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Glenn Beck and Other ‘Too Little, Too Late’ Apologies
Caitlin DicksonGlenn Beck admits his divisive language and outlandish conspiracy theories may have played a role in tearing the country apart. Like Sandy Weill and Robert McNamara before him, Beck’s apology is more than tardy.
An uncharacteristically subdued Glenn Beck took to Megyn Kelly’s Fox News show Tuesday to reflect on his own time at the network. The silver-bearded Beck, who left Fox in 2011 after more than two years to start his own online TV and radio show, The Blaze, looked slightly embarrassed watching clips of himself parading around in lederhosen, waving a dead fish and installing a red phone on set strictly for receiving calls from former White House communications director Anita Dunn, a vocal critic of Fox News.
“I remember it as an awful lot of fun and that I made an awful lot of mistakes,” Beck told Kelly of his time at Fox. “I wish I could go back and be more uniting in my language because I think I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart and it’s not who we are and I didn’t realize how really fragile the people were. I thought we were kind of a little more in it together. Now I look back and I realize if we could have talked about the uniting principles a little bit more, instead of just the problems, I think I would look back on it a little more fondly.”
The start of Fox’s Glenn Beck show coincided with President Obama’s first inauguration, and Beck’s tenure at the network was largely dedicated to harshly criticizing the administration, accusing the president and his staff of secretly harboring socialist or communist sympathies, and, of course, nourishing the nascent Tea Party movement with his 2010 “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall.
From 2009-2011, Beck was paid to spew damaging—not to mention unfounded—conspiracy theories about President Obama, including the charge that the president was going to release Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, the 1993 World Trade Center bombing mastermind also known as the “Blind Sheikh.” Beck also suggested that Obama planned to boost his own popularity by faking a terrorist attack similar to the Oklahoma City bombing. Beck also endorsed the gold firm Goldline by warning his audience of impending economic collapse, and he continues to urge his audience to prepare for any potential natural, political, or economic emergencies by purchasing Food Insurance’s freeze-dried emergency food supplies.
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/22/glenn-beck-and-other-too-little-too-late-apologies.html
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