Alright, what bug crawled up Glenn Beck's ass? Options

[mipadi]

In his latest rant, Glenn Beck is actually criticizing the Obama administration and the media for encouraging Americans to volunteer. Like most of Beck's "journalism" pieces, his speech is mostly rambling and incoherent and completely lacks any thesis whatsoever...but if I'm not mistaken, he's pissed off that Americans are being encouraged to do community service for free:

Glenn Beck reminds me of my alma mater's Conservatives Club: he rails against any progressive policy, even if it's essentially an all-around good thing -- and isn't helping people a positive thing?

[mipadi]

I don't buy it. If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's a duck. Beck may not want to call himself a journalist, but if you report on news and social goings-on, and provide commentary for them, you are, in fact, a journalist. Beck does sneer at other journalists and the "lib'ral media", as evidenced in the very video I posted. There's a subtext to his claims of not being a journalist: he clearly doesn't want to associate himself with the news media because it would damage his conservative credibility.

If he's not a journalist, what is he? In the interview you posted, he had a chance to say, "I'm an entertainer, just like Jon Stewart," but he didn't take the opportunity to call himself an entertainer, so he clearly doesn't see himself that way. He does refer to himself as an "opinions guy", but guess what: if you're an "opinions guy" on a news-like show on a cable news network with the name "Fox News", then you're more akin to a journalist than...well, whatever Beck would prefer to think of himself as.