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Originally Posted by DrPhil
I hear ya. At the same time, for someone to be a martyr in this regard, they have to BE someone worth listening to. Glenn Beck can be cool sometimes but it still boils down to "who the hell is Glenn Beck?!" LOL. He's a news and politics commentator at best. He essentially jumped from the Fox News diving board into the more mainstream media in a very random matter.
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He is someone worth listening to...to his followers.
I remember Beck when he was just a DJ, which is why I understand exactly what he is doing. We can look back at many propogandist(sp?) and ask were they really worth listening to? Yet Glenn shares many of their characteristic. He's the everyman that says what we think. He peppers in just enough fringe to be controversial, but a lot more mainstream to make himself appear as a victim if you attack his controversial positions. Now that he has become mainstream (thanks to Obama and the liberal media) he is throwing himself on his sword talking about his flaws. And his followers will eat it up. When the economy gets better Glenn will disappear, like all the others who have taken advantage of people for their own financial game.
And that's what it is, financial gain. He doesn't care about the people at his rallies.