTINUE to work their 12-Step programs vigorously (because they’re never “cured”, so they need to keep working the program), and not that many stay in recovery permanently. Marriage to an alcoholic, whether he is actively picking up a drink, or behaving irrationally as what is called a “dry” drunk (who is ripe for a relapse of abusing alcohol again), can be sheer hell.
Here’s a quote from Charles A. Dans (1819-1897): “Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.” That wouldn’t make a dent with either Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh, however, since they make such a good living for themselves by painting everything black and white. Many people like their type of rigid thinking! That’s the most basic appeal of fundamentalist religion, too, as well as political extremism: followers cling to simple, uncomplicated ideas, without the challenge or messiness of having to think for themselves, and consider shades of gray.
The strangest thing to me is that Beck and Palin are on Fox, the network that found it’s calling by appealing to the lowest common denominator, by ramping up the sleaze factor, which the traditional networks shied away from at the time. The Fox network was the home of many “Traditional Family Values” shows. Like “Married With Children.” Like “That 70’s Show.” Like “Family Guy.” Don’t forget “The Simpsons” – criticized by the Bush family at the time. Of course, these shows have made millions for Fox, which now goes to pay Beck and Palin for their commentary on our declining honor and values. “How can you be in two places at once when you’re not anywhere at all?”