Posted on 09/03/2017 11:53:21 AM PDT by conservative98
Even though Glenn Beck fired 30 percent of his staff at his dwindling media enterprise the Blaze Thursday afternoon, he still managed to keep his personal chef on the company payroll.
The Daily Beast reported that employees who were related to Beck’s close friend Robert Shelton managed to escape the bloodbath of job cuts, including Robert’s son Matthew Shelton, who is Beck’s personal chef.
Another family member who managed to survive the mass layoffs was Shelton’s daughter Bailey, who kept her job as a makeup artist.
In a meeting with the remaining employees of the company Thursday, Beck stressed that the job cuts he made were strictly for business reasons and not for any personal reasons.
“There are no sacred cows, no ‘friends of Glenn,’” Beck said, a witness of the meeting told the Beast. “Nobody is here because they’re good at kissing my ass.”
This is not the first time Beck laid off a large number of employees. In April 2016, Beck laid off 40 employees of the site to “satisfy the requirements of a multi-million-dollar bank loan” Beck took out to keep his struggling media enterprise afloat.
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The loan came around the same time Beck purchased a $200,000 Maybach sedan and a private jetliner.
The struggling conservative media enterprise has had issues over the past three years with declining ad revenue, a sharp drop in web traffic and subscribers, less reach for the television network as cable distributors dropped the subscription-only channel from their lineups, and management troubles.
In August 2016, Beck sued the former Blaze CEO Christopher Balfe for $13 million for alleged breach-of-contract, fraud, and other claims. Balfe counter-sued, noting in his complaint that Beck had become “erratic” and “paranoid,” frequently “referring to himself as Walt Disney.”
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Isn’t he a rabid anti-Trumper? Gee Glen how’s that working out for ya?
Yep.
Most businesses fail but these guys are getting rich off of businesses that fail. Just get a bank loan and pay yourself a huge salary and you’re home free. What a scam.
Hey Glen... don’t let the door...
I remember when the local talk radio station dropped Herman Cain for Glen. Hated that. Now they’ve dropped Glen for a three hour public affairs program with a former mayor. Hello?
If he can find a Mormon judge he’s home free with his law suit.
Maybe Lyn’ Ted will give him a job while he’s still in the senate. Maybe his dear friend Glenn can run his futile reelection campaign?
Because making a baloney or pb&j sandwich like the little people have for lunch is just too hard.
There are limits to sacrifice.
Yup. Saw where some ceo in North or South Carolina was looking at a $16 (or was it $60) million pay out for a failed nuke power system. With that kinda cash I might keep my chef. ;-)
Making this even funnier and more bizarre is that Balfe countersued for $1M. By the terms of Balfe's contract with the Blaze, Beck also has to pay for Balfe's legal defense. According to sources,the legal fees already rung up on both sides of the battle will easily amount to more than $1M. But, Beck refuses to settle, because "principles". HAHahaha. Go buy another jetliner, Beck, or maybe another priceless historical artifact for your museum. You can always lay off even more of your staff when the legal fees come due. Mentally ill moron.
I am amazed he has survived this long.
Unfortunately, for reasons unbeknownst to most of us, he is still on AM radio.
He don’t need a chef, he needs a shrink.
"However, if they're good at stuffing my face ..."
I believe Beck is mentally ill.
There was a time he could offer incisive commentary on current affairs. Unfortunately he had some sort of breakdown (or was he threatened?) and went way off track.
I am amazed he has survived this long.
Unfortunately, for reasons unbeknownst to most of us, he is still on AM radio.
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At the end of the day, he is a status quo, Deep State shill. As such, he will be floated as long as he can draw an audience over a few dozen. He is part of the fake opposition. A uniparty pawn.
Yes, but he had to let his pedicurist go ...
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