Eat your heart out
I listened to about 10 minutes of the Glenn Beck radio show last Friday, and I laughed so hard I was short of breath, and I was happy for the rest of the day. I know the guy has some whacked out ideas and has said a few incorrect things about religion and history. But my guess is that anyone who incessantly slams him is simply jealous of his talent. They were playing a clip from some liberal group which accused him of saying that Jesus taught Nazi-ism, and they were laughing at it and heaping upon it the ridicule which it deserved. Catholics and other Christians and conservatives who go beyond correction of Beck's errors by slamming him with vitriol and name-calling effectively demonstrate how jealous they are of the man's position, and well as display their blindness for the good he does; he is definitely on our side in the current milieu.
Catholics and other Christians and conservatives who go beyond correction of Beck's errors by slamming him with vitriol and name-calling....
ReplyDeleteLOL! Now, to whom might you possibly be referring?
;-) ;-)
Well, if he were Saul Alinsky he would be worth our friendship.
ReplyDeleteuh.... what?
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ReplyDeletePlease tell me my comboxes don't get that silly.
ReplyDeleteGod bless,
Pauli
Lines like "he's headed for a major flame-out" sound WAY too much like wishful thinking. The overreaction is so palpable.
Whew. Craziest. Combox. Ever.
ReplyDeleteMamma-holy-mia. Saul Alinksy - good guy. Glen Beck - demonic. Now I've seen everything.
"However, Beck, like McCarthy, is such a loose cannon and so reckless that he harms the cause more than helping it." -- Mark Shea
ReplyDeleteInteresting, especially since my respect for McCarthy grows every day. Meanwhile, perhaps Mr. Shea is not aware that Senator McCarthy was a hero to American Catholics particularly. (in fact he was Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's godfather!!) But then again, American Catholics didn't know their ass from their elbow until Mark Shea came along.
The thing everyone likes to ignore about McCarthy is how much of the time he was right.
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ReplyDeleteAnd here you *swore* you'd never read me no more. I'm touched!
To be clear, I don't think Beck "demonic". In fact, I don't think him a bad man particularly. Just not a reliable alternative Magisterium and not a sound basis for arraigning Fr. Benedict Groeschel as a fellow traveler of Satan Incarnate.
Father Groeschel is a good man and a serious Catholic priest with strong ideas and has been attacked in the past. For example.
ReplyDeleteHeh, Pauli. ;-)
ReplyDeleteMark--I was kinda-sorta wondering if you'd weigh in here. Glad to see you, bro'!
BTW--one of my colleagues, raised Methodist, has become intensely interested in Catholicism...can't get enough of it, in fact; watches EWTN religiously (no pun intended) and reads everything she can get her hands on. Her spiritual journey is so supernaturally charged; I cannot even count the number of "Godincidences" and downright mystical thingywhatsits.... Anyway, Mark, she asked me for book recommendations. I recommended your books enthusiastically (and gave her one)but warned her to stay away from your blog. :)
Beck "not a reliable alternative Magisterium" ?! DARN!
ReplyDeleteIt's evident that if you want to learn about certain things you have to rely on fallible sources. For example, the late Steve Irwin can and does tell us much more about snakes than Pope Benedict XVI probably ever will in Wednesday papal audiences.
ReplyDeleteThe reader's claim is one we can echo: "I learn so much from him [Glen Beck]." We should agree that there are certain things that would not have been brought to the national attention were it not for Beck. For example, Beck either broke or was responsible for disseminating the Anita Dunn speech in which she spoke of the murderous Chairman Mao in glowing terms and as her "hero". Also those truly scary facts about Van Jones was stuff about which I would have had no idea were it not for Beck's show.
I'm sure the Pope would be the first to point out that the Magisterium is not the primary source for information about snakes, political or otherwise.
oh, this is funnier. my lungs hurt I laughed so hard
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I've never listened to or watched Glenn Beck all that much. When I DVR "Red Eye", I get the last minute or so of Beck's show. He is usually talking about his love of this country, the Constitution and the Founding Fathers. How very hateful and demonic!
ReplyDeleteI also remembering him once promising more information on the terrorism committed by Bill Ayers & Bernadine Dohrn. How dare he criticize such good, wholesome Americans!
Yeah, that Glenn Beck, from what I've seen from him, is a really bad guy. And how dare he oppose that wonderful patriot Saul Alinsky!
/sarcasm