Time Magazine Asks "Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?"

But maybe the more appropriate question is, "is Glenn Beck bad for President Obama"? (Or better yet, "is President Obama bad for America"?)

The article is not completely terrible. Below are some excerpts where they manage to give him some credit.

This flexible narrative often contains genuinely uncomfortable truths. Some days "they" are the unconfirmed policy "czars" whom Beck fears Obama is using to subvert constitutional government — and he has some radical-sounding sound bites to back it up. Some days "they" are the network of leftist community organizers known as ACORN — and his indictment of the group is looking stronger every day.

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He is having an impact. Along with St. Louis, Mo., blogger Jim Hoft, whose site is called Gateway Pundit, Beck pushed one of Obama's so-called czars, Van Jones, to resign during Labor Day weekend. ... On Sept. 14 the Senate overwhelmingly voted to cut off all federal funds to ACORN, and the U.S. Census Bureau severed its ties to the organization. This followed Beck's masterly promotion of a series of videos made by two guerrilla filmmakers who posed as a pimp and prostitute while visiting ACORN offices around the country.

Joe Scarborough accused Beck this morning of "selling anger". Well, if he means anger over the fact that Beck, a former disc jockey and self described rodeo clown, has to be the one to break one explosive story after another that the rest of the media ignores, then maybe Scarborough is right.