The Free Market May Part Glenn Beck From Fox News

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The top story from next Sunday's edition of the New York Times Magazine was published yesterday, as it was Wednesday. (Go figure.) It's a revealing profile of Glenn Beck by Mark Leibovich. And it contains bad news for conservatives, who may have to make a choice between Beck and their favorite network, Fox News, which apparently is not happy with the poster child of malcontent.

Good capitalists that they are, the Fox boardroom types are grousing about what Madison Ave. and Hollywood could have told them--there's not a lot of ad revenue to be had scaring old folks into buying reverse mortgages and gold coins. It seems that those who gnaw on their grievances and prepare for Armageddon are not good, patriotic American consumers. The market is speaking. And what it speaketh is not good news for Glenn. He surely has an audience, but advertisers don't lust for grouchy codgers and sour stay-at-homers with cramped dreams and wallets.

So. Fox vs. Beck. What a dilemma for right-thinking decent folk! Could Fox actually be part of the Great Media Conspiracy? Are Bill and Newt and Sean and Sarah no better than Keith and Rachel? Or is the network in the right? Might Glenn be, after all, merely a crank? Who to trust? What to believe? Stay tuned.

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This story is just wishful thinking on the left's part. The main reason you can know that this story is bogus is that Beck's fans are more weighted towards a younger audience than what people like Farrell and most of the left leaning media want you to think.

How do I know? I went to Beck's Restoring Honor event in Washington DC. I saw who was there and I think I know what old and young people look like. I think the median age was probably 30 - 35. Now I suppose to some people this might seem elderly but I seriously doubt that the median age of the twits who watch BSNBC is any younger. I will give BSNBC credit for one thing, their audience is definitely younger in mental ability. Perhaps the median mental age is more like 12 to 18 months. This explains why they always want their big nanny state to wipe their butts and feed them.

Abbey Normal of MO 5:13PM October 11, 2010

Glen Beck is a nut and should be confined to a nuthouse! Of course Fax News is not far from that either! This, from a very conservative man!

HDS26234 of CA 3:50PM October 04, 2010

Glenn Beck is a globalist and so are the majority of the political left and right.If you are not aware of where Beck gets most of his material it is from a true patriot named Alex Jones at infowars.com download his podcasts and you'll see the material Alex covers is then repeated on Beck's show.Unfortunately he never brings the subject full circle like Alex does so you get half truths and beck is put there to lead you astray.What America needs is a President that is neither left or right but instead a constitutionalist someone who believes in the founding fathers and the principals that helped make America great.Unfortunately both bush and Barrack both work for big bankers and big industry and bat for the same globalist team which will only take the country down one road.What Bush started barrack is accelerating,soon the country will be destroyed by these New world Order pundits.As Bush senior said in his speech he wants a new world order which is run by unelected Elites rather than constitutionally elected government,they will start wars and grab the coattails of the green revolution which they started and proceed to take away as many rights that you have until they can fully implement their endgame,Killing the Republic of America and running the planet through a scientific green elite dictatorrship.You need to watch the film Endgame,then Obama deception,also 2 doco's by Jason Bermas, These can all be found free of charge at youtube.If you like what beck teaches your going to love the real thing at infowars.com and remember don't bury your head in the sand just because it's not a happy message your hearing,you weren't put on earth to have a good time all of the time espescially when tyrants want you dead! it's time to wake up and smell the manure,bad people are running things and corruption is rife.It's time for the people to have a say as to what future your children will be living in.And by the way Alex Jones is the one that constantly say's don't believe me check it out for yourself and gives a document cam shot of what he's reading from so you can easily look it up yourself.If you've ever thought things aren't quite right something's goin on then do yourself your family and your country a favor and listen to Alex at infowars and all the great guests he constantly has on his show.He may not be backed by big media but you'll never get the truth from big media news stations.Beck has a Team of about 5 people hired just to listen to Alex Jones show and report back to him,this is a fact leaked by a fox worker to info wars.Goddluck God Bless.

Angel C. of TX 12:11AM October 04, 2010

John A. Farrell

John A. Farrell

John Aloysius Farrell is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report. An award-winning Washington reporter, he has written for The Boston Globe and The Denver Post and is the author of Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century and an upcoming biography of the great American defense attorney, Clarence Darrow.

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