Why do progressive liberals hate Glenn Beck?

[Mac1958]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

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[JoeB131]

Fox was the ultimate decider on what Glenn could say, so Beck decided he needed to move on.

Right now Beck is losing credibility not because he has crazy ideas, but because he doesn't have a free forum to air his views. His radio show usually turns into a comedy show and it pretty clear that Beck is a rightwing extremist. He supported Michelle Bachmann, and that's when I started to question him.

Guy, don't give me the alternate reality.

Fox fired Beck because no one wanted their commercials associated with his craziness.

Incidently, I'm not seeing why supporting Bachmann makes him an extremist. Bachmann sounds more like the nuttiness. It's just that on some level, you know that she's unelectable.

Beck wasn't fired. It's impossible to be fired and still stick around for several months.

STFU liar.

And FYI, I knew she was unelectable the moment she opened her mouth. When she started spreading gossip about other candidates on the word of some woman she talked to and never vetted I completely wrote her off.

Are we getting testy?

Of course, he was fired. true, they didn't pull him off the air that day, because, hey, that would be uglier than the situation they had. Who wants to admit that they danced to Media Matters Tune?

So I guess they let him save face by claiming he was pursuing other venues, and then replaced him by a panel where no one could take the blame for lower ratings.

On a monetary thing, "The Five" is making more money than Beck did because people will put their commercials there.

There's also the internal conflict in Fox. The journalism half of the company wants to be taken seriously as a new station, and the Circus clowns (Beck, O'Reilly, Hannity) take away from that. But that's where the money is. Except in Beck's case, they were losing money, and that's why they went.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Glenn digs deep, deep into their shit and do you know what he found out,
their shit stinks, full of corruption, tax evaders, criminals, terrorist and a
bunch of community organizers. Don't forget the programs and bills that will
lead to a socialized America called hope & change...

“My friends, we live in the greatest nation in the history of the world.
I hope you’ll join with me as we try to change it.” BO = SSOB


Did you pay attention to the international news from Europe this weekend? Just in case you missed it – Socialists have taken the presidency in France, Nazi’s just got 20% of parliament in Greece, and all signs point to the impeding collapse of the Euro, if not the entire European Union. But it’s just Europe! No need to worry. You’d have to be crazy to predict something like that having an impact on America….

“This is amazing to me. 20% of the vote in Greece went Nazi communist,” Glenn said. “Remember Hitler got in on 30%.”

Meanwhile, France elected it’s first Socialist President in decades as they ousted center right incumbent Sarkozy.

The elections are largely seen as a response to austerity measures in the European countries facing increasing economic turmoil.

“They’re talking today all about austerity, that the austerity measures are over. Well, what is austerity? Austerity isn’t just budget cuts. Austerity is budget cuts coupled with crippling taxes. If you did budget cuts, serious budget cuts and tax cuts at the same time, that’s the Tea Party method. It is reduce the size of government and reduce the burden on people. They don’t want that option to be heard. They don’t want that option to be known. And you see it over in Greece, you see it in France. You’re about to see it over in England. You’re seeing it everywhere. You’re seeing it in Spain. The only option: High taxes, low spending. Well, that’s not working.”

Glenn noted that the scariest element out of the weekend was the election and legitimizing of the Nazi party in Greece. Glenn played audio of the Nazi victors meeting with the press and demanding that they rise and recognize them with the same respect they would other elected officials. The press complied.

“I can’t believe that we’re actually talking about ‑‑ remember that was a crazy conspiracy,” Glenn said.

Even the progressive conservatives hate GB's nonsense.

 

[JoeB131]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

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I think it's a little worse than that.

I think both sides have these "info-Celebrities" that play to rousing the rabble.

As horrified as I am by Beck, Fox did the responsible thing and pulled him. MSNBC gave Al Sharpton a microphone, knowing the guy caused enough trouble with a bullhorn.

And that's kind of the problem. These outrageous characters get ratings, while they lower the level of debate. I'd put the intelligence of the average USMB poster above some of these jokers.

 

[occupied]

Beck seems to be the originator of a pretty dangerous idea, I never heard the notion that right wing politics cannot possibly lead to an authoritarian state until he came along. The people of this board continually lumping every horrible thing that ever happened in the history of human governance into "the left" is pretty annoying. Beck sold that big lie nightly, for that crime against reason itself he should be despised by all.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Authoritarianism certainly can, has, and will come from the right as well as the left. Any who denies this is mentally ill, ignorant, or malignantly motivated, or perhaps all three.

 

[Truthmatters]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

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I think it's a little worse than that.

I think both sides have these "info-Celebrities" that play to rousing the rabble.

As horrified as I am by Beck, Fox did the responsible thing and pulled him. MSNBC gave Al Sharpton a microphone, knowing the guy caused enough trouble with a bullhorn.

And that's kind of the problem. These outrageous characters get ratings, while they lower the level of debate. I'd put the intelligence of the average USMB poster above some of these jokers.

Sharpton has done NOTHING like you claim you fucking racist

 

[Mac1958]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

.

I think it's a little worse than that.

I think both sides have these "info-Celebrities" that play to rousing the rabble.

As horrified as I am by Beck, Fox did the responsible thing and pulled him. MSNBC gave Al Sharpton a microphone, knowing the guy caused enough trouble with a bullhorn.

And that's kind of the problem. These outrageous characters get ratings, while they lower the level of debate. I'd put the intelligence of the average USMB poster above some of these jokers.

This is my own little conspiracy theory, but I remember that MSNBC put Sharpton in there as a fill-in host after blowing someone else out. He wasn't permanent at the time. My guess is that he turned out to want the gig full time, and the network was essentially forced to give it to him. A lefty network can't turn down Sharpton, PC won the day there.

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[Artevelde]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

.

I think it's a little worse than that.

I think both sides have these "info-Celebrities" that play to rousing the rabble.

As horrified as I am by Beck, Fox did the responsible thing and pulled him. MSNBC gave Al Sharpton a microphone, knowing the guy caused enough trouble with a bullhorn.

And that's kind of the problem. These outrageous characters get ratings, while they lower the level of debate. I'd put the intelligence of the average USMB poster above some of these jokers.

Sharpton has done NOTHING like you claim you fucking racist

You really can't keep yourself from lying can you?

 

[JoeB131]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

.

I think it's a little worse than that.

I think both sides have these "info-Celebrities" that play to rousing the rabble.

As horrified as I am by Beck, Fox did the responsible thing and pulled him. MSNBC gave Al Sharpton a microphone, knowing the guy caused enough trouble with a bullhorn.

And that's kind of the problem. These outrageous characters get ratings, while they lower the level of debate. I'd put the intelligence of the average USMB poster above some of these jokers.

This is my own little conspiracy theory, but I remember that MSNBC put Sharpton in there as a fill-in host after blowing someone else out. He wasn't permanent at the time. My guess is that he turned out to want the gig full time, and the network was essentially forced to give it to him. A lefty network can't turn down Sharpton, PC won the day there.

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The slot was formerly held by a guy named Cenk Ugnar. But Cenk had a bad habit of taking Obama to task for not being liberal enough.

Frankly, whatever they were smoking when they thought that was a good idea, who knows.

I mean. It's Al Sharpton. Tawana Brawley. Crown Heights.

 

[JoeB131]

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Glenn Beck is both an example and a symptom of the bizarre mess that is today's GOP.

.

I think it's a little worse than that.

I think both sides have these "info-Celebrities" that play to rousing the rabble.

As horrified as I am by Beck, Fox did the responsible thing and pulled him. MSNBC gave Al Sharpton a microphone, knowing the guy caused enough trouble with a bullhorn.

And that's kind of the problem. These outrageous characters get ratings, while they lower the level of debate. I'd put the intelligence of the average USMB poster above some of these jokers.

Sharpton has done NOTHING like you claim you fucking racist

So you are pretending the Tawana Brawley and Crown Heights stuff didn't happen.

Giving Al Sharpton a microphone is about as responsible as giving a pyromaniac a book of matches and a can of gasoline.

 

[Truthmatters]

What exactly did Sharpton do wrong in the Tawana brawly case?

 

[Truthmatters]

He trusted and tried to protect a very needy little girl.

She was in need of help.

That is why she created the lie in the first place.

But she was a black girl so you will NEVER forgive her huh?

 

[Artevelde]

He trusted and tried to protect a very needy little girl.

She was in need of help.

That is why she created the lie in the first place.

But she was a black girl so you will NEVER forgive her huh?

Yes, I can see how you would feel a bond with her. Must come natural to a pathological liar like yourself.

 

[JoeB131]

He trusted and tried to protect a very needy little girl.

She was in need of help.

That is why she created the lie in the first place.

But she was a black girl so you will NEVER forgive her huh?

No, what I don't forgive is that he supported her ludicrous claims, and after it became pretty evident to everyone the girl was lying, he kept claiming that he story was true and that everyone was in a conspiracy to cover up.

She was a seriously messed up individual, who mutiliated herself because she didn't want her parents to beat her.

 

[peach174]

The main stream news spun (which is very biased,who have 3 or more liberals talking points against 1 conservative, on most of their shows) the lie that Beck was fired.

You've heard that Fox News fired Glenn Beck, right? You heard that Fox couldn't manage him anymore. You read that network president Roger Ailes canned him to stem the rush of advertisers fleeing his program. You saw on the evening news that his program has been shedding viewers so fast Beck can hardly stop crying. All not true.

Those headlines and news leads have been repeated so often it’s safe to assume they’re all true. Even Beck’s kids must think their old man got a pink slip.

Except that he didn’t.

The grossly misleading headlines are typical of competing networks and talking heads that prefer a controversial story about sinking ships to the truth. Of course they’re rooting for Fox and Beck’s collective failures; that’s the game plan in a highly competitive marketplace.

The real surprise would have been if the Los Angeles Times or other news outlets had reported the situation more accurately. Isn’t it a better story when you hear Beck was fired because he didn’t get along with network brass? Don’t your ears perk up when some talking head reports that Beck’s gig has suddenly become the biggest television flop since "The Chevy Chase Show"?

Unfortunately, the truth is much less controversial.

The fair and balanced reality is Beck’s contract was set to expire this year. He and his vastly underrated business and creative teams at Mercury Radio Arts have long considered a change when he became, in effect, a free agent. It’s not what his detractors want you to hear, but if Beck and his production company had wanted to keep the daily show, he would have signed a new deal and continued clubbing the competition.

Until people get it into their heads that the news is about ratings, competition,spin and not really accurate news many will continue to believe the spins and lies.

The only difference between Fox and all the rest of the news, is because they have a more equal balance of liberals and conservative in their talking points.
When bills are reported on Fox they give the bill numbers so that you can go to Thomas.gov and look it up. The other news doesn't do that, you have to watch c-span to get those numbers.
The main stream news has a lot more edited quotes from politicians than Fox ever has.

 

[Truthmatters]

He trusted and tried to protect a very needy little girl.

She was in need of help.

That is why she created the lie in the first place.

But she was a black girl so you will NEVER forgive her huh?

No, what I don't forgive is that he supported her ludicrous claims, and after it became pretty evident to everyone the girl was lying, he kept claiming that he story was true and that everyone was in a conspiracy to cover up.

She was a seriously messed up individual, who mutiliated herself because she didn't want her parents to beat her.

He trusted a little girl who was in some very dangerous elements.

He did nothing but try to help a young girl (15 years old) who was trying to get out of a home that was abusive and dangerous.

She was trying to protect herself from an abusive step parent when she made up that lie.


But if she was a blonde you would have forgiven her.

 

[JoeB131]

The problem is, Roger Ailes has said that he's perfectly fine with people thinking he fired Beck, without actually saying he fired Beck.

Fox News is at the end of the day a business, and Glenn Beck was losing money...

 

[JoeB131]

He trusted and tried to protect a very needy little girl.

She was in need of help.

That is why she created the lie in the first place.

But she was a black girl so you will NEVER forgive her huh?

No, what I don't forgive is that he supported her ludicrous claims, and after it became pretty evident to everyone the girl was lying, he kept claiming that he story was true and that everyone was in a conspiracy to cover up.

She was a seriously messed up individual, who mutiliated herself because she didn't want her parents to beat her.

He trusted a little girl who was in some very dangerous elements.

He did nothing but try to help a young girl (15 years old) who was trying to get out of a home that was abusive and dangerous.

She was trying to protect herself from an abusive step parent when she made up that lie.


But if she was a blonde you would have forgiven her.

NOt really. I'm not the forgiving type.

 

[Truthmatters]

The main stream news spun (which is very biased,who have 3 or more liberals talking points against 1 conservative, on most of their shows) the lie that Beck was fired.

You've heard that Fox News fired Glenn Beck, right? You heard that Fox couldn't manage him anymore. You read that network president Roger Ailes canned him to stem the rush of advertisers fleeing his program. You saw on the evening news that his program has been shedding viewers so fast Beck can hardly stop crying. All not true.

Those headlines and news leads have been repeated so often it’s safe to assume they’re all true. Even Beck’s kids must think their old man got a pink slip.

Except that he didn’t.

The grossly misleading headlines are typical of competing networks and talking heads that prefer a controversial story about sinking ships to the truth. Of course they’re rooting for Fox and Beck’s collective failures; that’s the game plan in a highly competitive marketplace.

The real surprise would have been if the Los Angeles Times or other news outlets had reported the situation more accurately. Isn’t it a better story when you hear Beck was fired because he didn’t get along with network brass? Don’t your ears perk up when some talking head reports that Beck’s gig has suddenly become the biggest television flop since "The Chevy Chase Show"?

Unfortunately, the truth is much less controversial.

The fair and balanced reality is Beck’s contract was set to expire this year. He and his vastly underrated business and creative teams at Mercury Radio Arts have long considered a change when he became, in effect, a free agent. It’s not what his detractors want you to hear, but if Beck and his production company had wanted to keep the daily show, he would have signed a new deal and continued clubbing the competition.

Until people get it into their heads that the news is about ratings, competition,spin and not really accurate news many will continue to believe the spins and lies.

The only difference between Fox and all the rest of the news, is because they have a more equal balance of liberals and conservative in their talking points.
When bills are reported on Fox they give the bill numbers so that you can go to Thomas.gov and look it up. The other news doesn't do that, you have to watch c-span to get those numbers.
The main stream news has a lot more edited quotes from politicians than Fox ever has.

They have been repetedly caught in lies.

They have been sued by employees for forced lying

They have a top management that is MIRED in international fraud cases.


And you pick them as the honest one of all the MSM?

your a dusgruntled brained hack