Popik,

You and Beck (and Olbermann, as I’ve read in Charles Murray’s “The Unbearable Paradox of Glenn Beck” in Enterprise Blog) are all propagandists — persons who stoke the heated embers of the written word to provoke and sway emotion.

The difference between you and Beck, however, is that his type of “stoking” is purposeful.

Yours isn’t.

I was expecting at least a brief, “thankful” commentary on Beck’s overall contributions to the resurgence of conservativism this year — with perhaps a backstory on his exodus from CNN to FOX and the ratings leap that ensued.

We should be thankful for Beck. He’s found a way to inspire a group of people who may not have otherwise found interest in conservative politics, and for that, I am thankful.

So what if his audience isn’t catching the accuracy of his quotes. I would prefer they spend their time considering the falsehoods and machinations of Obama and Rahm Emanual, than on whether verbiage has been correctly attributed to Jefferson or Washington. To this, I say, may Beck someday inspire someone to to discover how Obama may break with The Constitution and the writ of law.. over Beck and his inappropriate use of The Yale Book of Quotations.

From fringe groups to clueless citizens, he’s charmed his audience into becoming interested in the dangers our country faces .. and unless you want to assume that our effort to “save the republic” is dependent on a singular group of well-versed individuals with a copy of Oxford English Dictionary in their back pockets, I suggest you leave him and everyone else to their individual, meaningful contributions to the cause – much like the editors of Redstate have left you to post your little diatribes.

So, chill man.

And thanks .. I haven’t tuned into Beck in awhile. I’m interested in seeing what he’s been up to.

PS I would call a quote “fake” when it has been correctly attributed to someone else, no? .. not when the verdict is still out. But, that’s my opinion, as I, like Beck, am no Presidential scholar.

curious about their Founding Fathers and the Constitution. I constantly am amazed at the number of people who are truly interested in something that had been DEAD & HIDDEN from view via the school system being brought back to life. I appreciate your offer to Beck and of course I would like him to be correct 100% of the time especially with fact checkers being paid to be correct however I certainly am not going to beat the man up because he has had THREE mistakes because the reality is his competitors and the LEFTISTS which of course are one in the same actually LIE on a daily basis. They don’t make mistakes they ACTUALLY LIE to their viewers.

So the bottom line for this Conservative is I will take an error over a LIE any day of the week and THANK YOU Glenn Beck for awaking a sleeping giant to the Constitution!

I’ll use the recent fake Rush Limbaugh quote controversy as an example. People made up stuff that Rush had never said.

Every word that Rush says on his program is recorded–Media Matters is constantly checking. These weren’t simply misquotations–this was done with actual malice. Rush should have sued everybody!

I wrote a devastating letter to the editor to my local Austin (TX) American-Statesman. It was not printed. I also wrote a comment directly on the Statesman’s website.

I wrote a letter directly to the newspaper’s editor in chief, stating that the Statesman sorely needs conservative voices as well as factual correctness. The editor in chief wrote back a brief “Thank you for your thoughts”–not great, but something.

The Statesman’s opinion writer had come late to the Limbaugh fake quote controversy. Limbaugh is alive (unlike our founding fathers) and had specifically denied saying the quotes on a Monday show. It was beyond incompetent for the Statesman to print the fake quotes on Wednesday! A pathetic Friday “my bad!” hardly sufficed. Plus, Rush had used a “We need segregated buses!” statement in irony that this Statesman dimwit stood by as a straight, legitimate quote.

The left does this fake quote business all the time and they do it maliiciously. I’ve called them on it.

I offer my services to anybody who wants to get things right.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Beck is a great voice for conservative thought. But sloppiness detracts from his message. More care is warranted.

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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