Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Glenn Beck Is the Man
I know he dissed Ron Paul back when it mattered, but I don't care: Glenn Beck is on fire. Unlike other "right wing" hosts who whine about liberal hypocrisy yadda yadda yadda, Beck every night keeps hammering home the fact that the government is taking over the financial sector. Tonight he gave two very specific examples of how Citigroup and Bank of America were pressured to make bad business decisions because they were dependent on the government. This isn't, "Hey, Pelosi took a limo to the inaugural, sic Al Gore on her!" This is serious stuff.
I didn't catch the guy's full name (Beck kept calling him Steve), but there was a free market economist on tonight who was saying the stimulus plans were nonsense. Fine, fair enough. But then Beck pushed him on the inflation issue. Beck did an aww shucks "what do I have wrong here?" and said what I've been saying for months now--that when real output is falling and the Fed is printing money like crazy, you are going to get big time price inflation. (And yes, Beck went over the aspect of falling real output--not his term of course--and knew full well what he was saying.)
So anyway, the free market economist "Steve" wussed out. He said something like, there would be not inflation like the 70s, but maybe 6 - 7%. And then--bless his heart--Beck laughed in the guy's face, though goodnaturedly. He said, "Steve, if you think we're going to have 6 or 7% inflation, you're fooling yourself."
Woo hoo! Keep it real, Glenn!
I didn't catch the guy's full name (Beck kept calling him Steve), but there was a free market economist on tonight who was saying the stimulus plans were nonsense. Fine, fair enough. But then Beck pushed him on the inflation issue. Beck did an aww shucks "what do I have wrong here?" and said what I've been saying for months now--that when real output is falling and the Fed is printing money like crazy, you are going to get big time price inflation. (And yes, Beck went over the aspect of falling real output--not his term of course--and knew full well what he was saying.)
So anyway, the free market economist "Steve" wussed out. He said something like, there would be not inflation like the 70s, but maybe 6 - 7%. And then--bless his heart--Beck laughed in the guy's face, though goodnaturedly. He said, "Steve, if you think we're going to have 6 or 7% inflation, you're fooling yourself."
Woo hoo! Keep it real, Glenn!
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I was listening to Glenn Beck yesterday on the radio and he was talking about the comparisons between Hoover & FDR and Bush & Obama. But he actually got it right. He said something to the effect of:
"Yes, Obama is Bush on steroids just like FDR was Hoover on steroids!"
I'm not sure, but I think I cheered out loud.
"Yes, Obama is Bush on steroids just like FDR was Hoover on steroids!"
I'm not sure, but I think I cheered out loud.
I heard that show too. It was Steven Moore from the Wall street journal.
Beck learned a lot from Ron Paul over the last year.
Neal Boortz has a decent radio program also, though he's a proponent of the fair tax.
Beck learned a lot from Ron Paul over the last year.
Neal Boortz has a decent radio program also, though he's a proponent of the fair tax.
Re: the Ron Paul diss, try this.
Re: Neal Boortz, I just can't stand him personally. Rush or Hannity occasionally cross the line and are "mean" to people, and Michael Savage is way over the line but he's hilarious, but Boortz is well over the line and he's not very funny.
Re: Neal Boortz, I just can't stand him personally. Rush or Hannity occasionally cross the line and are "mean" to people, and Michael Savage is way over the line but he's hilarious, but Boortz is well over the line and he's not very funny.
The Blackadder Says:
I didn't hear any criticism of Ron Paul in the linked to clip. There was some criticism of some Ron Paul supporters due to Beck's belief that they meant some of their rhetoric literally. You could say that he was mistaken about this, but a) if they really were saying what he thought then his criticism was justified, and b) even his criticism was couched in the vein of "these people have legitimate grievances and we'd better do something about it or things could turn ugly"). In any event, criticizing Ron Paul supporters is not the same as criticizing Ron Paul.
I didn't hear any criticism of Ron Paul in the linked to clip. There was some criticism of some Ron Paul supporters due to Beck's belief that they meant some of their rhetoric literally. You could say that he was mistaken about this, but a) if they really were saying what he thought then his criticism was justified, and b) even his criticism was couched in the vein of "these people have legitimate grievances and we'd better do something about it or things could turn ugly"). In any event, criticizing Ron Paul supporters is not the same as criticizing Ron Paul.
# posted by 
: January 22, 2009 at 10:40 PM
: January 22, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Glenn Beck enjoys having Ron Paul on quite a bit. While their foreign policy ideas contrast, Glenn is definitely on the side of the Austrians - he's had Peter Schiff on many, many times and sides with him the majority of the times - even when Schiff starts going apocalyptic.
I really enjoy watching Glenn every night, but he has some fatal flaws. Last night, after talking about free markets and quoting the Founding Fathers, he for some reason stated that "The American spirit is self-sacrifice for others", that him and Obama agree on that, but they just approach the utilization of that spirit from different angles. That's why most religious Conservatives cannot, and will never be able to, defend Capitalism. It was quite a disappointment for me to hear him say that.
I really enjoy watching Glenn every night, but he has some fatal flaws. Last night, after talking about free markets and quoting the Founding Fathers, he for some reason stated that "The American spirit is self-sacrifice for others", that him and Obama agree on that, but they just approach the utilization of that spirit from different angles. That's why most religious Conservatives cannot, and will never be able to, defend Capitalism. It was quite a disappointment for me to hear him say that.
The thing I really like about Glenn Beck is that he seems pretty open to truth. I've disagreed with him a lot, but continue to love his show, despite some of his moments of ignorant blunders.
For instance, along with the negative comments about Ron Paul early on, I was so frustrated when he was running the clip of Barney Frank advocating 'a healthy dose of Keynesianism' and was making fun of him for making up words like 'Changeinism' or something like that. I was thinking to myself, "Now might be a good time to bring Ron Paul back on the show." Luckily, they figured it out but they still didn't understand the topic they were dealing with even then.
For instance, along with the negative comments about Ron Paul early on, I was so frustrated when he was running the clip of Barney Frank advocating 'a healthy dose of Keynesianism' and was making fun of him for making up words like 'Changeinism' or something like that. I was thinking to myself, "Now might be a good time to bring Ron Paul back on the show." Luckily, they figured it out but they still didn't understand the topic they were dealing with even then.
Blackadder,
I didn't even follow the link to the clip and I'm not going to try to dig up specific examples, but trust me, there was some Ron Paul bashing early on in the campaign.
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I didn't even follow the link to the clip and I'm not going to try to dig up specific examples, but trust me, there was some Ron Paul bashing early on in the campaign.
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