Glenn Beck could give a flying crap about the political process.
Seriously, that’s what Beck himself says:
“I could give a flying crap about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says.
As Bob Cesca of The Huffington Post notes, Glenn Beck is more akin with a huckster or a televangelist, being more “bullshit artist” than actual informed pundit:
Every day, for four hours a day, Glenn Beck is playing out a Welles fantasy — leaping out from behind an array of Carrot Top-meets-Gallagher props and gizmos while shouting BOO! at his audience without taking the slightest responsibility for the ensuing hysteria. In Beck’s case, the “boo!” comes in the form of Joe McCarthy style red-baiting and Lee Atwater style race-baiting — insisting with wildly incomprehensible chalkboard scribblings that Marxists and communists are lurking under our beds waiting to steal our money. Money that’s better served feeding Glenn Beck’s empire of fraud. I mean, just look! Those random words on the chalkboard spelled out the acronym “OLIGARHY!” Run for your lives, and all that. It’s an OLIGARHY!
As Beck himself said, “If you take what I say as gospel, you’re an idiot.”
Hey, what are you saying about Dave Westlake? He took Glenn Beck’s 9/12 pledge. Isn’t that more important than, well, anything?
Glenn Beck could give a flying crap about the political process
Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says.
Now replace Glenn Beck with Rush/Hannity/O’Reilly/Maddow/Olbermann/ and dozens of others and you’ve really hit on something.
Anybody who takes what these people say at face value – that doesn’t recognize they’re no different than…well actually I think they’re almost exactly like professional wrestlers. They play their roles to generate income. When/if they make valid points, it’s just that at that point in time, they’ve determined that truth/facts sell well.