CS Monitor Links Beck's Egypt Conspiracy To His Flagging Ratings

[babylonsister]

Ya think?? Or he's just batshit crazy. :dilemma:


http://mediamatters.org/blog/201102120020

CS Monitor Links Beck's Egypt Conspiracy To His Flagging Ratings

February 12, 2011 3:01 pm ET by Media Matters staff


Beck's hysterical ranting over the supposed left-wing conspiracy that toppled Mubarak and will install a radical Islamic regime in his place has earned the condemnation of Fox News contributor Bill Kristol and other prominent conservatives. Beck has responded to their criticism by instigating a full-fledged feud which today made its way into the pages of the Christian Science Monitor. In today's edition, the newspaper suggests that Beck's increasingly apocalyptic rhetoric is a response to his declining ratings:

Beck, whose signature image is being outraged at the left (tinged with conspiracy theories), apparently has decided to push his brand ever farther. Do his ratings have anything to do with that?

From January 2010 to last month, the number of his viewers dropped 39 percent - the steepest decline of any cable news show.

"It's entirely possible viewers are simply tiring of the chalkboard and the high rhetoric, which has been notably higher of late," Business Insider reported earlier this month. "And needless to say Beck is not the phenom he was a year ago, merely by dint of the country becoming more familiar with him."

Meanwhile, some 300 advertisers have asked not to be on his show - a trend that began when Beck called President Obama a "racist."

As is typically his style, Beck doesn't address the arguments of his opponents but goes after them personally.

"People like Bill Kristol ... I don't think they stand for anything anymore," says Beck. "All they stand for is power. They'll do anything to keep their little fiefdom together, and they'll do anything to keep the Republican power entrenched."

And in his latest monologue about "the new world order," Beck had this to say about his critics: "You want to call me crazy? Go to hell. Call me crazy all you want."

[Ken Burch]

1. Gee...couldn't it be BOTH?

n/t.

[RandomThoughts]

2. Yea, when the beer and travel money was not paid.

The concept of correcting that problem by removal is always a thought.

But really if you remove a problem, they just get replaced, so smashing there ability to even think and function with coherent thought process, is far better.

Then the rest have to haul around the nuts that are causing as many problems, don't kill, wound, and let them add to the issues they face.

Very simple insurgent strategy, any Rambo would know that, his job was not to kill, that movie was wrong.

Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNQRfBAzSzo


Hence also why I appreciate the sanity I have, that fewer and fewer will have till that beer and travel money is corrected.

[Matariki]

3. He's crazy - but I agree with his statement about Bill Kristol.

"All they stand for is power. They'll do anything to keep their little fiefdom together, and they'll do anything to keep the Republican power entrenched."

[Frustratedlady]

4. Perhaps Beck and others like him are beginning to see that their "assignments"...

from the Repug powers that be were not what they were told they would be. In other words, they've been used. They've been sent out with talking points distributed each morning, put on their acts as though they knew what they were talking about, scared little old ladies with their lies of visions of the future and what did they get? Huge salaries and ruined reputations.

The Repug Party won't be hurt as much as the Beck's, Hannity's, O'Reilly's and Palin's, as the party will smooth talk their way back into the game. The others? They will have lost face and value as a person. Beck is a good example.