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Is Glenn Beck a reporter or an entertainer

Should Glenn Beck be treated as a legitimate reporter or as an entertainer?

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I wish there was and option in this poll for neither.......
 
Glenn Beck is the awesome. I particularly love it when he break out the barbies to prove his salient points! You go Glenn, I mean really, you can't dumb down Americans enough!

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Fox News' Glenn Beck strikes ratings gold by challenging Barack Obama - Los Angeles Times - Page 2

Beck stresses that he's a libertarian, not a Republican partisan, and prides himself on skewering politicians of every stripe. ("The Washington power elite makes me want to vomit," he said on a recent show.) But he has been particularly forceful in condemning Obama, whom he calls "breathtakingly brilliant" in his ability to overwhelm the opposition. In Beck's new studio, the host hung a Mao-style poster of Obama that had been sent in by a viewer. It mockingly says: "We will fulfill all that our leader desires!"
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Hahahahaha.
 
I wish there was a neither option. He is a comedic opinionator. He is funny about it, but he has an opinion, and you either take it for what it is, or you don't. period.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
What's laughable? He attacked Newt Gingrich, and michele bachmann on occasion. He is aimed primarily at democrats but, he is not afraid to go after republicans. Shall I give you an example or 2? or 3? or 10?
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I'll take 10 and not one less. Please show me 10 Republicans he's attacked with anything like claiming they want to build concentration camps or calling them racists. PLEASE show me these examples. I want to see this.
 
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I'd also like to add that I do not watch Glenn Beck, as I generally cannot stand his show. I just find the left's seething hatred of him (and Sarah Palin) quite telling. Anyone who dares to speak out forcefully against liberal policies is instantly smothered in vitriol.
 
Q: Is Glenn Beck a reporter or an entertainer

A: There's a distinction?
 
Ethereal said:
Anyone who dares to speak out forcefully against liberal policies is instantly smothered in vitriol.
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How many concentration have you visited lately? Because according to Glenn Beck that is what we're facing. You know. The left. Eugenics. The Final Solution. No. Glenn Beck gets exactly what he deserves.
 
Hatuey said:
I'll take 10 and not one less. Please show me 10 Republicans he's attacked with anything like claiming they want to build concentration camps or calling them racists. PLEASE show me these examples. I want to see this.
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BTW, glenn beck DEBUNKED the concentration camp thing. Glenn Beck: FEMA Concentration Camps Do Not Exist (VIDEO) He didn't claim it.

lets get that one straight, since you brought it up, and then I'll continue.
 
Redress said:
Irony alert, irony alert! This is not a drill. All hands man your irony stations. I repeat, this is not a drill!
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The real irony here is that you do not realize that the comment applies just that much more so to you and to most of those that thanked you for your post.
 
Strucky said:
The funny thing is that the whole "concentration camp" rumor started with that video made in 1995.
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Even better, people are attributng that to Beck. You know it's Sad when even the huffPo doesn't even go along with liberal web rumours.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
Even better, people are attributng that to Beck. You know it's Sad when even the huffPo doesn't even go along with liberal web rumours.
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I'm sure MediaMatters has something to debunk HuffPo....Wheres Whippy when you need him?
 
Ethereal said:
I'd also like to add that I do not watch Glenn Beck, as I generally cannot stand his show. I just find the left's seething hatred of him (and Sarah Palin) quite telling. Anyone who dares to speak out forcefully against liberal policies is instantly smothered in vitriol.
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Yeah, you're right. Al Gore does not garner the same vitriol from the right. :roll:
 
Neither.

He's a commentator.

Don't like his opinions?

Don't watch.

Problem solved.
 
DarkWizard12 said:
BTW, glenn beck DEBUNKED the concentration camp thing. Glenn Beck: FEMA Concentration Camps Do Not Exist (VIDEO) He didn't claim it.

lets get that one straight, since you brought it up, and then I'll continue.
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So he made a claim and had to go back on it. 'Debunking' something long after it's known to be untrue is not much debunking. I'm still waiting for your 10 examples. And I've noticed you didn't touch the racist comment ;)
 
Hatuey said:
So he made a claim and had to go back on it. 'Debunking' something long after it's known to be untrue is not much debunking.
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yea, right, sure. nice spin.
I'm still waiting for your 10 examples.
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Oh please, what good would it do when you wont even go back on the most basic of examples? Seriously, you'll just spin it. "Awww, Glenn beck isn't bashing republicans, He's just bashing newt gingrich because Gingrich is being a liberal poopy-head".

Yea, I see no point in doing that for someone so intellectually dishonest. I'll just go back to reading my conservative philosophy books in private, and you can go think that im a right-wing hack. I think it's better that way.
And I've noticed you didn't touch the racist comment ;)
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Of course not, i watched him say it on TV. What, you think I'm some Glenn Beck worshiper? :roll:
 
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DarkWizard12 said:
yea, right, sure. nice spin.
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Did you think they had concentration camps to begin with? Did you really?

Oh please, what good would it do when you wont even go back on the most basic of examples? Seriously, you'll just spin it. "Awww, Glenn beck isn't bashing republicans, He's just bashing newt gingrich because Gingrich is being a liberal poopy-head".

Yea, I see no point in doing that for someone so intellectually dishonest. I'll just go back to reading my conservative philosophy books in private, and you can go think that im a right-wing hack. I think it's better that way.

Of course not, i watched him say it on TV. What, you think I'm some Glenn Beck worshiper? :roll:
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So you don't have 10 examples. What about 5? I want to see viciousness. I want to see conspiracy theories a la OLIGARHY. I want to see comparisons of right wing concepts and ideas to those of Hitler's or Mussolini's. But I bet you won't bring them up because they simply do not exist.

But how about this, BEFORE you go talking about dishonesty, when a commentator such as Glenn Beck references the final solution, concentration camps and eugenics then says he didn't really mean the part about concentration camps even though according to him the FINAL SOLUTION is what "we" are facing - what else are people supposed to think? That when he talked about concentration camps and made references to everything else that surrounded it, HIS apologies didn't come as a result of being found to be dishonest? You're probably not a right wing hack but as far as digesting the bull****? Oh you sure do.
 
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