I find that he's over the top at times, and some of the stuff he does attempting to make his point is downright looney, but he does strike at the heart of what many Americans are feeling, as evidenced by his increasing popularity.
I'm afraid you mistake popularity due to fear-mongering and propaganda for popularity due to shared belief. Beck was one of the major sources of this fear and hatred in the first place, and now he feeds off of the fear.
Beck isn't no rightwing extremist, however, he repeatedly criticizes the right when they deserve it.
He criticizes the right, in general, for not being right-wing
enough. Beck is in fact the epitamy of a "rightwing extremist".
The reason he is gaining in popularity, and destroying the competition, is because there is an ever increasing number of Americans that are fed up with both parties, and their partisan bullshit.
No, the reason he is gaining in popularity is by continuing to engage in the politics of fear. Just like the Nazis did, ironically enough.
Anyone who doesn't swallow the dems shit unquestioned is labeled with something and IMO that is where the left is going wrong. For some reason they can't envision anyone disagreeing with Obama, and try to destroy/ridicule anyone who does.
This will bite them in the ass because many of these people voted for him hoping for this "change" that so much of the country is desperate for.
You mean "labeled" as "Socialists", "Facists", "Nazis", and "Stalinists"?
Oh no, that's right, that would be the right labeling the left, wouldn't it?
Looks like your projecting the bad behavior of your own side onto your opposition. Common right-wing tactic.
And none of that changes the fact that this latest rant of Glenn Beck's is in fact attempting to incite his followers to commit high treason.
I am a proponent of free speech, in almost all circumstances. Spouting this much hatred might as well be putting guns in the hands of angry people, and while he is allowed to do that under the first amendment, we are allowed to spread the word not to buy from any of Fox's advertisers and drive him off the air.
As far as the people that AGREE with Beck's propaganda are concerned, I feel sorry for you. You're full of hatred and fear.
But, hey, on a political posting board, 90% of the people posting are going to be hyper-partisan, so what did I expect?