Why Fox "News" and the GOP have HITCHED THEIR WAGON to Glenn "One Letter Is Missing" Beck:

[Faryn Balyncd]

FOX Won't Fire Glenn Beck: Here's Why
By Mark Karlin

Glenn Beck is here to stay -- as far as Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch are concerned -- far into the future. It would take an abrupt end to the largely FOX-led right wing hysteria to disappear before you will see Beck canned. And that won't be happening anytime in the forseeable future.

That's due to many reasons. I'll try to enumerate a few:

* Beck is becoming an increasingly key factor in inciting the hateful mobs, and his seemingly crazed incivility and jaw-dropping antics that we find abhorrent are exactly what FOX finds valuable in him. He's breaking away with record audiences in a non-prime time spot, rising recently to surpass Hannity's audience. In fact the brilliant boycott led by ColorofChange.org is giving him more publicity and driving more confused, television-fed simple minded white Americans to his program.



* FOX will carry Beck indefinitely with small time ads -- even ads for FOX divisions as they are doing now -- because. . . . . Beck is doing exactly what FOX wants him to do, which is distract the confused white masses from blaming corporations for their economic plight to blaming scapegoats -- in this case non-whites.



* FOX is Rupert Murdoch's main vehicle for ensuring the continued and unquestioned greed of the corporate ruling class, and Beck is the most successful gutter carnival barker in terms of churning up hateful and igniting emotions that they have. He touches something so evil and primal in the chronically confused and white-firsters that he makes Hannity appear civil. Beck is a strategic thespian of both the most skilled and basest sort: this makes him a star to FOX, not a pariah.



* As BuzzFlash has noted many a time, Naomi Klein many years ago awoke us to the concept that many big corporate advertisers back the right wing media shills to insure that the heat for fleecing the American economy is diverted to blaming the government, liberals, minorities and immigrants. . . . .


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http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/9298

Fox "News" & the GOP are now at a level of desperation that they have hitched their proto-fascist wagon to Glenn "One Letter Is Missing" Beck:






http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908270038






It is indeed tragic to see the opposition party sink to such depths.

But they bought this fool, and now have hitched their wagon to him.

The least we can do is make them pay the price for choosing to align themselves with this dangerous & ignorant demagogue.









:kick:

[Cha]

1. "One

letter"?

[Faryn Balyncd]

4. As Beck said, "One letter is missing":

http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200908270038

[Cha]

10. Oh crap..freepers and their inability to

spell.

[orpupilofnature57]

2. Cause misery loves company?

[rocktivity]

3. It's because they know that Billo and Rushbo are played out.

Beck puts fresh face of sorts on the Rethug noise machine. But unless he's making "noise," he doesn't exist.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[byebyegop]

5. This has basically become a modern version of class warfare..n/t

[renate]

13. welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Beaverhausen]

6. Wasn't his show on CNN in the toilet, ratings-wise?

[windoe]

7. dup

[windoe]

8. The rules for the propaganda department

don't have anything to do with reporting events and verbatim accurately, or even the appearance of sanity. Their mission at this time seems to be for pure profit and divisive techniques that enrage and enable dangerous people to make this country less safe, less stable, and more suspicious and hateful of each other.

They are impervious to ratings, and can only be dealt with in a most ruthless manner-- boycotting and truth. They apparently are working very hard to enrage the left, and force us down to their level.

They are not news, they are PROPAGANDA of the worst kind. They are manipulating this country, not informing us!!

I would love to see someone go after Murdoch and Ailes for treason, inciting violence is a crime.

[formercia]

9. Under British law it might be possible to sue him.

Perhaps, someone from GB could enlighten us.

Beck is a mouthpiece for Murdoch, who is based in Britain.

[tex-wyo-dem]

11. Very well said...

Their motives have always been pure profit, and they will stoop to any level to assure an ever growing profit.

As the narcissistic chimp once said, "money trumps peace.". Apparently it trumps everything, period.

[windoe]

12. Money trumps Democracy, Money trumps the Constitution.

And quality of life is fast being flushed down the toilet. I saw an article recently on Alternet about slavery being the highest in recorded history. The corporations(some rich families) want overseas labor because it is slave labor, they do not want a working class, they want serfs.

[ThoughtCriminal]

14. Beck: Why me?

Murdoch: Because you're on television stupid.

[Vinnie From Indy]

15. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beck, to preach this evangel.

[dave123williams]

16. Did you know that the New York Post loses something like $40 million a year?

It's designed as a loss leader for their BS philosophy.