Originally posted by earlywatcher
Originally posted by silent thunder
As for Beck himself, I think the man's a freaking lunatic, although I've seen him make a few good points. "Even a blind pig finds an acorn
sometimes," as ole' Hunter Thompson once said. Still, I think the man is literally, clinically unstable.
What is it you object to about Beck? He asks questions, provides information about issues that nobody else discusses. He had some very interesting
guests talk about personal experiences with ACORN. He digs up more about obama's appointees than anybody else. What about that is lunatic or
clinically unstable?
Do you agree with the campaign to pressure advertisers to stop buying ads on his show? All you have to do is not watch. It's a cable news station,
for heaven's sake. Nobody forces you to watch anything on Fox News. When people work that hard to shut up talk, it makes me wonder what they are
afraid of. What are YOU afraid of?
I am afraid of lots of things, but Beck is not one of them. Nevertheless, as stated I find the man unstable.
The guy regularly bursts into tears on air or gets teary-eyed. I'm too lazy to find it, but somebody compiled a youtube of about a dozen different
examples of him sniffling and sobbing on air. Call me old-fashioned, but I find such emotional displays on a mass TV show to be inappropriate and a
sign of instability.
I don't care if he goes after Obama all he wants; go get 'em, boy. I care no more for Obama than I did for Bush: to me, they are essentially both
symptoms of deeper socio-political rot.
Nevertheless, Beck's "methods have become unsound." He needs to go find a gardina field on the Ohio river and chill out a bit. He seems to be a
manifestation of the general decay in the mass media, where everything is image and emotion and quick jump-cuts, rants, etc. Compare this to the old
days, when guys like Edward R. Murrow would sit there with a guest and have a slow, measured conversation over an hour or whatever. Apparently the
attention span of the American public has been reduced to a shattered, quivvering wreck.
Finally, I object to the way he changed his stance suddenly, around last year. He was all rah-rah go govt, go during the Bush administration...a
neocon shill. Now he's pretending to be a "libertarian." Or something. For those of us who spent the last decade fighting for liberty and freedom
from increasingly draconian rules, this flip-flop bespeaks monumental hypocracy. He had no problem with caged "free speech zones" and the repeal of
the Posse Commitatus law during Bush's administration. Now we are supposed to see him as a bastion of leadership. To me him and those like him who do
180-degree turns regarding freedom are scum with no deep convictions trying to ride the political waves of the moment and more attuned to party
ideology than the deeper, underlying reality.
As for big stores pulling his products and advertisers freaking out, generally I am strongly opposed to such things, regardless of content. Let
freedom ring.
[edit on 8/27/09 by silent thunder]
