Glenn Beck has never been to my taste, but I’m glad he’s out there. (Pun intended). Beck serves a role. When it comes to challenging the socialist in chief and his economic plans, we need guys like Beck who can drive home the message in an entertaining way that Joe Everyman will digest.
What Beck is not is perfect. He’s a flawed human being, just like the rest of us, and that’s OK too. At least it’s OK for me. Not so for the sneering leftists who are obsessed with the man. Former Salon writer Michael Scherer, who now peddles his wares for Time, broke out the extra-acidic vitriol to slam Beck’s interview of ex-New York Congressman/tickle warrior Eric Massa yesterday. By all accounts – including Beck’s – the interview was a disaster and libs are celebrating. For some, one pointless interview means the end of Glenn Beck. Give me a break.
Keith Olbermann has built an entire career on conducting pointless interviews. OK, Olbermann’s incompetence is less obvious since he appears on a network that nobody actually watches, but you take my point. Hate to tell you this lefties, but Glenn Beck ain’t going anywhere.
I’m much less concerned about Beck taking a failed flyer on a slimeball like Massa (and Michelle Malkin tried to warn him) than I am by the fact that Beck swallows the global warming Kool Aid and that he doesn’t have a clue about what’s going on in Europe. Beck even went so far as to call Geert Wilders a “fascist,” which is about as stupid as it gets. That statement revealed that, in addition to not understanding that Wilders is basically a socialist when it comes to government and not understanding the very real threat that jihadism poses to Europe, Beck fails to comprehend that free speech is at stake in the Wilders trial.
Glenn Beck surely has his failings, but getting out over his skis with the Massa interview is not one of them. That’s what’s known as a failure and, when you take chances that nobody in the MSM is willing to take, you’re going to have those once in a while. Big deal.
Larry King is going to have Massa on tonight. Beck’s interview with Massa was a disaster for Massa not Beck. Who reads Salon anyway?
Agreed. Beck gave Massa enough rope to hang himself with. It’s also nice, though, because it keeps the blue-on-blue fighting going on.
The left hates Beck because they have no honest answers for his questions and statements. He’s pointing out that, yes indeed, the Emperor has no clothes!
“He’s naked, sir!”
I agree with Rich’s post, and the two comments made thus far, but I will remind you all that, as Rich pointed out, this was a failure for Beck. If you saw Beck’s show the night before, it was obvious he bought Massa’s bizarre story and thought big news was going to be unveiled yesterday. I think the encounter with Rahm happened, and I also think Massa is less than a genius, may be a bi-sexual and does not apply simple rules of logic in his everyday life.
The benefit of Massa was his attack on Rahm. Last night Glen Beck succeeded in taking the news away from that story and putting the focus on himself. As Rich correctly wrote, that was a failure. It does not mean Beck is going away. It does not mean there will not be success from Beck in the future, but let’s be honest about what it was.
I’ve thought for awhile that Glen Beck needs an editor. He needs someone over him (Ailes?) who can listen to his ideas for shows and tell him “stop.” Beck has very good instincts, but there are times he gets way ahead of himself; “out over his skis” as Rich so aptly put it. He needs someone in his retinue with the guts and authority to tell him when to shut up, and wait.
Massa is a great microcosm of this. As I wrote Monday, what was going on with Massa just plain didn’t make sense. One possibility was that Massa had a big scoop that would damage the administration (beyond the shower room incident), but it was also possible that’s all that was there. One thing that was inescapable is that Massa was inconsistent and a hothead. You don’t make as big a bet as Beck made with those cards. Odds are an hour of air time with Massa was going to quickly devolve into an embarrasing circus.
Beck’s got a ton of energy and is capable of keeping more plates spinning than most anyone I’ve ever seen (even Rush failed at a TV show, twice), but he still needs someone with veto power who can tell him to stop, and wait.
He went up a couple of points with me today. A Facebook friend posted a piece about him telling people to stop going to churches that preach social justice. She goes to a BIG social justice church. It was quite a thrill to see her that spun up. I say we keep him around for awhile. If he’s a burr in the saddle of the sanctimonious blowhards on the Christian Left, he’s a friend of mine.
Beck is a major disaster waiting to happen, the entire Massa interview is just a precursor.
I like him. I don’t agree with everything, but I love him for coining “conservative porn” (or at least, bringing it to my attention). Plus he’s funny.
Glenn Who?
Oh, surely you can do better than that, BarryO (and, yes, I’ll call you Shirley even if you’re not nasty). Hard to not know the name of the person routinely trouncing MSNBC’s personalities in the ratings.
C’mon, BO, I have faith you can find the fighting form from your initial visits to Threedonia. Don’t let me down now, brutha.
Barry when you have something interesting to add please do other than your stupidity and idiotic drive by comments only serve to make you look as ridiculous as you are. You couldn’t carry Glenn Beck’s hat if he wore one. Unlike you Barry Glenn is a patriot…you my friend are not worth the sacrifice that our marines and soldiers make everyday. You aren’t worth my time wasted telling you that either, however, it makes me feel good so there.
Glenn really didn’t fail anything. It was a bad interview to be sure but he did bring Massa’s lunacy out so people could see it for themselves…..
Like chum to the sharks.
Perhaps BarryO is supposed to be Barry Obama.