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has anyone ever watched this guy's show or read his book/s? what's his deal?
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I listen to his radio broadcast on the way to work sometimes.
I like him. I really think that he believes the things he says. He's not just a spin-doctor for the conservative party. I have a really hard time listening to Beck, Hannity, Ingram, O'Reilly becuase it's just such obvious bullshit.
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He's a conservative talking head that tries to provide an alternative to the typical stuffy conservative talking head by seeming like he's just "tellin' it like it is," with a decidedly anti-choice, pro-Iraq War, anti-immigration, Global Warming-causation-questioning Hey-I'm-a-Mormon-and-we're-not-crazy-at-all! stance.
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inadvertent imitation wrote:
He's a conservative talking head that tries to provide an alternative to the typical stuffy conservative talking head by seeming like he's just "tellin' it like it is," with a decidedly anti-choice, pro-Iraq War, anti-immigration, Global Warming-causation-questioning Hey-I'm-a-Mormon-and-we're-not-crazy-at-all! stance.
hello, friend.
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my grandfather thinks he's the greatest thing since white bread. i've yet to see his show but his youtube clips don't bode well for me liking him.
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Orpheus wrote:
Total idiot. He's just O'Reilly without looking so old.
o'reilly looks much older in real life, too. it's scary.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 4:01 am Posts: 19477 Location: Brooklyn NY
Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh...who needs books when you have these great minds?
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Glenn Beck's An Inconvenient Book is still in the top 10 of the New York Times Best Seller List (No. 10). The book has been on the list for 16 weeks.
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With Glenn Beck running loose spouting all sorts of crazy-talk, you just knew at some point he'd say something to cause enough of an uproar that the Fox News brass would have to address it. Beck finally did that today.
The incident in question occurred this morning on Fox & Friends when Beck made his weekly drop-in on the folksy vegetables who host that show. In the course of discussing the controversy surrounding the arrest of Henry Louis Gates and Barack Obama's subsequent comments on the matter, Beck said that Obama has a "deep-seeded hatred for white people and white culture...I'm not saying he doesn't like white people...this guy is, I believe, a racist."
So in response to the uproar over this, Fox News gave the following statement to TV Newser this evening:
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During Fox & Friends this morning, Glenn Beck expressed a personal opinion which represented his own views, not those of the Fox News Channel. And as with all commentators in the cable news arena, he is given the freedom to express his opinions.
So in other words, Fox News said this: Glenn Beck is free to use our airwaves to say whatever the hell he wants, no matter how baseless and irresponsible the things he says may be, and will you now please leave us the hell alone.
Contrast this with the way CNN handled the ridiculous Lou Dobbs' Birther story-pushing, which was to basically tell Dobbs to shut the hell up and stop being an irresponsible prick by working America's vast dipshit population into a frenzy (UPDATE: As a commenter below pointed out, CNN caved on their stand). Well, at least we all now definitively know where Fox News stands on their village idiot: He can do and say whatever the hell he wants, they don't really care as long as he continues to bring the ratings.
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no matter how baseless and irresponsible the things he says may be - Article
Baseless? He's got some pretty racist words in his book. He went to an afro-centric church for twenty years with at least an anti-semetic preacher. He's even said some questionable things during the course of the campaign. Baseless? I dunno if I'd go there.
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