- It's Hard Not To Like This Guy

Glenn Beck has all the right ideas, but most of the time it seems like he must have picked them up through osmosis. He's an entertainer whose trying to get ratings in a timeslot when most people won't turn on their TV. So he usually does a bunch of goofy stuff with dolls and a blackboard, and all while wearing lederhosen. It's very entertaining but in a "Rush Limbaugh meets the three stooges" kind of way. He is, as we endearingly say in my house, "a big goof ball". but I'm still a big fan.

He doesn't really understand economics at all as far as I can tell, (I heard him call Dr. Thomas Sowell 'Tommy' once) but he understands liberty, so he gets most economic questions right by default. He doesn't seem to understand big business, but he understands free enterprise so he usually gets that one right too. He doesn't know markets, or trade regulation, or monetary policy, but he has a moral center and a functioning conscience, and that seems to be enough to get him pointed in the right direction almost every time.

It's great to have a guy on TV whose contempt for politicians is almost as developed as mine. When he's on, I don't have to yell at the TV because it's already yelling back at me. I wish to god I could act as an adviser for his show sometimes because it's clear he's often confused by finance. But mostly it makes me feel better to see a guy who's only real talent is as an entertainer, and yet he still manages to gets it right more often than either the Democrat party, or the Republicans. He gets it, and I'm thankful for it.

I'm glad to have him in NJ and on my TV. We're all the better off.

By the way ... we should expect this kind of political parlor game in NJ in the next few years too.