Posted on 04/07/2011 10:12:42 AM PDT by Kaslin
When Glenn Beck announced yesterday that he would be transitioning off his daily Fox TV show, you knew MSNBC started salivating. And so it’s probably no surprise that MSNBC host Chris Matthews devoted a whole segment to the Beck story. Heck, he even invited a guest — the leader of the anti-Beck brigade and Media Matters president David Brock.
Matthews decided to play some clips of Beck and then rehash the same things he’s been saying for the last two years, mainly that Beck is crazy, insane, and a race-baiter. Brock agreed. The two even agreed this is a “victory for civil discourse.”
The funniest part of the clip, though, was when Matthews stroked Brock’s ego by congratulating him for a “successful campaign” against Beck. Brock, naturally, basked in the glory. Still, Matthews couldn’t let Brock take all the credit: “You weren’t alone on that. I was with you and a lot of people thought it was a good idea to end this.”
But maybe the two forgot one key thing: Beck isn’t off the air. Not only will he continue his daily show for some time, but he’ll also be doing specials for Fox.
The entire segment is below:
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I think their celebration will be short lived.
They’re claiming credit for something that has apparently been in the works for a while
Beck has TWICE the audience Tingles has. Not quite sure how Tingles “knocked him off”.
Has there been one night, ever, when, Mathews had more than one fifth as many viewers as Beck?
Just sayin’, ya know?
At what point do false accusations of race-baiting qualify for race baiting themselves. After all, isn't that the point of race baiting? To inflame racial tension? So when Matthews and his ilk, falsely accuse Beck and others of race baiting, isn't their intent really to incite racial tensions?
Beck wants to get the hell out of that rathole city and move to Texas.
On the surface it sure does look like a left wing victory. Did Beck’s advertisement revenues decline? The left does control our society.
This was Beck’s decision and had nothing to do with ad revenue. If it did, Fox would be yanking him off the air today. They are going to ride out Beck’s contract as long as possible because they will not get anything close to these rating or revenue from anyone replacing him in the 5:00 slot.
Well, not being a Beck fan and thus coming to the table empty-handed, still, let's discuss. What did really happen here? Whose idea was it for Beck to stop doing what he has been doing?
I think it was Rush Limbaugh who predicted -- stop me if I am misremembering this -- who said that Beck's career would be foreshortened by, not the Left, certainly not by people of the ilk of the unhappy Hillary captive Brock, but rather by people beyond the firelight, who would either get Beck's show cancelled or get Beck cancelled (by which he meant a .38-caliber veto).
I think the leading possibility was that Rupert Murdoch is aging, his grip is slipping, and his (liberal?) heirs are beginning to assert themselves against Murdoch's wishes. Well, who knows?
Any thoughts?
Who even watches Hairball? Inside the Beltway types?
I'd like to see how long Matthews would last if he worked like Glen
Working that hard would cut into Christine’s drinking time.
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