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2009-08-07 Fifth Column

The left putting pressure (successfully) on advertisers to dump FOX and Beck

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Posted by 3dc 2009-08-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Just as well.

I saw Beck's tirade against Obama when he called Obama a racist. Beck sounded like a shill for stormfront.org, not a conservative. On a personal level it would have been an embarrassment to call me a Beck fan after that episode.

Another video I saw of Beck's was his assistant dressed up like Linda Douglas, White House commo person. trying to counter White House misinformation about health care. You gotta wonder about what the point in that was. I don't have to switch to Fox news to watch a pathetic attempt at comedy using a man dressed as a woman and to hear a political point of view, a liberal one.

Disclosure: I think Beck is an idiot and a damn fool.

Posted by badanov 2009-08-07 07:22|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-08-07 07:22|| Front Page Top

#2
No sense of humor badanov?

I was LMAO while watching Beck's assistant (a 250 lb. male) do the Douglass riff.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-07 09:01|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-07 09:01|| Front Page Top

#3 Disclosure: I think Beck is an idiot and a damn fool.

Sorry you feel that way Boris......I'm conservative and think he's pretty funny.

Posted by armyguy 2009-08-07 09:22|| 2009-08-07 09:22|| Front Page Top

#4 No sense of humor badanov?

Oh, I have a sense of humor, a strong one.

My point is why produce a video of a man dressed as a woman trying to get a laugh and make a political point at the same time, while trying to purvey news?

At least with network sitcoms you know you are being bullsh*tted, and very little of what you are seeing is reality,and all to get a cheap laugh and to to get eyes on a product to be sold?.

Sorta like Beck.

And again: what was the point of the cr0ssdress1ng? Does Beck endorse cr0ssdress1ng as a legitimate means of political debate because if he does that means to me that he is probably an exh1bit10nist by broadcasting the same crap trotted out routinely by liberals to shock and belittle their opponents, both in an out of the "news."

Again, what Beck is doing.

Why does he have to bring the tawdry soft p0rnograph1c sh*t ( to call it what it is ) onto the airwaves,which are flooded with it nowadays already.

Do we not have enough of it?

Can he not forbear to draw a line somewhere in his commentary that he won't deliberately belittle anyone, men or women, with schticks such as the cr0ssdressing fat guy?

Whoa, long commentary.

Posted by badanov 2009-08-07 09:52|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-08-07 09:52|| Front Page Top

#5 Every time I see Beck I get the feeling he's not a conservative, he just plays one on TV.

Every time I'm over at my older relatives' and they have Fox on, I wonder if Fox exists because if there weren't a TV network out there pretending to be conservative someone would start a real one.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2009-08-07 10:07|| 2009-08-07 10:07|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh, I have a sense of humor, a strong one.

No, you obviously don't.

Posted by Parabellum 2009-08-07 10:16|| http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/]">[http://sidemeat.wordpress.com/] 2009-08-07 10:16|| Front Page Top

#7 No, you obviously don't.

Actually, I do. Just like someone you don't like very much telling a joke you've heard ten times this week already.

I get it. Really, funny, ha ha; the same damn dumb joke told by liberals that fat white men are really secretly cr0ssdressers. But it stopped being funny 100,000 times ago. Now, it's just a lot of tedious cr*p you didn't want to hear to begin with, anyway.

Try something different for a change.

Posted by badanov 2009-08-07 10:35|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-08-07 10:35|| Front Page Top

#8 My point is why produce a video of a man dressed as a woman trying to get a laugh and make a political point at the same time, while trying to purvey news?

Can he not forbear to draw a line somewhere in his commentary that he won't deliberately belittle anyone, men or women, with schticks such as the cr0ssdressing fat guy?

Boris there is a difference between the two highlighted words above. I don't recall Colbert, Rush, Hannity, etc. ever claiming to be a news program. Should Rush stop saying "It's eleven o'clock, time for welfare recipients to get up"?

Maybe, during her MSM career, Linda Douglas should never have cr0ssdressed as a journalist!

The unedited "commentary" at the middle of the controversy:

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-07 10:43|| 2009-08-07 10:43|| Front Page Top

#9 Dunno GB-USMC

He just sounds lie a neo-Nazi. Maybe not getting into the sewer to make his Commentary his purpose would be better served.

But right now he sounds like he is still grasping at the issues. He just doesn't seem to get it. Doing that video just makes Ms. Douglas and her employers appreciate the irony of what Beck is saying, and that is all. It's ultimately no way to convince anyone of his views.

And as for Rush: I listen to Rush for about an hour daily. He's like a can of Coca Cola. He goes flat after awhile. Now were he to dressed like an overweight welfare mother caricature complete with all the acoustic accouterments, there would be a problem. It's a damn sight different than jumping into the sewer to make Commentary.

Posted by badanov 2009-08-07 11:47|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-08-07 11:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Becks skits can get tiresome to some (especially me) but his information is legit. If it weren't he would have been in court long ago. He's not neo-nazi, he's Libertarian. Not at all the same thing. Neo-Nazi is Zero/Pelosi/Reid as has been pointed out by Beck and others in recent times.

Posted by tipover 2009-08-07 12:22|| 2009-08-07 12:22|| Front Page Top

#11 The absurd one in this whole episode, IMHO, is Linda Douglas as she puts on her reading glasses an turns to the Drudge headline and declares the video is out of context. You be the judge:

Linda Douglas, former MSM, spoofing objectivity

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-07 12:45|| 2009-08-07 12:45|| Front Page Top

#12 I'm pretty sure our president doesn't hate white people, but that he despises them as suckers for his particular line of nonsense. Thus far his life experience supports his conclusion well enough to be a working hypothesis. Mr. Beck is a fool to polarize his viewership with such a facile but easily disproved claim.

Separately, this very thread is proof that different people find different things funny... or not. Accusing others of lacking a sense of humour simply because your individual sets do not intersect at a given point will lose you the argument immediately. Insulting them for it will lose you a portion of the audience whom you really were attempting to persuade. Personally, I find cursing and sexual innuendo immediately make the funny unfunny. The evidence, however, is that I am a minority in the single digits on this. Nonetheless, I somehow manage to find amusement enough to go on with.

Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife 2009-08-07 13:00|| 2009-08-07 13:00|| Front Page Top

#13 cursing and sexual innuendo immediately make the funny unfunny.

well then, as Joe M says: "I got nuthin"

:-)

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2009-08-07 13:10|| 2009-08-07 13:10|| Front Page Top

#14 TW

Thank you for your "Civil, Well-Reasoned Discourse"

Posted by GolfBravoUSMC 2009-08-07 13:14|| 2009-08-07 13:14|| Front Page Top

#15 I have to agree with Bad. Beck takes a valid issue and undercuts it by playing the fool with it. Never have liked the guy.

Posted by Herb Threse8669 2009-08-07 13:17|| 2009-08-07 13:17|| Front Page Top

#16 ~~Beck~~ Obama takes a valid issue and undercuts it by playing the fool with it. Never have liked the guy but the schtick landed him in the White House with a massive cushion in the House and a fillibuster-proof majority in the Senate.

FYP I wish conservatives were as hard on the left when the left does far worse on a consistent basis as they are on Beck when he, on occasion, does something that would be relatively mild if placed on the spectrum of lefty behavior

Posted by AzCat 2009-08-07 14:07|| 2009-08-07 14:07|| Front Page Top

#17 If there was a little more "civil, well reasoned discourse" on Fox I might be able to watch them. But I've seen far too many shouting matches on Fox for my tastes. They generate a whole lot more heat than light. I can't watch it all.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-08-07 14:28|| 2009-08-07 14:28|| Front Page Top

#18 There is so little "civil, well-reasoned discourse" anywhere on TV or radio, I have pretty well abandoned hoping to get any in the future. At least when I'm reading I can just skip over the trash & continue to look for what I consider important.

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2009-08-07 16:03|| 2009-08-07 16:03|| Front Page Top

#19 For me Glenn Beck equals too much emotion and what not. No gravitas. I get enough emotional BS from the Left, don't need it from the pseudo-right.

Posted by Hupomoting Barnsmell6688 2009-08-07 16:12|| 2009-08-07 16:12|| Front Page Top

#20 I get enough emotional BS from the Left, don't need it from the pseudo-right.

Same here but there exists a portion of the electorate driven far more, and in many cases probably completely or nearly so, by their own emotional response to the histrionics of polemicists like Beck, Coulter or the legions of such people on the left.

If conservative ideas are to prevail, or even be competitive with leftist ideals, in a representative government it's absolutely necessary that at least a portion of those votes swing right. We may not love or respect Beck and his ilk but they're necessary. Unfortunately.

Posted by AzCat 2009-08-07 18:28|| 2009-08-07 18:28|| Front Page Top

#21 I'm real tired of Glenn Beck. Only one thing to do with him. Elect him to the Senate to counter Franken.

Posted by DMFD 2009-08-07 22:10|| 2009-08-07 22:10|| Front Page Top

#22 As tired of him as I am of Olbermanns whine and cheese.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-08-07 22:13|| 2009-08-07 22:13|| Front Page Top

#23 In my opinion, Beck is not much more than Olberman in conservative drag.

Posted by OldSpook 2009-08-07 22:29|| 2009-08-07 22:29|| Front Page Top

#24 I watched that section and thought it was pretty funny. Satire is supposed to be funny. Somehere the left figures that only SNL or Daily should be funny.

My wife cannot understand why I watch Beck. My answer...because I can.

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