Totally repellent.
Beck’s TV show was serious..It was like going to class every day. Either you were interested in the material and followed along, or you got bored. There was no middle ground. You couldn’t leave it on for background..just to pick up a few tidbits. I suspect that’s why he lost so many listeners..
“prophet or a psycho, an oracle or a charlatan”
I tend towards the latter. A few points stand out. His anti-naturalborn position does not gel with other things he says.
And the few times I’ve watched, every other word has been like “I’ve got a crazy show for you today” - many uses of the word “crazy”, to the point where it appears to be fully intentional. Combined with his style, that’s not the act of someone that’s trying to help. That’s the act of someone who wants the Rush Limbaugh-size audience, but without actually being useful.
While Beck can be preachy, I am dismayed at the fact that Obama minions have successfully defunded his show. This is a case of taking Freedom of Speech away from someone who is hurting your liberal agenda. Even more frightening, will Rupert Murdoch begin to back down to the liberals. Now that Obaminites smell blood in the water, you can rest assured they will use this practice even more.
These are the same people who threatened Wisconsin businesses by telling them that, if they didn’t put signs in their windows stating that they back the Unions, they would be black-balled and lose business - and they made it clear that staying neutral wasn’t good enough. The left is stifling freedom of speech for anyone who doesn’t support their liberal agenda.
I will watch Beck on any cable venue he creates.
All of the people who sit saying how they had a problem, any problem, with Beck, don’t realize that Soros said he would take the man down and he did.
Not a person cares about this but rather how preachy or teary Beck is.
The lot of you are so self centered, you don’t care that a human being, a socialist slime, brought down one of the most popular cable hosts on the right.
Beck, Palin, Bachmann, who else are they taking down?
Heaven Help me, all of you do not see the forrest for the trees.
If you read what is being said by both FOX and Beck, the left won’t be celebrating for long.
And yet some Freepers think Fox News is a conservative network.
Although Beck himself can be tiresome his show was the best news show going - the only fresh programming to be found. It hit all the topics and facts you get absolutely nowhere else.
Glenn Beck is a coward and a fraud. I stopped listening to him when he showed his cowardice regarding the natural born Citizenship issue.
Don't know why the writer has a problem with this. I mean conservatives have been doing this as well.
People need to start asking themselves at what point they cross the line and step on the First Amendment.
Personally, I might not agree with everything he says (I don't watch news or talk shows often) but at least he is one man in a million who is trying to educate the public on what is really happening in the world, to connect the dots.
Hope his website stays active.
Exactly, I DVRed his show each day and decided withing 5-10 minutes of replay each day if I was going to watch the rest of it. Sometimes he was brilliant, witty, insightful, other times very boring, and other times he seemed insane. But he was always likable.
I will miss his show and sorry that FNC made MSNBC and Media Matters cheer their assumed victory of boycotting him off the air.
This was a good article and I agree. Beck’s TV show is so informative and he does such a great job of connecting dots that are easily overlooked. I hope he doesn’t stop that because roaches and evil don’t like light. I will miss his show but it is difficult to listen because of the doom and gloom pall that he sheds over every episode. I don’t want my head in the sand but it is oppressive to hear every day. I don’t know where we are headed but I believe God is in control for sure. Hannity did a great job exposing Obama/Wright and not enough listened. He was right.
Facism, no other words describe the left’s actions. They will not stop with Beck.
As far as I’m concerned, this situation merely gives lie to the old bromide that money is what matters in broadcast media. Beck had a big audience, yet political pressure made his advertisers withdraw. If they were really only concerned with money, they would have stuck with the show. I truly don’t believe that the benefits of advertising on Beck’s show were in any way outweighed by threats of boycotts from the ignorant left.
Listening to his radio show is painful. I usually turn it off after 5 minutes because of the juxtaposition of laughter and melodrama (with a tinge of "I am a prophet" mixed in). I can't deal with the ADD and the lack of substance.
Back during the vote recounting in 2000, I listened to Glenn Beck religiously on the radio. One day he told one of the most heartwarming stories about his dad watching a St. Louis Cardinal World Series game and allowing Glenn to stay up after his bedtime to watch it. At the end of this feel good story, he stated that there was not one word of truth to it. From that moment on, I always had this feeling in the back of my mind that I just can’t trust his sincerity.
I don’t have TV so I’ve only seen the excellent video clips of his show on youtube. However, I was at my son’s home in Chicago a week ago and caught about ten minutes of his show. It was like a boring college lecture. If that represented his typical show, I’m not sure why anybody is watching, other than a desperate hunger for anything not whacky left wing.
At the very least, conservatives ought to be worried that liberals can shut down a TV show that conservatives like. This is like academia, hollywood, etc.
Jon Stewart has won.
Van Jones has won.