I Just Decided To Watch Glenn Beck For A Couple Of Minutes...

Glenn Beck's greatness is a tribute to Republican leadership's mastery with portraying liberals as condescending while patronizing and cynically exploiting idiots for their own gain.

 

Actually, I will answer how I want to answer, and if you have a problem with that, then that is just your problem.

For the record, I think people should watch whatever news or information shows that they want to watch. Suffice it to say that I do not share the views of the liberals on this board with regards to Glenn Beck. Whenever you guys start going on about him, I usually just chalk it up to foaming-at-the-mouth, far left partisan hackery, and move on to another thread.

Glenn Beck fills an important niche, and obviously provides a valuable service to more people than anyone on Cable TV at the hour that he is on. I have not watched a lot of Glenn Beck, but he was spot on with the high profile investigative reporting he did last year regarding Acorn and Van Jones. What was alarming about those reports was not his presentation of the stories, but the degree to which the left leaning channels refused to report on them. But for MSNBC and CNN, that is unfortunately par for the course. Now wonder their ratings continue to fall while Fox News ratings continues to rise.

To be honest, I do not really know what the "narrative that Glenn Beck pushes" is, if in fact he is really pushing one, so I cannot really say. Obviously, the wording of your question pretty well conveys your sentiments on the subject. But I guess my sense is that your question is really just not fair or relevant, regardless of what any left-wing ranters on MSNBC and here on this board may say to the contrary.

 

that's the same reason i watch Olbermann

 

well, that explains it.

Spoiler

 

Cute.

One thing is for sure, your popularity and the quality of your posts sure do correlate.

 

unlike The Won, i'm content just to have a spectacular aura about me.

 

Sadly, you're just a jewel in the rough.

Kind of like a peanut or kernel of corn in a turd.

 

you're suggesting cf.net is a piece of ****? won't Clutch be pleased...

 

No, but your peanut-pulled-fresh-from-a-piece-of-s*** stink sure doesn't help things around here.

 

he who smelt it...

 

He is just advising people to "drop out" and go green. I thought that was what liberals liked?

 

I've watched his show once or twice just to see how long I could go before wanting to stab myself in the eye.

The urge came too soon.

 

FNC is actually a very business-savvy organization. Its not about being an influential news outlet, its about having a monopoly over the conservatives in the country. Its quite brilliant actually. While CNN, MSNBC, etc. fight over (and split) mainstream audiences, Fox has solidly insulated itself away from the competition of mainstream media (or as they put it- "liberal media"), and locked in its own dedicated demographic. Its every TV exec's dream.

 

It is because the other party is in power. When Clinton was President, it was the rise of Rush. When Bush was President, Olbermann and Matthews grew in popularity.

The fact is that when you have the other side gain control, the creepy crawlies come out of the woodwork.

 

Because there are a lot of people out there who subscribe to that kind of blind paranoia, hate and anger and they want it justified by having it parroted back to them so that they don't feel isolated by their beliefs.

Sadly, most of them don't realize Beck is playing them all to get himself crazy rich.

 

Can you explain what important niche these type of quotes fill? How are these gems helping push the discussion forward instead of pushing divisiveness? Take from Glenn Beck's mouth himself.....

-I have been nervous about this interview with you because what I feel like saying is, 'Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies. ... And I know you're not. I'm not accusing you of being an enemy, but that's the way I feel, and I think a lot of Americans will feel that way." –interviewing Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim U.S. congressman, Glen Beck's show on CNN's Headline News, Nov. 14, 2006

-So here you have Barack Obama going in and spending the money on embryonic stem cell research. ... Eugenics. In case you don't know what Eugenics led us to: the Final Solution. A master race! A perfect person. ... The stuff that we are facing is absolutely frightening." –"The Glenn Beck Program," March 9, 2009

-I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it. ... No, I think I could. I think he could be looking me in the eye, you know, and I could just be choking the life out. Is this wrong? I stopped wearing my What Would Jesus -- band -- Do, and I've lost all sense of right and wrong now. I used to be able to say, 'Yeah, I'd kill Michael Moore,' and then I'd see the little band: What Would Jesus Do? And then I'd realize, 'Oh, you wouldn't kill Michael Moore. Or at least you wouldn't choke him to death.' And you know, well, I'm not sure." –responding to the question "What would people do for $50 million?", "The Glenn Beck Program," May 17, 2005

-I think there is a handful of people who hate America. Unfortunately for them, a lot of them are losing their homes in a forest fire today." –on why people who lost their homes in forest fires in California had it coming, "The Glenn Beck Program," Oct. 22, 2007

Can you explain this? And if you feel like bring up Rush, Olberman, Maddow, or any of those......keep in mind the conversation is about Beck.

How does Beck add to the positive conversation?

 

When I watch Glenn Beck, the only thing that goes through my mind is "how does he get away with it?"

I mean, I strongly disagree with Rush or O'Reilly. But I can see their appeal. With Beck, I just don't get it.

 

Not really.



As you can see from the table above, which was taken from a Pew Research Center report, Fox does cater to more of a conservative audience that any other channel, but the are noticeably more balanced in their demographic profile than CNN or MSNBC. As you can see, the audience of Fox was 39% Republican and 33% Democrat, while the CNN was only 18% Republican and 51% Democrat.

So, in fact, it appears that it is CNN and MSNBC who appeal most strongly to only one side of the political spectrum.

 

I'm ready...