Posted on 06/11/2012 12:35:40 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Glenn Beck once said that leaving Fox News Channel, as he did in 2011, would earn him $40 million by allowing him to concentrate on his own web-based subscriber operation, GBTV.
Now The New York Times reports he has signed a $100 million contract for his radio shows to appear on Clear Channel Communications stations across the country.
The move puts the pressure on Rush Limbaugh, whose advertisers abandoned him earlier this year after he called a college student a "slut" because she supported contraception coverage in healthcare plans. The Times said:
Now carried by more than 400 stations, the show typically ranks No. 3 among all news-talk radio shows, behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, so the contract extension brings a measure of stability to local stations that carry it.
Limbaugh's contract is worth $200 million per year. Beck's is worth $100 million over five years.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
you got to watch Beck...he is constantly on the prowl to get your money...he sells everything....
Ten Percent. They’ll bill him.
Beck has upped his hype IMO....for ratings???
You feel the same about Israelis that are not Christians as you do about LDSers.
no religion on earth ranks wealth higher on the godliness scale than Mormonism...
I say that along with saying I'm voting for Romney no matter what his religion...
Read my statement, God gave us free will to either accept or reject His Word.
If you have a problem with Him giving us such Grace, that we may dwell with Him for eternity, take it up with Him.
Just curious, is GBTV successful? Wonder if it is working out. Anyone know?
Actually, Rush was virtually unaffected by the controversy.
And then there was the show where he tried to push the Mormon myth that American Indians descended from the Jews and were visited by Christ, and buried some kind of plates somewhere, or something. He jumped the shark bigtime with that one.
Cat, don’t you think that makes the statement by a couple of people on this thread that Beck isn’t a mormon at all, really humorous?
Anyone that would leave the church that Christ himself founded to join a cult started a drunk named Joe Smith, who the cult’s members say sit at the right hand of God; well they ain’t wrapped too tight. And that describes the comedian Glenn Beck.
Not only the right hand of God Himself, but decides if you are worthy to get into their highest level of celestial being.
JS once said he was greater that their lds jesus.
You are correct, not wrapped to tight.
GB has begun to lose it, however he apparently has an audience, mostly 13 year olds I would think at this point.
Years ago I thought he was great, I am guessing five years ago..........down hill.
I do, considering that he's talked about being a Mormon many, many times. His conversion story, told by him, is readily available on YouTube, and there's this, too....
http://bakersfieldchurch.blogspot.com/2010/08/glenn-becks-mormon-infomercial.html
It’s very sad. Beck has proven that he will dig to any depth to uncover information, but that doesn’t extend to Mormonism. I suspect that his sidekick, Pat Gray, who had a hand in his conversion, sticks close by to make sure no one puts a doubt in Beck’s head.
When Glenn used the Decalogue Stones from an Ohio archeological dig to try and ‘prove the existence of Jewish writing in prehistoric America’ I posted extensive debunking of this lie. But it didn’t seem of interest at the time on FR. The stones are dated to no older than the 1300s and the place where they were fashioned is even posited and most likely correct since a ‘factory’ for fabricating them was known to that time.
I knew Beck had started talking about bogus lds history, yet never realize to that extent.
How very sad, looks like he has fallen hook line and sinker.
Dr. Rochelle Altman, a specialist in ancient phonetic-based writing systems, maintains that the Newark Holy Stones are indeed genuine. In her discussion of this topic she notes that “Dr. Arnold Fischel, lecturer at the Sephardic synagogue in New York (founded in 1654, thus with a Sephardic-Dutch connection), a noted scholar and authority, had written a paper, ‘The Hebrew Inscribed Stones Found in Ohio,’ delivered in June of 1861 to The American Ethnological Society. In this paper, he stated he was convinced of the authenticity of the artifact and ascribed it to ‘medieval and European origins’.”Dr. Altman notes that the 1863 report of a committee set up by the Ethnological Society agreed with Dr. Fischel’s conclusions; nonetheless, this report has been ignored by the archaeological world. She writes, “Why was the identification ignored? Because neither the committee’s report nor Fischel’s identification fit the two models erected with regard to these artifacts. On one side, we had a group who maintained that the artifacts were evidence of the presence of the ten lost tribes of Israel in ‘Ancient America.’ On the other side, we had a school who declared the artifacts were ‘modern forgeries.’” Dr. Altman then presents a new and novel explanation of what the five Newark Holy Stones really are.
“There are five pieces, four of which compose a set of ritual artifacts of two types. The fifth item is a case, made-to-order, to house one of the ritual artifacts. The two types are intended for different purposes.
“Type one consists of head (‘rosh’) [which Dr. Altman identifies as the Johnson-Bradner Stone] and hand (‘yad’) phylacteries (tefillin), made of black limestone (black is required for phylacteries). The hand phylactery is 6-7/8” in length by 2-7/8” in width by 1-3/4” in thickness.
“The artifact [the Decalogue Stone] is inscribed in the incantation format and displays a variant of a known condensed version of the ‘decalogue,’ with abbreviations and composite graphs that dates to before the second century BCE. The head phylactery, inscribed with two of the four excerpts of Exodus required by halacha (Laws), is also written in the spirals of an incantation format and is also made of black limestone. Now only a lithograph of the head piece remains. The phylactery was approximately 3” long by 1-3/4” in thickness and tapered from approximately 1” at the top to a rounded “point” at the bottom.
“Type two, made of novaculite, a very hard fine-grained rock, consists of a flow detector [the Keystone], for determining whether water is stagnant or flowing (thus pure), and a bowl for containing the water for ritual purification prior to donning the phylacteries. The flow detector is four-sided and approximately 6” in length by 1-5/8” in thickness and bears a resemblance to a rounded ‘plumb bob.’” Dr. Altman analyzes each of the Holy Stones and the writings on them. In part she writes, “The two phylacteries are made of black material, which is in accord with the rabbinical law that phylacteries must be black in color. Although contrary to Palestinian and Babylonian rabbinic rulings in the second century CE, the use of a condensed ‘decalogue’ is in accord with a known prior tradition. That other traditions continued to exist alongside the Palestinian and Babylonian tradition is known from the Dead Sea Scrolls, papyri from Egypt.”
Based on her analysis she comes to the following conclusions:
“The artifacts could not possibly have been created in the nineteenth century; nobody had the knowledge necessary to do so. Indeed, nobody who previously examined these artifacts has recognized that two of the artifacts are inscribed in the ancient incantation format. Nor has anyone previously realized that the ‘peculiar’ font is a consolidated design or that it is a grid font typical of scripts and fonts used with incantation formats. It is rather clear that no one until today has recognized the Late-Medieval Hebrew script that is the base-script of this consolidated grid font. The ‘Newark’ Ritual artifacts are neither forgeries nor relics of ‘Ancient America.’ They are, however, very important concrete evidence of Ancient and Medieval Israelite practices.”
I sent the information on the stones to Glenn but it is doubtful that it was allowed to be presented to him. He has a very 'protective' staff who appear to be dedicated to aiming him in the directions they want him to go.
The above passage is from the following link, if anyone wishes to dig deeper into this issue:
http://personal.stevens.edu/~llevine/holy_stones_newark_ohio.pdf
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