The New York Times today profiles Glenn Beck (“Mad, Apocalyptic, Tearful, and a Rising Star on Fox News”). In the piece Beck describes himself as “a rodeo clown,” and someone who “got into the radio business to ‘share my opinion in a humorous way,’ but the times ‘are so serious now that I find myself sometimes being the guy I don’t want to be— the guy saying things that are sometimes pretty scary, but nobody else is willing to say them.’” (So, I guess, a scary clown). The Times describes Beck as “capturing the feelings of an alienated class of Americans,” and, also, someone who “sometimes lingers over doomsday situations.” (Read my colleague Ryan on that).
Every day, four or five dump-trucks pull up to Faux Noise HQ to deliver Beck's daily allotment of bat-shit.
#1 Posted by Woody, CJR on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 01:14 PM
The Times describes Beck as “capturing the feelings of an alienated class of Americans,”
Yeah, the poor, persecuted, picked-upon class of Whining White People who no longer have anybody to who to be superior, and now need even more than ever people to blame for their inability to 'succeed' even a racist culture in which they still receive preferential treatment......
#2 Posted by Woody, CJR on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 01:18 PM
Once again, I scoop the Times: http://politic.ology.com/
#3 Posted by D.R. Foster, CJR on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 02:03 PM
Eric Boehlerts has a nice post on the Times' article:
http://mediamatters.org/countyfair/200903300005?f=h_top
#4 Posted by jonwdeli, CJR on Mon 30 Mar 2009 at 04:24 PM