Glenn Beck: "Rush is political thought, I am a guy who’s part rodeo clown"

Your public persona often seems like that of an angry populist, in the mode of Howard Beale in the movie Network—“mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.”

I feel like Howard Beale. I saw Network just recently, again, and I thought, that’s kind of how I feel. But I think this is the way most Americans feel. I don’t think I’m a populist in the sense that I’m not playing to anybody. I think that’s what the secret of the show is. When you asked who I am, I might’ve answered this differently two years ago than I do now. I am a guy who works my brains out. I am exhausted every single day, and I probably wouldn’t work as hard if the times didn’t call for it. I believe what I say. That’s why sometimes everybody makes fun of me. Jeez, I’m turning into Tammy Faye Bakker, but my emotion is at the surface because I believe it.