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Glenn Beck, Fox News Rising Star: "I'm A Rodeo Clown"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/business/media/30beck.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
...he says he is an entertainer. “I’m a rodeo clown,” he said in an interview, adding with a coy smile, “It takes great skill.”
And like a rodeo clown, Mr. Beck incites critics to attack by dancing in front of them.
The conservative writer David Frum said Mr. Beck’s success “is a product of the collapse of conservatism as an organized political force, and the rise of conservatism as an alienated cultural sensibility.”
“It’s a show for people who feel they belong to an embattled minority that is disenfranchised and cut off,” he said.
Born in Mount Vernon, Wash., in 1964, Mr. Beck has long been a performer. His roots are in comedy — he spent years as a morning radio disc jockey — and continues to perform comedy on stages across the country.
He added later: “I say on the air all time, ‘if you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.’ ”