I Officially Reject Glenn Beck. This video changed me

[FrankRep]

A+ job for the creator of this video. I reject Glenn Beck and won't promote him anymore.



Glenn Beck is Rat Poison: Mini Documentary



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDCsfhEGrbc


Glenn Beck likes to pretend he is a Libertarian. But he’s not, in fact he is not even close.

As the video here documents, Beck has hitched his wagon to a number of key statist initiatives, including the bankster bailout mega-swindle and the VAT, or value added tax, that would confiscate billions of dollars a year from an already tax besieged American middle class.

Beck also supports the PATRIOT Act, arguably the most un-libertarian single piece of legislation to pass through Congress in the past decade. If Beck supports the PATRIOT Act, it makes perfect sense he supports the police state and the destruction of liberty.

The video here also demonstrates how Beck has “riffed” off Alex Jones. Beck has filched Alex’s material wholesale, a fact so blatantly obvious it cannot be denied. And then Beck has the audacity to turn around and claim he experiences a visceral hatred and disgust for Jones, an animosity so deep he is unable to utter Alex’s name.

Running just shy of 35 minutes, this mini-documentary is a primer exposing the shill and fraudster Glenn Beck, a snake oil salesman who is attempting to not only capitalize on constitutionalists and libertarians, but turn the gullible and naïve away from the truth. Glenn Beck is not only rat poison. He is an operative inserted on the fringes of the liberty movement with a singular mission – destroy any real and viable opposition to the establishment.

 

[Ender]

I rejected Beck after his "Ron Paul supporters are terrorists" BS.

 

[GunnyFreedom]

Yeah, 2010 I used to say that Beck was dumb and misled, but that we should use him when he was useful. Debra Medina and 2012 cured me of that nonsense.

 

[CPUd]

 

[DamianTV]

Frankly Im suprised that anyone buys into any of his bs, at least on this forum.

The man (I use the term loosely) is a sheep (obviously completely blind) in wolves clothing. We are the wolves. He might sneak by a few of us, but we all have our guard up against just about every single traitor they send our way. There are some good people out there that truly do embrace the concept of Liberty.

Ben Swann
Judge Napolitano
Jesse Ventura

Please add to this list. But dont ever dare to put Becks or other pundits names on this list.

 

[Coolidge/Dawes '24]

I'm with Penn Jilette on this one: Glenn Beck's change of heart on a litany of issues over the years is a testament to his rare authenticity and sincerity. He has openly admitted that he was "stupid" to buy into the whole GOP brainwashing campaign that led him to serve as a blind, water-carrying cheerleadering for the surveillance state, and has even rejected the mainstream neoconservative orthodoxy that he used to be such a hardcore defender of. (See the back cover of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, for Beck's candid thoughts on the subject. He also continues to blast Bill Kristol and the folks at the Weekly Standard for their failed "democratic" escapade in Egypt, their starry-eyed Wilsonian adventurism, and their love affair with the never-blinking security apparatchiks who have the capacity to sketch out entire maps of our daily lives. He did a whole half-hour episode on Rand's epic thirteen-hour filibuster, raged against Rand's supposedly "conservative critics," and remarked that the Tea Party rallies were only the heartbeat of the movement - Rand's filibuster was its birth. Glenn and Rand frequently exchange emails back and forth whenever previously confidential information is leaked.) Believe it or not, pre-Snowden (who, by the way, Beck has exalted as the epitome of American patriotism), he also had NSA whistle-blowers on his program - not weeks, but months in advance. He recently ripped into Marco Rubio for being a traitorous "piece of garbage" (his words, not mine) and still tries to keep in touch with the Judge every so often. He also cooked a cake and busted out the confetti and noisemakers to mark the beginning of the end of the Grand Old Party. He's certainly not perfect, but he's made a lot of progress. And, might I add, Beck is the reason I went from being a mainline Hillary booster to a libertarian-minded right-winger. Many others have testified as much. Oh, and he railed against military intervention in Syria, in addition to North Korean war propaganda.

 

[QuickZ06]

Did you really need a documentary to see through the lies??? Is this still RPF?

 

[compromise]

Beck actually opposes the Patriot Act now. He changed his mind, just as Walter Jones did.

 

[Cap]

I would not be opposed if every thread on RPF that pimps this asshole just magically disappeared.

 

[dinosaur]

He has openly admitted that he was "stupid" to buy into the whole GOP brainwashing campaign that led him to serve as a blind, water-carrying cheerleadering for the surveillance state, and has even rejected the mainstream neoconservative orthodoxy that he used to be such a hardcore defender of.

Examine your premise. Back in his CNN day, before Beck carried water for the GOP, he was an independent-minded critic of Bush II foreign policy. He was never "stupid" and he was never "brainwashed". He was an opponent of neoconseratism and the Iraq war BEFORE he became a supporter of mideast wars.

 

[Pistis]

The Debra Medina situation did it for me. That was the mother of all hatchet jobs, the only thing missing was a knife in Medina's back.

Wholeheartedly supporting Rand Paul for the 2016 presidential race will soften my stance towards Beck but I won't ever trust his intentions.

 

[cajuncocoa]

A+ job for the creator of this video. I reject Glenn Beck and won't promote him anymore.

That took longer than it should have, but I congratulate you for coming around.

 

[amy31416]

If FrankRep can come around, anyone can.

 

[Todd]

Beck actually opposes the Patriot Act now. He changed his mind, just as Walter Jones did.

Because it's now politically expedient to do so. What you start to see about the Politico-Entertainment biz is that they morph to the flavor of the week. The flavor o' the week is now Civil liberties.

 

[cajuncocoa]

Because it's now politically expedient to do so. What you start to see about the Politico-Entertainment biz is that they morph to the flavor of the week. The flavor o' the week is now Civil liberties.

Yes, and I will add that's only because the Blue Team is occupying the White House.

 

[V3n]

 

[PaulConventionWV]

Beck actually opposes the Patriot Act now. He changed his mind, just as Walter Jones did.

Wow, he must really be coming around this time, for real!

 

[PaulConventionWV]

I'm with Penn Jilette on this one: Glenn Beck's change of heart on a litany of issues over the years is a testament to his rare authenticity and sincerity. He has openly admitted that he was "stupid" to buy into the whole GOP brainwashing campaign that led him to serve as a blind, water-carrying cheerleadering for the surveillance state, and has even rejected the mainstream neoconservative orthodoxy that he used to be such a hardcore defender of. (See the back cover of Neoconservatism: An Obituary for an Idea, for Beck's candid thoughts on the subject. He also continues to blast Bill Kristol and the folks at the Weekly Standard for their failed "democratic" escapade in Egypt, their starry-eyed Wilsonian adventurism, and their love affair with the never-blinking security apparatchiks who have the capacity to sketch out entire maps of our daily lives. He did a whole half-hour episode on Rand's epic thirteen-hour filibuster, raged against Rand's supposedly "conservative critics," and remarked that the Tea Party rallies were only the heartbeat of the movement - Rand's filibuster was its birth. Glenn and Rand frequently exchange emails back and forth whenever previously confidential information is leaked.) Believe it or not, pre-Snowden (who, by the way, Beck has exalted as the epitome of American patriotism), he also had NSA whistle-blowers on his program - not weeks, but months in advance. He recently ripped into Marco Rubio for being a traitorous "piece of garbage" (his words, not mine) and still tries to keep in touch with the Judge every so often. He also cooked a cake and busted out the confetti and noisemakers to mark the beginning of the end of the Grand Old Party. He's certainly not perfect, but he's made a lot of progress. And, might I add, Beck is the reason I went from being a mainline Hillary booster to a libertarian-minded right-winger. Many others have testified as much. Oh, and he railed against military intervention in Syria, in addition to North Korean war propaganda.

Aren't rapid and frequent changes of heart usually a sign of the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of sincerity?

 

[Origanalist]

I reject Glenn Beck and won't promote him anymore.

 

[Coolidge/Dawes '24]

Examine your premise. Back in his CNN day, before Beck carried water for the GOP, he was an independent-minded critic of Bush II foreign policy. He was never "stupid" and he was never "brainwashed". He was an opponent of neoconseratism and the Iraq war BEFORE he became a supporter of mideast wars.

I'll be more than happy to respond to that if you cite or source him going off the handle at the Bush administration on anything other than immigration prior to his ongoing conversion to (as the John Birch Society called it) paleoconservatism. I remember him and Pat Buchanan (who are still close confidants, by the way) debating this during his stint on CNN, with Beck on the pro-Bush side (he has since turned over a new leaf on Bush, which is especially apparent in Beck's chapter on the Bush presidency in Broke).

Because it's now politically expedient to do so. What you start to see about the Politico-Entertainment biz is that they morph to the flavor of the week. The flavor o' the week is now Civil liberties.

I've been following this guy pretty avidly for the past four years or so, and his anti-police state chapter in Cowards was actually penned before civil libertarianism became the "Flavor of the Month," in addition to his interviews with NSA leakers and screeching reversal on the Patriot Act. Beck has been a work in progress for quite some time now.

Yes, and I will add that's only because the Blue Team is occupying the White House.

Beck has also been raving against members of "Team Red" on their police state zealotry as well.. namely Peter King, Bill Kristol, and Lindsey Graham.

Aren't rapid and frequent changes of heart usually a sign of the COMPLETE OPPOSITE of sincerity?

These changes have actually occurred pretty gradually. Penn's thesis does clash with the conventional wisdom, though, I must admit. As a close friend of Beck's, he's observed that Beck is pretty conciliatory and introspective when called out on his inconsistencies, which Penn thinks is emblematic of an open-minded willingness to challenge even his own thinking.