Aside from the fact the most of you don't know enough about the man to even HAVE an opinion, nothing. You are just parroting what someone else told you.
I listened to him for about a year straight when I was out of work, and he says a lot of things that are pretty astute, some things that are out there, but most of all, he cracks a LOT of jokes.
I have never, EVER, heard ONE leftie say ONE WORD about the content of his show, unless it was lifted from some left wing source. And then they were told what to think. I know that because whatever the leftmedia says makes the rounds until you get it.
Wrong. When he first started on CNN Headline News, we watched him every night. We then followed him to Fox
because we liked him. The before and after his move were startling. It's like he was holding in the crazy until he got to a channel that wanted it. It started his first week at Fox. We kept watching because Granny still wanted to watch him while she had her dinner and that was fine. Whatever she wanted. After the election, when Glenn's full-on breakdown started, she wanted to quit watching. I said no, because I like to see what the other side is saying.
So don't tell me I don't know what he's saying, because I do. I know exactly what he's saying, doing and what he's trying to start here, and I'm still not convinced he isn't trying to start a race war or a religious war.
A "free pass" for WHAT????
The man is a CITIZEN. He has NO power to pass laws, levy taxes, start wars, pave streets. And so is Sarah Palin, and so is Rush Limbaugh, and so are most of the people the left whines about. They are citizens excercizing their first amendment rights. NONE OF THEM hold political office, and they are not accountable to you or any left wing organization. And you can't argue the content of his show because you don't even know what it is, so you just bear false witness by calling him a "loon" out of hand.
Again, as I've stated, I do watch Glenn and the others so I do know what they are saying. Therefore, since watching him seems to instill one with authority, I can safely say the man is a psychopath.
I would fight to the death for his freedom of speech and the freedom to assemble. The difference is, he would like to shut up everyone who isn't exactly like him. Oh, he'll pretend he doesn't want to, but everything that comes out of his mouth contradicts that. The Black Robe regiment anyone? "Taking back our country"? "Reclaiming America for Christ?" Telling people to leave their churches if they preech on social justice? Exactly what part of those statements includes anyone who doesn't think exactly as he does?
If he wanted free speech, and if he wanted freedom of, or freedom from, religion, and if he wanted America to be the America the Fathers wanted it to be, he wouldn't be pandering to the far religious right to reclaim America for Christ. He wouldn't be sending out Black Robe regiments. He wouldn't be against a mosque or community center several blocks from Ground Zero. And he wouldn't be calling dedicated public servants Communists in a bid to strike up fear mongering.
And in case nobody else will tell Glenn this, I'll tell him: Glenn, when a pasty white man stands up and says he's reclaiming the civil rights movement, he looks like a complete fool. You aren't being oppressed, and you never have been.
I am an extremely theologically conservative Christian, and even I am scared by these people. They (Beck, Palin) might be un-elected, but they have great power. They are using it to line their own pockets by fear-mongering.
I don't think Democrats are perfect. In fact, right about now they are acting like spineless wimps. But I don't see any of them using phrases like "don't retreat, reload." That's not an innocent line. That's a line filled with imagery of guns and violence.
Palin and Beck are powerful, and the left should never, ever, discount their power and influence.
