17 Responses to “On Any Top Ten List of ‘Really Bad Ideas for Blog Post Titles’ . .”

1. Mark L Harvey (aka Snooper)
   March 8th, 2010 @ 10:49 pm

   Dan Riehl is a GREAT guy but is wrong about Glenn Beck quite a few times. But, name me ONE person that pleases EVERYBODY. You won’t find one.

   Also, name me ONE GOPer that is currently worth a damn. Name me ONE DNCer that is currently worth a damn. You won’t find one.

   Find me ONE politician that’s worth a damn. You won’t find one.

   Find me ONE Statesmen that believes in the United States Constitution no matter their political party and THAT’s the man or woman to follow.

   Glenn Beck isn’t running for office.

2. brooklyn
   March 8th, 2010 @ 11:37 pm

   Dan Riehl is right.

   Beck’s loose employment of the facts is sincerely problematic.

   Clearly he is pushing a mantra, in which he alters reality for his narrative.

   This is far from Conservative, and highly irresponsible.

   The ‘libertarian independent’ mantra is amusing, and sometimes rather provincial in it’s fashion.

   The isolationsist denial is perhaps the worst…

   However, I have watched Beck over the years, listened long prior to the Fox Experience which has provided a new Hubris which reminds one of O’Reilly.

   On a number of occassions, I have watched Beck play loose with the record on a number of things, which makes me wince.

   The distortion of the Federal Deficit numbers, which Beck wrongly exaggerated to attribute responsibility to the Bush Administration was simply regretful. It was not only unfair, but clearly offered to push this sophomoric, equation of the two political Parties.

   It is wrong, and anyone who manipulates in this manner, is bound to cause further problems and grow a baseless fashion.

3. hitnrun
   March 8th, 2010 @ 11:52 pm

   I think this is one of those awful situations where everyone is right.

4. Darrell
   March 9th, 2010 @ 12:05 am

   > And Glenn Reynolds is not a total douchebag.

   Is that what they call condemnation by faint praise? If so he took it rather well.

   > Find me ONE Statesmen that believes in the United States Constitution no matter their political party and THAT’s the man or woman to follow.

   THANK YOU. It’s been a very long time since I saw such an intelligent comment on a blog.

5. Scrutineer
   March 9th, 2010 @ 12:48 am

   “One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.”

   “There have been times that Dan Riehl and I have very strongly disagreed, but I don’t think you really want to start this kind of pissing match with Dan.”

   Pick one. “Dan Riehl is scary, so don’t make him mad” is a feeble thing to say.

   I agree with him on most points about Beck, though.

6. dennymack
   March 9th, 2010 @ 1:26 am

   Loved hitnrun’s comment, but my view is:
   Those who criticize Glenn Beck always catch an ear full (screen full?)because, even when he is wrong, some of his listeners and watchers are responding to a sincerity they find in Beck.
   I myself am on the fence, but inclined to believe that Beck is totally sincere. I think even when he seems to be distorting, he is projecting his own perceptions, not prevaricating for a calculated effect.
   What is interesting is how hard it is to grant the same clemency to folks whose ideology we find repulsive.
   …and I have never read “smashmouth politics” so it is hard to fault this sensation as a “notice me” gambit. (This doesn’t impute a motive, but McCain was talking strategerry.)

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   March 9th, 2010 @ 1:48 am

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   March 9th, 2010 @ 2:49 am

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9. John Doe
   March 9th, 2010 @ 3:16 am

   I guess blogging for a hobby instead of for a living has at least one benefit–I can insult douchebags with impunity and not be concerned by any resultant loss of linky-love. If you attack Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh, hell, even R. Stacey McCain, you insult me, and you get attacked back. Period.

   I don’t mind fair criticism of Beck, he’s just an ex-drunken rodeo clown, but to attack him and to imply that an honest mistake is demagoguery and makes him an ignorant buffoon, then yes, that takes one into you suck, Charles-Johnson-land…

10. Little Miss Attila
    March 9th, 2010 @ 3:26 am

    R. Stacy McCain. I repeat: learn to spell.

11. Jeff Weimer
    March 9th, 2010 @ 8:05 am

    Thanks for considering me a friend, Stacy. After all, you did call me a douchebag at the inaugural Smittypalooza last July.

12. Oxbay
    March 9th, 2010 @ 8:05 am

    Glenn Beck is untrustworthy. Don’t hang your hat on him my fellow freedom loving right wingers. This NYT’s like portrayal of Wilders is just one example of what you should come to expect. Glenn Beck’s vision is cock-eyed.

13. FnB
    March 9th, 2010 @ 8:25 am

    Beck, despite having a monsterous-huge staff to do actual fact-checking, chooses to take quotes out of context and mis-attribute others. He’s an entertaining guy, even though I find his “Aw shucks, I’m just an humble ex-druggie, yokel with his own hit radio and TV shows” schtick to be more than a little gag-provoking. Demagogues are about as trustworthy as rattlesnakes, half as useful, and twice as dangerous. Dan Riehl, on the other hand, seems like a pretty solid conservative. Funny how Beck and his devotees seem to drive wedges.

    Ain’t Little Miss Attila cyut wan she axs al rood lyk sheez da speeling pulices?

14. Jeff
    March 9th, 2010 @ 9:51 am

    Beck is just being Beck …

    We need bomb throwers … Beck is certainly a bomb thrower …

    Sometimes he drops the bomb and gets himself blown up …

15. John Doe
    March 9th, 2010 @ 10:30 am

    Funny how so-called conservatives attack Beck. I think they believe that it gains them brownie points with their liberal acquaintances.

    Or they are just plain stupid. “Ohhhh, he’s not perfect, so I’ll make personal attacks against him. He won’t notice, because I’m a bacteria inside the sh!thole of a flea riding on Glenn Beck the elephant’s back!” Hey, looky there, it’s Dan Reihhl [mispelling intentional for the spelling nazi].

16. Russ
    March 9th, 2010 @ 11:10 pm

    “If you think there is no worse fate in the world than that, however, you don’t know Dan Riehl. He’s from New Jersey. IYKWIMAITYD.”

    That’s what I’m talking about.

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