Get Beck?

TIME cover story on Glenn Beck, coming tomorrow, online today, already being accused of ignoring hard facts and harsh truths.  Judge for yourself here.

Comments

[John Paul]

Glenn Beck is really a loon and the people who idolize him are becoming more and more dangerous in this country.

[dee]

How dare you write such a soft story on one of the most dangerous, insane, racist, domestic terrorist in America.

Time, you should be ashamed of yourselves!

[Kate]

He wouldn't have a job, if the mainstream media hadn't abdicated their role. Instead of watchdogs for the citizenry, they've become gatekeepers for the left.

So, suck it up. He got his audience the old fashioned way - he earned it.

Just as the audience of virtually every other media outlet is draining faster than a cold bathtub.

You'd think that would be a clue.

[Rk8]

Oh, he earned his audience the old-fashioned way, all right - he lied his a** off.

[Lipiwitz]

Bin Laden was on the cover of Time Magazine too. Every once in a while, Time Magazine devotes it's cover to the World's most influential terrorists.

[JDaniels]

The mainstream media bows slightly left and slightly right, but stays pretty much in the center. It serves the corporate elite.

[symboybot]

Beck and Limbaugh are the public voices of a dangerous new movement in the U.S. - American facism. They have shown themselves to be subscribers to the tactics of Hitler's propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels who was a master of the technique of the "big lie". But for a clear definition, the words of Hitler himself are best: "All this was inspired by the principle--which is quite true in itself--that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation. For the grossly impudent lie always leaves traces behind it, even after it has been nailed down, a fact which is known to all expert liars in this world and to all who conspire together in the art of lying."

—Adolf Hitler , Mein Kampf, vol. I, ch. X[1]

[symboybot]

Additionally:

The phrase, the "big lie", was also used in a report prepared during the war by the United States Office of Strategic Services in describing Hitler's psychological profile:[3][4]

His primary rules were: never allow the public to cool off; never admit a fault or wrong; never concede that there may be some good in your enemy; never leave room for alternatives; never accept blame; concentrate on one enemy at a time and blame him for everything that goes wrong; people will believe a big lie sooner than a little one; and if you repeat it frequently enough people will sooner or later believe it.

[jurassicpork]

It's just like the popcorn puff piece on Ann Coulter all over again.

[john m]

beck is a sick man , with a child mind . We know what he will be soon and like the sick homeless people he leads into the night , I am sure the military of our country will make him pay dearly for trying to lead an army of enraged retarded people against them.

The pathetic fat abnormal people of our state will not be in charge of the USA as they were under the demented rule of Bush. It is time to arrest those that yell fire in the movies,and say publicly that they ( Beck and his followers ) want to kill our leaders ( Nancy) on Tv (Poison) and it must be done soon. They are a sick group of pathetic people.

[Temple62]

Thank you for boldly putting Beck on your cover. If people haven't watched his show, maybe they will let their curiosity get the better of them. It is a treat to listen Beck's intelligent analysis and insight. He has exposed administrative corruption and asked the questions that Congress and the fringe media sources should have asked before the country got into the current mess it is in.

[tonkaslim]

Lots of accusations here, but not one substantive example of a lie, racist comment, blah blah. It's easy to see who watches Beck and who has become a useful idiot for the state-run media mouthpieces. Replace "Beck" with "Obama" in any of the comments here and they would be as credible. Ad-hom attacks are weak because they are easy and require neither research nor thought.