I've Got a Big Problem With Glen Beck

“I wonder when Jeanine Garafalo will be cut loose by the libbies?

OH wait...she serves the PARTY so she is untouchable.”

“She's the libby's Becky Glen allright.”

“Roger Ailes is Fox.”

“Rupert signs the checks.”

“LOL...I am guessing that there will be OTHER companies to replace the cowards who dropped Beck...(LOL)

http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/08/27/big-beck-goes-over-3-million-viewers-beats-oreilly-in-demo-cable-news-ratings-for-wednesday-august-26-2009/25541


Though a little scandal might alienate advertisers, it’s pure ratings gold. Last night Glenn Beck had over 3 million viewers at 5pm, second only to O’Reilly for the night. But, Beck had more 25-54 viewers than O’Reilly (888K to 876K). I don’t watch or really even care about the cable news wars, but still…wow. Even though Beck airs before primetime, when there are fewer people watching TV, he had the most 25-54 viewers in the cable news world for the night.

Live + Same Day Cable News Daily Ratings for August 26, 2009

P2+ Total Day
FNC – 1,374,000 viewers
CNN – 711,000 viewers
MSNBC –506,000 viewers
CNBC – 217,000 viewers
HLN – 300,000 viewers

P2+ Prime Time
FNC – 2,667,000viewers
CNN— 1,187,000 viewers
MSNBC –984,000 viewers
CNBC – 241,000 viewers
HLN – 606,000viewers
25-54 Total Day
FNC –395,000 viewers
CNN –204,000 viewers
MSNBC –161,000 viewers
CNBC – 72,000 viewers
HLN- 139,000 viewers

25-54 Prime Time
FNC – 736,000 viewers
CNN – 321,000 viewers
MSNBC –318,000 viewers
CNBC – 113,000 viewers
HLN – 204,000 viewers

35-64 Total Day
FNC – 650,000 viewers
CNN – 329,000 viewers
MSNBC – 257,000 viewers
CNBC – 105,000 viewers
HLN – 176,000 viewers

35-64 Prime Time
FNC –1,205,000 viewers
CNN – 516,000 viewers
MSNBC –488,000 viewers
CNBC –124,000 viewers
HLN –298,000 viewers


oh and

5PM – P2+ (25-54) (35-64)
Glenn Beck– 3,040,000 viewers (888,000) (1,385,000)
Situation Room—688,000 viewers (141,000) (271,000)
Hardball w/ Chris Matthews—536,000 viewers (139,000) (217,000)
Fast Money—215,000 viewers (55,000) (80,000)
Prime News–267,000 viewers (97,000) (109,000)”

“Somebody dropped Beck?

I'll bet he cried like a little girl.

Was it a jab or a hook or perhaps a body shot?”

“LUSHO GOT BEEEYOTCH SLAPPED BY REALITY....(LOL)”

“so there are 3 million gullible butthurt conservatives with televisions in the country... I would have expected a lot more actually. This is good news”

“Oh just wait till Mark Loyd shuts Beck down and you will all be so happy and safe....”

“Why the big deal about Fox ratings. Fox doesn't share Hicks with any other channels, whereas CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN have to share the mass of real people which is somewhat close to the number of Hicks. Hoe Daddies would of course tune into Gleneck, BillO and Hameater.
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“when the new world order is enacted, they won't even bring Beck into a kangaroo court before shooting him. They'll simply erase him and imprison anyone who claims he ever existed. I can't wait. Then we can undo capitalism and destroy America, which of course is our goal.”

“Why not eat that chicken breast?Are we not men, we are Commies.
last edited: 8/28/09 2:44:19 PM”

“we hate America, and it was only through the most brilliant of conspiracies that we could insert our muslim man into the highest office so we can disassemble America from the top down. It's too late to stop it now. We win.”

“Even my dentist Tamma Erickson likes Beck, like him she is so white her teeth look like they have a tan.”

“Beck is laughing his a$$ off at Van Jones.
*snicker*”

“Glen Birch, indeed.”

“< GRIN >
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“BLOW!”

“After bungling Iraq, wrecking the economy, losing the House, the Senate and the Presidency, they're desperate for any small coup they can manage.

Enjoy those crumbs ----”

“At least Jones had the balls to quit, unlike many from the two potties.
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“http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/26813.html

Glenn Beck up, left down and Van Jones defiant


The departure confirmed Obama�s choice of pragmatism over confrontation, a choice that infuriates his allies on the left.

The resignation early Sunday of “green jobs” adviser Van Jones says as much about the Obama White House as it does about Jones – marking the latest sacrifice to the political gods after a long summer of compromises and surrenders highlighted the limits of White House power.


The departure – nominally the choice of a still-defiant Jones, who said he feared distracting from important business – confirmed Obama’s choice of pragmatism over confrontation and a belief that controversies sometimes are better solved by capitulation, a view that infuriates Obama’s allies on the left.


It confirmed that the real opposition party to Obama right now is the conservative grassroots that draws its energy from Fox News, talk radio and the Drudge Report, and often leaves Republican elected officials scrambling to catch up.


And it was a fresh reminder that the White House’s vetting process didn’t fall down only on high-profile nominees like Tom Daschle. It barely touched the lower reaches of the administration – a White House official conceded Sunday that Jones’ past statements weren’t as thoroughly scrubbed due to his relatively low rank. Jones’ selection also was propelled by powerful patrons, who included the first lady and the vice president.


In his statement, Jones was defiant. "On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me,” he said. “They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”


White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs cast the move the same way.


“What Van Jones decided was that the agenda of this president was bigger than any one individual,” Gibbs said, agreeing with the show’s host, George Stephanopoulos that Obama “doesn’t endorse” Jones’s remarks on race and politics, his apparent flirtation with the “9/11 Truth” movement, and his advocacy for the convicted murderer Mumia Abu-Jamal.


The logic of the departure was clear: A hope of keeping the national conversation where Obama wanted it this week ahead of his health reform speech to a joint session of Congress Wednesday.


“Between Cambridge cops; whether administration officials are or are not for the public option; right wing mobbing at town halls; and the back to school welcome contretemps, the White House has been forced to play defense and loose-ball control over [the summer],” said the former Clinton White House aide Chris Lehane, who noted that a “very important week” could have been consumed by “ a discussion related to an obscure staffer who no one has ever really heard of.”


Jones’s departure resonated sharply, however, with the other topic on Sunday’s television rotation: The public insurance option in the health care debate. There, too, the White House has responded to conservative opposition by pointing first to the outright distortions – and then running the other way.


To the outrage of the House Progressive Caucus, MoveOn, and other liberal voices, Gibbs and senior advisor David Axelrod said Obama this week will continue to advocate for a government-run plan to compete with private plans, but won’t insist on it, as some foes have cast the option, inaccurately, as equivalent to a government takeover of all health care delivery.

The Jones departure recalls another Democratic surrender: The indicated willingness to abandon a plan to fund voluntary end-of-life consultations after they were miscast by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as “death panels.”


"As we've seen before, succumbing to these types of propaganda attacks from the right wing only emboldens the aggressors. This controversy will go away and they will trump up another one tomorrow,” said David Brock, founder and chairman of Media Matters for America, a group that has taken on conservative commentators. “No good comes from appeasing a lunatic bully like Glenn Beck."


"If Jones left under pressure from the Obama administration then we are in for a very long and painful four years,” said Melissa Harris Lacewell, a political science professor at Princeton University. “I would hate to think that Glenn Beck can simply shout down any member of the administration he chooses to target.”


They were referring to the Fox News host who has rocketed to a status as de facto leader of the opposition since joining the network from the relative obscurity of talk radio and CNN Headline News. Beck's attacks on Jones intensified after an advocacy group Jones helped found, Color of Change, lead a campaign to drive advertisers away from Beck’s show.


But as soon as the ensuing controversy began to bleed over onto the websites of ABC News, POLITICO, and other quarters of the mainstream media, the administration appeared to stop defending Jones. After passing on a statement Thursday from Jones indicating that he would hold fast, Gibbs declined to indicate Friday that he had Obama’s confidence, and the resignation – apparently timed for maximum obscurity in the early hours of a holiday weekend Sunday – began to seem preordained.


The resignation, in turn, confirmed Beck’s stature as the administration’s most potent foe. Along with the talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and the Drudge Report’s Matt Drudge, Beck helped drive a summer of protest against health care reform that turned the legislation into a referendum on change and government.


They turned an anodyne presidential pep talk to students Tuesday into an illustration of the wide discomfort in parts of the country with Obama’s presidency. And they beat those drums for days before elected officials in Washington jumped on the bandwagon.


Beck, for one, seems unlikely to be satisfied by Jones’ resignation.


“Van Jones is the tip of the iceberg,” Beck said earlier this month. “If we understand [Obama] by who he surrounds himself with as HE told us, what does [Van Jones’s] 9/11 truther stuff tell us about [Obama’s] Middle East policy?” Beck wrote on Twitter just before Jones’s resignation.


Some progressives said they saw racial overtones in Jones’ departure – which came as critics began to step up their scrutiny of Jones’ past words of support for Abu-Jamal, a former Black Panther on death row whose murder conviction in the death of a police officer is a cause célèbre for some on the left.


"It struck me, why go after this guy? He is a minor player, he has no power, no budget, why take him? It's because he looks like Obama and he has all those same attributes of being well-educated and he’s an electrifying speaker with an elite education," said John Anner, a good friend of Jones and former chair of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, an organization Jones founded in Oakland. "It seems to me that he is symbolic of what the Obama administration is and could be and that's inspiring for me, but for some people on the right, it's terrifying and threatening.”

The third lesson of the Jones flap is less unique to Obama’s White House, and to the moment. Jones was just an adviser to the Council on Environmental Quality – he was never officially referred to as a “green jobs czar,” as he’s sometimes been called – but he was also a celebrity of sorts. His work in California fusing civil rights, economics, and environmentalism put him at the head of powerful streams in the Democratic Party. He’d been the subject of a full-length profile in the New Yorker, and top officials sometimes touted him as a kind of trophy hire.


At a commencement address in the spring, first lady Michelle Obama held Jones up as an example to students of people who are doing interesting and innovative work.


"And then there's Van Jones, who recently joined the Obama administration, a special adviser to the president on green jobs. Van started out as a grassroots organizer and became an advocate and a creator of ‘green collar’ jobs –- jobs that are not only good for the environment, but also provide good wages and career advancement for both skilled and unskilled workers,” she said.


Obama confidante Valerie Jarrett echoed that praise to a cheering crowd at the Netroots Nation convention this summer. “Van Jones, we were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House, we have been watching him really...for as long as he's been active out in Oakland... and all of the creative ideas that he has... and now we have all of that energy and enthusiasm in the White House," Jarrett said.


And Vice President Joe Biden also had spotted Jones, whom he met at an administration-sponsored roundtable in February, Jones told POLITICO in an interview earlier this year.


"I just spoke from my heart and [Biden] looked me right in the eye...It wasn’t like he was taking notes or distracted...And he’s taken those ideas on board and that’s the kind of person he is, he is very down to earth..,,and I’ve since worked very closely with him and his staff to get a lot of those ideas implemented,” Jones said.


A White House official conceded that Jones “was not as thoroughly vetted as other administration officials,” though the official suggested it had more to do with the relatively low level of Jones’s job than with the power of his patrons.


There was little immediate talk of possible successors to Jones, largely due to the sense he would be difficult to replace in an advisory post designed specifically for him, due to his past work in promoting "green jobs." His departure will likely leave the sorest feelings among Obama’s supporters on the left. Jones has deep ties to the current liberal elite: He was a top aide to Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington’s 2003 campaign for governor of California, and Sunday won praise from, among others, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.


“I think it’s a loss for the country,” Dean said.”

“Glen Beckkk has a problem with Glen Beckkk.”

“The progressive movement (The LEFT)is chock full of socialist, communist, and even facist like hitler. Van Jones is a perfect example. The Republicans, at least the good ones, are for less government intrusion. Progressives want bigger government, more reguation and as much control over you, the working class, as possible....IMO”

“You're a ding-a-ling, dOOd.

Fascism is the right wing, like you.

Communism is the far left and there are no communists here.

You are a paranoid nut.”

“They don't have a clue what Fascism is.

All they know is that they don't like it ---- even though they embody it.”

“Poor t*lt and markO share the same brain.”

“dOOd, If a communist Russian had a cure for cancer would you use it if you had cancer? If that is a yes, then, If a Russian communist had a cure for our energy ills, would you use it? Now mix Kahlua with that Russian, how do you feel?”

“If we could just harness the hot air from Moonbat Liberals, we would not have an energy shortage.”

“You could singlehandedly blow the whole world alone.”

“if a communist Russian had cancer he'd come to Anerica for the cure, if he was smart.

From what I understand, Hitler was largely a fascist. He kept the big coperations in private hands but controlled what they made.Like VW....

You guys are wigging out...I must be on the right track
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“LOL @ TILTY ...You wanna give me a definition of Fascisim there Harrisburg boy?”

“'I must be on the right track'

You're right about that, you have been railroaded by Glen Birch.

You're like the ones you accuse of not answering questions, you change the subject.
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“Glenn Beck up, left down...”

“Hi nigal. Home for lunch?”

“
Does Beckkk drive a Lexxxus or a Cadillacacacacacac?
You oughta know by now
And if he can't pay the bill
For his brokkken backkk
At least he can sell off the fenders

”

“You think your average republican is King Solomon? No, he's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of #&%!$ about truth, justice or your American way.”

“We need more Becks they could all sit on Fox all days and; BECK BECK BECK BAKACK...BECK BECK BECK BARACK...”

“WTF! Nobody calling me a racist or anything? Wussburgers!”