"This July, while others are relaxing poolside, head back to the classroom - from the comfort of your own home. That may sound like an oxymoron but Glenn's new academic program is only available online."Glenn Beck University? Yes. Glenn Beck University.
The classes are available to anyone who signs up for Beck’s “Extreme Insider” package, which costs $6.26 per month. A Forbes analysis in April of Beck’s many business ventures estimated that the conservative radio and talk show host made $32 million last year — mostly through his website, magazine, books and many promotional deals.Mother Jones - Courses at Glenn Beck's New U. Suggested course offerings include:
Mythology 101: FossilsTPM (LiveWire) - Hey! Glenn Beck! Leave Them Kids Alone: 'Beck University' Launches This Week
Drama 101: Intro to Alternative Lifestyles
Intro to Theology: Ayn Rand
Political Science 300: Reverse Racism and the Modern Presidency
Colloquium on Great Filmmakers: Mel Gibson
The mission statement of Beck University is perhaps best gleaned from the Latin saying on its Coat of Arms: "Tyrannis Seditio, Obsequium Deo," which roughly translates to "Revolution against tyrants, submission to God."Keith Olbermann - The Value of a Glenn Beck Education (Video).
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.The fact that the book is, ostensibly, a satire makes it all the worse.
...When you're young, you tend to form your political opinions based on those of your parents. My mother was a conservative Catholic; my father, an afficionado of Rush Limbaugh and his even more overtly racist follow-on talk radio host Bob Grant. Hindsight is 20/20, and I first got into politics partially because it was something that Dad and I could talk about.Full comment (totally worth reading) here.
...Listening to Limbaugh and Dad and reading neoconservative books - if that's all you're exposed to, then, well, of course you accept those as the answer to problems. You take the analysis down, even if it strains credibility, because you haven't heard anything more credible. When I took Lowi's class and heard Freud's thoughts on psychology, Marx's thoughts on labor and capital, and all these other ideas, well, while I never agreed completely with their analysis, and still don't, I was able to tell that they had a much better grasp of the problem than anything I was reading at the time - it was eye-opening. These guys, who I had been told were wrong all of my life, turned out to have explainations that were better than the ones that I had held.
...I believe that some people are lucky enough to know to reject Nazism from day one. I believe that some people are unlucky enough that they will always find obedience to authority appealing. I believe for the rest of us, it's a struggle, and not one that is always pretty, and not one that we always win. We can help each other out, or we can hold each other down.
In the Old Testament book of Nehemiah, the nation of Israel rallied together in a grassroots movement to help rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and thus restore stability, safety, and a promising future to that great city. We have chosen this historical concept of "rebuilding the walls" to represent allegorically the call for citizen involvement in rebuilding our nation's foundations. As Psalm 11:3 reminds us, "If the foundations be destroyed, what shall the righteous do?"(...)Comes out of the closet and announces, "Yeah every sucker that ever gave me a dollar was a fool. I'm laughing at the stupidity of my fan base all the way to the bank."
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