Beck to Colbert: "What you don't know, is you're absolutely right. I'm nuts"

Actually, he never seemed that crazy on CNNHN. I don't know what happened when he went to Fox, did he just finally reveal his true self, or ramp up the insanity for ratings and the new audience? Who knows, but it's not like he has to pretend it's a secret he's nuts (no matter that he's "joking"). Everyone can see it.

So I guess the lobotomy didn't go well?

How come we can't have left wing guys spout off like that?

I love Glenn too!!

I've heard that he is organizing a trip to Guyana; have you heard anything about this?

If it's true, sign me up pronto!

"I love Glenn Beck!. I only wish more people in the broadcasting arena had the guts he has. We should be open to diversity of opinion, and if you aren't......how come? Only the weak are afraid to let others speak their minds. He is not a threat to me, or to my personal ideology. Let the man speak."

What kind of guts does Mr. Beck have? He doesn't have any, and here's why. It doesn't take guts to spout off nonsense on a daily basis that has no basis in, you know, the real world. It's called being somewhat out of of touch, and just doing provocative things for the sake of being, well, provocative. Now, if you want to talk about guts in broadcasting, you can't really pick any really out of the crop of current reporters and or journalists that we have running things these days I don't think. If you want to talk about guts, think Edward R. Murrow, or other greats. What Beck does, doesn't take guts. It's easy to throw stuff around that isn't true when nobody is calling you on it, or when the network you work for expects you to be more nuts than the other person.

I do agree with you that we should be open to diversity of opinion, but that opinion should be based on knowledge, and that knowledge should be based on some facts, Mr. Beck does not do any of this. And who is saying on here that he shouldn't be on the air anyway? Fox is a network, and they can decide who they want on their little TV station. We don't have to agree with it, and can voice our displeasure at his nuttiness, which is basically what this forum is more or less about. We can challenge Mr. Beck's diversity of opinion because it's pure BS.

You say that Beck is not a threat to you, or your ideology. Being that you're a fan of his, I don't doubt this. But he is a threat to others, mostly because he has a large scale bully pulpit from which to speak from, and there are folks out there, such as yourself, who probably believe the crap that spews from his mouth on a daily basis, and this in and of itself is dangerous. Why? Well, look at what he's been doing lately. Gloom and doom about everything market wise. Gloom and doom about our President, calling him comrade, a socialist, a commie, and so on. You know, there are people out there who are maybe not as strong minded as others, and they make take this as a call to arms to defeat the communism that doesn't exist currently in our executive branch. Mr. Beck has outright called for revolution.

If you don't think things like that are dangerous, or at the very least, irresponsible, then I can't help you. But to hold this guy up as some example of some great broadcaster with "guts" is even more nuts than Beck himself.

There are a whole studio full of Jerry Springer guests who aren't afraid to speak their minds. Shouldn't they have something usefull to say though?

I do sort of love it when O'Reilly talks about MMFA as a left wing smear merchant, mostly because he never provides any examples of what smears they are perpetrating on him, and other commentators and or news sources? He never provides any context.

It's also funny to me how much they now hate David Brock, but they didn't have any such allusions when Brock actually WAS a smear merchant for the right.

And the last thing is that when he mentions this website, and if anyone with an open mind comes onto here to see what he's talking about, they'll see that indeed, he's wrong about MMFA being smear merchants for the left wing.

He doesn't call it as he sees it. I know that a person is one sided in their views, when they are described as such. We get people in here saying that Savage is just calling it as he sees it. Beck only rips one side, the democrats. He might throw out a thing here and there about some republicans, but I too have been listening and seeing him on TV for years, so I must not have seen those episodes where he "rips" into the other side.

Calling it like he sees it is code for, doesn't know what the heck he's talking about. Which for Mr. Beck, appears to be true about 99.9 percent of the time.