# Glenn Beck regrets dividing people **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 7, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345 "2013-06-07T00:37:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/1 "2013-06-07T00:37:01Z")
Suuuuuuuuuuure he does. [ > [@](#): > > A reflective Glenn Beck said Thursday he regrets that some of his fiery opinions caused division in the country over the last several years. > > He wasn’t fully aware of the perilous times and people “at each other’s throats,” said the conservative radio host, who accepted a First Amendment award from Talkers magazine, the trade publication for his industry. > > The magazine’s publisher, Michael Harrison, hailed Beck as “a once-in-a-generation performer in the broadcast arts.” ]([http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US\_BECKS\_REGRETS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-06-18-56-36](http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_BECKS_REGRETS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-06-06-18-56-36)) :rolleyes: :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/2 "2013-06-07T00:43:12Z")
Comments may not indicate actual regret and are only made for entertainment purposes. ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/3 "2013-06-07T00:44:41Z")
Explanation further down in the linked article: > [@](#): > > Beck is currently in the midst of a salesmanship effort, trying to convince cable and satellite operators to begin telecasting TheBlaze, the successful online opinion and entertainment network he started after leaving Fox News. The Dish network and Optimum TV already carry Beck’s programming. > > Angelo Carusone, a vice president at the liberal media advocacy group Media Matters who helped organize the Limbaugh boycott, was at Talkers to listen to Beck’s speech and said it didn’t surprise him. > > “Beck’s entire history is a series of booms, busts and rebirths,” he said. Now he needs to repair his brand in business circles to support his ventures and the cable distribution campaign, he said. > > “Brand repair doesn’t happen immediately,” Carusone said. “It’s a process. Beck knows that. This soft contrition seemed like an attempt to advance that slow process. I’m not sure this will be effective, though, given that his approach hasn’t really changed.” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/4 "2013-06-07T00:50:02Z")
He wishes he’d just thrown them into the chipper whole? ---
**Author:** ![Askthepizzaguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askthepizzaguy/32/9405_2.png) [@Askthepizzaguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askthepizzaguy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/5 "2013-06-07T05:38:13Z")
Why is prostitution illegal but Glenn Beck can do what he does without being arrested? At least prostitutes make people \*smile \*briefly. Glenn Beck only makes people afraid or upset. And dumb, don’t forget dumb. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/6 "2013-06-07T06:09:31Z")
I feel bad for dividing people too, but that sword was just so **sharp**. I just **had** to do it. You know how it is. ---
**Author:** ![user\_hostile](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/user_hostile/32/474_2.png) [@user\_hostile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/user_hostile)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/7 "2013-06-07T06:16:02Z")
For a 12 stepper, he’s a two timer. ---
**Author:** ![Lucas\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucas_jackson/32/303_2.png) [@Lucas\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucas_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/8 "2013-06-07T06:22:10Z")
Fuck him and the horse he rode in on. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_jeffrey_lebowski/32/215_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Jeffrey_Lebowski)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 6:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/9 "2013-06-07T06:56:51Z")
Does he regret other things? I’m just asking questions here. ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 7:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/10 "2013-06-07T07:04:50Z")
Can’t really add anymore to what you all have already said but yeah, this is patently ridiculous. Glenn Beck has serious emotional issues though so I kind of feel a _bit_ sorry for him. ---
**Author:** ![Molesworth\_2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Molesworth\_2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molesworth_2)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/11 "2013-06-07T12:53:26Z")
I’m reminded of Ann Coulter stating that “I have never seen people enjoying their husbands’ death so much” about 9/11 widows. And then claiming that she was “just joking”. There is nothing less patriotic than deliberately dividing your country along political lines during a time of national pain and discord for your own personal profit. Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck are pure filth. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/12 "2013-06-07T12:54:08Z")
How do his opinions divide the country when most of the country doesn’t give a fuck about him? ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/13 "2013-06-07T12:58:30Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Jeffrey\_Lebowski](#): > > Does he regret other things? > I’m just asking questions here. Like raping and murdering that little girl in the 80’s? ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/14 "2013-06-07T13:05:52Z")
> [@Bob Ducca](#): > > Like raping and murdering that little girl in the 80’s? Dude, you’re no better than Beck is. Don’t make such obviously false accusations. It was the 90’s. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/15 "2013-06-07T13:12:34Z")
I’ve never heard of Talkers magazine, but if they give awards to people like Beck, I guess I haven’t missed much. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/16 "2013-06-07T13:33:43Z")
If they have a magazine, wouldn’t they be readers? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/17 "2013-06-07T14:04:10Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > If they have a magazine, wouldn’t they be readers? Originally it was called “Blatherers”, but it’s readers didn’t understand what the word meant, so it was changed to “Talkers”. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/18 "2013-06-07T14:11:28Z")
The scariest part of Glenn Beck is that I have known people who went totally off the deep end worshipping the guy and thinking that every word coming out of his mouth is Gospel. Despite the man’s own admissions that he’s full of shit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/19 "2013-06-07T14:39:03Z")
I didn’t know we were divided about Glenn Beck. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2013, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345/20 "2013-06-07T14:42:17Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > \*\*Glenn Beck regrets dividing people > \*\* He **dismembered** that poor girl too?! :eek: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/glenn-beck-regrets-dividing-people/660345.md?page=2)