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Running a cover story on Glenn Beck is the equivalent of giving a terrorist publicity for setting off a bomb [Sept. 28]. Beck is a charlatan: he has made himself rich off people's fears without making the slightest constructive comment about national issues. Instead, he has spread innuendo to keep his audience happy. He's a TV evangelist who makes altar calls and then drives away in his Cadillac...
...Beck is inquisitive and interesting. His broadcasts offer his opinion, and I choose whether to investigate his ideas or not. He doesn't regurgitate the morning news. Bill Maher's gibes are too personally directed. The arrogance Keith Olbermann displays is foreign to me. Beck is adorable, even when I disagree with him. Is profitability not a concern for TIME, Newsweek or Oprah? Politicians clearly despise middle-class Americans who dare to question them. Should we trust Washington more? Please recognize the real story of Beck's fans: we're everyday working people concerned about the future of our country...
...opinion journalism masquerading as news," Dunn says. "They are boosting their audience. But that doesn't mean we are going to sit back." Fox News's head of news, Michael Clemente, counters that the White House criticism unfairly conflates the network's reporters and its pundits, like Glenn Beck, whom he likens to "the op-ed page of a newspaper." (See pictures of Barack Obama behind the scenes on Inauguration...
...pick your ideal band from all the people in show business whom you've worked with? Well, that's kind of cool, can I pick from dead people too? For rock drums, Keith Moon. Bass guitar, Will Lee from my band. There is no one better. I love Jeff Beck on guitar. And Ronnie Laws on tenor saxophone...
Facing a bastion of liberal policy-making in Washington and coping with a lack of charismatic leadership, Republicans are licking their wounds and trying to regroup from last November. Meanwhile, factions of moderate Republicans try to distance themselves from the far-right adherents to Beck and Limbaugh. Where bipartisan collaboration is needed, there are those willing to put their country first and reach across the aisle. But when it comes to simply giving up to a majority without fighting for principle, Republicans keep on truckin?...