Glenn Beck Profiled On CNN's Reliable Sources

RadioTV host Glenn Beck appeared on Reliable Sources on CNN Sunday morning and discussed his departure from Fox News, how he thinks he’s changed as a political commentator, and how many of the various apocalyptic warnings he’s issued over the years are allegedly coming to pass.

Lately he's been espousing his distaste for politics - "I hate it more than I ever have," he said - and his desire to "affect culture."

Host Brian Stelter asked if he had veered away from politics in part because it's bad for business, but Beck said no: it is "better for business if I talk about it."

"You would not believe the complaints that I get" about broadening out beyond politics, he added.


Beck talked at length about wanting Americans to unite around common principles and values.

"I think we're a country in civil war," he said. "I just think we're in a cold civil war. Shooting hasn't started, but somebody stupid is going to do something stupid and it will escalate - unless we talk to each other."

Beck complained that a few errant comments had defined him as a commentator, at the cost of his larger message: “You go back and look at the transcripts, you find another show that talked about Gandhi, talked about Martin Luther King, talked about love, talked about God, talked about peace; I talked about those things all the time.”


When asked about a comment on Fox & Friends that Obama had a “deep-seeded hatred for white people, ” Beck replied, “When you live your life five hours a day on live television or radio, you’re going to say stupid things.”

“Was the racist comment one of the stupid ones?” host Brian Stelter asked.

“Of course it was,” Beck said. “But we all live and learn.”