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To answer your question, yes he has. I'm puzzled about your belief that Glenn Beck only says things with which his listeners agree. Perhaps he has so many listeners because he agrees with them. He has an audience because he touches on many things that we don't have the opportunity to voice on our own. For some of us perhaps we have much to risk and he's willing to take that risk. That's the reason that so many of us admire him. He has made many mistakes in his life but he's learned from those mistakes and will not repeat them as most people do every day.
Fred Speckmann
commonsenseforamericans@yahoo.com
My post should have read "He says a lot of things that SHOULD make everyone think."
Remember, "keep your friends close but your enemies closer."
What do you think?
Objectivism:
Reality exists as an objective absolute—facts are facts, independent of man’s feelings, wishes, hopes or fears.
Reason (the faculty which identifies and integrates the material provided by man’s senses) is man’s only means of perceiving reality, his only source of knowledge, his only guide to action, and his basic means of survival.
Man—every man—is an end in himself, not the means to the ends of others. He must exist for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself. The pursuit of his own rational self-interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.
Conservatism:
Holding to traditional attitudes and values and cautious about change or innovation, typically in relation to politics or religion.
Nothing can be worse for the conservative than rational thought, because people who think rationally might decide to try replacing inherited institutions with new ones, something that a conservative regards as undesirable. This is where the word "conservative" comes from: the supposed importance of conserving established institutions.
http://freedomindependence.com
Personally, I don't think I agree with everything Glenn says on TV, nor does he expect me to. But my guideline is more like "would you want that guy as your next-door neighbor?" In Glenn's case, I would say 'yes', but for those who criticize, slander, and attack Beck, I would say "not so much". (I'm stealing heavily from the parable about the "Good Samaritan" in my own opinion.)