Beck is good, well researched, and he has a pair. He’s a book hawker too usually with the formulaic line “As I mention in my book!” almost always followed by something like Obama as Spiderman with an impressive makeshift flo chart. I guess if that’s the market I’ll take a flawed, but informed Beck over the Game Show Host O’Reilly.

so i guess it fits..
also get a list of conservative talkers—9 of 10 of the top radical right propogandist are regulars on fox ie coulter,liddy, savage,Ingrahams etc..

so yes tabloid sells–
Jerry Springer, WWF and Fox news gets rating..
and America ranks very low in education compared to the rest of the modern world–we should all be real proud–

and dont worry about obama… there is no “hoax” going on. you are just crazy with all the conspiracy theories that glenn beck shoves down your throat.

and if we are talking about proving someone wrong, prove me and everyone else wrong on how terrible obama is. go ahead, pick a topic, do some REAL research (rather than believing the obama-haters), and see what you come up with.

I did run the Beck before/after CNN plot. He ran a pretty flat average in the 7:00pm time slot of about 500K up to October 16th, 2008 when he left CNN. He started at FOX on January 19th, 2009 running around 2M viewers as shown above.

There is nothing else remarkable about the chart, so I probably won’t send it in unless I see lots of requests. I’ve been holding out on this one for awhile because of the apples/oranges issues, but I kept seeing requests so I gave in.

I don’t know, I have a feeling Fox doesn’t want Glenn to overtake Bill’s “the number 1 cable news show” slogan yet. I think he’ll easily become more popular than Bill if they move him up 2 hours so people can actually watch him. 5pm eastern is such a bs timeslot.

Tolerance for dissension is grand, isn’t it? Take it easy, go beat a djembe.

FOX’s commentary/opinion shows arent just opinions, they do provide hard news with the commentary giving their opinion and guests on both sides to argue each side of the story. The reason why other such shows dont do well, is they provide one sided commentary and spend alot of time bashing their competition.

FOX airs their hard news shows during the day until 8pm (Beck at 5pm being the exception). They should move Beck to pm and Hannity 7pm.

“Where are all the lefties at that wanna break the rules and talk politics? Mike B created a forum here for us: http://www.voyagertrans.com/forum1/index.php So far its only us conservatives there. No Liberals have dared sign up.”

You sound like a barker outside of a strip club that doesn’t have a liquor license.

“Boris: ‘by all means, you’re on a roll’”

That’s not what I wrote.

“Thanks Boris. Lets see, there’s Obama’s ACORN connection, SEIU connection, the radicals in the Apollo Alliance that wrote the stimulus bill (one of which is a wheather [sic] underground member), Judge Sotomyer’s [sic] obsession with ‘social justice’,

“All of which was not covered by the establishment media.”

You might want to draw a distinction between what you were unaware of and what was not covered. For example, ignorance of the “ACORN connection” defies credulity–hell, it’s part of the reason I didn’t vote for Obama in 1996, not because of some weird conspiracy theory, but because they were well-known nitwits. If you instead refer to the *demonization* of ACORN, that may well be novel.

Similarly, the 2008 Obama endorsement by SEIU was widely reported before it even happened. He’s a politician in the school of the Chicago Democratic machine?! Quelle surprise! Again, the hysterical spin may be novel, but the “connection” was not.

The Jeff Jones one, I’ll give you, is pretty good. Roughly as important as identification of the Trotskyist/Shachtmanite neocon axis, but it was attentive of Trevor Loudon to make the initial misidentification. And it does make one wonder why the much more “successful” terrorist Orlando Bosch is running around free, for that matter.

Sotomayor is an extremely weak example, on the other hand, as the whole thing was taken apart six ways to Sunday by the “establishment media.”

It is odd comparing Beck and O’Reilley considering the time differences. What is perhaps the only interesting thing I observed is that Beck’s numbers are on a steeper increase. What that means I have no idea. Maybe it is due to the free publicity the White House is giving him. Many people had never head of Beck until rather recently and are thus curious to see what he is really like. Personally, I prefer to read the news, but I have been tuning into FOX occasionally now out of curiosity – I find the whole thing with the White House and FOX fascinating. With regard to the administration, I feel like I am watching someone methodically dig his own grave and then create a clever mechanism that allows dirt to effortlessly fall into the death chamber on him. It is in the their best interest to not attack the press – but they just can’t help it. It is fascinating.

Also, there was a nother salvo of shots fired by the administration at Fox today on CNN.

Lets see if Beck’s phone rings this week!

I’ve heard that she idolizes Dung, Mao Tse Dung. Or is it Dong, Mao Tse Dong?? Anita: “if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao, you ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow. [Lennon-McCartney]“

Thanks Boris. Lets see, there’s Obama’s ACORN connection, SEIU connection, the radicals in the Apollo Alliance that wrote the stimulus bill (one of which is a wheather underground member), Judge Sotomyer’s obsession with “social justice”,

All of which was not covered by the establishment media.

Well his reporting of it may have been exaggerated slightly on the spying part, but it is FACT that the disclaimer that was ORIGINALLY on the website DID state (in part) that by “enrolling/registering, that your computer would be considered property of the US government”. They didn’t remove it until AFTER Beck raised the issue and he even let us know on what day they removed it.

Don’t try to spin the facts please. Through a close friend of mine who is a sales manager at my Chevy dealer, that disclaimer DID exist and “mysteriously” dissapeared days after the start of the program.

Personally, I don’t want to go onto ANY site that would make such a bold claim as to the posibility, enforcable by (their) law, that the owner of that site can take possesion of MY property and subsequent records contained within whenever they felt like it. All Glenn did was state that by the use of “tracking cookies” and other methods, it was possible for the Feds to monitor where, what, who and when. We already have “tracking cookies” in our computers now! DUH! But they don’t have the Feds signature on them!

“CNN/MSNBC viewers probably still don’t know who [sic] Anita Dunn ideolizes [sic]. They don’t know about Mark Sustien [sic], Rahm Emanuel, Goerge [sic] Sorros [sic] ($$$), Mark Lloyed [sic]….; should I go on?”

By all means. Your onna role with these Moaists.

On the topic, I think Glenn Beck has been brilliant in making himself into “the face of the Obama Administration’s opposition”. I don’t agree with a lot of his claims (the “Cars for Clunkers site spying on you” was just stupid) but from the trend stand point you can see his ratings have essentially been a hockey stick since he started playing hard ball with them.

It’s no wonder the Obama administration has been trying to discredit Fox News (which I generally think is stupid because it makes them look weak and anyone watching Glenn Beck regularly probably wasn’t going to vote for them anyway)

You’ve taken poll results from April 15, 2007. Long before Beck came unto the Fox scene. If you’re going to research polls, Fox, data, etc. please try to be current. All you do is make a fool of yourself. Especially when you post the link for readers.

But that’s not entirely impossible. In fact, given his extensive coverage of video recordings of little-known speeches by Obama’s appointees as they praise mass murdering communists, that alone is enough of a shock that he could build serious ratings juice. “Guess who in Obama’s team praised Chairman Mao” is becoming a recurring thing, and (at least with Van Jones) Beck had been getting results.

Watching Glenn Beck has been like watching the political topics that will be covered by the mainstream media next month. The more he gets to catch big people in their own words, the closer Beck will be to beating O’Reilly.

Where’d you get that? mediamatters?

Glenn said that Anita ideolizing Moa would be like me saying one of my favorite political philosophers is adolf hitler, have you read mien komph?

Headline on mediamatters was something like: “Does Glenn Beck ideolize Adolf Hitler?”

lol. That’s what the left does best.

Yeah, and all republicans are dumb racist rednecks, and conservatives are simply mentally retarded. *droll*

I contend that since FOX is the ONLY network that report ALL the news – good or bad for the president – that FOX viewers are the most informed. If you watch CNN or MSNBC, you didn’t hear about the massive ACORN corruption until 5 days after FOX viewers (when the census droped them and the senate defunded them). In fact CNN/MSNBC went after the journalists who exposed ACORN.

CNN/MSNBC viewers didn’t even know who Van Jones was until after he resigned. CNN/MSNBC viewers probably still don’t know who Anita Dunn ideolizes. They don’t know about Mark Sustien, Rahm Emanuel, Goerge Sorros($$$), Mark Lloyed….; should I go on? All they know is that potente Obama won the peace prize, those “EVIL REPUBLICANS” want you to die from no health care, and balloon boy in the attic.

There certainly seems to be a sharp upward trend as of August. Was that just the healthcare issue?

I also wonder if the Beck-O’Reilly cross-pollination has an appreciable effect. I think Beck is on O’Reilly’s show almost every week; I wonder if that sends O’Reilly viewers his way.