Comments Posted By Elizho
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The Beckian Wing of Conservatism
I am glad to know that in a sea of irrationality stewed in the political sphere of right these days, there is a voice of reason calling for collective reflection and outing the impostors. The majority of these so-called pundits do what they do solely for personal self-aggrandizement. In case of Beck, he is an ultimate showman/entertainer with little to offer when it comes to the practical and applied system of political discourse as a whole. He usually swim in a shallow water of one-dimensionality and there is absolutely no depth to his rant. The sad commentary here is that people's intellectually indolence and their inability to cease pandering to one's confirmation bias are impeding them from doing an honest, scholarly research on the subject matters.
Glenn usually attempts to conceal his blatant intellectual bankruptcy behind a broad shield of generalization while marinating the topic with poorly constructed satirical garbage and garble of contradictory non sequiturs. For most part, it has served him very well because not only the proponents get so intoxicated on the self-satisfying soundbites, at the same time, the opponents are so tangled in his matrix of verbal goulash, any decent attempt in deciphering the spiel proves to be rhetorically so complicated that by the second corner, he can do a mental somersault and have his fans convinced of contextual soundness. Beck is a bona fide charlatan dancing for the landscape of viewers and listeners only to rake up $20-$30 million/year.
Turn off your TV, turn off your radio, and keep them off.
Comment Posted By Elizho On 18.04.2009 @ 17:34
GLENN BECK AND THE RADICAL RIGHT
Aside from the entry being swarmed by a ball of radical right wingers, and if I had 25 hours available in a day, I would have debunked the majority of simpleton comments here (albeit some of your constructs appear to be somewhat faulty or should have been polished more appropriately), what I am mostly interested is where these folks are coming from? Is there a some common point of convergence that directing them to this particular post? Can you kindly share the "referral" URL(s)? Frankly, I haven't seen such skittish reactionary backlash on an ideologically opposing blog site for some time.
Comment Posted By Elizho On 10.04.2009 @ 01:26
