Glenn Beck’s new George AI stirred the predictable outrage machine this week, and when a brave listener called him out on something related to it he didn’t lash back — he thanked her. That reaction tells you everything you need to know about the difference between principled conservatives and the limp, performative outrage you see from the left. Beck unveiled a clip of an interview with an AI version of George Washington to explain the project and the backlash that followed.
What Beck is building isn’t a gimmick — it’s an attempt to turn his massive collection of founding documents into a teaching tool called The Torch, with an AI “librarian” named George who answers questions from the founders’ own words. He’s even slated to make the collection accessible through a formal foundation launch on January 5, 2026, because real patriots know history is the cure for civic ignorance.
Of course the usual suspects rushed to sneer that the AI “sounded like Glenn Beck,” as if that were a surprising or disqualifying thing. The left’s shorthand now is to accuse anyone offering a conservative alternative of being a puppet or a fraud, rather than engage on content or trust the American people to decide. Those attacks say less about Beck and more about a media class that fears any tool that helps ordinary Americans learn their past.
Beck has been explicit about how George works: it’s built from primary sources locked inside a secure system and trained to answer from the founders’ writings, not from trending headlines or woke textbooks. That’s exactly the kind of focused, honest approach we need when the public square has been poisoned by bias and misinformation — an AI that points back to the record, not the narrative.
Yes, some of the online reaction focused on the aesthetics of Beck’s AI Washington and mocked the presentation, because mockery is the left’s fallback when arguments fail. But sneers about a digital avatar don’t change the larger point: conservatives are creating institutions to fight the cultural capture of our schools and public institutions. Mockery is cheap; building alternatives that teach truth takes work and resources.
That’s why the exchange with the listener matters. A conservative who listens, adapts, and even thanks someone who calls him out is showing the humility and courage the left claims to own but never practices. We don’t need echo chambers or sanctimony; we need real conversations, accountability, and a willingness to build better tools for civic education.
If you’re tired of the permanent leftist curriculum and the media mob, support people who are actually doing something about it instead of just criticizing. Back projects that teach our children the principles that made this country great, hold leaders to account, and refuse to be shamed into silence by the professional outrage industry.
