Glenn Beck:To crazy for even Fox news

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I could never really watch his show. Often when I surfed over to it, he was in some complicated explanation busy tieing people etc together thru various connections. Assuming his stuff was accurate or even plausable, struck me as having a lot of research invested in it. But if I'm gonna plough thru something like that I want it in written form. I want to be able to do some independent confirmation. So I only watched briefly to see what he was on about. I can imagine many people found it interesting though.

Other times his show looked some kind of religion revival type thing and I'm not interested.

I have no doubt it's incorrect to say that he's too crazy for Fox. Nope, it's all about the ratings and the revenue.

Fern

If you draw the lines first and then fight as hard as you can to justify them, everyone will believe it's well researched information.

It's how religion, and all justifications for any religion works.
 

DominionSeraph

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Glenn Beck presents his evidence in a very well and thought out matter. When I catch his shows, they are thought provoking to say the least.

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It was only a matter of time. I'm surprised he couldn't keep the shit stirring until unemployment fell below 8%.
 

Zebo

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Beck was okay criticizing lazy welfare mothers, Muslims and stuff but he started going after banks this past year and that's a no no so all high dollar advertising was removed from wall street. Pretty simple to understand and nothing to do with "too crazy" for FOX - he was hella popular but money makes the calls.
 

jman19

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Time Magazine poll says Glen Beck is one of the most influential person in the world. Soros did not make the list.

Er, what? I thought the wingers are usually up in arms because Soros is too influential?
 

LegendKiller

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When large companies start boycotting your show, you have to be on the right track.

Glenn Beck presents his evidence in a very well and thought out matter. When I catch his shows, they are thought provoking to say the least.

Would I call Glenn extreme? No, I would not, he is not even close to being extreme.

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jackschmittusa

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If you think Beck is not extreme, I'll stop at saying that you and I have very different ideas about what "extreme" is.

My opinion of most of his presentations is that they were "well imagined" rather than "well thought out". The kind of thought his shows provoked in me revolved more around the idea that many of his connections were tenuous at best, imaginary at worst.

My overall conclusion is that either Beck has no real grasp of logic, or he is sure his audience does not. Perhaps it is both.
 

Zebo

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Texashiker

If you think Beck is not extreme, I'll stop at saying that you and I have very different ideas about what "extreme" is.

My opinion of most of his presentations is that they were "well imagined" rather than "well thought out". The kind of thought his shows provoked in me revolved more around the idea that many of his connections were tenuous at best, imaginary at worst.

My overall conclusion is that either Beck has no real grasp of logic, or he is sure his audience does not. Perhaps it is both.

Much of this thread is hear say...or "common knowledge" that Beck is extreme... examples please.

I've never watched him... not my thing to watch grown men cry in public and I think it's a disgusting fashion...just asking.
 

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I'm glad, he's stirred up enough crazies already. Now we have to clean up political discourse like this crap.
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Time to get Limbaugh and friends poison off our armed services radio next and stop supporting right-wing extremism and Anti-American conspiracies with what little tax money they haven't siphoned off to their buddies.

Trust in the inherent foundation of the USA is at a all-time low thanks to right-wing garbage, I have never seen so little solidarity in Americans, sadly apathy is at a peak. This is just as harmful to a Democracy as our debt. (and is a big cause as people think the system is too broke to care anymore so wall st and big industry helps itself)
 
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jackschmittusa

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Already mentioned was his "Obama hates white people". Numerous mentions of people/actions being synonymous with Nazis/Nazism. Worldwide, secret plans for an Islamic Caliphate which include Obama. The list of extreme positions he's taken are legion. I'm sure just googling "Beck, extreme" will yield a wealth of examples.
 

Zebo

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Limbaugh is on armed services radio? Wow. This country is more gone than i thought.
 

Zebo

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Zebo

Already mentioned was his "Obama hates white people". Numerous mentions of people/actions being synonymous with Nazis/Nazism. Worldwide, secret plans for an Islamic Caliphate which include Obama. The list of extreme positions he's taken are legion. I'm sure just googling "Beck, extreme" will yield a wealth of examples.

Okay.. lol. I've seen him like 3-4 times and like I said whining and crying and melodramatic turned me off...but he was talking banksters so I managed to listen a little.. right after that his funding seemed to dry up.
 

Steeplerot

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Okay.. lol. I've seen him like 3-4 times and like I said whining and crying and melodramatic turned me off...but he was talking banksters so I managed to listen a little.. right after that his funding seemed to dry up.

The bankster/fed thing is a problem, but like anything else you gotta be careful where these old conspiracies come from. I tend to find older conspiracies are still conspiracies after so long because people want to believe them when the obvious evidence to the contrary is right there.

Not all are equal you could say. The bankster/fed/gold/NWO stuff creeps me out. It's old 1930's fascist propaganda straight up, Beck loved twisting these around. It was actually quite fascinating that he had someone read up on this obscure part of US history and get is so wrong. It's not so much I think he tried to twist the more in depth stuff, but its sourced from crappy websites or biased crap probably found on development tab from wiki entires.

Just another huckster. Damn shame he brought up all this cool obscure history and never gave the heros and stuff their due glossing over stuff to half-ass pin them together.

He did a piece on Spanish Civil War in the mid 30s which is a fascinating subject (to me obviously) you never hear about.

The dick glossed over everything and tied the Libertarian Army and society to being "Stalinist pawns" of a greater communist conspiracy *nudge nudge*. F' that show. That is straight up fascist generalization. Stalin had the damn KGB assassinate the Libertarians as Durrati told Stalin to stick it and that "We would show Russia a real revolution and liberate the USSR from your dictator after we are done with the fascists here." Screw Beck. He pissed all over a good man and comrade who died to a Communist dictator. Who the hells side is Beck on if he "supposedly" hates Stalin and Fascism in general but would totally twist events for his agenda even if it is directly opposed to his own ideology?

I wonder if any of these rw hucksters believe a word of what they try to pass off to listeners who know no better. Or if money trumps that also. He was using neo-nazi source and religious material for his conspiracies, awful stuff. Someone up top had to be a history buff and picked this up sooner or later..but then these are righties.
 
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Macamus Prime

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If the majority of America wasn't made up of brain dead sheep who fear homosexuality, brown people and the metric system; Fox would not exist, and therefore nor would Beck.

He would be nothing more than a gas attendant who spends his money on strippers and from time to time pays a Mexican girl more money to let him "rough her up a bit".

This proves advertisers don't want their products associated with white trash conservative elitist scum. Peolpe (viewers) will follow him to where ever he ends up though.
 
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JTsyo

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Newsweek had a fascinating article a few months back on political pundits and the astonishing amount of money they make. Beck, like most of them, makes the vast amount of his money off book sales. From his standpoint his TV show is almost a loss leader-he does it mostly to keep the brand thriving.

Also there is a huge list of advertisers that don't like the controversy that Beck is, and have standing orders to Fox not to run their ads on his show or any show he appears on.

From a financial standpoint this was totally expected.

<--Not a Beck fan, but I admire his ability to repeatedly fleece big bucks from his followers.

I fool and his money are soon parted.

There's goes 1/3 of the material for the Daily Show, they're going to have to work a lot harder now.