Right now, it’s still okay for journalists to make fun of Glenn Beck. But if he keeps his ratings up for much longer, it won’t be. BriWi will be calling into his show and saying that Beck has actually yet to get the credit he is due, comedians will be censured for making fun of him, Republican office-holders will have to apologize to him regularly, Mark Halperin will appear on his show (whoops, that already happened), Joe Klein will start comparing him to Glenn Greenwald.
It’s just a matter of time.
beltane
If Charles Manson was given his own show on Fox, his ratings would probably be through the roof. What does this say about our media?
cmorenc
I went to a local Rescue Mission Store to drop off a donation today, and while there happened across an array of old (but still working) donated TVs that were for sale there. UGH- they were set to Fox, and Glen Beck’s program was then on in particular.
The one minute I watched (like watching a train wreck) Glenn had some wild-eyed black man ranting about how Obama’s health care plan would inevitably mean black genocide. NO KIDDING! That’s really what the man was saying, with Beck of course nodding heartily in agreement. I couldn’t stand to watch longer than a minute of this vicious lying bullcrap, and left.
cleek
BriWi is a whore.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxKm5PjFMHQ
cleek
one of these days, Beck’s gonna get his own “have you no sense of decency” beatdown. even a journalist of minimal standards should be able to see that Beck’s full of shit. it’s just a matter of getting him into an interview situation.
i hope it comes soon.
mai naem
@cmorenc:
You should have switched them. Given the opportunity, I’ve done that . I have never understood the attraction of Fox . I think their female hosts look trailer trashy with a ton of make up. I think the guys are goofy looking(the guy who looks like Howdy Doody.) Of the five Sunday shows, Chris Wallace is easily the least attractive. I find the music intros way too loud. Too much graphics and I detest how they everything that they say is typed out below. Personally, I think CNN and MSNBC’s production values better. The sets are cleaner and the people more attractive. And that’s before you get to the content.
phantomist
It’s just a matter of time…
until he has O’reilly buying a white board and learning to cry on command.
feebog
@cleek:
An interview with any normal media outlet is not going to happen. Glenn Beck is in the warm confines of the Faux Noose womb. No reality, no worries. Where else could you be paid millions to imitate Jack Nicholson in “One Flew Over the Cuocoo’s Nest”?
JK
It doesn’t matter how many companies pull their ads from Glenn Beck’s putrid, steaming pile of excrement program. Murdoch and Ailes would keep this raving, drooling, bedwetting lunatic on the air even if they had to finance his show out of their own pockets. Beck is a malignant, virulent media carcinogen who will undoubtedly still be spouting nonsense on Fox long after Obama has left office.
Rosali
Slightly o/t: I’m watching news reports on the CA child molester kidnapping case and I’m reminded of the horrible statements made by Bill O’Reilly about the teenage boy who was kidnapped and missing for 4 years. BillO theorized that the kid must have liked being with his kidnapper. I wonder if he says the same thing about this young woman and her 2 daughters. Just when I think that they can’t get any more depraved, I hear the latest poison from them.
Keith G
I remember first hearing some idiot named Beck on a.m. radio in early 2002. An ass then, a larger, louder and richer ass now.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
This will go on and it will continue to get worse right up until the day that one of Beck’s fans takes a shot at the Prez. Then everyone in the media will say “I’m shocked! shocked!”, and they will pretend that Beck and Fox are just innocent victims of an unfortunate coincidence because by then far too many “mainstream” folks like BriWi will have left their greasy fingerprints at the scene of the hatefest for any sort of forensic examination of how we got here to be allowed. Can’t be opening closet doors – too many skeletons might fall out. And then after a brief period of quiet within 2-3 years or less the haters and screamers will be back in the saddle again. It will be 1961-1968 all over again only this time the cycle will run faster than it did back then.
mistermix
You don’t get it Doug. Unlike Glenn Greenwald, who “cares not a whit about the national security of the United States”, Glenn Beck is all about America.
DougJ
This will go on and it will continue to get worse right up until the day that one of Beck’s fans takes a shot at the Prez. Then everyone in the media will say “I’m shocked! shocked!”, and they will pretend that Beck and Fox are just innocent victims of an unfortunate coincidence because by then far too many “mainstream” folks like BriWi will have left their greasy fingerprints at the scene of the hatefest for any sort of forensic examination of how we got here to be allowed.
I don’t even want to think about what McMegan and Will Wilkinson will say about this. I’m pretty sure it will somehow prove that we were wrong to theorize that it might happen.
BDeevDad
News ratings are for people who sell products to old people and other newscasters.
Mike G
I have never understood the attraction of Fox . I think their female hosts look trailer trashy with a ton of make up.
It appeals to their demographic of trailer trashy old men. That’s how their ideal dream girl is supposed to look.
Mike G
I have never understood the attraction of Fox . I think their female hosts look trailer trashy with a ton of make up.
It appeals to their demographic of trailer trashy old men. That’s how their ideal dream girl is supposed to look.
PTirebiter
I’m pretty ambivalent toward BriWi, and I’d probably pay to hear Rush pass a five pound piece of coral, but it is kind of an interesting bit of broadcast history. Rush did manage to make himself into the P.T. Barnum of political snake oil peddlers.
I don’t know if he actually saw gold in Reagan’s dregs, or he was just another whore that happened to hustling the right corner at the right price, but he become the undisputed grand madame of right wing spunk.
YellowJournalism
@Rosali: Bill O. must be on vacation, because Laura Ingrahm has been hosting. I think she’s taking a Nancy Grace approach to the kidnapping story, meaning she’s more about how the police f’ed up the case at the moment. She’ll be blaming the victim soon, I’m sure.
Didn’t Bill OReilly also have terrible things to say about Elizabeth Smart when she was kidnapped and pretty much brainwashed by her kidnappers? I can recall reading about that somewhere.
daveinboca
cleek, you’re a brainless shit with minimal standards. Why don’t you and Rosali hook up and do a Garrido? BOR fought for years to get kidnapped kids and Megan’s Law passed while fucktards like you sucked sock-puppet teat.
daveinboca
Yellow J
That yellow is urine mixed with donkey cum all over your britches. Crawl back under your rock and eat dirt.
Va Highlander
@daveinboca:
@daveinboca:
Wow.
I’m impressed.
Do they all speak in code like this?
Political Pragmatist
Last week I posted this on my Las Vegas Review-Journal blog:
http://blogs.reviewjournal.com/community/politics/fox-news-is-the-problem
I might have well come out in favor of beating puppies. But Fox News IS the problem. Not understanding that if Glenn Beck has an audience of 10 mil, that’s only a handful in a nation of 312 mil.
If the rest of us considered Fox News to be the Shopping Channel of the right, then we might ignore the crap they are selling to only a few who are buying it.
Va Highlander
@Political Pragmatist:
I agree: Fox News is the problem and thanks for the link to your piece. My old man watches Fox. It essentially robs him of any semblance of reason or ability to think critically. I think it really sad to witness, especially in someone I’ve always respected.
Jim
I challenge you to go watch UTUBE video with Beck…And then take the facts that he is telling you and look them up….I have and for almost 95% of teh time…well Beck is right on the money. He is over the top in Drama I agree…but it is working…He his WAY ahead of all other news shows, not only for his hour, which at 5 oclock is an odd time, but he beats the pants off Olberman (who should have stayed in sprts) and Chris Ive got a tingle running up my leg Mathews….No there are two very unbiased reporters. MSNBC, NBC, and CNN are all going to crap in the ratings dept. You can only fool people for so long ! And that time has come to pass………..