MikeDC
Member
- Joined
- May 24, 2007
- Messages
- 5,643
- Likes
- 16
- Points
- 38
Marc Danziger wants to know why he finds Glen Beck so creepy. I've not watched more than clips of him, but what I have seen suggests to me that, like Limbaugh, it's his mannerisms are a purposefully subversive gag that his audience gets and that his critics don't.
Put simply, the left has a stereotype of the right-wing demagogue commentator, and they really have a burr up their ass about it.
Beck, and the sort of people who listen to Beck, believe (and are quite likely correct) that no matter how reasonably they put forth any arguments, the left will always portray them as wingnut populist demagogue fascists.
Their reaction is to play the part. Mug for the camera, and rub it in people's faces. To the hilt.Play the role, lampoon the meme by feeding it, and then laugh their asses off at the scared-at-their-behavior, earnest and ever so serious lefties sputtering incoherently at them.
It's like hippies and squares with the roles reversed from the Sixties.
Put simply, the left has a stereotype of the right-wing demagogue commentator, and they really have a burr up their ass about it.
Beck, and the sort of people who listen to Beck, believe (and are quite likely correct) that no matter how reasonably they put forth any arguments, the left will always portray them as wingnut populist demagogue fascists.
Their reaction is to play the part. Mug for the camera, and rub it in people's faces. To the hilt.Play the role, lampoon the meme by feeding it, and then laugh their asses off at the scared-at-their-behavior, earnest and ever so serious lefties sputtering incoherently at them.
It's like hippies and squares with the roles reversed from the Sixties.
