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Socialist Maobama forces Glenn Beck off the air!
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Which means Beck has officially become the threshold for where "too crazy" is.
As far as I know, Beck's "writing" and economic "philosophy" isn't all that highly regarded outside of the Far Right evangelical fringe.
Randroids tend to be more of the "Wall Street Republican" mode.
Yay, capitalism works!
Ironic, considering the likely overlap between Beck's base wharblegarbling about teh censorship and the people who were quick to point out the ridiculousness of the same claim when made by the Dixie Chicks.
Yay, censorship works!
Well to be fair to the gold shills, their pitch is really: "Gold is at an all-time high and is poised to go higher due to uncertainty in global markets and and geopolitical turmoil!"
Which to a Glenn Beck listener is just code for: "Obama is deliberately devaluing your currency -- dump your dollars into gold before it's too late!"
Which one says which?
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It is refreshing to see he thinks more of his audience then we do. I didn't think they'd factcheck in the first place anyway.
Gold is so last year man, we're past that and survival seeds and onto great underground vaults.
I get to hear at work "they finally did it, they finnally forced him off the air!" "yeah, stupid mediamatters!" "yeah!"
then me: "you realize if that were the case guys, he wouldnt still be on contract making content for fox in the future, right? plus theres the rumor he lost like 40% of his viewership."
"LIBERALZ! HRRRRRGL BRRRRRRGL"
It's actually pretty scary the way he says things like that.
"Don't try to use logic or the "facts" the liberal media would tell you. Search your own feelings on the matter. Our enemies use the truth to tell lies, don't let them tell you what's right or wrong. Do what you know in your heart is right."
Hey now! Great underground vaults DO have legitimate purposes. Social experiments for one...In fact I'm getting an idea for one right now. If we can get the teapers all into one of these places it sure would be a shame if some of their vital supplies went missing in the hurry to seal the vault before Liberalism infected them and the sealing mechanism malfunctioned preventing any re-opening.
Let's start a new meme, Liberalism is a literal disease, there is no cure and only hermetically sealed, great underground vaults will protect your baby from turning into the spawn of Satan. Yes, I'm starting to like where this social experiment could be headed.
That is the main reason I stopped listening to him. Over the years, he has progressively wandered further and further over the edge. Once he started talking about his faith on the air, it ceased to even be entertaining (in that watching a retarded puppy chase a fire hydrant sort of way). At this point, I am waiting for the mass wedding and call to donate all worldy possessions to "The Cause".
God he was amusing in his time though
I love the intervals, especially the last one.
Jon Voight is a [tiny]supporting actor in the movie[/tiny] National Treasure.
it won't be disrespectful though because he'll hold the mass sucide two steps down from the heaven's gate site
Most of my friends are liberal types, and a few are more libertarian, and none of them respect Glenn Beck as a political philosopher or economic theorist or whatever else he has tried to label himself.
It's the same as Jon Stewart or other comedians that are obviously leftists. Who gives a shit? If the comedy is well-written and makes a point, it's okay to like it. I love listening to a bill hicks rant, but that doesn't mean I want the world to sell all their guns and give all the money to the poor just because he said it.
Think for yourself, but not because someone else told you to
Thats not always possible, I haven't formaly studied economics for example, I won't be able to reach an opinion by myself. Now the right thing for me to do is to read on both sides of the argument and form an opinion based on what little I can understand; but you can't reasonably expect a 9 to 5 with 2 kids kind of a person to do all that and thats the problem.
My father never watches talk shows, he listen to the BBC report at 6 am, and the local report at noon. My mother on the other hand dosen't watch news but rather several talk shows that discusses them. When I talk to my father about global or local news I find that he has liberal positions on somethings and conservetive on others with a small bit of crazy conspericy theories every now and then. When I talk to my mother about social and political happenings, her position is firmly that of a conservetive.
Thing is, when ever I think about the typical Glenn fan, I think rabid tea bagger with a gun, but I doubt its that simple. I can see a lot of people watching him as a way to get a quick dose of news+opinion that airs as soon as I get home from work which also happen to be friendly with my rightness; doubt they all believe EVERYTHING he says.
of course you can expect them to do it
that's pretty much the entire foundation of self-government
my unofficial autobio will be accompanied with tips on how to smile
cause I've found that when they don't see you frown, they never know that you're a threat
and they don't sweat you when you came around
Well, there is what you expect morally, like, this is the right thing to do, and there is what you expect realisticly, like, its wrong if he did that but he would probably do it anyway.
I can't realisticly expect someone with very little free time to use it to reach an "informed voter" status.
He can still get scam advertisers on his radio show apparently. LifeLock, Incomeathome (herbalife), Seeds, gold, endofamerica, etc...
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The biggest loss to America from Glenn going off the air? Reduced likelyhood of further Jon Beck segments on the Daily Show.
As much as Glenn Beck wants to use his show ending as a shtick for a last routine, the reality of the situation is that his show likely wasn't making FOX any money whatsoever. The bottom line is this is show business, and when your advertisers up and walk away from your show, you're in big big trouble. It doesn't matter how many viewers you have. The only good thing viewership holds, despite lack of advertisers, is lead-in. While I don't watch FOX News, I don't think they're the kind of network that relied on lead-ins though, and I'm pretty sure what followed Beck was their "straight" news program.
Edit - Basically, capitalism killed Glenn's show.
Capitalism is clearly a socialist plot.
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Don't tell Glenn that his ads for that gold and survival-kit stuff were all playing into 'their' hands.
I will admit, the 4th hour that's only available to subscribers and usually doesn't include Beck, is funny as hell.
Anyone ever read any of his books. (He has a new one every 3-6 months) I'd be curious, but have no desire to give the man any of my money.
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Why would you do that to your brain