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Fox's Van Susteren Vulnerable to Beck's Success, Palin Ties
Around the Net in Media ^ | Tuesday, March 31, 2009 9:31

Posted on 04/02/2009 10:18:23 AM PDT by lewisglad

Greta Van Susteren, a Fox News prime-time host, is being scrutinized for a questionably close relationship to Sarah Palin.

It seems that Van Susteren's husband, John Coates, is a political adviser to the Alaska governor.

Questions about the Palin link, combined with the overnight success of Glenn Beck at Fox News, makes observers wonder if Beck might soon get Van Susteren's spot.

Insiders say Beck has already been viewed as a possible replacement for Van Susteren, who represents the weakest link in Fox's otherwise indomitable lineup.

Van Susteren's ratings are getting smashed by Beck, whose show, despite airing in the ghetto that is 5 p.m., is already the network's third-highest-rated program.

So far, Fox says the switch won't happen, in part, because the network has always had a woman in its prime-time lineup and Fox News chief Roger Ailes is reluctant to change that


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: beck; foxnews; glennbeck; greta; palin
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To: pnh102

LOL. Funny how no one questions the ties that MSM personalities have to Democrats.
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Good point . . . can we start a list?


61 posted on 04/02/2009 10:50:01 AM PDT by RepubRep (God Bless America and may He guard our borders until we WAKE UP and do it ourselves!!)
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To: Islander7

you and I think alike

shep has to go to the homo, girlie channel or something


62 posted on 04/02/2009 10:50:24 AM PDT by manc (Marriage is between a man and a woman no sick MA,CT sham marriage end racism end affirmative action)
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To: lewisglad
[Fox says the switch won't happen, in part, because the network has always had a woman in its prime-time lineup. . .]

Just put O’Reilly in a dress and a wig.

63 posted on 04/02/2009 10:54:40 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: lewisglad

This has been being said for a while. Greta has personally posted on her site (last week) that her husband is not an advisor to Palin and there are no ties. This is all made up stuff by the liberal media. They think Americans are always April fools.


64 posted on 04/02/2009 10:56:21 AM PDT by CitizenM ("An excuse is worse than an lie, because an excuse is a lie hidden." Pope John Paul, II)
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To: Ditter

I went to the same high school with Shepard, I’m three years his junior. He was glee club and drama etc., so yeah, I think he’s a fairy, as that was odd in small town Mississippi.


65 posted on 04/02/2009 10:56:26 AM PDT by Sybeck1 (No teleprompters were harmed in the creation of this post.)
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To: Palladin
Beck is unstable and volatile. He will burn out fast.

Spoken like a true liberal.

"one night, he'll say something that will cost him his career." - Keith Olbermann
66 posted on 04/02/2009 10:56:32 AM PDT by messierhunter
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To: Virginia Ridgerunner

Read Greta’s blog where she totally debunks this...


67 posted on 04/02/2009 10:57:31 AM PDT by LachlanMinnesota
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To: lewisglad

Speaking for myself, I love Greta, but I rarely watch her since most of the time I am already asleep (EST).

The same would happen to Glenn should he be put in that time slot.


68 posted on 04/02/2009 10:59:34 AM PDT by GatĂșn(CraigIsaMangoTreeLawyer)
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To: messierhunter
"one night, he'll say something that will cost him his career." - Keith Olbermann

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AND-- One nite Unterman will say something that will GET him a career???

69 posted on 04/02/2009 11:00:42 AM PDT by litehaus (A memory tooooo long)
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To: lewisglad

Why you keep posting these Palin hit pieces? What garbage can did you get these from?


70 posted on 04/02/2009 11:02:44 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: lewisglad
Insiders say Beck has already been viewed as a possible replacement for Van Susteren, who represents the weakest link in Fox's otherwise indomitable lineup.

If Fox is looking to replace Greta, the obvious choice is Laura Ingraham. Personally, I'd love to see Laura replace Bill O'Reilley.

71 posted on 04/02/2009 11:04:13 AM PDT by presidio9 (Islam Is As Islam Does)
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To: nmh

I figured this was coming. Didn’t know about Greta’s husband. No wonder she’s been so Palin-friendly.


72 posted on 04/02/2009 11:08:02 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: JoanneSD

and Greta still wins her time slot in addition to being friendly with the Clinton’s still... she has grown on me over the last year or two... I agree Shep needs to be shifted to allow Beck to lead in to BOR show.


73 posted on 04/02/2009 11:09:26 AM PDT by Arizona Carolyn
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To: prismsinc
Ailes isn’t stupid.

You're right about that. He's not going to move his number one guy--O'Reilly. He doesn't care about BORs mouth. Probably doesn't even watch. But he likes BORs ratings. He's always number 1. Always. If anything he'd move Hannity to 10, go OReilly, Beck, Hannity.

74 posted on 04/02/2009 11:09:52 AM PDT by Huck ("He that lives on hope will die fasting"- Ben Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac)
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To: lewisglad

GVS over the past several months has evolved from her execrable habit of exploiting the latest murdered pretty blonde girl for a year or so to milk the last possible drop of vicarious morbidity, to at least attempt to present an approximation of legitimate reporting. She is by far the most revolting presence on Fox, and I have never understood the amount of time or the slot they give her, except to remember that you can never overestimate the tastelessness of the viewing public. I can’t stand to watch her for more than 5 seconds, which is 4 seconds longer than Obama.


75 posted on 04/02/2009 11:10:28 AM PDT by gorilla_warrior (Liberalism is a hate crime that can no longer be tolerated.)
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To: manic4organic
Move Beck to O’Really’s spot (I know, dream on). Greta has been seeing the light.

Greta experienced firsthand what a good and decent person Sarah is and is having difficulty reconciling what she knows about Sarah with the false caricature of Sarah created by her liberal friends and colleagues in the MSM.

She may come to eventually understand that liberalism is based on envy and hatred of the decent and honorable. Or as some have characterized it, a "mental disorder".


76 posted on 04/02/2009 11:11:00 AM PDT by Donald Rumsfeld Fan (Sarah Palin "The Iron Lady of the North")
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To: lewisglad
So far, Fox says the switch won't happen, in part, because the network has always had a woman in its prime-time lineup and Fox News chief Roger Ailes is reluctant to change that

Bring back Colmes.

77 posted on 04/02/2009 11:11:10 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: lewisglad

But if Greta goes, where will be get our Natalie Holloway news?


78 posted on 04/02/2009 11:13:27 AM PDT by Rum Tum Tugger
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To: lewisglad
Van Susteren's ratings are getting smashed by Beck, whose show, despite airing in the ghetto that is 5 p.m., is already the network's third-highest-rated program.

That's as dumb as saying "Red Eye's ratings are getting smashed by The O'Reilly Factor." They're all on the same network, butthead!

Van Susteren's ratings aren't being threatened by her direct competition, and with market share trends increasing FNC's viewership (partially due to Beck catching fire), Ailes would be a maddog fool to mess with success -- especially with the competition doubling down on wacko left w/Ed Schultz!

Don't be fooled, people -- this is just part of the left's anti-Palin blitz. Why do you think the article's lead was about Palin and not Van Susteren's ratings?

79 posted on 04/02/2009 11:14:28 AM PDT by L.N. Smithee (LNSmitheeBlog.blogspot.com twitter.com/LNSmithee YouTube.com/LNSmithee)
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To: Huck
He's not going to move his number one guy--O'Reilly.

I disagree entirely. Reason? Because Beck can sustain O'Deadly's numbers at his current time slot.

What can change dramatically are the 10pm ratings. O'Deadly can double the 10pm numbers (theoretically, of course), and THAT'S why O'Deadly will be moved. A totally acceptable risk by Ailes.
80 posted on 04/02/2009 11:15:11 AM PDT by prismsinc (A.K.A. "The Terminator"!)
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