TIME Attacks Glenn Beck

[red states rule]

Now the liberal media is going after Glenn Beck after his huge success with the 9/12 rally in DC.

After smearing the folks who turned out to protest Obama's tax and spend policies as racists, now the knives come out for Glenn




Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?
By David Von Drehle Thursday, Sep. 17, 2009

On Sept. 12, a large crowd gathered in Washington to protest ... what? The goals of Congress and the Obama Administration, mainly — the cost, the scale, the perceived leftist intent. The crowd's agenda was wide-ranging, so it's hard to be more specific. "End the Fed," a sign read. A schoolboy's placard denounced "Obama's Nazi Youth Militia." Another poster declared, "We the People for Capitalism Not Socialism." If you get your information from liberal sources, the crowd numbered about 70,000, many of them greedy racists. If you get your information from conservative sources, the crowd was hundreds of thousands strong, perhaps as many as a million, and the tenor was peaceful and patriotic. Either way, you may not be inclined to believe what we say about numbers, according to a recent poll that found record-low levels of public trust of the mainstream media.

At any rate, what we can say with confidence is that Deanna Frankowski was there. A cheery woman of 49 from Leeds, Ala., Frankowski said she had come to Washington as part of a group of 100 or more protesters. They filled two buses. And they were motivated by a concern about runaway government spending — that, plus an outraged feeling that their views as citizens are not being heard. "We are sick and tired of being ignored," she said. "There is too much money being spent."

Frankowski has been hit hard by the economic turmoil of the past year. Short of funds to make the trip, she painted an American flag on a pane of glass and asked people at her church to chip in toward her expenses, with one of them taking home the flag. She would like to share a house with her soon-to-be husband, but first she must figure out how to get free of the house she has — the one with the underwater mortgage. Some left-leaning writers argue that people in her boat must be deluded to oppose Barack Obama, but Frankowski is skeptical that her interests are being served by trillions in new government interventions. So she said, "I've paid my mortgage every month. And I'm getting no help. I'm just saying, Let capitalism work." Then she added, "We just want people to listen to us and care."

One person listens, Frankowski believes, and that's why back home in Alabama she arranged to have 10 large signs made on white foam board, nine of them marked with a big letter and the tenth with we and a heart. Raised aloft, the signs spelled out "We ♥ G-l-e-n-n B-e-c-k."

Glenn Beck: the pudgy, buzz-cut, weeping phenomenon of radio, TV and books. Our hot summer of political combat is turning toward an autumn of showdowns over some of the biggest public-policy initiatives in decades. The creamy notions of postpartisan cooperation — poured abundantly over Obama's presidential campaign a year ago — have curdled into suspicion and feelings of helplessness. Trust is a toxic asset, sitting valueless on the national books. Good faith is trading at pennies on the dollar. The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called "the paranoid style" — the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country — is aflame again, fanned from both right and left. Between the liberal fantasies about Brownshirts at town halls and the conservative concoctions of brainwashed children goose-stepping to school, you'd think the Palm in Washington had been replaced with a Munich beer hall.

for the complete article

http://www.time.com/time/politics/ar...924348,00.html

[stephanie]

Glen was talking about this on his t.v. show tonight...

you know if time rag is attacking him he has made the big leagues and is doing something right...

[red states rule]

Glen was talking about this on his t.v. show tonight...

you know if time rag is attacking him he has made the big leagues and is doing something right...

I'm sure he's all upset as he cashes his huge paycheck and enjoys his highest ratings ever.

Screw TIME Magazine.

How many times has TIME magazine had Obama on its cover?

How many where negative or even critical of Obama?

ZERO.

Time magazine is nothing but a political hack. Written for liberals - by liberals

[-Cp]

Am I the only one who read it and didn't see it as an attack?

[red states rule]

Am I the only one who read it and didn't see it as an attack?

Look again

The headline of the story: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?

snips

Fears of a Clown
Beck is 45, tireless, funny, self-deprecating, a recovering alcoholic, a convert to Mormonism, a libertarian and living with ADHD. He is a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies — if he believed in conspiracies, which he doesn't, necessarily; he's just asking questions. He's just sayin'. In cheerful days of yore, he was a terrific host of a morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station.

There are bigger one-voice enterprises in the world: Oprah, Rush, Dr. Phil. But few are more widely diversified. In June, estimators at Forbes magazine pegged Beck's earnings over the previous 12 months at $23 million, a ballpark figure confirmed by knowledgeable sources, and this year's revenues are on track to be higher. The largest share comes from his radio show, which is heard by more than 8 million listeners on nearly 400 stations — one of the five biggest radio audiences in the country. Beck is one of only a handful of blockbuster authors who have reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller lists with both nonfiction and fiction. (Among the others: John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and William Styron. Unlike them, however, Beck gets a lot of help from his staff.) His latest book, Arguing with Idiots, will be published this month, and if things go as expected, it will be the third No. 1 with his name on the front published in the past 12 months. Taking a page from Stephen King — who once called Beck "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother" — Beck recently entered into a partnership with Simon & Schuster that pays him a share of profits rather than a traditional author's royalty, and he plans to create a range of books for every audience, from children to teens to adults.

[maineman]

Am I the only one who read it and didn't see it as an attack?

no

[red states rule]

no

Trouble with the English language Virgil. or just scared to debate what was written in the article?

You have gone somewhat dark recently. Running scared, or short on facts? Being short on facts never stopped you from posting in the past - so we all know what the answer is

If you have trouble reading the article - here is some help for you

http://www.hookedonphonics.com/

[red states rule]

Beck is definitely getting under the skin of a lot of liberals, therefore, they attack the messenger and not the message.

TIME just farted a little desperation toot

[avatar4321]

Am I the only one who read it and didn't see it as an attack?

a pictures worth a thousand words. They were going after him.

[red states rule]

a pictures worth a thousand words. They were going after him.

TIME makes the same mistake as the rest of the liberals they support.

They attempt to discredit the messenger because they can't countrt Becks' message.

[Monkeybone]

Am I the only one who read it and didn't see it as an attack?

I can see it as both. Not outright, but trying to make you think that he sorta is just trying to do scare tactics by making things up. Kind of a back door one. So that way if someone says that it is an attack, then can say that is how you read it.

[-Cp]

Look again

The headline of the story: Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?

snips

Fears of a Clown
Beck is 45, tireless, funny, self-deprecating, a recovering alcoholic, a convert to Mormonism, a libertarian and living with ADHD. He is a gifted storyteller with a knack for stitching seemingly unrelated data points into possible conspiracies — if he believed in conspiracies, which he doesn't, necessarily; he's just asking questions. He's just sayin'. In cheerful days of yore, he was a terrific host of a morning-zoo show on an FM Top 40 station.

There are bigger one-voice enterprises in the world: Oprah, Rush, Dr. Phil. But few are more widely diversified. In June, estimators at Forbes magazine pegged Beck's earnings over the previous 12 months at $23 million, a ballpark figure confirmed by knowledgeable sources, and this year's revenues are on track to be higher. The largest share comes from his radio show, which is heard by more than 8 million listeners on nearly 400 stations — one of the five biggest radio audiences in the country. Beck is one of only a handful of blockbuster authors who have reached No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller lists with both nonfiction and fiction. (Among the others: John Grisham, Patricia Cornwell and William Styron. Unlike them, however, Beck gets a lot of help from his staff.) His latest book, Arguing with Idiots, will be published this month, and if things go as expected, it will be the third No. 1 with his name on the front published in the past 12 months. Taking a page from Stephen King — who once called Beck "Satan's mentally challenged younger brother" — Beck recently entered into a partnership with Simon & Schuster that pays him a share of profits rather than a traditional author's royalty, and he plans to create a range of books for every audience, from children to teens to adults.

Again, how is that an attack?

[SassyLady]

Cooooooooooool!!! If TIME is doing a hit piece on Glen, then I know he's touching all the right buttons to irk the progressives.

I used to subscribe to TIME.........until 2003, when they fell in love with the Kerry machine. I hate having the constant taste of vomit in my mouth just from trying to read the articles in this rag mag.

[maineman]

Again, how is that an attack?

you don't expect a coherent answer, do you?

[-Cp]

you don't expect a coherent answer, do you?

Seriously, I'm honestly trying to see the "attack" here.... just being objective about it... .not seein' it...