Glen Beck - worst interview?

[quote name='thrustbucket']Oops, I meant Sheperd Smith. I get them confused for some reason. Their both so dashing.[/quote]

How could you get Shepard Smith confused with anyone? He said Blow Job on national television. I think that makes him pretty unique.
 
"Mindless Dreck" is great. I find it immensely entertaining. Whether it is music or politics, some times the sweet saccharine is soothing. You cant always eat vegetables. Sometimes you want the extra-large banana sundae even if you're already overweight. ;)

Anyway, why are people calling Beck a rookie? He's been doing TV for several years now, previously on Headline News (or whatever they call that "Missing-White-Woman' channel now). His "interviewing" style isnt the result of ignorance, but rather a cynically calculated style that is supposed to show that he can have ppl on that he's disagrees with. However, he has no intention of ever letting them get *their* views across.

But the mass media isnt the only place where political 'discourse' has devolved into who can over talk who. The silly stunts that are pulled in Congress are much more offensive. John Boenher slamming a bill on the floor like a petulent child. Elijah Cummings calling Ass. Treasury Kashkari a "chump". None of these stunts gets one more person healthcare or shaves one dollar off the national debt. At least when Beck et. al pull their stunts, they gain attention which translates to views and value to the shareholders. The Congress' stunts are just a waste of time for everyone.

That said, I used to watch Beck more often on HLN. It was funny to watch as he would take a pretty solidly debatable libertarian position and warp it into something so insane, you'd have to be on 'shrooms to follow it. It's similar to why I watch Lou Dobbs. I'm just waiting to see how long it takes him to tie whatever issue is being discussed into a rant against the Mexicans. :)
 
[quote name='hostyl1']"Mindless Dreck" is great. I find it immensely entertaining. Whether it is music or politics, some times the sweet saccharine is soothing. You cant always eat vegetables. Sometimes you want the extra-large banana sundae even if you're already overweight. ;)
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Nothing wrong with enjoying mindless dreck. Just something wrong with that being the only type of things you listen to, watch, read etc.

American is becoming a nation of intellectual lazy. As such it's no surprise that other countries are surpassing us in science, technology and other fields.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']American is becoming a nation of intellectual lazy.[/QUOTE]

Watch your tense. It's "has become," hombre. Past perfect, not present progressive.
 
Oh, before I forget, let me demonstrate why I have disdain for Beck via comparative means.

Turn on Food Network. Rachel Ray? Guy Fierri? Sandra Lee? fuckin' wastes, all of 'em. I watch Sandra Lee get a half hour tv show to show me how to open up a fuckin' can and make a casserole? No! I can get shitty recipes on my own! I don't want, nor need, someone to feed me poorly designed mediocrity and tell me it's cuisine. If you open a can, at any point, to make dinner, then you shouldn't be on my television telling me how to cook.

Buy dry beans and cook/soak them.
Buy fresh produce.
Use fresh spices.
Use fresh cuts of meat.
Have some goddamned self-respect.

We're going to get to a point where Sandra Lee, in a drunken stupor, will spend a half hour show opening up 8 different "Lunchables" and arranging them on a serving dish for Christmas Eve.

Beck is the political equivalent of that.
 
I have no use for Guy (does he even cook). But right after my son's birth when my wife was incapacitated and I was running the house and tending to the two of them, I found Sandra's recipies of great help. Yeah, I can go out in the garden and make a whole meal from scratch too, but sometimes, time is of the essence and I have no shame in using prepackaged food.

And Alton Brown ruled up until the point he joined Iron Chef America. Now he only rocks.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']But I'd for once (*gasp*) agree with Thrust here. Culture offers what sells. Direct your ire and the non-intellectuals on both sides of the political spectrum who listen to these blowhards like Beck, Limbaugh, Olbermann etc.

If people didn't watching/listen the shows would get the hook as they wouldn't have the big ratings to bring in the big advertising bucks.

Just a facet of our culture sucking as a whole. Look at what tops the box office charts and the music top 40 lists. There's plenty of good stuff out there--be it news, movies or music. But the majority prefers mindless dreck.[/QUOTE]

This new generation just has no stomach, or patience, for real news anymore. It's too boring for them. They need people yelling and screaming or telling jokes, then the eventually convince themselves it's news. I mean, what do you expect when the most highly rated television is mostly reality tv?
 
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So agreeing with philosophies developed over thousands of years is lazy? Any more so than rejecting all of them?[/QUOTE]

Depends on the circumstances. Agreeing with old ideas that border on fairy tales just because your parents drug you to a church every week as a kid without every really challenging the dogma is lazy. Just like being an atheist to to rebel etc. without really thinking about why etc. is lazy.

Again I have no problems with religious folk who are not just blindly ingrained in the dogma they were raised in and have actually done a lot of reading on faiths and a lot of deep thinking for form their value systems. I just think that's rarer among the active church-going crowd than it is among the atheists/agnostics.

I think more of the non-believers have done more sole searching to come to their moral tenets, while more of the church-going crowd just opposes abortion or thinks gays are going to hell because the bible says so or because their minister says so.

And sorry if that's insulting. While I say I'm not opposed to religion, it doesn't mean I have a lot of respect for it, or for the intellectual accumen of those who buy in hook, line and sinker. I just respect people's right to have such beliefs.
 
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[quote name='mykevermin']Oh, before I forget, let me demonstrate why I have disdain for Beck via comparative means.

Turn on Food Network. Rachel Ray? Guy Fierri? Sandra Lee? fuckin' wastes, all of 'em. I watch Sandra Lee get a half hour tv show to show me how to open up a fuckin' can and make a casserole? No! I can get shitty recipes on my own! I don't want, nor need, someone to feed me poorly designed mediocrity and tell me it's cuisine. If you open a can, at any point, to make dinner, then you shouldn't be on my television telling me how to cook.

Buy dry beans and cook/soak them.
Buy fresh produce.
Use fresh spices.
Use fresh cuts of meat.
Have some goddamned self-respect.



We're going to get to a point where Sandra Lee, in a drunken stupor, will spend a half hour show opening up 8 different "Lunchables" and arranging them on a serving dish for Christmas Eve.

Beck is the political equivalent of that.[/QUOTE]

1. iron chef america rules.

2. i snack on lunchables from time to time. i think its because as a kid i always wanted them and my mom would never get them. now as an adult, i buy a couple when i go grocery shopping.
 
[quote name='thrustbucket']This new generation just has no stomach, or patience, for real news anymore. It's too boring for them. They need people yelling and screaming or telling jokes, then the eventually convince themselves it's news. I mean, what do you expect when the most highly rated television is mostly reality tv?[/QUOTE]

You're kind of calling the kettle black here aren't you? Not that you watch/listen these blowhards, but you often reply to threads with reading the article that started the thread, spout off stuff without a source, ask others for links without searching yourself.

So you don't seem to be much of a consumer of "real news" yourself.
 
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