Clearing the Air
Feb 27th, 2010 by Randy Toman
Below is a couple of sentences from two of my February articles that have developed into quite an exchange between some dear friends. One of which is a devoted fan of Glenn Beck. This is good because it gives me a chance at explaining what I was trying to say regarding Beck and the talk show hosts hurting the movement.
http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/confusion-is-right-around-the-corner-and-then-chaos/
“We are living in confusing time and the talk show hosts Beck, Rush, Hannity, are not helping the cause anymore and I think they are starting to hurt it.”
“One of the problem areas that I see starting to come to the forefront loud and clear is the fact that we have no way of stopping any of the wrongness that is happening to the citizens.”
http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/ethics-and-principles-for-the-republican-party/
“Were there is no principles there will be at best, ethics that are confused, at worse, no ethics at all. For ethics seek to answer three questions.
1. What is the motive of human action?
2. What is the standard of human?
3. What is the end or purpose of human action?”
Exactly what am I talking about when I said, Beck, Rush, Hannity maybe starting to hurt the cause? Rush has been in the business longer then any of the talk show people and has been educating people going on 20 years. So what am I saying is, they must take the people to the next level, which must be an action item. Allow me to quote from “American Majority” Activist Training manual (page 4) In bold letters we have this:
“WATCH OUT
A lack of clear goals and step-by-step planning will make a well-meaning coalition completely ineffective. This is why coalitions should avoid the mistake of holding meetings that are based simply on discussion, while not at the same time planning strategic methods to promote or resolve the uniting issue. Repetitive “gripe sessions” accomplish nothing.”
The fact that the talk show people have been educating the people was needed and I’m sure much appreciated by the followers of those different shows but it is now time to move to the next level of the educational process. There must be a series of action items suggested by Beck, Rush, Hannity, these different plans will do at least two things.
1/ Take the emotion and energy to a higher level of involvement, with the people having direction and knowing they are working toward resolution.
2/ It will take the power and more so the authority completely out of the politicians hands and put it back into the hands of “We the People” because of these action items.
If the talk show people keep on talking, and telling the citizens how bad things are, not give them direction, it will lead to confusion of effort and/or efforts of little effect. Further more the situation will continue to deteriorate until it will truly be passed the point of being capable of correction.
So therefore I said; “ I think they are starting to hurt the movement.”
To be more accurate I should have said, “I think they will start to hurt themselves and the people.” And that starting will take place this year, because confusion and chaos is right around the corner because of this observation.
“One of the problem areas that I see starting to come to the forefront loud and clear is the fact that we have no way of stopping any of the wrongness that is happening to the citizens.”
We Shall See and shortly
Randy Toman
I have listened over the years to Rush, and to Sean, and to others — John Gambling is great, so is Lou Dobbs — both are ardently in favor of what we grew up being taught: “principles” and common sense. I love Steve Malzberg, because he is rip-snorting roused up, and I listen to Micheal Savage and to Billy Cunningham, both of whom run VERY hot sometimes, and VERY cold other times.
Then Glen Beck came along. He is a bit different. You cannot lump him in with Rush. Rush is firmly on the side of very big special interests who do not have “we the people”’s best interests at heart. Rush can be on the side of the angels when he chooses to speak against the entrenched Left, and ridicules ignorant, stupid, power-grubbing politicians (all of whom are Democrats or Independent in his universe). Sean is sort of knee-jerk good boy of the Republican upper middle class.
But Glenn Beck is really scaring the power structure, because he is not apparently owned by any party, and I do believe he is honest and aboveboard in his beliefs and in his teaching. I happen to disagree with him on a very few issues, but that is life. The thing about Beck that neither Rush nor Sean do, is that he motivates people, and then he mobilizes them to act. That is very pesky stuff when you are in office trying to keep your special interest sponsors happy, and all these darn people are walking around in public with signs and challenging the people who keep you fat and happy and secure in your official position.
My point is, that the talk show hosts are different from each other just as we all are different from each other, and they cannot be lumped together into one mass. And not a single one will totally see the world exactly the way we see it. But some are more into propaganda than others, and some are more into getting us motivated to think and do research and to act, than others are. Of course, we always have to be on the alert for anybody who might morph into getting us to support something that may not be in our best interests. The ability to do that, to discern the truth, is what has been, and is being, bred out of our children in the public schools. It did not start yesterday, it has been going on at least since the 1970’s, simply escalating up to now. If you look in today’s Morning Call you will see that school boards are on the defensive, but not so much the way you would wish. More people are protesting the cutting of “programs” than the raising of taxes. People have been sold a bill of goods. Folks like the CC-BASD thinkers are in the minority, unfortunately. Even though Rush has been on the air for almost two decades.