My sense of Mark and what drives him is growing. Along with my appreciation of his positions, I find his arguments used to sustain his viewpoints nearly impregnable.

Seldom am I upset when a radio talk show host concludes his/her broadcast. Not so with Mark. I’m pissed off that he has shut down because I want more of him, his wit, his intelligence, his anger, his overall persona and his direct approach to the problems we all face.

Just this week he told a caller who praised the health care system in North Korea to “get the hell out” of America and move to North Korea if he thought their health care system was so remarkable. Why, I thought, for the love of God, don’t more people act like Mark and just cut to the proverbial chase? If America is so screwed up, just get the hell out!

Like Mark, many of us believe that the reckless spending and irresponsible actions of our government, State and Federal, have us on a path to utter destruction…and not just financially, but morally as well. That is why I’ve joined him in the crusade against the mad, mad, mad, mad world and work of Barack Obama, his stooges and all of the other self-serving career politicians who don’t give a rat’s anus about average Americans.

My like of and love for Mark Levin is not a fickle, trendy, passing fancy rather, it is predicated upon shared conservative principles, beliefs and problem solving that stem from a belief that we are “endowed by a Creator” with rights and responsibilities not only to ourselves but to everyone around us, including the next generation.

My like of Mark is based upon shared truth, expressed with undying passion born of love for America.

Like Mark, iVoteAmerica believes that the next two elections could well determine the direction America takes for many decades to come.

Like Mark, iVoteAmerica urges you to turn off the television and get off the couch this November to vote. We have to flush the political toilet.

Hop over to Mark Levin’s website.

Beck is not a journalist in the classical sense. He is not a lawyer as far as we know. Glenn is not a Harvard or Princeton educated guy. GB is not a person a network would or could or even should shove into a prime time news slot.

Enter Fox News. Enter Roger E. Ailes, President of Fox News Channel and Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group. Enter Glenn Beck to a favored opportunity to join the likes of Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity as perhaps the most watched back-to-back duo in television news history.

Beck is not Your Run of the Mill Class Clown

Other bloggers and haters of Beck have labeled him as a kind of class clown and someone who lacks the credentials and sensibility to be taken serious.

iVoteAmerica differs with other opinion-makers who ridicule Mr. Beck for his style and choreographed presentations that decidedly paint him in conservative red, white and blue colors.

We don’t doubt for a minute that he is entertaining. Who can argue that his Fox News program and two books, both best sellers, have catapulted him into the star-studded line-up of right leaning commentators?

We want to ask and try to answer the question, why is Glenn Beck such a phenom? The short answer is simple and sublime…HE IS US. He is the average, mainstream, common sense American that tends to see more and understand more than the coastal liberals and left-leaning snobs would ever care to admit, much less believe.

Beck’s grasp of the issues and black board bullet-pointed presentations remind us all of our elementary school days; of our better times and of times of temperance and a life that we long to once again have, if only the government would stop robbing us of it.

It’s the Blackboard, Stupid

We trust Glenn with a trust we have not extended to a media news personality for a long, long time. His black board, chalk and eraser convey a pictorial image of basic, uncomplicated reason with respect to political matters.

Glenn Beck is my boy scout leader (Harvey Gardner) who taught me respect for people, belief in country and discipline and courage. Glenn is my Sunday School teacher, giving me lessons on values and letting me know that belief in God is not only okay, it makes complete sense.

Mr. Beck is my high school football coach (Gary Hall) who could yell at me, call me misguided and lazy and yet, in so doing, challenge me to think more and try harder.

Glenn Beck is a phenomenon because he is not only like us, he likes us! He is like those in whom we have been able to place our trust without disappointment. He is the visage of your and my youth and the times of rational, value-based culture where we were taught right from wrong and somehow we knew the lessons were true because the voice was true.

The black board, the humor, the red direct-line phone to the White House and all of the stage craft utilized by Beck, including his reasoned rhetoric is the missed voice of America, calling us back to the basic assumptions, principles and truths that made us a great nation.

Glenn Beck is a phenomenon not because he set out to be such but rather, because he is simply us and this forces the phenomenon upon him. Glenn Beck is America and American, rolled into one. He is you, he is me and he is us. Thus, he is a phenomenon.

iVoteAmerica will post the interviews for our readers to digest.