Glenn Beck Inc (Forbes Article)

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“I could give a flying **** about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says.

forbes.com/forbes/2010/0426/entertainment-fox-news-simon-schuster-glenn-beck-inc.html
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I’m not a big fan of Beck.

But if you think that most people that listen to him, or Limbaugh or even Hannity do not know that they are in it for the money are crazy. The majority of their shows are commercials. Ed Schultz is no different.

Liberals think that people get their ideas and knowledge from conservative talk show hosts. It’s a huge misconception. When I was younger, I worked with a guy who would listen to Limbaugh every single day. Of course, at that time I hated it, I wanted to listen to music. So, I asked him about playing music instead and he said he would if they would play anything worth listening to.

Listen to Andrew Wilkow on Sirius Patriot, not only is he in it for the money, he shows it by putting on a very good performance, day in and day out.

If they were in it for any other reason, they would end up like Air America and all the other boring liberal shows.
 
Looks to me like the guy is a genius. I haven’t seen him a whole lot, but based on what I have seen, it appears to me he’s tongue in cheek a good part of the time, and serious a good part of the time. I saw a thing where he was suggesting, deadpan, that a film of Obama which showed a mouse or rat or something dart across the foreground, was a sign of demonic possession or something. Then he laughed and joked at the assertion and played the joke out further, but then said some pretty hard-hitting things about Obama and remained serious about it until the subject went on to something else.

I can see, though, how some people might think he was really serious about the rat=demonic possession joke, or any number of other things he says. One has to pay attention and be open minded about the guy. He’s very smart and very quick. From the cited article, it appears he is sometimes too quick and regrets having said some things. But I sure didn’t get the impression that he regrets them all or that all the things he says are tongue in cheek or “entertainment”.

I saw his show once, clear through, and he can be tedious too. In my opinion, he could easily be too tedious to hold an audience if he didn’t interject pure entertainment at times.

No, the guy is good at what he does. Just because liberals hate him, it doesn’t make him any less talented. But as with Palin, I just don’t see why liberals are so fixated with him. Fear, I guess. Maybe they think he has an appeal to some people, and could appeal to more of them, just as Palin does. Myself, I think it’s paranoid and a waste of time on liberals’ parts, because they can say whatever condemnations they want to say, and those folks’ devotees are just going to ignore them. They will ignore liberal attacks because it seems both Palin and Beck are simply saying, in more dramatic and overt ways, what a lot of people already believe without them.
 
I think people often forget he started off as a “Top 40” DJ. He started off in the entertainment side of the radio business.

The way I see him now is, he might not be interested in the political process, but he is concerned about where this country is headed. He is the only person I hear on TV or radio saying that we must have a return to God in this country and to revive the Founding Father’s and the principles of faith, hope, and charity.

And if he could do this while making it entertaining…all the better!

Go Glenn!
 
Well Ms. Rose is very clearly NOT a fan of Becks. 😃 Honestly, if your going to interview someone you should just stick to the facts and leave the adjectives, be they negative or postive, out of it as much as possible.

The man is very clearly a success story. He is living the American Dream. 👍
 
Interesting how people play with quotes to give the false impression that he is only in it for the money
Let’s look at the entire quote:

With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: “I could give a flying **** about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says.

Notice that Josephdavid omits the With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political ,thus giving no context whatsoever to the comments that follow.

Forbes distorts it also with the gratuitous* Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage*. Note that Beck didn’t say that.-it’s Forbes opinion-but they sandwich it between quotes from Beck giving the false impression that Beck said it.

Prior to this comment Beck says:

The body of work is pretty much the same," explains Beck, 46. “What I’m trying to do is get this message out about self-empowerment, entrepreneurial spirit and true Americanism–the way we were when we changed the world, when Edison was alone, failing his 2,000th time on the lightbulb.”

This completely blows away the insinuation that Beck is only in it for the money and does not believe what he says. In fact if you read the entire article you will see that it is long on supposition and very, very short on comments from Beck. It’s a hit piece., pure and simple. It plays into the usual liberal fantasy that liberals are selfless in working for the betterment of mankind while conservatives don’t believe anything they say and are only in it for the money
 
SalesianSDB said:
I think people often forget he started off as a “Top 40” DJ. He started off in the entertainment side of the radio business.

The way I see him now is, he might not be interested in the political process, but he is concerned about where this country is headed. He is the only person I hear on TV or radio saying that we must have a return to God in this country and to revive the Founding Father’s and the principles of faith, hope, and charity.

And if he could do this while making it entertaining…all the better!

Go Glenn!
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I guess you agree that if your pastor teaches social justice you should run away from the church? He did a whole show on that. He’s entertainment in the same way as the Roman Colloseum put on quite a show
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
I guess you agree that if your pastor teaches social justice you should run away from the church? He did a whole show on that. He’s entertainment in the same way as the Roman Colloseum put on quite a show
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That is the point of the post here. He is an self-confessed entertainer.

The entire article goes on which Beck explains how much money he is making. Yes I did post that quote from him. But I did post the entire article which he explains and Forbes explains how he is mainly an entertainer. I put in the same category as Tom Clancy. In other words, historical fiction.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
I guess you agree that if your pastor teaches social justice you should run away from the church? He did a whole show on that. He’s entertainment in the same way as the Roman Colloseum put on quite a show
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Depends on the context of social justice. If you have a liberal preacher, yes you probably should run away.
There can be no test by which we can discover what is ‘socially unjust’ because there is no subject by which such an injustice can be committed, and there are no rules of individual conduct the observance of which in the market order would secure to the individuals and groups the position which as such (as distinguished from the procedure by which it is determined) would appear just to us. [Social justice] does not belong to the category of error but to that of nonsense, like the term `a moral stone’.
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josephdavid said:
That is the point of the post here. He is an self-confessed entertainer.

The entire article goes on which Beck explains how much money he is making. Yes I did post that quote from him. But I did post the entire article which he explains and Forbes explains how he is mainly an entertainer. I put in the same category as Tom Clancy. In other words, historical fiction.
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Not nearly as smart or as entertaining as Tom Clancy. Why do you think so many people take his utterances as gospel. Are they so lacking in thinking skills?
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
Not nearly as smart or as entertaining as Tom Clancy. Why do you think so many people take his utterances as gospel. Are they so lacking in thinking skills?
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Such as? To whom are you referring? Any examples of people taking “his utterances as gospel?”

I think you’ll find no more than those who view Obama as the messiah.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
I guess you agree that if your pastor teaches social justice you should run away from the church? He did a whole show on that. He’s entertainment in the same way as the Roman Colloseum put on quite a show
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I listen to some of these guys when I am working in the kitchen, and Beck has on many occasions been very specific about what he is talking about wrt social justice–he understands that there is a good social justice, but what he is against is what the liberals call social justice and what seems to come mighty close to liberation theology, but definitely a materialist-based, utilitarian sort of thing entirely funded by the government and based on divisions between people in society–a far cry from Catholic social justice.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
Not nearly as smart or as entertaining as Tom Clancy. Why do you think so many people take his utterances as gospel. Are they so lacking in thinking skills?
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for many, it seems that politics have become their religion. Just like protestants, they each have their own “minister.”
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
I guess you agree that if your pastor teaches social justice you should run away from the church? He did a whole show on that. He’s entertainment in the same way as the Roman Colloseum put on quite a show
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If my pastor says social justice encompasses Liberation Theology, homosexual marriage open boarders and taxpayer funded abortion on demad I most certainly would object The left has distorted the meaning of Social justice to such an extent it is hard for a Catholic to support it
 
St_Francis said:
for many, it seems that politics have become their religion. Just like protestants, they each have their own “minister.”
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This is especially true for liberal catholoics who traded the cathecism for ther Democrat Party platform
 
estesbob said:
This is especially true for liberal catholoics who traded the cathecism for ther Democrat Party platform
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The same can be said for those who traded the Catechism for the Repubican Party.

Sadly there is no more center in this country which can be heard. You have the corporate owned right wing media puking up their comentary and then you have the left wing media (which has its corporate owned entities) spewing there. Both side demonize the other.

People are taking each side as complete fact with out educating themselves and the media doesnot want us to, in my opinion. The end result this is no more center and no more coming together with common goal of moving this country forward.
 
estesbob said:
If my pastor says social justice encompasses Liberation Theoilogyn homosexual marriage open boardersn and taxpayer funded abortion on demad I most certainly would object The left has distorted the meaning of Social justice to such an extent it is hard for a Catholic to support it
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Throw the baby out with the bath water.
 
josephdavid said:
The same can be said for those who traded the Catechism for the Repubican Party.

Sadly there is no more center in this country which can be heard. You have the corporate owned right wing media puking up their comentary and then you have the left wing media (which has its corporate owned entities) spewing there. Both side demonize the other.

People are taking each side as complete fact with out educating themselves and the media doesnot want us to, in my opinion. The end result this is no more center and no more coming together with common goal of moving this country forward.
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There is nothing in the republican party platform that is in conflict with church teaching
 
josephdavid said:
The same can be said for those who traded the Catechism for the Repubican Party.

Sadly there is no more center in this country which can be heard. You have the corporate owned right wing media puking up their comentary and then you have the left wing media (which has its corporate owned entities) spewing there. Both side demonize the other.

People are taking each side as complete fact with out educating themselves and the media doesnot want us to, in my opinion. The end result this is no more center and no more coming together with common goal of moving this country forward.
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I agree. I feel like there is a dummying down of Americans. I wish we had more statesmen and less politicians ( and the people who cover for them)
 
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