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Sanity -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 3:39:49 AM)
The message he's getting to a wider audience this week is what's important. For example, Beck is very convincingly exposing the White House's deliberate assault on free speech, item by item: GLENN BECK: When you read the new diversity officer, what is the most disturbing thing that you have seen? What are the things that he says that stick out to you? SETON MOTLEY: Well, he's fundamentally opposed to virtually any private ownership of media. [...] BECK: Tell me exactly what his plan is. MOTLEY: His plan is to use the nebulous FCC regulations of media diversity and localism to travel alternative routes to arrive at the same destination as the Fairness Doctrine, which is to shut you up by shutting you down. He wants to assault the radio industry to effect an ideological outcome... http://www.newsbusters.org/

SpinnerofTales -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 3:50:42 AM)
quote: And, as his audience increases, he can start to charge more. A win for Beck, it looks like to me. "Don't throw me into that briar patch!" ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY Strangely enough, this whole increase in Beck's viewership reminds me of a somewhat different quote. "There's a sucker born every minuet" P.T. Barnum

Sanity -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 4:28:53 AM)
You're living in denial, because Glenn Beck (and Bill O'Reilly, etc.) are smart and very professional. These guys are at their zenith, while their liberal competition have crickets for their audiences. Its that way for good reason, and all the assaults on them from the White House czars only serve to further elevate their status. Were they ignored they would be little more than background noise and hum, but these direct attacks put them on an equal footing (or a nearly equal footing) to the bully pulpit. Keep hammering away, Mr. President!

rulemylife -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 7:06:20 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity You're living in denial, because Glenn Beck (and Bill O'Reilly, etc.) are smart and very professional. These guys are at their zenith... Glenn Beck...........[sm=insane.gif]..................professional? Hold on a second while I try to contain my uncontrollable laughter. Glenn Beck is either doing some serious drugs or is seriously mentally unstable. You can pretty much guarantee something is wrong when someone on his own network starts questioning his rationality: Shep Smith Mocks ‘Glenn Beck Friday

rulemylife -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 7:19:36 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: FirmhandKY quote: ORIGINAL: rulemylife Revenue comes from the advertisers not the number of viewers. If the advertisers are abandoning the show the number of viewers is irrelevant unless new advertisers fill the void. Partially correct. Size of the audience is also a factor. So, since he does have companies who do, or continue to buy airtime, and they are reaching a bigger audience, they are getting more "bang for their buck". And, as his audience increases, he can start to charge more. A win for Beck, it looks like to me. "Don't throw me into that briar patch!" Firm Well, it's just my guess, but if you are losing 36 major corporations as sponsors, including Wal-Mart and CVS, and have to resort to Smiling Bob and his hard-on pills there is going to have to be a huge increase in viewership to make up for the lost revenue.

Sanity -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 7:29:16 AM)
Your link said Shep Smith was jealous... [:D] I imagine a lot of people are, including you. Three million - wow. Glenn Beck = [sm=applause.gif][sm=banana.gif][sm=biggrin.gif][sm=bowdown.gif][sm=buddies.gif][sm=champ.gif][sm=candles.gif][sm=cheering.gif][sm=cheerleader.gif][sm=cheering.gif][sm=chug.gif][sm=coffee.gif][sm=couple.gif][sm=cool.gif][sm=cute.gif][sm=dancer.gif][sm=dancing.gif][sm=flamewar.gif][sm=flash.gif][sm=flowers.gif][sm=flying.gif][sm=givemebeer.gif][sm=friends.gif][sm=goodnight.gif][sm=hello.gif][sm=hearts.gif][sm=hippie.gif][sm=hissyfit.gif][sm=hyper.gif][sm=imking.gif][sm=iwin.gif][sm=jaw.gif][sm=jerry.gif][sm=juggle.gif][sm=kiss.gif][sm=line.gif][sm=LMAO.gif][sm=lol.gif][sm=mademyday.gif][sm=meh.gif][sm=news.gif][sm=mrpuffy.gif][sm=ofcourse.gif][sm=news.gif][sm=pillowfight.gif][sm=popcorn.gif][sm=popcorn.gif][sm=popcorn.gif][sm=preen.gif][sm=rant.gif][sm=rantint.gif][sm=popcorn.gif][sm=shake.gif][sm=rofl.gif][sm=river.gif][sm=tantrum.gif][sm=sodoff.gif][sm=thanks.gif][sm=yahoo.gif][sm=yourock.gif][sm=whoa.gif][sm=welcome.gif][sm=violin.gif][sm=tongue.gif][sm=popcorn.gif] Chris Mathews? [sm=sleepy.gif] Kieth Obermann? [sm=cactus.gif]

Sanity -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 7:34:04 AM)
As has been pointed out already, that list of sponsors that are "pulling their ads" is a fake, it was generated by the White House Czar's dummy organization that started the astroturf campaign to have the ads pulled. And the few who actually are pulling their ads are pulling them from all opinion-oriented shows. Overman, Maddow, Mathews... all of them.

Lucylastic -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 7:35:26 AM)
This is getting way too freaky for me, wow

SpinnerofTales -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/28/2009 8:36:54 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Sanity As has been pointed out already, that list of sponsors that are "pulling their ads" is a fake, it was generated by the White House Czar's dummy organization that started the astroturf campaign to have the ads pulled. And the few who actually are pulling their ads are pulling them from all opinion-oriented shows. Overman, Maddow, Mathews... all of them. First: I would like to propose that those who consider everything anyone to the left of Rush Limbaugh says as nonsense and unamerican stop ripping off their good phrases. Astroturf is theirs. Make up your own catchy slogans. Second: If your argument about the size of the viewing audience of these rabble rousing snake oil salesmen had any validity at all we should all be eating shit...because 50,0000,000 flies can't be wrong. I'm passionatly for free speech and would fight any government effort to silence Beck, Limbaugh, Savage or their ilk. I support their right to say stupid things on a regular basis. But don't expect me to take them seriously.

MarsBonfire -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/29/2009 4:21:32 PM)
Sanity said: Dissent IS the highest form of patriotism, you know. I have that on very good authority. [;)] Yes, Sanity. You do have that on very good authority. I kept telling you that all through the Bush second term. Funny, you didn't believe it then... I seem to recall you kept calling me some sort of "sheeple" and/or moron for talking against the shit that Bush/Cheany/Rove were doing to fuck over the US. (Virtually all of which has been verified since... if not exceeded, since we're finding out that Cheany DID try to have his own private murder squad, and that Blackwater was chosen because it was ultra right wing christian in demenor."America, America, God sheds his grace on thee...") But back to Beck... I disagree that this little limp penis of a commentator is unimportant. It was shit-for-brains nutjobs like him that ended up making so many Americans paranoid in the early 90's, which directly led to the OKC bombing, the Ruby Ridge tradgedy, and now (recently) sent a "twue" American woman packing her ammo to go set up a sniper nest near a FEMA basecamp... DIRECTLY BECAUSE Beck accused that installation of being an "Obama concentration camp." Luckily, no one was shot thanks to his irresponsible bullshit. The dickhead is a menace! I, for one, am glad that his sponsors are fleeing like rats leaving a sinking ship. May this will make these blowhards shut their festeirng gobs for a week or two, as the wonder where the "line" has shifted to... that is, how insane can they get before the money wises up, and walks away? After all, that's all this is really about: telling the marching morons; the racists, the homophobes, the gun freaks, the conspiracy theorists, the misgynistic Morlocks who still laugh at terms like "femminazis"... just what they want to hear, so that they will keep tuning in, and hearing the sponsor's commercials. But, what sponsor wants it's product name associated with with such vile, cretineous, raw sewage? Don't worry about Beck, though, folks. Cockroaches manage to survive, even after the nukes go off.

MarsBonfire -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/29/2009 4:28:17 PM)
"The only valid form of censorship is the right of people not to listen." -Tommy Smothers (Who, BTW, used to be a part of a comedy/variety show during the Nixon years. It went off the air because of direct pressure from the then VP, Spiro Agnew. Agnew was great at this sort of thing, I was re-reading Harlan Ellison's two volume set "The Glass Teat" which has several interesting essays on how the Nixon Administration used many of the same techniques that were popular in Russia at the time for controlling the media, and thus public opinion.)

tazzygirl -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/29/2009 4:36:07 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: subrob1967 quote: ORIGINAL: SpinnerofTales quote: ORIGINAL: subrob1967 Wow, the Color of Change spokesman is a fucking liar...Who would have thunk it? Wow..you cite as a reliable news source an ultra right wing website that makes foxnews.com look like the socialist party daily by comparison. Who would have thunk it? Prove the source wrong, if you can. Can't refute the post, so attack the source....Typical. When the source lies repeatedly on other issues.... http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/goldstar.asp ... i tend to not take them seriously on any

rightwinghippie -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/29/2009 4:48:10 PM)
I am missing the lie Tazzy. The group stopped by and not even a staffer would talk to them. They sent 2 letters which were not responded to. They made some noise (newsmax article). Clinton bent overbackward to meet and placate them. They accepted the apology. What is the lie?

tazzygirl -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/29/2009 5:26:34 PM)
First, it was lousey reporting. They didnt even bother to invetigate what they were supposedly told, they just ran with the story. Second, The National President asked for the emails and negative comments would cease. (i would copy paste, but the site doesnt seem to allow that) Third, the Gold Star members refute that this was all intitiated by them. quote: New York chapter president Shirley Jones and member Mary Wheeler, both of upstate New York, told Behan they had been in Washington visiting Senate offices. The only office that refused to meet with the Gold Star Mothers was none other than New York Senator Hillary Clinton. She and her staff simply refused to meet with them. According to snopes, Clinton wasnt even in town. Hard to meet with someone who isnt there. quote: But who would have guessed that even she would disrespect and dishonor these women who lost their sons to the cause of freedom in service to the nation, the very same souls whose heroism and sacred memory we honor on Memorial Day? http://web.archive.org/web/20010611090536/http://www.newsmax.com/showinside.shtml?a=2001/5/26/73332 The above is an excerpt from the original article. If you dont read the complete link, of course you wont see the lies. And from their own web site quote: Is it true that Hillary Clinton refused to meet with a group of American Gold Star Mothers? No. This story passed through several people before being reported by NewsMax on May 26, 2001 and the details were lost. The two mothers who visited Washington did not have an appointment with the Senator and she was not in her office on that day. The NewsMax article did not get the story correct and we deeply regret the misunderstanding about Senator Hillary Clinton. Senator Clinton greeted us graciously on Gold Star Mothers Sunday, 2005. See pictures on this page. http://www.goldstarmoms.com/FAQs/FAQs.htm

rightwinghippie -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/29/2009 6:32:16 PM)
"She and her staff simply refused to meet with them." "According to snopes, Clinton wasnt even in town. Hard to meet with someone who isnt there. " Her staff was there. The ladies said they were treated rudely, and thier first letter was ignored. The second was only responded to after the Newsmax/right made noise about it. Hillary apologized and made up for it. The Gold Star Moms forgave them. "New York chapter president Shirley Jones and member Mary Wheeler, both of upstate New York, told Behan they had been in Washington visiting Senate offices. The only office that refused to meet with the Gold Star Mothers was none other than New York Senator Hillary Clinton. She and her staff simply refused to meet with them. The group then sent a letter to Clinton's office requesting a meeting with the senator to discuss issues of concern to the Gold Star Mothers. When they received no reply they sent another letter, only to be only to be left, yet again, with no response from Hillary to their request. One can only assume that the senator doesn't much care to meet with these special New Yorkers. " This is the facts from Newsmax. They are true, and sourced. Neither they nor newsmax is complaining that Hillary did not meet with the delegation that dropped by with no notice while she was out of town. Which is what you are trying to pretend. A staffer would not even shake thier hand, and give them 2 minutes. And follow up letters were ignored. Untill the article came out. The situation has since been resolved to the Gold Star Mothers satisfaction, so they want people to drop it. It doesn't make the News max article a lie

tazzygirl -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/30/2009 1:28:04 AM)
And both Ladies said newsmax didnt report the story correctly.

rightwinghippie -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/30/2009 1:39:50 AM)
That was after they were forgiven, and got the attention they wanted. Newsmax did say that Hillary was not there, and they came un announced. They also noted that every other Senator they dropped in on , un-anounced, had at least a staffer listen to them for a few minutes. I am justnot seeing any big lie. Sure its Newsmax, and they spin it to make her look as bad as possible and call her juvinille names, but the facts of the story are all correct. If Huffington Post is considered Valid, Newsmax certainly also is.

tazzygirl -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/30/2009 1:53:41 AM)
Read the original article. The story didnt even come directly from these women. quote: Former Congressman Dan Frisa, NewsMax opinion columnist, reports that John Behan, who headed the N.Y. Division of Veteran Affairs and himself a double-amputee Marine Corps combat veteran of Vietnam, recently attended a gathering of New York State Gold Star Mothers who recounted the outright shabby treatment shown them by the former First Lady. quote: New York chapter president Shirley Jones and member Mary Wheeler, both of upstate New York, told Behan they had been in Washington visiting Senate offices. The only office that refused to meet with the Gold Star Mothers was none other than New York Senator Hillary Clinton. She and her staff simply refused to meet with them. now, as far as Clinton's being the only office, i highly doubt they visited every congressional members office that trip. a gross exageration. according to snopes, the ladies were "miffed" at the receptionist, not at Clinton. a quick fact check would have made a world of difference. quote: New York chapter president Shirley Jones and member Mary Wheeler, both of upstate New York, told Behan they had been in Washington visiting Senate offices. The only office that refused to meet with the Gold Star Mothers was none other than New York Senator Hillary Clinton. She and her staff simply refused to meet with them. Never once a correction or a retraction. No matter how you try and twist this, its shoddy reporting at least. not what i would call a credible news source.

rightwinghippie -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/30/2009 2:11:44 AM)
I agree that the in the Newsmax text the highlighted "And" should be an "or". That's not repeatedly lying. Look, I am not pretending Newsmax is a pulitzer winning news site. Thieir editing is crappy and biased. But the facts in this story are all correct. And you are not adressing that they had to send 2 letters and the second was not responded to until after the Newsmax article came out. The Newsmax story correctly noted they had sent 2 letters and recieved no reply. They have 2 sources for it, which is the basic standard.

tazzygirl -> RE: Attack on Obama riles Glenn Beck's advertisers (8/30/2009 2:20:23 AM)
All i am going by is what the Ladies themselves said. They never reported the story, it was all second and third hand. They grumbled to friends about the treatment they recieved by a Clinton receptionist, and another ex Congressman, who was also on the editorial board at this "paper" picked up on it during a meeting with this same group and ran with it. The organization said this wasnt how it happened. The site is extremely conservative. When i was a kid, we used to play the whispering game. i would whisper something to someone, and they would whisper it to the next person, on down the row. the last person would speak up and say what they were told. rarely was it anywhere near what it started out to be. this is one of those cases... rumors... reported as facts... and no one checked.

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