or a newscaster or a talk show host or a sports caster. don t ever think you can get to know a person this way. that is a trick the box is trying to play on you. this box is used to entertain, to divert, to inform, and it does so now without boundaries to separate those three things, but it was never designed, nor has it ever been used successfully to tell you the truth about the people who play inside this box. this box will never allow you to know that about us. i don t know who the real glenn beck is. but i know what he says on tvç and i know what he says on the radio and i find things to criticize on that. glenn beck has actually made me think about why i cracked on that last line of the e-mail. the last line was, please yell some sense into these people. i think what got to me about that was the knowledge that i couldn t.
what i was writing. i don t want know why, exactly, but it has something to do with the artistic capability of feeling strongly connected to what is depicted in the words. i don t ever want to lose that connection to the power of words. i need to be overwhelmable by words, by images, by music, by art. that is not the best wiring to have for sitting in something that looks like an anchor man s position every night and trying to perform in the tradition of emotional neutrality that television news audiences are more accustomed to. i do what i can within the performance constraints of this box. and yes, it is a performance. this is not the real me. there is no man in makeup on tv or woman who is delivering to you in this little box that real person, whether it be an actor or a newscaster or a talk show host or a sports caster. don t ever think you can get to know a person this way.
television news audiences are more accustomed to. i do what i can within the performance constraints of this box. and yes, it is a performance. this is not the real me. there is no man in makeup on tv or woman who is delivering to you in this little box that real person, whether it be an actor or a newscaster or a talk show host or a sports caster. don t ever think you can get to know a person this way. that is a trick the box is trying to play on you. this box is used to entertain, to divert, to inform, and it does so now without boundaries to separate those three things, but it was never designed, nor has it ever been used successfully to tell you the truth about the people who play inside this box. this box will never allow you to know that about us. i don t know who the real glenn beck is. but i know what he says on tv and i know what he says on the radio and i find things to criticize on that. glenn beck has actually made me think about why i cracked on that last line of the e-mai
about the philosophical divisions that are going to divide, not divide, but drive the country in the next few years. with cops and firefighters on the liberal side, i am more excited. they are not on the liberal side. they weren t before, but they are now. oh, please. michael steele, former chairman of the republican national committee, a good sport and good guy. thank you very much. thank you. do you know who brent must berger is? he is a famous sports caster. for a long time he was the most famous sports caster in the world. he was the face of cbs. and on april 1st, 1990, cbs fired him and nobody believed it because they did it on april 1st. look it up. true. this year it has sort of happened again. i will explain in a second. be right back. it s pain relief without the pills.
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