I first heard of Glenn Beck when I was a teenager and he was finally "making it big" on Fox News. His shows encircled exposing "secret" government ties with corporations as well as ties between folks such as Bill Ayers and Barack Obama. He was, in all honesty, something fresh, and as a young conservative, I thought he was great. So great, in fact, I bought a few of his books and still have them to this day. He spoke to conservatives and to concerned Americans in general. All that and he supposedly had a story: he was a drunk and part of AA and almost broke his family, all while always trying to pursue a career in entertainment.
Then, strange things started happening between him and FNC. He started crying more and more during his shows (of which many folks on every end of the spectrum have speculated were fake and were part of his sales pitch) and reports started flowing that Beck and FNC were severing ties for unknown reasons. Then, after the official cancellation of the show, Beck went quiet for a month or so, then started rolling out big plans to move to Texas and really ramp up his radio show.
Ever since his cancellation on FNC, Beck tried to portray himself as the ultimate Tea Party guy. The Constitutionalist; the guy sailing across the Delaware:
But, make no mistake, even from his tenure with FNC, he was always a "let's get those bad brown people who hate our freedoms!" kinda guy, and he only got worse on radio.
Then, the 2012 primaries roll around, and I decided to start listening to the guy again to see what he has to say about Ron Paul. The first few times I heard him talk about Dr. Paul and libertarians, I had to turn the radio off because everything that was coming out of his mouth, as well as his crony pals (who hated libertarians even more than Beck did, I think the worst one's name was Pat... he really tore into and made fun of libertarians every chance he got, and Beck would always laugh) who were just awful. The way they all tore into Ron Paul's foreign policy, as well as stances on social issues showed me that Glenn Beck was never truly conservative, he was a big government ninny who posed as something he wasn't.
Glenn Beck, all throughout the primaries, continued to tear into Ron Paul and libertarians every chance he got. I would always tune in after the debates, and it eventually got to where they quit talking about Ron Paul (when we had momentum), and when he was mentioned, they would laugh or throw a "crazy Uncle Ron" line in.
All while Glenn Beck endorsed Rick Santorum and ol' Ricky on his show weekly to promote himself.
After the primaries, Glenn Beck endorsed Mitt Romney and as clearly as I can remember, said that the differences between Obama and Romney were massive, and anyone saying differently is nuts and is being dishonest.
I tried calling into Beck's program every time I listened but could never get through. And I could kick myself for not recording EVERY SINGLE time this fool said these despicable things about you, me, and Ron Paul.
And here we are today, with Glenn Beck trying to CO-OPT the libertarian movement, crowing himself as a libertarian and trying to lead everyone, while praising a Rand Paul who is NOT his father and has 4 more years to prove his worth.
I'm passionate about this entire subject because the day Glenn Beck becomes any sort of credible figure in the libertarian movement, I'm done. And I don't want that, but it will show me that even WE can be hijacked for worse, especially by someone so vile.
So, I'd much rather be a "political hipster" than be co-opted by a hack who despised every letter in the term "libertarian" only months ago.
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