I have a few friends that are aghast that liberals are so upset with Glenn Beck’s “beckoning” (?) or is it the “Gathering” or maybe it’s the “reckoning” (?)….. They think that we are trampling on his First Amendment rights and don’t want him to be able to talk to his audience. Nothing could be further from the truth. He’s welcome to talk, but so are we. He’s welcome to criticize, and so are we. No one has said that he cannot have his moment in the summertime. No on has said that he has to stop. But many have called out his hypocrisy and his lies and his twisting of facts and his general insane interpretation and rewriting of history. That’s not trampling on his rights, it’s exercising ours.
If I thought for a second that Glenn Beck actually believe even half the crap he puts out, I might actually have less of a problem with his “beckoning.” But I don’t believe he believes any of it. In fact, Glenn Beck is the ultimate sell out to corporate greed and self interest. Everything he says is intended to build his own or his corporate bosses pile up. Look who his sponsor is… Goldline; a company being investigated for defrauding people of the value of their gold… Although, anyone stupid enough to put their gold jewelry into a bag and mail it off to someone they don’t know, probably deserves what they get for being incredibly stupid. But perhaps we should be charitable to the stupid and blame the messenger in this case: Mr. Beck. He certainly would not be stupid enough to send his gold to Goldline, but he’s absolutely willing to tell you to do it. As Mr. Beck himself has famously said, anyone who believes half of what he says on his program is an idiot.
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