Actor/blogger Steven Weber has a great post up at Huffington Post that centers on the new FOX "News" superstar, Glenn Beck. I'm almost always enamored with Weber's writings, but here he locks right into something I've been reading and hearing about lately (and I don't just mean Beck), most recently on last night's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher.
In that episode, Maher interviewed meta-celebrity, Samuel "Joe the Plumber" Wurtzelbacher. The interview was only interesting on Maher's side, and from the (almost) acknowledgement that Joe was in it for the fame. After all, his original mission--confronting Barack Obama on his tax policy--was not only semi-factual, it has gone by the wayside with Joe's foray into the political sphere. Sure, he's hawking some sort of "fair tax" plan at the moment; but only for the moment. Joe's been all over the place, as an economic "expert," as a war correspondent (who wanted to abolish war correspondence), not to mention writing a book and fielding other media offers.
Similarly, Glenn Beck claimed to be a champion of the little guy, but with his growing fame has become one of the big guys. And, like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, this big-paychecked star is now fairly removed from the crowd he is preaching to. Anyway, Steven Weber sums it up better, so have a look.
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Lonesome Rhodes' Wild Ride
. . .Glenn Beck is not so much Everyman as he is the worst in every man. He is yet another in the recent line of high profile media loudmouths which began with Father Coughlin in the late 1920's and reached their apotheosis with the creation of an entire network devoted to indiscriminate rabble-rousing under a false banner of ethical, unbiased journalism, Fox News. . .
Read more at: Huffington Post
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