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legendary
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I don't imagine he's getting memos from Upstairs telling him to re-evaluate his opinion.

I doubt he even changes his mind. He just knows that he can get a large audience spewing nonsense about freedom.

He just shows his true colors when something actually matters.
Maybe. Was he so worried about Paul and so full of himself that he thought he really needed to publicly "switch positions"? I'm tempted to think he just kind of "bunkered down" in thought and decided he needed to support the mainstream candidate to defeat Obama or Hillary, as if he could've changed the election. I really don't understand why he bucked Paul. It offends at least a significant minority of his viewers, but doesn't have much impact outside.


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Maybe he is just full of himself. Didn't he want to create some pixie-dust all-suburban White paradise? Glennbeckistan or Jesustown, something like that? I guess that dream died.... so maybe he's just looking to make money -- it's kind of his job, after all.

No idea.

2008: Glenn Beck calls Ron Paul a terrorist, calls Paul's ideas kooky and fringe.
2009: Glenn Beck wishes he had a time machine to go back and reexamine all of those issues "he apologized to libertarians everywhere for calling himself a libertarian in the past. He has long called himself a conservative with libertarian leanings, but he said he is now leaning so far libertarian that he is almost horizontal. He said, "I'm going through a change here.""
2012: Glenn Beck compares Ron Paul to Osama Bin Laden
2013: Glenn Beck apologizes to libertarians (again...)

See the pattern?
Election year: "Libertarians are evil"
Year after election: "I'm a libertarian now, forgive me for last year"
donator
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I don't imagine he's getting memos from Upstairs telling him to re-evaluate his opinion.

I doubt he even changes his mind. He just knows that he can get a large audience spewing nonsense about freedom.

He just shows his true colors when something actually matters.
Maybe. Was he so worried about Paul and so full of himself that he thought he really needed to publicly "switch positions"? I'm tempted to think he just kind of "bunkered down" in thought and decided he needed to support the mainstream candidate to defeat Obama or Hillary, as if he could've changed the election. I really don't understand why he bucked Paul. It offends at least a significant minority of his viewers, but doesn't have much impact outside.


....

Maybe he is just full of himself. Didn't he want to create some pixie-dust all-suburban White paradise? Glennbeckistan or Jesustown, something like that? I guess that dream died.... so maybe he's just looking to make money -- it's kind of his job, after all.
legendary
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I don't imagine he's getting memos from Upstairs telling him to re-evaluate his opinion.

I doubt he even changes his mind. He just knows that he can get a large audience spewing nonsense about freedom.

He just shows his true colors when something actually matters.
donator
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I can tell you there are a good many Americans in rural areas who love Beck more than Jesus and Reagan put together

People that will be easily swayed when Glenn has an epiphany when it counts and sides with the government about how Bitcoin is bad because .

See: Glenn Beck says TARP bailout is necessary, Glenn Beck coddles libertarians then dedicates a show to calling Ron Paul a terrorist when Paul runs for president and is starting to gain steam in the polls, Glenn Beck supports the Tea Party then as the Texas Tea Party candidate for governor starts getting press for rising in the polls Glenn Beck has her on his show and uses radio hosting tricks (cut sound to her but not to audience) to imply that she's a "truther", calls her Hitler.
Hm. As much a bent toward believing outlandish conspiracies as I have, I don't imagine he's getting memos from Upstairs telling him to re-evaluate his opinion. Maybe he's just addicted to cocaine? You kind of have to be to be a talk show host, yeah?

You know, I went to markdown.com on the basis that it's a Hell of a domain name for that, and a can of tuna caught my attention. It's big draw is that it's pole-caught. It got me wondering why people (including myself, to an extent) are so attracted to low-tech, inefficient methods, and all I could come up with is that there's some kind of Nietzchean appeal to supporting a guy who goes out and does exactly what he wants to do (and knows how to do) against all odds. It's almost like a Luddite protest purchase -- or maybe it's just a desire to try something different... unsure.
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If he supported it he would accept bitcoin as an option on his shopping site: http://www.markdown.com

Great catch!
legendary
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I can tell you there are a good many Americans in rural areas who love Beck more than Jesus and Reagan put together

People that will be easily swayed when Glenn has an epiphany when it counts and sides with the government about how Bitcoin is bad because .

See: Glenn Beck says TARP bailout is necessary, Glenn Beck coddles libertarians then dedicates a show to calling Ron Paul a terrorist when Paul runs for president and is starting to gain steam in the polls, Glenn Beck supports the Tea Party then as the Texas Tea Party candidate for governor starts getting press for rising in the polls Glenn Beck has her on his show and uses radio hosting tricks (cut sound to her but not to audience) to imply that she's a "truther", calls her Hitler, etc.

See also all of the Ron Paul supporters that argued that "Beck isn't perfect but he has a massive audience"...
legendary
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If he supported it he would accept bitcoin as an option on his shopping site: http://www.markdown.com
donator
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I "don't like it," but we'll bring some new people and money into the fold. I can tell you there are a good many Americans in rural areas who love Beck more than Jesus and Reagan put together, and Bitcoin's about as well-known in the hills and plains as transgenders.

Oh. Don't let them see this thread. Cheesy
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complete 180 turn on bitcoin in 5...4...3....2...

yeah, next week he'll turn his BTC into gold and pump that  Cheesy

he has a history of being a peddler.
http://www.examiner.com/article/glenn-beck-advertises-gold-and-who-really-cares
legendary
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complete 180 turn on bitcoin in 5...4...3....2...
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I saw him speak live once.  He gets the reputation as a lunatic, but he's a very amiable sort of guy in person.

-bm


he has a reputation for being a lunatic because.. well, he just acts like one. here's a list of the craziest things he's said

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/06/in-honor-of-his-pending-departure-the-top-10-craziest-things-glenn-beck-ever-said/
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bluemeanie
I saw him speak live once.  He gets the reputation as a lunatic, but he's a very amiable sort of guy in person.

-bm
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^ Political theater is a good way of putting it. Not sure how I feel about Glenn Beck overall. I definitely respect his self-made success, and appreciate probably most of what he says. But he can be somewhat of an alarmist. However, he does have some very die hard followers. Them wanting to buy Bitcoin as some sort of a hedge against disaster (similar to stockpiling bottled water, canned food, supplies, etc.) doesn't seem like a bad thing to me.
Note - I have not watched the video yet, I'm currently doing like 5 things at once.
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okay, i'm pretty sure glenn beck has some bitcoins as well as some of his friends. he's the kind of guy to pump it if he has something to gain from it; he is just political theater. i hope bitcoiners don't fall in love with him just because he's pushing bitcoins.
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Glenn Beck is a bit too alarmist and a bit of a conspiracy theorist but I am really glad to see him talking about this. He has a hard core following that hang on every word.
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