Who read Glenn Beck's "The Real America "?

“Didn't it just come out? I hear him talking about it on his syndicated radio program everyday on WTAM out of Cleveland, Ohio.

Is his book good reading?”

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Nationally syndicated talk radio phenomenon Glenn Beck’s first book, The Real America, hits stores nationwide on September 30th, 2003.

As one of the most listened to hosts in the country and the driving force behind the Rallies for America, Glenn Beck entertains, inspires, and informs millions of listeners. In The Real America, Beck continues to tell it like it really is, cutting through the fog of modern-day pundits and pontificators who have made it their mission to undermine and underestimate the greatness of America, our strength as Americans, and the power of the American spirit.

After reading “The Real America,” you’ll understand:

How we’ve been tricked into allowing “Temptation Island 3” into our homes
Why political correctness has turned us all into liars
What Doritos and CNN have in common
How Jesse Jackson and Yasser Arafat are the same person
Who’s really responsible for your fast food & Oreo addiction
And maybe some other stuff…
In his inimitable style of inspired social commentary mixed with fearless humor, Beck seamlessly blends entertainment and enlightenment. “The Real America” covers topics that everyone is talking about in a way that will keep readers turning pages like a great mystery novel.

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“Glenn is real, and he wants the Real Americans to fulfill their dreams, destiny, and future with this great book. I love it, and so will you.” – Mark Victor Hansen.

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It all comes together now.”

“I think the sick freak thing is an ironic play on words because to believe in an America that is of the traditional values it was founded on makes one a freak by today’s standards. Glenn Beck is so against the grain and unPC because he uses something that most radio talk show hosts don’t have or use….common since.

I haven’t read his book but I do like him and most of his views. He is a bit heavy handed on the christian thing though.

BTW- can you tell me, is Glenn gay?”

“and as for "the Christian thing", he's LDS.”

“And?”

“I thought this personage was leaving us. He can't even walk out the door right!”

“...and then begins the eternal punishment! God himself will deal with you without all your TT Cheerleaders. Have a nice eternity.

The Book of Mormon says the "awful hell hath no end". Hope you like being cast off from the Heavenly Father and the Lamb of God, spending eternity in a horrible place of darkness and weeping and gnashing of teeth. No one can recue you Geo, no one, one one on this board.

Just think, you will one day die and face God at his judgment bar and be cast off forever. You've done evil in your days of probation here on earth and you will needs be cast off into that awful hell. Remember, both the Bible and Book of Mormon teaches this. So if you have a problem with it, take it up with God himself. See what he has to tell you.”

“Ohio Hiker I’ve been lurking on this site for a while now and I have decided to damn you to hell for all eternity.”

“well, That was different!     LMAO


Here ya go ---- Looks like Beck got more than he bargained for:

Tom Tomorrow:
The Glenn Beck Experience

From Norman Solomon (via email):

When I picked up a ringing phone Monday morning, the next thing I knew a producer was inviting me to appear on Glenn Beck’s TV show.

Beck has become a national phenom with his nightly hour of polemics on CNN Headline News — urging war on Iran, denouncing “political correctness” at home, trashing immigrants who don’t speak English, mocking environmentalists as repressive zealots, and generally trying to denigrate progressive outlooks.

Our segment, the producer said, would focus on a recent NBC news report praising the virtues of energy-efficient LED light bulbs without acknowledging that the network’s parent company, General Electric, sells them. I figured it was a safe bet that Beck’s enthusiasm for full disclosure from media would be selective.

A few hours later, I was staring into a camera lens at the CNN bureau in San Francisco while Beck launched into his opening. What had occurred on the “NBC Nightly News,” he explained, “was at best a major breach of journalistic integrity.” And he pointed out: “The problem isn’t what NBC is promoting. It’s what they’re not disclosing.”

A minute later, Beck asked his first question: “Norman, you agree with me that they should have disclosed this?” The unedited transcript tells what happened next.


* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

SOLOMON: “It’s a big problem when there’s not disclosure. I’m glad you opened this up. And I wouldn’t want any viewers of this program to be left with the impression that somehow General Electric is an environmentally conscious company.

“On the contrary, they have a 30-year history of refusing and actually fighting against efforts to make them clean up the Hudson River, which GE fouled with terrible quantities of horrific PCBs, other rivers as well. People told they can’t fish in the Hudson River. General Electric still lobbying to not have to clean up.

“General Electric, even today — and this report is very timely — General Electric is lobbying to get Congress to pass $18 billion in taxpayer-backed loan guarantees for a huge GE product which is General Electric components for nuclear power plants. So we should not be fooled in any way by efforts to greenwash General Electric or any other company.”

BECK: “You know what’s amazing to me? GE has a bigger budget for — special interest budget than all of the oil companies combined, and yet nobody says anything. Let me reverse this.

“Norman, do you think if I got on as somebody who says I don’t know what we can do about global warming, I’m not sure man causes it, and I certainly don’t want to have laws and regulations on this, if I got on and said that but I was being — my corporate — my corporate parent was Exxon Mobil, do you think I’d get away with that for a second without that being on the front page of the New York Times?”

SOLOMON: “Well, other networks, including General Electric’s NBC, have been very slow on global warming. And in fact, General Electric has major interest in components and products used by the oil and gas industry.

“I think if you look across the board, all the major networks, even so-called public broadcasting, which has Chevron underwriting its ‘Washington Week’ program every Friday, there is a problem, as you say. I think your words are very apt, ‘promoting’ but ‘not disclosing.’

“But let’s be clear about this, Glenn. I have a list here, for instance, that I jotted down.

“ABC, owned by Disney. ABC doesn’t disclose in their relevant news reports about Disney’s stake in sweatshops.

“Fox News — and now as of the last couple of days now, Wall Street Journal owned by the same entity, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp — they don’t disclose that the ownership is entangled with the Chinese government to the detriment of human rights but to the advancement of the profit margin of the parent company.”

BECK: “See –”

SOLOMON: “We would be remiss, Glenn, if we left out CNN, because CNN has a huge multi, multibillion-dollar stake in Internet deregulation and the failure of the Congress to safeguard so far what would be called net neutrality. So every time CNN does a news report on the Internet, on efforts to regulate or deregulate or create a two- or three-tier system of the Internet, CNN News should disclose that Time Warner, the parent company, stands to gain or lose billions of dollars in those terms.

“And one more thing.”

BECK: “Real quick.”

SOLOMON: “A major — a major advertiser for CNN is the largest military contractor in the United States, Lockheed Martin. So when you and others –”

BECK: “I got news for you, Norman. Norman –”

SOLOMON: “– promote war — when you and others promote war on this network –”

BECK: “Norman — Norman –”

SOLOMON: “– we have Lockheed Martin paying millions of dollars undisclosed. So I would quote you –”

BECK: “Norman — Norman –”

SOLOMON: “Promoting but not disclosing is a bad way to go.”

BECK: “Norman, let me just tell you this. First of all, Lockheed Martin is not a — not a corporate overlord of this program.”

SOLOMON: “It’s a major advertiser on CNN.”

BECK: “That’s fine. That’s fine. Advertisers are different. But let –”

SOLOMON: “Well, it is fine, but it should be disclosed.”

BECK: “Norman, let me just tell you something. If you think that it’s warmonger central downstairs at CNN, you’re out of your mind. But that’s a different story.”

SOLOMON: “Well, upstairs, when I watch Glenn Beck, in terms of attacking Iran, it certainly is. It’s lucrative for the oil companies, as well as for the major advertiser on CNN, Lockheed Martin.”

BECK: “But we’re not talking about advertisers. We are talking about –”

SOLOMON: “Well, you don’t want to talk about it. So let’s talk about the Internet stake.”

BECK: “No, no, no. Norman –”

SOLOMON: “Let’s talk about the Internet stake that the owners of CNN have. Huge profits to be made or lost by the parent company of CNN depending on what happens in Washington in terms of Internet regulation.”

BECK: “Norman, let me tell you something.”

SOLOMON: “That should be acknowledged, don’t you think?”

BECK: “Absolutely. And if it was on this program, it would be acknowledged.

“I thank you very much for your time.

“That just goes to show you, you’ve got to beware of everybody who you’re getting your news from. Wouldn’t it be nice if once in a while somebody came on and said, you know, I don’t really have an agenda except the truth? It’s my truth. If you don’t like it, you should go someplace else.”

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

During the back-and-forth, I’d understated the present-day role of Chevron as a funder of key news programming on PBS. Actually the Chevron Corporation, which signed on as an underwriter of “Washington Week” last year, no longer helps pay the piper there — but the massive energy firm does currently funnel big bucks to the most influential show on PBS, the nightly “NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.”

The corporate funders of the “NewsHour” now include not only Chevron but also AT&T and Pacific Life. There must be dozens of journalistic reports on the program every week — whether relevant to the business worlds of energy, communications or insurance — that warrant, and lack, real-time disclosures while the news accounts are on the air. Meanwhile, over at “Washington Week,” the corporate cash now flows in from the huge military contractor Boeing and the National Mining Association.

And that’s just “public broadcasting.” On avowedly commercial networks, awash in corporate ownership interests and advertising revenues, a thorough policy of disclosure in the course of news coverage would require that most of the airtime be devoted to shedding light on the media outlet conflicts-of-interest of the reporting in progress.

And what about Glenn Beck? The guy is another in a long line of demagogues riding a bull market for pseudo-populism. Brought to you by too many corporate interests to name.


posted by Tom Tomorrow at 12:10 PM  
December 19, 2007

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“I've got an autographed copy of An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems, by Glenn Beck.

Interesting format. Good coffee table book.”

“Glenn Beck LOSES IT (Radio Show Freak-Out):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4PbqJsRH4&feature=related


...and the musical version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHcwqLs1WvM&feature=related”

“Wow, you listen to Beck?”

“It really is obvious that lady had no clue and never actually listens to the show. Probably just a Huffington post reader. Beck criticizes the things she said he let's go, RELENTLESSLY. DAILY!”

“Flake.”

“Maybe they'll talk about Beck on the next Olbermann show, then Keith can blog about it with his four or five viewers. That would be cool.”

“LMAO!!!”

“Get out the butterfly nets.”

“Did you wingers hear him screaming like a frustrated little girl? (3:38 in?)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NF4PbqJsRH4&feature=related

You still consider him sane?”

“I'm still trying to wrap my head around the fact that Violin actually listens to this guy.”

“why is VioLiN so critical of people's sexuality? is he a homophobe?”

“I would think the comparison to a "frustrated little girl" is more in the realm of being misogynistic, isn't it? As in it is a negative thing to be a girl.”

“Glen sounds like he is surrounded by fruit bearing trees full of english speaking flightless birds. Glen, run fast, the big boys stole your favorite doll.”

“He is at least as sane as ANYONE who voted for or believes Obama.”

“You're right, that's a lot of people who are right where Glen is, still waiting for 1964 to return to Earth Central- American Annex.”

“Canada has a lottery system for health care? You people believe that shyte?”

“Some people do.

Apparently, you all are hopping across the border for care because your system is so horrible.”

“This whole thread just proves everyone only likes their own brand of crazy.”

“# 1 on the NYT best seller list for several weeks running.....for good reason.

”

“Who could possibly be againt an out of control Government?


(besides Tilt and Roseyfarter)”

“Hahaha. What's funny is that you and your ilk are acting like out-of-control government is something new! LMFAO! The past eight years were a particularly good example! But I am sure Beck enjoys the peons schilling his book for him...”

“no, rosey, the last eight years went perfect and nothing wrong ever happened. only now, with the muslim america-hating socialist despot holding the nation in a stranglehold, must we the people raise our voices in collective protest against this suddenly corrupt government, in order to restore it to the perfect union we had during the bush years...

Glenn Beck is just like the televangelist - whipping the uneducated, ignorant, and confused masses into a fervor using fancy rhetoric and empty historical analogies - and doing it for the sole purpose of making money.

rubes, one and all”

“so, which of you guys thinks it's a good idea to borrow and spend MORE money when we're in debt?”

“which of you guys thinks worshipping a right-wing mouthpiece whine and bash the left will solve bipartisan corruption in the government?”

“so you didn't read it? Do you even know what Beck stands for? Do you watch his show? A right-wing mouthpiece?? LOL ... that answers my question.”

“Sarge just encapsulated the actions of the Federal government for the previous dozen years.

Funny... no complaints at the time, though.


And don't forget the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis blown up in the civil war George made possible.

Don't you think that sucker is going to burn in Hell for that?”

“no, you see, "right wing mouthpiece" is the term those of us who haven't had our common senses disabled by empty but emotional sloganism use to refer to who you likely consider to be "America's last true patriot and best hope." Semantics... that's all. I've ready plenty of Beck, including a handful of selections from this book. What I see is more partisan nonsense - more bullschit party line towing which, in my opinion, is exactly what is preventing this nation from actually making any reform to our political system. Half the country thinks the nation's political system is hunky-dory at any given time because their party is in charge and can do no wrong. right now, the democrats are "patriots" while the republicans are "revolutionaries." During the last eight years, it was reversed - and overal,l it leads to one big stalemate. What's remarkable is that, while being part of the problem, Beck pretends he's the solution - and that he has a whole army of raving yahoos believing him
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“party line? -- seriously, you do NOT listen to Beck! LOL. You can't tell me you do and say he toes the party line! LOL.

I put my full support behind Ron Paul. He does NOT toe the party line, and is obviously just a Republican so he has a chance of being elected in this system the Rs and Ds set up.

I've listened to Beck b*tch all through Bush's terms and now through Obama's term and I can tell you he's been pretty damn accurate on his predictions. I wouldn't dismiss him out of hand because he appears on your least favorite news station.
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“when you watch this, pay particular attention to Beck's comments at the beginning - this was filmed when BUSH was President.”

“notice throughout Beck busting on the current policies - meaning the policies of the Bush administration, and "both" parties

very typical of any of his shows

toeing the party line? which party is that? LOL.”

“Beck makes the poor little moonbats fill their panties.”

“The retro Beck is one thing , but the new Fox Beck is far too soapy and without any rinse in site.”

“Now I remember what the deal was when that book (and this thread) were at least a tiny bit relevant.

The rap on Glennn and his crap was: to be a "Real American" you had to be a White Anglo Protestant Hetero Married Wingnut Republican with the White picket fence and the 1.7 Kids. All others need not apply ----

(I think you had to net over a hundred grand, too)”

“some of your pals will believe that shyte”

“Pepsi's one of those rare Americans who thinks for himself. You don't find many out there like him. He's a true nonconformist---he doesn't hold a single view similar to anyone else. He doesn't generalize either. We should all want to be like him.”

“That may be true, but his characterization that Glenn Beck "toes the party line" is absurd.”

“Toes the party line, that's pretty funny. Somebody saying that about Beck lacks clarity.

"misogynistic" huh Nigal, shewt you're over my head”

“The Resurrection and the Sarge Everlasting.”

“I saw an interesting interview on CBC last night. George Strombolopolous interviewed Scott McClellan who was President George W. Bush's chief spokesman from the time he was Governor of Texas up to 2 006. It's title is: What Happened. You can get it through Amazon.com.”