Glenn Beck is in New York City this week, receiving a "First Amendment" award from
Talkers Magazine, the self-described "bible of talk radio and new talk media."
After receiving the award, Glenn made the media rounds and sounded a bit more contrite than usual:
"For any role that I have played in dividing, I wish I could take them back," Beck said. "I don't wish I could take back the truth that was spoken but perhaps - not perhaps - many times I could have said it differently."
He didn't specify any particular incidents.
To the Talkers convention, Beck brought along a series of props - a Nazi-era German school manual, a napkin said to contain blood stains from Hitler, a copy of the Koran - to buttress his point that Americans need to support the right of people to deliver opinions even if they disagree with them.
Yes, sounds like he's really ready to tone it down. And what brought on this questionable regret and humble new facade?
Beck is currently in the midst of a salesmanship effort, trying to convince cable and satellite operators to begin telecasting TheBlaze, the successful online opinion and entertainment network he started after leaving Fox News. The Dish network and Optimum TV already carry Beck's programming.
Of course. He's trying to restore a little of his own honor and get a new show. Let's hope the fleeing advertisers from Rush Limbaugh are enough of a warning to cable news and radio networks that they won't touch him with a 10 foot gold pole.