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On CNN, Conservatives Gang Up To Attack “Circus Act” Glenn Beck
Mediaite ^ | 3/6/11 | Matt Schneider

Posted on 03/07/2011 5:06:58 AM PST by YankeeReb

On CNN’s Reliable Sources, conservatives Jennifer Rubin and David Frum discussed the declining television ratings of Glenn Beck and the recent conservative attacks on him. Rubin said Beck was creating a bad image for the Republican party, whereas Frum, a longtime Beck critic, suggested audiences are just tired of hearing ludicrous conspiracy theories.

Rubin, seemingly speaking on behalf of Beck’s “elite” conservative critics everywhere, said:

“Sure he doesn’t need our approval and we’re not giving him our approval. But to the extent to which he wants to influence events, which is presumably why does it – other than the money of course – he should seek to be part of the conversation as opposed to be a circus act which is what he’s become.”

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FYI

If I were the tinfoil hat wearing type, I'd say there was a movement afoot to silence Beck.
Say what you want, the man does his homework and has exposed a lot these past 2 years.

1 posted on 03/07/2011 5:07:05 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: YankeeReb

Agree. I don’t agree completely with everything Beck says, but he certainly has done his homework.

He has exposed to the general public a lot of what some of us have known for years.


2 posted on 03/07/2011 5:09:38 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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To: YankeeReb

You know you’re over the target when you start taking flak.


3 posted on 03/07/2011 5:09:47 AM PST by Wage Slave (Army Mom!)
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To: YankeeReb
They can argue about viewers, but even if his ratings are lower, his demographics are great. For example...

Cable News Ratings for Thursday, March 3, 2011

Note to the MSM: Nice try.

4 posted on 03/07/2011 5:10:48 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: YankeeReb

Frum is “conservative” like I am a Martian
vacationing on Alpha Centuri.


5 posted on 03/07/2011 5:11:03 AM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: mewzilla

Now that I think about it, it may be Beck’s demographics that has them really worried....


6 posted on 03/07/2011 5:11:51 AM PST by mewzilla (Hey, Schumer, your Lockerbie report left quite a bit out.)
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To: YankeeReb

I’m watching Glenn all the time. His shows feature the connections and the shenanigans coming from the progs and their historical basis. Frankly, his shows should be packaged and used as curriculum for educating anybody who wants to know why we are so screwed.

BEck is great. Don’t let him go.


7 posted on 03/07/2011 5:12:29 AM PST by Thebaddog (Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
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To: YankeeReb

Yeah, next thing you know his ratings will be cut in half. Then he would only have slightly more viewers then CNN.


8 posted on 03/07/2011 5:13:29 AM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: YankeeReb

Here is a group of pundits at cnn, the first and lowest rated cable news network, running at their collective mouths about Glenn Beck, {his “terrible” ratings beat cnn and msnbc combined} and not a word about chrisy girl for her verbal lewinskys on osamaobama.


9 posted on 03/07/2011 5:14:33 AM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages, in honor of Standing Wolf.)
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To: YankeeReb

I think the bigger conspiracy is that David Frum is a conservative.


10 posted on 03/07/2011 5:16:41 AM PST by ozark hilljilly (Y'all had enough, yet?)
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To: YankeeReb
Sure Glenn gets tiresome sometimes but show me where he has been wrong. How much would we know about the liberals, progressives, and Socialist if it wasn't for Glenn Beck.
11 posted on 03/07/2011 5:17:05 AM PST by ArkansasBushfan
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To: Diogenesis

I thought the SAME thing.


12 posted on 03/07/2011 5:18:34 AM PST by Blueflag (Res ipsa loquitur)
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To: YankeeReb

He is over the target.


13 posted on 03/07/2011 5:18:34 AM PST by listenhillary (Social Justice is the epitome of injustice.)
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To: YankeeReb

1. Who the hell is Jennifer Rubin?

2. David Frum is a known RINO. NO ONE cares what he thinks.


14 posted on 03/07/2011 5:21:29 AM PST by Joann37
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To: ArkansasBushfan
Sure Glenn gets tiresome sometimes but show me where he has been wrong. How much would we know about the liberals, progressives, and Socialist if it wasn't for Glenn Beck.

True, if Beck has done nothing else, he's mainstreamed things I've seen discussed on sites like FR, and backed them with research. The problem progressives have is that he takes their own words and asks them to explain what they mean, and they can't.

As one other poster said, he must be over the target if he's taking flak.

15 posted on 03/07/2011 5:21:47 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: YankeeReb

Always challenge with:

“Which of the facts I’ve presented, do you disagree with?”


16 posted on 03/07/2011 5:21:50 AM PST by G Larry
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To: YankeeReb
On CNN’s Reliable Sources, conservatives Jennifer Rubin and David Frum discussed the declining television ratings of Glenn Beck

Does CNN's "Reliable Sources" have an audience, or ratings?

17 posted on 03/07/2011 5:21:53 AM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: YankeeReb
This is right on the heels of a hit piece on Beck that ran in the NYT.

What a coincidence.

/s

18 posted on 03/07/2011 5:22:09 AM PST by SIDENET ("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
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To: YankeeReb

Beck is one of a rare few who (properly) uses the ‘C’ word (communist) in describing Obama’s radical connections and agenda. Morons like Hannity hardly ever use it.


19 posted on 03/07/2011 5:24:13 AM PST by ETL (ALL (most?) of the Obama-commie connections at my FR Home page: http://www.freerepublic.com/~etl/)
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To: Diogenesis

Yep. He markets himself as a “moderate”. He is not.


20 posted on 03/07/2011 5:24:37 AM PST by sauropod (The truth shall make you free but first it will make you miserable.)
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