Comments on: Clearing the Air http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/clearing-the-air/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 07:17:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Cate http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/clearing-the-air/#comment-1849 Cate Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:34:00 +0000 http://www.lehighvalleyconservative.com/clearing-the-air/#comment-1849 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. 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.

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