The beckmeister just signed $100 million, 5-year radio deal !!!!

[a kennedy]

So of course he's the 99%er. NOT!!!

LOS ANGELES – Conservative talk show host Glenn Beck has signed a five-year, $100 million contract to continue his morning radio show with syndicator Premiere Networks.

The details were confirmed Monday by a person with direct knowledge of the deal. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the deal and requested anonymity. The contract was earlier reported by The New York Times.

It marks a big pay bump for Beck. His last contract with the Clear Channel subsidiary was reportedly for $10 million a year in 2007.
The Glenn Beck Program is the nation's third-highest rated radio show behind The Rush Limbaugh Show and The Sean Hannity Show. Those two shows are also syndicated by Premiere.

Over the past five years, Beck's audience has grown nearly 50% and his show is carried on more than 400 stations.
Forbes magazine estimates that Beck, 48, makes $80 million a year. He parted ways with Fox News Channel last year after his TV show's audience size shrank and advertisers staged a boycott following his comment that President Barack Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people.


"http://www.usatoday.com/money/media/story/2012-06-11/Glenn-Beck-100-million-5-year-contract/55522332/1

[Gregorian]

1. Idiocracy

[marmar]

7. You stole my thought.

Symptom of a much larger disease.

[Gregorian]

9. It's the new general purpose reply.

Orwell's 1984 pretty much became reality. I worry that our future may be more accurately portrayed by Idiocracy than people imagine.

[just1voice]

2. Glad to see them wasting their money, all of it

Imagine the incredibly wonderful things that could be done with that money and they waste it on hate speech -- they deserve to be taken for all they're worth.

[TheKentuckian]

3. Cheap price for the value of the propaganda. The profit isn't direct but it is substantial.

I see zero indication that the money is being wasted. It probably even acts as a bit of a carrot to demonstrate that one can "make it".

Keeping the spell up is an investment and if ads get sold then it is manna from heaven.

[Raine]

4. Apparently it pays well to bark like a dog and act like an idiot

sad but even worse is that people listen to the ravings of such a lunatic.

[CoffeeCat]

5. Have you ever tried to talk w/a Beckian?

They're crazy. They don't make sense or know how to have a logical argument. They hang on Beck's every word and they only know his distorted lies and bizarre theories. They can't have a reality-based argument. They just flit from talking point to talking point.

Beck has been on a tear about Obama's life story being a complete lie. He says that Obama has created a fake life. Beck has all if these insane theories that are outrageous and they can never be validated or disproven, he just spouts off this ridiculous tripe that means nothing. He feeds into the low intelligence and naïveté of his listeners who have no basic knowledge of history or common sense.

Beck's high salary is sad. It's pathetic that such a high value is put on exaggeration, lies and taking advantage of impressionable dolts Who listen to and believe Beck's nonsense.

[ladjf]

6. What is wrong with our Country? nt

[ileus]

8. What a moonbat...