Friday, March 6, 2009
Comedy Central: A Bastion Of Sanity
TW: You may recall this video of the rabid fool, Glenn Beck. Thankfully we have Comedy Central, in this case Colbert, to put Beck in perspective. Things are challenging the Glenn Beck's of the world only make them worse. That he is achieving strong ratings speaks more about Americans than Glenn Beck.
From LA Times:
"Before Glenn Beck started his new show on Fox News in January, he sat down with Roger Ailes, the network's chief executive, to make sure they were on the same page.
"I wanted to meet with Roger and tell him, 'You may not want to put me on the air. I believe we are in dire trouble, and I will never shut up,' " said the conservative radio host.
But before Beck could say anything, Ailes shared a message of his own: The country faced tough times, he said, and Fox News was one of the only news outlets willing to challenge the new administration.
I see this as the Alamo," Ailes said, according to Beck. "If I just had somebody who was willing to sit on the other side of the camera until the last shot is fired, we'd be fine."
Beck's indignant critiques of the Obama administration and gloomy outlook on the nation's financial health have found near-instant resonance. His eponymous 2 p.m. PST program averaged nearly 2.2 million viewers last month -- double the number the time slot attracted the previous February and a remarkable amount for the afternoon. That made "Glenn Beck" the third most-watched program in all of cable news for the month, after Bill O'Reilly's and Sean Hannity's evening shows..."
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-foxnews6-2009mar06,0,5964042,full.story
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