Glen Beck:Mission Accomplished.

[dudalb]

He is on the cover of TIME magazine this week.
If fame and notoriety is what he wants..and I suspect this is the case becuase in Beck's case that transalates to hard cash...he has suceeded.
.
He made 23 Million dollars in the past year.
A year ago few had heard of him and had just lost his show on CNN's HLN network. Now he is the first Right Wing media celeb in a long time who has a real chance of dethroning Limbaugh from his throne as King Of the Extreme Right.
I guess promoting kook conspiracy theories and catering to the wackjob wing of Conservatism pays off, bigtime.

 

[JoeyDonuts]

Now he is the first Right Wing media celeb in a long time who has a real chance of dethroning Limbaugh from his throne as King Of the Extreme Right.

That's going to take some leverage.

I'm thinking hydraulics.

 

[Fishstick]

So, you're surprised that a Mormon who gets southern baptists to throw cash at him for crummy books and thus fund one of the organisations they hate most is in it only for the money?

 

[Cain]

Twenty-three million dollars last year. ****, L. Ron Hubbard (allegedly) said the real money's in religion, but I need to become a right-wing entrepreneur. One doesn't need looks or talent -- just a healthy disregard for the truth.

 

[Darth Rotor]

Twenty-three million dollars last year. ****, L. Ron Hubbard (allegedly) said the real money's in religion, but I need to become a right-wing entrepreneur. One doesn't need looks or talent -- just a healthy disregard for the truth.

Since Rush Limbaugh demonstrated this over a decade ago, (though his TV show folded, seems he has a face made for radio) why did it take you so long to realize that as a path to riches?

 

[GreNME]

Since Rush Limbaugh demonstrated this over a decade ago, (though his TV show folded, seems he has a face made for radio) why did it take you so long to realize that as a path to riches?

Two decades, actually. Though Cain may have been an infant at the time, so the teachable moment may have passed him by.

 

[dudalb]

Since Rush Limbaugh demonstrated this over a decade ago, (though his TV show folded, seems he has a face made for radio) why did it take you so long to realize that as a path to riches?

Limbaugh was never a sucess on TV. He was just the wrong type for TV.
For every sucessful radio personality who has made the trasition to TV sucessfuly, there are 4 or 5 who have not. Different skill sets, I think. It's possible for someone to have both skill sets, but no guarantee that if you have one you will have the other.

 

[dudalb]

I rather like Stephan King's take on Beck:

"Satan's mentally challenged Kid Brother."

 

[Ohmer]

I have to admit, when I saw Beck's book "Arguing With Idiots" in the store, I laughed out loud at the irony. It really looks like a parody. It's like he is playing a huge joke on the public and laughing all the way to the bank.

 

[Cain]

Since Rush Limbaugh demonstrated this over a decade ago, (though his TV show folded, seems he has a face made for radio) why did it take you so long to realize that as a path to riches?

Two decades, actually. Though Cain may have been an infant at the time, so the teachable moment may have passed him by.

Aw, you guys are sweet. Since almost any normal person would charitably interpret my comment as a stark reminder rather than some epiphany, I can now confidently include the two of you in a small but growing list of people who, still reacting to previous exchanges, are now reduced to the most miserable snark -- the kind born from lingering inadequacy. Good luck with that.

 

[GreNME]

Excuse me? Suggesting that you may be young is a personal insult? Sometimes it's not all about you, Cain-- I was making a comment on Limbaugh's move to the national broadcast in the late 1980's.

 

[Cain]

Excuse me? Suggesting that you may be young is a personal insult? Sometimes it's not all about you, Cain-- I was making a comment on Limbaugh's move to the national broadcast in the late 1980's.

I do enjoy this laughable backpedaling. Please try to square this lame defense with "infant" and "teachable moment." I was listening to Limbaugh in 1993, but it doesn't matter since any reasonably informed teen half my age today could be familiar with his beginnings.

Edited by Tricky: 

Edited for rule 12.

 

[themusicteacher]

This guy's going to ride the wave all the way to his own planet (per Mormon dogma). The Church must love him, though: they get 10% of those earning, maybe more. Being a complete jackass and being willing to do it on TV will only last him for so long. He'll be swallowed by his own hubris and people will eventually tire of his schlock. He'll still be rich, though. Limbaugh proved that if you can get 5% of the population to follow you around like zombies, you can make a very nice living and claim that you're so very popular. The narcissists dream.

 

[fishbob]

He is on the cover of TIME magazine this week.
If fame and notoriety is what he wants..and I suspect this is the case becuase in Beck's case that transalates to hard cash...he has suceeded.
.
He made 23 Million dollars in the past year.
A year ago few had heard of him and had just lost his show on CNN's HLN network. Now he is the first Right Wing media celeb in a long time who has a real chance of dethroning Limbaugh from his throne as King Of the Extreme Right.
I guess promoting kook conspiracy theories and catering to the wackjob wing of Conservatism pays off, bigtime.

Jonathan Edwards made it big for a while too. Until he was exposed as the biggest douche in the universe. Beck has had his 15 minutes, he is neck and neck with Edwards for the title, and I sincerely hope that his slide into obscurity starts real soon.

 

[Moochie]

Jonathan Edwards made it big for a while too. Until he was exposed as the biggest douche in the universe. Beck has had his 15 minutes, he is neck and neck with Edwards for the title, and I sincerely hope that his slide into obscurity starts real soon.

Probably won't happen while the Dems are in office. I think a large part of his audience is there out of morbid curiosity rather than anything else. Of course, like most of these erstwhile pundits, he and the network are characterizing him as a leader of the right. I believe that he's a legend in his own lunchtime.


M.

 

[foco]

It's seems unlikely he could dethown Limbaugh. Although Limbaugh never (as I recall) broke out in tears while doing his show. That, and his use of absurd costumes earn him the creative news b.s. award.

 

[SezMe]

He is on the cover of TIME magazine this week.
If fame and notoriety is what he wants..and I suspect this is the case becuase in Beck's case that transalates to hard cash...he has suceeded.

Agreed. Beck's a hustler who's good at hustling. Ego and lots of bucks are the goals.

Now he is the first Right Wing media celeb in a long time who has a real chance of dethroning Limbaugh from his throne as King Of the Extreme Right.

Disagreed. Rushbo has demonstrated staying power. He's controversial but not flamboyant. Ok, mostly, but that's my point. He doesn't have to outdo himself week after week to keep his position.

Beck is like a meteor. He's a bright flame now but his staying power is limited. What does he do after the tears, the whiteboard, calling the President a racist, etc. In my opinion, he's not a threat to Rush at all.

Now, Hannity on FOX is another matter. He has got to be very unhappy with Beck's success and ratings power. He's either got to outdo him or be eclipsed. And with the monsterous egos involved, being outdone is humiliating. Stay tuned.

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Finally, some more sensible Republicans are coming back to their senses.

Scarborough denounces right-wing 'hatred,' launches 'conservative honor roll'

Scarborough pointed out that Peter Wehner -- a writer for the conservative magazine Commentary who ran the White House's Office of Strategic Intiatives for some time during the Bush administration -- has declared that Beck's inflammatory rhetoric is hurting the conservative cause.

"Only recently have I watched portions of [Beck's] television program, as well as interviews with him, and heard parts of his radio program. And what I’ve seen should worry the conservative movement," Wehner wrote in an article published Monday. "I say that because he seems to be more of a populist and libertarian than a conservative, more of a Perotista than a Reaganite. His interest in conspiracy theories is disquieting, as is his admiration for Ron Paul and his charges of American 'imperialism.'"

Wehner concludes: "[T]he role Glenn Beck is playing is harmful in its totality. My hunch is that he is a comet blazing across the media sky right now — and will soon flame out."

 

[SezMe]

Meteor/comet? Who's doing science here?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

Meteor/comet? Who's doing science here?

Hey, the guy's at least showing a twinge of thinking critically about the right wing extremists. We can't expect he's going to figure out the whole science thing too.