Glenn Beck Jumps On The Trump Train

Now Glenn will support him:

Glenn Beck admitted that he’s been wrong every step of the way about Donald Trump this presidential election cycle.

Beck went on CNN to discuss a possible jump aboard Trump’s candidacy, despite calling him a “pathological narcissistic sociopath.” He told host Alisyn Camerota that “Unlike some politicians I say what I mean and mean what I say.”

“I’m not suddenly in love with Donald Trump or a supporter of Donald Trump,” Beck said, while also saying that he’s not endorsing anyone in the race. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Tx was the first politician he had ever endorsed.

“I will tell you this. The secret behind Donald Trump, because I have been wrong about Donald Trump every step of the way,” said Beck. “I just didn’t think that this would work. I just didn’t think people would take him seriously.

“I thought people would have a problem with some of the things that he said,” Beck continued. “But they haven’t. And when you see that the Bernie Sanders people are now saying a quarter of them, in some polls, are saying that they will come over to Donald Trump, it’s not about Marxism, it is not about capitalism, it is not about policy, it is about destroying the system that has been lying to us on both sides for as long as I’ve lived.”

Given Beck’s mercurial nature, opposing Trump, supporting Zuckerberg, and so on, I though this facial symmetry analysis was interesting. I probably should have corrected the eyes, but the zany look struck me as funny, and it somehow seemed to capture the personae of Beck. Nevertheless, notice how Glenn only emoted the smile with one side of his face, and it was the right side.

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It makes me wonder if people who fake emotions regularly, tend to be more asymmetrical in their emotional expressions. If fake smiles, as a conscious muscular contraction, use the right side of the face more, while reflexive, real smiles use both sides, it is possible someone who fake-smiled all the time would exhibit more muscular and neurological asymmetry, and thus have more asymmetrical expressive features. Such muscular and/or neurological asymmetry might even continue to manifest when smiling more naturally, since one smile muscle on one side might be strong, and the other weak.

I am not saying that is so, or even that I believe it, merely that it is an interesting hypothesis I will certainly examine as I run into two-faces in my travels.

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8 years ago

[…] Glenn Beck Jumps On The Trump Train […]

Robert What?
Robert What?
8 years ago

AC, what is your analysis of Beck’s apparent change of heart? Is it purely strategic: to try to rescue his tanking ratings, or is it deeper than that?