Thread: Glenn Beck Rocks!

. . . and the illiterate rednecks are mounting a defence of the guy . . . I wonder if he really is as reactionary in real life or just puts on this show?

I'd be careful in a country where every half-wit has at least one gun stashed away in his britches

Originally Posted by panama hat

.. . . I wonder if he really is as reactionary in real life or just puts on this show?

I'm guessing the latter. He knows exactly what his audience wants to hear so gives it to them, and then some.

I wonder if any of his supporters have seen the video where he's outted as a sham over his ever-changing stance on healthcare. And if they have, I wonder if any of them actually understood it or even care.

I suspect as long as Beck and others of his ilk are giving voice to their bigotry they don't and won't.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Glenn Beck may be the subject of an advertiser boycott, but as long as his ratings remain high, he's probably not going anywhere soon.

And don't that get right up these moonbat liberal's noses!

"Bigotry", eh? Perhaps BO and crew should look in the mirror - racist is the operative term here, counselor...

^ Check the ratings, Boonie. FOX anybody anchor leaves them libbies eating their dust.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ Check the ratings, Boonie. FOX anybody anchor leaves them libbies eating their dust.

Frankly the only thing that worries me about Becks ratings (or most anybod on Fox for that matter) is that there seems to be a significant amount of people that are just slow and malleable in their thinking enough to take their cues from guys like him.

To me it speaks to the dumbing down of the human race. News used to be about having information put in front of you and critically analysing it. Fox and others have made it about being told what you should be angry about now.

^ 55555555 I watch several news progs daily, Ant. Fox gives good coverage, even if they don't cover all events. Always a libbie and a rightie on most shows. Unlike venom spitter hosts on MSNBC. Even Meet the Press has imploded. Tim Russert must be furious. You should watch a few FOX shows with your blinkers removed. You might learn something.

You should watch a few FOX shows with your blinkers removed. You might learn something.

What, like that it's even more an agenda driven, partisan driven propaganda machine than I'd initially thought?

I did watch Fox for a while recently, and as a current affairs network it is untramelled rubbish. Anyone who knows anything could tell you that.

As agenda driven infotainment I suppose it does the trick, particularly if it's telling you what you want to hear. Pity that the lowbrow target audience doesn't know the difference. Really, if Fox were able to buy the Springer show that target audience would never need to change channel, except for the occasional glimpse at the Televangelist beggars and Cage wrestling.

^unfortunately all the cable news is this way.

^ Oy, don't knock Auntie Beeb.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Fox and others have made it about being told what you should be angry about now.

Heh...you do mean CNN - the agenda-driven channel. Take off the blinders there Ant...

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Fox and others have made it about being told what you should be angry about now.

Heh...you do mean CNN - the agenda-driven channel. Take off the blinders there Ant...

Funnily enough I actually mean Fox Booners, which is why I wrote "Fox". Something obscuring your view of that?

Oh and for your info, I don't watch CNN either.

Glenn Beck has some good points, but he looks just like the Pillsbury dough boy!!

Faux is quite entertaining,

a TV of loonies, leaded and presented by Loonies for loonies,

they could rename it the Cartoon Network, and they wouldn't tell the difference

Number of viewers blows CNN and MSNBC out of the water.


Fox News was ranked third for the month in prime time viewership behind only USA Network and TNT, with CNN and MSNBC lagging behind at 15th and 26th, respectively, while continuing to battle each other for third place in cable news.

Having excellent taste, I rarely encounter asshats like Glenn Beck due to the fact I never tune into idiot feeds like CNBC and Faux.
Yesterday I caught a moment of Beck on youtube, he was rambling on about something and then he broke down into tears as he announced "I love my country"
Apparently he does this all the time, what a dooshbag.

Originally Posted by chitown

Number of viewers blows CNN and MSNBC out of the water.


Fox News was ranked third for the month in prime time viewership behind only USA Network and TNT, with CNN and MSNBC lagging behind at 15th and 26th, respectively, while continuing to battle each other for third place in cable news.
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that just tells you that there are more idiots watching stupid shit, hardly a surprise, 90% of the US population is made of fools and idiots

Originally Posted by chitown

Number of viewers blows CNN and MSNBC out of the water.

And that would be something to be proud of? Having a whoooooooooooole bunch of mental midgets tuning into one big campaign?

Noooo, please, Chitown, say it isn't so!

^ At least they work so they have the money to buy a TV. Mind, the libbie lot, including the welfare cases, probably have TVs on due credit and can't get their channels past Oprah and Dr Phil.

Tired old Cliches Jettie, just like that the Dem's are the party of 'Tax and spend'- but the economic numbers of the last quarter century tell you exactly the opposite story.

The long term 'Welfare cases' you refer to do not even vote. Meanwhile, only 6% of Scientists say they are Republican!

Originally Posted by sabang

Tired old Cliches Jettie,

All she has, all she ever had in political discussions

Originally Posted by S Landreth

ColorofChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks...

...ACORN, SEIU...Sorry, that is laughable. Please see the new thread on the race card.

i'd be shocked if FIX NOISE drops beck.

they should.

but i don't think they will.

Attack on Obama riles Beck's advertisers - News - Yahoo! TV

Glenn Beck returns to Fox News Channel on Monday after a vacation with fewer companies willing to advertise on his show than when he left, part of the fallout from calling President Barack Obama a racist.
A total of 33 Fox advertisers, including Wal-Mart Stores Inc., CVS Caremark, Clorox and Sprint, directed that their commercials not air on Beck's show, according to the companies and ColorOfChange.org, a group that promotes political action among blacks and launched a campaign to get advertisers to abandon him. That's more than a dozen more than were identified a week ago.
While it's unclear what effect, if any, this will ultimately have on Fox and Beck, it is already making advertisers skittish about hawking their wares within the most opinionated cable TV shows.
The Clorox Co., a former Beck advertiser, now says that "we do not want to be associated with inflammatory speech used by either liberal or conservative talk show hosts." The maker of bleach and household cleaners said in a statement that it has decided not to advertise on political talk shows.
The shows present a dilemma for advertisers, who usually like a "safe" environment for their messages. The Olbermanns, Hannitys, O'Reillys, Maddows and Becks of the TV world are more likely to say something that will anger a viewer, who might take it out on sponsors.
They also host the most-watched programs on their networks.
"This is a good illustration of that conundrum," said Rich Hallabran, spokesman for UPS Stores, which he said has temporarily halted buying ads on Fox News Channel as a whole.
Beck can bring the eyeballs. With the health care debate raising political temperatures, his show had its biggest week ever right before his vacation, averaging 2.4 million viewers each day, according to Nielsen Media Research.
He was actually on another Fox show July 28 when he referred to Obama as a racist with "a deep-seated hatred for white people." The network immediately distanced itself from Beck's statement, but Beck didn't. He used his radio show the next day to explain why he believed that. He would not comment for this article, spokesman Matthew Hiltzik said.
ColorOfChange.org quickly targeted companies whose ads had appeared during Beck's show, telling them what he had said and seeking a commitment to drop him. The goal is to make Beck a liability, said James Rucker, the organization's executive director.
"They have a toxic asset," Rucker said. "They can either clean it up or get rid of it."
It's not immediately clear how many of the companies actually knew they were advertising on Beck's show. Sometimes commercial time is chosen for a specific show, but often it is bought on a rotation basis, meaning the network sprinkles the ads throughout the day on its own schedule. Sometimes ads appear by mistake; Best Buy said it bought commercial time for earlier in the day, and one of its ads unexpectedly appeared in Beck's show.
One company, CVS Caremark, said it advertises on Fox but hadn't said anything about Beck. Now it has told its advertising agency to inform Fox that it wanted no commercials on Beck.
"We support vigorous debate, especially around policy issues that affect millions of Americans, but we expect it to be informed, inclusive and respectful," said spokeswoman Carolyn Castel.
Besides the unpredictability of the opinionated cable hosts, the rapid pace of today's wired world complicates decisions on where to place ads, said Kathleen Dunleavy, a spokeswoman for Sprint. She said she was surprised at how fast the Beck issue spread across social media outlets and how quickly advertiser names were attached to it.
UPS' Hallabran said the decision to pull commercials "should not be interpreted as we are permanently withdrawing our advertising from Fox." He said the company wants to reach viewers with a wide spectrum of opinions.
Except for UPS Stores, there's no evidence that any advertisers who say they don't want to be on Beck's show are leaving Fox. Network spokeswoman Irena Briganti said the companies have simply requested the ads be moved elsewhere and that Fox hasn't lost any revenue.
She wouldn't say whether Fox was benefiting from any anti-anti-Beck backlash, with companies looking to support him. Some Beck supporters have urged fans to express their displeasure at companies for abandoning their man.
Beck supporters have suggested that retaliation might have something to do with ColorOfChange.org's campaign. One of the group's founders, Van Jones, now works in the Obama administration and has been criticized by Beck. But Rucker said Jones has nothing to do with ColorofChange.org now and didn't even know about the campaign before it started.
Beck's strong ratings — even at 5 p.m. EDT he often outdraws whatever CNN and MSNBC show in prime-time — make it unlikely Beck is going anywhere even as the list of advertisers avoiding him approaches three dozen.
But it could mean advertising time becomes cheaper on his show than such a large audience would normally command. Some of his show's advertisers last week included a male enhancement pill, a law firm looking to sue on behalf of asbestos victims, a company selling medical supplies to diabetics and a water filter company.
Rucker said ColorofChange.org has contacted about 60 companies regarding Beck, and is heartened by the response.
"It's causing a certain conversation around Beck, which I think is important," he said.