I can't listen to Beck and his mongoloid sidekicks for more than a few minutes. They're about as intolerable and irritating as Hannity and Levin who are just awful. Go to YouTube and listen to what Breitfart says about Beck. Really tells you all you need to know. Breitfart said more than once that he was warned by people in the conservative corner with bigger names and more influence than him that he was making a mistake associating with and trusting Glenn Beck and he learned the hard way that they were right about Beck's lying, backstabbing, and ripping off other people's material and presenting it as his own.
Beck is uneducated. Same with Hannity and Limbaugh. These are guys who are supposedly at the forefront of modern day "CONservatism" (emphasis on the first syllable) and they don't even have a college education. Now college is overrated for sure, and a waste of money for most people. But in some cases you need formal schooling, and being a professional journalist at the forefront of the fight for liberty is one of those cases. When you are fighting the leftist hoards whose ideology is created and propagated first by Marxists with PhDs at Ivy League schools, I think it's kind of important for the leaders of the opposition to have some credentials of their own, and no it does not have to be in useless "poly-sci."
There is a reason why left-wing slime always look down their nose at anyone who isn't a statist lock-stepper like them - they see them as intellectual inferiors without the credentials or credibility to match their own. And just listening to Hannity and Beck, you can tell they aren't that well read or deep on the issues. And to someone who knows the issues inside and out, you can tell they're 100% pseudointellectuals reciting talking points or bylines from whatever is on the Current Events shelf at Barnes and Noble. We need to have higher standards.
As for Mark Levin, at least he is a Constitutional lawyer. I can't stand his neo-con-ism any more than most on here, and even less, but the fact of the matter is that he is a legitimately well credentialed person who does offer something to the dialogue from time to time. His monologue the week after the Newtown shooting when the gun grabbing was at fever pitch was 100% spot on. He's also been one of the leaders in not only making the argument for the unconstitutionality of Obamacare but also suing the federal government through his legal foundation and filing briefs on behalf of objecting states. Compare that to Glenn Schmuck, who ghost writes one book after another and never misses an opportunity to make a jack ass out of himself with a rally or public speaking event.
I mean the guy has to have 2 girly voiced stooges on his show with him holding his hand to make sure he has something to talk about for when his minimal level of knowledge runs out and he reverts to emotionalism (which he does anyway, despite the stooges).
We need more Ron Pauls and Andrew Napolitanos and fewer Glenn Schmeck's and Sean Hannitys. It's not just a matter of bringing more substance to the argument for liberty, but bringing more credibility.
The radio deal is interesting in that I don't know how these guys do it in terms of volume. I did radio for years in college (KDVS, UC Davis, WCCR/WHCR City College of New York)... mostly music programming but got into the politics as well, all to the anger and dismay of the liberals in the midst of which I found myself awash. Were I to return to the air, I am not sure how long I would last because my messages are simple and few. After broadcasting them, what in hell does one do, save repeat himself?
You'd be surprised how many people enjoy listening to a parrot. It's a psychological need to have your own flimsy viewpoints reinforced day in and day out to prevent cognitive dissonance or a general questioning of your own inconsistencies, especially when you don't know what you're talking about in the first place.
Republicans good! Democrats bad! Republicans good! Democrats bad! Republicans good! Democrats bad!
I couldn't imagine listening to that garbage everyday, it has to be one of Dante's levels of hell.