This essay tempts to penetrate the red, white and blue Halloween mask worn by Glenn Beck wherein he pretends to advocate for a free press while working to suppress freedom of the press in favor of the elite corporatist media for which he is a paid mouthpiece and advocate.
Additionally we know Glenn Beck is really not a professional reporter. He admitted this several times.
In September 2009 when Katie Couric interviewed him:
"I'm not a journalist," Beck said. "I'm an opinion guy."
Source: http://www.katu.com/...
No matter what your political affiliation is, everyone has a opinion. So what?If he claims he's not a real journalist then why is he appearing on a televise news network? Who needs real journalism anyway when you can be entertained!
That is what American TV journalism has been transformed into: opinions, sound bites & infotainment. It's truly a disservice to the profession of journalism to have TV news networks that are willing to do anything to get ratings. Willing to stoop so low as to provide this amateur his own show when it's clear that he is not providing real journalism to the masses who need real information.
This is where the first circus act comes in.
Glenn Beck believes he is an all American patriot and an expert on many things to include US history even though he never graduated from college. He uses simple methodologies like blackboards and little child-like simple props and trinkets to explain to the uneducated tea baggers that progressives are public enemy number one.
He's constantly glorifying the Founding Fathers to the point of idol worshipped royalty (I guess his high school history textbook unlike mine, must of been missing the page wherein George Washington refused the offer of some who wanted to select him as King of America.) Also that same page said that The Founding Fathers who had worked to over throw his Worship, his Royal Highness King George III in order to establish this Republic which came to be known as the United States of America.
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Honestly don't we all think in our heart of hearts that if these men were alive today, they would be completely disgusted with the gigantic corporate interests which rule the American news media today?
"Our Founding Fathers believed in limited government; the radicals in the Obama administration believe in total government." - FOX Glenn Beck
http://www.foxnews.com/...
The perversions from Glenn Beck of major historical events is repulsive (additionally shouldn't we wonder how the Founding Fathers would feel about the modern day phenomenon wherein government elected for the people by the people has to compete in size and structure with the corporatist's defacto government along with their legions of lobbyists for which Glenn Beck is a paid mouth piece for?)
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As the Founding Fathers were anti-establishment in advocating for a free press which was not under royal rule but was rather written for the people and by the people.
Would it not be reasonable therefore to conclude that the Founding Fathers today would likewise be anti-establishment of the corporate controlled press for which Glenn beck is a paid mouth piece for,
and therefore be in favor of a truly free press for the people, by the people as exemplified by the Daily Kos?
To which we must say thank you to Markos and everyone of our fellow Kossacks who make the Dkos work. You are true patriots all. God bless you, God bless America and her free press.