I’m pretty much conditioned to believe that everything that Glenn Beck says is calculated and dishonest. He’s a demagogue, and quite a good one. This talent has made him fabulously wealthy and famous. So, when he tells me that he went to some doctors several years ago and was told that his brain was working at a 10% level, it’s not like I am inclined to believe him. I never thought that Glenn Beck was stupid or that his brain was diseased. On the other hand, he did seem to undergo some kind of transformation after he left CNN for Fox News, and once at Fox News his act did seem to get progressively more loony. I attributed that mainly to two factors. The first was that there was a Democratic president rather than a Republican one, and the second was that he kept getting rewarded with ratings and attention for his worst behavior, so he just kept pushing the envelope.
Now, he claims that he was eventually diagnosed with a variety of serious health problems, including with his adrenal system. And he claims that he was told that he was headed rapidly for some form of dementia because of a progressive loss of function with his brain. That could explain some of his paranoid and manic behaviors, but he also claims that he’s been cured. If his behavior over the last half-decade can be explained by brain disease, then a cured Glenn Beck would not exhibit those same behaviors.
So, we’ll see, won’t we?
It is difficult to get a man to behave sanely when his salary depends on his not behaving sanely.
Bingo.
I’m actually inclined to believe him – but not his doctors. They sound like quacks, especially with the “10%” nonsense (a gross distortion of a century-old claim, completely and properly ignored by scientists and neurologists). “Adrenal glands” are a common quack target too, although they are real and do sometimes need medical treatment.
It’s quite common for fabulously rich and highly gullible (he is a conservative) people to attract and fall for quacks.
It’s also possible he’s setting up for a new scam himself now that goldbuggery isn’t doing so well.
He should give Rush all the information.
The miracle power of prayer cure is the tip off.
Claimed not to have had any REM sleep for ten years. That’s not technically possible. A few days without REM leads to psychosis. It’s not ethical or possible to continue experiments after that because of REM rebound. When rats are robbed of REM for four weeks they die (although the cause of death remains unknown).
However, continuous use of downers and alcohol (combined with uppers during the day) does inhibit REM sleep. The health consequences are severe. (Quite possibly a factor in Elvis Presley’s death at age 42.) If any part of Beck’s story is true, the cure was getting off the booze and drugs.
Oh no, Marie….It was all Jesus! 😉
Works for the suckers — Beck does know his audience.
Chances are that if he is indeed suffering from dementia that it has impaired his judgment. Since he has always been more fond of grasping at straws and then lighting them on fire I would assume that he may be taking meds both for the Addisons and the dementia but his denialism is all Glenn.
In the end, successfully chasing money won’t buy him out of the effects of this kind of diagnosis.
Oh hell, it’s called the 10% brain myth
One question about Beck (or any other person whose character is in question); would you buy a used car from that man?
If he did suffer from some kind of paranoia disorder, it would certainly explain his decades of conspiracy theory claims.
That sort of thing can sometimes be treated with medication. Problem is (as is pointed out above) he is one of the only people on earth that made money off of his mental disorder….
Glenn Beck’s ChalkboardOfFreedomTM is hilarious, and anyone who takes him seriously should be ridiculed until they just disappear, in whatever form that may take.
Also: buy gold.
And if you have any leftover from the gold buying, invest in “chiropractic neurology”. I’m betting it’s best to think of Dr. Ted Carrick as Beck’s new client. Also a new explanation of how Beck really didn’t get fired from Fox.