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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: padre35

Excellent Packerboy....I had the same thoughts. Thank you.


61 posted on 01/02/2010 8:45:51 AM PST by Nodems2000 (Beheadngs are better says atlanta holy man)
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To: padre35

Excellent Packerboy....I had the same thoughts. Thank you.


62 posted on 01/02/2010 8:45:55 AM PST by Nodems2000 (Beheadngs are better says atlanta holy man)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

yeh!

http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/10/29/gunny-g-a-few-good-men-the-damn-few/


63 posted on 01/02/2010 8:46:42 AM PST by gunnyg (Just An Old Gunny ~ And *Still* Not A F'n Commie Basterd!)
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To: Saije

Dana should encourage the white house to call the red phone to debunk Beck’s “falsehoods.” Oh wait, I guess they can’t because he uses the administration’s own words and actions against them.

Milbank needs to find a new career. One involving asking about ‘fries with that’ would be appropriate for Milbank’s perceived level of intellect.


64 posted on 01/02/2010 8:48:54 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Palin/Beck 2012 ))))
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To: gunnyg

Your post concerning Beck is very misleading. Becks comments about 9-11 families concerned a certain group of them wanting money from taxpayers.

Beck is EXPOSING one world government, so I guess he didn’t get the Murdoch memo.


65 posted on 01/02/2010 8:49:27 AM PST by stockpirate (Dec. 24, 2009, the day liberty in America died to applause in the US Senate. Republicans helped)
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To: paulycy

And as you know Paulycy Glenn OFTEN says “verify what you hear - even what I tell you” He knows he’s not infallible and he’s very sensitive to misleading people


66 posted on 01/02/2010 8:50:02 AM PST by Nodems2000 (Beheadngs are better says atlanta holy man)
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To: Saije

“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.”

I noticed he didn’t say any of this is untrue.


67 posted on 01/02/2010 8:51:07 AM PST by stockpirate (Dec. 24, 2009, the day liberty in America died to applause in the US Senate. Republicans helped)
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To: Salvation
FEMA concentration camps?

Milbank is a liar. Beck spoke of the "FEMA camps" only because he said there was interest and then said that he could find no evidence of them.
68 posted on 01/02/2010 8:51:35 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Nodems2000
he’s very sensitive to misleading people

This is, IMO, why he is so successful and why I like him. He is saying the same stuff we are and he isn't pretending to be telling us something as though it were coming down from the Media Mountain. He's a goofball and (mostly) a regular guy ( He *is* quite a showman and that helps, too.)

69 posted on 01/02/2010 8:53:28 AM PST by paulycy (AMERICA: Less safe. Less free. More broke.)
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To: Notwithstanding

So does my congressman, Dana Rohrabacher, but he’s a bit better than Milbunk (yep, I like that spelling better. Thanks to the previous poster).


70 posted on 01/02/2010 8:54:17 AM PST by Two Kids' Dad (((( Palin/Beck 2012 ))))
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To: TheCipher

Maybe Obama is still using


71 posted on 01/02/2010 8:54:20 AM PST by al baby (Hi Mom sarc ;))
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To: stockpirate

more “misleading” (to some)info for your (self-serving) perusal....

;)

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&rls=gm&q=beck%20gunnyg


72 posted on 01/02/2010 8:55:51 AM PST by gunnyg (Just An Old Gunny ~ And *Still* Not A F'n Commie Basterd!)
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To: stockpirate; gunnyg

So Devvy Kidd doesn’t trust GB...well I don’t trust a 9/11 Truther like Kidd.


73 posted on 01/02/2010 8:59:36 AM PST by thecabal (Destroy Progressivism)
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To: Saije; All
Dana: People like the truth!
74 posted on 01/02/2010 9:00:09 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: Saije

Hey Washington Post. How does Beck’s a** taste?


75 posted on 01/02/2010 9:01:21 AM PST by rae4palin (proud bigot)
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To: rae4palin

LOL


76 posted on 01/02/2010 9:02:15 AM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Saije

Penis envy......


77 posted on 01/02/2010 9:03:13 AM PST by PSYCHO-FREEP
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To: Saije
Nelson Mandela, the man who defeated apartheid.

Also - Obama is bigger than Jesus... Hmmm, Hmm, Hmmm. If not for Glenn Beck existence it would be a perfect world.
78 posted on 01/02/2010 9:08:11 AM PST by alecqss
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To: cripplecreek

When you’re a liberal you can just claim things. No need to actually argue your point. I’m still waiting for them to explain how the Swiftboaters lied about John Kerry.


79 posted on 01/02/2010 9:08:24 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: jospehm20
The truth bother Dana. Hopefully the rag he works for will go belly up soon and Dana will have to do something productive.

I'm sure he can get hired at the Dupont Circle Starbuck's.

80 posted on 01/02/2010 9:08:26 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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