Posted on 04/17/2016 7:44:42 AM PDT by Mozilla
Glenn Beck may have hitched his wagon to the wrong train, specifically a Texas Senator who broke down on the corn fields of Wisconsin.
With Ted Cruz’s poll numbers slipping to third place, Glenn has a lot of egg on his face. After claiming Justice Scalia was killed by God to show the US people how important Cruz was, and comparing Trump supporters to Nazis, Beck’s program audience shrunk to a paltry size: essentially those who like Ted Cruz.
Now that Ted is going under in the polls, with a recent FOX poll showing him tied for 3rd, Beck’s empire is collapsing like a house of cards. Beck’s “Flagship” and income source, “THE BLAZE” website is dropping readership rapidly.
Malware concerns:
It turns out Glenn Beck has been spreading around something vile other than his horrible opinions. No, it’s not herpes (probably). Security firm Invinceareports that on July 1, Beck’s site The Blaze unintentionally transmitted malware through embedded advertising to many of his subscribers.
Invincea says that on July 1 and possibly on other dates, one of The Blaze’sadvertisers deliberately redirected users to a “Polish recipe website” that provided a lot more than pierogi ingredients. Unwary readers were affected with a drive-by exploit called Kazy or Kryptik, trojans that open holes in security software to give hackers access to unsuspecting users’ personal information.
Top execs leave the Blaze, Beck stuck with boring yes men:
Kerry was also responsible for leading vendor negotiations, regarding media related services. He even interfaced with CNN Headline News & Fox News teams in collaboration of The Glenn Beck TV show.
Now, Joseph Kerry is no longer associated with TheBlaze, and is instead a partner with Littlecloud Ventures, which is a marketing consulting firm.
Earlier, Chris Balfe, who was Beck’s CEO, and Joel Cheatwood, who was president and chief content officer, also left TheBlaze. Both were responsible for assisting Beck with launching TheBlaze TV.
According CNN, the two men are building a digital media company, in which they will serve are partners.
Now the ratings are dropping like a stone.
That’s too bad. He was a good man once upon a time.
Could be a leading indicator. Ratings are pretty close to real-time reports.
Dont blame Cruz for Glenn Becks craziness. He has really gone off deep end.
Beck made insanity pay and pay quite well for quite a number of years.
The vindictive nature of the posts at Free Republic has gotten darker and darker with the Trump team postings. This is indicative of the Trump spiteful leadership.
Beck,
AKA. ‘Stabby the Klown’ is nuts!
Good Bye
Millions menaced as ransomware-smuggling ads pollute top websites
Glenn will do OK. He is worth 50-100 million in wealth kept 100% separate from his businesses so if his empire collapses and goes bankrupt...no biggie for him
There are plenty of people who manage to succeed despite being obviously nuts. Maybe Beck can soldier on in some fashion.
Ah STABBY we hardly knew ye! Bye Bye Stabby!
Sorry, but with all due respect, we were Beck fans for many years. His historical lectures were gripping and brilliant. Sadly, he went way over the edge long before Cruz hit the scene and we turned him off. Now from a distance, he appears to be at best, highly unstable. Many of his statements are an outright departure from reality and extremely polarizing. I personally have tried to avoid getting caught up in the media manipulation of the personal character of either Cruz or Trump, I would support either man. Yet I will state conclusively, Glenn Beck has gone over the edge.
Couldn’t have happened to a better man. Beck could have done great things but his ego—and santimonius nature doomed him to failure. He will still have his radion show after the Blaze becomes a footnote in history.
Hasten the end of this idiot and his stupidity.
Prntly.com? Really?
Ain’t that the truth.
There is a strong nihilistic edge to the Trumpist crowd. Some are actually more committed to demolishing the Republican party than to Trump winning. in fact, they want Trump to fail -- so they can vote Democrat and see the GOP destroyed.
It's gone beyond anger, it's morphed into hatred.
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