I Don’t Get Glenn Beck

by Art Fag City on September 14, 2009 · 25 comments

Is The National Endowment of the Arts encouraging propaganda? Glenn Beck seems to think so, but there’s no logic to the words exiting his mouth. Beck is concerned about statements made by the NEA’s now former head of communications Yosi Sergant at an August conference with the White House Office of Public Engagement and United We Serve. The purpose of the call was to discuss the recruitment of artists who would create works supporting the policies of President Obama. The clip below, according to Beck, is amongst those the public should fear the most.

This is just the beginning. This is the first telephone call of a brand new conversation. We are just now learning how to bring this community together to speak with the government. What that looks like legally. We’re still trying to figure out the laws of putting government websites on Facebook. And the use of Twitter. This is all being sorted out. We are participating in history as it’s being made. So bear with us as we learn the language so that we can speak to each other safely. And we can really work together and move the needle to get stuff done.
Yosi Sergant, National Endowment for the Arts

According to Beck, Sergant’s statements demonstrate that the NEA knew the planned actions might be illegal, even though all he’s asked is whether he can place a government website on Facebook. Beck also believes artist’s freedom of speech will be threatened if they talk to the government about ways to have their concerns met, that this conversation represents fascism, and all kinds of other named and unnamed atrocities.

Frankly I don’t have a lot to say about Beck’s obvious fear mongering other than I don’t think it’s particularly healthy for the country when media companies give people like him a platform. He’s obviously insane.


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vanderleun
“… obviously insane.”
Well, as the old blues song goes, “Fore you cuse me, take a look at yousef.”
Here’s your starting point on the issue which began on Big Hollywood, not Beck.
“Throughout the conversation my inner dialogue was firing away questions so fast that the NRA would’ve been envious. Is this truly the role of the NEA? Is building a message distribution network, for matters other than increasing access to the arts and arts education, the role of the National Endowment for the Arts? Is providing the art community issues to address, especially those that are currently being vehemently debated nationally, a legitimate role for the NEA? I found it highly unlikely that this was in their original charter, so I checked.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/08/25/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche/
vanderleun
“… obviously insane.”
Well, as the old blues song goes, “Fore you cuse me, take a look at yousef.”
Here’s your starting point on the issue which began on Big Hollywood, not Beck.
“Throughout the conversation my inner dialogue was firing away questions so fast that the NRA would’ve been envious. Is this truly the role of the NEA? Is building a message distribution network, for matters other than increasing access to the arts and arts education, the role of the National Endowment for the Arts? Is providing the art community issues to address, especially those that are currently being vehemently debated nationally, a legitimate role for the NEA? I found it highly unlikely that this was in their original charter, so I checked.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/08/25/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche/
vanderleun
“… obviously insane.”
Well, as the old blues song goes, “Fore you cuse me, take a look at yousef.”
Here’s your starting point on the issue which began on Big Hollywood, not Beck.
“Throughout the conversation my inner dialogue was firing away questions so fast that the NRA would’ve been envious. Is this truly the role of the NEA? Is building a message distribution network, for matters other than increasing access to the arts and arts education, the role of the National Endowment for the Arts? Is providing the art community issues to address, especially those that are currently being vehemently debated nationally, a legitimate role for the NEA? I found it highly unlikely that this was in their original charter, so I checked.”
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/pcourrielche/2009/08/25/the-national-endowment-for-the-art-of-persuasion-patrick-courrielche/
http://bmoreart.blogspot.com Cara
obviously glen beck also did not attend art fairs in miami last december … he would have been absolutely horrified by all the obama ‘propaganda’ !
http://bmoreart.blogspot.com Cara
obviously glen beck also did not attend art fairs in miami last december … he would have been absolutely horrified by all the obama ‘propaganda’ !
http://bmoreart.blogspot.com Cara
obviously glen beck also did not attend art fairs in miami last december … he would have been absolutely horrified by all the obama ‘propaganda’ !
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
omg. I forgot about that — Obama was EVERYWHERE.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
omg. I forgot about that — Obama was EVERYWHERE.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
omg. I forgot about that — Obama was EVERYWHERE.
skepical artist
follow your blog with glee….
GB is a populist with a national platform. Sometimes his rants are kinda fringy silly extremist stuff. But with this NEA issue which began early in the summer he exposed something I find troubling & have not seen in so blatant a fashion in all my 49 yrs. a few years ago, the
GOP tried to stack the deck and swerve Public broadcasting during the last regime…Now Democrats are caught trying to use NEA as a propaganda wing…hen a lot of important news is spun or filtered by the MSM to the degree its been building to, this gives Beck and Breitbart a mandate to fill the gap…This is bigger than any one party…I’m just sayin’
skepical artist
follow your blog with glee….
GB is a populist with a national platform. Sometimes his rants are kinda fringy silly extremist stuff. But with this NEA issue which began early in the summer he exposed something I find troubling & have not seen in so blatant a fashion in all my 49 yrs. a few years ago, the
GOP tried to stack the deck and swerve Public broadcasting during the last regime…Now Democrats are caught trying to use NEA as a propaganda wing…hen a lot of important news is spun or filtered by the MSM to the degree its been building to, this gives Beck and Breitbart a mandate to fill the gap…This is bigger than any one party…I’m just sayin’
skepical artist
follow your blog with glee….
GB is a populist with a national platform. Sometimes his rants are kinda fringy silly extremist stuff. But with this NEA issue which began early in the summer he exposed something I find troubling & have not seen in so blatant a fashion in all my 49 yrs. a few years ago, the
GOP tried to stack the deck and swerve Public broadcasting during the last regime…Now Democrats are caught trying to use NEA as a propaganda wing…hen a lot of important news is spun or filtered by the MSM to the degree its been building to, this gives Beck and Breitbart a mandate to fill the gap…This is bigger than any one party…I’m just sayin’
dude
Yeah…
Beck is a frightening individual. His ability to fear-monger has no match.
But really… this Patrick Courrielche guy (thanks for the link vanderleun) is raising some important questions. Just because artists in America tend to be liberal-leaning, does that mean a tax-payer funded organization should be using public funds to entice artists into becoming a voice-piece for partisan interests?
Sadly, Beck takes an interesting issue worthy of thoughtful discussion and turns it into a hyperbolized polemical piece of trash aimed at demonizing liberals and only really serves to obfuscate the real questions… resulting in further extreme reaction from the other side, like this post.
Seriously, AFC is one of my favourite blogs but what made you make a post like this instead of one considering the real issues of partisan politics and art funding?
dude
Yeah…
Beck is a frightening individual. His ability to fear-monger has no match.
But really… this Patrick Courrielche guy (thanks for the link vanderleun) is raising some important questions. Just because artists in America tend to be liberal-leaning, does that mean a tax-payer funded organization should be using public funds to entice artists into becoming a voice-piece for partisan interests?
Sadly, Beck takes an interesting issue worthy of thoughtful discussion and turns it into a hyperbolized polemical piece of trash aimed at demonizing liberals and only really serves to obfuscate the real questions… resulting in further extreme reaction from the other side, like this post.
Seriously, AFC is one of my favourite blogs but what made you make a post like this instead of one considering the real issues of partisan politics and art funding?
dude
Yeah…
Beck is a frightening individual. His ability to fear-monger has no match.
But really… this Patrick Courrielche guy (thanks for the link vanderleun) is raising some important questions. Just because artists in America tend to be liberal-leaning, does that mean a tax-payer funded organization should be using public funds to entice artists into becoming a voice-piece for partisan interests?
Sadly, Beck takes an interesting issue worthy of thoughtful discussion and turns it into a hyperbolized polemical piece of trash aimed at demonizing liberals and only really serves to obfuscate the real questions… resulting in further extreme reaction from the other side, like this post.
Seriously, AFC is one of my favourite blogs but what made you make a post like this instead of one considering the real issues of partisan politics and art funding?
http://iamant.com Ant
Didn’t Glenn Beck rape and murder some woman back in 1990?
http://iamant.com Ant
Didn’t Glenn Beck rape and murder some woman back in 1990?
http://iamant.com Ant
Didn’t Glenn Beck rape and murder some woman back in 1990?
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
I’ll write a follow up post on the issues Patrick Courrielche brings up, but there’s no point in calling this blog insane just because we didn’t write about that too. I would imagine there are a fair number of people only seeing Beck’s rants. Certainly that was our starting point.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
I’ll write a follow up post on the issues Patrick Courrielche brings up, but there’s no point in calling this blog insane just because we didn’t write about that too. I would imagine there are a fair number of people only seeing Beck’s rants. Certainly that was our starting point.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
I’ll write a follow up post on the issues Patrick Courrielche brings up, but there’s no point in calling this blog insane just because we didn’t write about that too. I would imagine there are a fair number of people only seeing Beck’s rants. Certainly that was our starting point.
http://www.artfagcity.com Art Fag City
I’ll write a follow up post on the issues Patrick Courrielche brings up, but there’s no point in calling this blog insane just because we didn’t write about that too. I would imagine there are a fair number of people only seeing Beck’s rants. Certainly that was our starting point.
Ridley
Americans need to wake up the fact that Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology and he mixes this with his personal make up as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. As someone with a graduate degree in religion, I can say with all qualifications that Mormonism fits all parameters of a cult and has none of the parameters of a religion. A cult is any group (regardless of its size) that interprets the doctrines of a religion in an unorthodox fashion. The problem here is the fact the most Christians do not understand the difference and they easily fall for the lies of Mormon missionaries when they come to one’s door. On Beck’s radio show and Fox Network program he consistent demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD and indecisiveness. Alongside that reality, Glenn Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, has no college degree, has no qualifications and he is definitely not a true conservative. But then, what can anyone expect from someone who can’t find anything filthier than their own personal reflection. Since people like Beck cannot survive on the basis of any personal merits, they survive by putting others down with lies and half truths in order to feel good about themselves. The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. To further complicate things and confuse people, Beck flippantly throws around Christian terms like “God”, “Jesus”,”Holy Spirit” as well as voices of other so called “Spirit Powers” on his radio talk show. Beck is a mormon in active standing with the mormon church and is not a Christian. Mormonism teaches many gods, that the god of the earth was once a man who attained godhood status, there is no trinity, the cross of Christ means nothing and that Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers. Because Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, he is the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. The people who love what Beck says are no different than the impressionable sheep who loved every speech made by Adolph Hitler in his early years when he brought Germany into an era of economic prosperity These same sheep also blindly followed Hitler into one of the darkest chapters of world history. Beck and the Fox Network both cater to the same lowest common denominator of demagoguery. Beck would not know the first thing about God as he is a mormon. Someone should ask Beck which of the many mormon gods he kept talking about during his argument with himself on Saturday on the square in DC. Like a typical dry alcoholic, Beck even lied on national television when he spoke about holding a document signed by George Washington. That event never took Place. Unfortunately, people who love being led around by the nose do not realize that Beck is talking about a different god than that of Christianity, Judaism or Islam and that he has been a product of mormonism cultism from the day he started doing a radio talk show as an opinion pusher. You don’t have to have a degree in psychology to see that he exhibits all the signs of a dry alcoholic. The only reason this unstable impressionable idiot fell into mormonism was because the woman he wanted to have sex with would not do so unless they got first got married and from that point, they joined the mormon cult. Glenn Beck is as big a charlatan as Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russell) who started the Jehovah’s Witness cult. This is Glenn Beck in a very accurate and concise nutshell. Considering the fact that Becks personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. It will not surprise many of us when Beck’s next big thing is to come out of the closet and announce his homosexuality to the nation. Simply put…he is just another predatory neocon who is pushing the buttons of very ignorant & impressionable people who love being told what to think and believe. We live in a period of history where it has become very socially acceptable to be stupid and follow extremist idiots like Glenn Beck, Adolph Hitler, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Chicanery and lies are their middle names.
Ridley
Americans need to wake up the fact that Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology and he mixes this with his personal make up as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. As someone with a graduate degree in religion, I can say with all qualifications that Mormonism fits all parameters of a cult and has none of the parameters of a religion. A cult is any group (regardless of its size) that interprets the doctrines of a religion in an unorthodox fashion. The problem here is the fact the most Christians do not understand the difference and they easily fall for the lies of Mormon missionaries when they come to one’s door. On Beck’s radio show and Fox Network program he consistent demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD and indecisiveness. Alongside that reality, Glenn Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, has no college degree, has no qualifications and he is definitely not a true conservative. But then, what can anyone expect from someone who can’t find anything filthier than their own personal reflection. Since people like Beck cannot survive on the basis of any personal merits, they survive by putting others down with lies and half truths in order to feel good about themselves. The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. To further complicate things and confuse people, Beck flippantly throws around Christian terms like “God”, “Jesus”,”Holy Spirit” as well as voices of other so called “Spirit Powers” on his radio talk show. Beck is a mormon in active standing with the mormon church and is not a Christian. Mormonism teaches many gods, that the god of the earth was once a man who attained godhood status, there is no trinity, the cross of Christ means nothing and that Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers. Because Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, he is the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. The people who love what Beck says are no different than the impressionable sheep who loved every speech made by Adolph Hitler in his early years when he brought Germany into an era of economic prosperity These same sheep also blindly followed Hitler into one of the darkest chapters of world history. Beck and the Fox Network both cater to the same lowest common denominator of demagoguery. Beck would not know the first thing about God as he is a mormon. Someone should ask Beck which of the many mormon gods he kept talking about during his argument with himself on Saturday on the square in DC. Like a typical dry alcoholic, Beck even lied on national television when he spoke about holding a document signed by George Washington. That event never took Place. Unfortunately, people who love being led around by the nose do not realize that Beck is talking about a different god than that of Christianity, Judaism or Islam and that he has been a product of mormonism cultism from the day he started doing a radio talk show as an opinion pusher. You don’t have to have a degree in psychology to see that he exhibits all the signs of a dry alcoholic. The only reason this unstable impressionable idiot fell into mormonism was because the woman he wanted to have sex with would not do so unless they got first got married and from that point, they joined the mormon cult. Glenn Beck is as big a charlatan as Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russell) who started the Jehovah’s Witness cult. This is Glenn Beck in a very accurate and concise nutshell. Considering the fact that Becks personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. It will not surprise many of us when Beck’s next big thing is to come out of the closet and announce his homosexuality to the nation. Simply put…he is just another predatory neocon who is pushing the buttons of very ignorant & impressionable people who love being told what to think and believe. We live in a period of history where it has become very socially acceptable to be stupid and follow extremist idiots like Glenn Beck, Adolph Hitler, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Chicanery and lies are their middle names.
Ridley
Americans need to wake up the fact that Beck is simply another opinion pushing charlatan who is a product of mormon cult theology and he mixes this with his personal make up as a dry alcoholic. And for the record, he is a Mormon and not a Christian. As someone with a graduate degree in religion, I can say with all qualifications that Mormonism fits all parameters of a cult and has none of the parameters of a religion. A cult is any group (regardless of its size) that interprets the doctrines of a religion in an unorthodox fashion. The problem here is the fact the most Christians do not understand the difference and they easily fall for the lies of Mormon missionaries when they come to one’s door. On Beck’s radio show and Fox Network program he consistent demonstrates all the unstable behaviors of a dry alcoholic which include grandiosity, judgmentalism, intolerance, impulsivity, ADD and indecisiveness. Alongside that reality, Glenn Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, has no college degree, has no qualifications and he is definitely not a true conservative. But then, what can anyone expect from someone who can’t find anything filthier than their own personal reflection. Since people like Beck cannot survive on the basis of any personal merits, they survive by putting others down with lies and half truths in order to feel good about themselves. The truth about Beck is that he a dry mormon alcoholic who never got the counseling required for alcoholics. To further complicate things and confuse people, Beck flippantly throws around Christian terms like “God”, “Jesus”,”Holy Spirit” as well as voices of other so called “Spirit Powers” on his radio talk show. Beck is a mormon in active standing with the mormon church and is not a Christian. Mormonism teaches many gods, that the god of the earth was once a man who attained godhood status, there is no trinity, the cross of Christ means nothing and that Jesus Christ and Satan were brothers. Because Beck does not possess a single ounce of journalistic integrity, he is the perfect abortion poster child for Fox Network. The people who love what Beck says are no different than the impressionable sheep who loved every speech made by Adolph Hitler in his early years when he brought Germany into an era of economic prosperity These same sheep also blindly followed Hitler into one of the darkest chapters of world history. Beck and the Fox Network both cater to the same lowest common denominator of demagoguery. Beck would not know the first thing about God as he is a mormon. Someone should ask Beck which of the many mormon gods he kept talking about during his argument with himself on Saturday on the square in DC. Like a typical dry alcoholic, Beck even lied on national television when he spoke about holding a document signed by George Washington. That event never took Place. Unfortunately, people who love being led around by the nose do not realize that Beck is talking about a different god than that of Christianity, Judaism or Islam and that he has been a product of mormonism cultism from the day he started doing a radio talk show as an opinion pusher. You don’t have to have a degree in psychology to see that he exhibits all the signs of a dry alcoholic. The only reason this unstable impressionable idiot fell into mormonism was because the woman he wanted to have sex with would not do so unless they got first got married and from that point, they joined the mormon cult. Glenn Beck is as big a charlatan as Joseph Smith or that 5th grade graduate (Charles T Russell) who started the Jehovah’s Witness cult. This is Glenn Beck in a very accurate and concise nutshell. Considering the fact that Becks personal views are extreme Marxist Libertarian, his form of patriotism is false and he is a person who has no real substance or depth. It will not surprise many of us when Beck’s next big thing is to come out of the closet and announce his homosexuality to the nation. Simply put…he is just another predatory neocon who is pushing the buttons of very ignorant & impressionable people who love being told what to think and believe. We live in a period of history where it has become very socially acceptable to be stupid and follow extremist idiots like Glenn Beck, Adolph Hitler, Sarah Palin, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh. Chicanery and lies are their middle names.