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Embarrassed By Beck? – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan #p2 #tcot #teaparty

October 1, 2010 By Egberto Willies

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I simply cannot understand the inconsistent tenets of the Right. They claim the founders created an America that believed in competitive individualism, something that while I am for I do not think in anyway was on the thoughts of the founders. That said to not realize that corporatism the basic result of our form of capitalism has usurped any concept of individualism.

The reality is we do need strong government which is in fact the people to counteract big corporations, not because they are inherently evil, but because their only fiduciary responsibility is to their shareholders which may not be in the best interest of the citizenry at large. Outsourcing to cheap labor markets is a fiscally responsible move for corporation whose market is global. Doing so as we have is a national security risk on several fronts. 1. It makes us dangerously dependent on foreign products that could be withheld and 2. it destroys the working middleclass as is happening right now.

A strong government biased to the individual American citizen is the only solution. This is the attempt of Liberal Democrats and that democratization is what is feared most by the Right as if American start understanding what is in their best interest, the Right loses, and corporation while still wealthy would be more equitable.

I covered all these issues in detail in my book below in an easy to read fashion.

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This line appears in a New York Times Magazine profile of Glenn Beck:

When I mentioned Beck’s name to several Fox reporters, personalities and staff members, it reliably elicited either a sigh or an eye roll. Several Fox News journalists have complained that Beck’s antics are embarrassing Fox, that his inflammatory rhetoric makes it difficult for the network to present itself as a legitimate news outlet.

Where to start? Beck is either a loon, it seems to me, or a charlatan, or a genuine enthusiast completely baffled by the world and entranced, like some unstable adolescent, by half-baked ideas that he seems to genuinely believe. I don’t know the guy and can barely manage to watch more than a few minutes without being embarrassed for him and the universe, but I do find it bizarre that other Fox reporters regard him as the prime embarrassment for the propaganda network. (In this assessment, as always, I wish to make an exception for the terrific journalist, Shep Smith, and, on a good Sunday, Chris Wallace.)

Compared with Sean Hannity, for example, Beck seems to me to be a relative innocent. Hannity is a cynical liar and cool propagandist. You can trust nothing he says and although I find it hard to diagnose the motives behind Beck’s enthusiasms (money? fame? emotional instability? misplaced patriotism?), he is, compared with Hannity, a model of genuineness. He did, for example, criticize Republican spending and debt under Bush. I remember, because he invited me on his show when it was on CNN before the 2006 mid-terms and we agreed on a lot. Hannity never criticized the GOP for its spending and borrowing, while immediately turning on a dime as soon as Obama was elected. Shameless does not even begin to describe the man’s public character.

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Embarrassed By Beck? – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan

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About Egberto Willies

Egberto Willies is a political activist, author, political blogger, radio show host, business owner, software developer, web designer, and mechanical engineer in Kingwood, TX. He is an ardent Liberal that believes tolerance is essential. His favorite phrase is “political involvement should be a requirement for citizenship”. Willies is currently a contributing editor to DailyKos, OpEdNews, and several other Progressive sites. He was a frequent contributor to HuffPost Live. He won the 2nd CNN iReport Spirit Award and was the Pundit of the Week.

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