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Fox News host Glenn Beck's national domination
Washington Post ^ | 1/2/2010 | Dana Milbank

Posted on 01/02/2010 8:11:26 AM PST by Saije

It's official: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.

This news, at once unsettling and unsurprising, came from the Gallup polling organization on Wednesday. Beck, the new Fox News host who has said President Obama has a "deep-seated hatred for white people" and alternately likens administration officials to Nazis and Marxists, was also more admired by Americans than Billy Graham and Bill Gates, not to mention Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. In Americans' esteem, Beck only narrowly trailed South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the man who defeated apartheid.

The 45-year-old recovering alcoholic and Mormon convert has become the first true demagogue of the information age. His nightly diet of falsehoods and conspiracies on Fox, and his daily outrages on the radio, have propelled his popularity past even Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity. His method is simple: He goes places where others are forbidden by conscience.

Death panels? Government health insurance for dogs? FEMA concentration camps? An Obama "civilian national security force" like Hitler's SS or Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard? An administration official advocating forced abortions and sterilization agents in drinking water? Beck trafficked in them all in 2009.

He also proposed on his radio show that people should read Hitler's "Mein Kampf" to prepare for Obama's health-care plan -- and that's in addition to the 28 times the Fuhrer made an appearance on Beck's Fox show in 2009. The Anti-Defamation League identified the secret to Beck's success when it noted that he, unlike other prominent right-wing talkers, was willing "to give a platform to the conspiracy theorists and anti-government extremists."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2009polls; commentator; conservative; foxnews; glennbeck; influence; popular; vatican
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To: gunnyg

I didn’t trust beck the first time I saw him. I could not put my finger on it for the longest time.

Hubby loved him but is starting to question his trustworthiness.


21 posted on 01/02/2010 8:24:13 AM PST by reaganaut ( "I once was lost but now am found, was blind but now I see")
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To: PackerBoy
GB is a bit melodramatic for my taste, but I frequently tune him in. He is prone to hyperbole, but he strives for truth. He installed a hotline for the Obama Administration to use to call him any time he is wrong, and he has yet to receive a single call. Like, Rush Limbaugh, GB is a national treasure.

You just nailed exactly how I feel about Glenn Beck. Thanks for saving me the need to type this myself, FRiend. :0)

22 posted on 01/02/2010 8:24:28 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: jospehm20
One of my big problems with liberals (and Thomas Sowell referenced this on Rush's show the day Walter Williams was hosting), is that they do not acknowledge trade-offs when they propose new policies and programs. Glenn Beck's unpardonable sin is that he focuses on the costs, trade-offs and pitfalls inherent in massive government programs proposed by the left. Do these liberals really believe that you can spend trillions of dollars that you do not have without any negative consequences?
23 posted on 01/02/2010 8:24:36 AM PST by fhayek
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To: Saije
It's official: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.

Glenn Beck hasn't promoted the global warming scam, the pope has, even if out of ignorance.

24 posted on 01/02/2010 8:24:49 AM PST by highlander_UW (There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
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To: cripplecreek
“Instead of calling the lies for what they are, the party embraces her hate-speak and works in concert with Fox News and their Glenn Beck liar-drone to reinforce Palin’s vile mouth.”

That doesn't even read like American English! Sounds like a Babelfish translation from the original Soviet lingo.

25 posted on 01/02/2010 8:25:26 AM PST by ozark hilljilly
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To: ilgipper
I love when the left does the ‘laundry list’ of all the negatives on anyone on our side

Yeah, I love how they refer to Beck as The 45-year-old recovering alcoholic, but not Obama as the former drug user

26 posted on 01/02/2010 8:25:36 AM PST by TheCipher
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To: PackerBoy

Yeah, Beck goes over the top more than the British Army did in WWI, but he also does the best job of vetting the information that he presents on a daily basis.

Imho he is the savviest of the Radio Talk Show host/Media Types, Dana references “FEMA camps” but he fails to mention that Beck also debunked them on his TV and Radio show.

Milbank referneces Mein Kampf, but does not add the context that the Nazi’s used to exterminate the physically handicapped under their healthcare/political plans.

Milbunk is simply making the case as to why DinoMedia is dying, they simply do not do their homework.


27 posted on 01/02/2010 8:25:46 AM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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To: Saije

Dana has a girlie name.


28 posted on 01/02/2010 8:26:06 AM PST by Notwithstanding (Wer glaubt ist nie allein. Who believes is never alone.)
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To: Saije

The writing of this Dana Milbank person is proof positive of why Glenn scares leftists bleepless. He talks about ‘falsehoods’ and then a sentence later recites a list of topics Glenn brought up, implying that those are the ‘falsehoods’ without having to explain his suggestion. The problem for this Milbank person and his ilk is that Beck is very careful to provide his listeners/viewers/readers with sources, much like Ann Coulter does in her books.

The result? They attack the man, mentioning his alcoholism and his religion, but can’t disprove the facts he raises. They end up sounding like angry schoolchildren upset at truths spoken to them. In other words, THEY LOSE. BADLY.


29 posted on 01/02/2010 8:26:59 AM PST by LostInBayport (When the riders in the cart outnumber those pulling the cart, the cart stops moving. My back hurts.)
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To: cripplecreek

Right up their with Obama’s “Some people say...” or “They say...”


30 posted on 01/02/2010 8:27:04 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ilgipper

More about Milbank here:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2009/11/06/wapos-milbank-decries-hateful-gruesome-hill-protest-thrown-party-no-tast


31 posted on 01/02/2010 8:27:24 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: Saije
An Obama "civilian national security force" like Hitler's SS or Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard? An administration official advocating forced abortions and sterilization agents in drinking water? Beck trafficked in them all in 2009.

It's Obama that called for a civilian national security force "just as well funded" as the military, and it's one of Obama's czars who wrote a book advocating sterilization agents in the drinking water. Calling these lies is itself a lie.

32 posted on 01/02/2010 8:27:34 AM PST by highlander_UW (There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
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To: reaganaut

just another run-of-the-mill opportunist faux-stooge....


33 posted on 01/02/2010 8:27:37 AM PST by gunnyg (Just An Old Gunny ~ And *Still* Not A F'n Commie Basterd!)
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To: reaganaut
Hubby loved him but is starting to question his trustworthiness.

One of Glenn Beck's strengths is that he admits he's speculating on a lot of what he says so he can get away with a lot of stuff others can't.

One of his weaknesses is that if his speculations turn out to be wrong more often than right he will lose credibility and viewership.

He's walking a fine line here and so far it's paying off. I watch. I like him. But I trust but verify when it comes to just about anybody, and Glenn Beck is definitely in that category.

34 posted on 01/02/2010 8:28:37 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: Saije
Mandela defeated nothing.. western sanctions defeated apartheid.. Mandel was and still is a global communist apparatchik.. like Obama and most all american democrat congressmen are...

Mandela is an Affirmative Action victim guilty of sedition and espionage.. to South Africa.. He brought forth much worse crimes against black people than apartheid ever did.. and still do..

97% of black american voters voted for Obama.. and are ignorant of Mandelas crimes..
3% are smart..

35 posted on 01/02/2010 8:28:47 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: KansasGirl
Didn’t Obama say as much in his book?

I believe you're correct. I believe Beck was quoting from Obama's own book about that part.

36 posted on 01/02/2010 8:29:13 AM PST by highlander_UW (There's a storm coming - little kid at a Mexican gas station in The Terminator)
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To: KansasGirl
Didn’t Obama say as much in his book?

Yes, I most certainly believe he did. But that's different, lol. His black half gets a pass on that.

37 posted on 01/02/2010 8:29:34 AM PST by ozark hilljilly
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To: ozark hilljilly
That doesn't even read like American English! Sounds like a Babelfish translation from the original Soviet lingo.

That's because there are only so many ways you can put the same words together in a sentence to say essentially the same thing day after day after day.
38 posted on 01/02/2010 8:31:37 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Saije
“He goes where others are forbidden by conscience”

He goes to the Truth.

Every time these stupid liberals write stuff like this, Becks viewers and listeners increase by the thousands, keep writing your lies, the truth grows brighter with each lie you tell.

39 posted on 01/02/2010 8:31:56 AM PST by PoloSec (Note to Princess B H Obama: May PISS be Upon Mohammads Head...You Pervert)
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To: highlander_UW

Have to go with Billy Graham over Beck though.

I “like” Beck, cannot say I admire him, he is far to unstable/emotional for admiration imho.


40 posted on 01/02/2010 8:33:07 AM PST by padre35 (You shall not ignore the laws of God, the Market, the Jungle, and Reciprocity Rm10.10)
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