Glenn Beck's recent shows

[SMEGMA STENCH]

Keep in mind that he, like Limbaugh, Don Imus and Hannity is an entertainer, not an anchor. They should be taken as seriously as Jon Stewart, Leno, Letterman or Seth Meyers. As entertainers they have no ethical reason to report the news unbiased.

They get all bent out of shape when this gets brought up though.

[Up0n0ne]

He is way too over the top for my taste. I prefer Hannity. He isn't as dramatic and retarded.

I used to listen to Hannity, and have come to the conclusion that i just can't handle his repetitive narcissistic ramblings. He cuts people off, repeats the same stuff or sayings over and over, and ALWAYS needs a pat on the back. Good grief, atleast get a new opening song and stop throwing that nerf football at the camera before each commercial, you're not a quarterback.

[lowthreeohz]

Yahoo has a pretty funny article about Beck's demise. I still think he's a whiney fuck.

from :

http://news.yahoo.com/s/dailybeast/13372_endingofglennbeckshowremovesafearmongerfromtheair

Beck’s departure from Fox News marks the welcome removal of an incendiary talk-show host who reveled in apocalyptic shtick and the politics of incitement, writes John Avlon. Plus, the Fox-Beck divorce.

The nightly nervous breakdown will not be televised.

Glenn Beck is going off the air on Fox News.

It is a remarkable reversal of fortune for a man who one year ago was banking $32 million annually, teaching Americans how to fear-monger for fun and profit.

But with his ratings down nearly 50 percent and advertisers abandoning the show, Beck’s apocalyptic shtick has been getting rancid fast.

It’s almost hard to remember that not so long ago Glenn Beck was being taken seriously as a political figure by hyper-partisans on the far right. The proto-Tea Party rally on Capitol Hill in 2009 was directly inspired by Beck. This past summer, he filled one-third of the Washington Mall with his faithful for what turned out to be a religious revival with political overtones, on the anniversary of the Martin Luther King’s "I Have a Dream" speech. There were even, it is now surreal to say, calls for him to run for president on a ticket with Sarah Palin—a draft movement that they had to deny.

A low-lights reel of Beck’s worst moments on Fox would take hours to watch, but it would offer a useful seminar on the politics of incitement and near-mainstreaming of conspiracy theories in the Obama era. A talented broadcaster, Beck used his perch to echo old narratives straight out of the paranoid style in American politics—sinister plots to impose one-world government, the intentional subversion of the Constitution, the oppression of the faithful at the hands of a secular socialist elite hell-bent on replacing the American experiment with tyranny. “The Glenn Beck Show” is the closest the John Birch Society has ever come to having their own national program, reaching millions and poisoning political debate in the process.

Glenn Beck was the boy who cried wolf, constantly ratcheting up the rhetoric to get attention, and ultimately becoming a parody of himself.

And let’s not forget that in the overheated, 'no enemies on the right,’ anti-Obama environment before the 2010 midterm elections, Beck had his defenders in the GOP and conservative commentariat. Many more were content to be silent in the colluding spirit of ‘he might be crazy, but he’s our crazy.’

But anger and anxiety are difficult to sustain for long periods of time with any degree of credibility. Demagogues do best in economic downturns. The economy has steadily (if slowly) improved and the 2010 midterm elections reduced the sense of urgency in the opposition. The American system still worked and tyranny was not descending upon our democracy, as hotly predicted. Glenn Beck was the boy who cried wolf, constantly ratcheting up the rhetoric to get attention and ultimately becoming a parody of himself.

I watched Beck’s show last night for the first time in months after hearing of his forced retirement. I half-hoped that we’d see Beck liberated from his shtick and announce that this whole time he’d been punking America by playing out the script of Network, bringing the character of Howard Beale to life as a lesson to us all. No such luck.

Instead, I saw Beck comparing himself to Paul Revere and predicting the end of the world. His chalkboards have become versions of the intricate strings connecting pins in the backyard shed of A Beautiful Mind. One prominently listed the Muslim Brotherhood, Bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Bill Ayers, Frances Fox Piven, and Hugo Chavez, as Beck counseled the audience on the connections between them all just below the surface. Another board offered side-by-side comparisons of “Islamic Unrest” and “Unions, Socialists and Anarchists.”

Beck remains earnest and confessional, warning his viewers against ‘normalcy bias’—i.e., common sense—and complaining how he will be taken out of context. The problem is that there is no context to his stream of consciousness—it is all pinpoints and undertow, and the contradictions flow. He is still desperately practicing group polarization and selling special knowledge, like all conspiracy entrepreneurs. After a 20-minute monologue, he took his first commercial break. It was, inevitably, someone selling Gold, followed by a pitch for survival seeds to those who want to “declare food independence.”

A closing note: One year ago, when Wingnuts was published as the first BeastBook, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Keith Olbermann were put on the cover because they were the most public faces for the problem I was trying to describe—the return of the paranoid style in American politics and the cycle of incitement that was empowering the extremes while drowning out the vast vital center.

What a difference a year makes—now Keith Olbermann is off the air, Glenn Beck is slinking that way, and Sarah Palin’s poll numbers have imploded to the point where her prospective presidential campaign already sounds like a bad old joke.

It is a heartening turn of events—a reaffirmation that the American people are smart and instinctively distrust the ideological extremes of left and right. The Howard Beale howl, "I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it any more," has been turned on its head—as a sign at the Jon Stewart "Rally to Restore Sanity" happily predicted: "You’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more!"

[Broncojohnny]

The lefties have lied on television for decades in this country because of their domination of the media. Fox news does the same with the opposite slant and now they aren't credible? Glenn Beck's end results aren't any different than Olberturds or Rachel Maddow's they just go the opposite direction.

But, just like any other topic, the lefties have a jaw dropping double standard when it comes to the media. Anyone remember the constant body counts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are those at these days? Anyone remember when the lefties marched in the streets with signs of BUSH=Hitler when we bombed a foreign country over oil? I sure do remember those days.

[Geor!]

Geof, you're a fucking dolt. The more I read of your bullshit the less faith I have in the human race.

I know you are but what am I? By the way, what word did you look up in the thesaurus to get to the word "dolt?" I don't think "dumb dumb" is a word that it would recognize. Go smoke what little brains you have remaining in that useless head of yours. I'll promise to keep your feeding tube connected when you can no longer function on your own.

[Up0n0ne]

The lefties have lied on television for decades in this country because of their domination of the media. Fox news does the same with the opposite slant and now they aren't credible? Glenn Beck's end results aren't any different than Olberturds or Rachel Maddow's they just go the opposite direction.

But, just like any other topic, the lefties have a jaw dropping double standard when it comes to the media. Anyone remember the constant body counts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are those at these days? Anyone remember when the lefties marched in the streets with signs of BUSH=Hitler when we bombed a foreign country over oil? I sure do remember those days.

Yeah we don't hear much on what's going on over there anymore. Almost like there isn't a war going on.
My understanding and from what I've heard is that America has had more fallen soldiers under obummer than Bush ever did.

[lowthreeohz]

I know you are but what am I? By the way, what word did you look up in the thesaurus to get to the word "dolt?" I don't think "dumb dumb" is a word that it would recognize. Go smoke what little brains you have remaining in that useless head of yours. I'll promise to keep your feeding tube connected when you can no longer function on your own.

LOL! I wish I worked at Blockbuster and knew it all. This braindead pothead just got a 15k raise and a great new job.. how's unemployment treating you?

[347Mike]

lulz @ you guys..

[Geor!]

LOL! I wish I worked at Blockbuster

Fucking liar!

and knew it all.

While I never said I knew it all, I certainly implied that I was rational enough to differentiate between news and opinion/analysis of current events.

This braindead pothead just got a 15k raise and a great new job.

I'm happy for you. Really, I am.

. how's unemployment treating you?

Couldn't tell ya!

[lowthreeohz]

While I never said I knew it all, I certainly implied that I was rational enough to differentiate between news and opinion/analysis of current events.

What station is Beck's show aired on? Fox...NEWS. Not Fox Opinion/Analysis network.

[Geor!]

What station is Beck's show aired on? Fox...NEWS. Not Fox Opinion/Analysis network.

This website is called dfwmustangs.net.

[talisman]

Get a room and fuck it out!

[Trip McNeely]

The lefties have lied on television for decades in this country because of their domination of the media. Fox news does the same with the opposite slant and now they aren't credible? Glenn Beck's end results aren't any different than Olberturds or Rachel Maddow's they just go the opposite direction.

But, just like any other topic, the lefties have a jaw dropping double standard when it comes to the media. Anyone remember the constant body counts of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan? Where are those at these days? Anyone remember when the lefties marched in the streets with signs of BUSH=Hitler when we bombed a foreign country over oil? I sure do remember those days.

100% agree with you. I just like the left getting a taste of their own medicine and it is nice that at least one station albeit quite right does expose a lot of it.

[Trip McNeely]

By the way, what word did you look up in the thesaurus to get to the word "dolt?"

LMAO! Holy shit Geoff, thats Dennis Leary circa 199x. Cmon man!

[Denny]

Sorry, I'm just catching up from not turning on the computer for two weeks (in Jamaica).

I watch Glenn Beck, Alex Jones and others. Not because I believe every word they say or agree with them, but because I want to see every angle I possibly can. I also watch most of the MSM news and others like Russia Today, CCTV (China), Al Jazzy-ria, etc.

Beck is right on the broad scope of things, but when he links it back to a root cause, he's not going far enough. Guys like George Soros and Cas Sunstien(sp) are low-level drones, just a tick above people like the Pesident and Senators and under swine like Jamie Dimon, Ben Bernanke, etc.

I think much of his reporting is manipulated by the ownership of the network he works for. There is way too much detail he has for not going further.

You want to find root causes? Look at the IMF, CFR, British Royal Family, World Bank, Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Bilderberg Group, Bushs (Ya, I said it. Look out for Jeb), and many-many others. I can start a thread on just this group of people.