Glenn Beck is going off the air

[Razgovory]

Will he still have his radio show?

[grumbler]

Fuck Beck.  I hope he burns in Hell forever.  He turned the GOP into a laughingstock, singlehandedly achieving something that Newt Gingrich, GWBush, and Roger Ailes were powerless to achieve by themselves, or even in concert.

Disagree.  I knew the GOP had become a llaughingstock long before I heard of Beck.  Beck is an actor.  When GW Bush said that the President's power was not limited by the Bill of Rights, he was saying it in a Presidential Finding, not an op-ed piece.  That, to me, is treason to the Republican cause far worse than anything an actor could pull off.

He made Republican racism and know-nothingism mainstream.

Disagree here, too.  Remember Willy Horton?  That was pre-Beck, and the GOP masses lapped it up.

[Fate]

Will he still have his radio show?

Of course.

[Siege]

Also, he hates Jews, Seige.

You sure?
He didn't come across as an anti-semite.
Was I that blind?

[CountDeMoney]

Also, he hates Jews, Seige.

You sure?
He didn't come across as an anti-semite.
Was I that blind?

lol, Stevie Wonder blind, man.

[Siege]

Also, he hates Jews, Seige.

You sure?
He didn't come across as an anti-semite.
Was I that blind?

lol, Stevie Wonder blind, man.

Ok, what are the facts?
What did he actually say/do?

[KRonn]

Beck was a thousand times more reasonable before he transitioned to Fox.

Once you get inside the echo chamber the goal posts of irrationality shift a lot. You start thinking that things you used to think were nuts aren't really so crazy after all.

...or maybe you just play to the audience

When Beck first came on Fox I don't think he was as wacky or radical. I watched at first when he discussed issues and seemed to bring out facts and info. But I quickly tired of his schtick - too much conspiracy, against those nasty liberals and progressives as all boogeymen, etc, and just off the deep end more and more. Reminded of what was being done to Clinton by the rabid right, and then to Bush W by the rabid left. I've grown tired of the radical of either side; ruins real political discourse, too much distortion.

To me he harmed Fox. Fox has some good news shows - Cavuto, Wallace, others. I tended to see Beck as just his own thing, and separate him from the news or other opinion stuff.  Similar to the the more rabid lefties on MSNBC, while I still watch news shows there like Morning Joe and that whole crew.

Now maybe Fox will have some competition for CNN and the Situation Room and the Wolfman!

[Ideologue]

Did I mention I revile this horrible shitbag?

Hehehe.