And while that is certainly true, it is "incoherent" (as right-wing radio talker Mark Levin angrily points out) to claim that a "weird progressive like Teddy Roosevelt" would be worse than a Marxist who hates white people. Internally consistent insanity is just too much to ask, apparently.
But conservatives slamming Beck for badmouthing McCain’s progressive streak(!) aren’t really all that interesting – what’s really interesting is conservatives slamming Beck for being so crazy and vile that he makes their movement look bad.
Commentary’s Peter Wehner worries that Beck’s "erratic behavior" and "interest in conspiracy theories" will make conservatives look like insane clowns rather than respectable sages, and Joe Scarborough absolutely goes off, saying that Beck’s race-baiting and "wallow[ing] in conspiracy theories" is "playing with fire" and could have tragic, Waco-like consequences.
Even Rush Limbaugh, who never met a race-baiter he didn’t like, seems a bit rankled by Beck’s prominent role in marshaling the teabag troops for the 9/12 Racistpalooza in DC. Or could he be feeling a teensy bit threatened? How many crazies can Rush mobilize? How many Democratic scalps has he claimed lately? Is it possible that Rush is no longer bigoted and crazy enough to lead today’s Republican Party?
I can’t wait to see if any more prominent conservatives and 2012 presidential hopefuls answer Scarborough’s call to denounce Glenn Beck’s unhinged hate speech, because it will tell us so much about which direction the Republicans intend to go. Will they try to establish some credibility, to make themselves look like a group of Wise, Serious Statesman ready to step in and pick up the pieces if Obama fails, or will they remain hell-bent on catering to the most atavistic racist crazies?
Yeah, I’m not holding my breath either.
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Rachel is all over the Lake!
I wonder if Glen Beck believes what he says, or is it theater (for high pay)?
Not here! She’s far too sane for me to write about.
One wonders that about a lot of them, especially the most outrageous. I’m not sure which possibility is more disturbing.
Oh. nevermind.
Sorry, she was just giving great coverage to the Ross ad.
Limbaugh has been at this since the mid-80’s. That whipper-snapper Beck hasn’t paid his whackjob dues. He’s jealous.
Cage-Match!
Teddy is the kind of GOPer I can get behind. The sane kind liked the environment busted up, monopolies, heck he’s better than most Dems.
I wonder how Glen really feels about Lincoln?
I think Glen is taking the Racist Libertarians the Ron Paul voters away from the GOP unless they get Ron or maybe Sarah as President or VP.
The Tea Baggers won’t settle for weak Tea after Glen’s rants which means Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney the Corporate Wing of the GOP won’t cut it.
The Corporate Wing of the GOP will have to go Right on Racism, Immigrants and horrors the Federal Reserve to win their vote.
Shrill.
And a dead shot.
Glenn Beck admitted that czars are okay as long as they agree with him.
http://progressnotcongress.org/?p=2964
But conservatives slamming Beck for badmouthing McCain’s progressive streak(!) aren’t really all that interesting – what’s really interesting is conservatives slamming Beck for being so crazy and vile that he makes their movement look bad.
Ha !! And they were doing so well without him.
First time I’ve smiled all day.
heya Eli!
P.S. Has cannibalism made some kind of comeback of which I’ve been unaware?
P.P.S. Along that same line, would a radical right-winger eat a progressive, – you know, for ‘the cause’ and all?
What she say no tv here?
I love how Beck calls Teddy Roosevelt, who is so foreign and strange that his head is carved on the side of an American mountain, “weird.”
Why does Glenn Beck hate America?
Exactly. Does the GOP want to be Mitt Romney or Sarah Palin? Right now all indications are that Sarah Palin is the way to go.
Unlike Darth who I suspect is a dead drunk shot:)
She wore a Hog hat and gave about 3 minutes to the specifics of the ad being run during the game. I just got all excited, I really didn’t want to hijack the thread about this skunk!
Because it isn’t “white” enough for him.
Still Morning Joe does not get off message has the corporate wing of the GOP decided to stop Glen, Sarah and the Tea Baggers? Has Karl finally looked at the polls and realized sure Obama is down in the polls at over 50% the GOP congress however is around 20%? and that Corporations while they might not like Obama do not want Ron Paul’s people anywhere near the Federal Reserve.
Glenn Beck is certifiably crazy, what with all his black board diagrams, ranting and plain ass lying about almost every subject he spews about.. Speciall how many were at the 912 rally.. University said 1.2 million WTF what university .. “oh I forget” GMAFB!! he is fucking crazy as hell…
You would note that Raven…..
She wore a Hog hat and gave about 3 minutes to the specifics of the ad being run during the game. I just got all excited, I really didn’t want to hijack the thread about this skunk!
Hey – when Jane was on the other night, we had all sorts of newcomers, and many of them were looking to contribute.
I was really hoping that Rachel might pick this up, after Jane mentioning this morning that she’d like to be able to buy space during a Razorback game….
What are Glen’s beliefs Racist, Libertarian, with confused logic holding all the conspiracies together but what if anything does he really want? Control the desires/fears etc and Control the man who can’t control his desires/fears etc.
I say we find what he likes and fears and destroy him…unless he destroys himself first.
And rich.
And with some scalps on his belt.
And despite the exodus of advertisers, surviving.
And willing to go anywhere, rhetorically.
Limbaugh is early proof that you don’t need a functioning frontal lobe to clean up.
Ever see The Wind and the Lion with Brian Keith as TR and Sean Connery as “the Sultan”?
Blech was a ratings bottom feeder in radio. Gets a big promotion to his own TV show on CNN fer chrissakes.
Then, as a ratings bottom feeder at CNN, gets a huge pay raise and profile show on Pox Newz.
Blech’s career of dismal ratings leading to massive promotion after promotion is Exhibit #2,865 why ratings are not what drives the 5 BigMedia conglomerates in terms of news. They hire/fire people based on their ability to push BigMoney-friendly messaging on the electorate, so that John Q. Nascar will keep voting against his own self-interest, in other words voting for Repubs.
All this stuff now is that they calculated they were pushing a little too far and too fast, so they’re walking it/him back a little to keep some sort of legitimacy. Just the standard kabuki dance. Nothing more. Nothing less. He/they’ll be back at in no time.
Two things:
1) I need Chris Elliot to do to Beck what he did to Morton Downey. It’s time.
2) Anything that causes Mark Levin torment I am 100% in favor of. I love hearing him whine in that shnooky little Ratso Rizzo voice of his.
Can’t argue that Newt.. The buttfuck is making moola unfortunately… but I still think he batfuck crazy!!
I have been saying this literally since my first post at FDL (and before).
Always liked that film.
I’m waiting for the big crack-up, too. It can not come too soon.
Flameouts and meltdowns do seem to be in his nature. Can’t come soon enough.
A little Oxycontin would help hasten that result…
The little boy was in heaven, just like the one in The Emerald Forest.
Alexander Zaitchik has been writing a series about Beck; early days and start in radio, and it’s really quite something. Here’s part 1, and part 2; part 3 is probably out tomorrow.
I don’t think Beck knows what “too far” actually is:
Happy to say I have never watched or heard Beck and won’t ever. It seems from what I have read that he truly has some mental problems. He is recovering from drugs and alcohol which he admits. He is making a lot of money but I think he will burn out soon with the public or the Rs will shut him down.
You have no idea how badly I wanted to work those into this post. He has *always* been a disgusting creep.
I’ve seen televangelists who exhibited his kind of loopy presentation. I can’t help but think that he studied their examples and folded it into teevee show.
If his head split open and termites flew out, I would not be surprised. But until then, he serves to drive non-believers batty – my hypothesis has been that most, if not all of their outlandish behavior and speech is designed to keep us off balance, infuriated, unable to combat them.
IIRC, the first part of that Zaitchik Beck history has some quotes from people saying that Beck is pretty much doing the same kind of shtick he did in his morning zoo days, or immediately before them.
Jesus what a scumbag.
Truly, it’s probably an entirely different post that you would write after Zaitchik is finished with the history.
So make another one! Bloggy goodness. Mmmmm.
Ouch! Emergency Brain Bleach Alert! Indicted, corrupt, and worst dancer in the world Tom Delay, is being showcased on MSNBC Rachel Show. It is Full Metal Ugly with an Orrin Hatch “U”!
I’d have to figure out what I could possibly add. “Behold, the full history of Glenn Beck’s prickitude!” Presumably the final chapter will tell the tale of his migration to CNN and then Fox, so maybe that’ll spring something loose, either about Beck or about the media, like bonkers said.
He is trying to O’Reilly himself. Maybe because the advertisers are leaving, or maybe he is losing audience, or maybe the secret service has opened a file on him in real life, as opposed to his fantasies.
He is trying to moderate his persona by throwing in a little dash of independence, and ’sensible crankytarian radical moderate’ and general non total-hacktitude. He has done this before with his little, barely noticeable dashes of Bush II criticism that were asides in his general crazy act. Now he feels forced to turn it into a stand-alone skit.
I think O’Reilly is a master of this technique, and it works for him because he is much cleverer than Beck, and O’Reilly never went into the crazy like Beck. And O’Reilly has competent and pro-active hot hype-women for optimal repetition and reinforcement for the Fox audience, which I have read consists mostly of superannuated bitter and hysterical men.
Beck has a hyepman, or sidkick or whatever, but he has the presence of passive aggressive hungover stage hand, co-dependently trapped with Becks in a crazy dream fugue state.
I really don’t think Zaitchik will get past 1990 or thereabouts. It’s an early history, the way the thing is reading to me.
There will be plenty of room for “connecting the rest of the dots” posts. Particularly when you add in the effects of media de-regulation, and then the telco act of 1996 and how new content starts working, and the rise of republican talk radio.
Seriously, I think there’s lots of room for discussion, not only on Beck, but how the rest of the rise of the “Dark Media Empire” was
bornbirthed and just keeps rolling…He’s probably not super-motivated after Beck showed him that diagram where everybody else is a satellite orbiting Planet Me.
You’re probably right – I was kinda wondering how it would make it up to the present day at the rate it was going.
Waiting for the Man of Steele to weigh in. See if he kisses Beck’s ass like he did Limbaugh’s.
Beck is Right wing GOP media creation like Joe McCarthy, Morton Downey etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_McCarthy
One could argue that Rush has never been the same since Al Fraken’s book and neither has Bill O’Reily John Steward took down Jim Cramer.
So who is the new GOP manufactured hero is Joe the Plumber next up or has he been forgotten?
Is the Corporate wing of the GOP taking out the Libertarian, Fundy and Racist wings of the GOP?
Something ‘they’ all have in common is their attempts to portray themselves as populists.
Having dumbed down their viewerships, this is a simple and predictable transition – find the susceptible, make them stupider, feed them gallons of sewage, tweak their fears, pump up the volume, presto.
Hey! Wait a minute, I am the only Planet Me on this here planet. I thought everyone knew that. Now I am really steamed at Beck. Who does he think he is? Was he talking about me on that show. He better have been.
I think we on the left ought to do everything we can to promote a war between limbaugh and Beck…it shouldnt be hard. Limbaugh is pathetically, nauseatingly toddler-like in his resentment of attention/adoration from planet ditto head and the MSM when ever he can get it..Beck is Nuts but(so i hear) completely full of hismself – cocky about his “movement”..soooo let the left media start annointing Glen Beck as the NEW “defacto leader” of the R party,try to get some of the MSM TV types to pick up on it (cause they absolutely love that kind of shit anyway) and push it..that should REALLY get limbaughs blood pressure up, and Beck will, no doubt, not fail to seize the opportunity to try an bury rush. could only be great fun to watch.
This is actually how I first read this phrase. Seems more accurate somehow.
Evening, all-
First heard Beck after 9/11, and thought he was kind of a half-bright farm-league Limbaugh imitator, although without the extreme streak of vicious that so permeates Rush. Never seen his TV show, and I would be happy to see him go down in flames-but, God, I hate to so see the word conspiracy conflated with crazy. There are plenty of conspiracies in real life: Tonkin Gulf. Watergate. Giancana, killed under Federal protection. Iran-Contra. The freakin’ invasion of Iraq. The CIA importing cocaine. Then there’s the near-certain: John. Bobby. Martin. How many killed by the FBI under COINTELPRO? Who knows?
Seriously, let’s not let people discredit something just by affixing a pejorative label. It’s not like there aren’t plenty of precedents.
That’s not to say there aren’t plenty of paracrazyconspiranoids running the streets, though..
Will Rush denounce, defame, delegitimatize, renouce, reject and revile Beck for this treachery?
If so, will Beck apologize? Or make his hypeman do it? Or, will Beck strike back? Or whine about it?
This could really blow up into somethng big, folks. Or not.
I don’t think Joe has enough of a platform. Now, if Sarah Palin were to get her own show…
Beck is Right wing GOP media creation like Joe McCarthy,…
Hey – wait a minute – I distinctly heard George Will declare all progressives to be like Joe McCarthy for claiming that the right-wing objection to President Obama and his various programs might have a wee bit of a racist overtone.
You really wanna argue with George Will? I was properly chastised and administered immediate, and rather severe, self-flagellation after hearing that I am McCarthy-ite.
Was that his ass or his rectum?? Inquiring minds want to know……
I actually did veer a little off-course just to tweak Rush about that a little bit. But that was about as far as I could go without making this a completely different post.
Just how much are we hurting Beck for advertisers Beck seems to be trying to do a charm offensive Time gave him a cover, Katie an interview what other Soft Ball warm and Fuzzy media is he doing next?
Glen’s audience does not like warm and fuzzy they consider it a sell out they need violent crazy and like all addicts they want more now.
Holy shit. I never heard him do anything like that. He was more like a lightweight Rush when I use to hear him.
I don’t think there will be any Beck v. Limbaugh Title Fights. The general rule is to punch hippies, and leave fatuous right wing gasbags alooooone!
Though it was amusing to see the exception prove the rule; Scarborough shrieking about Beck. (Hmm, it’s a Amato’s place, but I’m getting an
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I actually did veer a little off-course just to tweak Rush about that a little bit.
Don’t you think that by merely typing the letters R-U-S-H, you’ve already tweaked him?
The mere mention of his name brings guffaws.
I dunno, it’s hard for me to imagine *anything* that would persuade Fox to give Beck the boot at this point. Worst comes to worst, they’ll just treat “presented without commercial interruption!” as a positive to boost his ratings.
Those bits of Blech’s history would be good talking points for this effort:
http://turnofffox.com/
Present people with these horrific stories, and let try to defend Blech and Pox Newz. I wanted to start an effort like this a few years (after taking the kids out to eat and the place had Pox blasting from every angle), but Buzzflash beat me to it. Could be big I think.
Read the Zaitchick pieces I linked above. It’s really quite something.
I am wondering if Alexander is going to wind up with Beck’s conversion to Mormonism in the last installment. Because in the first two pieces, Glenn is still all druggy-unruly. Seems like conversion would be a natural place to climax, and then a denouement.
Reagan’s 11th Commandment: Thou shalt speak no ill of another Republican. The slippery slope to IOKIYAR.
Oh, I believe you. I guess he had moved on from that by the time I heard him.
Try to imagine if Olbermann, Maddow, or Ed would have 50% of their advertisers walk out, as they’ve done for Blech’s show, and how fast they’d be off the air.
There are many cases of Liberal hosts (radio/TV) getting canned even as their ratings were rising.
And the most annoying that Katie had him on…why bother? He can’t help ratings that much, and it was a lousy idea that backfired when she had Rush on during her early launch….it backfired as he cruelly mocked Michael J. Maybe Katie was hoping for another Palin “get”.
He made fun of a couple that lost a baby? Yay family values.
But that was before he discovered Mormonism! He was a totally different person! Bygones!
If you’re not up to direct exposure to Dancin’ Tom DeLay, here’s a little Desi in an mp3 box:
She’s just doing what she’s told to do. And at $17 million/year, she’s probably just fine with that.
Didn’t realize Obama is a hippie, maybe I should give him a second chance….
Nah.
Maybe Katie was hoping for another Palin “get”.
heh. Katie should be thanking the gods every day that she pulled off one “get”.
that’s your full quota, Katie. You can retire now.
It’s all relative. Just like John McCain is a weird Teddy Roosevelt progressive.
George Will said that after Rep Joe Wilson called Obama a liar in a Presidential speech something no House member has ever done before? After Glen Beck says Obama hates White People?
I know that this is the GOP line to protect themselves from racism charges but honestly all Minority Voters will not buy that one anymore than they buy the I’m no racist some of my best friends line.
Moderate Voters won’t but this either an isolated incident sure but the GOP has been drumming this since before the election if anything the political climate has now changed most moderate voters just assume anything the GOP says is Racist because everything else they have said was either obviously Racist or later turned out to be Code word Racism. Thank the Macacaw controversy for that and ever since then the GOP has never given voters a chance to forget.
Hardline racist voters will buy George’s argument but only because Racism is just so unpopular.
Noooo! Blacks are de facto hippies! Didn’t you know? /s
Actually, marching orders are to punch all Dem presidents, regardless of race or gender. They simply MUST be hippies, and therefore need to be punched. It’s all totally equal opportunity.
Ipso Fatso! (Rush!)
Palin is the ultimate low-hanging fruit.
I don’t know who said it, but this quote seems appropriate for Couric’s career: “You don’t applaud the tenor for clearing his throat.”
Well, that’s half true. He’s definitely weird.
True but can’t we get Beck, Rush etc shows declared an inkind GOP campaign contribution? Fox already went to court to declare that lying in the news is protected free speech why not argue that if the lies only benefit one political party then it is a contribution?
For some reason I find myself wondering where Huey Long would fit in the Beck paradigm.
Absolutely true. That was WTVT, FOX-13, right here in my hometown. There is no legal requirement that the news be true.
Wee! I love that line, and it’s from Dangerous Liasons
The other favorite line of mine is:
Didn’t realize Obama is a hippie,…
well, he *is* the first President to be consistently having sex with a black woman in the White House.
Since Thomas Jefferson, anyway….
HAHAHAHA!!!
The Media writes to inform or persuade an audience if George Will fails to persuade anyone but the people who already believe then what good is he?
In the age of the Net rapid reaction to lies makes the old GOP standard of saying something is true and then having everyone on every channel repeat that claim won’t work.
After the 8 long Bush years the voice behind the curtain being wrong all the time has lost its ability to persuade.
The Main Stream Media needs Cred.
John McCain served with Teddy Roosevelt. He knew Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy Roosevelt was a friend of his. John McCain is no Teddy Roosevelt…
Teddy Roosevelt was weird, and he was a progressive, but he was not a weird progressive. I am not studied up well on all the wingnut leaders, but if Levine is the radio hack jock I am thinking of, he is definitely a weird regressive.
I wouldn’t make any assumptions about former presidents. Obama might just be the first to do it in wedlock.
That we know about :)
I don’t think I have ever in my life heard a politician so effortlessly slit another politician’s throat with such delicate glee as Bentsen did to Quayle that night.
That WAS a thing of beauty, wasn’t it?
It sort of made up for the kick in the groin first question Dukakis received.
Who knows, if the Dem ticket had been reversed that year we might have gotten a better outcome.
It was truly a work of art. The debate equivalent of a hard one to the solar plexus.
I wouldn’t make any assumptions about former presidents. Obama might just be the first to do it in wedlock.
yeah – there is that JFK barrier to break when it comes to talking about sex in the White House….
The President also hates WHITE CULTURE. I am so dumb I need to have the meaning of “white culture” explained to me.
I thought that at the time. I wasn’t real wild about yet another Texas president, but much preferable to Bush.
I don’t think I have ever in my life heard a politician so effortlessly slit another politician’s throat with such delicate glee as Bentsen did to Quayle that night.
He *knew* that that line from Quayle was coming. How? – I dunno, D.C. is a dirty place.
I saw it in his eyes when Quayle lobbed it to him.
It seems unlikely JFK’s record will ever be broken.
Kitty Dukakis might have been an amusing First Lady, drinking everything that didn’t have a fish in it.
And Quayle, such a stump, one more over-privileged white guy, was too dumb to be daunted by comparing himself to JFK. So much like W, dontcha Think?
Perhaps. But Lloyd Bentsen was a classy, cagey pol, and I know of no one with a brain who wouldn’t be offended at having the likes of Dan Quayle offer himself as a comparison to Jack Kennedy.
Do they air reruns of the Lawrence Welk Show in your area?
That approach worked for Betty Ford, IIRC.
That would be the Music Holy Joe wanted to ban, the art that makes fundies worry about civilization collapsing White heck all art, writing, music done by Whites, Blacks etc it does not have to challenge the power structure it just has to express ideas and or feelings and the GOP hates it.
Don’t think you had to worry about Betty emptying the perfume bottles.
I am so dumb I need to have the meaning of “white culture” explained to me.
See Keith, Toby. Daniels, Charlie. Nugent, Ted. And Williams, Hank, Jr.
Kinda makes ya feel warm all over, huh?
You forgot the Osmond family, NASCAR, WWF, and the Redneck Comedy Tour.
Can I claim Tom Waits and Nick Cave?
Looks like “Dancing with the Stars” is Beck’s next stop then….
GLENN BECK! starring in the remake of the 1980 Al Pacino hit “Cruising”
Can’t wait.
The Republicans are worried that Beck “will make conservatives look like insane clowns?” Hell, they looked like insane clowns long before Beck began the foaming-at-the-mouth act on FauxNews.
I was wondering just how bizarre and insane Beck’s rants would have to get before someone, anyone on the right cried “foul!” If there is violence, then these thugs own it. They have been whipping their ignorant base into a hyperventilating frenzy for months and they now have no control over the idiot fringe or of Beck.
Beck does it simply to create ratings. I think that he laughs at his loyal followers; can’t believe that they are dumb enough to swallow all of the dung he feeds them nightly. Beck’s only concern is Beck. He is a odious turd.
No because they were heavily influenced by people of color.
Okay, Emo Phillips, then.
Huckabee not much better…talking about pink lips, wasn’t he?
Beck had better watch his back, because there’s a new radio talker hitting the airwaves. From the LA Times:
Ewwwwwww . . .
Oh they ARE dumb enough!! They salivate on his every word and thought!!
At least it will be brief….
Beck needn’t “watch his back” – he’s too old for Foley. Heh.
“I was in a bar the other night, moving from stool to stool, trying to get lucky — but there wasn’t gum under any of them.”
Shall we assume that Palin has not made them look like insane clowns? There seems to be no limit to what’s available on the bench.
Todd, Chuck? or is it Chuck, Todd? can never remember.
That’s okay, nothing a little wax and a glory hole can’t fix.
LOLROTFLMAO
YOU ARE SOOOO BAD!
That’s why I like you. :)
I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, “I’m going to mop the floor with your face.”
I said, “You do and you’ll be sorry.”
He said, “Oh, yeah? Why?”
I said, “Well, you won’t be able to get in the corners.”
Hey, I think I starting to understand this “White Culture”. For instance Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck, Tom Delay. How about the Dixie Chicks?
Da wax would MELT in da “Glory Hole”…
Can I claim Tom Waits and Nick Cave?
Elitist ! Ya know, it’s people like you who are just screwing up the whole “I’m white, dumb as a post, and way fucking proud of it” movement.
You are also desecrating the whole George Will “Progressives = Joe McCarthy” theory.
Please get with the program.
Noooo! The Chicks were persona non grata during the Bush years, which automatically makes them Hippies.
Besides, have you ever really listened to the words of “Earl Must Die“? Definitely hippy chicks. :)
I ran three miles today… finally I said, “Lady, keep your purse.”
ok – you can have Emo – and I’ll throw in Steven Wright.
Lemon Pledge, then.
So did Katie Couric or anyone talk about the people who organized the campaign that convinced 62 advertisers to leave the show?
No? Gee what a surprise.
For all of you who are upset at all the PR Beck is getting remember this. This IS such a thing as BAD PR. Bad PR is PR that costs the company money. And when they can’t figure out how to turn it into a money maker.
Beck right now is being subsidized by Fox. In the past his wacky stunts may have led to ratings that may have led to money. But make no mistake, 62 advertisers leaving is big.
We cost KSFO 28 advertisers in 2007 and then in 2008 Melanie Morgan was let go because of the money lost at the station. They tried to say it was, “Industry wide” but that was just so they would have an excuse to fire Morgan and not get sued for breach of contract.
I advised the Hate Hurts American campaign that cost Michael Savage 18 advertisers. Last week he was cut off of his San Francisco broadcast on KNEW. There is a reason that happened. Money. He was costing them more money than he was bringing in. That is the corporate sin that people forget in the “free market”. But the station owners haven’t forgotten.
We need to remind the media of the financial consequences of Beck’s racism.
We need to remind the corporations that HE IS NOT A SAFE PLACE TO ADVERTISE!
Advertisers don’t want controversy. The host and station might want it, but the advertisers don’t.
Slippery slope my friend… or should I say tunnel???
This is, of course, assuming that making money is one of Fox News’ primary objectives, which I am far from convinced of.
I also don’t think Fox is willing to give in on this, no matter how much it hurts. They’re not Democrats, after all.
Right, just like they aren’t a news organization, they aren’t a for profit entity.
This is the kind of thing that needs to go to the Fox shareholders and then Roger Alies needs to tell them that losing this revenue is no big deal and that they are totally fine with it. They are prepared to lose money on Beck for as long as necessary. Then you take this statement and you make sure the general public see it (usually this kind of statement is buried in 10k and other financial filing statements.)
This is the kind of stories that the OTHER media can cover. “FOX loses money on every show, expects to make in up in volume.”
Each time someone tells me how a company like Fox will play an event I can tell them how to play it the opposite and how to use it to your advantage.
But of course I’m just a brain in a box, what do I know.
Works for me. But we’re still never going to get rid of Beck. If BillO could survive the Andrea Mackris lawsuit and never even come *close* to getting fired, Beck would have to eat at least five babies on live TV to lose his job.
Fox could fire this Peckerhead tomorrow, and you know what??? He’ll turn up in less than three months on satellite radio, or some other medium. Why??? Because those with the power WANT him spreading this shit.
Sure, all these protests make huge differences. That’s why Don Imus is currently unemployed and homeless. Oh, wait?
Oh my God! I thought he couldn’t be any crazier! Holy shit.
What is clear is that the powers have decided that Beck is going down. Hopefully, it was the advertiser boycott that did it – but whatever. My prediction: he’s gone.
Palin/Beck 2012! “For the lulz”
Spocko, is there some place where I can find a list of those advertisers who still haven’t abandoned Beck? I refuse on principle to watch Faux, so firsthand knowledge is pretty much out of the question; but I want to do my small bit.
Can you imagine the campaign ads?
What one might expect is that ( no delegate) Guiliani wants to run against Patterson in NY for Governor and then be elected Governor and then Guiliani wants to run again for the GOP nomination in 2012, sort of a modern day Thomas Dewey.