Glenn Beck's Fox News Show Ending
April 06, 2011 12:47 pm ET by Media Matters staff
From an April 6 press release:
FOX NEWS AND MERCURY RADIO ARTS ANNOUNCE NEW AGREEMENT(New York, NY) Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck's production company, are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News' digital properties. Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year.
Roger Ailes, Chairman and CEO of Fox News said, "Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody's standards. I look forward to continuing to work with him." Glenn Beck said: "I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News. I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I've learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership."
Joel Cheatwood, SVP/Development at Fox News, will be joining Mercury Radio Arts effective April 24, 2011. Part of his role as EVP will be to manage the partnership and serve as a liaison with the Fox News Channel. Roger Ailes said: "Joel is a good friend and one of the most talented and creative executives in the business. Over the past four years I have consistently valued his input and advice and that will not stop as we work with him in his new role." "Glenn Beck" is consistently the third highest rated program on cable news.
For the 27 months that "Glenn Beck" has aired on Fox News, the program has averaged more than 2.2 million total viewers and 563,000 viewers 25-54 years old, numbers normally associated with shows airing in primetime, not at 5pm. "Glenn Beck" has dominated all of its cable news competitors since launch.
With his belief that he is of any consequence, his immature, magical thinking, and his bad sense of humor, I'll almost guarantee he uses it.
Doesn't Randi Rhodes promote the same gold company? Are you saying that Beck gold is worse than Rhodes gold?
And Rhodes has been off the air for a few years. Do try to keep up.
And NO, Randi Rhodes is on the radio EVERY day from noon to 3 in my area. On Clear Channel no less.
Do left-wingers always use lies and misinformation during their whines about right-wingers? Or is that just coincidence?
I wouldn't buy any of it.
So, do you want to drop the Beck/Rhodes equivalency, or do you want to try to go at it from another angle?
But I'm sure that she doesn't lead up to the commercial for gold by weaving some conspiracy about the endtimes and how important it will be to have gold when the coming storm hits.
Please, tell us what these same things are, and tell us why the companies are not treated the same. Something doesn't add up.
I could be wrong, but that's the impression I get. I hope I'm right.
I wonder when the last show is going to be. I'd have a party for all of us if I could!
What context would telling the OUTRIGHT LIE that the ACLU doesnt stand with Christians in to make it true unless it was saying well I am a blatant and pathetic LIAR and here is a lie for you morons?
I understand you are brainwashed and stupid. We arent. This out of context excuse only makes sense when the context actually CHANGES the psychotic rantings of Beck. It doesnt. Not to mention you are a LIAR. MMFA does not take things out of context. They give the context in their clips. Try peddling your lies to people who are as stupid as you. You wont find them here
Apparently I am.
I think there are a few hoosiers and Lee S's around.
Quick question for any of you who have an intelligence high enough to avoid name-calling in your first post ... are you capable of adult conversation? Because all I see is a bunch of people acting like 3rd graders who call everyone they don't like names. Are any of you out of elementary school?
For instance; what LIE have I told? Back up your "adult" claim before you try whining about me acting like an adult.
These men may be evil, but they aren't that stupid. Their ideas are dumb, but it makes them a boatload of money, which is their ultimate goal anyway.
But folks, this is a day we have all been waiting for. Beck is still going to be around, but his power line has been cropped.
Enjoy the moment.
I didn't feel excited about this, but you're right; pessimism aside, I'll enjoy the effectiveness of consistent campaigning by Stop Beck, MMfA, etc. It should be noted how long ago he called the president a racist and started losing advertisers, and they did not give up on it. Hurrah!
Maybe Beck will write the scripts, and Ted Nugent will act them out?
(I tried to post the image an hour ago but MMfA hasn't let it through...)
One of my fav lines from ATHF. (I didn't think he really believed it, though.)
The only problem Media Matters has now is what are they going to write about. LOL.
I think this is part of a broader effort to recapture the presidency for the republicans. Part of a two part effort I've seen being shaped on the right wing media. First step is to have non serious or non serious this time around candidates like Trump and Bachman announce their candidacy and then quickly sputter out and withdraw. The second step is to clean up the most popular channels of the fringe and tea-party talk. Beck is the most recognizable and popular of the paranoid racist conspiracy set.
The goal of this effort is to make the republican party appear sane again, and to wash their hands of the last three years of endless crazy talk like it never happened. You will see a more subdued and less alarmist republican party media. They'll be throwing out endless attacks, but they will be trying to draw in undecided and middle of the road voters who only come out for presidential elections.
My pick for GOP candidate...based on thinking similar to what you've laid out here: Romney/Huckabee.
Watch Huckabee...he's being cast as a Teabagger but underneath he's a hardcore anti-libertarian. As it stands he can pull in the religous right & the teabaggers without having to commit to any real libertarian positions. Romney will pull in the moderates and independants.
I've been saying that about Romney/Huckabee as well. I don't see any other reasonable and generally sane (we'll look past Huckabee's brief birther stunt a moment) republican candidates from the current pool of choices.
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It's not so much that I have a problem with that plan, but I worry that a lot of Americans are going to fall for it. The right wing media has a great deal of influence after all. They have the clout and reach to change the narrative to their needs.
The problem here arises when they hide the crazy for the presidential elections, and then as soon as the undecided and presidential election only voters have cast their ballots, it's back to crazy and extreme right wing politics.
becks new show will start on fox dec. 2012
This is a great victory for Angelo Carusone (StopBeck) and his allies. This is an awesome announcement, and I'm sure that this country will be all the better to be rid of Fox.
I wonder what liar, hypocrite and actor (fake, fraud, charlatan) they're going to find to replace this hate-monger with.
Does it matter? Since you've already made up your mind as to what kind of person it will be. The person could be the nicest, most honest person in the world and YOU'VE already pegged him/her as a "liar, hypocrite ... fake, fraud, charlatan". That says a lot about your mentality.
Why not mail in your prediction? Please, tell us what rearrangement you think will happen.
If you say so. I don't really care for Couric or most of the mainstream news celebs on the big network news outlets. She practices the same surface and smiles journalism that panders to viewers with short attention spans and only a passing interest in important world affairs.
Couric would be taking a step down in status after her major network career. That's not my particular take, but it's the way the news business is structured. She has her big bucks and bigtimke network career behind her already.
From the NY Times....
Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, which have sometimes clashed over the making of "Glenn Beck," will "work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News' digital properties," the companies said in the statement.
As expected, a senior Fox News executive, Joel Cheatwood, will join Mr. Beck at Mercury Radio Arts starting later this month.
When do you announce something if you dont the media to highlight or cover it.....Friday, like Olbermann's departure from MSNBC
When was this announced...Wednesday. Why? To give the media time to trip all over themselves breathlessly reporting on it looking foolish. Look for a follow up announcement after all of the media nuts comment on it....this looks more like an expansion than a dismissal.
The man compared himself to Harold Hill, the "lovable" con-man from The Music Man, ON HIS PROGRAM and it flew right over your heads. My favorite Harold Hill quote.
I'm thinking that you and Mag are Day-Glo green.
I think Beck probably loves his sheeple since they made him a rich man. It's a cold, crappy, grey day here in NY, but it's the best day of the year so far!
Angelo Carusone is to be congratulated!
That's not love. Beck may love to exploit his audience, but that doesn't mean he loves his audience any more than someone who loves to eat hamburger loves cows.
The answer to that is as simple as Glenda - "Suckah!!!!"
Yessir ...
Prior to joining FOX News, Cheatwood served as the executive director of program and talent development at CNN, where he launched both Glenn Beck's program and Showbiz Tonight for Headline News, achieving the highest primetime ratings in the network’s tenure.
Ree ...
The hiring of Joel Cheatwood to develop programming for CNN Headline News has also raised eyebrows. Mr. Cheatwood made his reputation in local news, where he is known mostly for stunts, tricks, tabloid touches and making more noise than news. [Television Week, 4/19/04]
Bob.
Boston was rocked in 1993 when Sunbeam Broadcasting owner Ed Ansin bought WHDH and imported a fast-paced, flashy news style from its Fox affiliate WSVN Miami. News Director Joel Cheatwood, famous for his "if it bleeds, it leads" brand of local news, led the charge.
As honest Abe used to say, "the only thing he won't steal is a red hot stove."
the circus has to leave town.
Operation: send the crazy uncle(Beck) to the basement with a six pack and a few DVDs while company comes(undecided presidential election voters) for a visit.
Fox has shown no interest in cleaning up their act, or toning down the crazy talk unless they feel it best suits their ultimate agenda of helping the republican party gain or retain power.
Like everything else they do, this is a triangulated move to further their non-journalist agenda.
The problem is with Ailes and Murdoch. Beck and Hannity are only their manifestations of disinformation, lies, and distortions.
And, then, there's Friday, April 1: 1.682 million total viewers and 344,000 viewers 25-54 years old.
In fact looking at the rating for that day that YOU selected....his show in that 5PM time slot beats ANY show on MSNBS.
My comment was simply to the fact that Beck's ratings have taken a nose dive.
Try reading.
Also, Glenn also enjoyed the "Hater effect" like Howard Stern. At one point Howard has MORE haters watching him than actual fans.
I bet if Neilsen would track fans AND haters in separate columns, his(and Hannity and O'Reilly) fan ratings would be right at, if not below, anything on MSNBC. MSNBC does not enjoy the same effect because Fox fans have all been lead to believe to never go there and watch.
MSNBC does not demonize it's competitors and actually encourages people to go watch Fox to see the madness first hand. The two are not the same.
I am not necessarily a Fox Fan, however, I enjoy it much more than MSNBC.
I watch both.
Not really a big deal, just an observation put into generic terms that seems to be pretty accurate.
I was referring how he said Fox Fan's do not watch MSNBC, which is not true because my parents are huge Fox News' fans, and they both watch MSNBC.
They get a kick out of Ed Schultz. And my Mom watches Chris Matthews everyday.
If you are going to make a generalization put into generic terms that are "pretty accurate", you should probably acknowledge that it is not completely accurate.
What the Republican's budget cuts are and what effect they will have on seniors and middle class workers
How the elimination the health care law will affect people with insurance. why premiums continue to rise.
Who is behind the Wisconsin governor's efforts to end collective bargaining rights? Who funds the Tea Party and why?
Explain corporate tax loopholes and why General Electric paid zero taxes last year.
Just a few off the top of my head, that the average tv news viewer won't understand from the coverage provided.
Judging by questions you posed and the way you ask them, it sounds as though you search for articles that are left leaning in nature.
^^^
I may be wrong about that assertion, if so, the next though does not pertain to you.
I am not saying there is anything wrong with that, however, in order to fully grasp the issues it would serve you better to read articles that lean both ways.
"The cat ate the mouse" is news.
"The cat, who I believe was a gray tabby, very delicately, in my opinion, devoured the small brown mouse, which some say was actually grey, in order, as a lot of people are saying, to prevent the mouse from eating what some are saying was a chunk of cheddar cheese, although a lot of people are saying it was gouda." is opinion.
You should learn the difference.
Mary stated herself that she would prefer an in depth explanation on the effects of the issues she named off. When asking for in depth explanations you are going to receive the rhetors bias, that's unavoidable.
There is no such thing as a source that only reports "news" with out bias. The closest thing I can think of would be local new stations, who report murders and what not.
For example, The New York Times and The Washington Post both write a story on Obama's energy plan. It is almost guaranteed that The New York Times will probably write an article that favors what Obama has proposed, while The Washington Post will probably write an article that opposes what Obama has proposed. Both will be filled with bias supporting their argument.
Since you prefer a more original source you would probably look at Obama's speech on his energy plan. However, Obama is not going to give a speech about how we need to change our energy infrastructure to renewable sources, and then say how his plan will never work. He is going to support his plan by only highlighting the positive aspects of it. This creates a bias in his speech.
Yes I do have the ability to form my own opinion. I am unsure what you were trying to get at with that. However, creating your own opinion without acknowledging the opinions of others is a sign of close-mindedness.
We need to understand the forces behind why our economy is sour. Instead, there is the drivel of people like Glenn Beck and his ridiculous conspiracy theories.
You make a false assumption. That I cannot tell the difference between facts and leanings. I can. When I read the Nation magazine they might put their spin on the interpretation of an event, I can see that, however they do not LIE about that event happening or when or where it happened.
I read books on issues I care about. Again the FACTS are what they are. I can make my own interpretations of them.
While ratings might be down "across the board", the shows on MSNBC and CNN that compete with Beck's time slots haven't lost as much viewership.
And, once again, popularity (ratings) doesn't equal truth.
This was released last week.
Yes, We are greatly indebted to him for elevating journalism ... to new lows!
Some elevators only go to the basement.
They're usually high-speed express.
Ding Dong the D!&K is Dead!!!
Don't think for one second this has anything to do Media Matters or the efforts of any other liberal or progressive organization. These conservative propagandists have no ethics, no standards of decency, and deep pockets to fund their agenda during troubled times.
You can bet after the 2012 election, Beck will be back on Fox, or they'll have someone else like him to pander to the ignorant conspiracy craving crowd.
I suppose there's always radio, but without the visual, the guttural noises and sputtering just won't have the same entertainment value.
You've actually described the right wing think tank strategy perfectly. See, there are these communications that actually get sent around to right wing media from the think tanks on what phrases to use, what stories to push and what stories to play down. There is no such mechanism working on the left. This is just classic projection.
On the left, we sometimes lament the fact that we don't have a rigid, top down media strategy like the one that has been so effective in pushing the right wing agenda. However, liberalism is not top down. It's just not the way we structure and organize. We're thinkers and debaters and researchers, not followers.
When you claim that all those liberal you talk to have the same answers, it's pretty important to know what the questions are. After all, if you're asking them if they think President Obama is a US citizen, I think you can expect anyone that isn't fed misinformation to reply with a strong affirmative. Ask anyone who doesn't listen to right wing propaganda if they think Sharia Law is taking over America, and I'm pretty certain there will be agreement that the answer is "no".
If it means using commons sense, and not being led around by the collar to bark at whatever outrage the right wing media directs you to be angry each day, then I guess I've been "indoctrinated" by reality and reason.
Edumakation Bad, Soros Bad, Drink!
RWA drone!
He be hom skuled and be so inteligint!
Notice how the high RWAs accuse their percieved opponents of all the character traits that are so prevalent in them:
*Blind obedience to their programmers
*Incapable of independent thought
*Lack of logical, cohesive arguments
*Education hating reprobates
They constantly accuse others of being lemmings, talking point repeaters . . . . . It is because these descriptors fit them perfectly and they subconsciously hate that.
Read up about Right Wing Authoritarians.
That's what I keep trying to tell folks. While these people may have conservative leanings, the crap they say comes straight out of the mouths of their authoritarian leaders and really has very little to do with conservatism.
As he explains, some RWA's were Communists present in Russia. Authoritarianism is politically neutral but here in America it seems that the Uber Right wingers have a lock on it.
I loved the World society gaming study he set up using high scoring RWAs and another game using low scoring RWA's. The low scoring RWA's established a cooperative world with thriving societies. The game with the high scoring RWAs destroyed the world with absurd military buildups followed by world wars in very short order.
Notice any parallels in real life?
psst...this is the part where she says....."well actually..." and goes on to explain how Obama IS a conservative.
You are correct that he is a liberal, socialist, blah blah blah when compared to Attila the Hun or "Bats#it" Bachmann or . . . . but not really when using a real world comparison.
In point of fact, if you want to find comparable "conservativeness" that we are judged by here in America, you'll have to go to very fringe parties in a few democracies like Israel or one of many Authoritarian dictatorships in the world.
You're just a gullible mark for this self-admitted con-man.
You "support his right to provided the opinions he has," yet, you would deny the rights of others to state theirs about him. Not very "first ammendmenty" of you.
I form my own opinions based upon Beck's own words . . . unlike you, I don't need talking points to tell me what I'm supposed to say.
BTW, if you're going to claim that another group of people is "hateful" and you aren't, you probably should choose a less hateful screen name. Kind of makes you look like a silly hypocrite. and isn't very "conservative" of you, but then, I haven't seen much conservatism come out of your mouth so far.
Glenn's not a former shock jock turned uber-patriot. He's a current shock jock with a gullible fan base that gives him undeserved credibility. He's a con man, a liar, an intellectual poseur, a slanderer, and a drag on society. He's just another fly in the political ointment. He embodies everything that's wrong with the press today. He is the epitome of American ignorance, as well as a contributor to it.
And you say you just stopped by to see what us "libs" are saying? You're new? Well, you must be super-special, because new posters have ALWAYS had to wait a few days before their comments show up, and yet yours are showing up immediately!
Here's a paragraph of the same, unoriginal things every single other Republican says, plus a comparison of Glenn Beck to Oprah. Buh-bye!
Start a post like that, and then go on to throw some hate out there. By the way, in terms of federal dollars, the reddest (republican districts and states) parts of the nation tend to receive the MOST in federal dollars and the most blue states are the ones who generate the capital to support them.
Sorry to burst the bubble of hatred created by right wing media designed to make you hate us "liberal leeches", but the facts show that the most liberal parts of the country support the most deeply conservative in terms of tax dollars. The big difference is that we understand the need for a functioning society so we don't complain about it, unlike conservatives who reap the most benefits of this social contract and still endlessly complain about it.
Dump your chalk and chalkboard stocks!
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This is how I feel, I cant stop laughing. Good riddance, it serves the BUFFOON just right.
It's the end of Glenn Beck at 5PM, but it is not the end of Beck on Fox, nor is it Fox's way of saying, "You've gotten too nutty." It's their way of saying, "We like what you do here, and it isn't enough."
That's the difference between liberal progressives and Republicans - we can admit our faults. But for you people, it's a genetic impossibility. It would be comical if your inability to admit a wrong didn't result in wars that kill our troops and innocent civilians while depleting our resources and ruining our economy.
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It is a prominent characteristic of Right Wing Authoritarianism which may have a genetic component. The only true solution is a cult deprogrammer.
This has nothing to do with your adherence to the false "us v. them" game propagated by your heroes on hate talk radio and Fox.
Oh, and for someone who keeps talking about how the difference between you and those liberals is that the liberals are a hateful group, you sure do have some pretty darned hateful and very un-conservative posts.
You need to chill before you have a stroke. Beck will be fine. He's richer than Croesus. He's been laughing at folks like you, all the way to the bank.
I am curious though bintx, why do you think liberal talk shows (radio and TV) don't do as well as conservative ones? Could NPR really survive without the government funding they get? Perhaps George would pay for it, but I am very curious to know what Media Matters and it's followers think is the reason that liberal talk, CNN, MSNBC and other liberal news outlets don't do as well as Fox News and the conservative talk shows... thoughts?
What lies? Do you think Limbaugh lies? His opinions are not lies.
WTF!? How many of you idiots don't understand the document you claim to live by?
They have the right to say it just like we have the right to speak out against it. And if that leads to his employer taking him off the air, so be it. If passivity is your thing, that's fine, but we aren't content to sit back and let a bunch of goons spread blatant lies.
I guess that's a major difference between us: Conservatives don't care about the effect public discourse has on the populace, while liberals fight to change what is wrong with it, for the benefit of us all (even you!).
That ignorance is exactly what is going wrong with our country... and the politicians love it... if you think that all these rich, elitist, egomaniacs care about you and me you are not thinking things through... Bush and Obama are the same... as are the Clintons, the rest of the Bush family, George S., and most of the other politicians are out for themselves!
There are conservatives and liberals who fight for change that is needed, but as long as we stay divided like we are nothing will get done... and all those rich and powerful politicians will stay rich and powerful.
Are you serious? What about O'Keefe's ridiculous sting to try to discredit NPR? The Republican congressional caucus just voted to defund NPR based on alleged liberal bias. Yes, conservatives do try to eliminate competing viewpoints, and if they can't do that, they'll settle for trying to discredit them. Hence, the FOUR DECADE LONG crusade to tar the mainstream media as liberally biased.
Our "Liberal" Democratic party would be considered more conservative that the Tory party in England and several other conservative parties in the western world. In fact those conservative parties support much more actual "socialism" that our Democrats have ever proposed.
If you want to find a more conservative party than the Repugs or TeaPartiers you have to go to a Right wing dictatorship to do it.
I know you have a very, very closed mind about how things operate, but check out the comments on FoxNation.com some time. In fact, just check out some of their screen names (things on a par with "libsaremorons"). They make the "hateful" things said here sound like something from Mary Poppins.
Educate yourself, please.
"No American private individual shall criticize or join with other individual citizens to take any organized action to oppose or interfere with conservative pundits' speech."
I stand in awe of conservatives' devotion to the Constitution.
second, do you have anything to offer, anything at all, that could be construed as a reasonable argument? just curious.
and finally, shouldn't you be back at work by now? isn't your foreman going to be all over your a$$ soon?
GOD but you are stupid. His ONLY first amendment right you MORON is to spew whatever he wants on a streetcorner or in public. He has NO first amendment right to an audience. You rightwingnuts are always so STUPID and so brainwashed you spout off about the first amendment all the time and have zero understanding of it. Then again you are too stupid to understand pretty much anything
There are many differences between us. For instance you have no honor, no integrity, no soul and no critical thinking skills whatsoever. Now RUSH deals almost exclusively in vile lies and abject stupidity. Maddow for instance actually knows what she is talking about and is always polite and reasonable to her guests
You are a LIAR
You might want to read what you are defending.
It is easy to have a debate or discuss issues on this site.
However; folks like "libsaremorons" are not here for a discussion. They are here to post talking points as facts and then get upset when someone calls them on it.
If you want a discussion, then post your point civilly and people will respond.
There is nothing inherently right or wrong with either liberalism or conservatism. Folks like "libsaremorons" don't understand that nor do they care. They've been told that they have to hate anyone who disagrees with them. Who's telling them that? The faux conservatives on Fox/hate talk radio like Beck, Limbaugh, et al.
No I wouldnt consider you all of the above. I am not even that certain that a guy whose very NICK is liberalsaremorons is all that. However did you READ the post I repsonded to? It was all bile and insults. All stupidity. Why do you attack ME for responding to such ignorant tripe but not HIM for starting the hostilities? I will make you a deal. You discuss the issue leave off false characterizations of liberals, leave out the bile and I will be all issue discussion and logical debate with you. IF however you want to START the discussion with liberals are morons and say things like we hate the first amendment, especially due to a misunderstanding OF the first amendment and we are a hateful group I might get a bit testy
Maybe he's got enough money to start Blaze TV?
(Thank you, all the folks who kept the pressure on advertisers to end this jerk's tenure as fountain of misinformation.) As tediuos as it must have been, it FINALLY gets this boob off the air.
I really hope not. I was so looking forward to it.
There is no role Glenn likes better than that of martyred, persecuted victim and he plays it to the hilt.
Okay, it's not working I can't wipe the smirk off my face. But I still stand by my contention that it wasn't MMFA that decided Beckie's fate, it was his Traveling Damnation Show schtick. Lost viewers and lost advertisers were just too much for Fox.
This whole statement that Fix & Beck "will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel" is more BS. Unless there is some contract that stipulates a quantity of "specials" I doubt we'll see more than one or two get produced.
I would be very nervous if I was assigned to GB.
You probably would since you are so stupid. The one thing in the WORLD there is no shortage of is lies and misinformation from rightwing screechmonkeys. Thanks for your concern.
Press releases are usually issued a few days after the actual decision has been made to give time for the PR department to draught the release.
Funding to a separate section, such as a section hired to defend Beck on 'left wing' site, can be cut off in a matter of minutes.
It is unlikely that we will see them again, at least until their funding is reinstated.
Of course not.
They made up a "transition" story.
Beck is GONE baby, GONE. Like michael savage. remember him?
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The bad news is Beck will be earning more than his host colleagues. Jealousy is a bitch.
I'm thinking Beck will be doing more documentary-style shows that Fox can pick and choose when to air; perhaps during primetime, perhaps on Sunday at 1am. Who knows.
For all you celebrating and laughing, he's not gone from TV, just from his 5pm time-slot.
MagCynic, do you seriously think that it was left wingers who forced the poor, helpless, multi-million dollar advertisers to stop advertising with Beck? Or could it just possibly have something to do with the advertisers looking out for their own reputations? Either way, if your interpretation is correct, then the free market Beck just drop kicked Beck's show from FNC's regular lineup.
It was my understanding that the vast majority of companies dropped advertising on Beck as a result of pressure from left-wing groups.
He is a con-man and you've been conned, Mag.
(I know that you actually read the posts from all of us on the IGNORE LIST, BTW).
Of course he has. He's a serial liar. He can't even tell the truth about that, and he's far too cowardly to admit it in any event.
How can you possibly prove that "They" or "Some" didn't influence something? "They" or "Some" always influence everything.
That's the breeding ground for Conspiracy Theories, which seems to be your favorite wallow.
Actually, I'm hoping his prime time shows will get a little more mainstream coverage. When you expose this kind of excrement to the light of day, it dries up and blows away!
The logical fallacy in YOUR post is known as an argument from ignorance. You made a claim then demanded someone else prove it is NOT true. Grow up. If you cant swim in deep water and make logical and cogent arguments stop wasting our time
Because it sounds to me like a nice way of saying, "Get lost, Glenn..the free market has disowned you and we're losing advertisers."
Yes, I know. Vampires can only be scared away temporarily. Does anyone happen to have a sharp wooden stake and a mallet?
Note that Joel Cheatwood, the guy who kept Beck at Fox News and was his liaison, is gone almost immediately.
A. More happy about Beck
B. More sad about Olbermann
Your quiz makes a faulty assumption that if one finds Glenn Beck to be a blight upon civil discourse in this country that they automatically are Olbermann fans. Try again.
Taking bets.
You know, lose a bunch of advertisers for your boss, and get promoted as a result?
This audience subset are the same people who can't really get an attractive woman, except at a strip club - temporarily.
Notice his alias as an attractive pulp movie character. Can you say "Freudian slip". Wanna guess what he really looks like and his personality type?
Media Matters: 1,793,010,226,988,475,461
Little Girly Man Who Cries After Losing Fox TV Show: 0
THIS IS A WIN FOR ALL OF US HERE AT MMFA!!
Unfortunately not.
Maybe the guy figures he can make just as much if not more money on the lecture circuit. More books. guest appearances. We haven't heard the last of this character by a long shot.
Mmmmmmmmm rich butt smooches. Tasty, eh Glenn?
I wish you nothing but failure in the future. You truly deserve it.
p.s. Thumb it down and talk a bunch of crap. I have said what I wanted to say, and wont respond back.
You won't respond because you are a brainless zombie who has been suckered by an uneducated, dishonest, self-admitted con-man.
Translation: I realize I'm a cult follower, sound absolutely insane, and won't for a second be able to counter any of your arguments. I'll still read what you say, but since I lack the intellect to answer, I'm going to pretend I'm gone.
For godsake, do you not see the level of crazy that statement reaches?
Obviously the people who were in a slumber have been inspired to remove there tinfoil caps and allow all the voices into their heads. They've been awoken. God Bless you Glenn!!!
Does this mean since GB was fired he is now "Winning!"
Oh by the way, good call on the coward's quick shot. Of course when you say you won't respond you won't be reading this too, right?
"I can't prove this, but..."
"I don't remember..."
"Call me crazy, but..."
"I don't know..."
Most of Beck's shows are broken down into talking points that he can't go 10 minutes without mentioning:
Buy Gold
George Soros is evil
Unions are evil
Wilson was the worst president ever
Coolidge was the best president ever
Cloward and Piven are evil
Cass Sunstein is evil
Van Jones is evil
and the most famous one
Progressives are out to get him.
It's a rightwing troll trying to pretend he's a new poster because his reputation here under his old screen name sucks bigtime.
Since at least December.
They'd have the time stamp from when they were created, but that wouldn't be the time that they actually appeared on this site. They'd appear on this site sometime after that time stamp, after they'd been through the moderation process.
If that were the case for the post you replied to, that the post was created at 2:16, and then it went through the moderation process, you couldn't have seen it in time to reply to it by 2:19.
So that tells us that it didn't go have to go through the moderation process. It immediately posted to the site, just like regular posts do. That means that the poster's already been through the moderation process here, and simply changed his screen name. He got through moderation with another name, and then changed his screen name. Just another example of how trolls can be dishonest and game the system.
Oh my GOD. You are really STUPID enough to think Beck deals in information? Seriously? You need help. Beck is psychotic. He deals in fantasies, delusions, wild baseless assertions and he is a puppetmaster for morons like you too stupid to either think for themselves or know the difference between information and wild fantasy stories. I pity you. Get help fast
Looks like Beck was just another fad tv show.
Besides, I can't criticize anything David Lynch does. But that's mainly because I barely get it to begin with.
Thanks again!
You really are stupid. I hope someday you develop the capacity for higher brain function. It is as unlikely as you growing wings and flying to the moon but hope springs eternal.
Think of it as a candidate (or issue-specific) hour-long infomercial.
MMFA existed before Beckie his Fox, and it will have things to say after he's gone. And don't think that all those employees were watching only Beck, he isn't that important. I admit it, I came here because I wanted to mock Beck, but that doesn't mean I will quit coming when he isn't on the air anymore.
BTW, MediaMatters has been around for a long time before Beck arrived on the scene. I don't think this is going to affect them in the least.
Media Matters 2004
genius
Nice try, though. You're still a "useful idiot."
When exactly did Lenin actually use the phrase, "Useful idiots"?
by rightwingheores
GOD but you are stupid. Beck is a drop in the con misinformation ocean. He may be more stupidly outrageous than most and more entertaining to slap the stupid out of but the one thing in the WORLD there is no shortage of is righwting lies and stupidity.
Hey, at least you still have Puppet Hannity and The Drug Addict to provide your daily propaganda fix.
2 words for Beck: Invest Wisely.
And DANCE!! Ohio Union
And DANCE Europe
Los Angeles....
Toledo, Ohio...
Seattle...
What is it about the YouTube collection I posted that did not make sense to you?
Lol
Flagged.
Glenn Beck had a three year deal with FOX...and, again, he was canned before the contract was up.
One possible explanation is that Glenn Beck is psychotic.
Oh wait, they tried that with (not) Joe the (not) plumber.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/megyn-kelly-glenn-beck-fox-news-baier_n_845684.html
What good is being a cult leader if you don't get martyred?
The top 10 craziest things Glenn Beck ever said
MERCURY RADIO ARTS
Orson Welles' radio company was similarly called Mercury Theatre on the Air which infamously adapted H. G. Well's novel "The War of the Worlds" in 1938 for his classic radio drama anthology series.
And although reports of panic after the broadcast on Halloween were mostly false and overstated, it nonetheless rocketed Welles to instant notoriety.
Of course, the correspondence of notoriety and talent ends rather quickly in consideration of Mr. Beck's super ego peregrination.
Glenn,
How could you let us hear this terrible and shocking news from Time Magazie and AOL? While I went to find that stupid poll you mention below (which I never found) I found this http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/... and I am ill, upset, angry, feel betrayed, shocked and cr......ying. How could you let us find out like this? Is it Soros's conquest at last; an illness? How could you surrender to the MSM? They are going to have a field day with this. I can't tell you how upset I am.
Wow. There are a hundred like this over there. Stable bunch. The Soros conspiracy theories are plentiful too.
I like how they simultaneously blame it all on Soros and/or some unspecified but massive leftist conspiracy, then two seconds later ask Beck why he "chose to do this now..." So, he was forced out due to the left, but he also chose now to leave?
Good work, Beck defenders. Your predictability is almost comforting.
I like them fried, boiled and mashed.
I like potatoes!
And the 80 year-old client of yours is a fool... I take back the part where I was feeling what you were saying... you are a sad sad man.
Do you really believe this is a Republicans vs Democrats war? If so you are not very smart... think about it... as long as we all stay divided they keep their power and we have none!
Although GB will continue, I hope that you all have fewer occurences of bleeding ear syndrome! Yeah I know Limbomb is still around, but Happy Dance anyway!
While they are add it, add an IP/mac address based ban so they can't continue the cycle of troll/ban/new account/repeat.
Glenn Beck - Dry Drunk, Drug Addict, Paranoid Schizophrenic, Narcissist, Delusional.
Sad.
Pathetic.
I'm sure he'll be back with his Second Coming or Resurrection or whatever.
This all seems a bit like Uncle Rupert's Retirement Home for high profile employees who have outlived their usefulness. His newspapers have long provided a home for clapped out editors to thunder on about how we're all going to hell in a hand-basket like a chorus of so many Colonel Blimps.
David Carr over at the NYT wrote a great and insightful 2 page article on March 6, 2011, covering the crumbling FOX-Glennis, love-hate relationship.
Sure enough,Progressive soon dumped Beck.
So anyway back on subjectMr. Glenn Beck is leaving, so you attack him based on his sponsers? Anyway in all serious now, obviously if you're on this site, you're either A: a socialist or B: you just joined so you could comment on the forms. For all of you in the A catagory, please seriously explain to me how distribution of wealth, devaluing the dollar, and collapsing the economy is good for America? Or why must all countries be equal? How is socialism in anyway good for any good hardworking person? I'm being 100% serious here, please answer me.