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Author<\/h2>\nMichael Charney<\/p>\n
Michael Charney is awriter and publisher with an interest in narrative non-fiction, politics, music and reading. He counts among his friends several people who can quote whole passages from Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Red Dwarf, and spends a great deal of time outdoors with his wife and two dogs. A graduate of the University of California, he has, in addition to his book-length work, also published award-winning short stories, essays and business articles.<\/p>\n
Mr. Charney lives in rural New Hampshire (after more than 20 years in New Jersey), with his wife and rescued mutt, Zoe. He has a tendency to obsess, and once watched 90+ hours of Doctor Who over a two-week period. He has also read at least one book by anyone who has ever one the Nobel Prize in Literature, and longs to become independently wealthy so that he can afford to run for office.<\/p>\n
Is Glenn Beck a liberal?<\/p>\n
Perhaps not, but when Michael Charney decides to plant that idea out in the “Twitterverse” some interesting conversations begin. People shout at him (MORON!), block him (SCUMSUCKER!), and belittle him (WAKE UP, IDIOT!). Eventually, though, some people start to listen.<\/p>\n
Today’s political dialogue has been stolen, hijacked from us by those with the loudest voices. Until we begin to take that conversation back for ourselves, we remain at the mercy of those with the most radical agendas, the most extreme visions, for our country. The risk is great: a country run by a vociferous minority that just happens to scream louder than the rest of us is NOT what democracy is supposed to be about.<\/p>\n
With discussions about politics, education, national security, manifestos, the Pledge of Allegiance, the Flag Code–and the Senate Candy Desk–Charney cuts a wide swath through the issues facing our country, a country he claims has a serious case of “Electile Dysfunction.”<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not a nice person. I know this because Glenn Beck told me so.<\/p>\n
Okay, perhaps he didn\u2019t tell me directly. What actually happened was this: in early March our resident emperor-pundit (and self-described rodeo clown) suggested that if we hadn\u2019t gone and screwed up the whole following-the-Commandments thing, then perhaps our angry and vengeful God wouldn\u2019t have slaughtered the innocents in Japan, where a recent tsunami had devastated large stretches of seacoast.<\/p>\n
Yep. You heard right. Beck was suggesting that God passes His verdicts on the world in the form of earthquakes and tidal waves. \u201cHey, you know that stuff we\u2019re doing?\u201d Beck asked his listeners. \u201cNot really working out real well.\u201d He then went on to add that \u201cWhat God does is God’s business. But I’ll tell you this…there’s a message being sent.\u201d<\/p>\n
I know he\u2019s not the first to render such opinions; people like Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart and Pat Robertson have all said similar things in the past. Falwell, for example, informed his faithful that \u201cAIDS is the wrath of a just God against homosexuals\u201d and Pat Robertson once drooled that the floods in New Orleans were \u201ca sign that God is tired of seeing his creation mocked by the Mardi Gras and its perverted display of debauchery and exposed breasts.\u201d If statements like Beck\u2019s aren\u2019t that unusual, then why then should he, in particular, piss me off so much?<\/p>\n
It\u2019s because Glenn Beck is an entertainer. While the others said things that were abhorrent and stupid, they were at least speaking within the sincerity of their own beliefs. But Beck isn\u2019t. He\u2019s shtick. He\u2019s pomp. He said as much back in the April 26, 2010 issue of Forbes Magazine. “\u2019I could give a flying crap about the political process,\u201d he told the reporter. \u201cMaking money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage.\u201d He went on to acknowledge that he\u2019s running \u201can entertainment company.\u201d<\/p>\n
When I think of Glenn Beck I get an image of Uriah Heep but with Bozo\u2019s big red clown nose. Imagine it: Dickensian sleeze with an overpowering aura of farce. On the one hand he claims to be \u201cjust so \u2018umble\u201d while at the same time you can sense the devious machinery clicking away behind those eyes. It\u2019s hard to look away, mostly because you never know what he\u2019s going to do next.<\/p>\n
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