Posted on 05/27/2010 8:27:56 AM PDT by Evil Slayer
On rare occasions, a unique figure bursts onto the national stage and has a dramatic impact on politics, culture, or both. Glenn Beck is one of those figures. He is surely the biggest, fastest, most controversial star in the political commentary business in my lifetime.
Beck is a real-life version of Howard Beale, the fictional television commentator in the 1976 film classic "Network." Beale whipped his cultish TV audience into a frenzy, exhorting them to stick their heads out the window and chant, "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!"
Much to the chagrin of the oligarchy in Washington, however, Glenn Beck is not a fictional character. He's real, and he has succeeded in enlightening his audience far beyond Beale's simple rants about the unfairness of life. Beck is much more knowledgeable, much more factual, much more rational and much more focused on the key issue: America's loss of liberty.
I find it more than just a bit ironic that ultra-liberal CNN Headline News gave Beck his first forum on television. There, he created a huge stir with his "rodeo-clown" antics and his willingness to talk openly about his drug- and alcohol-addicted past. But as he increasingly added his political views to the mix, people started asking, "Why isn't this guy on Fox News?"
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Of course, Roger Ailes was closely observing Beck all along, and, in January 2009, he brought him to Fox and fit him into the 5 p.m. time slot. While Beck had been moving more and more toward political commentary at CNN Headline News, from the moment he came to Fox his transition to near-total politics was swift.
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I was not aware that Glenn was no longer at Fox. Just saw him the other day. When did this happen?
Ah, it’s speculative! This is more of a blog piece than a news piece regardless of the source. Conversely, there are blog articles that are more news than blog yet are relegated to the blog forum. This one needs a headline disclaimer.
FOX is consistently the number 1 news network because it does NOT toe the standard leftist line of the rest of the media. Although FAR from the “conservative” network it is accused of being, it does at least present FACTS from time to time. Should Beck or any other actual conservative personality be removed from the FOX lineup, network credibility would suffer greatly. I can’t believe that the powers that be at FOX wouldn’t recognize that fact.
Is this all pure horse hooey? Ridiculous post if so.
Wish I’d read your post before I went to the article. That’s two minutes of my life I’ll never get back.
And what is “Part 2” going to be, eh? That WND has to eat its own specious commentary??
Consider the source......World Nut Daily..............
I never read a WND article................
Now I know why I stopped reading WND a long time ago.
Brought to you by the chemically-altered minds of World Nut Daily. We now return you back to your regularly scheduled daily insanity.
don’t forget what/who owns FNC
I took him to mean it ... the rest, it’s who he is. He tries to steer the center rail, but often falls off. I think FNC wants to at least try to stay neutral.
ORielly is a pretty stout feller
He has said on his radio show that he’s hedging by keeping his radio show, his live shows, etc just in case he has to exit FNC.
I don’t see FNC dropping Beck but I can envision Beck making a graceful exit if his presence begins to cause too many headaches for the network. I appreciate FNC, but it is a business & has to answer to many interested people, including a Saudi Prince.
Who would think that Ailes would get rid of a guy that draws 3 million people at 5 PM?
No.
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