Okay,
I don’t believe most of what GB has to say. But could someone please explain to me what type of Anarchist he is referring to when he groups Anarchists with Fascists and Nazis in this video?
He didn’t call Palin anarchist. He was talking about the Medici (spelling?) lady that is running against Perry for governor Texas.
I think Glenn and the person making the video are trying to manipulate things.
This vid looks like Glenn trying to work his way back into respectability by asserting that he’s not a lunatic. And of course he has to point the finger at real and imagined bad guys to do so.
I love how he likes to play up that he and most Democrats, who are centrists, are both dependable and responsible warmongers. “And so can you!” The only thing bad in his opinion with the Republican party is not war, the destruction of liberty, the police state, etc… but that some are on the fringe believing in birther crap or 9/11 conspiracy theorizing.
Thanks. I just copied the video title into the post title. I realized your correction after watching the video. I since changed the post title.
your welcome.
From what little I’ve heard, that Medici lady is supposedly more constitutionalists than Perry, but I know very little of either one. Yet I do know Perry a bit more as he has increasingly pandered a lot to constitutionalists over the past year as elections were coming up. He did a 180. The usual D.C. politician type. Talk it up big near election time, but for most of the term and in voting do nothing that has to actually do with liberty. I’ve heard Medici would like the gun laws of Vermont, which are apparently the best out of any state when it comes to terms of liberty, and she would like to implement them in Texas. Beyond that I don’t know. But Perry is a D.C. dude and I find Beck to be D.C. with an new hair do, you know to keep up with the times/ratings. But that’s a personal opinion obviously. But aside from that, from what I know therefore (obviously little but definitely more when it comes to Perry), I wonder why Beck paints Medici as an anarchist, fascist. That definitely seemed way out there from what I assumed. I guess Beck likes Perry. That’s an easy deduction.
Glenn Beck is a blithering idiot.The man has no idea what he saying or doing 90% of the time. I thought he was headed in the right direction, but I got turned off when he unintentionally was in favor of Keynesian economics. I stopped watching him in late November.
Glenn Beck needs to fill up an entire hour of dead air by talking every day.
Not everything he says is going to make sense.
This ia very clear representation of who he is. He hasn’t changed at all. He’s just looking for the 1-2 punch on Obama all the time, without accomplishing anything even slightly relevant. He’s a moron ( I know I’m a bit harsh here) and a closet statist.
I think people are a little too harsh on Beck most of the time. He’s basically a minarchist with some knee-jerk neocon tendencies left over perhaps (he was a pretty strong neocon before, maybe still), but he’s slowly working towards ‘constitutionalist’ which is at least in the right direction. Saying someone is/isn’t (whatever, libertarian in this case) isn’t always fully accurate. He has both libertarian and authoritarian views on different issues. He’s better than most on tv with economics, somewhere in the middle socially, but still neocon on foreign policy and defense unless he’s changed in the last year or so (haven’t been following him for a while, but I used to a lot).
So yeah he’s inconsistent in his support of freedom, but he does a better job at calling out criminals like the Fed than most news/entertainment shows do (most don’t do it at all). I do wish he wouldn’t be so knee-jerk in making accusations. 9-11 truther = anarchist? That’s a pretty big jump to a conclusion (they aren’t related ideas), especially when he admits he doesn’t fully understand the topic.
Like 99% of everyone else, anarchist is a word he has a major knee jerk reaction to. And I’ll be honest - most self-proclaimed popular crowd “anarchists” seem to be complete morons, especially the violent ones, and I think they are the only ‘anarchists’ he’s even aware of.
I still have hope that some day he’ll see the inconsistency in freedom that both ‘liberal/conservative’ groups support, and finally make the jump to being consistently libertarian. Perhaps we could give him a nudge in that direction with some organized mass-emailings or mass-mailings? We could even team up with the whole Ron Paul/Campaign for Liberty crowd for a little email-bomb or something. 
Who’s gonna draft it, and what book should be recommended? [:P] Would be nice to have a solid, consistent libertarian on the air for 4 hours a day. [6]
I think it’s outdated, Sept 2008 he hadn’t started getting into the whole Ron Paul/founders thing yet, it’s too early. The video isn’t being fair IMO. He needs info on foreign policy and terrorism still mainly. What’s a good book supporting non-intervention that doesn’t sound like it’s “blaming America” for terrorism?
I’m very suspicious of the man. I watched him from June to November and personally speaking, I don’t think he’s anywhere close to being on the right track. Again, I held different views back then as well. But, looking back, all I can do is shake my head. I also think he will change his tone once a Republican steps in the WH (whenever this may be). I just don’t trust him and I think he’s very misleading.
Glenn Beck is a fraud and a Judas goat. Ignore him.
Anyone who believes Beck is sincere is delusional.
I must be delusional then. I think the wrong conclusions are being drawn here. Confused, neocon, religious (overly so), yes I can agree with those. Intentionally deceptive? Not unless you’re talking about over-dramatizing for the sake of ratings and popularity (which has to be at least a little true).
IMO he’s more individual than you’re giving him credit for. Keep in mind the rest of all “Fox” combined seems to talk less about freedom, privacy, the Fed, and other neglected topics. Beck also has a 3-hour radio program, not related to Fox at all (unless it’s at some high level ownership link), so he sure as heck doesn’t need the tv show one bit. As long as he has the ratings, he can do mostly whatever he wants, he’s not a “Fox puppet”. As long as he has ratings, his employer doesn’t have that much power. There’s always a competitor that wants the ratings, if the ratings are there.
And if he switched to Fox simply because the political balance of power shifted, he must be psychic because that happened before the election and (at least according to the news) for reasons other than a simple whim.
I can agree that he’s not a consistent or even a strong libertarian, but the facts and the time line tell me that his critics aren’t considering all the facts in their judgment. There are a few things that he seems frustratingly stubborn on (terrorism…) but again, at the moment he’s the best candidate libertarian-convert on the air which has to count for something. (Judge Nap doesn’t count since he’s Internet-only still afaik.)
I’ll have to check out the show again to see what he’s talking about. There’s been a gap in my listening/viewing between when he started inching towards libertarian and now. I do hope he hasn’t reverted but it sounds like he never homed in on the right sources of information.
I haven’t seen any change in tone (up till last year when I was still watching) other than the gradual one that has been taking place for many years–you would have had to tune in for a longer period than I suspect most critics bother to do. Unlike most of the goons at Fox he was attacking the Bush administration, at least on socialism and spending, pretty seriously. Well before Obama was running for president…
Beck is an actor.
I only watched the first minute or two of that clip, and I now feel noticeably stupider.
His show was better when he went on hiatus and Judge Napolitano subbed in. They at least got some decent guests discussing the economy honestly and from an Austrian perspective. Of course, to the rest of the MSM folks this is all just “kookery”.
Oh, hell yes, if only Judge had his own show at prime time. I saw some of these fill-ins and they were great.
Those who reject praxeology often are. You’re missing the bigger picture. He’s a pawn, whether or not he knows it is irrelevant. He and the rest of the fox clowns are the poster child’s for the “right wing”. The false left / right paradigm is what is used to keep the masses in the statist box.
How naive.
"Television. Television consists of bland programs and distorted news. Radio and television channels have been nationalized for half a century by the federal government, which grants channels as a gift to privileged licensees, and can and does withdraw these gifts when a station displeases the government’s Federal Communications Commission. How can any genuine freedom of speech or of the press exist under such conditions?"
He’s not a libertarian, he’s a neocon. Simple really. He supported the bailouts, he supports unjustifiable wars of aggression… how anyone can call him a libertarian is beyond me… and largely amounts to some kind of wishful thinking.