Charles Murray writes about Glenn Beck – (here). Charles Murray is the co-author of the controversial book “The Bell Curve” about the implications of the correlation between race and intelligence. He is currently at the American Enterprise Institute and concludes his thoughts about Glenn Beck by saying “Glenn Beck and Keith Olbermann are brothers”.
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What does Murray say in his post? Maybe I’m an outlier, but I read it twice and was able to discern next to nothing.
People with strong, divisive opinions are propagandists? Perhaps the word is abused these days. In my children’s school, they are taught that advertisements are propaganda. Selling deodorant and freezer bags is now on par with “the Jews control the media,” “polar bears are dying from CO2,” and other such tripe. God help us all if we can’t discern and think critically.
The essence of what I got was…. “I thought Glenn Beck was an idiot because that’s what people around me said”…. “when I watched his show, I realized he was pretty close to my opinions on government”… but I’m not an idiot, so I’ll find some mistake he made so I can cleanse my conscience that I might actually agree with him.
In the Bell Curve (which I have on my bookshelf), he and his co-author build up chapter after chapter of hard data presenting the case of the thing that cannot be said, and then wind up saying “but we’re not really saying the thing that can’t be said”.
Same idea – trust me that the last thing Beck needs is for Murray to endorse Beck’s ideas.
After reading Murray’s article I couldn’t quite figure out why he wrote it. Was he just short a story for that day?
Perhaps the answer lies in what the American Enterprise Institute is and who its friends are. Glenn has mentioned having meeting with some really smart economic type people, and heading in a new direction in January.
Arthur C. Brooks is the head of the AEI, which seems very much in line with Beck’s view of the role of government and free enterprise. Perhaps Murray was sending a shot across the bow at the AEI….
Beck is definitely not an idiot nor is he Olbermann’s brother, who definitely is an idiot!
Beck has been doing the investigative journalism that the MSM reporters used to do many years ago. Thanks, Glenn!