Glenn Beck, FAIL

xKat · **Joined:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 11:06 pm **Posts:** 410

I was happy to read in the paper on Sunday that the local talk radio station is dumping both Beck and Hannity beginning in January. Although they are keeping Rush, the station said that advertisers prefer local programming so they are filling the early and mid morning and late afternoon and early evening time slots with local programming. Actually 3 - 7 will be Michael Smerconish with the 1st hour local, and the last 3 hours syndicated, but he broadcasts from Philly.

The article said that the 9 hour time block of Beck - Limbaugh - Hannity was basically the same viewpoint repeated all day and they wanted to get other voices. Since they mentioned advertisers as a reason for the change I wonder if they have gotten complaints about the content on Beck & Hannity, or if it was just that advertisers prefer "the local read" as they said in the story.

I don't know who will fill all of the slots yet - the morning guy will be the current evening guy who is pretty hard core RW - but at least those 2 voices may be gone from the Philly airwaves. The article did say that Beck and Hannity both had to have broadcasts in all of the top 10 market areas and Philly is # 8 (I think it had to do with their advertising deals) so they are searching for a new station. But at least 2 or 3 stations were quoted as saying they had no intention of changing their current programming. Obviously that can change at any time, but we will have to see.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 7:42 am

xKat wrote:

I was happy to read in the paper on Sunday that the local talk radio station is dumping both Beck and Hannity beginning in January.

Countdown to RWNJ complaints that the Philly station is denying Beck and Hannity their freedom of speech.

mimi · **Posted:** Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:07 am

TollandRCR wrote:

xKat wrote:

I was happy to read in the paper on Sunday that the local talk radio station is dumping both Beck and Hannity beginning in January.

Countdown to RWNJ complaints that the Philly station is denying Beck and Hannity their freedom of speech.

Tallulah was saying that on the Patriot's Heart Show the other night. I suppose that's what they are saying all over Wingnuttia.

I think it may be that Hannity Beck are too expensive.

Adelante · **Posted:** Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:38 pm

Hendrik Hertzberg has a column slamming Beck on his stupidity about our employer, Mr. Soros.

Plutodog · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 3:58 pm

Scarborough on Beck:

Quote:

"I have a lot of family members that listen to him and watch him and are frightened by the things that he says every night with his chalkboard...my mom and a lot of other people like her that watch him every day start to believe if they hear every day, every day, that there's this guy in Washington D.C., this black guy that hates all white people and he wants to take your money . . . and he wants to destroy the country you grew up in. You feed that vile message to Americans every day, it's going to have an impact."

http://blip.tv/file/4618474?utm_source=player_embedded

mimi · **Posted:** Wed Jan 12, 2011 4:15 pm

Plutodog wrote:

Scarborough on Beck:

Quote:

"I have a lot of family members that listen to him and watch him and are frightened by the things that he says every night with his chalkboard...my mom and a lot of other people like her that watch him every day start to believe if they hear every day, every day, that there's this guy in Washington D.C., this black guy that hates all white people and he wants to take your money . . . and he wants to destroy the country you grew up in. You feed that vile message to Americans every day, it's going to have an impact."

http://blip.tv/file/4618474?utm_source=player_embedded

Beck Responded. Both the Scarborough & Glenn Beck vids are here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/1 ... 07892.html

LM K · **Posted:** Tue Jan 18, 2011 3:17 am

Glenn Beck linked to "3 thwarted assassination attempts":

bogus info · **Joined:** Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:19 pm **Posts:** 5484

Quote:

Spotlight From Glenn Beck Brings a CUNY Professor Threats
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: January 21, 2011

On his daily radio and television shows, Glenn Beck has elevated once-obscure conservative thinkers onto best-seller lists. Recently, he has elevated a 78-year-old liberal academic to celebrity of a different sort, in a way that some say is endangering her life.

Frances Fox Piven, a City University of New York professor, has been a primary character in Mr. Beck’s warnings about a progressive take-down of America. Ms. Piven, Mr. Beck says, is responsible for a plan to “intentionally collapse our economic system.”

Her name has become a kind of shorthand for “enemy” on Mr. Beck’s Fox News Channel program, which is watched by more than 2 million people, and on one of his Web sites, The Blaze. This week, Mr. Beck suggested on television that she was an enemy of the Constitution.

Never mind that Ms. Piven’s radical plan to help poor people was published 45 years ago, when Mr. Beck was a toddler. Anonymous visitors to his Web site have called for her death, and some, she said, have contacted her directly via e-mail.

more here: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/busin ... _LO_MST_FB

emphasis mine

:evil:

This man is going to get someone killed.

listeme · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:38 pm

So I went over to the blaze to see what might be recent. A post today (are these bloggers? staff bloggers?) is

Quote:

Globalization Destruction: Piven Gleefully ‘Hopes’ and Explains How Countries Like China Can Shut Down USA and Bring Revolutionary Transformation.

The first comment I see is:

Quote:

milig
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 2:30pm

The cemeteries are half empty and this witch is still running around living?

Some others:

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M 4 Colt
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:04pm

You know a bullet is to good for this piece of human waste. We as Americans have a BIG problem in front of us and it SOON is going to take some real MEN to stand up and answer her call to protect her from scum like this pig along with all the other liberal elites she calls comrades.

The question you need to ask your self is when the time comes WILL YOU BE READY to answer that call to defend America from all enemies both foreign and domestic because the time to do so draws very near.

Remember what Glen has told us on many of his shows to prepare ourselves and family’s by stocking extra food and water for the troubled times ahead, i hope you are heeding his words of wisdom because once it starts it will be too late then to prepare to protect your family.

Quote:

what4
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:15pm

Choking on her tongue would be a fitting way for this POS to die!

Quote:

CYCLONE
Posted on January 22, 2011 at 3:49pm

@ M4Colt…. I’ll pay up for the bullet….I”m $1.07 bid….I’ll just have to let Glenn shoot her though…. he’s the best shot out there…

)

Ugh. These are selected comments, but they're not picked out of comments calling for reason and calm. And this is TODAY.

EDIT: I whistled my own post, because I wouldn't mind guidance from moderators on how far is too far when it comes to quoting hate and violent rhetoric.

verbalobe · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 10:56 pm

Estiveo · **Posted:** Sat Jan 22, 2011 11:53 pm

That's horrible. Extra treason berries as Pat would say. These are some seriously distrubed footards.

Sterngard Friegen · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2011 12:32 am

Glenn Beck would love some murders on his account. After all, until he does that, he's not in the disgusting Nancy Grace's league. Deaths blamed on him would be big ratings and would give him several months of material for his show. I'm sure Roger Ailes wouldn't mind, either, as long as the collateral damage is slight.

kate520 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:00 am

My wish for Glenn Beck's future is simple. My wish is that in 30 years, when he is long-retired from show biz and his brand of "patriotism" is out of favor, he may be the object of some ranting, tin foil hat wearing lunatic on the channel beamed directly into our plastic ear piece receivers.

listeme · **Posted:** Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:54 pm

I'm glad to say that there's been at least some clean-up of that thread I saw yesterday, along with some calls from other commenters to tone it down.

mimi · **Posted:** Wed Jan 26, 2011 9:23 pm

This doesn't happen everyday.

Quote:

(Reuters) - Four hundred rabbis will publish a letter on Thursday calling on Fox News to sanction host Glenn Beck for repeated use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and for airing attacks on World War Two survivor George Soros.

In an open letter to Rupert Murdoch, the chairman of News Corp, which owns Fox, the rabbis also demand an apology from Fox News chief Roger Ailes for characterizing Beck's Jewish critics as nothing more than "left-wing rabbis."

The letter will appear as an advertisement in the News Corp-owned Wall Street Journal on Thursday for which the rabbis spent more than $100,000, a spokesman said.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE70P9GL20110127

There's a press release over at media matters:
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201101260036

rajah · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 4:29 am

From the man who gave you Sarah Palin, Bill Krystol speaking about Egypt
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html

Quote:

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Krystol is a regular on Fox News and maybe Becks star is stating to burn out.
I see that Bill O'Reilly had President Obama on his show prior to The Superbowl (whatever that is) and the President acquitted himself well. O'Reilly said that President Obama will be back again on a regular basis. Is Fox News coming round to the Presidents side or do they see which way the wind is starting to blow.
Rupert Murdoch really only cares about 2 things, money and power, and if giving some support to President Obama helps him get these, well, so be it.
Regards ...........Dick

SueDB · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 5:37 am

rajah wrote:

From the man who gave you Sarah Palin, Bill Krystol speaking about Egypt
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html

Quote:

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Krystol is a regular on Fox News and maybe Becks star is stating to burn out.
I see that Bill O'Reilly had President Obama on his show prior to The Superbowl (whatever that is) and the President acquitted himself well. O'Reilly said that President Obama will be back again on a regular basis. Is Fox News coming round to the Presidents side or do they see which way the wind is starting to blow.
Rupert Murdoch really only cares about 2 things, money and power, and if giving some support to President Obama helps him get these, well, so be it.
Regards ...........Dick

As long as they are polite, civil, and not playing reindeer games, Fox SHOULD welcome him. After all, he IS the President of the US whether Oily likes it or not. He is news.

mimi · **Posted:** Mon Feb 07, 2011 11:23 am

rajah wrote:

From the man who gave you Sarah Palin, Bill Krystol speaking about Egypt
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html

Quote:

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Krystol is a regular on Fox News and maybe Becks star is stating to burn out.
I see that Bill O'Reilly had President Obama on his show prior to The Superbowl (whatever that is) and the President acquitted himself well. O'Reilly said that President Obama will be back again on a regular basis. Is Fox News coming round to the Presidents side or do they see which way the wind is starting to blow.
Rupert Murdoch really only cares about 2 things, money and power, and if giving some support to President Obama helps him get these, well, so be it.
Regards ...........Dick

Dave Weigel pointed out that Beck wasn't the first to beat that drum.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel ... phate.aspx

So is Mitt Fringy? :-?

Suranis · **Joined:** Sat Nov 20, 2010 8:04 am **Posts:** 5242

rajah wrote:

From the man who gave you Sarah Palin, Bill Krystol speaking about Egypt
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/stand-freedom_541404.html

Quote:

But hysteria is not a sign of health. When Glenn Beck rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East from Morocco to the Philippines, and lists (invents?) the connections between caliphate-promoters and the American left, he brings to mind no one so much as Robert Welch and the John Birch Society. He’s marginalizing himself, just as his predecessors did back in the early 1960s.

Krystol is a regular on Fox News and maybe Becks star is stating to burn out.
I see that Bill O'Reilly had President Obama on his show prior to The Superbowl (whatever that is) and the President acquitted himself well. O'Reilly said that President Obama will be back again on a regular basis. Is Fox News coming round to the Presidents side or do they see which way the wind is starting to blow.
Rupert Murdoch really only cares about 2 things, money and power, and if giving some support to President Obama helps him get these, well, so be it.
Regards ...........Dick

Its probably more that Becks ratings are down 50% from 3 million to 1.5 million.

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sat Feb 12, 2011 11:51 pm

The idiot makes O'R look sane...

TexasFilly · **Joined:** Mon Sep 28, 2009 12:52 pm **Posts:** 10644

In addition to Beck's total stupidity, listening to Bill O'Reilly repeatedly say "forment" instead of "foment" was maddening. Thanks PD!

Somerset · **Posted:** Sun Feb 13, 2011 12:55 am

Looking like Henry Kissenger doesn't make one as knowledgable as Kissenger in world affairs. Although the typical FOX viewer couldn't tell the difference.

TollandRCR · **Posted:** Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:03 pm

New Republic March 3, 2011 The Decline of Glenn Beck: What caused it?

Quote:

Meanwhile, as a group, prominent conservatives have seemed more willing to speak out against Beck recently. Though some on the right always disparaged him—several profiles last year included anonymous Fox insiders criticizing Beck—almost none were willing to do so with their names attached. Recently, however, conservatives have been criticizing Beck openly. Bill O’Reilly, who feted him for an hour after the Restoring Honor rally, has rapidly become more and more dismissive. The Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol has criticized Beck’s “rants about the caliphate taking over the Middle East.” Conservative Washington Post blogger Jennifer Rubin called Beck a “ranting extremist,” and former Bush administration staffer Pete Wehner wrote for Commentary’s website, “If conservatism were ever to hitch its wagon to this self-described rodeo clown, it would collapse as a movement.”

Plutodog · **Posted:** Sat Apr 02, 2011 5:11 pm

Beck sez we're all supporting terrorism and sharia law and stuff...

http://xml.truveo.com/rd?i=3833116960&a ... e160873f5e

BFB · **Posted:** Wed Apr 06, 2011 12:30 pm

Reports coming out that Beck is done at Fox ...

Falsehoods unchallenged only fester and grow.

Glenn Beck, FAIL

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