Glenn Beck: I Used to Be a Social Liberal Before I Discovered Alcoholics Anonymous and Sobered Up
Glenn Beck used to be a social liberal before he discovered Alcoholics Anonymous and then consequently sobered up. This admission—coming straight from the man’s lips on his Friday TV show on FNC during a special
entitled “Who Are You?”—may not be a surprise to some who know Beck’s backstory, but it certainly reinforces the conventional wisdom that liberalism breeds weakness and is oftentimes an impediment to personal self-improvement. His declaration came in the context of “knowing yourself” politically and ideologically, the theme of Friday’s Glenn Beck show special on FNC. Stating that his recovery from alcoholism came only after he truly discovered who he was—libertarian conservative—Beck also went on to assert that he later realized he was only a liberal because he didn’t want to make tough choices or be consistent.