Yes, and the anti-Beck people on here mindlessly accuse every single Beck listener of being stupid.
Only the ones who talk stupid, and act stupid, and are stupid. :shrug:
I'm surprised none brought up Glenn Beck's promotion of Goldline a well know fraudulent gold broker using the Fox News Network as a platform.
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I've only seen you belittle Beck listeners. I have no confidence that you look at them with an open mind and consider that they actually might think, read and research for themselves.
Actually, those things aren't portrayed as anything but mindless entertainment, but some people actually have the sad and mistaken impression that Glen Beck is a journalist.
If you want to learn about the faith of the America founding fathers, I'd love to recommend the following, which contain actual scholarship and depth:
David McCullough's excellent book, John Adams
Ken Burns' excellent documentary, Thomas Jefferson (online at Thomas Jefferson Online)
Jared Stewart's The Life of Gouverneur Morris (7 chapters online here: The Life of Gouverneur Morris, by Jared Sparks, Page 1 | Colonial Hall)
Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers and His Excellency: George Washington
Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Stahr's John Jay: Founding Father
Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton
My experience, however, is that the average Glen Beck fan isn't interested in learning anything at all, but rather, in having existing paradigms reinforced.
LOL- From your link. care to try again?
Rip-off Report Investigation: Goldline International commits to total customer satisfaction, pledges to address complaints & inquiries. Goldline.com commitment to Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program. Goldline employees will go above and beyond the client’s expectation in the pursuit of excellence in every aspect of the business – Goldline has been helping consumers buy gold and other precious metals since 1960. They provide extensive free information to help people make informed choices when buying precious metals. - feel confident & secure when doing business with Goldline International.
LOL- From your link. care to try again?
Rip-off Report Investigation: Goldline International commits to total customer satisfaction, pledges to address complaints & inquiries. Goldline.com commitment to Rip-off Report Corporate Advocacy Business Remediation & Customer Satisfaction Program. Goldline employees will go above and beyond the client’s expectation in the pursuit of excellence in every aspect of the business – Goldline has been helping consumers buy gold and other precious metals since 1960. They provide extensive free information to help people make informed choices when buying precious metals. - feel confident & secure when doing business with Goldline International.
It's not because they watch him. It's because they mindlessly parrot his rhetoric on internet bulletin boards.
Because it's dangerous for a society made up by mostly ignorant people to follow somebody who is even more ignorant. Do you think Glenn Beck actually cares about what he's saying? This is a guy who makes a paycheck by getting people too dumb to think for themselves to come to his rallies. I mean honestly, wake up. The overwhelming majority of people who actually 'follow' talk show hosts of any ideology are too dumb to actually look at issues for themselves. It's the reason people watch Olberman, Hannity, O'Reilley, Oprah, Dr. Phil. It's because they're too ignorant to go to their local library and make up their own minds on the subject. I equate people who watch and defend talk shows to university kids who pretend to be socialists only the stupidity comes from a completely different place.
Beck is an actor/entertainer and a pretty good one at that; he knows how to pull the heart strings of his devoted fans by crying and being nostalgic. He mixes truths with outright lies and unless you know history very well it's hard to tell the difference.
I watched his Fox show exactly once for the full hour and thoroughly enjoyed it. It was they day he had the disgraced Democratic Congressman Eric Massa.
Does it take an intelligent person to consistantly berate (on message boards) someone who they think is fake, ignorant, and mindless entertainment?
If you knew anything at all about Beck, you might still hate him, but you would not be 100% against everthing about him.
Shoot, as much as I can't stand Rachel Maddow, I'm not going to start or participate in a bunch of threads just to tell people what I liar I think she is. There would also be times when I'd have to admit she said something funny.
It's almost like a few on here have an agenda. An agenda similar to Media Matters and George Soros. Does your pay get docked if you ever say anything good about Beck?
And so there are intelligent Beck fans? Which .. ? I am sorry the definition of stupid does not include the beck believers but that doesn't mean that clearly there are many that have been duped. Politics and philosophy dealing with it doesn't boil down to faith in god and tax cuts for the wealthy.( or ripping off the same believers with a money scam like Goldline.) Beck is a pathetic snake oil salesman.
Why is all the "intelligent" people who are not Beck fans can't come up with anything other than name calling to discredit him?
Repeating the lie about goldline being a scam won't make it true either.
Oddly enough Goldline is a member of this fee based program at Ripoff.com:
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I did, I did, that was the best part. I laughed my ass over that.
If I had a business I'd want to be a member too. Anything to keep my customers happy.
Unless you are suggesting ripoff.com is a rip off and would lie about their clients, I don't see your point.
I think it's completely ridiculous to label a group of people stupid, dumb or ignorant simply because they listen to a radio show or watch a TV show everyday.
I could just as easily call someone dumb because they decided to go to college to learn instead of just going to the library and figuring it all out for themselves. I wouldn't do that, of course, because that would be incredibly stupid.
There is absolutely zero wrong with listening to a person discuss his or her opinion.
Just listening to that person doesn't make the listener stupid, nor does that mean the listener DOESN'T read for himself. I read CONSTANTLY. Everything.
I'm not stupid.
The only reason I see to be a part of that program is because enough complained in the first place. Why did the "first place" happen?
Yes. There are some people on TV and radio who actually say what they mean and mean what they say.
Like the Restoring Honor Rally? He made nothing. He rented out the theater himself, bought every ticket himself and paid for all the hotels of the people that were part of the rally. He said his credit card bill was $250,000 from that rally. Of course, you'll just say he's lying.
Again, some people ARE genuine. I believe he's one of those people.
uhh. I wonder how much they paid for that..lol. Sorry about that, clearly a bad link and a poor source.
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