As Sponsors Flee, The Glenn Beck Show Gets More And More Awesomely Bonkers

I don't have any idea if the ongoing flight of sponsors from the Glenn Beck Show is having any effect on its bottom line, but it sure isn't tempering its content! Yesterday's Glenn Beck show was MAGICAL. I really hope you watched it, and I really hope you watched it in the same way I did: yelling across the room repeatedly at an intern, "What's he saying now? That stuff sounds BONKERS! Is it burning your retinae to look at it? Do you need a hug?" Here's what you missed:

HILARIOUS ILLITERACY

Glenn Beck took to his whiteboard to demonstrate how various words revealed a disturbing hidden secret about the Obama administration. It sort of went something like this: Gimme an "Obama!" Gimme a "left!" Gimme the word, "international!" Gimme some "graft!" Here's the reference to "ACORN" that I am contractually obligated to mention once a show! Gimme a "revolutionaries!" Followed by "hidden agendas!" And now, give me a "Y," because surely, the world is staring at Glenn Beck and asking themselves, "Why? Dear God in Heaven, why?" What do you get when you take the first letters of those words and spin them through your Little Orphan Annie decoder rings? "OLIGARHY!" This is NOT A WORD, in any language on the planet Earth.

The Washington Independent's Dave Weigel captured this moment for you, praise his name:

DIRE WARNINGS

OMGZ! Have you heard that Obama is fashioning himself a private Army, made up of Americorps volunteers? It's true! And who hasn't gazed upon the average gaggle of Americorps volunteers, fresh and clueless from college, and thought to themselves: "From this raw material, I could surely fashion a brutal cadre of fearsome shock troops that will finally bring Western civilization to its knees!" The mere prospect of such a thing happening led Beck to compare President Obama to Saddam Hussein, underscoring the way Hussein attempted to tyrannically "adopt" all of Kuwait's highways.

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First, Americorps came for the seniors, and I SAID NOTHING, because it turns out Americorps was just bringing them food, listening to them tell stories about their childhoods, and promising to visit them and stuff.

BECK GETS EMO

Nothing really beats Glenn Beck when he goes on a full-tilt victimization binge. Here's how he ended his show, or so our intern tells me:

BECK: I'm tired of being a sheep. I'm tired of being a victim. I'm tired of being pushed around. You know what? The gloves come off.

I have no idea who is pushing Glenn Beck around! He gets his very own television show and radio show and book deals and he gets to say whatever in the world he feels like saying and people give him millions and millions of dollars for it. He can have, if he wants, his very own pony at his gigantic and secluded manse to ride on whenever he wants and can hire someone to bake him delicious funnel cakes any time he likes! These are the hard won perks of being a celebrity, earned from having a dedicated fan base.

Nevertheless, today, the gloves come off! A preview: the hands underneath those gloves will be free of callouses and as soft as an infant's tush!

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Comments

[Luv2Purple]

What do we know of the story/rumor that glen beck raped and killed a young woman in North Carolina in 1990?

[ivylea]

Can we get a list of advertising sponsors for the show so we can stop buying their products?

[Platagenet]

Mr. Beck needs to return to school. Mr. Rockefeller didn't much agree with Diego Rivera's politics, he hired him because he was a famous artist, Mr. Beck also needs remedial courses in spelling, history, journalism, politics and common humanity.

[Bozzie49]

People like Beck are the reason the Republican Party is in shambles. The Radical Right has taken the GOP over, therefore the Republicans cannot win in Elections anymore. Nobody takes them seriously. They have been taken over by the Fringe Element.

Bozzie49

[Garybot]

Yup - just keep saying it to yourself.

[careygranite]

Well, lets see. Krauthammer, Will, Broder, Brooks all agree. And they ain't exactly liberals. lol

[PamperedHousecat]

I always thought those Girl Scouts and their cookies were a left-wing conspiracy. And they start em' out young...calling them "Brownies". Is this some sort of code for little white girls who want to get tans when they are teenagers? And what about that salute, and that pledge?
And don't get me started on the Boy Scouts! Led by a scout "Master", and a "Den Mother", and traveling in "packs".
These poor things are just being indoctrinated to join the "Peace Corps" (isn't that what we have the U.S. military for? to keep the peace?), or join that socialist "Habitat for America", (building houses for neardiwells who were stupid enough to have a home in a flood plain, or not get good health insurance to take care of that handicapped child.)...while taking good jobs from real estate moguls.
This is why every child should be homeschooled and all home schooling materials should be produced by Murdoch Press.
AMERICA: LAND OF THE FREAKED OUT, HOME OF THE BIZZARE.

[Kathleeninire]

EXACTLY. YOU GOT IT. . . AND NOT JUST BECK . . .THAT'S THE REAL FOUNDATION FOR MOST OF THE VENOM IS BARACK'S HERITAGE AND THAT BIGOTRY IS SO THINLY VEILED IT'S NAUSEATING
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BrynJb, accusing others of bigotry whom you don't even know is ridiculous. I don't care what Obama looks like, but I truly do dislike his policies. It is hitting below the belt and childish. You don't know most of the people here, yet you holler in caps thinking it will get more people to read your hate filled rants. I would be glad to discuss any subject, but I will ignore anyone who behaves the way you do.
To the other person who made the point that other president have used czars also, good point that is true. But if you take a closer look at each one that obama has appointed there is a pattern there.

[WATCHDOG1]

Okay, so I'm not afraid of the Obama Youth, but what I do fear a bit is that Beck's rhetoric incites the numbnutts into doing something seriously radical to protect their Republic. He says "If you love this country you won't take this lying down. You've got to fight!" We've already gotten relaxed with the kooks taking AK-47s to Obama's health reform town hall meetings to intimidate us... Is this a subliminal right-wingers approach to having Obama assassinated? At least my conspiracy theory is more believable...
Who would have thought that Bill O'Reilly's rhetoric about the baby killer would have gotten Dr. Tiller
murdered? I'm not saying anything, just merely asking the important questions.

[republicanforlife]

The headline says it all "as sponsors flee". Take a look at the truth!

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/beck_boycott_fox_backlash/2009/08/23/251369.html

Ratings going higher, I think I had a tingle run down my leg.

[whiskeytangofoxtrot451]

Try to contain your tingle long enough to realize that ratings and advertisers are two different things.

[ticklemonster]

I heard you all needed help from a moderator. What's going on that needs to be fixed?

[colah]

Yawn.

[ThirdSection]

All the righties pretending to be one another on this board have gotten way too entertaining!

[cobaltbluedog]

There was a pretty nasty stuff posted here this morning. The poster was removed, but a buddy of his is still around.

[somodat]

The reason you start your post saying you "don't know how many advertisers Beck has lost," is because you don't know how advertising works. Glenn Beck has very few dedicated sponsors. Advertisers buy FOX in rotators 5p to midnight, unless they specifically want to be on just one show like Beck's. Those kind of advertisers already know he's controversial and interesting to watch, that's why they buy his show exclusively.

Big corporations don't fight when some fringe wacko group petitions them, they simply call FOX and say, "move us from controversial talk to straight news for this quarter. Actually, their ad agency does it for them and when they do they also dump the crazy talk on MSNBC at night, because that's stay under the radar 101.

Unfortunately for MSNBC, the only place they have even a pulse of ratings (last place) is at night. So, the knife the political front groups swing at one target, cuts both ways. So, what have they accomplished other than reducing the $ MSNBC makes? Well, they accomplish putting Beck in first place last week. Beck has got to be saying, "please don't stop!" Fox has plenty of other highly rated news segments to put ads and haven't in fact lost any advertiser $.

[sasidechick]

thanks for the update, Glenn.

[somodat]

Sorry for muddying the water with facts. Next time I'll just stick to name calling and spewing party line puke that the "He's Howard Beale, run for your lives" fringe enjoys so much.

[MutherBear]

Don't know a darned thing about ratings, but I'm guessing that, amongst Beck viewers, The Cartoon Network kicks National Geographic Channel's butt.

[colah]

This is why Republican economies always end in disaster.
You couldnt pass Economics 101.

[careygranite]

Here you have a misinformed post by someone who can't possibly be in advertising. Fox only has so many advertising slots. If advertisers dedicate or not do not want their ads running on the girly man show they have to be slotted else where.

It's like musical chairs.

Your claiming fox has not lost any ad dollars proves my point. That is categorically incorrect.

Even if we ignore ad 101 and pretend that there is no revenue problem from sponsors not wanting their ads running on his show Fox has been dropped by UPS. And yet you brazenly claim that it is in fact a FACT that Fox hasn't lost any ad dollars.

Her's a fact. You don't have your facts right. I would say you need to get your facts straight but apparently you don't.

Now what's the latest from girly man Beck? Some hilarity I'm sure.

[sasidechick]

I put his show on yesterday for about 10 minutes to see if I would be lucky enough to watch his breakdown live. Almost.

The one thing that he kept talking about when I had him on was how they were taking away his free speech and this is in the constutution, blah, blah, blah. I don't think he understands that he DOES have the right to say whatever he wants; however, his EMPLOYER, has the right to tell him to keep quiet if it is affecting their bottom line. All the sponsors leaving affects the bottom line.

All Glenn has to do is QUIT his show on Fox and he can continue to spew whatever hate he wants to. When his hate speech is SPONSORED however, they have every right to tell him to be quiet. I thought this was how capitalism works Glenn??

[WowJones]

A.A President + A.A " Radicals" + a smattering of Je-ws = Communist/­Socialist. An equation put forth years ago to squelch any Progressive movement in this country by that great Patriotic ra cist and cross dresser extraordinaire, J. Edgar Hoover. The educationally challenged are always put off by religions, or cultures or political ideas that are not their own. That is why home schooling is so popular. That is why people like Beck put down our great universities. They think just coming in contact with people from varied backgrounds will make you one of them.

[duhtruth]

Glen Beck - Please call 911! You need help urgently! Better yet - Will someone please call 911 for Glenn. He is practically in orbit. This man is delusional! HELP!

[MoscowMoo]

Wow, this poor Glenn Beck is just bat sh-t crazy. I mean there is no other explanation. Watch his wild and loony use of the chalkboard in the first video with his incoherent rantings and ravings about whatever his supposed letter code means. This is no different from the ranting that gets people tucked away in loony bins. I mean, seriously, the classic behavior of people who go sailing off the deep end of schizophrenia is that they’re always dreaming up grandiose things that are supposedly happening (such as imaginary government people following them or coming to get them or conspiring against them), and they put forth all kinds of confusing and nonsensical rationale to explain how they know this. Glenn Beck behaves NO differently from them. And, scarily enough, hoards of conservatives hang on his every disjointed, paranoid, nonsensical word.

[colah]

I never thought of Sarah Palin as a hoard.
Something linguistically similar has come to mind tho.....

[bogues]

Those who watch Beck and agree with Beck and defend Beck are never going to see beyond the hate and division that Beck feeds them day in and day out. It does no good to try to reason with someone who refuses to hear anything that does not go along with the paranoid way they have chosen to see the world. Most people in our society do not feel the way Beck and his followers do and that is what will keep our country strong and moving forward in a positive way.