as a moderate.. New image..Perhaps a contributor for msnbc or Cnn as a beginning.

Is he fucking nuts or what..

I saw him twice on Lawrence O'Donnell's show and he was extremely rational and sane. Maybe that was some kind of audition in his mind?

Not to make light of mental illness, but when he goes on his wild paranoid rants, he reminds me of my dad when he was manic.

His rants were pretty extraordinary. I was never sure if it was real or performance. Perhaps he really is on medication, he certainly is different.

It said that he had a drug and alcohol problem about 20 years ago and that he admitted he was ADHD. A lot of bipolar folks self medicate with street drugs and/or alcohol. For my dad it was booze.

I recall hearing he was an alcoholic, but I didn't know about the ADHD. He certainly does appear like a recovered alcoholic and/or drug addict.

as his own show has been all an act for the most part. Although I haven't even seen a clip of him for years now. No one can actually be as crazy as he put on. He found out, just like Trump, how anyone who has the gift of the gab can use and abuse the FEAR trigger to rake in viewers and supporters using any kind of lies and insane theories to back up your crafted view of how thing are. People will pay you money to scare the shit out of them. Someone to explain why you are so miserable, feel so insignificant and not getting ahead; that there must be some plot brewing for that to happen.

He's now made multi-millions doing that and I think he sees that the writing is on the wall for the crazies he helped create. When Trump loses, he is smart enough to predict the backlash afterwards, and while Christie, Pence, Giuliani and others are caught in the net along with Trump, he will be able to brag about how he saw it coming and that he will explain it all to you in his NEW SHOW!

is gullible enough to believe it and hire him.

Beck is a complicated person. He certainly seems to be seriously disturbed in some ways, but basically I think he played a role in his Faux days. Faux was the biggest stage he had been on and he wanted to be the most noticed actor.

And while his hyperbole often rose to the world class level and beyond, some of the things he was saying were actually thought out. Many of the left ridiculed him when he talked about the desire of extremists to establish a regional caliphate. But that is EXACTLY what ISIS tried to do -- and largely succeeded. On that basis alone, I think Beck should be given some consideration as a person who is not nearly as insane as his stage persona.

I would equate him to Jim Cramer of Mad Money. Both play a schtick. Neither is Nostradamus, but they are both probably a lot more sensible then they appear when playing to their respective constituencies.

And who knows? Beck may see an opportunity to rejoin a somewhat less insane Faux "News" in the post-Ailes era. He may see Limbaugh at the end of his time, and Britebart/Drudge/Trump going off the deep end to oblivion. He may be anticipating a realignment of the Right, with opportunities for reasonable conservatives with some street cred. This is a place Krautheimer has tried to occupy. And years ago, that would have been William Buckley and William Rusher.

It will be interesting. I think this is a very conscious move on Beck's part, trying to get to the front of the next parade.

From the poem "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats. I've never been creeped out by a poem before, but I sure was with this one. It's even more relevant, and creepy, NOW, than it was when I first studied it in high school English Lit class.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43290

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This one has always creeped me out too. Still one of my favorites.

His media empire is crumbling. He sees the writing on the wall so I suspect he will be reinventing himself over the next few months to be the voice of "sane" conservatives.

Unlike many so-called "evangelicals", he seems to be sticking to his moral guns and has been blasting Trump for his un-Christian behavior for months now. He's pointedly refused to endorse Trump, and has called out Christian leaders who HAVE endorsed him for ignoring the fact that Trump is a greedy womanizer who lives in opposition to all of the ideals outlined in the Bible. He has also blatantly drawn parallels between the Trump campaign and the rise of the German brownshirts. This new comment about Clinton isn't particularly surprising in that light.

Beck isn't endorsing Clinton though. He's made it fairly clear that he's voting for Johnson because he sees the Libertarians as the "least offensive option" in this election.

Glenn beck actually said this

Mr tea party endorsing Clinton, This election is becoming more and more twisted on every level.

I swear to christ I hate 2016...

. . . has been the utter unraveling of the sanctimonious, far-less-intelligent-than-he-believes-himself-to-be Greenwald.

like a dream come true

I know a Tea Partyist in Texas who may have just choked to death today.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat?????

Beck is a Mormon

a Moron.

But broken clocks, I suppose.

Wow. Trump is going to lose in epic numbers. And I hope his daughter, who is so worried about her "brand," but not about daddy groping women, loses her business.

Republicans have really screwed up when this yoyo comes down on our side!

lamenting over the damage that the hate mongering that he's spewed over the years has caused. I think he suggested that he has probably earned a spot in hell.

. . .It's not the fall that kills, it's the sudden stop.

I actually found myself retweeting Ari Fleischer yesterday. WTF?

Unlike others of his ilk

I am not familiar with him but he can't be all bad if he's putting country first

COUNTRY FIRST!!

being spot-on twice a day. Glen sees his world falling apart and is sniffing around for new cash piles like a dog sniffing another's ass

What in the hell would someone like Bleck know about ethics or morals? Someone else put those words in his mouth.

The one I read last night made it sound like he made this choice because he thinks they can bring her down if she's elected, whereas if Trump is elected it's the living end of the GOP. I didn't pick up on that in this CNN piece. I'll see if I can find it. It made chills run down my spine.
(Reading so much and laughing at so many pu**y memes that I can't keep my sources straight! Please don't judge me.)

It was a matter of time until he'd arrive at the only sensible conclusion for those of us that do, that being that the GOP has unfortunately been radicalized and driven off the deep end beyond any point of return.

But he cares about... something, so that's progress.

Plus, as unstable and changeable as that man is, he might change his mind on a whim five days from now.

I mentioned it in the past once or twice here on DU, to unmitigated scorn and laughter.

But who's to say? Trump's opinions have usually been centrist to center-left, he and the Clintons have been friends for years (or were, anyway), and really, he's nothing if not a showman.

If 30 or 50 years from now some talented historian discovers that Trump did, in fact, run to help assure that Hillary could be our next president, that would be one hell of a show.

I'll tell you though: I'll always be grateful to him for derailing Jeb's 'shock-and-awe' campaign. There no doubt in my mind that if Jeb had won the nomination, the Bushes and their allies in Wall Street and intelligence would have made sure he won (think USS Cole - which we almost had another incident similar to, btw), and frankly I don't think U.S. democracy as we know it could survive another Bush.

... you know it's gone too far.

First George Will, now Glenn Beck? Who's next? The reanimated corpse of Lee Atwater?