i've never been able to decide if he was faux news' failed answer to the likes of jon stewart or if he just had dirty photos on some faux news CEO and so they had to give him a job

http://gawker.com/5346467/reformed-dirtbag-glenn-beck-foreshadowing-fox-ouster

or just the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l40a6xPEzsM

8/27/2009 7:50:52 AM

There is simply no intellectual honesty with FNC. Beck (in the second clip) says "no mention of the two arrests" regarding his White House bio.

He was arrested for LEADING A PEACEFUL PROTEST AND CHARGES WERE DROPPED.

HOLY SHIT. GET THIS GUY THE FUCK OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. WE DON'T NEED A PEACEFUL PROTESTER. IF HE CAN'T PROTEST LIKE A REAL MAN, BY SPITTING VITRIOLIC RAGE AT THE CAMERA AND BASELESS CALLING PEOPLE RACISTS AND NAZIS

WE

DON'T

NEED HIM.


Then they get on him about being a self proclaimed Communist. You can go to the Wiki entry and again see how terribly intellectually dishonest they are being. He was 24 and had just been apparently unlawfully arrested, winning a settlement for this, after witnessing the savage beating of Rodney King. You think he was going to be a bit brash about things? He's now 41. Think he is different? Hell, I know my politics are different from just a few years ago.

At the very least, their non news shows need to start with a disclaimer that everything they say may not be factually correct and to look up the facts for yourself.

8/27/2009 8:08:18 AM

i wish this thread were about Glenn Block

8/27/2009 8:24:19 AM

the glen beck crown has gone off the deep end,
but i wonder with over 1 million people still watching beck where will he go?
i think they just move him to a very late night time slot where ads dont matter too much
but if they fire him the base crowd will get mad

8/27/2009 8:29:55 AM

my grandparents watch him, i'm embarrassed to admit

they claim: "he tells it like it is"

i :facepalm: every time

8/27/2009 8:31:18 AM

he is such a douchebag

8/27/2009 11:21:29 PM

That little bitch needs to go cry some more.

8/27/2009 11:23:58 PM

grandparents are nutty sometimes

8/27/2009 11:24:27 PM

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"i've never been able to decide if he was faux news' failed answer to the likes of jon stewart"

are you fucking kidding me?

8/27/2009 11:25:02 PM

i there's a couple of old acquaintances on fb that worship him like he's the second coming of christ or something. i'm very tempted to unfriend them just for that fact alone.

8/27/2009 11:25:28 PM

He went nutty almost exactly when he left CNN.

8/27/2009 11:26:13 PM

TSB

8/27/2009 11:27:38 PM

everybody loves to talk shit about fox news but they are beating the liberal news networks in ratings consistently

8/27/2009 11:29:11 PM

he's a shill

8/27/2009 11:31:52 PM

Well hey, watching grown men cry like bitches is pretty entertaining shit.

8/27/2009 11:32:05 PM

because people turn to it to see how bat shit crazy some people are

i know me and my roommate watch most evenings for that exact reason

8/27/2009 11:32:05 PM

^

and when will people learn that ratings do not equal quality?

[Edited on August 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM. Reason : seriously]

8/27/2009 11:34:24 PM

dont hate because hes blowing the liberal shows out of the water

hate him because you dont have to have to watch him, but still do

oh yea, and his book has been a best seller for months


as long as olberman and maddow helplessly run their mouths to crickets, thank you glenn beck for countering such crap

8/27/2009 11:34:40 PM

8/27/2009 11:44:19 PM

You know what should be on a fake news show on Fox News?


REAL NEWS

~Jon Stewart

8/27/2009 11:49:42 PM

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"everybody loves to talk shit about fox news but they are beating the liberal news networks in ratings consistently"

to be fair, couldn't that be because there's really only one conservative news network whereas liberals are able to choose between CNN and MSNBC?

8/28/2009 12:33:44 AM

^and because regardless of your political views Fox News is wildly entertaining?

8/28/2009 1:43:23 AM

^Busty anchors.

8/28/2009 1:43:50 AM

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"my grandparents watch him, i'm embarrassed to admit they claim: "he tells it like it is""

That's actually the exact same phrase that mine use to describe him.

8/28/2009 2:06:18 AM

This thread hasn't addressed the matter of his complete and total shitfucking insanity nearly as much as the issue deserves.

I'm not even referring to his political views, really (though the conspiracy-theorist-esque comments certainly don't help). Mostly just the fact that he is paddling his own personal crazy boat down a river of crazy.

8/28/2009 2:14:27 AM

he tells it like it is

8/28/2009 2:15:26 AM

it seems like every other day one of the top 24 things on digg is another article about businesses that have pulled their ads from his show.

8/28/2009 2:17:11 AM

meh

[Edited on August 28, 2009 at 2:22 AM. Reason : ]

8/28/2009 2:18:42 AM

^You're right, FNC a good advertisement venue to conservatives, and with GB still pulling in high ratings, then you have a large audience as well.

8/28/2009 2:59:43 AM

yea, on a purely numbers basis it's not a bad deal at all

8/28/2009 3:00:50 AM

I think a commercial is distanced far enough from the political overtones of a cable news program to not have a net negative connotation for the advertiser.

8/28/2009 3:05:16 AM

you would think, but when you've got activists yelling louder than anyone else about how horrible beck and they clump you in with him it's a shitty situation....fuckin activists

8/28/2009 3:06:43 AM

I suppose they're a bit afraid of liberal boycotts, to some degree, what with that whole Whole Foods thing going on. ...Then again, it's unlikely that people would mass-boycott anything just because they happen to buy commercial time during a certain show. That would require a bit more effort on the part(s) of the boycotter(s).

That, or the people who run the companies pulling ads actually do draw the bullshit line at a certain point, and are genuinely morally/intellectually/whatever-ally opposed to supporting Glenn Beck's political views/Fox News in general/Beck's decent into the abyss of madness...

8/28/2009 3:06:58 AM

I honestly don't think the marketers/whoever runs the companies advertising give a fuck about the political/social viewpoints of the shows they market during, its a business and a numbers game...it's just a pain in the ass and they have to save face

8/28/2009 3:11:19 AM

he plays his role well. it's all an act.

8/28/2009 3:20:39 AM

I wouldnt doubt that

8/28/2009 3:22:38 AM

I'd believe that. There was a huge change in his demeanor when he left CNN.

8/28/2009 3:27:17 AM

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"everybody loves to talk shit about fox news but they are beating the liberal news networks in ratings consistently"

8/28/2009 7:01:54 AM

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"paddling his own personal crazy boat down a river of crazy."

wanted you to know that i totally stole this from you and made it my facebook status

8/28/2009 7:46:27 AM

^ haha

8/28/2009 7:50:14 AM

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/27/big-beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-oreilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009/25541

8/28/2009 9:18:16 AM

Who is the dumber conservative, TKEShlitz, or Mrs Grace?

8/28/2009 9:22:31 AM

i hate when my one post of the day, a link, is followed by an unemployed, short, bald man riding on my nuts.

8/28/2009 9:57:08 AM

the reason people watch fox is because it is filled with commentators and not real journalists.
commentators can say whatever they want, no matter how controvercial and get away with it most of the time, where as in CNN journalists and even their commentators are held to a higher standard.

8/28/2009 10:04:44 AM

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"i hate when my one post of the day, a link, is followed by an unemployed, short, bald man riding on my nuts."

8/28/2009 10:15:11 AM

8/28/2009 12:17:46 PM

Quote :

"dont hate because hes blowing the liberal shows out of the water hate him because you dont have to have to watch him, but still do oh yea, and his book has been a best seller for months as long as olberman and maddow helplessly run their mouths to crickets, thank you glenn beck for countering such crap "

good comment...

NCSU used to be a conservative college, but now yall kids coming through are whiny little liberal bitches like those fags over in Chapel Hill

[Edited on August 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM. Reason : .]

8/28/2009 12:25:32 PM

well, damn, i think that might have hurt my feelings a little bit...

...oh, no, wait...that was just gas

8/28/2009 12:29:30 PM

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"i hate when my one post of the day, a link, is followed by an unemployed, short, bald man riding on my nuts."

Awww, what's wrong tigershark?

8/28/2009 12:31:49 PM

I for one, truely like Glen Beck, watch his show, and have read a couple of his books.
If you stopped drinking the Haterade then you might realize that he usually makes good points on whatever topic he is speaking on.

And, you actually call MSNBC news? They lie about the facts so bad it is borderline fiction.

8/28/2009 12:33:24 PM