Has Glenn Beck Come Unhinged?
The Ted Cruz-Glenn Beck friendship came to a very messy ending Monday morning during the latter’s nationally syndicated radio program.
Speaking from his mock-up of the Oval Office with Cruz over the phone, Beck grilled the Texas senator over his decision to endorse Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. He then questioned Cruz about “selling” his campaign’s email list to the Trump campaign—something every other GOP campaign has done (and has done in past election cycles).
At the end of the interview, Beck told Cruz he strongly disagreed with him, but still respected him. But after the ensuing commercial break, listeners—and viewers on his TheBlaze network—got an entirely different reaction from the radio host.
And now some are wondering if Beck has had some sort of mental breakdown.
“I’m sorry if that was too contentious for people,” he said. “I will tell you that’s not what I expected, but there was something in there—and I’m not going to go into it—there is something there and where I have private conversations with people and I know private company I know what was said and I know the story, and for the very first time I heard Ted Cruz calculate.
“When that happened the whole thing fell apart for me, and it’s my fault. It’s my fault for believing that men can actually be George Washington. It’s my fault. I should have said, ‘You know who can win? you know who could beat Hillary Clinton? Marco Rubio, and I disagree with him on the Gang of Eight members, but 80 percent I do agree with him on and he’s kind of a politician but he’s a different kind of politician. He’s a young politician, He’s a Hispanic. He can win, let’s go for it.’
“Instead I said, ‘Let’s find a truly honorable man,’ and that will always let you down. Right now we have become PETA. Shame on all of us. Why not just, ‘You will vote for Hillary,’ or, ‘You will vote for Trump.’ Why not just cover me in a bucket of blood. Why not just shame me in the public square. Why not run them out of business, they’re climate deniers, there is no difference between the two teams anymore.
“Oh sure, one is for a little lower taxes. One is for the border fence, one is not. One is for international rule. One is for national rule. Which one is for the idea that all men are created equal, and that all men have a right to pursue their own happiness and make their own [expletive] decision?
“Which one? Which one? I contend neither of them, and so we will just soak each other in buckets of blood.
“We’ll be a happy little bumper sticker community that shames one another in order to make sure you walk in goose-step with all the other Hillary supporters—or walking in goose-step with all the other Trump supporters, because she’s going to mean the destruction of America. ‘No, no,’ says the Hillary supporter, ‘You must vote for us because he means the destruction of America.’ I contend they both mean the destruction of the idea.”
The nasty breakup continued Monday evening on TheBlaze’s Dana program when Beck told hostess Dana Loesch Cruz endorsed Trump because the senator “lost faith in Divine Providence.” He said “smarmy” members of the Texas GOP establishment threatened to back another candidate for U.S. Senate in 2018, which triggered the change of heart.
He said he’ll never endorse a candidate again.
“I actually said to my wife a year ago, ‘I want to pray on it, because maybe in 2020, 2024, maybe I’ll run for something,'” he added. “Maybe I’ll run, not necessarily for president, I don’t know. But I want to prepare myself to be worthy enough to run.
“Oh my gosh, Dana not only would I not run, I will never endorse. I won’t be around it. It’s a cesspool. It’s an absolute cesspool.”
After hearing that Cruz had praised Trump’s debate performance Monday night, Beck lost his mind again. He told his Facebook followers he thought his head might explode. He wrote:
“Really? God help me I think my head is going to explode.”
