Limbaugh, Beck, Palin: Who Wins?

It gets ever-harder for nonbelievers to have even the most basic idea of the game plan or reality-quotient or cultural context or political expectations of the nation's leading trio of conservative personalities--Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin.

The Glenn Beck interview the other night with Sarah Palin, both of them now on the Fox News payroll, was, for any outsider, inaccessible. If you're not a conservative ideologue or white-bread cretin, there isn't any reasonable way to consider the Beck-Palin conversation as something other than cynical, hyperbolic, purely ridiculous, or nutty. The normal majority is excluded from the real subtext. We can't get it.

So I'm just guessing at what's going on.

But it could be that what's happening here, the true message that is animating this pile on of inanities and, especially, in the case of Limbaugh, extreme and bewildering utterances, is that they hate each other.

To my naked eye, Beck and Palin each seemed like they wanted to set upon the other. Sugariness masks real bile. Indeed, he actually snarled at her once, calling "bullcrap" when she evaded his question of who her favorite founding father was (clearly unable to name one).

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Comments

[TRYKER]

03:53 PM on 01/15/2010

Beck got her right off the bat with his "diary" read -- making sure she got the message that "there was no one she could trust now" and wondering if she "could retain her soul".
Basically Beck or Limbaugh could break her at any time IF they turned on her. The way they abuse their power, it could happen in a flash and they get very ugly and loud.
The same isn't true of her power, she can't undo them without a sustained campaign of back-stabb­ing and behind the scenes gossip mongering and slander, her specialtie­s. So, she comes in 3rd.
She didn't seem very enthusiast­ic about being a co-host with Beck on the suggested SNL, but said it to keep from giving him anything to work with. She smiled so seldom, something had her on guard from the start.
It looked like Sarah came with a list of topics and questions she wanted but didn't get. So much for being the new FOX star...Bec­k still ruled.
Being called the new George Washington was a giant stretch and having Sarah explain who he was and what he thought and "reluctant­ly"did was just as silly.
As we saw, this was the imprint they hoped to establish.­..Sarah will be the new reluctant Washington -- but will sacrifice and serve her great country IF the masses need a reluctant "quitter" -- with 5 kids she can't manage -- to lead them.
Go repubs!

[Hammerofthor]

12:29 PM on 01/15/2010

Sarah wins. She is pretty, popular, & powerful.

[Taiyo]

01:18 PM on 01/15/2010

Sorry, I don't know how to type a raspberry.

[TRYKER]

03:55 PM on 01/15/2010

That was too good!!

[Justdontgetit]

12:54 PM on 01/17/2010

What universe are you in?

[Gewyne]

12:16 PM on 01/15/2010

Beck talks nonsense a lot of the time, is over emotional (often in pretence) and is almost in my view a certified loon - I am however heartened as I know a couple of people who like him (at least a little) and they hated this Palin love fest.

The way he spoke to her as if she was a baby was demeaning to her, but ore importantl­y to him. Having to guide her by the hand, gushing over her and being forced to cover some cracks in her knowledge (which he seem uncomforta­ble doing). For the first time these friends disliked Beck !

So this is going to be great, looks like Beck is pushing away some of his own supporters in Palins new Fox news PR section.