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His remarks are not "entertaining"; they are malicious as well as vicious and are aimed at undermining our very way of life. The sad part is that there are too many who  believe everything he says.Â
Here are excerpts from the post to which I refer:
Glenn Beck Should Revere Teddy Roosevelt
By Christopher Ruddy
It is remarkable that Theodore Roosevelt (TR to his friends), who has been beloved as an iconic patriot and president, would become a controversial figure today.
This unusual development is largely due to the rise of Glenn Beck.
Glenn is wrong on one big issue: Theodore Roosevelt is not, as he claims, the root cause of President Obama’s intrusive, “big government†policies.
It is no accident that TR’s face is chiseled into Mount Rushmore along with those of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, as he is rightly regarded by historians as one of the greatest presidents in American history.
He was raised to that height in the national consciousness by the weight of important achievements that significantly advanced the interests of the United States.
Strong in this belief, I have found Glenn Beck’s criticism of TR surprising.
At his CPAC speech this past February, Glenn said that TR was largely responsible for the “progressive†encroachments we are seeing today. Elsewhere, he has described TR as a “weird progressive,†and said that TR started the idea that the United States should not be a sovereign nation.medium;">Glenn Beck is correct in stating that Roosevelt was among America’s first progressives. To accurately portray TR today, we must widen our perspective and see him in the full context of his life and times.
Roosevelt embraced a progressive agenda, one that called for establishing a “progressive†income tax, giving women the right to vote, creating laws banning child labor, instituting anti-monopoly regulations, and other programs. Many of his positions are accepted by most reasonable Americans today.
Remember that TR’s generation was dominated by ruthless “robber barons†who did not hesitate to use devious means to eliminate competition.
Like all great statesmen in the history of our republic, TR listened to the American people.
His hero was the Great Emancipator, Abraham Lincoln. Roosevelt was deeply impressed with Lincoln’s political sagacity, noting that, “Lincoln stood with the radicals to abolish slavery and with the conservatives to save the Union, and he was right in both cases.â€
And that is what Theodore Roosevelt always tried to do, to act according to the practical needs of the occasion, to make America strong and No. 1 on the world stage.
