Mark “Squeaky” Levin” is not done trashing Glenn Beck. (it's something he’s done ever since Beck told Katy Couric that McCain is "worse than Obama").
The Radio Equalizer asks: "Is Mark Levin the only major figure on the right with the guts to question Glenn Beck's attempted hijacking of the conservative movement?" (Brian Maloney has a long term schmutz for Beck, that began, we believe, in Seattle).Levin wrote on his Facebook page:
I have no idea what philosophy Glenn Beck is promoting. And neither does he. It's incoherent. One day it's populist, the next it's libertarian bordering on anarchy, next it's conservative but not really, etc. And to what end? I believe he has announced that he is no longer going to endorse candidates because our problems are bigger than politics. Well, of course, our problems are not easily dissected into categories, but to reject politics is to reject the manner in which we try to organize ourselves. This is as old as Plato and Aristotle.
“Decide what you are,” Levin said , “A circus clown, self-identified, or a thoughtful and wise person. It’s hard to be both.”
Beck's speech to CPAC over the weekend was a mishmash of peculiar, paranoid, conspiratorial, revisionist "history;" shock-value sound-bites, and frantic flapdoodle. He praised cool Calvin Coolidge, and claimed Teddy Roosevelt started progressives down a path in America that will end with an Obama authoritarian junta. (a renovation of the dashing Cal Coolidge may be a winning tactic for conservatives).
It was a polyglot of what we've become accustomed to hearing Beck say every day on radio and teevee. Outside the echoing confines of the far-right confab, the speech sounded disjointed, and, yes, incoherent. It was all about Glenn Beck. That's how showmen roll: His rallies in August coincide with the release of his next book.
He begged for a third way... a third party- an anathema to any Republican who can remember back to at least 1992. Beck bases his politics on obscure right-wing, crazy-pants, apocalyptic Mormonism, and the Nielsen ratings.
It'd be hard to imagine exactly what he and his followers would do if they actually got the reins of government. But that's not what Beck wants- he'll ride the horse of national anger until it bucks him off.
At the moment Republicans have no one identified as a viable leader, much less candidate. They’ve let themselves be defined by the loudest shouting of a clutch of self-promoting hucksters and entertainers like Rush and Beck.
Hell, even Mark Levin has a radio show and best-selling books.
Beck made some sense with his criticism and Levin, who is too establishment criticized him. Levin, himself was a Bush-bot and a Chicken hawk, while Beck bashed Bush for his economic policies and his illegal immigration reform which was amnesty.
Beck drives a lot of people crazy when he veers off message, but is a critical thinker when he isn't distracted and an entertainer to boot. Still waiting to see him go mano a mano in a debate with Bathtub Boy - that would be an event worth viewing for about 5 minutes max.
Posted by: KS | February 23, 2010 at 08:16 PM
critical thinker, eh? heh, ok.
Posted by: sparky | February 23, 2010 at 08:22 PM
So they're both bad, is that what you're saying KS?
Posted by: Coiler | February 23, 2010 at 08:24 PM
too establishment = normal; mentally stable; coherent
Posted by: joanie | February 23, 2010 at 09:56 PM
critical thinker, eh? heh, ok.
Posted by: sparky | February 23, 2010 at 08:22 PM
I know that is new concept to you. Did you read the other things I said about him ?
too establishment = normal; mentally stable; coherent
Posted by: joanie |
Are you saying that Levin is normal, mentally stable and coherent ? Yeah, maybe. Both Beck and he are predominantly correct about the clear and present danger(s) in DC.
They both have their faults as previously stated, but not necessarily bad.
Posted by: KS | February 24, 2010 at 06:33 PM
Both Beck and Levin are spot on when they warn of the Federal Government wielding too much power now, that citizens need to be concerned about losing liberties (besides going bankrupt).
Anyone who poo-poos this as partisanship with all due respect is a knucklehead and a knuckle-dragging progressive-phile. You know who you are... I think the rest of us know it as well.
Posted by: KS | February 26, 2010 at 08:24 AM
Wow, this Mark Levin is really full of himself.
He and Beck are one and the same. Both have popular radio shows and both want their message to be heard.
Levin is upset that Beck has been more successful in his endevors, so here he is trying to paint himself as a high society intelectual, and Glenn Beck as a rabble rouser.
I think i speak for a large majority of the country when I say we are tired of being politically correct. We just want the truth.
Posted by: cliff | April 20, 2010 at 08:03 AM