Don't sweat inneptune's comments Fierobear, it's part of obama's new civility and restraint.

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quote Originally posted by olejoedad: Don't sweat inneptune's comments Fierobear, it's part of obama's new civility and restraint.

LOL

I get a little bored with Glen Beck from time to time, so I switch over to MSNBC at 5:00. If you want to see some real donkey flatulance, watch that for an hour. Used to be Ed Shultz, now it's the early rerun of "Oddball with Chris Mathews." Neither has the ratings of Beck, even when he goes out there from time to time......John

dream on , glen beck is not going anywhere. i have not missed one of his shows. fired please do not make me laugh. it's a free world watch who you want or read what you want.

Since I saw a similar post by Bear in his "Obamawatch" thread, I figure to just leave this here since its topical and, of course, what's good for the goose...

I wish they would can Glenn Beck and give Juan Williams his own show. He was great sitting in for O'Reilly last night.

I like this one about climate change:

http://www.youtube.com/watc...ck&NR=1&feature=fvwp

FUNNY?? How many of Glen Becks Predictions come true
beck is libetarian moderate whose views draw condenation from a vast aray of Major commie apologist Liars,especialy wheh his views go far right,,He is the most hated man in America
,,I do not like moderate rightist Rush L,, but when there is controversy he is first with the truth
I remember the 60s,70,s 80s when the major Media spoon fed us Lies,,Rush brought the truth
I will never forget comming back from Africa in the 80 ,s and the media made the Cuban.Russian & Angolan Butchers who slaughtered a 100,000 unarmed people seem like they were on a humanitarian mission. the smell was awful...it came from the Democratic left,,Tip Oneal sits at the foot of the Devil...just as many of you will who serve him eagarly

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quote Originally posted by FieroBear I like this one about climate change: http://www.youtube.com/watc...ck&NR=1&feature=fvwp

heh... pretty funny. "And my 401k is in the toilet... Citibank." There are a million of those nazi spoofs out there. Oh, speaking of Nazis and Glenn Beck...

"Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes"



"Mother Theresa had a mustache, Hitler had a mustache.. hmm."

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quote Originally posted by tbone42: "Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes"

So you are quoting one whacko commentator on a guy you think is another whacko commentator?

Mormons believe the U.S. Constitution was divinely inspired, that it eventually will hang by a thread and then be saved by a righteous messenger. http://www.sltrib.com/sltri...onstitution.html.csp

This may explain a lot about Glen Beck. Or, maybe not.

quote Originally posted by fierobear: So you are quoting one whacko commentator on a guy you think is another whacko commentator?

Wrong. One is a comedian and the other one is a nut case.

quote Originally posted by fierobear: So you are quoting one whacko commentator on a guy you think is another whacko commentator?

No, I posted a link to a comedian doing his job. Well.

quote Originally posted by madcurl: Wrong. One is a comedian and the other one is a nut case.

Well, glenn beck can be very funny. But you're right, that other guy is a nut case.

quote Originally posted by fierobear: Well, glenn beck can be very funny. But you're right, that other guy is a nut case.

I agree, in fact his whole show is one big joke.

quote Originally posted by newf: I agree, in fact his whole show is one big joke.

You dismiss evidence all the time, so I'm not surprised.

quote Originally posted by fierobear: You dismiss evidence all the time, so I'm not surprised.

Classic. If you are eluding to my opinion of Climate Change I could certainly claim the same of you as you are the one denying what every major scientific organization is claiming with evidence. (But let's leave that for another thread)

If you are just talking about my opinion of Beck, I don't actually think he is always wrong all the time (most of the time yes but not all) just that he is a showman and a media whore who exaggerates to try and use fear and scare mongering to keep peoples interest. At least when I watch shows like Stewart or Colbert they don't try and disguise their shows as the truth but that's kind of what makes Becks stuff even funnier IMO, he actually seems to believe some of the crazy stuff he says.

quote Glenn Beck Contemplates Starting His Own Channel The possibility that Glenn Beck will exit the Fox News Channel at the end of the year has prompted a big question in media circles: if he leaves, how will he bring his considerable audience with him? Two of the options Mr. Beck has contemplated, according to people who have spoken about it with him, are a partial or wholesale takeover of a cable channel, or an expansion of his subscription video service on the Web. Reports this week that Joel Cheatwood, a senior Fox News executive, would soon join Mr. Beck’s growing media company, Mercury Radio Arts, were the latest indication that Mr. Beck intended to leave Fox, a unit of the News Corporation, when his contract expired at the end of this year. Notably, Mr. Beck’s company has been staffing up — making Web shows, some of which have little or nothing to do with Mr. Beck, and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows. Were Mr. Beck to set off on his own, it would be a landmark moment for the media industry, reflecting a shift in the balance of power between media institutions and the personal brands of people they employ. Mr. Beck, a conservative who often comes under criticism for his attacks on progressives and apocalyptic predictions, hosts a syndicated radio show in the morning and a Fox News show in the afternoon. He has a “passionate media brand with a clear point of view,” said Larry Kramer, a media consultant and the author of “C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today.” Mr. Kramer compared Mr. Beck to Arianna Huffington and Howard Stern, two people who have spun their personalities into media empires. It is possible that Mr. Beck and Fox could agree to a new contract. But his relationship with the channel has been fraught from its earliest days in 2009, and lately both sides have been anonymously sniping at the other. Asked on Tuesday whether Fox News intends to renew his contract, a Fox spokeswoman said, “it’s not up until December” and declined to comment further. Mr. Beck declined an interview request about his future plans, but through a spokesman, he provided a statement. “Roger Ailes has built the most important voice in America today — Fox News — and it is an honor to do my show there every night,” he stated. “I have no intention whatsoever of doing the show I am doing now on Fox anywhere else.” Mr. Beck has been contemplating a cable channel of his own for more than a year, according to the people who have spoken with him about it, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Mr. Beck may not be able to actively pursue such an arrangement until his Fox contract is up. Presuming he leaves, Mr. Beck could follow a road paved by Oprah Winfrey when she started OWN: The Oprah Winfrey Network in January. He could schedule his own talk show and the shows of others on one of the many cable channels seeking a ratings jolt. Or, following Martha Stewart’s road to the Hallmark Channel, he could start smaller, taking over a few hours of a channel’s schedule. But a cable channel takeover, even in part, carries enormous risk, as Ms. Winfrey and Ms. Stewart can attest — they have more real estate now, but the ratings comparisons are not favorable. For Mr. Beck, the risk may be heightened by the fact that many advertisers have shunned him on Fox, in part because of a boycott that started after he called President Obama racist in 2009. Furthermore, having cable channel turf may carry less importance in the future as more people access TV shows online. Mr. Beck’s other option is to expand Insider Extreme, the subscription portion of his Web site, glennbeck.com, by hosting an exclusive show there and by adding other content. Insider Extreme already simulcasts Mr. Beck’s three-hour radio show; shows a fourth hour hosted by his sidekicks; shows a daily show hosted by S. E. Cupp, a conservative commentator; and occasionally features documentaries. Mr. Beck is also in business with Dr. Keith Ablow, a well-known psychiatrist; they sometimes co-host free webcasts. Mercury Radio Arts, which is privately held, has not released any figures for the $9.95 subscription service. Last April, one month after Insider Extreme started, Forbes magazine estimated that the Web operations earned Mr. Beck $4 million a year, twice as much as the $2 million he earned from Fox. On the Web, unlike on television, Mr. Beck owns the data about his subscribers. People who have spoken to Mr. Beck say that neither option — a cable channel or what would essentially be an Internet channel — would be aimed at competing with Fox News, which is enormously popular on cable. Rather, it would try to extract more value out of Mr. Beck’s loyal fans. The comparison to Mr. Stern may be apt: his audience on satellite radio is smaller than it was on terrestrial radio, but the profits are higher. Already, some of Mr. Beck’s fans have followed him to a news and opinion Web site, theblaze.com, and to stage shows. Mr. Kramer noted that Mr. Beck did not necessarily have to choose between cable and the Internet — he could come up with “some form of hybrid.” That’s how Ms. Winfrey formed OWN — she contributed Oprah.com while her partner contributed the cable channel space. But Mr. Kramer cautioned, Mr. Beck is “not Oprah yet.”

http://www.theglobeandmail....ogue/article1974164/

Fox and Beck will be Parting Ways

quote Fox’s announcement that Mr. Beck will end his weekday show this year signals more than the parting of the top U.S. cable news network and its most notorious property. It underscores a shift in the national mood. In short, Americans just aren’t that angry any more. The conspiracy-theory-laced rants against Mr. Obama and the left that made Mr. Beck so captivating for an audience of Americans grappling to come to terms with a changing world now sound tired. No one can cry wolf that often and expect to get the same rise out of viewers. Besides, even during his early 2010 heyday, Fox was unable to generate advertising revenues to match Mr. Beck’s ratings, since no reputable company would sign on to sponsor the guy who accused Mr. Obama of harbouring a “deep-seated hatred for white people.” Mr. Beck’s ratings plummeted 31 per cent in the first three months of 2011, compared with the same period last year. His audience among viewers in the key 25-to-54-year-old cohort plunged 38 per cent to fewer than 500,000. Mr. Beck has still been drawing almost two million viewers during his 5 p.m. time slot, which is more than the number who tune in to the four competing cable news channels combined. But Beck diehards tend to be older, while serious political news junkies are returning again to CNN. For months, reports have been surfacing about a souring of the relationship between Mr. Beck and Fox president Roger Ailes. Notwithstanding its “Fair & Balanced” tagline, the network owned by Australian magnate Rupert Murdoch is an unapologetic champion of the right. But Mr. Beck’s bombastic, and regularly offensive, commentary had become a drag on the Fox brand. In a statement, Fox said Mr. Beck’s production company, Mercury Radio Arts, would produce occasional content for the network and its digital platforms. But media analysts described it as a largely face-saving gesture and many expressed doubt that anything will come of the venture. “Fox executives are relieved to be rid of Beck,” Howard Kurtz, The Daily Beast’s well-connected media blogger, wrote on Wednesday. He called the events that led to the divorce “a case study in how even the most successful broadcast personalities can become too hot to handle.” Indeed, Mr. Beck’s doomsday jeremiads have become increasingly unhinged. As his ratings began sliding last summer, Mr. Beck’s conspiracy theories only seemed to grow more outrageous. In January, for instance, Mr. Beck, 47, devoted three shows to savaging Hungarian-born financier George Soros, a prominent sponsor of left-wing causes. The series depicted Mr. Soros as “a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps.” Mr. Beck opened Wednesday’s show by attempting to play down his departure, saying “there is much more important news than what the fat, chunky guy is going to do with his future.” He then launched into a convoluted monologue linking French President Nicolas Sarkozy, left-wing linguist Noam Chomsky, filmmaker Michael Moore, the Muslim Brotherhood, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, former U.S. president Bill Clinton, Mr. Soros and others. “What do they have in common? They want to change the world,” Mr. Beck insisted. “They want an end, to some degree or another, of the Western way of life. … They want a revolution.” Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring, Mr. Beck has warned of the coming “Archduke Ferdinand moment” in which “socialist radicals” and “Islamic radicals” will join together to upend the global order.

According to his interview on TV this morning, hes quitting. He gave lack of sponsors and diminishing audience as reasons. Far as I understand hes only off of Fox Television, dont know if that includes the radio program. I listen to him if im out driving around in the evenings. Hes correct far more times than Obama, yet people still praise Obama.

quote Originally posted by rogergarrison: According to his interview on TV this morning, hes quitting. He gave lack of sponsors and diminishing audience as reasons. Far as I understand hes only off of Fox Television, dont know if that includes the radio program. I listen to him if im out driving around in the evenings. Hes correct far more times than Obama, yet people still praise Obama.

Radio is not affected. I'll bet you'll see him move out of New York, maybe to Texas. I don't know how he stands it there.

quote Originally posted by tbone42: heh... pretty funny. "And my 401k is in the toilet... Citibank." There are a million of those nazi spoofs out there. Oh, speaking of Nazis and Glenn Beck... "Glenn Beck has Nazi Tourettes" "Mother Theresa had a mustache, Hitler had a mustache.. hmm."

Tbone I'd argue that the daily show is just as damaging to our discourse and goal of an informed electorate as Beck.

Scott, I would argue that the difference is the Daily Show is being run by a Comic and has comic guests and is more comedy with a ring of polical truth to it.
I like that better (as do many) than a serious talk show where everyone gets compared to Nazis if they dont subscribe to the exact same values and theories as the host.
Damaging to a discourse of an informed electorate? Perhaps in the same way a president joke is... but that doesnt stop many from doing that either, does it? But its not "deadly serious" and intentionally misleading with all the underlying malice, like.. other shows.

Since I don't have cable or satellite , I can neither watch Jon Stewart or Glenn Beck shows. I guess I cant speak for the content of all their shows, but the Lewis Black video I linked (in case you did not watch it) was comedy, was meant to be funny. . He's a comedian, thats his job.

I think Glen Becks radio show is just a repeat of the TV show every nite...so you can listen to him.

It's when he began injecting 'religion' and 'god' into nearly every show when his popularity began to sink. It's one thing to bring up doomsday type scenarios but to surround and qualify them with religion probably isn't going to sit well with people.

quote Originally posted by rogergarrison: I think Glen Becks radio show is just a repeat of the TV show every nite...so you can listen to him.

Pretty much. If you hear the radio show, you get what he talks about on TV.

Well regardless of what the shows are labelled, they have an effect on society. Young people are telling pollsters that the daily show is there primary news source. Beck's audience could be the same. I would say neither is actual news.
Maybe one takes it seriously, the other certainly does not.