Why is the cartoon below funny? Not because Glenn Beck is "scary," but because some people in public life think so.
Beck is not a reporter, though the news gives him plenty of material. He's an entertainer and a bit of a muckraker, raking up things that others think themselves too dignified to mention.
Example: Monday's Associated Press story on the wrangling between the White House and Fox News (Page A10) said Beck had campaigned for the ouster of White House adviser Van Jones for his "past statements and associations." That's true but lame. Beck went after Jones because in his younger years Jones had called himself a communist, and more recently he signed a petition implying the Bush administration was behind 9/11 - not the guy most people would want advising the U.S. government.
Beck manages to get something done while often mocking himself. For the cover of Time he posed sticking out his tongue.
As for commentators who don't take themselves too seriously, we could use a few more. (hh)
I actually see nothing that Beck ever gets done.
ReplyDeleteIt seems like a silly statement to express in one sentence that he manages to get something done, and in the next sentence state that he does not take himself seriously, and we could use more like him.
Is he serious?
ReplyDeleteEvidently he was....
ReplyDeleteUnless he was not taking himself seriously when he wrote the editorial? :)