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GLENN BECK'S HISTORY OF DRUG ABUSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS: JOHN AVLON, THE DAILY BEAST

source: http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-22/the-making-of-glenn-beck/?cid=hp:b...

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Fox News' new shining star, Glenn Beck, has had a long and checkered past. He has battled drug addiction and mental illness and on more than one occasion thought of suicide. John Avlon reports in depth on Beck in The Daily Beast.
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67 comments // GLENN BECK'S HISTORY OF DRUG ABUSE AND MENTAL ILLNESS: JOHN AVLON, THE DAILY BEAST

  • wwwexler
    • 0
      wwwexler  

    • Anticommi...

      You just called me a retard. Go fark yourself.

      Socialism is the preferred economic/government system for most of the western world. In the US we have adopted many of the basic socialist notions with our police, fire dept., welfare, social security, standing military, and many others. So you just called America "retards".

      Since you know so much more than the rest of us, there's no reason for you to even try talking to us. We're retards.

      Pfffffffft.

    • 1 year ago
  • BillCorcoran
  • drugaddiction1
  • ANTICOMMI
    • 0
      ANTICOMMI  

    • Any one who admits to be a Socialist or a Right wing winganut is retard, both sides have good points, but no one is always right.

    • 2 years ago
  • wwwexler
  • EdJoyProductions
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      EdJoyProductions  

    • Mental illness?! No way. Who saw that coming? ::dripping with sarcasm::

      The first time I ever saw him on television, just from looking at his eyes, there was something that was not quite right. That was before I even heard the jack nuttery that came out of his mouth.

    • 2 years ago
  • panichead
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      panichead  

    • I wish he would commit hari kari live on the air after his last sponser pulls out( like his father should have that night at the whore house)

    • 2 years ago
  • wwwexler
  • Michael_Kanaba
  • sidewaysclyde
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      sidewaysclyde  

    • I can't believe I am even saying this because I, like many people, think he is ridiculous, but this doesn't have anything to do with his ability to manipulate people, does it? Won't this just create sympathies for him? I don't know. Leave him alone in that respect, we should be focusing on what he is doing to people, his spreading of misinformation, and his pulling on the puppet strings in Middle America's mind.

    • 2 years ago
  • BillCorcoran
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      BillCorcoran  
    • sidewaysclyde:

      Beck has the same audience that Rush Limbaugh has. Angry WHITE people who are ticked off at everything because they can't stand their jobs and probably can't stand their marriage and need someone to blame their unhappy circumstances on.

    • 2 years ago
  • common_sense_please
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      common_sense_please  

    • Personally I don't think Glenn Beck is a drug addict or an alcoholic. He's just a giant asshole like Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, Keith Olbermann, a majority of the members of the Senate, and about 3/4 of celebrities, bloggers, and news media anchors who have found a way to spin doing absolutely nothing but running their mouth and saying completely illogical and stupid or even made up shit into a personal fortune.

      I mean come on now--Glenn Beck's show is basically the equivalent of Jerry Springer show for the conservative audience--people watch it and either get the joke and laugh or go hey honey that guy that reminds me of your uncle/cousin/nut-job relative is on TV again-let's watch.

    • 2 years ago
  • getfukd
  • Wetdog
  • rodstradamus
  • runfar334
  • Ajil
  • jubal
  • feefer2010
  • kirby_101
    • -2
      kirby_101  

    • All I have to say is,
      people will search for anything (I mean anything) to destroy the itegrity of an idividual who poses any type of resistance, no matter how far in the past it is.

    • 2 years ago
  • BillCorcoran
  • CalgarC
  • askmieke
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      askmieke  

    • You reveal nothing that he hasn't openly admitted to. What's your point? All your great minds put together have only managed to advance the march toward marxism. It's the libtards that are being played.

    • 2 years ago
  • irie_ojo
  • irie_ojo
    • 0
      irie_ojo  

    • he is a fucking puppet for the new world order. he is getting the nation rowdy with all his racist and communist remarks. i think its crazy how once people "find god" it allows them to become hypocrites. years of living a so called "life of sin" just wiped away. and now he can pass judgement....

    • 2 years ago
  • BillCorcoran
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      BillCorcoran  
    • irie_ojo:

      What troubles me more than anything is he is patently wrong on every issue including his trumped up Marxist theories. Apparently he thinks everyone is as stupid as the Fox News audience. They aren't.

    • 2 years ago
  • ibrake4rappers13
  • Nephwrack
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      Nephwrack  

    • lol nothing "shadowy" about beck at all. except the inside of his empty skull. i think he's about as up-front as a republican't could possibly be, with the possible exception of ann coulter.

    • 2 years ago
  • bike10
  • wwwexler
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      wwwexler  
    • bike10:

      Exactly. He's on the official network of the GOP and although he occasionally claims he's not one of them, his claims fall short. He's trying to stir up anger and fear against the Democrats, he's totally a partisan tool of the GOP.

    • 2 years ago
  • ANTICOMMI
  • Euphoriatic
  • 02
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      02  

    • I think I've seen one, maybe two quick video presentations where he was talking. I remember thinking he was 100% looking, acting and talking like any cheap tinhorn preacher. The typical arch-type of faker, panderer.

      If you can't size someone up - at a glance, best do yourself a favor and slow down for new reconnoiter.

    • 2 years ago
  • BillCorcoran
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      BillCorcoran  
    • 02:

      You're right. He reminds me of one of those phony TV preachers who sell BS to their flock take the money and run out to spend it on the next hooker they can find.

    • 2 years ago
  • wwwexler
    • +3
      wwwexler  

    • Ihatethemall, you have a lot of issues but one of them isn't that you're the brightest candle in the menorah. I can see why you'd defend a dry doper, being one yourself. But remember, it's not your side that invented "PC" thinking so don't try to hide behind it, retard.

      To read someone defending Beck for veracity is music to my ears, since all I ever deal with is his lies, smears, character assassinations, conspiracy theories, cult membership (yeah, he's a effing MORMON), and paranoid delusional crackpot logic. You know, like the "socialist art" theory, that's a good example of delusion.

      You probably don't know this (I think you actually know very little about Beck, I think you just like to argue because it validates your anger), but Glenn Beck is a disciple, so to speak, of Cleon Skousen, a discredited former Mormon crackpot member of the John Birch Society. Skousen was one of those people who saw a commie behind every nook and cranny in American culture. You're very likely to be one of those, too, because it's really important for members of the lunatic fringe right to have an enemy. Your motivation isn't to try to fix things, it's to BREAK things. The left is motivated to solve problems, you're motivated by hate and fear.

      Enough of you. If you truly believe that Beck is telling you the truth, then you are living in a very dull fantasy.

      Who picked the cover photo for this article? Are you SERIOUS? You're putting Beck and Palin into the same pot as Keith Olbermann? Look, you obviously aren't paying attention.

      Palin and Beck are serial liars and that is documented. I know this to be true because I have done a good bit of it myself. Keith Olbermann is not a "wingnut". Wingnut is defined in the Urban Dictionary as

      1. wingnut
      n. An outspoken, irrational person with deeply-held, nominally conservative, political views. A person who chooses on principle to be flagrantly ignorant. A "right-wing nut".
      Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, and Fred Phelps are examples of the wingnut element in modern America.

      Look, the term "wingnut" is a RIGHT WING name, not a left wing one. The one that the wingnuts tried to stick on the left was "moonbats" but guess what? There are a few people on the left who are utter screwups but there are very few "moonbats". Keith Olbermann is certainly not one of them. He has a rational mind, he has expert guests who are respected in their field (political commentary, Constitutional law, and so on). He uses fact-based reasoning, not a ridiculous routine of unsubstantiated innuendo and discredited BS.

      I'm not surprised by the Daily Beast using such a cracked photo mashup for their article. They're trying to be "fair and balanced", just like the crackpots who hired Beck and Palin for political opinion shows (LOLOLOL!!!!). "Fair and balanced" is what has destroyed journalism in America, along with corporate monopolies. Sometimes there isn't another side to a story. Sometimes it's just a FACT, and you don't need to manufacture a factoid to keep your readers informed.

      For example, when you're doing a story about WINGNUTS, you don't need a picture of Olbermann. Wingnuts are wingnuts, you silly, irrelevant meat puppets.

      -Wexler
      www.glennbeckreport.com

    • 2 years ago
  • ANTICOMMI
  • wwwexler
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    • wwwexler:

      I would take issue with your definition of "wingnut" being specifically about right-leaning political hacks.
      Wingnut is term used for many years about people who exhibited loony tendencies. Anyone who is or was a little loony would be referred to as "wingnut"

    • 2 years ago
  • wwwexler
  • Ihatethemall
  • Ihatethemall
  • wwwexler
    • +1
      wwwexler  
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    • Ihatethemall:

      This from a guy who took a picture of his hand flipping the bird and used it as his avatar.

      Yes, you are a retard. And you're defending/following an ass clown dissembler who bases every show on a whopper and defends it with misconstrued factoids.

      Yep, that's you. Unlike Sarah Palin, I'm not PC. And you're not either, but you cry like a little bitch, just like she does, whenever she's been caught practicing hypocrisy.

      With your overt aggression, defense of delusional fantasies, and persecution complex, I'd say it's pretty safe to say that when you were a few years younger you didn't play well with others. Or maybe the lady at day care shook you a little bit too hard. There's usually an explanation why someone living in the age of Google and instantaneous promulgation of information would believe Glenn Beck. IQ is frequently a factor.

      If you would like to educate yourself about Beck's lies, I have a spreadsheet of them at this link:

      http://glennbeckreport.com/glenn-beck-lies/

      I haven't even had time to sift through the speech he gave at CPAC Friday, so check back later this week. Preview.... the Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French for the centennial of the American Revolution to commemorate the solidarity between France and the United States.

      Solidarity.

      You know, France. The people who invented "freedom fries".

      -Wexler

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
    • -1
      Ihatethemall  
    • wwwexler:

      this is the last time I will reply to you. You have no right to call me or anyone here names. I see current seems to allow the left, liberals, and democrats here in current land special privileges and rights. They allow you to call others name which is in direct violation of the guidelines they hold me and others who are against the left to. I am not really surprised because the only way people on the left make it through life is by being granted special rights and privileges that others dont get.

      ending any and all transmissions with wwwexler( until he/she learns to speak to fellow members of current properly) now

    • 2 years ago
  • wwwexler
    • -1
      wwwexler  
    • Ihatethemall:

      "It's a conspiracy, I tells ya, a CONSPIRACY! He's probably part of Obama's secret AmeriCorps armed forces, too! And a socialist! And, and... and... the liberal media... and socialist art, I'm melting... melting... what a world..."

      LOL you whiny little mess.

    • 2 years ago
  • jubal
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      jubal  
    • Ihatethemall:

      There is another poster on here who is on the right who seems to get away with and thinks it is his right to call liberal FUCKING MORONS< FUCKING IDIOTS< LIBERAL FUCKTARDS< ETC, AD NAUSEM.

      Its not just a left insulting the right thing, the right does their fair share of insulting, too.

      BTW I wasn't implying that the insulter was you, I was just commenting on your post.

    • 2 years ago
  • chivideoguy
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      chivideoguy  

    • look people. This problem isn't that hard to fix. All you need to do is get a photo, or video (video is better) of Glen Beck dressed as a tranny doing lines of coke off of a man with an Obama mask's penis. This will infuriate all conservatives and force Sarah Palin to tell all the tea baggers that "Glen Beck is AN ALL AMERICAN TEA BAGGER!!! GO OUT AND BE LIKE HIM!!!" To be honest, I don't know how these teabaggers would react. I figure they would act in disgust, but they would probably go out and start doing lines of coke off people's weiners. They tend to contradict themselves quite often like that

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  

    • SO WHAT??? he had drug problems, many here have including myself. Its those that are able to overcome their issues and make something of themselves that are the strong.

      Do you make fun of the drug addicts you see in the streets?
      Do you mock and ridicule the homeless with mental issues?

      I am sure if Glenn Beck and just went on some type of government aid instead of speaking the truth you all would be right there championing his cause to get free services from the feds. Instead he speaks the truth and the truth hurts.

      It must be nice to live in Currentland here and see things with rose colored glasses but sooner or later you are going to have to move into the real world and when that times comes most of you will not survive. But thats probably a GOOD THING. The world and this country in general has, by far, many to leeches that are sucking the blood out of the life lines that make this country great.

    • 2 years ago
  • abernasty
  • Euphoriatic
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      Euphoriatic  
    • Ihatethemall:

      mallhater, I don't know if you're one of those poli-blog-trolls that roam internetland; but you don't seem like a very critical thinking person. Assuming you genuinely care about your fellow man, and not just this blue vs. red nonsense, why would you back someone that so clearly and openly pushes a radical agenda via fear tactics? I know, Glenn obviously has an appeal to those who feel disenfranchised and what not, but there are much better ways to help the US and it's citizens. Blindly following a mad man to a fictional Ragnarok or revolution, without understanding his intent, is a very silly thing to do. As a man of business, Glenn knows there is money in standing out, and there is nothing wrong with a person trying to be a successful business man. The problem is when the means of said business starts to cause far to much pain and hate, to justify the ends. We're all human beings, and we all share the same country on the same planet. Is it that much easier for a person to heckle then help? Evolve. If this falls on deaf ears, so be it. But if this is how you really feel, take a step back and look at the world as something bigger than a thing of black and white, or red and blue. Peace yo..

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
    • -1
      Ihatethemall  
    • Euphoriatic:

      Fear tactics. You mean like if we dont pass the porkinus bill the recession will get worse or if we dont do this the unemployment will get to 9% or there are 47 million people without healthcare so we need to change everyone elses healthcare even though it will still leave millions uninsured.

      Yeah I see what you mean about fear tactics.

      And as far as blindly following a man who has not even served one full term as a senator and no one knows anything about is foolish.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • Euphoriatic
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      Euphoriatic  
    • Ihatethemall:

      Aight, well I just thought I would check your brain out. Apparently bitching and playing the "game" is your deal, so you can just crawl back into your tent of hate and enjoy your apocalypse, peace.

    • 2 years ago
  • Denica_Cassandra
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      Denica_Cassandra  

    • If you can't tell the difference between Keith Olbermann and Glen Beck, you obviously have a bit of reading to do.
      Granted, they both get angry on television- one over real socioeconomic problems and political issues, the other about absolute NONSENSE. Glen Beck makes money off of the racist throwbacks who refuse to acknowledge progress (and in fact HATE everything about it.)
      Linking progressives to the people that want to check the President's birth certificate is just not logical or fair. Olbermann deals in real anger over REAL information, Beck deals frenzied hatred for anyone who is not him.

      Linking activists and people with opinions on REAL issues to frothing racists is just another way to attack anyone with a strong opinion. I don't like your concept, John, and I don't like the fact that people like you complain about other people CARING about something. What do you care about?

      car·ing (kârng)
      adj.
      Feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others: "We formed Generations United to argue for a caring society" (Jack Ossofsky).
      caring [ˈkɛərɪŋ]
      adj
      1. feeling or showing care and compassion a caring attitude
      2. (Social Welfare) of or relating to professional social or medical care nursing is a caring job
      n (Social Welfare) the practice or profession of providing social or medical care

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
    • -4
      Ihatethemall  
    • Denica_test:

      so you consider the total collapse of our economy nonsense? He picks on the right too you know?

      all the anti BECK stories here in currentland and still he is the most watched cable news show on TV today. Must really piss you off that so many True Patriots are awake to what the politicians are doing to this country.

      did you get your 20 pieces of silver today from the people that hired you to post here and slam the people who speak out with the truth against a system that is totally fucking up our country? or is it a monthly payment.

      PS. I dont blame you for getting paid in precious metals. The dollar will be worth nothing if the politicians succeed. wake up.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
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      Ihatethemall  
    • Denica_test:

      I do not care and have no compassion for those to lazy, stupid or weak to go out and fend for themselves. The strong will survive and the weak shall die off in huge numbers as the economy gets worse and worse at the hands of ALL the politicians that are ruining or at least trying to ruin, a once great nation.

    • 2 years ago
  • BillCorcoran
  • nursediesel
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      nursediesel  

    • He's been very open and honest about his horrible past experiences when he was on CNN, and on his radio show. I haven't heard him for way over a year and I rarely watched him yet I know all this old stuff.... now it's just publicity.....

    • 2 years ago
  • Progresshiv
  • Davidod
    • +1
      Davidod  

    • Unless you've not been listening, I suppose this might be 'new' news?

      But sorry, repeating what's been know for YEARS about Beck is as pointless as those who repeatedly bring up BO's ACORN ties (yeah, we KNOW he's black and some Tea Baggers hate him for it).

      Beck admits to his past substance abuse (and discusses it on his website), so it's dirty pool to keep beating him up over it.

      Don't get me wrong: I think Beck is part of the same dangerous popularist trend as the other Faux News commentators are, but I try not to let MY fears overwhelm what constitutes a fair debating point.

    • 2 years ago
  • Ihatethemall
  • neocongo
    • +6
      neocongo  

    • I don't care about his past drug addiction or self diagnosed mental illness. I do care that Glen Beck is a non stop lying machine for the GOP and Fox seems to think that's ok. It is not.

    • 2 years ago
  • CalgarC
  • blackheartman
  • nursediesel
  • CalgarC
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