Mark Levin's problem with Glenn Beck
The intramural feud brewing among conservative broadcasters
Glenn Beck, left, and Mark Levin: No longer on the same team?
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Even conservatives think Glenn Beck "is nuts," said Steve Benen in Washington Monthly. Right-wing radio host Mark Levin called Fox News star Beck "'pathetic.' Rush Limbaugh called Beck's role in promoting conservative protests "cheap and disingenuous." Peter Wehner said Beck's daily attacks are bad for the nation. "It seems as if Beck may be marginalizing himself in a way that will, if we're all really lucky, make him permanently toxic to those who take politics seriously."
"The attacks on Beck by Levin are a reflection of what’s happening on the American Right as a whole," said Jack Hunter in the Charleston City Paper, "where the old fools’ game of merely corralling grassroots conservatives into the Republican Party is suffering from a severe shortage of fools." By saying that Republican John McCain would have been a worse president than Barack Obama, for example, Beck was merely showing that he is no longer a knee-jerk neoconservative and GOP man like Levin.
Glenn Beck is nothing but "an act, a showman," said David Frum in New Majority. He's a "very good showman, a natural TV talent," to be sure. But he's absolutely "indifferent to the future of conservative politics," and Republicans reveling in his moment in the spotlight are in for some "nasty surprises" if they place their hopes in him.
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Posted by DJ, Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:13 pm Please, God, don't let Glenn Beck be marginalized. If he goes away, Republicans might start having to listen to elites and intelligent people, and America just can't handle a Republican party that isn't looking out for number one.Now that Bill O'Reilly has calmed down, without Beck, where else will we get whacky conspiracy theories? Who else can we use to claim that all conservatives are raving psychotics? Oh, that's right, we can still use Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Mike Savage.
Posted by rjb, Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:57 pm more power to him. he's distancing himself from the Right Wing Machine and putting himself in the same camp as rational thinking conservatives such as O'Reilly, Jason Lewis, and the like...albeit, Beck has a particular showmanship that comes along with him, but he isn't toeing the party line. for that, at least, he should get credit.
Posted by Rob, Friday, September 25, 2009, 4:08 pm I have never listened to Mark Levin, but listen to Glenn EVERYDAY! Nuff said!NOBAMA!
Posted by Fred, Friday, September 25, 2009, 4:35 pm Rob, it's people like you who make people like me smile. It's kinda the same feeling I get watching a mentally challenged toddler eat ice cream for the first time.
Posted by Ruby2sday, Friday, September 25, 2009, 4:46 pm Glenn is the right's answer to Olbermann. Except Glenn is better: a showman with facts and figures. And Fred, insults are the left's only answer. Now, that's what I call being juvenile.
Posted by Mr. Man, Friday, September 25, 2009, 6:19 pm Glenn Beck still hasn't addressed the allegations that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990. Why is that? What is he hiding?
Posted by LArry, Friday, September 25, 2009, 6:33 pm Michael Savage is the ONLY voice of conservativism and of truth currently out there right now.
Posted by kam, Friday, September 25, 2009, 6:36 pm Thank you Fred for not letting me down with your response. Dems and libs repeatedly spew that they are for the little guy, the downtrodden, and those who need the support of society due to physical and mental disabilities. Thank you for reinforcing the actual care and value dems and libs really place on the disabled. You laugh at a toddler with mental challenges just as you laugh at Rob. Another bump under the bus, another example of dems eating their own, and another example of the way people like you really think and feel.
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