Glenn Beck’s Test for Talk Radio: The Lerner Story

Updated March 23, 2011

One for three....Limbaugh picked up the story and gave it more than 15 minutes, but without mentioning Beck (he used a Henry Blodget piece that referred to the Beck story as first released on Beck's blog, the Blaze). Hannity and Levin didn't mention it.

Kind of sad commentary on the conservative cause. Limbaugh sensed the importance of the story and so ran with it, but made a point of saying he normally lets 'others' go after kooks like Steven Lerner. Ergo, Lerner is a kook and Beck's chasing after what Lerner had to say makes Beck substandard and maybe a kook also. Who knows why Hannity and Levin didn't touch it, but it's not hard to intuit that they are so decided about discrediting Beck that they discredit whatever he is reporting.

Lerner is a kook in the sense of believing lots of things that aren't true, but his intentions and ideas are dead serious, and really epitomize the evil that America is wrestling with.

Beck is now a cut above the talk radio kings, because he's sensing and speaking about the issues in spiritual terms--in terms of good and evil, and how to combat evil. That's where the action really is, but Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin aren't comfortable going there, and want to believe America's current crisis can be addressed and even corrected without going there--or at least without moving too publicly into this realm.

Here's hoping they wake up to realize they are all on the same team and the right side.

Original

Glenn Beck aired today an audiotape of SEIU’s Steven Lerner speaking just this past weekend of plans to take down JP Morgan Chase in May of this year as part of orchestrated efforts to create a second financial collapse in the US. Before you shrug it off as tinfoil hat stuff, just listen to the tape yourself. Call Glenn Beck whatever name you want; just listen to Lerner on the tape. Just listen.

The Lerner story ought to have legs—the guy is a frequent visitor to the White House—and ought to get huge media play on conservative talk radio; the story is a validation of the left’s determination to destroy America as founded. If it gets the play it should, there ought to be hearings in the Congress over what he had to say, what his connection to SEIU is and what is connection to the Obama White House is, and what the Obama Department of Justice thinks about it. But the angle we're most interested in at the moment is whether Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin will take it up.

There is a bizarre sort of enmity toward Beck among the talk radio big hitters, and if it causes them to diss this story or ignore it, America’s predicament is even worse than we thought. Because it would expose Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin as more tied up with their own egos than they are driven by the desire to save America.

As Beck has pointed out, Lerner’s comments ought to be enough to get him arrested for conspiracy to commit economic terrorism against the US—i.e., a form of treason or sedition. If a real investigation was opened up, and the ties to Obama explored and exposed, the case for impeachment and removal could be open and shut. Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin have the ability to bring the spotlight and major heat on the situation, maybe enough to finally explode the stupor of Washington DC and prompt serious legal action to remove this fraud from the White House.

But will the talk radio giants do it? Or because Beck broke the story, will they pooh-pooh it; characterize Beck as over-reacting; claim they are bringing attention to stories just as or more important, and be part of a media blackout on whatever Beck is talking about?

Keep in mind, Beck isn’t postulating a theory--he has audiotape; the speaker isn’t some obscure left-wing dreamer—he’s a guy who was at the right hand of Andy Stern, head of SEIU—both of whom are very tight with Obama; the subject of Lerner’s comments isn’t how to improve union organizing efforts—it’s the out-and-out sabotage of the American financial system. Will Limbaugh, Hannity and Levin be big enough to give this the attention it deserves?

Stay tuned. America needs every voice on the side of America as founded to unite—and if they do, the Lerner story might be one of the final straws or even the final straw on the backs of the American people—who will force Congress to do what it should have done months ago: remove Obama from the Presidency.

Paul Gable

March 22, 2011