FAUX "News" dumps the Glenn BecKKK show!

[FORD]

April 6, 2011, 12:37 pm
Glenn Beck to End Daily Fox News Program
By BRIAN STELTER

Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News Channel program later this year.

His departure was jointly announced in a statement on Wednesday by Fox and Mr. Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts.

Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, which have clashed over the making of “Glenn Beck,” will “work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties,” the companies said in the statement.

As expected, a senior Fox News executive, Joel Cheatwood, will join Mr. Beck at Mercury Radio Arts starting later this month.

The joint statement did not specify an end date for Mr. Beck’s show, called “Glenn Beck,” which has been telecast at 5 p.m. on Fox News since early 2009. Asked if Fox News had a rough end date for “Glenn Beck,” a spokeswoman referred back to the statement. Mr. Beck’s contract with Fox ends in December.

The statement was briefly posted on The Blaze, a Web site owned by Mr. Beck, but it was then taken down. Representatives for Fox and Mr. Beck did not immediately explain why.

Mr. Beck is a hugely popular figure on Fox News, averaging 2.2 million viewers each weekday, though his ratings have fallen somewhat in the last year. He is beloved by his fans for speaking out against what he sees as threats from progressives. His opponents — and there are many — condemn him for his conspiratorial views and apocalyptic predictions.

Almost immediately after Mr. Beck’s announcement, the progressive group Media Matters for America, which combats Fox on a daily basis, said it was “no surprise” that he was leaving, given that many advertisers had shunned Mr. Beck’s show ever since he labeled President Obama a racist in the summer of 2009. (Fox said that the advertisers simply moved over to other programs on the network.)

Color of Change, the group that spearheaded an advertiser boycott of Mr. Beck, asserted that the program lost “over 300 advertisers.” James Rucker, the executive director of the group, said in a statement, “Fox News Channel clearly understands that Beck’s increasingly erratic behavior is a liability to their ratings and their bottom line, and we are glad to see them take this action.”

Mr. Beck has been contemplating an exit from Fox for some time. Two of the post-Fox options he has considered, according to people who have spoken about it with him, are a partial or wholesale takeover of a cable channel, or an expansion of his subscription video service on the Web. His company has been staffing up — making Web shows, some of which have little or nothing to do with Mr. Beck, and charging a monthly subscription for access to the shows.

Mr. Beck also hosts a syndicated radio show in the morning. He was estimated to earn about $32 million in total revenues in 2009, the first year that he worked at Fox.

In the statement on Wednesday, Mr. Beck said he would be starting a “new phase” of a partnership with Roger Ailes, the chairman of Fox News. “I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News,” he said.

Mr. Ailes said in the statement, “Glenn Beck is a powerful communicator, a creative entrepreneur and a true success by anybody’s standards. I look forward to continuing to work with him.”

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[Unchainme]

Felt this was appropriate for this thread.

[hambon4lif]

If Jon Boner is his guest on the last show, I'm buying stock in Kleenex.

Adios, fuckwad!

[FORD]

[Kristy]

Mr. Beck is a hugely popular figure on Fox News, averaging 2.2 million viewers each weekday, though his ratings have fallen somewhat in the last year. He is beloved by his fans for speaking out against what he sees as threats from progressives. His opponents — and there are many — condemn him for his conspiratorial views and apocalyptic predictions.

If he's popular at all it's due to the fringe audience Fox creates and Beck capitalizes off of. I've been saying all along Beck has a psychiatric disorder that is so self-evident that the suits at Fox must have taken notice. Plus to say he quit is a downright lie. He was fired. When Beck starts to lose income for Fox due to numerous commercial/advertizes pulls and contract breeches the suits take more severe notice of that, too.

Glenn Beck is the proverbial train wreck of perpetual idiocy in America. People don't watch him to be informed, people watch him to have something to mock. Constantly basing predictions and unhinged conspiratorial theories on surmise and little history do not make one a wise man. Instead, he makes up for his shortcomings on fear and well, just being retarded. I'm sure he'll milk this for what's it's worth blaming progressives and sold-out right wingers on his demise pulling bullshit censorship issues right out of his fat ass all conspiratorial-like Look for him to disappear for a while and then pop back up like the weasel he is on some basic cable channel where he and his followers can amuse themselves to death.

[Unchainme]

It was amusing, a few days a go he was rambling about the Railway Strikes of 1877, and claiming how that supposedly that this was proof that Union members were all violent communists, and that this was a presidence.

only one thing..he got the story COMPLETELY WRONG

And mind you, disclaimer, I am not a union-guy, I am very libetarian..but I am currently taking a history course and we actually covered this quite in depth, and the story goes a little something like this:

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n the wake of the Panic of 1873, a bitter antagonism between workers and the leaders of industry developed. By 1877, 10% wage cuts, distrust of capitalists and poor working conditions led to a number of railroad strikes that prevented the trains from moving. This antagonism lingered well after the depression ended in 1878-79, eventually erupting into the labor unrest that marked the following decades and that eventually led to the birth of labor unions in the United States.

oh, but yes, the strikers were the real atanognists in this, those big business types would never..

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania became the site of the worst violence. Thomas Alexander Scott of the Pennsylvania Railroad, often considered one of the first robber barons, suggested that the strikers should be given "a rifle diet for a few days and see how they like that kind of bread." However, local law enforcement officers refused to fire on the strikers.

Pretty damn stupid. Sort of the reason I can't stand him in that regard. He tries to potray himself as some professor of history, and he twists into his own right-wing version of america. The founding fathers would have lined up to kick his ass.

[Kristy]

Right wing radio/talk is dying a little in America which you would think to be good news. Could be their audience is starting to gain some perspective in that they read their books, bought the CD's. went to the shows, loyally listened to their radio shows in order to have some (false) hope that morons like Beck push. Truth is, Beck's audience are still without a job, food on the table, or hope that their children will see a brighter future. Meanwhile, Beck & Co. go to the bank with smiles on their faces bigger than their asscracks. That, if anything, is what disturbs me the most about these people.

[BITEYOASS]

Right wing radio/talk is dying a little in America which you would think to be good news. Could be their audience is starting to gain some perspective in that they read their books, bought the CD's. went to the shows, loyally listened to their radio shows in order to have some (false) hope that morons like Beck push. Truth is, Beck's audience are still without a job, food on the table, or hope that their children will see a brighter future. Meanwhile, Beck & Co. go to the bank with smiles on their faces bigger than their asscracks. That, if anything, is what disturbs me the most about these people.

It also could be that their audience is very very old. Kind of hard to maintain an audience when they keep dying all the time. And who the f*** under age 30 listens to the AM band anyway?

[sadaist]

At the start of his show on FOX, Beck was mildly entertaining. But now watching his show is like sitting through that 1 class we all had in college that's in some crappy dark classroom at the far end of the campus, and the professor just rambles on & on while we struggle to stay awake by doodling on our notebooks. No chance we are actually paying attention to the guy.

His show now is almost like some 3 am public access show of a guys random thoughts of who is out to get us.

Unwatchable.

Maybe he & Olbermann can co-host something like a Crossfire type show? Now that might be good TV.

But in the last 2 years while on FOX, Glenn Beck has made himself a fortune. Dude could just go away & live wealthy on some Caribbean island now. That's what I would do.

[sadaist]

The last thing Beck did on his show that was amusing was when he tossed that frog into the boiling water. (fake frog)

But that could be the pinpoint of when he jumped the shark. There's just no shock value anymore.

[Kristy]

I have no words.

[sadaist]

HAHAHAHA! Yeah!

I was watching that when it happened with my mom. We were both talking out loud to the TV..."Don't do it....don't do it......AWWW WTF!"




Side note.....me and my stepson used to collect the frogs after rainstorms when they flush out on to the street & take them up to my moms property where we have a small pond set up for them. At night it sounds like the fucking bayou in her backyard. Our best day was 17 of those little fuckers. If we don't take them up there, they end up smashed dead on the streets here. Nothing like waking up your mom with a 2 am phone call "hey, can we bring up a bucket of frogs?"

Anyways, that's when I stopped watching Beck.

[Kristy]

Here's my best Beck moment. He is clearly insane.



Did he run out of things to obfuscate, lie about or just plain make up?

[Nitro Express]

If you look up Beck's old videos and compare them to his current stuff he's all over the radar. He's also a gutless wonder. He went on The View and those bitches tore him to shreds and he totally caved in to them. But then when you get caught lying and get called out on it, there isn't much you can do. But then there are three types of people who convert to the Mormon church. 1) People who want to take advantage of the church welfare or mooch off the members. 2) Insane needy people who are just happy as hell that some missionaries gave them the time of day. 3) People who fell head over heals in love with a Mormon and love outweighs good sense. 4) People who actually believe in the shit. This of course is the small minority of people. I would say Glen signed up for love and he was also the insane needy type who needed a pack of supporting other crazy people to run with.

[BigBadBrian]

Most real conservatives are still at work or coming home when he's on. Unlike the welfare-state liberals.