Posted on 06/30/2011 9:12:30 AM PDT by Lucky9teen
When Glenn Beck signs off today at the end of his last Fox News cablecast, he will leave a TV legacy of reckless, divisive and ugly speech in his wake. He and Fox News should both feel some shame for the harm they have done to the national political discourse -- how they have taken an hour of dinnertime each weeknight and used it to help polarize us with paranoid and angry words.
But, of course, Fox and Beck seem to have no shame, do they? In the case of Fox News, it thinks good ratings are all that matter. And in the case of Beck, it's all about the new projects he has and his claim to make $30 to $40 million a year, with only a tenth of that having come from Fox.
Good for them and their skewed value systems.
I will tell you something, I did much of my Ph.D. dissertation research on the blacklisting of the 1950s, and Glenn Beck's speech and attacks were as nasty and dirty as any of it. And there is no one who can absolve Fox News for loosening those ugly forces on American life again at a time when we as a nation need to come together to solve massive problems like no time since World War II.
Tell me about how Beck will end his Fox run in third or fourth place overall in cable news ratings, and I'll ask you at what price? He and Fox did it by speaking to our worst demons and betraying any notion of public trust that comes with being a cablecaster and part of the American press.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
Beck is on to something, if they are still screeching like stuck pigs. I hope his new endeavors have an even bigger and longer lasting affect on these tools.
I keep hearing the meme that Glen Beck was so horrible. How about some examples? Instead, just saying how bad he was.
Wasn’t Van Jones a commie? What did he say that wasn’t truth?
Glenn said “they’ll be crapping their pants when they see what he does next” so I’m guessing the left is worried.
Glenn was restricted on FOX and felt that that wasn’t the deal he made.
this guy is bitter and jealous.
This article is a riot. They are comparing Beck to McCarthy! The writer is complaining about Beck exposing communists in the Obama administration.
On the bright side, FOX’s tissue bill should drop significantly.
I hope glenn is right in saying “they are going to wish I was only on an hour at five”....
Wow....what a totally misinformed individual...
My thought is Beck is going to go after the school systems for not teaching the Constitution and Declaration.
Get ready for the up and coming cultural war. And it is going to start with Isaiah 11:6
I love how libs like this idiot always love to bring up McCarthyism and then go on to engage in the same exact behavior... ie. silence FOX, silence Beck, etc.
On their planet it is inconceivable that folks could weigh the issues and reach conclusions that are different from theirs. The only explanation is that they have been brainwashed by Fox and talk radio. How could it be otherwise?
Try telling them that FoxNews simply reflects beliefs that people have held for centuries and they will refer you to Rolling Stone or something.
Many are so busy or too careless to pay attention to what has and is happening to the American way of life.
Glenn has a point of view which is based on facts. So get real and NOTICE what is occurring daily to our government, local, state, national. Most all have spent their self into oblivion.
This is currently an upside dawn and crazy America and the government of today is insane.
God help us in our day, in Jesus name, amen.
....Mr.David Zurawik pissed away his time....
I regret he wasn't able to complete that work.And that so few supported him.
Dave, here is typical Pinko Scum,Useless to society and a Liar.
So let me get this straight...this guy got his doctorate with a dissertation propagating the commie’s defensive smoke-screen of the fifties, and we’re supposed to credit that as his authority to write an itemless editorial condemnation of Beck’s rhetorical style, regardless of validity.
These guys really are very funny.
I guess that’s one way to get someone to look at your dissertation-not that I bothered. The man is a dolt! Ivy League Faculty?
Beck is so hateful that 3 million folks tune in daily to watch him spew. LOL!!
How about when Beck quotes Soros from George’s own book or from a taped speech, and the libtard media goes to Soros to get a NEW quote, so they can claim they’ve “decimated” Beck’s credibility?
Must be writing about keith Olberman
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