Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Why Glenn Beck’s Media Empire Is Burning Down

 
By Lloyd Grove

Glenn Beck was thanked by Ted Cruz in his Iowa victory speech, but for all his ‘mad genius,’ the right-wing media firebrand’s media company has become an abyss of backbiting and paranoia.

Glenn Beck is beset by apocalyptic visions, sinister conspiracy theories, mind-blowing prophecies, mysterious illnesses, miraculous cures, and, yes, copious waterworks.

But of all of the hobgoblins fluttering through his mind, consistency isn’t one of them.

Beck regularly contradicts himself in word and deed—a trait that his less charitable associates call hypocrisy.

For instance, mere months after announcing, with typically messianic zeal, that he was heartily sick of politics and leaving the Republican Party, he spent the past two weekends barnstorming Iowa with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the winner of Monday night’s GOP caucuses, and trading insults with also-ran Donald Trump, who calls Beck “a whack job.”

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Source: The Daily Beast

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