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Back On The Airwaves, Glenn Beck Loses 16 More Ad Sponsors

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You know you've had a bad day when sixteen companies pull their ads away from your show, all because you stuck the proverbial foot in mouth to get a rise out of the base who watch your program religiously. The woes of TV crybaby and shameless opportunist continues, as Huffington Post reported today that thanks to ColorOfChange.org's efforts to boycott Beck's idiotic and irresponsible comments toward President Obama, the Glenn Beck Program has now lost sixteen company ads in one day.The companies include Lowes, Verizon Wireless, and Johnson & Johnson, to name a few.

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Killfile

You know it's bad when the FreeCreditReport.com people abandon you. Those guys are a bunch of fraudsters to begin with.

For those of you wondering, the site where you can get your actual free credit report as mandated by the US Government (would Glenn Beck call that socialism?) is https://www.annualcreditreport.com

  • 57 votes
#1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:48 AM EDT
Mother of a Dr.Restored

I do not believe the list of lost sponsors is correct. I will make it a point to frequent all advertisers of the Glenn Beck show, and boycott all advertisers that have moved from his show.

some of the companies never had a presence on "Glenn Beck." Representatives of Procter & Gamble and AT&T – listed by Color of Change as companies that had signed onto the boycott – told The Times that their companies did not run spots on Beck’s program to begin with.

While the advertising boycott has generated substantial media coverage, Fox News said it has not impacted the network’s revenues or Beck’s audience. "The advertisers referenced have all moved their spots from Beck to other programs on the network so there has been no revenue lost," a spokeswoman said.

  • 23 votes
#1.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:12 PM EDT
MatMRestored

I will make it a point to frequent all advertisers of the Glenn Beck show, and boycott all advertisers that have moved from his show.

We'd hate for you to miss your golden chance to financially support racism. Been waiting for this, huh?

  • 69 votes
#1.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:52 PM EDT
JoulesBeefExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

it is your right mother of a DR
but some battles arent worth fighting.
they arent boycotting fox.. just that race baiting peace of @!$%#.
(you do know obamas mom is white, right?)
\If you want to try to be a one woman antiboycott to support peaces of @!$%# liek glen beck.. it only reflects on the kind of person you are.
I wish you loads of luck.. cause boycotts never work.. but this one is.. why?
cause glen beck is a peace of @!$%# and what he said on public tv is offensive and it isnt 1960 anymore and we are trying to get away from that bull@!$%#...
that is why even hyper republican corps like walmart.. pulled their ads

at anyrate.. enjoy your egg cooker and your male enhancement pills

  • 37 votes
#1.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:21 PM EDT
Great GregExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Mother of a Dr,

I agree with you although I'm not a big fan of Beck he does come out with a lot of truths that the Liberals want to hide. The people who are trying to boycott FOX are people living on the taxpayers dollars and most of the companies wouldn't want to target them as clients,

\If you want to try to be a one woman antiboycott to support peaces of @!$%# liek glen beck.. it only reflects on the kind of person you are.

As you can read JoulesBeef, has some major problems with a woman talking her peace.

he's trying to make it look like your a loner on the subject, which of course your not.

at anyrate.. enjoy your egg cooker and your male enhancement pills

He is so perturbed, and frustrated that he has to throw insults, this is typical of a castrated male..

mother of a dr., keep up the interesting comments

  • 14 votes
#1.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:51 PM EDT
Profchaos

how is this boycott working? if it has not affected beck's ratings or job.... what is really being accomplished?

  • 15 votes
#1.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:58 PM EDT
peeoui1

Beck's viewer count is up way up.

  • 17 votes
#1.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:13 PM EDT
Brandon-801865

Killfile, thank you.

I never fully trusted the Renaissance-reenacting teens who drive a Cash for Clunker in that commercial...although I can't get the song out of my head.

Methinks that other Right-wing nuts will pull back on the outrageous extremism that offends not only sponsors, but 99.9% of the real "real America."

  • 20 votes
#1.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:31 PM EDT
john-1205479

One glaring inconsistency in the Color of Change group’s demand that Glenn Beck’s head be served up on a silver charger: Their Web site sells “Kanye Was Right!” T-shirts.

Color of Change is pressuring advertisers to boycott Beck, after the Fox News host said that President Obama was “racist” following the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates.

Rapper Kanye West leveled accusations of racism against former President George W. Bush during a nationwide fundraiser for Hurricane Katrina victims that aired on NBC, MSNBC, and CNBC in September 2005.

During that broadcast, West appeared to allege that the Bush administration’s response to the Hurricane Katrina aftermath was intentionally slow because the crisis disproportionately affected poor people and blacks.

He also suggested that first responders had been authorized to shoot African-Americans: “We already realize a lot of people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way -- and they've given them permission to go down and shoot us!”

Later in that broadcast West added for good measure: “George Bush doesn’t care about black people.” The network then abruptly cut away to another presenter.

The controversial T-shirt Color of Change is selling is emblazoned with the words “Kanye Was Right.”

The T-shirt appears to imply agreement with the most notorious statement the rapper ever made. That would mean Color of Change is not only endorsing, but also profiting from, West’s inflammatory statement.

“Kanye was right about what?” challenges DefendGlenn Web site creator John Hill. “That President Bush gave the National Guard permission to kill black people? It’s ridiculous. If any group on the right had said the things they’ve said, they would have been dismissed as a hate group long ago. So for them to be taken seriously with this ad boycott is absurd.”

Conservative journalist Matthew Vadum, the Capital Research Center’s senior editor, alleges that Color of Change “incites hatred for profit and to promote its race-obsessed agenda and that’s what it’s doing to Glenn Beck … “

Vadum adds that the group “is trying to depict Beck as some kind of a white nationalist crazy, and clearly he’s not.”

  • 15 votes
#1.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:49 PM EDT
GaryColumbusExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Too bad we can't get sponsors to drop advertising with all right-wing drive-by hate-monger radio & tv. But I guess there has to be allowances to the losers for the losers. After all there is such a thing as freedom of speech. Anyone who listens to that crap is a loser.

Lets make a list of losers. Gallup. Rasmussen. GrassRoots. FOX of course. GOP. Am I getting warmer? Everyone together now. No GOP or RNC, no stick-tank whino bullsh1t.....latidah....help me out now.....

  • 22 votes
#1.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:58 PM EDT
Sog-510945

how is this boycott working? if it has not affected beck's ratings or job.... what is really being accomplished?

Ratings mean nothing if you don't have people to pay for ad slots on your show. The whole point of ratings is to make your ad slots more valuable. If this continues, FOX will have to pull the plug because his show is not generating revenue.

Vadum adds that the group "is trying to depict Beck as some kind of a white nationalist crazy, and clearly he's not."

White nationalist crazy... I couldn't have put it better myself.

  • 30 votes
#1.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:58 PM EDT
john-1205479Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

wow all this because dems are going to lose healthcare and the next elections..and unlike becks ratings all democrats numbers are sinking below republicans.

let me ask you guys something.. whats the difference between beck calling obama a racist and Msnbc calling Tea partiers, birthers, and Town hall goers Racist. ?

Is it not the same charge of racism?

where is the outrage?

Bunch of hypocrites

  • 16 votes
#1.11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:14 PM EDT
Quid est VeritasExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

I think Piggly Wiggly, R.J. Reynolds, Anheuser Busch, and one of those jesus blessed hand towl infomercials will take up the slack. God bless them keep taking the poor white trashes money and killing them off one cancer stick or bacon stripe at a time!!!! We have to many crutches for natural selection let the unhealthy products overtake them for this lot.

  • 14 votes
#1.12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:19 PM EDT
john-1205479

Where was color of change when a black conservative got beat up by seiu members after being asked what kind of ni#ger are you. Thats a hate crime. Where was the coverage on MSNBC.

  • 12 votes
#1.13 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:26 PM EDT
Eliana-536019

let me ask you guys something.. whats the difference between beck calling obama a racist and Msnbc calling Tea partiers, birthers, and Town hall goers Racist. ?

In Beck's case, he was making up a lie.

In the other cases, they were telling the truth. Big difference.

  • 32 votes
#1.14 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:35 PM EDT
john-1205479

Can you prove he was lying?

Sounded like an opinion to me.

Can the author of this article prove that beck was suspended? Again more opinions

Its good to see hypocrisy is alive and well in liberal land

  • 11 votes
#1.15 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:38 PM EDT
dcstone01

Can you prove he was telling the truth?...

  • 15 votes
#1.16 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:41 PM EDT
john-1205479

nope but becks opinion about what obama said is much like my own. IT was racially motivated

  • 9 votes
#1.17 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:46 PM EDT
john-1205479

But isn’t it amazing that Mr. Obama is happy to call his sainted grandmother who raised him a racist, but he still can’t bring himself to say that Mr. Wright is one?

Weren’t Mr. Wright’s racist comments also “a fist in his stomach”? Isn’t Mr. Obama half white?

Isn’t he an American?

  • 8 votes
#1.18 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:55 PM EDT
Eliana-536019

Where was color of change when a black conservative got beat up by seiu members after being asked what kind of ni#ger are you. Thats a hate crime. Where was the coverage on MSNBC

Well, I'd be glad to view the actual incident. I can see why MSNBC might not have shown "it" as the only "it" I can find is a bunch of people milling around and some white guys hollering at an SEIU-shirted person that he attacked someone.

Anyone can make up nonsense. Some of those anyones have learned that all they have to do to get attention and their 5 seconds of infamy is to is holler and scream at the opposites anywhere there is a camera around.

Some mainstream or cable show other than fox did show that nothingness clip anyway, though, as once I linked onto it from a search just now, I do remember seeing it and thinking:???

  • 10 votes
#1.19 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:56 PM EDT
redsfan

I am sick of people claiming that if an act of racism is identified, then the person doing the identifying must be a racist. Ridiculous, circular, nonsensical argument.

So Kanye West was worried about the treatment of black people in the aftermath of Katrina? Gee...I wonder why...here's an article TODAY that seems to indicate that Kanye may have had a point...

Yesterday, hate-radio talk show host Neal Boortz mocked President Obama’s pledge to rebuild New Orleans, calling the victims of Hurricane Katrina human trash.

Neal Boortz: If New Orleans is Rebuilt, the 'Debris That Katrina Chased Out' Will Return

  • 18 votes
#1.20 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:06 PM EDT
john-1205479

Are you talking about stuff like the black guy toting guns to a town hall but MSNBC wouldn't show his face or arms then after showing the clip went into talking about white racist at town halls. thats just plain deceiving people and race baiting

  • 8 votes
#1.21 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:08 PM EDT
redsfan

Your tired old talking point isn't valid anymore...time to get a new one. There were plenty of white people carrying guns at town halls that were talked about...including one with an assault rifle...just like the black man that was there with an assault rifle. If MSNBC didn't show the black man with the assault rifle, then how did I see it on MSNBC about 50 times in one day?

  • 22 votes
#1.22 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
john-1205479

They only showed it after peope found out that they edited it to make it look like only white racist gun toting people were there.. You want to talk about old talking points how about beck calling obama a racist thats well over a month old yet the MSNBC happened just 2 weeks ago.

  • 3 votes
#1.23 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:16 PM EDT
john-1205479

We don't need new talking points in case you haven't noticed we are winning the talking points war. If you think these rowdy town halls are going to stop you are wrong if you think that democrats are going to keep their office you are wrong again americans are pissed off and now there will be hell to pay

  • 4 votes
#1.24 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:20 PM EDT
jmonarchy

Beck is an arrogant, 1st semester college drop-out, alchololic sold his soul lying bastard. He is the poster child of radical right America, failed and addicted, found a way to get rich by defrauding and pandering to a large group of idiots. Thus Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity, Ensign, Falwell, Pat Robertson, George W. Bush, Richard Chenney, Osama Bin Ladin, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Grassley. All very similar folks, wouldn't you agree?

  • 23 votes
#1.25 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:21 PM EDT
Gary-798280Restored

You mad at them cause they don't kiss obama's ass? Obama and democrats are worthless as ---- on a boar.

  • 8 votes
#1.26 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:27 PM EDT
john-1205479

The same sort of list could be created for democrats whats you point besides left and right

  • 2 votes
#1.27 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:30 PM EDT
redsfan

Here's an interesting article about Beck and his racism...from way back in 2007...when he was on CNN...

We have a CNN anchor using his radio airtime to “joke” about acts of genocide targeting Mexicans. “Humor” it is said is generally extremely revealing of the author. It indicates what he thinks is “humorous.” The notion of exterminating human beings to create synthetic fuel is not remotely humorous. But it tells us just what sort of man Glenn Beck is.

The Dark Shadow of Racism

  • 22 votes
#1.28 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:35 PM EDT
jmonarchy

Nope. These guys are known farking liars and stupid as their constituents.

  • 6 votes
#1.29 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:36 PM EDT
Mark in Worcester

nope but becks opinion about what obama said is much like my own. IT was racially motivated

I agree. Beck's opinion was racially motivated.

  • 21 votes
#1.30 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:38 PM EDT
john-1205479

it was a JOKE.... you could nit pik anyone to find things that only support your views

Free speech equals the ability of a person to speak their own opinions racist or not

  • 4 votes
#1.31 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:38 PM EDT
john-1205479Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Obama called his own grandmother a racist..

Obama is a racist

Democrats are racist

  • 12 votes
#1.32 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:45 PM EDT
john-1205479Expand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Glenn is about to come on so I got to go and get my daily racist talking points

See you queers later

  • 7 votes
#1.33 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:48 PM EDT
New sons of liberty

Would it be possible to see the list of advertiseres who pulled ads? I would like to show my full support by not using any of their services. I'll check back here later. On my way to Whole Foods with a van full of seniors. Its been really nice shopping there now as I am no longer accosted in the parking lot by every liberal nut job in town trying to get me to sign petitions to legislate their latest crusade.

  • 7 votes
#1.34 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:53 PM EDT
jmonarchy

Drink some Fall City Beer and eat some Vienna Sausages while you indulge there John. Gotta keep that cholesterol up so your health insurer drops you.

  • 16 votes
#1.35 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:54 PM EDT
tom sevignyExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Obama is no truescotsman. He is a paradox. He is a Kenyan Muslim Marxist. He should have moved into the Epcot Center instead of the WH.

  • 6 votes
#1.36 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:05 PM EDT
TR-421173

"We don't need new talking points in case you haven't noticed we are winning the talking points war."

The talking points war?¿? Oh yeah sometimes I forget that there are those of you out there spewing the same things over and over again even when you know they have been disproven to "Win the Talking Points War" for your message team.

"We will lose on legislation. But we will win the message war every day, and every week, until November 2010," said Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-N.C., an outspoken conservative who has participated on the GOP message teams. "Our goal is to bring down approval numbers for [Speaker Nancy] Pelosi and for House Democrats. That will take repetition. This is a marathon, not a sprint"

  • 8 votes
#1.37 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:07 PM EDT
R. Donald Snyder

You know it's bad when the FreeCreditReport.com people abandon you.

I just wish we could get them to stop sponsoring any show. I hate those damn singers on their commercials!

  • 13 votes
#1.38 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:18 PM EDT
DEBEKI

The GOP:

We are against it (Medicare) oops - We are for it (Michael Steele's new line - he was all for cuts to medicare last year - now he is against cuts) Love all those people screaming for the government to keep their hands off their Medicare - and we don't want the government in our health care services - (really - give up your medicare)

We are for it (end of life consultation) oops - now that President Obama wants this consultation to be optional in health care reform - we're against it. Of course we already know that this consultation is part of Medicare put in there by a republican - makes no difference - we are against.

We are for Health Care Reform - oops - That's not right - let's ask Rush and Beck - are we for it or against it - Okay - got it - make it seem like we're for it, but make sure our insurance buddies who donate millions of bucks to us know - we are against it. Senator Coburn a Republican Senator and (a doctor) wants all your neighbors to help you if you have a serious medical problem, and his office will help you (he is part of the government) just call his office, but we don't want government in your health care - WHAT. How many bake-sales are your neighbors willing to have so you can afford that life saving surgery? Hmmmm - something to think about - mandatory bake sales for everyone to support your neighbors health insurance per Senator Coburn, the doctor.

We know the government doesn't want to pull the plug on Grandma - but let's propagate the myth to scare up a little frenzy and hate cause we really want the insurance companies to keep that practice - can't make money off someone who doesn't want to be resuscitate and who is termly ill...We know they need all those extra tests and drugs. We have to make the end of peoples lives as miserable as possible - miserable is profitable. Chuck Grassley - I'm working on a bi-partisan bill but the government really wants to pull the plug on Grandma

We know that the government doesn't want our Vet's to commit suicide, but hey - everyone is game here - let's bring up a book that helps Vet's make very difficult decisions and points them in the direction of consultation and assistance, but let's make sure we twist the actual words to accusations and down right lies - who's gonna call us on it - not our base - They never actually go out of their way to prove or disprove what we say - they think we are gods

We know President Obama has been working his butt off cause he is making us work way too hard for those tax payer dollars. Gee we want Bush back cause we didn't have to work this much. We need a vacation after the last 7 months of Obama forcing us to work. We don't care if our constituents actually want us to work for them - Geez, we worked hard enough to get elected - want makes any of them think we will get something done for them. Our health insurance is just fine and right now - we need the vacation. President Obama doesn't deserve anything from us. He supposed to be in the White House fixing this big ass mess we made - geezzz.

  • 16 votes
#1.39 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:24 PM EDT
Check your facts...

Let's see who the racist is...

1. I sit in a racist church for 20+ years. I allow the racist pastor of the church to baptize my children.

2. I throw my white grandmother under the bus and suggest that all white people are afraid to walk down the street with a black man.

3. I call voters in Pennsylvania "bitter clingers." "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them,"..."And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

4. I suggest that people won't vote for me because my face "doesn't look like all those other presidents on the dollar bills."

5. I suggest that reparations should be paid to any minority group who has been mistreated in the U.S. even though many people currently living in the U.S. have no relatives who participated in slavery, or, were immigrants to this country long after slavery.

"I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U.S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds,"

6. I accuse police officers of racism because they are doing their job. Never mind, that this same white cop who was accused of racism was the only one helping my infirmed black friend down the steps of the White House while I arrogantly walk in front of them.

7. Oh yeah, and people who question my policies that will profoundly affect their lives are just racist.

Killfile, who are you working for? Apollo Group, ACORN, SEIU, paid MSNBC correspondent? It seems that you would rather crucify the messenger than pay attention to the message. Our country is in an incredible amount of debt and is facing a financial disaster, yet here you are trying to convince people to hate Glenn because he is willing to talk about what the mainstream media is not. Do you agree with Obama's appointment of a self-avowed Communist and ex-con radical to be a Green Jobs Czar who happened to be one of the co-founders of a little group called ColorofChange.org? Do you approve of the Apollo Group who's membership includes a former Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Jones writing the stimulus bill that was passed by Congress? You can complain and rant all you want, but you can't make facts go away. I suggest that you actually watch Glenn's show tonight and all this week, you might actually learn something. Your blatant sycophantic love for Obama is so sad and disturbing.

  • 15 votes
#1.40 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
Eliana-536019

Perfect, DEBEKI. Thanks for your look into the minds of the GOP.

  • 8 votes
#1.41 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
blll

For those of you wondering, the site where you can get your actual free credit report as mandated by the US Government (would Glenn Beck call that socialism?) is https://www.annualcreditreport.com

Thanks for the pointer! I was just going to lookup my credit report today :)

  • 4 votes
#1.42 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:59 PM EDT
tyler

See you queers later

Not really a polite goodbye, john-1205479. Cut it out. You're suspended for a day for violating #5 and #1 of the Code of Honor. Repeatedly.

Headline's inaccurate, K, article doesn't mention a suspension.

Also, I think he was just on vacation.

Mind #3 of the Code of Honor:

Headlines should be supported by the information presented in the article/seed, rather than used primarily as a means to draw attention.

  • 18 votes
#1.43 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:02 PM EDT
tom sevigny

TR-421173,

It is ironic that you should be so averse to "talking point" considering who coined the term.

It was a "liberal construct" invented by Bill Clinton and Dick Morris t deal with the 10 or 11 scandals that plagued the Clinton Whitehouse. They would give their surrogates a list of potential questions that might be asked by reporters and a list of answers designed to make light of the questions, marginalize the issue or explain he issue away.

It was genius but it was a liberal construct. Thanks Slick Willy for that tactic. Don't bitch about Republicans turning it against them, unless you are considering a copy-rights lawsuit.

  • 3 votes
#1.44 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:02 PM EDT
George-369262

It doesn't seem to bother anyone that this is obviously is a WH orchestrated campaign against a critic. Using the power of the Federal government against a private citizen scares me very much, although it is completely in keeping with Obama's usual tactics.

  • 5 votes
#1.45 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:06 PM EDT
Killfile

Killfile, who are you working for? Apollo Group, ACORN, SEIU, paid MSNBC correspondent?

I wish. Even making minimum wage for my time here on Newsvine would far outstrip the amount I get from earnings these days. Stupid economy....

It seems that you would rather crucify the messenger than pay attention to the message. Our country is in an incredible amount of debt and is facing a financial disaster, yet here you are trying to convince people to hate Glenn because he is willing to talk about what the mainstream media is not.

Oh please. Beck's a hack. Willing to talk about what the MSM isn't? Beck hasn't broken a meaningful story or tracked down a significant fact in a decade or more. He's a partisan echo chamber with a million dollar budget and nice sound stage on Fox News. Beck doesn't report, he repeats what other reporters do. The only difference between Beck and your run-of-the-mill blogger is that Beck has access to a larger audience by virtue of his budget.

But let's talk about the financial disaster this country it fighting off. It costs money to get out of a recession; if the private sector won't spend money that leaves the government to pick up the pace. How else do you plan on leveraging a consumer economy out of a recession?

Let's talk about the national debt which has - by the by - largely been the result of Republican Presidents. Where were you when the US government borrowed its first $9 Trillion dollars to build weapons that didn't work and fight wars that didn't need fighting? Obama may be borrowing quite a bit of cash but if his party history is any guide he'll be trying to pay that debt down (rather than handing out tax cuts) once things start to improve.

Do you agree with Obama's appointment of a self-avowed Communist and ex-con radical to be a Green Jobs Czar who happened to be one of the co-founders of a little group called ColorofChange.org?

I know a number of very bright and patriotic people who are Communists. We've had quite enough of the Red Scare thankyouverymuch. When you write a sentence like that I'm inclined to remind you that ou would rather crucify the messenger than pay attention to the message. Our country is in an incredible amount of debt and is facing a financial disaster, yet here you are trying to convince people to hate Obama.

Do you approve of the Apollo Group who's membership includes a former Weather Underground co-founder Jeff Jones writing the stimulus bill that was passed by Congress?

Wow. The whole stimulus bill? You don't say....

You can complain and rant all you want, but you can't make facts go away. I suggest that you actually watch Glenn's show tonight and all this week, you might actually learn something.

I listened to Glenn's show for years driving home from a night job I had. It was always the same hyperbolic bull@!$%# drivel. As I said above, Beck has never once in the last 10 years or more contributed anything to the national discourse save for his blind repetition of Republican talking points in between his melodramatic sobs.

Your blatant sycophantic love for Obama is so sad and disturbing.

And your relationship with Glenn Beck is purely platonic... right?

  • 17 votes
#1.46 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:09 PM EDT
CCdesign

And for some bizarre reason, nobody seems to see a serious issue with a man on the White House payroll spear heading the 'movement' to boycott Beck, or essentially pressuring them, as his sponser?

Anybody...?

  • 7 votes
#1.47 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:16 PM EDT
GA GUY

Another already discredited...

  • 6 votes
#1.48 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:32 PM EDT
Rickeroo

Glenn Beck may be a little loopy. A little too much 'buy gold' from him. Does he go overboard a bit? Sure. Sponsers pulling support? Sure.

However, Glenn Beck's faults, no matter how severe, do not take away from the merits or mechanics of Obama's policies. It's as if demonzing Beck makes Obama look better.

I tend to look at things empirically, at a lowest common denominator. If Beck gets fired, which pages of HR 3200 get changed? If Rush Limbaugh goes off the air, does Obama's policies then become better for my family?

I see articles like this, putting down people for various faults and not concentrating on the merits of policy, etc, as a classic redirect. It is a fun exercise to point out 'bad things' people on the other side have done or said. However, it does not take a rocket scientist to realize that putting down your opponent does not in any way make your position or point of view look better.

There's tons of it on both sides. It essentially amounts to name-calling in a school yard. Here are some examples, note how none of them address what matters - the policies which you and your children will live with:

- Rush was addicted to pain killers

- Palin's daughter is pregnant

- Obama's birth certificate

- Obama's church

- Beck is crazy and he talks about gold all the time

All of the above are fun to talk about, to keep the masses busy and content.

However, I look at only one thing: What laws are being passed, and how do they effect my family?

  • 11 votes
#1.49 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:38 PM EDT
DEBEKI

Do you agree with Obama's appointment of a self-avowed Communist and ex-con radical to be a Green Jobs Czar who happened to be one of the co-founders of a little group called ColorofChange.org?

Please post your links to this claim. I search Yahoo, Google, My Web Search, Ask.com and only found this crap coming from Michael Savage and Glenn Beck.

This is the man - Van Jones -

http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=16&contentid=100 Ella Baker Center

http://ellabakercenter.org/page.php?pageid=16&contentid=100

http://www.grist.org/article/vanjones/ Interview with Van Jones

http://www.echoinggreen.org/fellows/van-jones article with Youtube clips

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/17/opinion/17friedman.html?_r=1 New York Times article

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2z6nOOO-2Y youtube - media reform

http://www.alternet.org/story/21813/ start making sense

  • 8 votes
#1.50 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:03 PM EDT
JayB

What gd hypocracy! The name of the .org= color for change!! For godsake I suppose that isn't racist!! Dam these leftwingers absolutely HATE to hear the truth of what this admin is trying to do to America! Csars & more csars & more csars....some are known communists. Mark Lloyd= chief diversity officer of the FCC!! He gave a speech on how he wants to model our precious country after Venezuela...home of Hugo Chavez. (Heard & saw the actual video of Lloyd) AND they will try hard to silence anything opposed to the FAR left agenda of the present DC bunch!

  • 3 votes
#1.51 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:03 PM EDT
GA GUY

I can agree with your principal...

There's tons of it on both sides. It essentially amounts to name-calling in a school yard. Here are some examples, note how none of them address what matters - the policies which you and your children will live with:

...but would point out your comment here joins in the same schoolyard game.

Beck called Obama a racist. Some folks are taking issue with that statement of belief.

A few sponsors are recognizing the fact that advertising with Beck may have unintended repercussions as a result of this debacle.

I personally do not blame anyone within in this mix for acting upon their personal beliefs.

This one is not about the laws being passed though.

It is the public's reaction(s) to Beck's statement of belief.

Hyperbole can have consequences.

Corporate Sponsors know this.

  • 5 votes
#1.52 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:03 PM EDT
JayB

And George #1.45.....You are absolutely right! I know these lefties

don't want to hear the truth about this ha ha so-called transparent admin!!

There is NO transparency....just half truths & diversions!! And yes of course

they want ONLY MSNBC & the like gushing over them & evading any sort of truth.

BTW...sure would love to see the Obamas' college thesis'.....well I'm sure SOME wouldn't! A lot of bubbles might burst!

  • 5 votes
#1.53 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:17 PM EDT
JayB

And what the H happened to the word ...Beck "SUSPENDED".....in the asinine article?

Because the libs didn't get away with another of their down-right LIES? He was on vacation!! You know, what the Obamas do every other week when his mug isn't on the tube! UGH!

  • 3 votes
#1.54 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:28 PM EDT
CCdesign

Another already discredited...

And that is directed at.....?

  • 1 vote
#1.55 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:35 PM EDT
Roy-933464

I do not believe the list of lost sponsors is correct. I will make it a point to frequent all advertisers of the Glenn Beck show, and boycott all advertisers that have moved from his show.

Dude, i'm not sure who the remaining sponsors are, but as soon as they start noticing the increased number of neo nazi clientelle, they'll dump douchebag Beck as well. I'm not calling you a neo nazi; i'm just saying you probably have similar taste in tv programs.

  • 8 votes
#1.56 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:46 PM EDT
Check your facts...

Killfile, you seem to forget that he was talking about the economy WAAAY before even the mainstream media was. He predicted the fall of the stock market back in Sept. 2008. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZwPkTmqfpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=db7SM3wb_No

Where was the mainstream media? As far as Van Jones, he is not just your useful idiot communist, he is a radical communist who helped co-found STORM a group wanting to fundamentally change the government of the U.S. whose idol was Chairman Mao and third world communist leaders. What communist has ever created jobs by the way except the golags? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ng6zHdHHWqc

DEBEKI - here ya go from Van Jones himself...

Here is a direct quote from Van Jones "In jail, however, Van Jones said that "I met all these young radical people of color -- I mean really radical, communists and anarchists. And it was, like, 'This is what I need to be a part of.' I spent the next ten years of my life working with a lot of those people I met in jail, trying to be a revolutionary. I was a rowdy nationalist on April 28th, and then the verdicts came down on April 29th. By August, I was a communist."[8] In 1994 the group of activists Van Jones was involved with formed in Standing Together to Organize a Revolutionary Movement (STORM), a collective which "dreamed of a multiracial socialist utopia".[8]"

This is directly from ColorofChange's website...

Former Staff

Van Jones (Co-founder, inactive)

While Van hasn't been active in the work of ColorOfChange in recent years, we are proud of where his work las led him. After helping ColorOfChange get started in 2005, Van moved on to other pursuits. In 2007, he founded and served as the executive director of Green For All, an organization dedicated to creating opportunities for low-income communities connected to the greater effort of addressing climate change. Van now serves as Special Advisor for Green Jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Interesting the quote from Van Jones was edited out of Wikipedia just recently...

  • 3 votes
#1.57 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:36 PM EDT
GA GUY

Heh,

So now the Van Jones of years ago is responsible for the Color of Change of today?

Reads like a bullet point from "The 25 Ways..." H. Michael Sweeny, copyright © 1997 All rights reserved...

Did anyone else hear a recent refutation of this bogus talking point on MSNBC...LIKE LAST WEEK?!

Careful with the collusion charges guys...

  • 6 votes
#1.58 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:52 PM EDT
Courts

Killfile, you seem to forget that he was talking about the economy WAAAY before even the mainstream media was. He predicted the fall of the stock market back in Sept. 2008

Really? Way back then?

The stock market collapse was in September of 2008. Predicting that something is going to happen while it's happening is hardly impressive.

  • 8 votes
#1.59 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:17 PM EDT
DEBEKI

I clicked on the links you provided Check Your Facts and I still haven't seen a video with Van Jones saying any of those things nor have I heard a recording nor is there anything in his writings or biography that says any of those things. Hmmmm

I find Wikipedia to be an unreliable source and anything out of Michael Savage's mouth or Glenn Beck's is not credible and I consider propaganda.

So I would have to say your comments are propaganda and nothing more.

  • 8 votes
#1.60 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:24 PM EDT
Check your facts...

Courts, it was back in November 2007 and September 2007. My bad on the dates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTkPYnNmOBM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwH7NHU_KkM

DEBEKI- you didn't look very hard. Van Jones was quoted in the East Bay Express in 2005. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/gyrobase/the_new_face_of_environmentalism/Content?oid=290098&showFullText=true

  • 1 vote
#1.61 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:58 PM EDT
Deport & Export NowExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

Don't let Killfile fool any of you he is a PAID blogger who is a hate baiter.

  • 3 votes
#1.62 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:09 PM EDT
GA GUY

Source?

  • 6 votes
#1.63 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:21 PM EDT
Courts

It's always amusing when people on Newsvine bitch about MSNBC (you are aware that MSNBC.com owns the site?) and when they accuse its contributors of being paid bloggers (you are aware that all Newsvine contributors receive the same cut of the ad revenue they generate?).

  • 4 votes
#1.64 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:25 PM EDT
Simplistic Reality

You know it's bad when the FreeCreditReport.com people abandon you. Those guys are a bunch of fraudsters to begin with.

Lol. Priceless.

  • 3 votes
#1.65 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:29 PM EDT
R. Donald Snyder

Must....follow....king....killfile...must....agreee.

Oh grow the hell up!

  • 4 votes
#1.66 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:09 AM EDT
Rickeroo

GA Guy:

but would point out your comment here joins in the same schoolyard game

I disagree. I was pointing out examples of well-known schoolyard comments, to demonstrate my point that none of them have an effect on the text in any laws passed or trying to be passed in Congress.

    #1.67 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 7:42 AM EDT
    GA GUY

    I understood what you were doing Rickeroo...

    If you read the rest of the comment, you will note that I simply brought you back to the topic at hand...

    Putting a veil on a distraction does not make the rest of us too stupid to see through the tactic...

    But using the tactic does make us feel that you might think we are stupid...

    Do YOU think President Obama is a "racist" who hates White People?

    • 3 votes
    #1.68 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:17 AM EDT
    josephi

    Glen Beck is a total racist with apparent beliefs of the Ku Klux Klan. He hates and I mean hates with extreme harmful intent "Any and All Democrats - white, yellow, black or brown". He is a total loser and so is his show. Any company that advertises during his show deserves an all out consumer boycott of their products and eventual bankruptcy. I am amazed that such idiots can even get a TV show (not really, Fox will hire anyone that spews hate, hate and more hate). It won't take long and he'll be back to only a small radio show. Then one day kapoof, he will be gone forever and join the ranks of other racists like Ann Coulter, etc, and be limited to only other idiots who buy their books on "Hatred".

    • 1 vote
    #1.69 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:17 PM EDT
    Simplistic Reality

    Oh grow the hell up!

    Who was that directed to?

    • 3 votes
    #1.70 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:37 PM EDT
    tyler

    Don't let Killfile fool any of you he is a PAID blogger who is a hate baiter.

    What a bizarre smear, Deport & Export Now. If you gave me a choice between reading just people who got paid write commentary and those who did it for free, I'd go with the professionals.

    I guess maybe you're going for the larger implication that he/she's getting paid by someone with an anti-Beck agenda or something. Either way, cut it out.

    Mind #1 of the CoH:

    Above all else, respect others. Address issues and arguments and refrain from making personal attacks.

    • 2 votes
    #1.71 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
    schnoo

    We all get paid (even if it's just a smidge), and end up paying for it.

    • 2 votes
    #1.72 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 2:21 PM EDT
    Deport & Export Now


    I guess maybe you're going for the larger implication that he/she's getting paid by someone with an anti-Beck agenda or something. Either way, cut it out.

    Yes, Tyler that's what I was saying.

    I find it interesting that you call my statement a smear as he said so himself a few years ago. But whatever it's real hard to know the "Tyler" mood as everyone has their individuality when monitoring. I try to be respectful and do notice a larger number of warnings going to those who lean to the right. It could be more people that lean to the left complain/turn in others more often.

    • 2 votes
    #1.73 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:52 PM EDT
    Killfile

    I find it interesting that you call my statement a smear as he said so himself a few years ago

    Huh? I said what to whom about what when and why?

    I try to be respectful and do notice a larger number of warnings going to those who lean to the right. It could be more people that lean to the left complain/turn in others more often.

    Or it could be that a larger percentage of our right-wing members are dicks.

    Tyler and I have our political differences but you don't see me accusing him of biased moderation now do you?

    • 3 votes
    #1.74 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:54 PM EDT
    R. Donald Snyder

    Oh grow the hell up!

    Who was that directed to?

    Deport and Export.

    • 4 votes
    #1.75 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 6:04 PM EDT
    jaywow67

    Deport and Export.

    You've only been on the Vine a month how the heck do you know anything beyond that.

    • 1 vote
    #1.76 - Fri Aug 28, 2009 6:25 PM EDT
    katlin

    it doesn't take long to know how biased it is..it is pretty obvious..

    • 1 vote
    #1.77 - Fri Aug 28, 2009 11:47 PM EDT
    jaywow67

    katlin

    You really don't understand do you. It's very obvious.

    • 1 vote
    #1.78 - Sat Aug 29, 2009 1:01 PM EDT
    The Mayan Factor

    I just love Jefferson. I am sad he had to change his views to be more "Federalist" so Virginia would rule 24 years. However, I understand. Why did the Federalist (now democrats) have to make fun of him and call Jefferson a ****** lover. Who cares about inter-racial relationships? Its like Dems want us to eat their table scraps and all you minorities get to play the game until it counts. Screw you Democrats! All of us are equal and stop putting in that divide!!!

    • 3 votes
    #1.79 - Sun Aug 30, 2009 1:22 AM EDT
    Reply
    redsfan

    I don't feel sorry for Beck at all. He deliberately pandered to his base of uneducated, racist people who hate Barack Obama. He deserves to lose sponsors who care that the rest of America does not want to support such devisive, hateful rhetoric.

    • 36 votes
    #2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:20 AM EDT
    Rita-900543

    In response to redsfan......from what I just read., you are the uneducated racist. All you liberal lefties can't do anything but name call.....just like you're supreme leader Nancy Pelosi. Argue view points, and ideas....but grow up and leave the name calling for the playground.

    • 8 votes
    #2.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:31 PM EDT
    reddirthippy

    All you liberal lefties can't do anything but name call.

    hmm so name calling is bad, do you support Beck?

    • 10 votes
    #2.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:03 PM EDT
    Rita-900543

    reddirthippy, I'm a supporter of Freedom, Justice for All, and the pursuit of happiness, the true American Way. I can't say I'm a supporter, but I believe in listening to what both sides have to say. Then, and only then, will I make a decision on any debate. But, I'm also not blind....nor am I a follower of any party. That's what's wrong with this country now.....party support. Without thinking about what's really the right thing for all of us. If this country is so bad, and in such need of Obama's "Change", then why are our borders being flooded. And why does this nation consist of every race, every creed. Every country around the world is represented in THIS country. Why did they come here if things are so bad? Yes, some things are in need of repair....but don't change our entire way of life!

    • 3 votes
    #2.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:40 PM EDT
    redsfan

    don't change our entire way of life!

    Exactly how has your "way of life" been changed as a result of President Obama's policies?

    And why do you hate Nancy Pelosi so much?

    And how many hours a week do you watch Fox "News"?

    • 20 votes
    #2.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:50 PM EDT
    reddirthippy

    I can't say I'm a supporter,

    Fair enough

    Do you think "supreme leader Nancy Pelosi" is anything other than name calling?

    • 11 votes
    #2.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:35 PM EDT
    jmonarchy

    Rita, ever read the posts of your neanderthal siblings on here? They call names just like everyone else and promote more hatred than an old fashioned KKK gathering. Nancy represents a district in California. She's a damned house member, not the POTUS. How about that road kill Mitch McConnell from KY. Looks like he needs some KY and someone should let him know he is deceased before he heads back to DC after this summer recess.

    • 10 votes
    #2.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:41 PM EDT
    magsby47

    jmonarchy,

    You apparently don't much about how your government works. Pelosi may not be the POTUS, but as Speaker, she has actually more power than the POTUS. She is certainly much more than "a damned house member." POTUS can only suggest and persuade, make some appointments, but the Speaker controls the House which has the power of the purse. Given a choice between the 2 offices, I'd be Speaker - there is no term limit and one could potentially be Speaker for decades, taking down any president she disagreed with or assisting one she did support.

    The Speaker's power isn't just in the House - they have huge influence in the senate and other spheres of government.

    At any rate, I think the comments on this thread are moot. Everyone has shades of "ism."

    If any white president had a pastor who denounced black people and screamed G-damn American from the pulpit, they would have been crucified. If George Bush or anyone had said of the woman who raised them, "She was a typical black person," there would have been hell to pay.

    I don't understand why so many people insist on treating Obama as if he is a plaster saint or the Messiah himself who should never be criticized. That comes with the job of POTUS - constant criticism. I'm sick to death of every criticism of him being labeled as racism. He hasn't done much since he took office - I'm still waiting for this big change to make us better. So, far he has taken a bunch of vacations, loves to take AF One out, and announced that slavery needs to be taught in school - since he went to school in Indonesia, he apparently doesn't know it has been taught here for at least 150 years.

    There are serious issues in this country that need to be addressed and I'm sorry, but who gives a flip what an uneducated uninformed jerk like Glenn Beck thinks? How that man got more than 1 person to ever listen to him is beyond me.

    Same with Kanye West - he's entitled to his opinion, and I'm no Bush supporter, but that was pure racism from West. The people in New Orleans live in a city below sea level yet they had no plan for evacuation - they should have all drowned. They knew the levee was in danger of not holding - had known that for decades. They gambled and they lost. It was not Bush's responsibility to take care of NO - it was theirs and they are so stupid they reelected the same Mayor who did not take care of them to begin with. As Forrest Gump's mother said, "Stupid is as stupid does."

    If you're truly against racism, you need to punish everyone for racist remarks, not just the conservative white guys.

    • 5 votes
    #2.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:09 PM EDT
    George-369262

    Magsby: good analysis of the power of the Speakership. The Speaker not only controlls committee assignments, but assigns office space to House members: a huge club to wield over the recalcitrant House members.

    Beck, Rush, Hannity etc are the Paul Reveres of our age, sounding the alarm, and letting the people know that the enemy is upon us.

    • 5 votes
    #2.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:21 PM EDT
    CCdesign

    All you liberal lefties can't do anything but name call.....just like you're supreme leader Nancy Pelosi.

    I am still waiting for just one point that Beck has made to be proven wrong. JHC, Beck all but called Jones then next Joseph Stalin and all the White House said was "stop calling them czars"...wtf is that all about?

    • 7 votes
    #2.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
    Susan-649485

    LOLOLOLOL

    They're the Paul Reveres of our time?

    I can hear it now.

    "The euthanizers are coming! The euthanizers are coming!"

    pffftt.

    (as an aside, how big do you suppose Rush's horse would have to be?)

    • 11 votes
    #2.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:37 PM EDT
    DEBEKI

    Rush's horse is actually an Elephant.

    • 11 votes
    #2.11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:08 PM EDT
    thelopes

    All you liberal lefties can't do anything but name call.

    I love an accusation of name calling ... with a side of lumping people together in a stereotype. Great irony.

    • 11 votes
    #2.12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:11 PM EDT
    madvargr

    Rush's horse is actually an Elephant.

    More like an Irrelephant...

    • 11 votes
    #2.13 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:51 PM EDT
    HorseTrainer

    Poor elephant

    • 8 votes
    #2.14 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:11 PM EDT
    DEBEKI

    LOL -

    or Sicko-phant

    • 7 votes
    #2.15 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:28 PM EDT
    jmonarchy

    Paul Revere was actually alerting the Patriots of the approaching Brittish Army. It was our revolutionary war. These dim wits are trying to incite a 21st century civil war. Magsby, how many bills come from the house that get shot down, negotiated and kicked back by the senate? Must I remind you that there must be a mojority vote on the House floor, as well? Pelosi is simply an orchestra director, but the house has a stronger pulse for the nation because there are so many districts represented in lieu of a couple of senators from each state. As a last result, if the Senate passes a bill that is not in line with what the POTUS wants, he can veto it and send it back where it can be over-riden or he can simply do what George Bush did and have his legal staff attach signing statements to interpret the legislation as they see fit. Mitt Romney's religon is LDS, so should he be held responsible for the polygamy that was practiced openly or that still takes place in the purist sects of that religon? And for your information, deny it and I'll call you a liar, if an elderly lady is walking to her car in a sparcely populated area or parking lot and is approached by a group of young black teens, she is very likely to feel afraid. Not because the blacks are evil, but because she has been conditioned over the years to just fear blacks. It was a very real thing up through the 70's so don't deny it. I don't treat or look at Obama as a miracle worker or a Messiah, but how quickly we forget that Reagan was the Right's Messiah and in MY oppinion, he was one of the worst presidents we ever had. He diluted and trampled on the constitution, created a multi-trillion dollar war on drugs that has done NOTHING for stopping drug use, allows the government to commit crimes in order to ENTRAP someone that would have likely never performed the crime. I would venture to say that Nancy Reagan would have been the real change for America and probably kept Ron from going totally crazy with unconstitutional policies. I'm not saying criticism is racist, but the majority of the lies spread by Beck, Hannity, Rush and O'Reilly are simply that. The birthers have been proven wrong time and time again, thus Beck and the other dumb arses spread that and CONTINUE to so there's one point that is a proven lie that Beck continues on with. He's a drunken drop out, Hannity is a drunken drop out, Limbaugh is a drunken and narcotic abusing drop out. You choose them as your leaders, I'll choose mine.

    • 5 votes
    #2.16 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:29 AM EDT
    Reply
    TheyreAllCrooks

    FOX will never pull the plug on Beck - that would be like admitting to a crime! I've gotten to the point that I don't watch FOX unless is for entertainment.

    • 25 votes
    Reply#3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:26 AM EDT
    FredC

    TheyreAllCrooks: Agree wholeheartedly! The Pubs will dip into their coffers to keep him on the air! He's one of their poster boys!!

    • 8 votes
    #3.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:54 PM EDT
    Mary-268849

    I don't think they care why you watch it...just so long as you watch.....That's why they're #1

    • 1 vote
    #3.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:15 PM EDT
    Reply
    LukeNY

    Good job colorofchange! This is great stuff.

    • 15 votes
    Reply#4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:51 AM EDT
    CCdesign

    So you have no problem with a man on the White House payroll pressuring sponsers to boycott Beck? None at all?

    • 2 votes
    #4.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:24 PM EDT
    Mary-268849

    Beck is still on ....so...so much for all the carzy hype.

    • 1 vote
    #4.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:16 PM EDT
    Reply
    supergerbil007

    Those on the right and the left (which are European political terms and not American by the way), are getting worse everyday. There is no real leadership for either conservatives or liberals (whatever the he-- those words mean these days), and there will probably not be any for some time to come.

    As I recall, isn't Mr. Beck a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints? (the most sensitive religion in the United States, whose members take offense at just about anything). The LDS are more commonly know as the Mormons. I wonder what the General Authorities in Salt Lake City (the Mormon equivalent of the College of Cardinals) and the President of the Church (and Prophet, Seer, and Revelator, the equivalent of the Pope), must think of his antics?

    • 6 votes
    Reply#5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:53 AM EDT
    d.b.-661337

    Not the equivalent of the pope, the LDS is a quack religion.

    • 6 votes
    #5.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:05 PM EDT
    DarthOpto

    super: the most sensitive religion in the United States, whose members take offense at just about anything)

    d.b.-661337 :Not the equivalent of the pope, the LDS is a quack religion.

    Super where do you get your information. Making mass assumptions is faulty at best.

    DB: have some respect at least. Insulting someone's religion is bigoted at best.

    You two are part of the problem of this once great nation. By making mass assumptions about a religion and insulting them, you are adding to the problems, not coming up with solutions.

    To really solve the nation's problems, we have to all work together to get solutions. Does not matter what religion, sex, sexual preference. The solutions need to come from us.

    And your statements are not adding to that solution. So pull your heads out of your posteriors, meet some Mormons. You might find that you have more in common than you know.

    • 1 vote
    #5.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:43 PM EDT
    jmonarchy

    I've met plenty of Mormons. Most are stern, shrewd and calloused. I have worked for them as a general contractor and they aren't the kind that run around singing, "Makes me love everybody, give me that old time religon." Christians, knowing that Jesus was quoted as saying it is over, I am Alpha and Omega and John The Revelator in Revelations was inspired by God to say this was the final book of the Bible and any other doctrine was false doctrine. Now in the 1800's some guy named Smith gets a visit from God and he adds some more stuff for those chosen people. I have come to the determination that the only true worshippers of God and Jesus are the Jehovah Witnesses. They act as Jesus instructed, mild, subversive, meek. Ah the days when the pulpits were used for spreading the gospel in lieu of propoganda, hatred and political oppinion. How many surprised folks are going to burn in hell that thought they had a ticket to ride to Heaven.

    • 7 votes
    #5.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:52 PM EDT
    Check your facts...

    jmonarchy, do you really think your comments are appropriate? If I said that Jews or Catholics or Muslims were "stern, shrewd and calloused" based on supposedly working as a general contractor with a few of them that that isn't bigoted? Let's see classifying a group of entire individuals based on the encounter of a few is let's see hmmmm, racist, bigoted, etc.

    • 3 votes
    #5.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:26 PM EDT
    greck

    Let's see classifying a group of entire individuals based on the encounter of a few is let's see hmmmm, racist, bigoted, etc.

    like calling someone a racist based on something his preacher said?

    • 7 votes
    #5.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:42 PM EDT
    Check your facts...

    grek, if a racist preacher said something once and he got up and left, then no, he wouldn't be a racist. Sitting there for 20 years and not saying a word until your preacher is outed by the press is being a racist and an opportunist.

    • 2 votes
    #5.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:38 PM EDT
    dcstone01

    Well, the thing about the Rev. is that it was taken out of context of that particular sermon.

    AND out of twenty years of recorded sermons there are only one or two instances that would be deemed questionable by 'racists'...Think about it...if this were a racist person, there would be hundreds of recorded sermons to use as examples...there is only this one that people point to...that aught to tell you something...

    Does that make twenty years worthless?

    Does that make someone a racist for saying it?...

    Does that make anyone who listens to it racists?

    How many times in the last twenty years have you said something that not everyone agrees with?...

    • 8 votes
    #5.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:19 PM EDT
    DEBEKI

    dcstone01

    How many times in the last twenty years have you said something that not everyone agrees with?...

    Okay I fess up - at least fifteen times on this thread alone - I'll do my penance now - Gee I hate these time out corners.

    Time's up - I'm back

    • 4 votes
    #5.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:33 PM EDT
    dcstone01

    lol...

    • 4 votes
    #5.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:52 PM EDT
    MichelleUT

    Not the equivalent of the pope, the LDS is a quack religion.

    I've lived in Utah since birth - my dad is a former Mormon and I am married to a Mormon, though I have never been a Mormon myself. They don't grow horns at midnight, I promise. There's some real @!$%#s in that church, just like every other church, that part I won't deny.

    But really? If you want to call the LDS church quack, be prepared to call them all quacks.

    • 4 votes
    #5.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:32 PM EDT
    DarthOpto

    Christians, knowing that Jesus was quoted as saying it is over, I am Alpha and Omega and John The Revelator in Revelations was inspired by God to say this was the final book of the Bible and any other doctrine was false doctrine.

    Funny, since the Gospel of John was written after the book of Revelation. Also interesting to note, that Moses said pretty much the same thing in Deuteronomy or Leviticus, and yet we have the rest of the Old Testament and the New Testament.

    The argument that there cannot be anymore doctrine is false. God loves all people, in all times, in all places, so why not continue speaking to prophets and revealing his will?

      #5.11 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:17 AM EDT
      jmonarchy

      John the Revelator is not John of the Gospel Of John, according to a huge consensus of Bible Scholars. The LDS practiced openly for years marrying multiple wives. Granted it has been shunned by the modern leadership, but many of the purist of the faith still practice polygamy. I am not downing them, but as a person of Christian Faith, it seems 180 degrees out of sync with the Christian Religon. As I have stated before, though I am not a Jehovah Witness, I tend to believe that those folks are the only ones leading a real Christ like life. Meek, humble and charitable.

      • 2 votes
      #5.12 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:07 AM EDT
      DarthOpto

      Still though, the Gospel of John was written well after the Book of Revelation this is likewise agreed upon by a plethora of Bible Scholars.

      It is funny how when people want to slam the LDS faith they bring up the practice of polygamy. Some facts about this practice. It was practiced by less than 5% of the members of the church. Many of the marriages were not consummated. Many of the "wives" lived in different homes, and relied on their "husband" for support only. Those who are "purists" of the LDS faith of practice polygamy are not at all members of the church.

      Meek, humble and charitable

      A lot of members of the LDS faith are the same way. We give freely of our time, talents, and money to help those in need. Many of the members of the Church are meek and humble no matter their societal status.

        #5.13 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:18 AM EDT
        MichelleUT

        I grew up near a polygamist settlement - they're a different breed than mainstream Mormons.

        And really, the Mormons are really quite charitable. You don't have to be a Christian to be charitable. I claim NO religion, and I still give freely of my time.

        • 3 votes
        #5.14 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 1:21 PM EDT
        Reply
        shewolf884

        LukeNY, I second your comment. Colorofchange did a great job. Beck is a vicious & mean person who spews very little of anything worthwhile, time for him to suffer for his pandering to the wing-nuts.

        • 16 votes
        Reply#6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:08 AM EDT
        Sean Boi

        This country deserves better than the Beck"s, Dobbs', Limbaugh, Hannity's and O'Riley's. These people are the ones that set the tone for what people in other countries think of us. Many don't care what others think; but I do. I hate being viewed as narrow minded, racist and hateful just because I'm an American.

        People with more positive views should do more to give this country a positive image abroad. It's shameful what some on the right and left write about the people whose politics they don't like. We can do better. We are a much better country than that.

        • 16 votes
        #6.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:47 AM EDT
        Rita-900543

        Wingnuts? huh???? Now what kind of mature, educated, American would call another American these kind of names. You guys make me sick. Beck may push the limits, but he does cause real people to think and begin to ask questions. Without questions, this country will be the blind leading the blind. It is our right to hear both sides, God knows you Demos scream loud enough. If nothing that he says is true, then why does it really bother you? People will sooner or later discover the truth, then who will be the liar? Obama or Beck?

        • 4 votes
        #6.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:38 PM EDT
        Killfile

        If nothing that he says is true, then why does it really bother you?

        Nothing Adolph Hitler said about the Jews was true either I'm not comparing Beck to Hitler, just making a point: just because Beck is a liar and a fraud doesn't mean he's not dangerous.

        • 18 votes
        #6.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:12 PM EDT
        jmonarchy

        Killfile, the Reverend Jim Jones was a liar and a fraud, too, and he had a similar following as Beck.

        • 7 votes
        #6.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:56 PM EDT
        JayB

        Rita ...You are right! They do not want the truth out...yup, otherwise they would ignore all except their MSM!

        And just reading some of these ignorant, name-calling, uneducated-sounding ppl shows all of us what voted for the present DC bunch!

        Got an email a while back asking "WHO IS THIS"....after the first 1 or 2 questions, a person would just KNOW it was Obama....well surprise!! The actual 'answer' was Adolf H! Wow! Soooo...refrain from refering the finder-of-truth to that name!

          #6.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:46 PM EDT
          bejeebies

          Jones actually did some good before he went cuckoo, though. I think his intentions were originally good. Beck's intentions are to make every last dollar that he can.

          • 3 votes
          #6.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:48 PM EDT
          DEBEKI

          Jaybe

          Funny I got an email and when I got half way through reading it I would have said the article was about Adolf Hitler - turned out to be George W. Bush.

          • 4 votes
          #6.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:07 PM EDT
          jmonarchy

          Jayb, that Hitler, Nazi, Socialist, Communist, Marxist rhetoric is for the very lowest of the low. Do yourself a favor, improve your image and stop with the stupidity.

          • 3 votes
          #6.8 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:59 AM EDT
          Reply
          Great Greg

          Colorofchange.org is a racist Black website.

          I'm not a Beck fan but I think the companies who pull their ads are making a mistake and will lose more money. Look at the home picture on the website, it shows loud rude people. This site believes if you don't like Obama your a racist..

          People who probably living of the government who spend very little. The only company that would benefit would be "Free Credit Report.com", they pander to the ignorant. And we know a lot of ignorants also watch FOX especially from colorofchange.com...

          • 10 votes
          #7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:43 AM EDT
          Plantsmantx

          Show me what's racist on the CofC website.

          • 18 votes
          #7.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:49 AM EDT
          Sean Boi

          You could be right, but I don't think so. I can tell you for a fact that people who are living on the dole are usually not participants in anything: boycotts or otherwise. They are totally out of the loop. The only thing they're concerned about is whether they will get their check on time. They usually don't vote; and are not concerned about the things that working individuals are concerned about.

          I also think that many people are simply fed up with the tired old inflamatory language that is broadcast on some media outlets. I refuse to listen to a totally partisan program: whether that program is pro democrat or pro republican. There's nothing to be learned from a program that is only concerned with on view.

          • 9 votes
          #7.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:54 AM EDT
          charnello

          Look at the home picture on the website, it shows loud rude people.

          What in the world are you talking about?

          One of the few pictures shows a guy talking into a microphone. He's clearly not yelling. At best, for your assertion, he looks possibly energized by what he's saying. Not yelling, and certainly not loud or rude.

          The other, few pictures are of headless people modeling T-shirts. That's pretty common nowadays.

          • 16 votes
          #7.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:13 PM EDT
          jeffcisme

          Colorofchange sounds racist just by their own statement:

          ColorOfChange.org exists to strengthen Black America's political voice

          change the wording to White America and all the liberals would be sreaming about the KKK.

          • 10 votes
          #7.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:17 PM EDT
          charnello

          change the wording to White America and all the liberals would be sreaming about the KKK.

          The KKK, or other such monstrosities of stupidity, are the only ones that would even worry about white people not having a strong political voice.

          • 14 votes
          #7.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:50 PM EDT
          trm2008

          Look at the home picture on the website, it shows loud rude people.

          Most of the pictures of loud, rude people I've seen lately are at the town hall meetings.

          • 19 votes
          #7.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:04 PM EDT
          JoulesBeefExpand Comment Comment collapsed by the community

          it's not racist they are just lashign out.
          no so great greg.. can you prove any of that trash you are spewing?

          jeffcisme bull@!$%# and i even made a whites only group on the vine..Racism from a cuacasian point of view.

          it is a bit racist though.. when the super majority of gov is white and you want to increase the white political voice.. as not only do we have the majority fo political voice.. but we have MORE POLITICAL VOICE than our demographics calls for.. to put it in simpler terms so the gop can understand.. there is a higher percent of white people running government than there are in the US. WE HAVE OVER REPRESENTATION. When we have under rep like the minorities do.. your group would be fine and not racist.

          yall; really need to learn the @!$%#ing difference between "racial" and "racist" and @!$%# about 100 political terms as well.

          so i take it.. yall are race baiting supporters huh.

          we need a bailout for conservative brains.. most have probably been homeschooled by idiot parents like palin. Most probably think they can see russai from their own houses no matter where they live. So if we could only get these people a @!$%#ing dictionary and a history book.. things might be better.

          • 11 votes
          #7.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:32 PM EDT
          greck

          Colorofchange.org is a racist Black website.

          from the front page of the website:

          "we are united behind a simple, powerful pledge: we do all we can to make sure all Americans are represented, served and protected- regardless of race or class"

          -Freakin' evil racist bastards! I think we all know that "all" is code for "black only" right? as is "regardless of race..."
          oh yeah, I'm pretty sure when anybody says those things what they REALLY mean is that they'd like to be able to lump whole groups of people together and assume that their race determines their worth and/or capacity.

          it's easy to see how a rational person came to the conclusion that this is a black only racist webisite there Greg.

          hey, tell again about how the website itself has beliefs?

          This site believes if you don't like Obama your a racist..

          I've never seen a website that was so self aware!

          • 11 votes
          #7.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:47 PM EDT
          Great GregDeleted
          DEBEKI

          greck:

          This site believes if you don't like Obama your a racist..

          I've never seen a website that was so self aware!

          ____________________________________

          otflmao - inanimate objections having self-awareness - Haaaaaa

          Also I agree - such unbelievable audacity to champion "all" people and "all" races = damn racist people (sicker).

          • 11 votes
          #7.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:07 PM EDT
          greck

          Greck and JoulesBeef, = Jackals of the Serengeti bottom of the food chain

          Your frustrated and insulting people because they're always 1 notch ahead of you lemons

          note:

          I present you with facts, you call me names.

          thank you once again for displaying who you are.

          • 8 votes
          #7.11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
          DEBEKI

          Great Greg:

          Greck and JoulesBeef, = Jackals of the Serengeti bottom of the food chain

          So you must be really frustrated cause your pot is just as black as the kettle right about now.

          btw: Nice self-proclaimed name you got there - seems a little delusional, imo.

          • 9 votes
          #7.12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:13 PM EDT
          Great GregDeleted
          DEBEKI

          Aww Great Greg:

          The more you post the more your frustrations show - Frankly, I have only read post that would challenge you to tell the truth and not some made up right wing talking point. Is it that hard to speak truthfully or is it so much more easier to spew propaganda with out facts to back them up? Where are the links? You make a statement and then say go look up the proof cause you can't seem to find it...very disingenuous and really bears little credibility.

          • 8 votes
          #7.14 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:41 PM EDT
          Great Greg

          Debeki,

          I don't believe in propaganda or changing the meaning of an article to fit my taste like the above, nor do I insult ladies like Joules, see my comment 1.4 ...

          And enough of the Aww crap, LOL

          • 2 votes
          #7.15 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:51 PM EDT
          DEBEKI

          First of all - I thought Joules was a guy. second of all your post smack of insults and

          Awww Greg - just cause you say enough doesn't mean anyone is listening to you. As for propaganda - where's your proof - you point fingers without backing up your finger pointing - saying something doesn't always make it a truth therefore it becomes nothing more than propaganda.

          • 11 votes
          #7.16 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:00 PM EDT
          reddirthippy

          The KKK, or other such monstrosities of stupidity, are the only ones that would even worry about white people not having a strong political voice.

          That is just not true.

          • 3 votes
          #7.17 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:06 PM EDT
          in debt to the company store

          People... living off the government who probably spend very little.

          So is that sort of like an endorsement for the Public Option?

          • 2 votes
          #7.18 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:07 PM EDT
          Great Greg

          Debeki,

          I know joules is a guy

          nor do I insult ladies like Joules, see my comment 1.4 ...

          My mistake, it should have read, "nor do I insult ladies like Joules does".

          I'm surprised you couldn't figure that out especially after reading comment 1.4

          • 3 votes
          #7.19 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:13 PM EDT
          greck

          great greg,
          let's recap:

          you said:

          Colorofchange.org is a racist Black website.

          to which I responded with a quote from the front page of the website indicating otherwise. I will admit I sarcastically ridiculed some of the sillier of things in your post, but the gist of my response was based in fact.

          to which you responded:

          Greck and JoulesBeef, = Jackals of the Serengeti bottom of the food chain

          Your frustrated and insulting people because they're always 1 notch ahead of you lemons.

          I then pointed out that your response to presentation of fact was name calling and you accuse me of:

          1) being a sewer rodent and 2) insulting anyone with a differing viewpoint.

          (note: no fact presentation in any of your posts in this conversation yet)

          anyway, i don't think I NEED to call you names. The facts speak for themselves. You're doing a great job at displaying who you are and anyone viewing the thread can insert whatever label they feel appropriate.

          • 7 votes
          #7.20 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:28 PM EDT
          DEBEKI

          Great Greg:

          I'm not the one reading minds here (You seem to think you know what a website believes) - if you don't state exactly what you mean - I don't profess to have esp or telepathy - I can only go by what you are posting and then I state an opinion on what I read.

          • 5 votes
          #7.21 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:11 PM EDT
          jmonarchy

          I am so amuzed by the constant barage of lies and twisted information that my friends forward to me. It's ok to be a conservative and to disagree with the left, but don't be stupid for God's sake. Don't be a paddle on the rumor mill or a pawn on some spin doctor's chess board. Perhaps these folks should look at the tag on Newsvine,.....Get Smarter here.

          I told one of my conservative propoganda email forwarding friends that he was actually an embarrassment to himself for not fact checking these things. He is a business owner and appears to be a Springer Show Follower, because that is what these nut cases look to be.

          • 8 votes
          #7.22 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:02 PM EDT
          magsby47

          Joules,
          The only reason white people are "over represented" in government service is because until 15-20 years ago, we were the MAJORITY of the population. It's only the influx of the immigrants, mostly non-white, over the past couple of decades that has caused white people to become a smaller proportion of the total population. When you consider people who actually vote, whites are still a majority.

          • 3 votes
          #7.23 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:16 PM EDT
          JayB

          Re:#7.7...I would love to give Obama a 'surprise'American history test one day.

          He doesn't care about America & all her struggling years of remaining a

          wonderful FREE nation. He would flunk.........

          • 4 votes
          #7.24 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:58 PM EDT
          Eliana-536019

          Re:#7.7...I would love to give Obama a 'surprise'American history test one day.

          He doesn't care about America & all her struggling years of remaining a

          wonderful FREE nation. He would flunk.........

          What are you talking about? Seriously, I don't understand your comment.

          • 5 votes
          #7.25 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:06 PM EDT
          DEBEKI

          Jaybe

          I think President Obama would pass your history test - I bet George W. Bush wouldn't be able to answer the first question.

          • 5 votes
          #7.26 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:14 PM EDT
          The Mayan Factor

          The only thing I get from Glenn Beck is his passion. I only wish so many other people shared the passion to speak out when a government has wronged you so bad (Bush/Obama).

          I love that my US Senator just replied that he had an overwhelming response from his people and could not respond to my e-mail yet would read our comments.

          Is this a democracy working or what!?!?!?!!!!!

          Awesome, to finally hear people speak out in every aspect. Thank you America. "I am finally proud" - Mishelle Obama.... oh what I would not say that "I am finally proud of my people are standing up because they love our country". Our Country, maybe not government, but our America.

          • 1 vote
          #7.27 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 10:26 PM EDT
          Great Greg

          JayB,

          ...I would love to give Obama a 'surprise'American history test one day.

          LMAO, That would be Hilarious!!!

          • 4 votes
          #7.28 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:33 AM EDT
          The Mayan Factor

          I am just for freedom!!!

          The government is awful and can't support us. It is sad to see people in cities that believe only the government can support them. Come on out to the country. You do not need a government for Food, Shelter, Clothing, and those things you are used to spending 10 times more for... are 10 times less here.

          Become American. Live free. Enjoy life not of how another judges you!

          • 2 votes
          #7.29 - Fri Aug 28, 2009 10:30 PM EDT
          Reply
          pjwrites

          Interesting.

          I don't care for Beck at all, because he's a melodramatic fool most of the time, but I question the rapidity with which his advertisers are leaving him. It smacks deliciously of government strong-arming, rather than any uprising of "offended citizenzry taking action".

          But maybe I'm just cynical.

          • 5 votes
          #8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 11:55 AM EDT
          Great Greg

          I don't care for Beck at all, because he's a melodramatic fool most of the time, but I question the rapidity with which his advertisers are leaving him. It smacks deliciously of government strong-arming,

          Very good possibility, there used to be on You Tube the speech that Obama's Economic Advisor Reich gave along with Charles Rangel, in which Reich stated that they are going to produce construction jobs for all except White male construction workers. Anyway they removed it, I'm wondering if it was from some heat in Washington.. But if you Google "Reich white male construction worker" there are still some copies going around.

          Obama, condoned it.

          • 8 votes
          #8.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:06 PM EDT
          Scarlet Termite

          Perhaps Beck is going to be made the "horrible example."

          • 6 votes
          #8.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:13 PM EDT
          The Republic of Stupidity

          But maybe I'm just cynical.

          ____________

          I think "paranoid" would be the better word.

          • 11 votes
          #8.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:38 PM EDT
          pjwrites

          Why thank you, Republic. No more than I would expect from someone from your nation.

          • 6 votes
          #8.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:53 PM EDT
          Better Careful

          Or maybe it's just that the managers of the various companies find Beck distasteful, as well, and simply don't want their organizations associated with Beck. We can grant those managers, those who make decisions and especially decisions about company public relations, some intelligence and taste. It took Color of Change to get their attention, is all. Now those in charge of company/product image don't want to be seen as supporting Beck, and the stampede is on.

          There ARE consequences attached to ones deeds. Words DO have meaning. There can be accountability, no matter how much the right-wing asserts what none of this applies to them. Kind of spoils the "I'm the Man" buzz, don't it? Sucks to have to think before you speak, don't it? Awwwww, breaks my liberal heart.

          • 11 votes
          #8.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:34 PM EDT
          JoulesBeef

          boycotts never work.
          the right is boycotting disney.. cbs.. letterman. ophrah and about a dozen others..
          this is working cause people have already died due to glen becks mouth.
          this is working cause he has zero integrity.
          this is workign cause obamas was raised in a lifestyle that used to be reserved for whites.
          How much you want to be most of his friends at yale were white?
          he dated a white girl there you know.

          but most importantly his mother is white and glenn beck ois basically saying obama HATES his mother.

          And sorry but that is a bit too far and the corps agreee.

          hey we boycott rush all the time..this is working cause glenn cry baby beck is going too @!$%#ing far.

          you knwo the guy that shot the three cops in pa.. did so cause beck told him obama would take his guns away.Obama on the other hand just signed a law allowing yall to take guns into parks.

          you knwo the lady busted with guns that was going to single handily attack the national guard base?

          IT IS CAUSE GLEN BECK TOLD HER IT WAS A FEMA CAMP.

          Corps dont want theri name associated with this kind of baiting.
          glen beck is trying to get obama killed.
          and coprs are wise enough to not want to be part of that.

          If you can not put the words of the guy you are sponcering on your own website next to your company name.. YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS SPONSORING THEM

          and sorry it's not gov strong arming.. it is the american public strong arming who are sick of this @!$%#.

          as for the reich comment

          "if construction jobs go mainly to white males who already dominate the construction trades, many people who need jobs the most -- women, minorities, and the poor and long-term unemployed -- will be shut out."
          you do know that in this post racist nation.. blacks have double the unemployement from the recession that whites do..

          it might have been said better.. but you no so great greg are a @!$%#ing liar.. he never said what you say he said.

          • 10 votes
          #8.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:39 PM EDT
          dcstone01

          but I question the rapidity with which his advertisers are leaving him

          Perhaps those companies got the message from the people via emails, and telephone calls and 'blogs'...on top of this organized boycott by ColorofChange...things do happen quicker now and there are a lot of people willing to send 'emails'...and make telephone calls... it doesn't take too long for a 'responsive' company to become 'aware' of an issue.

          • 10 votes
          #8.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:20 PM EDT
          pjwrites

          things do happen quicker now and there are a lot of people willing to send 'emails'.

          Of course, dc, you're right. I do it quite often myself but, like writing to my Congressman, I seldom expect anything in response - other than the standard form letter.

          It's natural for any responsible company leader to pull advertising dollars away from even the hint of a controversy like this, it only makes financial sense - they would certainly feel no special loyalty to Beck, either.

          Thank man for the internet, eh? The great equalizer.

          • 6 votes
          #8.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:52 PM EDT
          Rita-900543

          I agree with pjwrites, it sounds more like Government Strong Arming again!!!! Just like the Town Hall Meeting that Obama took part in. 1500 tickets, but only 600 given to real citizens of the community. What happened to the other 900? Seems they ended up in the hands of organized Obama supporters that weren't even from that area! Then who shows up? The SEIU or whatever their name is, and strong armed the citizens that were there for a peaceful protest. Since, the other tickets that should have been available....were not. These were both Republican and Democrats that were pushed out and unable to attend. You guys better wake up and research who you're really following into the snake pit.

          • 4 votes
          #8.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:52 PM EDT
          Great Greg

          Joules beef,

          it might have been said better.. but you no so great greg are a @!$%#ing liar..

          You listened to a doctored up tape, he said we are giving jobs to the minorities and not the White male construction worker, it was on the news channels

          blacks have double the unemployement from the recession that whites do..

          I don't have those facts, but maybe Affirmative Action has something to do with it. According to the law a corporation has to have so many blacks in proportion to whites whether they qualify for the job or not, so use your head, a recession comes and the first one's let off are going to be the ones without the skills. So you figure it out..

          but you no so great greg are a @!$%#ing liar

          adios mojon

          • 5 votes
          #8.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:06 PM EDT
          Leo Katz

          Great Greg,

          Regarding JoulesBeef’s comment 8.6 and others. Despite his COH violation of “but you no so great greg are a @!$%#ing liar.. (sic)” you should completely ignore his comments. I am not sure how he continually gets away with the violations, but I surmise it is because his statements are almost unintelligible.

          This guy is a liberal troll personified. He shows up constantly and this is more worthless trash talk from the undereducated master of hate. It is one of his customary bizarre rants comprised of nonsensical comments, misspelled words, missing capitalization and punctuation, incomplete sentences and obscenities. You can be assured that in any seed his comments will surely make him the “Lout of the Day.”

          • 7 votes
          #8.11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:31 PM EDT
          sms29s66

          What do you want to bet that all the folks who decry this boycott, especially Mother, were right on board when the religious right launched a boycott against Disneyworld some years back?

          • 4 votes
          #8.12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:19 PM EDT
          common sense-457836

          what on Earth does the government have to do with this? these advertisers are getting complaints for normal everyday citizens like you and I. as far as I know, no member of government has even spoken about this. just when you think you've hit the bottom of right wing delusion..........

          • 6 votes
          #8.13 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:11 PM EDT
          Ryan-

          Leo Katz, your comments are very true.

          • 5 votes
          #8.14 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:30 PM EDT
          Great Greg

          Leo Katz,

          Regarding JoulesBeef’s comment 8.6 and others. Despite his COH violation of “but you no so great greg are a @!$%#ing liar.. (sic)” you should completely ignore his comments. I am not sure how he continually gets away with the violations

          Simple. He gets away with COH violations because he's black and he and some Viners believe blacks aren't racist, that they are poor abused stepped on citizens, which he uses to his benefit, but he's not very good at it.

          • 2 votes
          #8.15 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:40 AM EDT
          pjwrites

          Complete bull@!$%#, G Greg.

          If Joules gets away with anything, it's because 'viners don't report him. It has nothing to do with the color of his skin. If anyone is making racist comments here, that would be you, with that bull@!$%# statement above.

          Fail.

          • 5 votes
          #8.16 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:57 AM EDT
          Great Greg

          pj,

          BS

            #8.17 - Fri Aug 28, 2009 8:22 AM EDT
            Reply
            supergerbil007

            Glenn must have some big bucks set aside for a rainy day. Since he is LDS, he should "drop out of sight" for a while, and go on a mission for the Mormons. "HI! I'm Glenn Beck, and I would like to talk to you about the Book of Mormon.........................................................................."

            • 5 votes
            Reply#9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:08 PM EDT
            btco

            LDS is the LSD of religion.

            • 5 votes
            #9.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:47 PM EDT
            Reply
            supergerbil007

            If the righteous righties don't do us all in, the hefty lefties will finish the job. I wonder what Washington, Madison and Jefferson would think if they were "reincarnated/resurrected" today? They would probably ask to return to the grave immediately.

            • 1 vote
            Reply#10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:12 PM EDT
            pjwrites

            They would probably say what I say: abolish the Fed, the banking cartel. and corporate personhood - and all will be well again.

            • 10 votes
            #10.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:21 PM EDT
            100thmonkeync

            Well said pj.

            • 5 votes
            #10.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:34 PM EDT
            The Republic of Stupidity

            BTW... I agree COMPLETELY w/ abolishing "corporate personhood".

            I think you're 100% right on that one.

            I'm a little surprised righties don't jump on that one too, seeing as it's such a blatant distortion of what human rights are supposed to mean.

            What say you, righties?

            • 8 votes
            #10.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:22 PM EDT
            JoulesBeef

            abolish the fed is a libertarian thing.
            the purpose of the fed was that we were getting to political with the raising and lowering of rates.
            and we would put people in those positions that had no training. Thats not to say we shouldnt get rid of the fed

            abolish corp personhood should have been done long ago.

            rightes like corp personhood

            • 9 votes
            #10.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:46 PM EDT
            100thmonkeync

            There ARE consequences attached to ones deeds. Words DO have meaning. There can be accountability, no matter how much the right-wing asserts what none of this applies to them. Kind of spoils the "I'm the Man" buzz, don't it? Sucks to have to think before you speak, don't it? Awwwww, breaks my liberal heart.

            PDeuth is exactly correct and for Beck to be considered a credible and serious journalist on issues be it American politics or otherwise, he needs to endorse respectful debate. That is not what he does. He uses theatrics and spiteful, malicious words. Do people really not get that he is a "ratings" actor for Fox news and that all is for the dollars ($) that end up with the Australian, Murdoch, who owns the network. Rag TV.

            • 5 votes
            #10.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:40 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            Pdeuth:

            So I guess Glenn Beck was against the insurance companies before he was for them. Wasn't it just this past year when Glenn Beck was getting a hemoroidectomy that he was screaming about how bad our health insurances are and now he says we have the greatest health care in the world. Must be very confusing for his base.

            Being against something then for it or for it and then against - very GOP of him.

            • 10 votes
            #10.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:48 PM EDT
            Reply
            Spectator99

            Will there be any mainstream company willing to risk their reputation on this loose canon? He lived by his outrageous rhetoric and now he is dying by it. How perfectly fitting.

            • 16 votes
            Reply#11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:13 PM EDT
            The Republic of Stupidity

            Gee... could all of this be "the invisible hand of the free marketplace" at work?

            Funny how conservatives are always SOOOOOO for this, until it turns around and slaps them across the face.

            • 14 votes
            #11.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:42 PM EDT
            Reply
            The Republic of Stupidity

            Great Greg

            Obama "condoned it."

            ____________

            Any proof of this?

            • 7 votes
            Reply#12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:39 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            Republic of Stupidity,

            Obama "condoned it."

            Reich was his Economic Adviser and Obama didn't condemn what he said which means he condones it. But African Americans can get away with being racist.. because Liberal Americans are turning into wusses...

            • 7 votes
            #12.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:52 PM EDT
            The Republic of Stupidity

            Ge... by your logic, then I guess Bush condoned the thousands of the truly ugly comments made by right wing commentators during his two terms in the WH, because he never once condemned all that insane, hateful rhetoric, huh?

            Or is he not responsible?

            Good for the goose?

            • 11 votes
            #12.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:20 PM EDT
            JoulesBeef

            he doesnt..
            greg lies a lot
            he didnt even say that no money would go for whtie construction workers.
            he said he didnt want all the jobs that were created to be given to the newly out of work white folks.. when the economy is @!$%#ing on minorities.
            blacks are suffering from the recession more than whites.. they have been laid off in greater numbers and have a UE rate at twice whites.

            the man could have spoken better.. but in no way was he saying money would only go to blacks.
            HE SAID HE DIDNT WANT ALL THE MONEY TO GO TO WHITES.
            totally different statement.

            of course the logic impaired right cant see the dfference between those two statements,.

            • 7 votes
            #12.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
            DTansy

            Republic-
            "Bush condoned... comments made by right wing commentators..."

            If you can see the difference between "commentators" and Obama's
            "Economic Adviser", then you get the LACK of comparison. The
            "Economic Advisor" is part of Obamination's ADMIN, not a simple
            "news talking head".

            If you don't see the difference, it's WON'T see, not CAN'T.
            Nice try, though.

            • 4 votes
            #12.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:56 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            Rupublic of Stupidity,

            by your logic, then I guess Bush condoned the thousands of the truly ugly comments made by right wing commentators

            There is a difference between commentators and people Appointed by the President.

            Can I make it any clearer..

            Good for the goose?

            If I were you I'd cook that Goose.

            • 6 votes
            #12.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
            GA GUY

            Dick Cheney:

            "SO?"

            • 6 votes
            #12.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:39 PM EDT
            Reply
            DTansy

            "FOX will never pull the plug on Beck"

            As well they should not, it is "opinion", and it is covered under
            Article One in the Bill of Rights. Don't want to hear "truth"?
            Change the channel. If it's NOT truth, then it will fall flat
            on it's face, just like "Obamacare".

            That Fox doesn't follow the Democrap Talking Head "party line"
            makes a hole in the "Monkey-Assed-Media" that cheesey hard-left
            liberal bootlicks, DNC drones, and the rest of the "lemmings"
            absolutely go apoplectic over. Gotta love THAT!

            • 8 votes
            Reply#13 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:40 PM EDT
            The Republic of Stupidity

            You're funny... but not in a good way.

            Got anything besides silly, re-heated, over-the-top hyperbole?

            • 15 votes
            #13.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:44 PM EDT
            trm2008

            Got anything besides silly, re-heated, over-the-top hyperbole?

            Nope. At least he (may have) used his own words this time. (Not like the "100 reasons to hate Obama's health care reform" article.)

            • 7 votes
            #13.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:09 PM EDT
            DTansy

            "over-the-top hyperbole"

            Why, YES! I have the cheesey liberal excuse for "news" that only has
            the cheesey liberal point of view, EVER. It's understandable that
            Beck tends to promote HIS view, (or that of the RNC god-heads)
            since it is HIS show, and it is to be expected that ALL the cheese-
            covered Lefties DEMAND he be put to sleep, ala "Don Imus", for his
            "RIGHT" in expressing his opinion. Beck didn't say a THING about
            Obama being a "Nappy-headed Ho", did he?

            BTW- "Hyperbole" infers exaggeration. Did I exaggerate?

            Why is it if Americans have a "RIGHT", the "Left" wants it removed,
            stomped on, or otherwise silenced?

            Also, it was "50" good reasons not 100.

            • 4 votes
            #13.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:42 PM EDT
            trm2008

            Also, it was "50" good reasons not 100

            And 100% plagiarized. It was took down so quick, I forgot the title. Thanks for confirming my suspicions. LMAO

            • 9 votes
            #13.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
            JoulesBeef

            I really wish yall would learn our Constitution.
            ARTicle one is not in the bill of rights and details congressional power and setup.
            amendment 1.
            which entails the freedom of speech.. simply means obama will not kick beck off the airwaves.
            Fox is allowed to.. and we are allowed to bitch until fox does.

            Seriously will yall please at least if nothing else.. learn what the @!$%# "free speech" means
            Fox is a private business and can fire beck for saying he likes dems if they want to.

            • 6 votes
            #13.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:55 PM EDT
            dcstone01

            Yes, sadly JB, there are many who do not understand the different nuance's of 'Free Speech' is only for 'public speech about the government' not 'private speech'...and even that can be 'curtailed' using public safety as an excuse...think 'yelling fire in a theater'...you can not do it with out repercussions...

            Now, Glen Beck is on 'the air waves' to a certain extent it is 'public' but truly that platform is provided by a 'private company' and thus can be 'controlled'...

            Seriously, think about it, anyone ever have a job where the employer says you cannot speak with the media about the company, or look at certain websites while at work, or make personal telephone calls on the job?...These are all things that people assume to fall under 'free speech', but these companies can make those rules because it is 'private' and thus controllable via that amendment...

            That is why even here on NV, we may view these articles and comments publically, but it is a private company and therefore they can make and enforce 'controls' on speech...

            • 7 votes
            #13.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:32 PM EDT
            DTansy

            trm2008-
            "100% plagiarized"

            Plagiarize-
            "use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author
            and the representation of them as one's own original work"

            The very definition of the word "plagiarized" limits it's own definition
            to "AN" author. Having both saved the ENTIRE article, AND using Tyler's
            (administrator/moderator) admonitions as a backdrop against which to
            allow or deny, the entire article was "researched", and quoted from
            multiple sources. I offered to SHOW the links, about 10 of them.

            I began with the disclaimer that LITTLE of the presentation was "mine",
            and that ALL was a "compilation" of what I had read and discerned was
            important. That it was ALL incorrect wasn't apparent until some actual
            PEOPLE singled out (point by point) it's inherent errors.

            It was left to ME to decide whether to discard, and in the interests
            of PEACE on the Vine, I deleted the article MYSELF, rather than have
            to read the 1000 pages of CRAP even Congress hasn't read, in order to
            provide a better article.

            In this case, YOU say "plagiarized", I say "researched". I have NO
            problem admitting when I am incorrect. For instance, when I say
            "Article 1", rather than "First Amendment", making an opening for
            a half-assed statement "correcting" that simple gaffe. It allows for
            EVERY half-assed armchair critic to "critique".

            Ain't America great?

            • 2 votes
            #13.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:38 PM EDT
            trm2008

            You researched, then cut and pasted all 50 reasons verbatim from another author while claiming credit for it. It was not " incorrect", it was dishonest.

            • 7 votes
            #13.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:09 PM EDT
            DTansy

            "cut and pasted all 50 reasons"

            Cut and pasted what I felt where the "best" 50 reasons from 10
            different lists
            across the internet. Had I taken ONE person's
            entire list, THAT would be plagiarized. Which is why Tyler didn't
            just strike it down w/o parley.

            Besides the FACT that YOU aren't a moderator, and the actual
            person I answered to DID NOT DELETE the article, but left it to
            MY discretion to do so or NOT. (Feel free to ask Tyler)

            I actually considered LEAVING it up, so as NOT to lose the comments,
            although some were as ignorant as yours, the biggest part of them
            showed EXACTLY why they shouldn't be considered as FACT, in that
            they were answered in a POINT-BY-POINT comparison TO the crappy
            thousand-page piece of legislative toilet paper.

            While I don't specifically remember YOUR "contribution", I have no
            DOUBT it didn't include anything like an opinion. Mostly, those who
            made comments HAD opinions, and showed respect for ME, and themselves,
            in responding as "citizens of the vine". (GOOD show!)

            Ever heard of "grace" or "good humor", or "respect", or SELF-respect?
            I don't personally give a DAMN what your "position" is, you seem to
            lack the essentials. Luckily, I don't take ANY of this crap "personally".

            So, you have a GREAT day, poohbutt!

            • 3 votes
            #13.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:42 PM EDT
            trm2008

            I looked at all fifty reasons before I reported it as plagiarism. I was the first comment and included a link to the original article. This is not my opinion, it is fact. I hope you have learned how easy it is to catch wanton plagiarism. It won't fly here on newsvine. The internet is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

            Enough off topic commentary. My apologies Killfile.

            • 6 votes
            #13.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:23 PM EDT
            Reply
            jimbobbogue

            In a sane country Glenn Beck's show would be broadcast as a Saturday morning kid's show, along with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the cartoon characters. The kids would know better than to take' Glenn the assclown' seriously and treat him like the joke he is. Only here would 2 million adults take this bozo seriously. Speaks volumes as to the mental competency of your average fact free Fox watcher.

            • 9 votes
            Reply#14 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:52 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            In a sane country Glenn Beck's show would be broadcast as a Saturday morning kid's show, along with Bugs Bunny and the rest of the cartoon characters. The kids would know better than to take' Glenn the assclown'

            Glenn Beck VS Amos and Andy.

            • 3 votes
            #14.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 12:55 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            Glenn Beck and Pee Wee Herman - pretty much the same mentality

            • 6 votes
            #14.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            Glenn Beck is a good reason for keeping censorship. You are censored here on the Vine. You are censored in polite company (it's called common sense). All TV is censored unless it is a pay channel and even some pay channels are censored.

            So to that respect - sure there is free speech and then there is responsible free speech.

            Did anyone see Glenn Beck and his Hitler tree segment? Even his guests thought Beck was off his rocker. Each time Glenn asked if they agreed with him, they all looked like they wished they were any where else but there and NO one agreed with him.

            • 6 votes
            #14.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:54 PM EDT
            Reply
            vol fan in chatt, tn

            Interesting that these sponsors are pulling out. Judging solely by the numbers, they have miscalculated big time!

            How about these numbers:

            CABLE NEWS RACE
            MONDAY, AUG. 24, 2009

            FOXNEWS O'REILLY 3,440,000
            FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,937,000
            FOXNEWS BECK 2,810,000
            FOXNEWS GRETA 2,450,000
            FOXNEWS BAIER2,066,000

            FOXNEWS SHEP 1,860,000
            MSNBC OLBERMANN 1,114,000
            CNN KING 1,063,000
            MSNBC MADDOW 885,000
            CNN COOPER 827,000
            MSNBC HARDBALL 640,000

            What does this tell me? People are figuring it out who our President is by who he associates with and it should have happened before now, but better late than never.

            • 12 votes
            Reply#15 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:50 PM EDT
            JoulesBeef

            If you cant put the mans words next to your own logo.. you should sponser him.

            as for rating big @!$%#ign @!$%#... a brutal and bloody car crash will ahve everyone slowing down their cars and gawking.. doesnt mean i want to sponser car crashes.

            they didnt miscalculate.. fox miscalculated if they think ratings is all that maters.

            You know you charge ad rates based on ratings.
            but the people who normally would buy those ads have ran.
            now when the ad contracts are up.. fox is going to have to reduce his ad prices.. to that of a much poorly rated show.

            howard stern is popular/.. think all right wing instittutes must advert on his show?
            disney is mega popular and yet the right boycott them
            It really doesnt matter how popular you are..
            if you can put his speach next to your companies name.. then you have no business advertising with him.

            • 5 votes
            #15.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 1:59 PM EDT
            Nightpundit

            Interesting that Fauxheads always like to provide ratings as an extremely weak case for winning a "truth war", as it were. If one million people do a stupid thing, it is yet still..a stupid thing. And the lazy and misinformed usually fall in line with the masses rather than think for themselves, so those numbers mean nothing.

            • 8 votes
            #15.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:06 PM EDT
            d.b.-661337

            it tells me that there 3 million as*hole watch tv.

            • 8 votes
            #15.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:12 PM EDT
            in debt to the company store

            What it means is that MSNBC needs to be included in basic cable service. Why should third-place CNN be included but not second-place MSNBC - is that the American way? Oh, but thanks for bringing the matter to everybody's attention. Just keep copying and pasting those numbers (please).

            • 5 votes
            #15.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:38 PM EDT
            reddirthippy

            night pundit

            I always remember the classic just about every parent has used.

            If fill in the blank jumped off a bridge would you.

            • 2 votes
            #15.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:16 PM EDT
            Killfile

            I just love how Fox is persecuted, how it stands "against the Main Stream Media," how big-bad-evil-Liberal Media is brainwashing American and only the proud few who watch Fox News can see it for what it is, how the liberals dominate the media and that's why Conservatives can't get a fair shake.

            And yet Fox claims to be the biggest, baddest, most popular news channel. It claims its beating the socks off MSNBC and CNN and all those other liberal networks. It claims that its ratings demonstrate that it has a better product - that is is fair and balanced.

            Well which one is it? Either Fox dominates the media or it doesn't. Either its beating the "liberal networks" or its not. I don't think they get to have it both ways.

            • 8 votes
            #15.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:30 PM EDT
            GA GUY

            If yours is the only "News Outlet" in town repeatedly catering to the bias of the right wing, it is fairly easy to corral almost all of the far right extremists into your fold...

            Try comparing Fox's numbers to total viewership numbers across all media outlets, and the resultant ratios look strangely familiar...

            I guess the (70+%) "rest of the world" just likes to use varied and less biased sources of information...

            • 5 votes
            #15.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:50 PM EDT
            vol fan in chatt, tn

            Nope. all of you are wrong. The numbers tell the story - people are waking up to who this President is and the people he surrounds himself with. I don't usually watch Glen Beck, but I have this week, not becasue I am a rasict ( which by the way is anyone who doesn't agree with you) but because I want to know who the crap these 43 czars are who are working outside the Constitiution and any Congressional oversight.

            He has given facts and sources. It is quite interesting to know who these people are and how some of them don't care for our system of government. In the case of one or two - they are self proclaimed and avowed communists. One has to wonder why they are in the upper echelons of our government and appointed there by our President.

            It claims its beating the socks off MSNBC and CNN and all those other liberal networks.

            This wasn't from FOX, tooting it's own horn, but it was the Nielsen ratings from Monday. Must be hard to swallow for all you Chris, the Tingle, Matthews lovers , but it is what it is - you'll just have to deal with it!

            • 3 votes
            #15.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:53 PM EDT
            GA GUY

            I think you were writing while I was posting this, so here's an edit of 15.7 for you...

            If yours is the only "News Outlet" in town repeatedly catering to the bias of the right wing, it is fairly easy to corral almost all of the far right extremists into your fold...

            Try comparing Fox's numbers to total viewership numbers across all (news) media outlets, and the resultant ratios look strangely familiar...(with Fox's total viewership when compared to all viewers very closely resembling that percentage of the Nation's politically active that still self-identifies as "Republican".)

            I guess the (70+%) "rest of the world" just likes to use (more) varied and less biased sources of information...

            I added the parts in parentheses...

            No one cares that Fox wins a ratings war in a fractured field of competitors, most here on Newsvine are not mathematically challenged at all. We can still see the big picture very clearly, in spite of all of that type of meaningless rethoric...

            • 7 votes
            #15.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:54 PM EDT
            Reply
            JoulesBeef

            Interesting to see all the racist defenders in this thread.. I woulds have thought most of them would have stayed away from beck cause he was obviously very in the wrong.I guess they just see too much incommon between themselves and beck and that is sad.

            • 7 votes
            #16 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:01 PM EDT
            NJhome

            Is any one buying gold from the convicted felon / ex-con that advertises on Beck?

            Just wondering

            • 4 votes
            #16.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:10 PM EDT
            MatM

            Many people are very proud of their racism. They treat it like religion: it is sacred and you should not question their beliefs. Their racism is sanctioned by blonde-hair, blue-eyed Jesus and you better recognize that.

            I disagree with them.

            • 7 votes
            #16.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
            d.b.-661337

            JESUS has never been blonde, blue eye he was a jew...

            • 2 votes
            #16.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:14 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            d.b.

            Careful - there are blond and blue eyed Jews.

            • 4 votes
            #16.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:29 PM EDT
            MatM

            JESUS has never been blonde, blue eye he was a jew...

            Can you prove that?

            • 3 votes
            #16.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:33 PM EDT
            Eliana-536019

            Yes. Anyone can be a Jew, if they go through a process and are accepted into the community. Then...the children of the mother are automatically Jewish, too.

            • 4 votes
            #16.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:03 PM EDT
            DTansy

            "racist defenders in this thread"

            Can you show me an instance? Of "racism", I mean? Is it "racism"
            because anyone who says ANYTHING against "The One" must BE racist?
            Or "mental"? Or a "Republican"?

            "obviously very in the wrong" is an o-pin-ion. Yours. NOT Beck's,
            obviously, and not for a MULTITUDE of others who won't accept the
            job of Presidential cheerleader, bootlick, or toady. YOU know,
            anyone that can SEE, your Emperor has no CLOTHES.

            Once again, the issue is NOT whether the POTUS who would be "God"
            stands, himself, against the very fabric of the Constitution, but
            rather that ANYONE who dares to speak against him MUST be "racist".

            Blatant bull@!$%#.

            • 4 votes
            #16.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:16 PM EDT
            trm2008

            DTansy-That is YOUR opinion. It is not fact either, even if you believe the drivel you just posted.

            • 6 votes
            #16.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:29 PM EDT
            Killfile

            d.b.

            Careful - there are blond and blue eyed Jews.

            Not in 4 AD there weren't and certainly not in David's time. Mary's genealogy back to that time is conveniently provided in the Gospels and since we know dark hair and skin color to be dominant traits we can pretty safely assume that the historical Jesus of Nazareth was a fairly unremarkable looking Hebrew.

            No blue eyes. No blond hair.

            Something like that would have been weird as hell in 1st Century Judea. You don't think it would have merited mention in any of the accounts of Jesus' life?

            • 6 votes
            #16.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:44 PM EDT
            DTansy

            Can you show me an instance? Of "racism", I mean?

            • 4 votes
            #16.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:46 PM EDT
            DTansy

            trm2008- No yap-yap on an "instance of racism"? Just ONE?

            JoulesBeef- same question, since "racism" was YOUR comment?

            • 5 votes
            #16.11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:10 PM EDT
            Eliana-536019

            Killfile, I want to make clear that I was speaking of this day and age, and actually about Reform Judaism, I failed to put that in #16.6 post.

            And OOPS--Now I see my post doesn't even fit in that exchange. You were kind to not delete it as no value and give me a bad black mark from Newsvine. :-)

            I think I must have misread "Jesus" for "Jews". Brain mis-fired...Sorry, everyone.

            No way I believe Jesus was blonde and blue-eyed, though.

            • 3 votes
            #16.12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:19 PM EDT
            trm2008

            DTansy-You have no substantiation of your claims either, because it is your opinion. You really need to learn the difference.

            • 6 votes
            #16.13 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:25 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            Killfile

            I remember seeing a documentary on Discovery about Nordic looking people mummfied in China.

            The Takla Makan Mummies
            The first Tocharian Nordic mummy found in 1989: a White female with long blond ... preserved 2,000-year-old Caucasoid mummy, discovered in 1995 in the region ...
            http://www.meshrep.com/PicOfDay/mummies/mummies.htm

            Lost White Settlements - China, Canary Islands
            The first White mummy in the region was discovered by accident in 1977 after ... Above: Guanche mummies, with red hair and other Nordic features - the original ...
            http://www.white-history.com/hwr6a.htm

            A meeting of civilisations: The mystery of China's celtic mummies
            The Uyghur American Association (UAA) works to promote the preservation and flourishing of a rich, humanistic and ... The Loulan Beauty's features are Nordic. ... Caucasian mummy discovered in 1995. ...
            http://uyghuramerican.org/articles/471/1/A-meeting-of-civilisations-The-mystery-of-Chinas-...

            Aryans: Culture Bearers to China
            ... the arid climate in the area, the mummies give evidence of a Nordic people with ... style decorations have been discovered from Europe, through Iran, to China. ...
            http://library.flawlesslogic.com/china.htm

            Since this is a reality - and these nordic people lived over 3,000 years ago - it is not so far fetched to believe there were blond and blue eye people walking around in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus.

            • 6 votes
            #16.14 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:30 PM EDT
            Killfile

            All your links hate me Debeki, but I can answer some of your questions.

            No, it's not completely impossible to consider that there may have been Noridc looking folks wandering around Judea. The Roman Empire was at its height culturally and militarily speaking within the 1st Century AD and while travel was still very difficult, the Roman domination of the Mediterranean and the establishment of roads made the Empire comparatively fluid.

            In addition, the Hellenization of the Empire had the legion recruiting from the fringes of Rome's holdings, meaning that actual Romans were on the decline in the Augustinian Legion.

            Both of these factors combine to suggest that while blond haired blue eyed folks would have been uncommon in Judea, it is not completely inconceivable that they would make an appearance.

            But then you've got to take into account the insular nature of the Jewish people in the province of Judea. The Jews were the only real monotheists that the Romans encountered and they really didn't understand each other. As a result Judea had a reputation as a rough province to govern and the Romans kept themselves at arms length from the native peoples (who were only too happy to return the favor).

            Thus, while blond haired blue eyed travelers might have been seen in Judea, they would not have been welcomed into the Jewish community nor would they have married into it.

            For Jesus to have been born with blond hair and blue eyes then would have marked him as even more of an outsider than he already was. Nazareth was already a pretty awful place to be from and hanging out with hookers and tax collectors didn't win you any friends. Had Jesus also been a genetic outcast you can bet it would have merited mention.

            Moreover, a study of genetics teaches us today that, because Mary was of the line of David, the dominant genes that code for dark hair and eyes would likely have passed to her as well. In other words, for Jesus to have blond hair and blue eyes he'd need it from both sides of his genetic tree -- Mary and.... yea....

            Now, I've been trying to keep the supernatural out of this. Obviously if we start putting the hand of God into Jesus' hair color a divine dye job will do him up just fine. But without the intervention of the supernatural, it takes some pretty improbable genetic accidents as far back as the book of Kings to have Jesus of Nazareth born with blond hair and blue eyes.

            • 6 votes
            #16.15 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:53 PM EDT
            DTansy

            trm2008-
            "no substantiation..."

            If "I said it myself", as you pointed out earlier, THAT
            would be an "opinion". I don't care about verifying the
            "Obama against the fabric of the Constitution" remark.

            I simply ask ONE question, and you have twice skipped
            around it.

            The question was,

            "an "instance of racism"? Just ONE?"

            • 3 votes
            #16.16 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:11 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            Killfile:

            I see you are gleaning stories of the bible where I was talking from scientific discoveries. Since there are no descriptions of Mary or Jesus or even David and no pictures, assumptions can not be made - Not all Jews have big noses, not all Jews have curly black hair, not all Jews have brown eyes. How can you know what David looked like? The only person I remember having hair described in the bible was Samson - I could be mistaken.

            • 2 votes
            #16.17 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:32 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            and these nordic people lived over 3,000 years ago - it is not so far fetched to believe there were blond and blue eye people walking around in Jerusalem during the time of Jesus.

            Of course there were blond blue eyed people, most of Ancient Rome (cradle of civilization) were Caucasians before mixing , same with what is western Europe today.

            • 1 vote
            #16.18 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:53 AM EDT
            Killfile

            Of course there were blond blue eyed people, most of Ancient Rome (cradle of civilization) were Caucasians before mixing , same with what is western Europe today.

            Not really. The Romans descend from the Greeks according to both their mythology and every other indication that archeologists have to go on. The Romans of ancient times looked like Italians and Greeks today.

            They described some of the Northern Europeans they encountered as "Blond" indicating that they probably weren't. Moreover, of the numerous portraits of Romans that survive from the early to late empire, none depict blond haired Romans.

            Again, that's not to say that there weren't blond folks wandering around the Empire... but they would have looked out of place in Ancient Rome.

            • 1 vote
            #16.19 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 11:34 AM EDT
            Great Greg

            The Romans of ancient times looked like Italians and Greeks today.

            Not really, towards the end of the empire there has been a bit of mixing, but not as much since the fall of Rome.

            Look at the busts of Julius Caeser, Augustus , Cicero. Although some had some Alpo Dinaric ( Mediterranean) features there was also some Keltic Nordic in there as well.

            Rome was basically like the US is today a melting pot.

            • 1 vote
            #16.20 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 12:11 PM EDT
            Reply
            Profchaos

            I can't seem to find any source that says confrim that this was a suspension. Anyone have a link that proves this was a suspension and not just a vacation?

            • 5 votes
            Reply#17 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:03 PM EDT
            DTansy

            ProfChaos-

            I don't know about "proves", but,

            Was Beck suspended?

            • 1 vote
            #17.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:56 PM EDT
            vol fan in chatt, tn

            funny I didn't know he was suspended either. Killfile, you got a source?

            • 2 votes
            #17.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:56 PM EDT
            Killfile

            Neither Fox nor Beck is going to admit to suspension and while I suppose it could have been a vacation it was awfully strange timing.

            The suspension vs vacation thing has been kicked around quite a bit and I suppose we'll never know for sure. I'm altering the headline so-as to remove the contentious language.

            • 3 votes
            #17.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:18 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            Killfile:

            Maybe investigating Beck's vacation time last year and compare to the timing this year might help determine if he was on vacation or if he was suspended.

            • 2 votes
            #17.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:35 PM EDT
            Profchaos

            Neither Fox nor Beck is going to admit to suspension and while I suppose it could have been a vacation it was awfully strange timing.

            Fox would totally throw beck under the bus if it felt it was losing advertisers (kind of like the Imus situation). there is nothing to be gained by not making it public and everything to be gained by making it public.

            and is late august really an odd time to take a vacation?

            • 3 votes
            #17.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:41 PM EDT
            Reply
            servus_aus_tex

            I'm wondering why all those Fox"News" viewers didn't get together during the election. Since according to these numbers, the vast majority of Americans watch Fox"News", which is right-wing Republican, McCain should have won the election.

            • 10 votes
            Reply#18 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:04 PM EDT
            Nightpundit

            Right. Liberals don't use logic, nor are we mathematically inclined, if you believe the Beck supporters.

            • 7 votes
            #18.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
            servus_aus_tex

            No doubt Beck supporters would say the Dems cheated. For instance I've heard that Obama won because of Acorn and other such groups whose members voted twice and registered all those dead people. I was just told that TODAY as a matter of fact.

            • 9 votes
            #18.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:20 PM EDT
            Nightpundit

            Ah yes..ACORN, felons who weren't allowed to vote, dead people, covert Nazi operatives trying to infiltrate the government through subterfuge. You have no idea how ridiculous some of the theorizing I've heard has become...

            • 7 votes
            #18.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:24 PM EDT
            dcstone01

            Yet they can't cite or link verifiable court cases where people from Acorn were found guilty nor that prove that there was mass whole scale cheating and vote rigging/tampering or double voting...Sure there were just a few questionable 'registration attempts' by some of the 'on the street persons' working for Acorn, but nothing more than that...

            Though they all fall down blaming Acorn for everything anyway...All one of them has to do is say Acorn and the right comes running with the lies again and again...no proof, just lies and accusations.

            Every time they start down that road, I say just a few simple words..."Prove it with legal sources"..."Link it so we can all see the proof"...they don't because they can't.

            • 11 votes
            #18.4 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:46 PM EDT
            trm2008

            Everyone knows that the "liberal media" got Obama elected, even though no one watches them. LOL

            • 7 votes
            #18.5 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:30 PM EDT
            DTansy

            Acorn Indicted for Voter Fraud

            http://www.kmbc.com/politics/10214492/detail.html

            http://www.ksdk.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=163905

            http://www.rottenacorn.com/activityMap.html

            http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124182750646102435.html

            Just a few. There's MORE. Shall I continue?

            • 5 votes
            #18.6 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:14 PM EDT
            trm2008

            I looked at the first link. Nice try. The employees were charged with voter registration fraud after they were turned in by ACORN. You really should read the whole article before you post the link. LOL I'm not going to waste anymore time with your links. Life is too short.

            • 10 votes
            #18.7 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:29 PM EDT
            Gary-798280

            More and more people are going to Fox news now because they are finally realizing how they got screwed voting for Obamarama. Go Fox news, keep getting the truth out.

            • 5 votes
            #18.8 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:30 PM EDT
            dcstone01

            thanks trm, most people don't seem to understand the difference between 'voter registration fraud' vs 'voter fraud'...nor know the difference between 'indicted' and a 'conviction' (you will note my comment asked for proof of being found 'guilty as in convicted' of voter fraud, which hasn't been provided...)...

            Most all those stories have been linked to various NV articles and debunked since the last election season...(a simple NV search will bring up 55 pages of links, so there are lots of hits)...

            • 8 votes
            #18.9 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:54 PM EDT
            vol fan in chatt, tn

            to me fraud is fraud...plain and simple, I don't distinguish between larceny and grand larceny - it is theft pure and simple. fraud is the same way.

            • 3 votes
            #18.10 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:06 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            vol fan

            So one of the people you hired committed fraud to your company and within your company. You found out about it and turned them into the authorities.

            Now are you guilty and should the authorities put your ass in jail?

            • 6 votes
            #18.11 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:44 PM EDT
            dcstone01

            "...to me fraud is fraud..."

            Well, you should notice there is a difference between voter registration fraud and voter fraud...

            Voter registration fraud is filling out the 'form falsely'.

            Voter fraud is actually attempting to vote at a polling place...usually with a false ID or at the wrong polling location...

            Big difference...

            • 7 votes
            #18.12 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 8:07 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            vol fan,

            to me fraud is fraud...plain and simple

            Correct regardless of how it's packaged

            • 3 votes
            #18.13 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 9:56 AM EDT
            Reply
            servus_aus_tex

            I hope it becomes a trend for sponsors to pull out of Fox"News".

            You know, the stock market has risen like 20 points since Obama took office, yet the conservatives who normally screech about that being a sign the economy is Grrrrrrreat!, at least they did when Bush was president, are now strangely silent.

            • 9 votes
            Reply#19 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:11 PM EDT
            dcstone01

            I know. I am so happy, my portfolio has gone up at least that and more since he was elected...I am starting to buy stocks again...sure wish I had bought Ford back in Feb 09 though, it was at around .39 cents, now its over $7.00. Would have made a killing on that one...oh well.

            • 10 votes
            #19.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:53 PM EDT
            Gary-798280

            Portfolio's would have com back anyway sooner or later it wasn't the "great Obama" that brought them back believe. He's a loser.

            • 3 votes
            #19.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:32 PM EDT
            servus_aus_tex

            But yet Bushies gave Bush the credit back when the stock market got really artificially high, before it crashed. Remember that?

            • 6 votes
            #19.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 7:37 PM EDT
            Gary-798280

            No that was just crooked rotten lousy CEO's. Thanks to Bush for not over taxing companies so they could keep going and keep hiring though. Obama wants to tax these same companies right out of the U.S. but then you can't expect anything else out of him, not too swift.

            • 1 vote
            #19.4 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:35 PM EDT
            Reply
            SheWhoDoesn'tFallForBS

            ALL TOGETHER NOW, "Oh happy day / Oh happy day / Oh happy day / Oh happy day / When Jesus Washed / Glenn Beck away!"

            • 10 votes
            Reply#20 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:13 PM EDT
            Nightpundit

            Ooooh..that's catchy. Dance Break!

            • 6 votes
            #20.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:16 PM EDT
            Gary-798280

            Did you have a teleprompter for that little act?

            • 4 votes
            #20.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:32 PM EDT
            MichelleUT

            Did you have a teleprompter for that little act?

            Did you make that one up yourself?

            • 9 votes
            #20.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:38 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            ALL TOGETHER NOW, "Oh happy day / Oh happy day / Oh happy day / Oh happy day / When Jesus Washed / Glenn Beck away!"

            But the drain drain was clogged/ With the Liberal lames..

            Budoopy doop be doop eee doopy oooodayyyyyy!!!!!

            • 2 votes
            #20.4 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:02 AM EDT
            Reply
            seahawks76

            This guy, two mornings ago (I listen in the mornings for comedy on the way to work), was saying that "the only thing that is going to save us is God. Unless your inside voice is telling you to go out and kill people or something like that, listen to that voice. Listen to God." He was going on about how we all are supposed to be doing something and that we don't listen to what God is telling us. He was going on about how the Consitution is, and I quote, "Sacred", in the meaning of protected by the divine and that he will reign hellfire on those against us....

            Wha? Did my grandmother's clock just strike twelve? Oh it was just Glen Beck!

            • 10 votes
            Reply#21 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:31 PM EDT
            servus_aus_tex

            What is it with conservatives and the religious right, always thinking they know what God wants? Religious nut cases.

            • 13 votes
            #21.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:52 PM EDT
            dcstone01

            This is exactly why we need to separate religion from government...{{{soul shuddering shakes}}}

            Theocracy anyone?

            • 10 votes
            #21.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 2:56 PM EDT
            MichelleUT

            This is exactly why we need to separate religion from government...{{{soul shuddering shakes}}}

            Theocracy anyone?

            No thanks! We got close enough under Baby Bush!

            • 8 votes
            #21.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:39 PM EDT
            Reply
            rig13

            Colorofchange sounds racist just by their own statement

            Another reverse racism crack pot point of departure.... LOL... seriously... look at the web site carefully... don't cherry pick what you want to see

            change the wording to White America and all the liberals would be sreaming about the KKK

            Funny, if one were really moving away from the notion of race, one would never say that there are white people, black people and so on and so forth.  One would say people who come from Europe or people who are descendants from Africa and so on and so forth.  But, color keeps coming up as a marker... why so... because race is still a real issue in this country.  If one were smart, one would know that not all people who come from Africa are the homogeneous... some Africans are light skin and have light eyes... The same can be said of Europeans... not all Europeans are the same...some have olive skin toned other are pale and others look red with freckles... there is no white or black... its that simple people...

            Now, it is hypothesized by some people that Jesus was not white... or rather of European descent... he was... as semite... so chances are he did not have blond hair and blue eyes... emphasis on chances.... Now... the fact that some jews have blond hair and blue eyes is because most of the jews.... are mostly European... many coming from Eastern Europe, Germany and so on and so forth... Many of these Jews don't even speak Hebrew... they speak Yiddish  because they are Azkanazi jews.  But, again, it is possible the a Sephardic Jew could have had blond hair and blue eyes... not one knows really what Jesus looked like... but it is fair to say that there is a great chance he did not look like the way he is depicted. 

             

             

            • 4 votes
            Reply#22 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:11 PM EDT
            Great Greg

            rig,

            some Africans are light skin and have light eyes... The same can be said of Europeans... not all Europeans are the same...some have olive skin toned other are pale and others look red with freckles... there is no white or black... its that simple people...

            You forgot to ad the Black people that are bluish black.

            • 3 votes
            #22.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:17 PM EDT
            DEBEKI

            So "color" means all colors - hmmmm - must be that racist thing against all colors - good thing Casper the Ghost isn't around - he would be ostricized in this country because he has no color.

            Color for Change means ALL colors. I like the color Purple.

            • 6 votes
            #22.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 4:51 PM EDT
            Reply
            AngryWhiteMan63

            "Back From Suspension"

            Anyone got an official Fox statement that Beck was suspended? Just asking.

            • 5 votes
            Reply#23 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:21 PM EDT
            JoMan

            I never noticed he was gone. When I was looking through the t.v. guide the show was advertised, and when I turned through the channels I noticed his ugly mug on there several times.

            If he was suspended, why was his stupid show still running?

            He's so popular, and even more so now. Anyone that says crazy things like he does will attract conservative right wingers like flies to poop.

            • 5 votes
            #23.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:25 PM EDT
            MichelleUT

            Officially? Probably not. But I loved the timing of his "vacation"

            • 6 votes
            #23.2 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 5:40 PM EDT
            EllieP

            AWM, Nope. It's a lie....at best typical wishful thinking posted as fact, aka leftist "journalism."

            • 6 votes
            #23.3 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 6:11 PM EDT
            Gary-798280

            I don't believe he was, that's wishful thinking on the left and democrats, they are looking really bad and Glen Beck is bringing that out. Why do you suppose they want to get rid of talk radio and TV? They can't get by with crap.

            • 2 votes
            #23.4 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:39 PM EDT
            Reply
            rig13

            Glen Beck is a nut case... a sensationalist who gets on television to stir people's passions. He is not a journalist but a shock jock that went from being on the radio to the television. He is divisive and most of all arrogant...

            As for Fox news having more ratings... and being more successful... sure... a good portion of this country believes in that kind of spewed venom that comes from Fox... notions of culture war.... hate blacks... hate gays... hate anyone who does not agree with us... real Americans versus pinheads...patriots versus liberals... I mean... really, you can criticize the other news mediums for being liberal and biased but then don't go as far as using language of a "us versus them... dictum..."

            Seriously, I am one of many people who adds to Fox's ratings... but I don't watch it because they inform me of any news... I watch it because of the strange entertainment it provides and so that I am abreast of the points of departure they push onto the public. A good portion of the time I am laughing out loud at the misinformation they push... Its scary....

            • 8 votes
            Reply#24 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:21 PM EDT
            Gary-798280

            Sure if you are taken in by phoney Obamarama and that group of tax cheating leftitst idiots he hired- you are going to say that. You folks are in for a very severe let down and the worse part of it we on the other side has to go with you, thanks for nothing.

            • 1 vote
            #24.1 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 4:42 PM EDT
            katlin

            You folks are in for a very severe let down and the worse part of it we on the other side has to go with you

            not if we vote them out in 2010 and 2012....we need to vote out the corrupt congress and president & take back our gov...

            the main reason beck brings out such fear and hatred by the left libbies is because he states the truths about how much the left libbies are destroying this country and how they are doing it.. beck is making the public aware of such destructiveness by the liberals..so they fear him..

              #24.2 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 5:01 PM EDT
              Reply
              rig13

              You forgot to ad the Black people that are bluish black.

              There is no such thing as person being bluish black???? Maybe really dark... to appear as if they look bluish black... and that is only if one is simple and sees people according to color...

              • 4 votes
              Reply#25 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:24 PM EDT
              JoMan

              I think he was being facetious. I could be wrong, but it just seemed...

              • 4 votes
              #25.1 - Wed Aug 26, 2009 3:28 PM EDT
              Great Greg

              rig,

              There is no such thing as person being bluish black???? Maybe really dark... to appear as if they look bluish black... and that is only if one is simple and sees people according to color...

              Wrong, and I believe they are black who haven't integrated with lighter races. You very rarely see them in the US, but outside there are many..

              During the Viking days when the Vikings sailed down the African coast to trade they referred to the people there as the blue men.

              • 2 votes
              #25.2 - Thu Aug 27, 2009 10:08 AM EDT
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