Is Glenn Beck Finished?

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! I've missed you!

Had to clean up, shower, shave, etc. etc. etc.....

Sure is GREAT weather! Really one of the most splendid summers I can remember!

So Dobbs the Demon is going down, down, down.....awwwwww....

My mother taught me it's very rude to point!

@;D XOXOXOXOXOOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOOXOX

CLICKING MY OLD IRISH HEELS IN THE AIR!

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

AIN'T LIFE GRAND!

YES WE DID! HA!

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Glenn Beck is a pox on anyone that actually wants to understand what's going on in the world around them. He plays and–somewhat obviously–caters to the fears of a group of people that are feeling very marginalized at the moment.

I think that the Obama Administration needs to seriously consider bringing back the Fairness Doctrine, http://tiny.cc/77mSD, because leaving this to the "marketplace" is doing little than filling the coffers of loons and debasing the discussion even more than it has been in quite a long time.

No one says that Mr. Beck's odious attempts at entertainment (because what else could they be? He's a theater of the bizarre all his own) should not continue, but he needs to be marginalized on all levels.

And listening to some of the bile he regularly spouts, he should have lost his license to broadcast long ago as well.

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He will "never" go down, why, because he has more supporters than all the lesser media networks combined.

It's unfortunate, the jobs that could be lost as a result of boycotts, now the Glenn Beck supporters are boycotting these companies/products. Will this cause a loss of sales/jobs when you have the "left" and "right" boycotting??

This is a "no" win situation, Beck has the right to "freedom of speech", and we all have the right to boycott, but at what cost?

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"Glenn Beck is to be congratulated," New York Times best-selling author Peter Schweizer tells Newsmax. "They only go after you when you are being effective — he must really be causing them problems."

And for ratings giant Fox, Beck’s remarkable connection with viewers has made the free market a profitable one indeed. “The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network,” a Fox spokesman recently told Ad Age, “so there is no revenue lost.”

Consider, for example, the corporate response from Clorox. On Thursday, company executives wrote Hill stating: “After a comprehensive review of political talk shows across the spectrum, at this time we have made a decision not to advertise on political talk shows.”

Assuming the pro-Beck backlash continues, that probably means the activist campaign intended to hurt Beck will, ironically, damage Beck’s progressive competitors more than it hurts him.

Lost ads will impact smaller networks such as MSNBC far more than it will affect ratings juggernaut Fox News, industry sources say.

http://www.newsmax.com/headlines/beck_boycott_fox_backlash

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Glenn Beck, Rush and other right winger political and social commentators may have reached the point of hubris and the end of their cycle of popularity. Problem is that they are being replaced by 1000's of internet sites and wingnut commentators who face no such pressure from advertisers.
Still, the efforts of groups like those leading the pressure on Beck is the correct way to go after the hate speechers. It has often happened in the past that pressures on broadcasters and their advertisers have chased off the air a number of racists and extremeists (remember Imus?). Money talks and if Fox and others believe they are losing viewers and listeners who get turned off by such hateful speech, they will ditch them to save their profits. Now if we can find a way to keep them off the net.

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Though I don't agree with Beck on everything, and find him inconsistent, he is most definitely brought many things to light that have been ignored or misreported by the Mainstream Media and AlterNet which is an invention of the globalist Ford Foundation.

Here is what I think we need to be demanding of our government today:

NEW AGENDA FOR AMERICA: Preliminary Planks
==========================================
http://www.newagecitizen.com/NAA.htm

(1) Universal Health Care for All American Citizens
(2) A 20-year moratorium on all immigration into the United States
(3) Legal Marijuana for all Adults and Medical Patients
(4) An immediate reversal to the Offshoring and Inshoring of American Jobs
(5) A strict enforcement on issues of Separation of Church and State
(6) An immediate move from so-called Free Trade Agreements to Bilateral Trade agreements
(7) A major R&D project to bring energy independence to the United States and the World through recycling, reuse, ending hyper-consumerism and investing in the development of sustainable energy sources (e.g., solar, photovoltaic, wind, geothermal)
(8) No further ownership of US Assets (businesses, homes, ports, stock exchanges) by foreign governments or individuals!
(9) Replace the Federal Reserve with a People's Reserve which allows public oversight
(10) Absolute support for Net Neutrality
==========================================

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Support the CColor of Change campaign by writing to Fox News advertisers that you object to Glen Beck and will strongly consider uying from their competitors if they continue to sponsor him.

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Who actually pays any attention to what companies advertise on what shows.....I know I don't. I stopped buying product with long lists of ingredients I can't pronounce a long time ago. - chemical poisons masked by acronyms.

If any boycotting of any products could/should be done it is the Prescription Drug Industry.

Mr. Glen Beck's reporting is one of a few that dare to stand up for/against what's happening behind the scenes with USnAmerica.

I can't understand why no one is talking about Codex Alimentarius "Food Rules" that is due to be adopted Dec. 09. This will change so many things in our lives and we still don't cover this story. Guess the news has been told to shut this one up, or bought off. Vaccinations are being jabbed into us and no reporting of the dangers here either. It is the slight of hand trick with the pea under the walnut shell.
Keep America guessing what is going on, and while they are focusing on Health Care Reform, stick it to them as a vaccination and then take all of their supplement freedoms away.

I think that Mr. Beck needs to cover this, or will they pull him off-air quicker.

He is doing his job (and so is Bill O'Reilly and Lou Dobbs) that is exposing the TRUTH in some areas and you know what truth is, usually portrayed as a LIE, - Lie Down America and take a nap while all your freedoms are being dreamed about.

I don't want these guys "Dobbs - O'Reilly - Beck" off my cable company. They have a right to expose what they feel is 'slight of hand' so everyone can make up their own mind.

The mentality of "Divide and Conquer" has got to stop. We're not black and white, we're many shades of color, and who cares anyway.

The American Indians were done worse things than the blackish/brownish people, oh, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil!

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Every Infomercial has disclaimers stating clearly that the ownership, mgt, and advertisers do not necessarily agree with the thoughts and views expressed.
This is exactly what these Shows are, including the liberals. They are Selling a Brand of Politics, they are the Billy Mays of social discourse. Pitchmen (women) who are asking,conning, you to buy their brand over the others.
As you so aptly stated Becks free to spew his bile on (or in) any Corner,But he's not. He has a contract, thus he is an employee. He has a Staff, a crew and the means to Sell his wares across the country. No Company nor advertiser can claim they are not responsiblity for the content when they have clearly not taken the proper legal steps to have those words displayed before, during and after the show.
FOX and it's advertisers are culpable in the murder of Dr Tiller, the 3 Cops in PA, the hispanic family in NM(?), the security guard at the holocust museum....As much as their media personalities who inspired the perpetrators
They gave these Inciters of violence the opportunity and means to provoke unstable, and violent offenders into action.
There are idiots in this country who have no clue BillO is not a Newsman, but a entertainer who comments on the News. By requiring all these shows have legal disclaimers, many of these gullible folks will realize they are advertisements for a particular political mindset. This would not effect Olberamnn or Maddow's ratings, because their viewers watch them specifically for that fact. Given 'em Hell Keith!
What also needs to occur is the rebranding of the industry- these are not 'Cable News channels', when they spend days/weeks discussing only ONE topic. News is innately something NEW. Perhaps we should redesignate these upper channels as 'Cable Rehash and commentary'. This is an issue of 'Truth in advertising' the FCC and the Consumer Protection agency must address.

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What possible purpose is there for this article except to gloat or rile up his support base?
And what's with the condescending cracks about "bizarre FEMA conspiracy theories of rounding up dissidents"... got news for you, they (the Bush administration) were actually considering it.

Back in 2005 I stumbled across this article:
" WILL GULF WAR LEAD TO REPRESSION AT HOME? ...outlined something that I'd heard about in the 80's, that Pres Reagan had initiated plans to suspend Posse Comitatus and arrest domestic dissidents. For me, it was a bit of secondhand information I'd gotten through military personnel who told me that in the event of an invasion of Central America President Reagan was prepared to quell any protests (especially in Berkeley, Calif) using the military. That there was even a prison ship docked in the Bay Area for that express purpose.
Plus, I do recall reading an (which if I find the link I'll post it) where in the dark days of the Bush admin... one of Bush's top generals announced that in the event of another attack on domestic soil the Pentagon under orders from Bush was prepared to suspend the Constitution and impose martial law. I'm sure if you do some digging you can easily verify this.
So do me a favor and before you arrogantly relegate anything that smacks of being a conspiracy... research it alittle and before deciding if it's a conspiracy "theory" or a conspiracy "fact".
That's not to say that Beck hasn't embraced the whole pantheon of the rightwing's paranoid fantasies... like global warming denialism, a North American one state government.
But some of his fears he conveniently fails to remember or mention were initiated by a GOP run Congress and White House.
I just think it's a bit premature and even immature to celebrate his imminent demise.

When he's gone then we'll pop the corks.

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Implement CHANGE that benefits ALL!

The last election gave us a mandate to
Accomplish the Positive Progressive Goals and Ideals which we all fought for, voted for and believe in.

Health Care for all

A Living wage

Publicly fund all elections and Level the playing field.

All Ballots with a certifiable paper trail

Free the Media from Corpirate Bias and Control

Break up the Six Media Monopolies

Open all airwaves to local independent broadcasting

Create access to affordable housing for all

Close the revolving door in Washington

Reverse all Privatization of the Military and the Government of America
(85% Privatized means 85% corporate controlled)

Unfund the DARK Army and Ban it from American soil.

Limit Lawyers to working in the Judicial Branch of Government
(How can you have separation of powers when one fraternity runs all the branches of government?)

Increase Representation: increase diversification and create a true multi-party System

Nationalize all energy resources for National Security

Rebuild the American economy and infrastructure from the ground up: GREEN!

Put restrictions on lobbyists and their influence
Is it a Government for and by The Corporations or
For and by The People?
Why should the wealthy be able to buy undue influence with their money?
The Banks are trying to un-fund change by hording capital and sending US into a depression!
CORPORATE GREED is corrupting and ruining the system.

They’ve had their chance and now it’s ours!
Seize the opportunity!
Revitalize the positive goals and ideals that this country was founded upon
Let’s stay focused!
Implement change that benefits all: one seed, job, electric car, house and solar cell at a time.
Use that garage full of tools to help invent US out of this mess.
DEMOCRACY in ACTION!

Join the Micro-Democracy REVOLUTION!
Start in your own back yard

Go Local
Go GREEN
Go Organic
Survive and prosper!

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Isn't it a little strange that dozens of corporations -- many of which have the social conscience of Bernie Madoff -- would eagerly climb onto the bandwagon of dumping Glenn Beck? Does anyone else smell a rat? (Besides Beck, I mean.)

I'll believe it when I see it. What's more likely is that we'll see Beck put on some kind of brief suspension or moved to a different time slot -- all with lots and lots of hoopla and millions of dollars worth of free publicity for both Beck and the suddenly-socially-responsible sponsors. No, Beck personifies the cockroach persona of the corporate right. How can they really repudiate their own mirror image?

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Ignore Obama's slew of FASCIST CZARS and focus on Glenn Beck and Limbaugh's free speech! You people couldn't see Fascism right in front of you. . . You'd need a mirror.

Thanks for the list Corporate Toadies. I'll publicize it and make sure NO CONSERVATIVES EVER PATRONIZE THEM, starting with the LEFT financer: General Electric!

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Are advertisers pulling their cash from the network, or just taking action to remove their name brand recognition from Beck's program?
I see in the article UPS pulled all of its advertising from the network. That's the goal. Just removing the brand from Beck's broadcast still leaves the network with incoming revenue.

Beck is just a small part of a clearly racist news organization.
Advertisers need to be pressured to pull all of their advertising from FOX News, not just the Beck Funhouse.

FOX news needs to be pressured to clearly disclose on their programs which is news and which is entertainment.

FOX News often contracts with local broadcasters to include its content, (antenna not cable). If they do, contact the local broadcaster and complain. Inform local advertisers of your concerns.
We did that in my area years ago and the local carrier stopped including the FOX News portion of their feed. And this is a Red State we're talking about.
Disgusting is disgusting no matter what side of the aisle you sit on.

Kicking FOX News and Beck in the ass will put the rest of Murdock's Shit Mongers on notice.

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I agree with everything you're saying and I'd like to help spread this piece far and wide, but the copy needs to be edited.

In order for Alternet to be taken seriously, a certain level of professionalism must be maintained. This includes rigorous editing to root out spelling errors.

Please do this soon so that when this article is shared, it will send the right message about Alternet.

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No matter how many times Peter Cushing drove the wooden stake into Christopher Lee's heart, the good count was hale and hearty just in time for the next Saturday matinée creature double feature.

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Never it seems. So you "progressives" and "liberals" need those stupid shows just like the "conservatives", eh? In all my years on these progressive/liberal sites, I cannot believe that there has been more attention given to Faux Noise and Rachel Maddow than anything else. Even if Glen Beck goes, someone similar will be ready to take his place. I have always advocated that progressives and liberals must learn to go on the offensive and put the progressive ideology to work. I've done my part and I like it even if it makes me look like I'm a "conservative". When will you losers learn?

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Glenn Beck crossed more than one line when he accused President Obama of being a "racist" who has "a deep-seated hatred of white people."

Not only did Beck leave himself wide open to accusations of racism by making such a ridiculously false and racially-charged remark, he also left himself -- and Fox News -- wide open to a lawsuit.

While it can be debated ad infinitum about the issue of hate speech, one thing is crystal clear: The First Amendment's guaranteee of free speech does NOT protect you from liability for making blatantly false and maliciously defamatory public comments about someone in reckless disregard of the truth.

That constitutes slander when said on radio or television; libel when written in print or on the Internet.

Glenn Beck clearly owes Obama a public apology for making that ridiculous statement about the president being an anti-white "racist." If he doesn't, then the president has every right to sue Beck and Fox News for slander and defamation after he leaves office and becomes a private citizen.

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Glenn Beck may be a symptom, but the real disease is that Americans have been dumbed down and distracted as the Corporate Oligarchy has been stealing our government! Not only does Beck need to go, but the Corporate Media, needs to be broken up, and while we're at it can we take off those stupid "reality shows"!

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Make no mistake. The fight has just begun... Just a little over a year ago when Don "Imus in the Morning" made a racist statement (not regarding the President of our United States), MSNBC took the moral and ethical high road and demonstrated to its viewers that intolerance and racist "hate speak" was not going to be tolerated, nor left unpunished on their television network.

It's really sad that advertisers only pulled their ads AFTER mass consumer complaints were made regarding Beck's hate speak. And FOX should have taken the high road like MSNBC and removed Beck from their network just like MSNBC did Imus -- PERMANENTLY.

This is not a victory until the Fox network is held accountable for the radical commentators that they hire to represent their "news" organization. MSNBC did the right thing by making its audience aware that they would not, in no uncertain terms, promote or stand by an individual who openly spews such demeaning hate speak.

Shame on Fox for allowing Beck to smuggly take a "vacation" on a superficial suspension that only came to fruition because the people of America began boycotting Beck advertisers. Until Beck is permanently removed from this public platform, where he will continue to manipulate and degrade the high post of journalism and will continue to condone and promote intolerance, hatred, and yes even violence in some radical minds, advertisers must demand that Beck is no longer affiliated or part of the Fox network and should NOT give the network an ounce of support...less they support the same lunacy that Fox evidentally fosters, condones, and promotes.

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He is spoiled apple pie. Or maybe he was baked with rotten apples. AMERICAN PIE

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I absolutely love how Beck's "supporters" keep talking about how the "sleeping giant" has been awakened. Or real Americans are fighting back. They are taking America back and of course the obligatory socialist/Marxist comments. This "revolution" the right wing is finally mounting because they've taken all they can stand? The facts are: Obama has been president for seven months and five days. Yeah, read that sentence again. Barack Obama Democrat from Illinois was inaugurated 1/20/09.Who the hell do you think was running the government prior to that? Have we forgotten right-wing superhero George W. Bush? Before that date marked the end of 28 years of conservative governance that began 1/20/81. Yes, I know Bill Clinton was president 1992-2000. So? What are These people claiming they are finally rising up against? You and your right-wing ideology have been in power for the past 28 friggin' years!And our country has suffered greatly for it.Even the extreme right wing is not disenfranchised or ignored or the silent majority. They ran EVERYTHING for 12 years, after the "Republican revolution" in 1994 that gave us Newt Gingrich. Obama has been in power half a year. It just makes me sick that they keep talking about taking our country back.We did take it back...from you!!! That's why Beck's tea bagging lunatics are a joke. They don't even remember that they were in power less than a year ago. And refuse to admit Obama inherited all the problems we face currently from a 'real American' right-wing conservative.The stuff they haven't completely fabricated anyway.

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If you wanted to get rid of Beck you would have
ignored him because with every attack his audience grows. When I ask people what they think of Beck they have all sort of nasty comments to make, but when you follow it up with, how much do you watch him? They admit they never have. I started watching Beck to see what all the complaining was about and found him a bit goofy in demeanor sometimes but well researched and documenting every fact. His show yesterday that this article called a trashing of Van Johnson actually can be fact checked and it passed......the problem is the Obama cheerleaders don't want to hear the truth. I also remember when the liberal sites called Bush worse things and you all got a big laugh out of it. Anyone that didn't support Obama during the election was called a racist. Just last week Nancy Pelosi called anyone not supporting the health care bill a brown shirt, and another Rep called them Nazis.....
Why is that OK but let Beck call Obama a racist or Socialist and he has to go? I can't wait to see that you will be saying about Obama when you wake up from the trance you are all in.

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Pat yourself on the back if that makes you feel better?

Dissention with government is to be stippled at every turn....

Just ask the protege, GWB....

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Actually, Glen Beck has lost less than one-third of the number of advertisers that the above story claims. Can you name them?

I do take what he and his guests say with a small grain of salt; but even if only 25% of what he says is true, Obama and his socialist friends are out to destroy the America we know and love.

Meanwhile, liberals only lie when their lips are moving.

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First, I'm floored that he has had so many sponsors that there are any left, even though so many have abandoned him because it's "bad for business". Since there is no such thing as a good business in the U S (or maybe anywhere) you can bet that if Beck loses them all, Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes will find a way to keep him on Fox News or TV somewhere, along with his hate radio program. If not, it's likely that the Republican National Committee will hire him as its assistant to Rush Limbaugh. If that doesn't happen, Rush Limbaugh himself, who makes an enormous mound of lucre from his sponsors, may well sponsor all sorts of lunatics like Beck, all by himself. So fear not, Glenn will be with us a long time, talking hate stupidities and writing stuff fit for the toilet, sponsored by greedy book publishers.

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...and probably never will be. But that's ok, because the light of liberty shines on all the dark crevices of society and illuminates the ravenous, infectious cockroaches wherever they may be. Come out all ye white supremacists, KKK sympathizers, Aryan Brotherhood, rabble-rousing birthers, Palin promoters, gun-toting, bible-beating, xenophobic, homosexual-hating, separate-but-equal backing, abortion clinic bombing pseudo-patriots. These are the true backbone of the Beck-Limbaugh-Hannity triad.

We need Beck to draw these creatures from their caves, so we know they actually exist and where they are. Job well done.

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. . . so even if Fox flushes this stinking turd, it will come bobbing up somewhere else to once again foul the airwaves with the insane trash that the wingnut fringe loves so much.

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I wish I could join a boycott of Faux "News" over this matter but unfortunately I have already been boycotting Faux for several years on general principles and only find out what is happening with respect to them on websites like this one.

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Summer is known for re-runs, so when the WH teamed up with Van Jones the co-founder of colorofchange.org to attack Mr. Beck and attempt a boycott, it was a re-run of what this President does to those who speak out on him and his administraton. WHAT has happened is that the boycott is being boycotted by conservatives and now advertisers are dropping their ads from ALL opinion shows, like Beck, Oman, Maddow, Hannity, Dobbs, and O'Riley. The left have greatly exaggerated the effect of its boycott. WHAT is really happening, is that Geico has lost customers (5k)and are now along with other companies having to say, that conservatives are customers that we do not want to lose. Boycotts do not work, as both the left, center and right do business with these companies.

This failed boycott is not about what Mr. Beck said, but what Mr. Beck is saying about the WH. Mr. Van Jones is a very radical environmental advisor to the President. Many are asking if he is the individual who wrote the current cap and trade bill. This boycott is another smoke and mirrors to attempt to stifle questions about the President, his advisors and czars.

Boycotts can work two ways. Is the WH willing to lose what little support they have by these efforts to demonize those who speak out against their unpopular bills?

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A Zogby poll found that 85% of WalMart shoppers voted for Bush when he ran for reelection. If you google it, you get different, but all high, numbers for the question, "What percentage of WalMart shoppers are republican?" I'll be interested in the big hit WalMart is about to take all due to this counter-boycott.

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Beck is a loon, no question. But to dismiss the construction of detention facilities as an example of right-wing conspiracy thinking is to participate in the project to dissimulate growing authoritarianism in US society. It is a fact that the Department of Homeland Security is building detention facilities. We are moving towards a police state. Ironically, articles on police abuse in Alternet clearly demonstrate the trend. Moreover, questions about 9-11 are entirely legitimate. There are a lot of unexplained things about that event. Alex Jones has an odd interpretation about the causes of some things, but he also bravely exposes the pathologies of power (such as the bizarre practices of the capitalist class in the Bohemian Grove). The type of leftism presented by the author undercuts the work of those of us who strive to expose power in our society. She needs to do more digging before commenting.

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Mr. S is really sore that his pocket communist Van Jones was mentioned in your half-done story. Jones is an ultimately important player in post-Bill of Rights America, tool. What are you going to do next, get into the brothers who founded ACORN, nitwit? Good job ignoring Ayers, anyway. Without Van, there's no way this pile of capitalism can be discarded before the next election.

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Glen Beck speaks the truth but is not liked by advertisers because he tends to help people hold onto their money. He is not a conspiracy theorist! The truth hurts the people that are trying to con all of us so that they can get an unfair advantage or simply make some profit. If he has the second highest rating on FOX that should be enough to keep him on the air. Please don't give him the velvet HAMMER! I trust him!
I also think it is too late for the Country to make a turnaround! We needed better TV journalists a long time before BECK came onto the scene.

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I did not care for Beck on CNN but once he went to Fox , he has gone off the deep end , so the south actually loves him. Just this week, 15% in Alabama consider their views as liberal , no surprise to me , since I live in Al . And the more hateful the rants the better , the more unreasonable the rant the better, Alabama loves Rush , loves Beck , loves hate filled emails to send around and think it funny, and then go to church 3 times a week and look down on others around them who are different.....Yep he is getting a lotta love down here , so doubt Fox will pull the plug, which is sad , very very sad......

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Most were right on. My point is, I don't watch
Faux Noise or anything remotly associated with Rupert Murdoch. Who was it that said, "There's no such thing as bad publicity." If more people just ignored Faux Noise, maybe they'd go away. The only sports that is on Fox are the
Vikings and the Twins. I use my handy-dandy remote when a comercial comes on.

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...and where's the censure on Ann Coulter?

only Fox News Corp champions these parasites angry cries of distain...

Beck maybe gone sure, but the viral hatred eminating from this propaganda portal needs a lesson in humility and humanity.

We need people to write to Fox Advertisers and tell them they will not support them while they support fear & loathing... Want to Boycott Fox News Sponsors? Here's a List

it's nice to see a listing of specific advertisers on specific shows but i believe Fox bundles there ad streams through out the day placing them ad hoc to counter advertiser pressure about placements on certain shows.

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This boycott began because of comments that Glenn Beck said on some other program? What am I missing? I smell economic civil war coming! Do you really want millions of conservatives boycotting the companies who have boycotted Beck's show, so to speak? All because someone expressed his 1st Amendment right! So much for freedom. ...and we stretch the truth about gun toting nuts at town meetings and you people lap it up as gospel. What's it like to believe that truth is nothing more than what makes you feel good?

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So, what's so bad about beck, anyway; after all, SOMEBODY'S got to set a bad example, right?
Beck, in and of himself, is HARMLESS, just as a loaded gun is-until somebody picks it up-that is.
What's bad about beck and the other motor-mouths on fox noise is that some very stupid and dangerous people listen to, and actually BELIEVE their drivel.
What's also bad is the preponderence of neocon hogwash on talk radio and TV shows like the ones aired by fox.
It's simply NOT fair and balanced.

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Once we get Beckhead off, let's go after the big game: Limbaugh, Savage, and O'Reilly, for starters.

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We need to take the Boycott to the next level. Contact your cable provider and ask that they drop the Fox News channel from their line up.

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Glenn Beck and Fox News and you and I all have freedom of speech, thank god. Winning an election by a slim margin does not take our Constitutional rights away. I want to hear from ALL sides in these issues because without seeing a broad picture not just of what I personally want but of what is being tossed at me by what is supposed to be a representative form of government, I can't make sound judgements.

You may not like Mr. Beck and to me you should run for the remote. But to campaign to stifle opinions that you don't hold will turn this ever more repressive government into what could be seen as a fascist sort of state. It is up to citizens of all stripes to determine with information if this is the course they selected when they voted for "change" that was never clearly defined.

I hope you can calm down and realize that your behavior is much more frightening than Mr. Beck's shennanigans. You are apparently actually viewing 1984 as a training manual - as the tee shirts say.

Can't we have open dialogue? The president is on tv day after day after day and the major media helped in great part to put him in office. I didn't like that manipulation and I am worried that you all seem so afraid of letting people have ALL viewpoints at hand. It's intellectually dishonest and isn't well thought of by those who differ with your approach. They seem to be the majority and even that you can't cope with. Try getting rid of the hate and using this site to respond with level heads to points of Glenn Beck's that you disagree with. I check in here for information and because I want to learn but apparently you would limit my access to voices other than your own. Hope for the country's sake, you aren't successful.

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With all my heart I wish that Glenn Beck were finished. He is a dangerous rabble-rouser who, I truly believe, is trying to incite the American public to violence against the Obama government. He does not scruple to lie, and lie viciously and with flamboyance. But, right now on townhall.com, the faithful are rallying around him. Some of them claim he is the only person in the media who tells the truth. Boycotts against sponsors who've left Beck are eagerly contemplated.

I wonder where they really want this to lead. Beck is hyping everybody up for a big September 12 rally. If they had Obama in person to tear limb from limb, that would be just their appetizer course. I wonder what this mob really wants.

A couple of weeks ago there was an article, I think on AlterNet actually, describing the stages in the development of a Fascistic state. Stage Three was when what the lunatic fringe is saying gets picked up by politicians and mainstream media. Seems to me we are in Stage Three.

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I thought he was a Mormon. I know those guys that wore white shirts and rode on bicycles that came to our town really worked on the Baptists.

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He's worshipped as a deity out here even in Shreveport and New Orleans.

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Joe Pyne
to Morton Downey to Howard
Stern to Bill O'Reilly,
and the latest Glenn Beck.

These guys sustained lucrative
careers by acting out in public.

Where most talk show hosts are polite
this bunch employed intimidation
tactics like interrupting, yelling at
and insulting guests of different
opinions.

Practised in the art of humiliation
this special kind of talk show host
becomes more daring and eventually
steps over a line.

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However, I can straighten this out for you. If Glenn Beck is removed from Fox News, you can rest assured that it will happen in the following manner: He will be called in to an office in the Fox News headquarters, and sit down facing a Fox News executive. He will not be summoned to any government office; he will not be fired by Obama or any Democrat. The Fox News executive who regretfully terminates his services will be a Republican. The lawyer sitting beside him will also certainly be one. Beck will be fired for that most corporate, capitalist of reasons: either he is making less money for Fox, or they suspect he is about to make less money for Fox. This is how capitalism works. This is how advertising works. Glenn Beck will be as free as anyone to say what he wants, write what he wants, with the political slant he prefers. The government will not prevent this. The government likewise should not be in the business of preserving however many corporate millions Glenn Beck makes at the moment. If he loses his job, he's that much more in touch with millions of the Americans he claims to speak for, although certainly in better financial shape.

But again: if Glenn Beck is fired, it has no more to do with constitution rights than anyone being fired. It's capitalism in action. That's good, right? Weeds out the weak, rewards the strong? All that?

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Ratings mean everything, there has never been a highly rated show canceled due to public demand. Fox clearly supports his views, he'll find new sponsors to replace the old ones, and he won't go anywhere. All this is going to do is give him more publicity when people tune in to see what the big deal is.

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The thing with the ReThugniCon echo chamber is that its owners don't mind running the damned circus 24/7/365 in 15 minute intergrals at cost. Mellon-Scaife and Murdoch really don't care how much money they stand to lose getting the right wing message out to the public. It's why the likes of Pig-boy Limbaugh are ungodly overcompensated to spew his oxycontin induced bilge while real journalistic talent is being pink-slipped nearly hourly over at Clear Channel right now. I live with the consolation that Murdoch and peers are a herd of old white men whose greedy progeny, the beneficiaries of their ill-used gain, aren't as committed to the Neo-conniving right wing message as they are the inheritance of money. That alone spells the end of a whole lot of this propaganda idiocy.

Unfortunately, all Change has successfully achieved is the shaking to consciousness of a few big sponsors to the reality that they really can make that loose change they get from sponsoring the bane of infotainment faux-tardation through other ad venues that reach more people than the so-called news. The big sponsors know Pigboy, Ho'Really, and the weeping dry drunk aren't exactly playing to the real spenders in this recessionary eoconomy. The corporatocracy cares enough about offending the real spenders to move to not sponsor any news shows, right or left. After all, the elusive 'they' know the demographic that works, earns, and makes the bulk of the decisions that keep the economy afloat all blog for their infotainment, and think Beck is an ignorant, racist dick.

Beck will eventually lose his audience to old age and death, or to Sham-WOW sponsor fatigue. Face it, Shrill Dreck brought to us by some off-brand provider of 'organic' male enhancement pills is too much to ask of any viewer, even those with the IQs of common dining furniture. Unfortunately, the demise of idiotic right wing chicanery in media won't happen soon enough to counter any of the damage he's done.

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I think it would be nice. Commercial free and uninterrupted. Fox has the right to lie, so they can. Be sure to watch "Bogeyman: the Lee Atwater Story" and "The Corporation". In fact buy two DVDs of each and share with your friends. Kit

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About time "most of us" stopped subsidizing Murdoch's hatefest. We need to let every FOX News advertiser know that their products are "dead to us" if they sponsor this propaganda masquerading as news. Few people would knowingly patronize a company that helps promote ignorance, rage and bigotry? Let's force them to choose their customer base - a handful of extremist wingnuts or the rest of us. Glenn Beck was just a paid actor. Fox is the real culprit.

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We need to codify what is and is not acceptable free speech. It might have been OK in the past to make references to race, creed color, sexual orientation, social status, class inclusion, or any of a dozen other labels when expressing our opinions but those days are long gone. Those things and any other things that can be perceived as offensive must be federally regulated. We need to demand federal laws regulating free speech right now. It's the best way to keep offensive people like Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Mark Davis, Darrell Ankarlo, Gregg Knapp and others off the air, out of the press, and off the TV.

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as a relative outstander I'd hope they let the man babble, from a european point of view he's only undermining the 'high moral standards' he claims to defend. Preaching for his own community he may be the hero, for the rest of the world he ia the proof of US hypocricy. That may be the reason the advertisers stepping out. For me it would be the first time the market forces show their benefits...

Anyone interested in a European/Dutch look at the hassle: http://tiny.cc/y5pWD , from there to the 1 before that etc.
Pity those pages are only seen by people who allready know about things, and the 'ignorants' calling us the 'ignorants' stick to their thing, blaming us for not reading their truth (I'm sorry - I tried over and over again, besides some things about personal freedom I cannot find a clue; what about compassion, what about not living in some compound, like in the medieval ages, canons sticking out off the 20ft thick walls)...

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the link in my post mentioned above

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I filed a complaint with the FCC regarding Fox and Beck. I received a letter from them stating that I should be in receipt of Fox's reply shortly. If I knew how to publish an article here I would do so to include my letter/complaint and the response I expect from Fox.

The basis of my complaint is not so much about what is said on Fox ( I still support the 1st Amendment ) but the fact that all of this hatred is reported over a prominent logo that gives a clear impression that what they are broadcasting is "News".( factual, "fair and balanced" ?? )

I asked the FCC, not to prohibit any speech but to prohibit the use of that logo and any implication that these shows are news rather than entertainment and opinions.

There is a clear prohibition against broadcasting bias and distortions of the news and when Fox leads viewers to believe they are a news channel while transmitting hate and racism and a far-right bias, then I believe they are violating FCC regulations.

They should be required to alter or remove their "News" logo and claims of providing factual information or lose their broadcast license.

I did separately ask the FBI to investigate to what extent Fox, Beck etc's broadcast might violate the prohibition against inciting violence which is a criminal matter. No reply on that yet.

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Glenn Beck is making more money for FOX than they ever thought possible. Unfortuately for liberals, wishing that he had lost advertising dollars for FOX, does not make it so.

He is proving every day that Attorney General Eric holder was WRONG when he called Americans "COWARDS" for not speaking more openly about race and race issues.

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"Sandy O. of North East, PA beseeches Fox to stand behind Beck because "He is one of the very few whom is keeping us up to date on all the corruption in Washington. If Glenn is silenced we will never know what is going on behind the scenes."

Unfortunately, Beck LIES

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Time Magazine is coming out with an attack piece on Glen Beck and Media Matters thinks it isn't vicious enough (surprise). Joel Achenbach of the Washington Post defends the Time article writer and starts a inter-league squabble with Media Matters. Follow all the action here:

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