This is all I feel it necessary to say about Glenn Beck

Following the whole Glenn Beck thing has become a favorite pastime for conservatives and liberals alike. I guess I'm mostly addressing the latter here, because I don't feel I'm actually capable of changing peoples' minds about the actual content of what he has to say. People have all got their minds made up on that by now. While I disagree with it, that's not really what I have a problem with. What I have a problem with is what a childish little prick the guy is.

Glenn Beck thrives on attention, and he likes to get it through overblown appeals to emotion, shock tactics, and saying unbelievably "politically incorrect" (read: ignorant) things. His show is all about the gimmicks. Lots of silly drawings and those sorts of things. His show is Howard Stern meets Bill O'Reilly with a dash of low-brow childrens' TV. Fox has found a winning formula, and I'm honestly sort of disgusted by it. The difference is, no one takes Howard Stern seriously past the age of about 13 when they realize how much of a tool the guy is. On the other hand, every time Glenn Beck says something stupid, I'm hearing about it for a week, mostly from liberals who somehow can't believe he said it, as if it even matters that he said it.

So what I propose is we just stop talking about the guy. I don't give a shit what he has to say, and, at this point, taking him seriously enough to respond to him is giving him far more credit than he deserves. We've got real issues to deal with in this country, and responding to every crackpot cable news throws our way is really pretty useless. The more we talk about Glenn Beck, the longer his show stays on the air. Given that he thrives on this sort of attention, I figure the perfect way to get him to just go away would be to stop giving it to him. If we start treating him like the obnoxious, attention-starved child he is rather than the serious political voice he's not, he'll go away a lot faster than if we keep going on about the guy.

That said, this is the only post I'll make about Glenn Beck.