{"id":4614,"date":"2009-04-21T06:30:59","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4614"},"modified":"2009-04-21T06:30:59","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T11:30:59","slug":"the-thing-about-beck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4614","title":{"rendered":"The Thing About Beck"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t care for Glenn Beck. Never have.<\/p>\n

I’ve never quite put my finger on it, really; the fact that while there’s a lot <\/em>to be upset and motivated about these days, his ire and militancy seems at times to be almost <\/em>as manufactured as lefties claim the whole medium is?\u00a0 His voice?\u00a0 The fact that he has a seven-figure gig while I’m plugging away on weekends at WWTC?<\/p>\n

I don’t know – or didn’t until Allahpundit at Hot Air broke it down<\/a> in discussing one of Beck’s “Tom Paine” segments:<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t like is this guy\u2019s habit of lapsing into rhetoric about a second revolution, legislators ignoring the people \u201cat your peril,\u201d and, per the letter from a Marine that he reads near the end here, the idea that \u201cour country is under attack from an enemy within\u201d \u2014 which isn\u2019t the first time he\u2019s used language about enemies and attacks to describe policy disagreements. I get that the character he\u2019s playing obliges him to use a certain amount of revolutionary parlance, just like I get that I\u2019ll take plenty of heat in the comments for being a squish who\u2019s afraid to fight nutroots fire with fire, etc, but what can I tell you. That sort of rhetoric leaves me cold, and I can\u2019t be the only one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Theatrics are fine and dandy – every pundit uses ’em to some degree or another. But it seems like it’s the only trick Beck has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t care for Glenn Beck. Never have. I’ve never quite put my finger on it, really; the fact that while there’s a lot to be upset and motivated about these days, his ire and militancy seems at times to be almost as manufactured as lefties claim the whole medium is?\u00a0 His voice?\u00a0 The fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talk-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}