Che & Beck

Glen Beck’s excerpt on Che Guevara surely is provocative and even disturbing, as far as material content is considered. However, as a professional television anchor, I did not appreciate the extremely obnoxious tone he took on as he described the situation with Che. I am sure that a majority of his claims are justified. He did provide a fair amount of evidence and a substantial second source to back him up on points he made. It is indeed appalling that so many kids walk around in tee shirts supporting someone linked so closely with Fidel Castro and not even understand “the ideals” with which he is connected. Nevertheless, I found the manner that Beck portrayed the excerpt to be borderline offensive and unnecessarily rude. He or his colleague called Che “a blood thirsty imbecile” and consistently mocked the “idiots of Hollywood”. Clearly, he is not a biased third party reporting the news here. The extent of his mockery and name calling made me believe that he over exaggerated some of his claims to make himself seem all the more authoritative on the subject. Perhaps, this is his particular style of getting his point across to his audience, but I, for one, was not a fan.