Did Glenn Beck Serve His Purpose?
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on April 10th, 2011 4:38 am by HL
Did Glenn Beck Serve His Purpose?
Jennifer Rubin, on Glenn Beck’s departure from Fox News: “In short, Beck is out of fashion in a time of increasingly mature conservative leadership. Yes, there are entertaining talk show hosts who educate and encourage the conservative base (Hugh Hewitt, Michael Medved and Bill Bennett come to mind). They make positive contributions to the conservative movement. Beck isn’t one of these. Now is not the time for rants and conspiracy theories.”
Jonathan Chait: “Beck served a couple purposes: He got conservatives revved up about Obama and out on the streets to attend Tea Party rallies and town hall meetings. He established a new standard of right-wing craziness that so was crazy that some pretty nutty right-wingers wound up looking comparatively sane. But his nuttiness has simply grown so obvious that he’s outlived his usefulness to the movement. He’s now ‘out of fashion.’ But fashions can always come back into style.”
