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Some think he’s silly, some think he’s apocalyptic… I think he’s spot on 90% of the time (and even he wouldn’t want better odds) and he is funny.

Beck’s forte is his take on the absurd. And his material base grows exponentially daily.

He will make you laugh, cry, think and perhaps take action.
As a big believer and proponent of “We the People” he urges you to write your legislatures when the time is right as well as supporting several projects, such as The912Project.com

This and The Real America are must reads for the common sense conservative. Get to know Beck.

An Inconvenient Book

From Publishers Weekly
In this appraisal of America’s woes, conservative TV and talk-radio host Beck (The Real America) lays lighthearted siege to everything that makes the world worse. [P]olitical correctness is the biggest threat this nation faces today, he declares, as it makes us prey for Islamic fundamentalists, renders taboo the roots of our economic troubles (poor people are, in fact, lazy, he argues) and creates rampant distortion in the media. Beck goes paragraph for paragraph with global-warming alarmist Al Gore, merrily slaughtering the sacred cows of the environmentalist crowd. Not sated by the hide of the former vice president, he goes after everything and everyone from poverty to perverts, offering solutions to these and other problems (e.g., the key to success in the capitalist system is to believe in it). While often informative, as in his chapter on global warming, Beck is sometimes tedious, particularly when dealing with

“Glenn Beck shouldn’t be on [the air].” –Al Franken

The above quote should clue you in on just how good Beck is. 

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