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(AlterNet) Followup Five more radio stations jump off the Glenn Beck crazy train   (alternet.org) divider line 87
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2011-03-29 02:15:58 PM
Maybe he should learn how to love and forget how to hate...
 
2011-03-29 02:29:12 PM
It should be very interesting to hear him spin "the decision *I* and *I ALONE* made to move from Fox to the 2-5 AM shift on the Lincoln, Nebraska Ramada Inn Closed Circuit Guest Information Network" in a year or so.
 
2011-03-29 02:43:13 PM
This can only mean one thing...

BUY GOLD!
 
2011-03-29 02:45:31 PM
Mr. Coffee Nerves: It should be very interesting to hear him spin "the decision *I* and *I ALONE* made to move from Fox to the 2-5 AM shift on the Lincoln, Nebraska Ramada Inn Closed Circuit Guest Information Network" in a year or so.

Nah, he'll just spin it as "I'm telling the truth THEY don't want you to hear!"
 
2011-03-29 03:05:33 PM
Mr. Coffee Nerves: It should be very interesting to hear him spin "the decision *I* and *I ALONE* made to move from Fox to the 2-5 AM shift on the Lincoln, Nebraska Ramada Inn Closed Circuit Guest Information Network" in a year or so.

It's interesting, isn't it, that he would choose the "Ramada Inn". I mean, It's a free country. He can choose where he wants to work. I just think it might be a little too close to "Ramadan" if you ask me, and it's very telling about his influences and formative history.
 
2011-03-29 03:11:30 PM
He did it to himself by using the same trick over and over: "Tune in to find out the COVER-UP that THEY don't want you to know about that will CHANGE EVERYTHING." This was probably interesting for his viewers the first few times, but how many times can you use that as a set-up until you resemble a cult leader that keeps pushing back "the end of the world" as the dates you predict come and go?
 
2011-03-29 03:39:01 PM
thismomentinblackhistory: He did it to himself by using the same trick over and over: "Tune in to find out the COVER-UP that THEY don't want you to know about that will CHANGE EVERYTHING." This was probably interesting for his viewers the first few times, but how many times can you use that as a set-up until you resemble a cult leader that keeps pushing back "the end of the world" as the dates you predict come and go?

The cynic in me would like to point out that those people still seem to wind up with a harem of nubile, willing women and are usually skip drinking the sea-breeze-flavored cyanide.
 
2011-03-29 03:40:52 PM
Wow, he's losing some New York coverage.

That's okay, New York isn't a big radio town. ;)
 
2011-03-29 03:42:00 PM
He can always slink on over to satellite radio. He'll be a small but devoted audience that listens to his every word.

/bababooeybabbabooey
 
2011-03-29 03:42:46 PM
I wouldn't even have known about this douchebag if it wasn't for Fark. I guess I'm a bit out of touch. Although I don't think I'm missing much.
 
2011-03-29 03:43:10 PM
yukichigai: thismomentinblackhistory: He did it to himself by using the same trick over and over: "Tune in to find out the COVER-UP that THEY don't want you to know about that will CHANGE EVERYTHING." This was probably interesting for his viewers the first few times, but how many times can you use that as a set-up until you resemble a cult leader that keeps pushing back "the end of the world" as the dates you predict come and go?

The cynic in me would like to point out that those people still seem to wind up with a harem of nubile, willing women and are usually skip drinking the sea-breeze-flavored cyanide.


FTFM

/D'oh
 
2011-03-29 03:45:53 PM
Why does everyone hate the freedom of speech? This is just like Dr. Laura. Can't you see how these views are being attacked?
 
2011-03-29 03:45:57 PM
Mugato: I wouldn't even have known about this douchebag if it wasn't for Fark. I guess I'm a bit out of touch. Although I don't think I'm missing much.

Let me just sum up the experience for you:

JustaskingquestionsOLIGARHRRRGGH1999wasuneventfulI'MSOSADFORAMERICAgeorgesoros BUYGOLD
 
2011-03-29 03:48:31 PM
I just find his irrational hate boner for Woodrow Wilson hilarious.

I mean Wilson was a dick, but he's not really actively involved in politics here in 2011.
 
2011-03-29 03:50:23 PM
That train made it to the "crazy" station long ago!
 
2011-03-29 03:52:41 PM
Grote-Man: Maybe he should learn how to love and forget how to hate...

Done in one
 
2011-03-29 03:53:16 PM
Back in about 2004-2005, I had a roommate in college who listened to him. He actually wasn't too bad then, and on Fridays during football season he was hilarious. He would call up convinence stores in the cities of opposing teams and ask really easy trivia questions (like "who's the VP?" or "what country is on our northern border?") and then tally up the scores to decide who would win on Sunday.

I think as his popularity grew it went to his head, and he went full on farking insane.
 
2011-03-29 03:53:40 PM
www.celebrityclubber.com
 
2011-03-29 03:56:30 PM
Translation; we wanted political crazy but not relgious crazy.
 
2011-03-29 03:56:35 PM
devildog123: Back in about 2004-2005, I had a roommate in college who listened to him. He actually wasn't too bad then, and on Fridays during football season he was hilarious. He would call up convinence stores in the cities of opposing teams and ask really easy trivia questions (like "who's the VP?" or "what country is on our northern border?") and then tally up the scores to decide who would win on Sunday.

I think as his popularity grew it went to his head, and he went full on farking insane.


So, essentially, he was like an amusing morning radio show host with interesting political views, and then dropped the enjoyable humor (the convenience store survey thing sounds awesome) in favor of the rabble-rousing politics.

Y'know, thinking about it that way, I realize that a LOT of the morning radio show hosts I've listened to over the years have some absolutely insane political views when you break it down. Most of them could give Beck a run for their money.

/Looking at you, Rob, Arnie, and Dawn
 
2011-03-29 03:59:28 PM
www.jimwhitney.com

How this piece of crap ever got his own show, I'll never know...
 
2011-03-29 03:59:43 PM
Speaking of talk radio DJ's, I miss Don 7 Mike

/DC represent
 
2011-03-29 04:01:06 PM
Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: www.celebrityclubber.com

www.mandypatinkin.net

That Image File, I don't think you know what it means
 
2011-03-29 04:01:24 PM
physt: He can always slink on over to satellite radio. He'll be a small but devoted audience that listens to his every word.

/bababooeybabbabooey


He already gets an hour on sat radio (Fox news is broadcast on XM). Pretty good time slot too, 5pm commute.
 
2011-03-29 04:02:10 PM
Who the fark cares what this fartbox thinks or says or does? He's nobody special, he's never done a goddamn thing but flap his crappy yap.
 
2011-03-29 04:04:15 PM
I think this guy is back on the sauce.
 
2011-03-29 04:05:06 PM
The message must be controlled.
 
2011-03-29 04:06:07 PM
Grote-Man: Maybe he should learn how to love and forget how to hate...

He can't, not with those mental wounds that just won't heal
 
2011-03-29 04:06:08 PM
How exactly do radio stations track ratings with any accuracy? Do people fill out little cards like for the Neilson ratings?
 
2011-03-29 04:06:55 PM
wow what an appropriate ad in the middle of the article
pagead2.googlesyndication.com

/on a school computer so no adblock
 
2011-03-29 04:06:56 PM
devildog123: Back in about 2004-2005, I had a roommate in college who listened to him. He actually wasn't too bad then, and on Fridays during football season he was hilarious. He would call up convinence stores in the cities of opposing teams and ask really easy trivia questions (like "who's the VP?" or "what country is on our northern border?") and then tally up the scores to decide who would win on Sunday.

I think as his popularity grew it went to his head, and he went full on farking insane.


Yeah he wasn't too bad before he went insane. He had a gag where he'd find a silly news story ("School bans milk cartons", for example) and then tell everyone listening at 3 PM to call back after 5 PM, when most of his listeners would be tuning in on the way home from work, and defend the school, and tell everyone why milk cartons are evil. Then he would sit and pretend to agree with everyone calling. It was purposeful trolling.

At some point, he forgot to tell his listeners it is all just a gag though.
 
2011-03-29 04:07:04 PM
He lost coverage in Greenwich, Conn., and 3 other Connecticut stations. Unless I am mistaken... not exactly areas with huge foaming right wing populations anyway.

I think his is a total nutbag, but, losing coverage in fairly liberal areas doesn't do much for me. Alert me when he loses Little Rock or Omaha.
 
2011-03-29 04:07:42 PM
Did anyone happen to notice the comments were related to Media Matters?? Thats Soros.

i69.photobucket.com
 
2011-03-29 04:08:12 PM
The guy boiled a live frog on live TV. Seriously. Guy's a farkin' reject.
 
2011-03-29 04:09:20 PM
ne2d: How exactly do radio stations track ratings with any accuracy? Do people fill out little cards like for the Neilson ratings?

Yes, and also boxes to track your listening habits, much like Neilson
 
2011-03-29 04:10:09 PM
CaptainBeer: The guy boiled a live frog on live TV. Seriously. Guy's a farkin' reject.

That's Al Gore you're thinking of, and he did it to prove a point about globam warming
 
2011-03-29 04:16:16 PM
yukichigai: devildog123: Back in about 2004-2005, I had a roommate in college who listened to him. He actually wasn't too bad then, and on Fridays during football season he was hilarious. He would call up convinence stores in the cities of opposing teams and ask really easy trivia questions (like "who's the VP?" or "what country is on our northern border?") and then tally up the scores to decide who would win on Sunday.

I think as his popularity grew it went to his head, and he went full on farking insane.

So, essentially, he was like an amusing morning radio show host with interesting political views, and then dropped the enjoyable humor (the convenience store survey thing sounds awesome) in favor of the rabble-rousing politics.

Y'know, thinking about it that way, I realize that a LOT of the morning radio show hosts I've listened to over the years have some absolutely insane political views when you break it down. Most of them could give Beck a run for their money.

/Looking at you, Rob, Arnie, and Dawn


Ugh. Morning readings from the Book of Rand, a fat guy, and a right wing shrew they call a "liberal" 'cause she's a girl. Thank goodness for NPR.
 
2011-03-29 04:17:04 PM
wow Glenn, i'll be bathing my pillow in tears tonight, clutching my bar of gold and stick of chalk...

Write when you can.

You will be, what's the word, "missed" or "mist" ???
 
2011-03-29 04:18:37 PM
Demetrius: This can only mean one thing...

BUY GOLD!


only thing that will be worth anything in case of the zombie apocalypse.

/that and zombie killin skillz
 
2011-03-29 04:18:58 PM
Media Matters for America

They are pro-censorship assholes.

Four small stations drop Beck's show, and it's news somehow. Radio stations drop and pick up shows on a regular basis. Meanwhile other stations have picked up Beck's show. All it takes is a google to see. You don't want to see that, though. It farks up the fantasy.

The move comes just months after WOR Radio, the chain's flagship station in New York, replaced Beck with a local host in January.

WOW. Just months ago, a station dropped Beck. It's a virtual avalanche of lost stations, then. Isn't it? Replacing syndication with local shows, and vice versa, is also a common thing in radio.

That article is just Media Matters pretending that their campaign to get Beck, or anyone they disagree with, removed from broadcasting is working. Dream on.
 
2011-03-29 04:22:32 PM
CaptainBeer: The guy boiled a live frog on live TV. Seriously. Guy's a farkin' reject.

No he didn't - The frog was a fake. Obviously you never watched that.
 
2011-03-29 04:25:07 PM
barneyfifesbullet: That article is just Media Matters pretending that their campaign to get Beck, or anyone they disagree with, removed from broadcasting is working. Dream on

It's not even media matters, it's Alternet. I think you're the one who is dreaming.
 
2011-03-29 04:25:34 PM
barneyfifesbullet: pro-censorship assholes

Taking pleasure in seeing private companies electing to broadcast different radio programs is "pro-censorship"?
 
2011-03-29 04:26:26 PM
barneyfifesbullet:

Wow dude, calm down. It's an article don't have a coronary. Oh and censorship is when the government does it. How is that difficult to understand?
 
2011-03-29 04:26:26 PM
pstawicki: CaptainBeer: The guy boiled a live frog on live TV. Seriously. Guy's a farkin' reject.

No he didn't - The frog was a fake. Obviously you never watched that.


Dude, it was real. He did as an example of global warming. In sub-tropical regions, the indigenous frog species are going extinct due to rising temperatures, and he boiled the frog to basically show people what was happening (albeit in an exaggerated way)
 
2011-03-29 04:30:24 PM
It seems like just a year a go this guy was accused of being a puppet-master or a pied piper for the Republican Party, and that his influence reached everywhere. Now, he seems so marginalized and weak that I sometimes forget that he even exists. He really was just a fad, wasn't he? Glad people are coming to their senses.
 
2011-03-29 04:31:53 PM
barneyfifesbullet: Media Matters for America

They are pro-censorship assholes.

Four small stations drop Beck's show, and it's news somehow. Radio stations drop and pick up shows on a regular basis. Meanwhile other stations have picked up Beck's show. All it takes is a google to see. You don't want to see that, though. It farks up the fantasy.

The move comes just months after WOR Radio, the chain's flagship station in New York, replaced Beck with a local host in January.

WOW. Just months ago, a station dropped Beck. It's a virtual avalanche of lost stations, then. Isn't it? Replacing syndication with local shows, and vice versa, is also a common thing in radio.

That article is just Media Matters pretending that their campaign to get Beck, or anyone they disagree with, removed from broadcasting is working. Dream on.


Careful - Glenn may bang you for white-knighting him, but he'll also kill you when he's done.
 
2011-03-29 04:35:44 PM
ne2d: How exactly do radio stations track ratings with any accuracy? Do people fill out little cards like for the Neilson ratings?

About 10 years ago I learned that a company here in Dallas had placed an antenna on an overpass that pointed straight down into the traffic below. Since antennas re-radiate some of the energy at the frequency they're tuned for, their stationary antenna was able to determine which station car radios were tuned to as they passed by.

10 years later, I can't find a damn thing about it now. I'm almost 100% positive it was legit so either my google fu fails me or the business went under because no one listens to the radio anymore.
 
2011-03-29 04:36:11 PM
The Banana Thug: It seems like just a year a go this guy was accused of being a puppet-master or a pied piper for the Republican Party, and that his influence reached everywhere. Now, he seems so marginalized and weak that I sometimes forget that he even exists. He really was just a fad, wasn't he? Glad people are coming to their senses.


Only morons (on both sides) ever took him seriously. In fact, sometimes I think the left took him more seriously than his supposed base.
 
2011-03-29 04:38:39 PM
I love trainwrecks...oh wait
 
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