It would seem that Beck has stolen the crown from Limbaugh. Just a few short months ago, Limbaugh was widely known as the man behind the strings of elected officials in the Republican party but it seems that he has now been replaced by another entertainer. This time, Glenn Beck, a television show host on the Fox cable network that calls itself a news network, often weeps and rails as he talks to his audience. He often contradicts his own words from one moment to the next and yet he has a viewership of some 3 million people, according to TV by the numbers beating out Bill O'Reilly.
But it's not just about ratings. The town hall theater that health insurer giants like United health Care influenced by urging their own employees to attend was largely aided by people who are avid fans of Glenn Beck. While waiting in line to get into my own local town hall meeting I talked to the people standing around me. The woman standing just behind me told me, "I get all of my information from Glenn Beck. You should too." She was holding out printed information she got from Glenn Beck (presumably from his website).
Another woman came around passing out fliers for the town hall travelers with information on the next trip. She too said Glenn Beck tells her everything she needs to know.
I wonder what Rush Limbaugh thinks about Glenn Beck so easily stealing the crown from his head making him (Beck) the new king of the GOP.
Limbaugh has an enormous ego, and in fact has taken credit for creating the falsehood that global warming is a hoax. On the other hand, he professed to be annoyed at being portrayed and talked about on MSNBC a few months ago and seemed to want to be out of mainstream news. Now that he is out of the news and on the back burner, perhaps he is content to bestow his crown on the head of the weeping irrational Glenn Beck. We shall see.
One thing is clear, there is no leader of the Republican party who is an elected representative. My vote for titular head of the Republican party is Glenn Beck. He has happily spread the birther movement, the deather movement and his minions, elected Republicans like Chuck Grassley, (R), Iowa, have followed his calling and repeated his rantings to his own constiutents at county fairs and town hall meetings.
The Republican party is desperate and now they seem to have chosen a leader even more unconscionable than Rush Limbaugh.
If Rush Limbaugh was like the Tony Soprano of the the GOP, Glenn Beck is more like the Michael Scott of the GOP. Beck weeps and laughs and cajoles and makes analogies that are incomprehensible.
Here's a comparison of Glenn Beck to Michael Scott. Watch the following videos.
Beck's most recent ranting has been about Rockefeller Center. He has gone over the architectural designs of the NBC building bit by bit interpreting the meaning of the building that was built in the 20th century. He concludes that John D. Rockefeller was a liberal progressive. Don't laugh, his followers probably have no idea that John D. Rockefeller was one of the great capitailst robber barons of the 19th and early 20th centuries. Plus, he fails to mention that his own Fox building is part of Rockefeller Center.
But if you want to know what the Republican party is doing these days, simply watch the Glenn Beck show. Then wait a day or two and you will hear Grassley or some other Republican who isn't too busy covering up their affairs or attending creepy C Street meetings parroting Beck's words to town hall meetings and in interviews on television.
Glenn Beck is the best the GOP can do?
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Another Progressive shows their pure ignorance.
But don't get me wrong, we Conservatives love it.
Glenn Beck is neither Republican NOR Democrat.
He railed against Bush and HIS big government, anti-capitalist, big brother tactics as well.
If the lady you supposedly met at a town hall said "she gets all her information from Glenn Beck"- she probably gets the the seeds and follows up with doing research- something you should try!
Global warming IS a hoax and there are over 30,000 climatologists/scientists suing AlGore. The founder of The Weather Channel has agreed with their findings.
AlGore is complicit with government and GE- who is running this show along with Tom Dash-hole and the rest. (Not enough room here to enlighten you, research it. Facts will do you good.)
And as far as Rockefeller- his ideology is liberal-progressive. But he believes in spreading the wealth around, as long as it isn't his.
He is CFR-Trilateralist.
Oligarchy was spelled wrong deliberately.
CZARS
Epic fail on this piece, Karen. This is the dumbest article I have read in a while. Glen Beck a Republican? That's a good one. Try reading his Common Sense book. How can he be the head of the Republican party when he is a self proclaimed Libertarian. You obviously have no idea what you write about, do you Ms. Harper? Who cares about who is the "so called" head of the Republican party? Both the Republicans and the Democrats are corrupt. DUMBEST ARTICLE EVER!!!!!!
Thank You Mr. Beck can I have another.
Nice article... it's the perfect bait for hateful, scored and ignorant republicans... the disgraced and increasingly stupid party which is swelling it's ranks with the scum of the country one by one from log cabin to shining shantytown so they too can learn about the internets and try to sound smart.
You people are so desperate to be right, you ignore the whole article just to point out that Beck is a self-proclaimed Libertarian... well I'm a self-proclaimed genius... you think that helps me out on my resume? HELL NO... he can proclaim whatever he wants... the proof is in the pudding and he is clearly a foaming at the mouth neo-con just like the rest of you.
You're blind ignorance and foolishness makes me laugh and really understand how far apart ideologies are spreading - and who will still be standing when the smoke clears.
It's more serious than that. Glen Beck is speaking for the Independents.
"David" does your probation officer realize you're on the internet again.
I proclaim "David" a LIBTARD.
GLENN BECK NOT ONLY RULES THE GOP, HE RULES THE WORLD SO GET USED TO IT LIBTARDS.
All you Sick Twisted Freaks, Dittoheads, Birthers, Tea Baggers, Turfers, join Glenn as we March On Washington 9-12. BE THERE!!!!
David my friend....loks like you are in the minority on this post here and proving that you are far from a genius (probably a Community College drop out). You probably haven't watched or read anything Beck has done except edited YouTube clips and butchered blog posts from KOS and Huffington. That is like getting your info from Cliff Notes and high school drop outs. If you actually research the things Beck says, you actually find it to be true. Start with page 169 of Beck's Common Sense book to see what I am talking about.
Yeah, Glenn Beck is such a Libertarian. The Libertarians want nothing to do with him. He might proclaim he is an independent like Bill O'Reilly does but then, who would admit to being a republican these days? We all know that's what they both are.
Glenn Beck is crazy. He can call himself a Libertarian all he wants to but the truth is that he is a Republican whether he calls himself that or not. I could proclaim myself to be an alien from planet Krypton but that doesn't mean I am.
Karen,
If you cannot understand Glen's analogies, why embarrass yourself by admitting it. From Writing 101: If you want to be taken seriously, don't start by stating you don't understand the subject matter. And from Grammar 101: The proper form is "If Rush Limbaugh were like..." not "was like" For heavens sakes, girl, how can you expect readers to take all of your biases seriously?
Who cares what Beck calls himself or whether he's a repub-dem-indy or whatever, he's exposing this administration's corrupt cretins, malcontents, racist, anti-Americans for what they are...
You liberals keep calling we that don't like the racist socialist Obama a lot of names. You attempt to dismess us as nutjubs, crazy, terrorists, etc. What you are actually doing, however, is ticking us off! I have never been involved in politics before, but I am now. I am working to fight his anti-American values and I want him to fail in all his nefarioius plans.
I also think it is funny that you all keep reporting that Glenn Beck has lost some MORE advertisers... if there were as many as you say the entire hour of the Beck show would have just been commercials. I watch Beck and plan to keep doing so.
NOBAMA!
And just who is Karen Harper's party's leaders?
Mark Loyd, the racist Obama picked to run the FCC Diversity Gestapo, is next to be removed from the US Government.
Thanks Glenn and ALL the OTHER sources of these czars and their backgrounds.
With google and youtube, their words are forever available documented for history. You cannot deny the video and written evidence when presented.
Who has been subject to this new media?
Tom Dashole
Bill Richardson
Nancy Killefer
Charles Freeman Jr
Judd Gregg
Caroline Atkinson
Jane Garvey
Sanjay Gupta
Annette Nazareth
Valerie Jarrett
Did I miss any?
America's future:
CARACAS, Sept 5 (Reuters) - Venezuela will pull the plug on 29 more radio stations, a top official in President Hugo Chavez's government said on Saturday, just weeks after dozens of other outlets were closed in a media clampdown.
Infrastructure Minister Diosdado Cabello closed 34 radio stations in July, saying the government was "democratizing" media ownership. Critics say the move limits freedom of expression and has taken critical voices off the airwaves.
The more popular Beck is, the stronger the democrats get. He is an embarrassment for white people. He makes us look paranoid and vindictive. He is no more than, a typical drug-addict drunk, just like Rush. Don't fall victim to the liberal agenda; They are trying to make these two loud mouths the voice of the republican party, when in reality they are no more than shock-jock comedians.
I WISH GLENN AND RUSH were the voice of the republican party instead of the spineless crap we have in their now.
Rush and Hannity were the leaders of the repubs and the Dems blew out the 2008 elections. With Beck as the new leader, the Dems will surely add more seats in 2010.
Thanks Rupert and Fox. We love ya.
"He has happily spread the birther movement"? Nonsense. Regardless of your opinion of Glenn Beck, you need to get your facts straight. He has rejected the birther movement as a distraction from the real issue, which is President Obama's radical left-wing agenda.
www.sorryaboutleroy.com
I was Houdini in my last life. I know all now.
LOOKS LIKE ITS OFFICIAL ALL YOU SICK FREAKS OUT THERE, COMMIE BOY VAN JONES JUST RESIGNED!!!!!
I respectfully disagree. Rush is a conservative in the image of Barry Goldwater, William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan. Glenn Beck is not a political ideologue. He is a common man trying to make common sense out of what is going on in America. Rush appeals to conservatives; Glenn appeals to independents and conservative Democrats. Glenn likes to quote Thomas Jefferson with phrases like "question boldly". Glenn's book is a remake of Thomas Payne's Common Sense. These two men, while powerful in their messages, are cut from different pieces of wood. They both however have one goal in common, protecting at all costs the Republic, American sovereignty and free market system in America
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, you might be - hell, you ARE - an idiot if you actually take stock of any of the noxious emissions spewed out of Glenn Beck slack-jawed mouth.
If The Examiner would do the investigative stories on the news instead of on the news messengers, maybe we could talk about it. Every story you do on Limbaugh and Beck makes me want to listen to them more.
Karen,
Thanks for the story. Thank God for Limbaugh, Beck, and the other patriotic voices for liberty.
GO GLENN GO!!!!!!
There is a police report which states that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. Glenn Beck has not denied that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. The evidence shows that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990. Many people now believe that Glenn Beck raped and murdered a young girl in 1990
Yeah sure "The Truth" how many sites have you already posted this STUPID RIDICULOUS CLAIM TO??? Wow I really believe you and the fat boy, bwah hahahahaha, sit down commie.
Karen,
Thanks for the story. Thank God for Limbaugh, Beck, and the other patriotic voices for liberty.
It might be hard to lead the GOP as an independent, don't you think?
... but I forgot...
Anyone who has the audacity to attack the president MUST be a dirty republican.
Obviously what Glenn has to say goes way over Karen's head. Too 'wordy'. I hope she's stuck her head back in the sand now....
Karen,
I will not call you a moron, since that would be doing an injustice to that word.
You have provided no proof that Beck is a registered Republican, yet you try and foist upon him the mantle of leader of the GOP nonetheless. Beck has said that he considers himself a leader in the conservative movement - and there are conservatives within the Democratic Party, too.
Do you know that about 1/3 of all FOX News viewers are Democrats and about 1/3 are Independents.
If you cannot prove that Beck is a Republican, then you need to shut up with that bit about Beck being the leader of the GOP.
Provide proof or please shut up. Thank you.
Karen Harper has to be THE WORST when it comes to actually using facts as they are well known. She knows it. Lie prevaricate twist.
She fools no one but herself.
Hey what will happen in 2010? Thanks Barak Obama, thanks for showing us (them) who you really are. Beck and Limbaugh (Savage, Orielly, Medved, Hannity etc...) are just going after all the gapping holes you blast in your own party (Commi, leftest, baby killing mafia). Oh yeah, I am hispanic...don't bring the white people garbage my way. Defend your flank, don't play the race card.
Face it Karen, You are a liberal and will write anything to make Obama look good. It's such a shame you media types have become the Party who has no leader...who is it? Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid or President Obama. They're all saying different things...and have no idea what the other is saying.
Glen Beck is just about as stupid as they come! Besides being a big sobbing baby. Is this where these shouting idiots at these town halls get all their information from! That's no big suprise. People, wake up!! If you are taking everything these goof balls say as some kind of sacred truth, then you are really not using your brains to full capacity.
Way to go Karen!!
Ignore the haters! They are bigots and are miserable in their pathetic lives! Great story! I am a 52 year old white man and voted for McCain. BUT I embrace Obama and the hard work he is doing. We should ALL learn to support our president and give him what he asks of us! It's people like Beck, Limbaugh and these Beck lovers that are making it hard to gain any sort of progress. It's no wonder that the rest of the world looks at us a joke!! Glenn Beck is a moron and idiot, and so is Rush Limbaugh!! There is NO ROOM for racist bigots in this country and it's a shame that certain bigots like Beck are glorified and made into celebrities!!! What a shame! GO OBAMA and GO USA!!!!!!! I SUPPORT YOU ALL THE WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now that you mention it, I agree that Beck has effectively replaced Limbaugh as titular head of Republican party. But Beck, Limbaugh and the Republican party need to start contributing more to the state sovereignty movement.
Beck needs to make a statement about what happened with the girl in 1990. Something nhappened and thers is a big cover-up.
Did Beck rape and murder that girl? He needs to make a statement explaining why we should not believe the allegations.
His silence on the matter is highly suspicious.
Ralph needs to make a statement about his affair with fat-boy from 2005.
Karen, report on facts [not people] and you will earn respect. The more you try to knock Beck down the more I want to hear what he has to say...
After seeing this funny/sad video on youtube you can decide about who Glen Beck is yourself.
/watch?v=YA7-BvVDV10
Funny. As has been mentioned...an independent really can't run the GOP...last time I checked. Great job on the article you idiot. :D
thetruth:
You clearly missed the part of didglennbeckrapeandmurderayounggirlin1990.com where they said it was satire.
Not endorsing the site's practices. Just saying that few reasonable people actually think Glenn Beck raped and/or murdered a young girl in 1990 (or any other time). There was no rape. There was no murder.
There was a 1990, but it was a pretty crappy year, with prewar tension in the middle east and a very cold summer. I was an eight-year-old boy, and Glenn Beck certainly didn't show any interest in me either.
Blessings to McCain. Blessings to Obama. Most of all, blessings to the poor voters who are trying to sort the truth from the fictions.
Here you idiots go again. You left-wing extremists looking for a target to Alinsky in your regular manner. It's Palin, no it's Rush, no it's Beck. Maybe next week itll be Hannity.
You morons are so self-deifying that you will never understand that the opponents of your psychotic plans do not need a LEADER or a savior like you do. We agree with whom we like. Simple as that. But you psychotics see the ACORN video and ask "who let them in there anyway??". Your compassion does not extend to child prostitution rings. You people are sickening and your BS is bought by NO ONE any longer!
The designated liars from the right are out en masse I see. When people actually call themselves WWGBD (what would glenn beck do) as a nickname, that should tell you everything you need to know about these leaderless frustrated people. Go ahead and buy into your own oppression (hegemony from health care industry) and when half of you lose your insurance in the next decade you can call Glenn Beck and ask him for help.
Rush Limbaugh liked being the titular head of the GOP. He acknowledged it though of course he does have a huge ego. But Limbaugh isn't quite crazy enough to satisfy the fringy McFringersons on the extreme right ...that shrinking little club owned by the Glenn Becks, Rush Limbaughs and Blue Cross Blue shields of the world.
The Republicants gave us the doughnut hole in Medicare so that the elderly can't afford their medicines. They gave us "No child left behind", the Iraq war, the Afghanistan war, they didn't protect us on 9/11/2001 because they chose to ignore the warnings they had, they deregulated Wall Street and it collapsed. The Republican party is less like a party and more like a middle school dance, awkward, pimply, sweaty and ignorant.
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