What the hell is with Glen Beck??

[kentuck]

Is the guy mentally ill?

What kind of complex is going on in his brain?

Is he just a simple egomaniac or something more?

Is there some sort of persecution complex at play here?

Or is he just an effective mouthpiece for the propagandists? Is that why they pay him $30 million dollars a year? He's nothing more than a flim-flam man?

[Yeahyeah]

1. Some pieces of shit just make a much bigger stink than others.

[mzteris]

2. Actually, yes, I believe he IS mentally ill.

Truly mentally ill. Megalomania for starters, paranoid, delusional . . . the man really does need help.

[hlthe2b]

3. I think he was bullied like hell in school....

and is seeking his revenge.... Finally found a way to be "accepted" despite his "dweebiness" and is capitalizing on it to the maximum that any sociopath could imagine.

My theory likewise applies to Rush Limbaugh and many others of that ilck.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

4. The guys been on the radio since he was thirteen years old. He's an experienced

snake oil salesman. It's made him filthy rich. Isn't that what it's always about.

[janx]

5. $$$$$$$$$$$

You need to ask?

[MadHound]

6. All of the above

:shrug:

[Mz Pip]

7. Glenn is about making himself

even more rich. He's got a following of suckers and he is milking them for all they've got. Not much difference between him and one of those mega-church televangelists IMHO. He's laughing his way all the way to the bank. Him and Goldline and Fox.

[Initech]

8. He has nazi tourettes.

[kentuck]

10. That's a good one!

:-)

[Initech]

20. If you haven't seen it, watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1s4fj-5zlk

[Quantess]

9. I don't get it either.

But he's laughing all the way to the bank. Crazy Like A Fox, that one.

Right now he is tapping into the racist vein of disgruntled, confused, closed-minded Americans who are resentful the USA has a black President.

[kentuck]

12. And most of them are very "religious"..

at least, self-proclaimed.

Is there a common thread that runs so true?

[Quantess]

19. Their churches are fueling the fire. You know it.

If any of us had the patience or endurance to sit through a sermon at a typical church frequented by Glenn Beck's fans... so full of hate... but I would not recommend that to anyone who does not want to corrode their soul.

[Warpy]

11. That type of megalomania is pathological

and paranoia is always part of it. You see, he's just so big and important that everybody is just naturally out to get him and topple him from that dungheap he thinks he's entitled to.

He suspects he's not right in the head, something he admitted in an autobiography, and he's tried self medicating with alcohol for years.

I see the same things in him that I see with bipolars in my own family, especially the unlucky ones who spend most of their time in mania with only brief forays into a more reflective depression.

Without treatment, he'll destroy himself.

[LibDemAlways]

13. All the right wing turds know exactly what they're doing -

exploiting the prejudices of ignorant people for fun and profit. Beck, Limpballs, Hannity - all of them - are proud of their status as professional shit stirrers - and laughing all the way to the bank.

[realisticphish]

14. I think he's far worse than Limbaugh

Limbaugh is a pandering dickhead, but that's really all he is. He manipulates and targets his audience precisely.

Glenn Beck, I think, is legitimately insane.

[RagAss]

15. Shhhh....he secretly works for us....what else could explain it.

[Canuckistanian]

16. Insanity pays - big time

Well, not for Fox News - they LOSE money every time Beck's show airs.

But they get market share. And that's worth $$$$.

Oh, and Beck gets his share, even if his show isn't pulling it's own weight.

[mike r]

17. Whatever ailment he has, no sympathy

I don't care if his mother dropped him on his head or his ass, or whatever crap he drank. He knows exactly what he's doing, and what he's doing is evil. There is no sympathy for evil.

[TransitJohn]

18. He's an actor, laughing all the way to the bank.

Rushbo is the same, I'd assume.

[Zoeisright]

21. All of the above. He's mainly just a phony with a big mouth and a microphone. 0.

Anybody who believes the crap he spouts is an absolute moron.

[MrScorpio]

22. Ding-ding-ding!

One round knock out, baby!

[nadinbrzezinski]

23. MMOOOOONNNNNEEEEEEYYYYYY

he sold his soul to Mamon

[snot]

24. I think he's like one of those charismatic religious leaders on tv who claims to heal people and

gets them to send him money.

[BeHereNow]

25. He is the pinnacle for the collective madness of the Amurikkkan citizenry.

The water has been rising for a long time.
Beck is the harbor to which the disenfranchised
have decided to tie their sinking boats.

He, Palin and others chosen by the TPTB, are
most effective in creating chaos in an already chaotic
atmosphere.

By design, make no mistake.
Evil is often quite brilliant in a subjective view.


BHN

[Skittles]

26. he appeals to halfwits

and there are millions of halfwits

[jotsy]

27. I'll take those one at a time, and for once, just maybe, briefly.

Who cares, he sucks.
Has to be.
Gotta have one to go there.
See all three previous answers.
No, but the PTB can mold a perception through his antics and sell all them unstable moments as a good thing, blacchh!
See previous answer.
Then they are as mindless, and at their own staggering loss.
Not sure that last one's a question, Sir Tuck. And oh yeah, a pretty little marionette, if you like that kind of thing I guess. It's not for me, tyvm.

Rec'd.

[TomClash]

28. Just another example of fertilizing the . . .