Joel Campbell on MormonTimes.com: Mormons drawn into Glenn Beck controversy

Controversial talk show host Glenn Beck is

certainly making waves from his Fox News TV and syndicated-radio bully

pulpit, nationwide appearances and, best-selling books. Beck is also,

for better or worse, drawing attention to his church and fellow Mormons.

The Christian Science Monitor

recently wrote:

\"If Glenn Beck were a soldier, he'd be General Patton. If an athlete,

Roger Federer four days of the week and Michael Phelps the other

three. If a rock musician, the Beatles — all four of them. The guy is

everywhere, getting more ink than that other media star, Barack Obama.

\"Cover of Time magazine (giving the world a Bronx cheer). Three-part

series in Salon. Sit-down network interview with Katie Couric.\"

Beck recently appeared, tongue sticking out, on the cover of Time

magazine and with the headline: \"Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?\"

Time writes:

\"Glenn Beck: the pudgy, buzz-cut, weeping phenomenon of radio, TV and

books. Our hot summer of political combat is turning toward an autumn

of showdowns over some of the biggest public-policy initiatives in

decades. The creamy notions of postpartisan cooperation — poured

abundantly over Obama's presidential campaign a year ago — have

curdled into suspicion and feelings of helplessness. Trust is a toxic

asset, sitting valueless on the national books. Good faith is trading

at pennies on the dollar. The old American mind-set that Richard

Hofstadter famously called 'the paranoid style' — the sense that