Glenn Beck joins Fox News

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico.com

Drudge teased this earlier, and Fox News now announces that conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck is joining the network from CNN's Headline News. Beck will host a show at 5 p.m. on Fox, beginning in the spring.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1008/Gle...

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Fair and balanced as always...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. Good. I have faux blocked, but I hated seeing his mug when flipping past HNN. nt

[WhiteTara]

52. me too! n/t

[dennysp]

2. Great! Now, they just need to get Rush, Michael Savage, and

the rest of the KKK, lock the door and keep them there.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. What a loss!!!

His nightly share numbers are in the single digits. CNN let him save face by making it look like he is "moving". They let him go.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

4. I'm sure a 2 day old turd could replace him on CNN and no one would notice the difference. nt

[daggahead]

5. Well, he certainly fits in with that gang of liars. n/t

[billyoc]

6. Oh... He'll really be able to let his hair down now...

[mitchum]

29. That made me laugh...

nicely done

[silverojo]

53. What hair?

[Speck Tater]

7. Talk about putting a square peg in a square hole.

He should feel right at home in the land of the delusional propaganda machine.

[ClassWarrior]

8. Yayyy! Herd them all into that filthy pen.

NGU.

[maddogesq]

17. Yeah, but don't light a match.

With all that gas in one place, you might go BOOM!

[Eric J in MN]

9. CNN should hire Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder...

...to co-host a show in the time slot.

[Pab Sungenis]

10. Maybe now "Headline News" can go back to being "Headline News"

with 30 minute newscasts around the clock, like they were meant to be.

[jakefrep]

55. Agreed...

...now they just need to get rid of the Flaming Nostrils of Justice, Nancy Grace.

[hisownpetard]

11. Good. That's where that brainless drooler belongs.

[Betty]

12. Yawn....

just another reason to never watch fox

[tylerdee]

27. ..double yawn

[qanda]

13. Thank God

I would get nauseous when I saw his ugly mug on Headline News. Glad it will be safe to surf again.

[stoge18]

14. What took them so long? n/t

[southpaw]

15. Good! Put all the Right Wing asshats on the same channel.

It just makes Fox more obviously partisan and takes whatever flimsy cover CNN could provide to Beck and rips it away.

[Robbien]

16. Freepers are saying "It’s about time Fox gets some conservative commentators."

When people are to the right of Faux, they really should check their meds.

Being a Freeper wingnut isn't easy these days it seems.

[shadowknows69]

23. I don't know how they manage the brain power to even do simple tasks like eating

[Myrina]

45. Last week in my dr's office ...

... a seriously old fart was sitting down the row from me in the waiting room and noticed that CNN was on the waiting room's tv ... burst forth with a very loud "Goddamn Librul media ... CNN ... no way that commie CRAP would be on the Tee Vee in MY house ..."

to which I responded "why don't you go back to the home, then you senile old fart?" (couldn't contain myself at the thought that anyone would consider CNN 'liberal'.

[TerribleLarryDingle]

18. Flys on shit

<EOM>

[Phred42]

19. Next Dobbs and Blitzer can to go Fox!

[Enthusiast]

24. Dobbs and Blitzer are

purveyors of propaganda, just as Beck is. Fuck 'em both, all three. Send them home, to Fox, where they belong.

[Judi Lynn]

40. Can't watch either one of them, either. What monstrosities, like something from a freak show.

One can't possibly watch Dobbs. The poisonous atmosphere around him could kill you.

Blitzer's pathetic geriatric, monotonous droning voice almost puts you to sleep before you realize he is stark, raving, wildly sick. I believe he's grossly unable to handle any resposible job, can only see him threading beads on a necklace, or something similar, as a more logical place to focus all his "energy."

[Enthusiast]

54. Right you are, Judi.

And spot on about Blitzer.

[Raine]

20. Now if only they would get rid of Screwy Louie Dobbs

and send him to FAUX where he belongs.

[The Sushi Bandit]

21. They can Fucking Have Him

He is a Slime Ball

[unpossibles]

22. this may be the least shocking news I've heard all day

and I called BS on the Joe the Fake Plumber pretty early.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

25. Thank God! Good riddance!

He is one of the most annoying idiots on teevee.

[Old Codger]

26. about time

They either had to move him over there or re-name the show to fox/hnn... Quit watching that at all with that yo-yo on it..

[Faygo Kid]

28. The collective IQs at Faux and CNN both went up considerably.

Beck's 87 IQ was a drag on CNN, but he's a regular intellectual at Faux.

[4lbs]

30. Is that 5pm Eastern time? Because right now 5pm Pacific is Bill O'Reilly's show here in the West.

n/t

[KT2000]

31. Hooray!!!

He will be off CNN headline news.

[sohndrsmith]

32. Good. They deserve each other.

I've boycotted FOX since February, and it has been one of the best things I've done in recent history.

I'm a passionate proponent for hearing and reading things from people I disagree with (or, the opponent and his supporters, in the case of this election). I read conservative/republican/etc. journalists - it's not fun, but knowledge is power. And it actually makes the things I support make even MORE sense. But it is painful.

But FOX is not among them. They disqualified themselves. Even so, what I hear from others as to the things that are said and presented as "news", they don't exactly offer valid information. Plus, there is a difference between bias and prejudice, and this network promotes the latter.

If you never watch another moment of FOX again, I guarantee, you will have lost nothing, missed nothing. I speak from experience.

[Feron]

33. That will be a...

difficult transition for him.

[entanglement]

34. The average intelligence of both networks just went up

[Haole Girl]

35. Always seemed like he worked for them anyway. nt

[Kalifornia.Kid]

36. The only thing that changed are the THREE LETTERS on the paycheck.

[goodgd_yall]

37. Thank god

A much better fit for him.

[ShortnFiery]

38. Another "Turd Blossom" finally found a home. A home! A home! A home away from home!

[ann_american2004]

39. GREAT! I never watch that channel

now if they could only get that f*cker Lou Dobbs on Fox I would be set.
Fox is a virtual ignore list for me.

[Ian David]

41. About fucking time the nazi went where he belongs. n/t

[JohnnyRingo]

42. Glenn Beck is a real gold mine:

Fox will really cash in on this deal.
Depending on how much Beck is paying.

The Scoreboard: Friday, Oct. 10
25-54 demographic: (L +SD)

Total day: FNC: 364 | CNN: 327 | MSNBC: 277 | HLN: 132

Prime: FNC: 657 | CNN: 612 | MSNBC: 572 | HLN: 262
......5p:...... 6p:... 7p:..... 8p:.... 9p: ...10p:.... 11p:

FNC ElectionHQ: Hume: Shep: O'Reilly: H&C: Greta: O'Reilly:
.....363 ..... 392 ... 382 ... 740 ....758 .. 472 .....539

CNN ...Blitzer: Blitzer: Dobbs: Brown: King: Cooper: Cooper:
..........278 ..... 291 .... 376 ... 442 ...645 ..749 .....606

MSNBC Hardball: Gregory: Hardball: Countdown: Maddow: Countdown: Maddow:
..............405 ......311 .....479 ....... 591 ..........684 .........442 ......347

HLN Prime: Prime: Beck: Grace: Beck: Grace: Showbiz:
.........78 ....157 ...136 ..439 ..181 ...187 ... 123


Data by Nielsen Media Research. Live and same day (DVR) data.

[shaniqua6392]

43. I am going to send CNN an email to thank them for this wise decision.

Now I can safely go back to checking out Headline News!! Beck is going right where he belongs. Fixed News....Unfair and Unbalanced!!

[krkaufman]

50. I don't see where this was a CNN decision as much as Beck's choice.

So I don't see how CNN merits any gratitude whatsoever, considering how long they've allowed this filth to pollute the airwaves.

[Myrina]

44. Good. Get the fekkin' nutbag off CNN & find someone normal ...

... I never understood why that bloviating everything-phobe got his own show in the first damn place.

[crossroads]

46. Great news... he can spout BS with the rest of those idiots

[Roy]

47. Not right wing enough for CNN? WOW!! That sez it all n/t

[Dukkha]

48. got tired of all the snickering behind the camera?

another drunken frat boy for the gang of thugs at Faux

[krkaufman]

49. I have to laugh at CNN for having given this idiot a platform for so long ...

... and for sullying their own reputation. Though I will not be surprised when they replace Beck with some other Right Wing blowhard.

edit: p.s. I *do* like that the loonies are all gravitating towards Fox. Maybe Scarborough and Dobbs can head that way soon, as well.

[krkaufman]

51. My lord, just check the comments at the Polico posting the OP links

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1008/Gle...

A bunch of people who love Beck and are glad he's shifting to a "real" news channel, where it's fair and balanced. Yikes!

[skip fox]

56. It's official at last.

[Lochloosa]

57. Take Lou Dobbs with you!