Comedy Gold: Media Matters Throws Party to Celebrate Beck Leaving Fox News

I honestly never paid much attention to Glenn Beck's show on Fox News, but the clowns at Media Matters sure were obsessed with it. So he must have been doing something right. Now that he's about to the leave the network, they're taking all the credit as if his leaving has anything at all to do with them.

Now, these goofballs will have more time to focus on all the other "right-wing nuts" out there - if only they could name any of them. Check out the guy at the 0:32 mark. Dude can't even come up with "Rush Limbaugh" or "Sarah Palin" off the top of his head? Pathetic! No doubt he'll be demoted to Geraldo duty by the end of the week.



Via the Blaze.

Democrats Organize 'Farewell' to Glenn Beck

Gee, it almost seems as if Media Matters and the Democrat Congressional Campaign Committee are one and the same.

We’re pretty torn up about the announcement that Fox News' Glenn Beck Program is going off the air.

It’s going to be tough, but we’re working through our grief by creating a "Farewell Glenn Beck Chalkboard of Memories." You can add your name to the chalkboard by filling out the form on the right. Don’t worry, we’ll send the whole thing to Glenn himself.

This would almost be amusing if they knew didn't beclown themselves by misspelling conspiracy and oligarchy.

Idiots.

Don't You Wish Glenn Beck Had Been Your Teacher?

I don't watch Glenn Beck as much, well actually hardly at all anymore, but yesterday because the television was on the Fox News channel and I was engaged in some other activity I caught part of his show and I am glad that somebody captured the video to go with his explanation of nuclear power plants in a way that only Glenn Beck can do. With M&M's and pots and pans.

Skip the first 4:30 minutes to get to his explaining in plain language what all those terms you are hearing on the news are actually referring to.

Beck to Grayson: 'I’m a Bit Concerned Because You Seem a Little Desperate'

Well, we're about ready to roll on election day, and some folks are getting cocky.

Dear Alan…How’s that fundraising going? I’m a bit concerned because you seem a little desperate, using me and all. But don’t worry, I’m sure everything will work out fine. It’s not like anyone is donating any money to your conservative opponent, Daniel Webster (donate here: http://www.electwebster.com/). Have a great day tomorrow! Good luck! Not that you’ll need it against Daniel Webster (donate here: http://www.electwebster.com/).

The move by Mr. Beck comes just days after Mr. Grayson launched the “Glenn Beck, Mind Your Own Business” campaign, which encourages supporters to contribute to a special fund with the same name.

Mr. Grayson continues to trail Mr. Webster in the latest poll, which shows him trailing by 7 percent.

The man has warned us for months to not get cocky. Patience, my friends, we're almost there.

Poll: Americans Love Fox, Have No Idea Who These Losers on MSNBC Are

I think MSNBC's ratings might actually get a bump today as people tune in to see if any of their low-rated liberal hacks lose it on the air. When they realize nobody know who they are while at the same time admire Bill O'Reilly and Glenn Beck then you know heads are going to explode.

More people are getting their news about the upcoming election from cable television than any other source, and from Fox News more than any other cable channel, according to a POLITICO/George Washington University Battleground Poll released Monday.

The poll found that 81 percent of those polled get their news about the midterm elections from cable channels, like Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, or their websites, compared with 71 percent from national network news channels, such as ABC, NBC or CBS, and their websites.

Among cable news channels, Fox was the clear winner, with 42 percent of respondents saying it is their main source, compared with 30 percent who cited CNN and 12 percent who rely on MSNBC.
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Fox’s opinionated personalities were also rated as having the greatest positive impact on the political debate in the country. Bill O’Reilly was rated as having, by far, the greatest positive impact, with 49 percent of respondents rating him positively, and 32 percent negatively.

Glenn Beck was the second most-positively rated personality, with 38 percent of respondents saying he had a positive impact, and 32 percent saying he had a negative impact.

Radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh was the third-most-positively ranked, with 36 percent saying he has a positive impact on the discourse, but his negatives far outweighed his positives, with 52 percent saying he has a negative impact.

“To some extent, Limbaugh has become almost a caricature in a way, so I don’t know how much influence he has beyond entertainment value,” Arteron said. “Whereas, in some way, the other people on Fox are seen as more legitimate news operations.”

MSNBC’s personalities were largely ranked as unknown by respondents: 70 percent said they had never heard of Ed Schultz, 55 percent said they had never heard of Rachel Maddow and 42 percent said they had never heard of Keith Olbermann.

Bill Clinton and John Kerry would call those people ignorant and uninformed.

Make Believe Media: WaPo Claims Al Sharpton Brings Thousands to DC

Hundreds of thousands of Americans showed up in Washington today to see a rally held by Glenn Beck. So what does the Washington Post report? That Al Sharpton drews thousands to Washington.

Unreal. Most notable quote they can find about Beck, who outdrew Sharpton by about 100 to 1?

Jaime Contreras, president of SEIU-32BJ, said those gathered at the Mall with Beck "represent angry white people and hate-mongering." He added: "We will not let them stand in the way of the change we voted for!"

Meanwhile, they make sure to remind readers that Beck and Sarah Palin drew an overwhelmingly white crowd. They failed to note Sharpton's sparse gathering was overwhelming black, naturally.

Claiming the legacy of the nation's Founding Fathers and repeatedly evoking civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., Beck, Sarah Palin and other speakers at the "Restoring Honor" rally exhorted a sprawling and overwhelmingly white crowd to concentrate not on the history that has scarred the nation but instead on what makes it "good."

Update: Via Ian Schwartz, it looks like CBS was also playing the race card.

CBS News: "I'm noticing that there are not a lot of minorities here today, why do you think that is?"

Black woman at Glenn Beck rally: "They're probably over there with Al Sharpton."

Plus, even more nonsense.

Yawn: Angry Civil Rights Fossil Calls Tea Partiers Klansmen or Something

Some guy few have ever heard of babbles incoherently and apparently it's news to ABC. Really, this is some sad stuff. You'd think someone with a conscience close to the poor man would intervene and prevent him from sounding like an idiot.

A civil rights activist and former congressman equated the Tea Party with the Ku Klux Klan today as he blasted a conservative rally planned in Washington, D.C., this weekend.

The Rev. Walter Fauntroy, the non-voting delegate who represented the District of Columbia from 1971 to 1991, called on African-Americans to organize a "new coalition of conscience" to rebut the rally scheduled for Saturday at the Lincoln Memorial featuring Fox News pundit Glenn Beck and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

"We are going to take on the barbarism of war, the decadence of racism, and the scourge of poverty, that the Ku Klux -- I meant to say the Tea Party," Fauntroy told a news conference today at the National Press Club. "You all forgive me, but I -- you have to use them interchangeably."

Fauntroy attempted to explain the comparison to white supremacists by saying that organizers behind the "Restoring Honor" rally are the same people who cut audio cables from a sound system the night before the historic March on Washington and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.

"The same people who cut the cables on the night before the march, that we paid $66,000 for a sound system, they cut it," Fauntroy said. "Now from Fox News and elsewhere, they are seeking to turn the world back."

So glad our Golfer-in-Chief has brought us all together in racial harmony.

Anthony Weiner Announces Investigation of Liberal Talk Radio Hosts

Well, at least he's being even handed.

Oh wait, he's ignoring them and just targeting Glenn Beck? How convenient.

Meanwhile, the slimy Stalinist wannabe was on with Bill O'Reilly Monday night.



Meanwhile, more inconvenient Weiner Facts continue to emerge. He really is an embarrassment to humanity.

Epic Weiner Fail: Goldline Has A+ BBB Rating

Sniveling Democrat punk Anthony Weiner decided to spend taxpayer money "investigating" Glenn Beck and one of his sponsors, Goldline International, this week, and naturally his media aides jumped right on board in the latest pathetic attempt at smearing Beck. In retaliation Beck has started up a website goofing on the hapless Weiner. Talk about opening the door into your own face.

Weiner's attack has prompted low-rated cable hacks clearly envious of Beck to become completely unglued. As a commenter at Mediaite notes:

In the interest of full disclosure, Keith Olbermann should mention that anyone who took Glenn Beck’s advice and bought gold has made a bundle of money since Obama got elected. And they will continue to make money on gold, since Obama seems determined to destroy the US dollar and bankrupt the country. Gold hit an all time high last week, and looks to be heading higher.

Price of Gold when was Obama was elected = $750 per ounce
Price of Gold now = $1210 per ounce

Not many investments have increased in value since the Great Leader took over. But this one — whose rise is a sign of the destruction of the US economy — has been a big winner. As a result, Beck is looking a lot smarter than Olbermann right now. And the fellow who looks really clueless is sitting in the Oval Office.

Of course the blind hatred for Beck has clearly clouded the judgment of the desperate Weiner, and the most basic of research should have clued him into this most salient fact: Goldline has an A+ rating from the Better Business Bureau. Now if this company was so horrible, you'd expect them to have a lot of unhappy customer, no? Well, here's the number of complaints Goldline has received in the past three years:

No. of Cmpl Type of Response
9 Making a full refund, as the consumer requested
3 Making a partial refund
24 Agreeing to perform according to their contract
0 Refusing to make an adjustment
7 Refuse to adjust, relying on terms of agreement
0 Unanswered
0 Unassigned
43 Total

Do you suppose if this Democrat Congress were a business they would have an A+ rating? Uh, doubtful.

Weiner needs to be taken before the House Ethics Committee and be questioned as to why he's attacking and smearing a company with an A+ rating and why he's spending taxpayer money going after Glenn Beck.

H/T Lachlan Markey.

Duct Tape Futures Look Bright

I don't know the source of this video other than it appears to be from a British show. In it Rupert Murdoch supports his on-air talent Glenn Beck in the faux outrage raised by the liberals over Glenn calling Obama on his racist statements, which led to the boycott of sponsors spearheaded by by the soon to be thrown under the bus czar Van Jones.

Kooky Krugman: Big GOP Wins in 2010 Will Hurt the Party

I don't speak moonbat so maybe someone can help decipher this lunatic screed for me. Deranged NY Times hack Paul Krugman today bemoans the fact conservatives are rising up and influencing the GOP. Naturally, he goes on whining about the evil influence of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck, a lazy man's rehash of White House talking points that can be found pretty much anywhere in the kook-left blogosphere. If I didn't know better I'd think I was reading the incoherent ramblings of a washed-up jazz musician suffering from creationist derangement syndrome. Whatever the case, Krugman comes to the conclusion that if the GOP makes strides in the 2010 midterms it'll turn out badly for them.

Seriously.

In fact, the party of Limbaugh and Beck could well make major gains in the midterm elections. The Obama administration’s job-creation efforts have fallen short, so that unemployment is likely to stay disastrously high through next year and beyond. The banker-friendly bailout of Wall Street has angered voters, and might even let Republicans claim the mantle of economic populism. Conservatives may not have better ideas, but voters might support them out of sheer frustration.

And if Tea Party Republicans do win big next year, what has already happened in California could happen at the national level. In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing — but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state’s fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable in the midst of an ongoing economic disaster.

The point is that the takeover of the Republican Party by the irrational right is no laughing matter. Something unprecedented is happening here — and it’s very bad for America.

Krugman conveniently forgets which party now controls the entire government that is overseeing--as he puts it--disastrously high unemployment. But any counter to that by the irrational right will only hurt the GOP, the ones trying to do something about it. Seems Krugman would rather have the disaster continue than cede any power to the bogeymen (and women) on the right he so fears. Seems he'd be comfortable becoming a banana republic just as long as Rush Limbaugh can't celebrate a victory on the air.

Krugman isn't the only one parroting this nonsense. It was the popular talking point on the Sunday babblehead shows.

Glenn Was Right Again

Yesterday on Glenn Beck's television show he received a call on what is called the Refounders Line. Not to be confused with the special line he installed that would allow Anita Dunn to call his show anytime she saw something wrong and have Glenn correct it immediately. A phone that has never rang, by the way. Anyway, after hanging up he alluded to some big news that was coming concerning White House communications director Dunn's husband. Granted, he played it for all it was worth, but lo and behold, look what is breaking today from Fox News.

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn's husband is emerging as the top candidate to replace Greg Craig as White House counsel, Fox News has learned.

Dunn's husband, Bob Bauer, is President Obama's personal lawyer and a former counsel to his campaign, as well as the top lawyer for the Democratic National Committee.

For the portion of the clip with the phone call you need to skip to about the 7:45 mark of this video.



He ain't doing too bad for somebody who describes himself as a rodeo clown, is he?

Beck Derangement Syndrome

Looks like Charles Johnson has taken up tennis.

Speaking of the left's new blog darling, he fell for some misconstrued Media Matters nonsense today about Rush Limbaugh and asks:

I searched, and found not a single right wing blog denouncing this vile rant. As far as I can tell, nobody on the right seems to think there’s anything with this.

Uh, yeah, because it's fiction peddled by the George Soros-funded, long ago discredited Media Matters.

Hello!

All it would take, of course, is checking this transcript. But hey, why do that when you can smear Limbaugh and call him raaaaacist? I also looked around and, well, nobody is talking about it. Because it's nonsense.

Satire and parody of the left obviously escapes some people. Naturally, this just parrots the batshit-crazy left who all fell for the same thing.

Just pathetic.

Kommander Keith Calls Off KosKidz

The sociopath known as Keith Olbermann went over the edge Sunday by calling for his drooling minions at Daily Kos to dig up dirt on Glenn Beck, furious Keithy was that Commie Troofer Van Jones tossed himself under Obama's bus. Clearly since Keithy has been drinking heavily or indulging in some other proclivities, he let common sense get the better of him and after likely reprimand by the suits at NBC today decided to ask the hounds to stay put.

Until Kommander Keith issues his next order, of course.

It's a rambling mess where he inevitably gets around to what he does best--casting his sorry ass as the victim.

Read the reaction at Newsbusters, where Noel Sheppard helps decipher the inanities and insanities.

This stooge must just be apoplectic daily to see his pathetic self being eaten alive in the ratings by Beck, someone of course not nearly the (ahem) towering intellect that the ag school grad is. Somehow Keith Olbermann, super genius, came to the conclusion he might not really want to start doing opposition research on your superior competitors because, well, looked what just happened to Jones, even though nobody seems to know his name any more.

Craven Media Whore Puts Best Spin on Van Jones Resignation

Leave it to this dunce to try and put a good spin on Communist Truther Van Jones' exit from the White House.

Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than what you intended.

Your vile and vicious smear campaign has helped reverse one of the worst examples of miscasting since John Wayne took on the role of Genghis Khan in The Conqueror.

Don't get me wrong: Van Jones was the best person for the job he just gave up. But the job was not the best use of Van Jones.

Contrary to the media caricature, the real Van Jones is a thoughtful leader who knows how to use words to move people to action. To stick him behind a desk, working out the details of tax credits for green jobs -- incredibly important though the job is -- was never the best use of his unique and abundant skills.

This is not an attempt to put a positive spin on an ugly episode. I've actually been feeling this way ever since Van told me he was taking this job.

Of course she provides no evidence she really thought this way, but hey, the left never had any shame in making things up as they go along to fit their needs.

Read the rest of the drivel if you can stomach it. The way he's painted, it's a wonder this thug Jones isn't already on Mount Rushmore.

One other thing: She claims there is a media caricature of Jones. Yet until he resigned there was virtually no media reporting on Jones, so how exactly was this caricature created?

Olbermann Reacts to Van Jones Resignation with the Usual Class and Dignity

The very reasoned and respected newsman today reacted with his usual dignified manner to the resignation of Barack Obama's communist Truther, Van Jones.

I don't know why I've got this phrasing in my head, but: Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes.

No, even now, I refuse to go all caps.

No, sending me links to the last two Countdowns with my own de-constructions of his biblical vision quality Communist/Fascist/Socialist/Zimbalist art at Rockefeller Center (where, curiously, he works, Comrade) doesn't count. Nor does sending me links to specious inappropriate point-underscoring prove-you're-innocent made-up rumors.

Tuesday we will expand this to the television audience and have a dedicated email address to accept leads, tips, contacts, on Beck, his radio producer Burguiere, and the chief of his tv enablers, Ailes (even though Ailes' power was desperately undercut when he failed to pull off his phony "truce" push).

Oooh, Keithy and the Koz Kidz are coming to get you, Glenn Beck and Roger Ailes! Run for the hills!

It would be curious whether anyone in the hierarchy at GE and NBC are aware that one of their overpaid employees is planning to investigate and likely smear members of an opposing news organization.

Is this how they want to conduct business? And would Olbermann really want people poking into his past?

Via Ace.

Thanks to Gateway Pundit for the link.

Glenn Beck - 1 Obamabots - 0

The first thing I heard this morning when I woke up was that Barry O's so-called Green Czar, Van Jones has resigned. We have heard a lot of about Van Jones in the last week, but actually this man was first brought to our attention by Glenn Beck on his show on the Fox News network.

What has been under reported is the connection between Van Jones and an organization called the Color of Change. Van Jones was one of the founders of that organization and that is the very same organization which is leading the advertiser boycott of the Glenn Beck show.

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 has 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.

It would seem to me that those companies who pulled their advertising now have some explaining to do.

You can just add this guy to a long list of people that Barack has handpicked as friends and confidants, who so many in the media have chosen to ignore and certainly raise a lot of questions about the real character of the man chosen to lead this nation.

I used to listen to Glenn on the radio and I certainly watched him when he had his show on Headline News, but it seems since moving to Fox a lot of the humor is gone from personality, which is what attracted me to him, so I don't watch or listen as much anymore. In fact I think the first show of his I ever heard was on the radio dealt with his trials and tribulations with the Connecticut drivers license bureau. It had me cracking up so bad at the office that I had to quit listening.

Here's hoping Glenn can find that rodeo clown again.

Color This Change

Recently an organization called Color of Change has taken exception with some things that Glenn Beck has said on his show on Fox News, so they started blackmailing, (can I say that?) companies that advertised during his time slot. They are claiming a lot of success and maybe they are having some effect, but not the one they wanted.

Glenn's ratings continue to soar, even though his show airs at 5 pm EST when a lot of us are stuck in rush hour traffic coming home from our job. Well those of us that still have one after the resounding success of the stimulus package has had.

Beck attracted 2.81 million viewers Monday, his third-largest audience since his show launched on Fox News in January, according to Nielsen Media Research data provided by the network. On Tuesday, nearly 2.7 million viewers tuned in, his fifth-largest viewership to date. And the conservative host got a plug from former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who urged people to watch his program in a post on her Facebook page.

While the Color of Change is bragging about their success I would sort of take that with a grain of salt. The companies have not pulled their advertising from Fox, rather Fox has simply moved those commercials to different times, so they continue to reap the benefits of those advertising dollars. The second part is without all of those commercials Glenn now has more time to conduct interviews and have his say, so in essence these idjits have given Glenn more air time to take this administration to task and ask those disturbing questions about Barry O's "friend", who are now political appointees.


If this is victory they must have a really good definition of defeat, I am thinking something along the lines of what happened to the Romans at the hands of Hannibal at The Battle of Lake Trasimene.

Great News! The Left Finally Love the Police

Sadly, it took the murder of three Pittsburgh police officers today, but the left has finally embraced the brave men and women of law enforcement today with an outpouring of affection and respect.

Oh wait, no they haven't. In fact, they haven't uttered a word about respecting the police or showing sympathy for the families of those killed by some nutcase.

Instead, they're blaming this on, um, Glenn Beck.

Funny, but when four police officers were murdered in Oakland a couple of weeks ago, I don't recall anyone blaming it on liberals, Air America or MSNBC.

Funny how that works.

Let's take a sampling from the fever swamps today, shall we?

At Balloon Juice, John Cole offers this subtle analysis, calling it Glenn Beck's America. I suppose when those four cops were murdered in Oakland we should have called it what, Jesse Jackson's America? Barack Obama's America? Ron Dellums' America?

Please, someone enlighten me.

Also piling on Glenn Beck is the very unstable John Amato, who also blames the NRA.

Again, we've had thousands of police officers murdered in the line of duty the past several decades, the overwhelming majority killed in urban areas. So I guess the kneejerk reaction to all of those homicides should be to blame it on failed liberal policies in cities controlled by Democrats, correct? Hey, if you want to play that game, let's assign blame for every murder to the killer's party affiliation and ideology, OK? You folks really want to go down that road?

By all means then, it's game on.

Meanwhile, there's a call for the right to lower the temperature a bit.

Funny, but for eight years of the Bush presidency, I don't recall similar pleas for the left to dial it down.

While I'm not one who ascribes to paranoid fears of an "Obama gun grab" or the notion that we'll wake up tomorrow without a Second Amendment, I can understand the fears of gun owners who've had to continue the vociferous fight to maintain gun rights over the years. Considering there are over 50 million gun owners out there in America today who did not commit a crime with their weapons, I believe reflexive reactions to pin the blame on a talk show host or to even suggest today's tragic events in Pittsburgh can be assigned to a political party are disingenuous at best and rather disgusting.

But if those on the left want to play that game, then by all means every time a police officer is murdered then we can play along.

As always, as someone with many relatives in law enforcement and who has seen friends killed in the line of duty, I express my deepest sympathies to the family and friends of those killed in Pittsburgh today. Maybe those on the left who are pointing the finger at Glenn Beck can find the time to also pass along their sympathies.

If they actually have any.

Update: Apparently it's all our fault.

In the comments, a vicious far-left blogger, who apparently is also a racist, says we "own this". He apparently has a very short memory, especially from that time when he suggested shooting another blogger.

Classy guy, that T-Bag.

Thanks to Curt at Flopping Aces for the link. Image of the fallen officers added.

More on the perp here.

Records indicate that Mr. Poplawski was dishonorably discharged from the corps during basic training. Friends said he wanted out so he could rejoin his girlfriend.

When that relationship failed, Mr. Poplawski moved for two years to Florida where he worked as a glazier, helping to asemble and replace windows. He returned here in 2006 or 2007.

Mr. Poplawski collaborated with Mr. Perkovic on an Internet show that featured clips --- sometimes from local news broadcasts, other times video from around the town --- where they discussed politics.

Mr. Poplawski lived with his mother and grandmother in Stanton Heights. Friends said his parents had split years ago and that his father "was totally out of the picture."

Using the left's logic, we can now also blame the Marines, women, his mother and his grandmother, in addition to Glenn Beck. Of course we have no knowledge he's ever watched or listened to Glenn Beck, but why disrupt a good narrative?

Glenn Beck On the Release of Ramos and Compean (VIDEOS)

This is just a FANTASTIC day. Well, maybe not in all ways, but in the case of former Border Patrol Agents, Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean. They finally were released from prison, and are on house arrest. But Glenn Beck, who has long-championed their cause and story, was the first to break this news and have Ignacio Ramos' wife, Monica, and their attorney on.






Again, this was a great day. It would have been better if they'd have received full pardons, but I will take small victories where I can get them. And I don't think I'm alone on this.