Barnard Chapin on Glenn Back
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Bernard Chapin calls Glenn Back “A man for his time” and posits If Beck is detrimental to the conservative cause, why does the left expend so much energy trying to destroy him?:
My first impression of the host of the blockbuster Fox News program
that bears his name was that, despite its obvious content value, Beck’s
hyper-emotive, overly familiar style made it unfit for long-term
consumption. I believed this for the same reasons I get the
heebie-jeebies from Oprah or the prospects of repeating kindergarten,
but wrong is wrong. I hereby offer up an article of contrition. Not
only has Mr. Beck grown on me; I also acknowledge that he is one of the
finest warriors in all of conservadom. So let us rally around our –
suddenly famous — flag bearer.And rally we must because the left has placed him at the center of their character assassination machine.
This is predictable as what else could they do with a sixty-minute,
five-day-a-week program that functions as a siege engine upon the
castle of pseudo-liberalism, addressing corruption, the follies of
statism, government chicanery, and the disinterest of politicians in
the welfare of their constituents?Beck has even declared war on our entire political class — those
Mark Levin terms “our new robber barons” — and he single-handedly took down President Obama’s “green jobs czar,” the bombastic scandal previously known as Van Jones.Further, his investigation into the politicization of the National Endowment for the Arts resulted in demotion for one of its partisan advocates and, without the stalwart host’s volleys, many of us would have never heard of the Apollo Alliance or the Tides Foundation.
With the exception of Andrew Breitbart, James O’Keefe, and Hannah Giles, Mr. Beck has proven to be the most powerful and recurring nightmare that the nefarious embezzlers who run ACORN have ever faced.
Beck recently exposed the attempt on the part of one educator to indoctrinate students by showing a heinous leftist video called “The Story of Stuff.” Sadly, in my time, I witnessed a vile and unusual teacher try to pass off worse.
As a result of the Fox superstar’s devout efforts, his foes are now attempting to censor and ridicule him.
Yes, rather than refute his positions and statements, the left has reverted to their time-tested and anti-democratic methods of seeking to silence via boycott of corporate sponsor. Color for Change led the assault, which is not surprising given that one of its co-founders was the aforementioned radical, Van Jones.
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As for a likely answer to the question of why does the left expend so much energy trying to destroy Beck if he is detrimental to the conservative cause, I suggest that it’s because he tells speaks the truth to a large and growing audience about that which doesn’t stand up under the light of day, and the left depends on the American people being kept in the dark about the its agenda and its facilitators.
