Has Glenn Beck replaced Rush Limbaugh as titular head of the Republican party?

September 5, 10:49 AMProgressive Politics ExaminerKaren Harper

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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widely known as the man behind the strings of elected officials in the Republican party but it seems that he has now been replaced by another entertainer.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?