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I don't see how Tucker manages to get his audience to switch to podcasts or YouTube rants or whatever. The average age was pushing 70 or something if memory serves. Trying to get that audience to figure out how to do something besides use the remote for the TV is a not insignificant task one-on-one. Doing it across the entire population? Good luck.
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bird food bathtub posted:I don't see how Tucker manages to get his audience to switch to podcasts or YouTube rants or whatever Well here is how he tries... he posted a video tonight: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/tucker-carlson-fox-news-firing-video-b2327757.html The ol' "Everyone lies to you, I'm the only one who can tell you the truth" schtick.
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This Is the Zodiac posted:Kind of owns that the precedent that allows this is Citizens United (i.e. corporations have a constitutionally protected right to free speech). To be clear, the Contracts, Takings, and Due Process complaints do not in any way rely on Citizens United.
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So Glenn Beck was talking about Tucker Carlson and Fox News on his radio show this morning, and if he's telling the truth (which is a big assumption, admittedly), Murdoch getting freaked out about the religious stuff seems to be true. Beck claims that a bit before he got fired from Fox News, he got told to stop mentioning God in his shows. He just nodded and said okay and didn't think much about it, and then three months or so later he says he got called into a meeting where they were like "We told you to stop mentioning God on your program. Do you know how many times you said 'God' in your show?" and his response was to kinda laugh and say "You counted them?" To which they went "You said it 92 times! We told you to stop it!" Comedy option: Murdoch is actually super religious and is worried that God will judge him for Fox News presenting political positions as Christian doctrine and theology.
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Apr 27, 2023 03:13
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Nah, he's not American. The obsession with Christianity in the modern age is limited to America and a few weird kooks we make fun of everywhere else.
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aventari posted:Well here is how he tries... he posted a video tonight:  ... am I being threatened?
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Harvey Mantaco posted:
You can run... you can hide... But eventually, you'll get Tuckered.
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Twelve by Pies posted:So Glenn Beck was talking about Tucker Carlson and Fox News on his radio show this morning, and if he's telling the truth (which is a big assumption, admittedly), Murdoch getting freaked out about the religious stuff seems to be true. Beck claims that a bit before he got fired from Fox News, he got told to stop mentioning God in his shows. He just nodded and said okay and didn't think much about it, and then three months or so later he says he got called into a meeting where they were like "We told you to stop mentioning God on your program. Do you know how many times you said 'God' in your show?" and his response was to kinda laugh and say "You counted them?" To which they went "You said it 92 times! We told you to stop it!"  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35DSdw7dHjs
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And then Beck and Carlson are the populist types who start going Howard Beale on everybody and losing it and getting spiritual and they have to face the choice of whether to change gears and preach "God's" corporate cosmology. Tucker didn't have poor ratings though but the big-name advertisers stayed away which is why you mostly saw the MyPillow guy and other "CALL-NOW!!!" direct response ads which don't bring in as much money.
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Oh Beck is all in on the religious stuff, the other day he was talking to some lady who runs an event called the First Landing project or something and he was talking about how America needs to make a new covenant with God. It was some incredible white supremacist poo poo too because the lady was talking about how "The people who landed at Jamestown dedicated this land to God, and when I say the land I mean the entire continent, this is God's land due to their covenant." But yeah, Beck is constantly talking about repentance and the need to fight against the forces of evil because as God's people they are called to be the city on the hill and all that jazz. I think the only sponsors I ever hear Beck shill are Patriot Mobile, Preborn, MyPillow, My Patriot Supply, and his real estate agent website.
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Seeing the liberal outlets leave the door open for Tucker Carlson reminded me how the media moves in a pack when it comes to brahmin journalists and pundits like him. At the end of the day, the prospect of Tucker actually have to get a real job is too frightening for everyone else, because it means they're vulnerable too, so they'll never really slam that door shut.
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Twelve by Pies posted:Oh Beck is all in on the religious stuff, the other day he was talking to some lady who runs an event called the First Landing project or something and he was talking about how America needs to make a new covenant with God. It was some incredible white supremacist poo poo too because the lady was talking about how "The people who landed at Jamestown dedicated this land to God, and when I say the land I mean the entire continent, this is God's land due to their covenant." But yeah, Beck is constantly talking about repentance and the need to fight against the forces of evil because as God's people they are called to be the city on the hill and all that jazz. Can anyone here give me a tl'dr on beck? It seems like he became way more popular than O'Reilly or Tucker with a brief moment where he seemed non-partisan with Samantha Bee but then dropped off the map? What the hell happened?
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Crosby B. Alfred posted:Can anyone here give me a tl'dr on beck? It seems like he became way more popular than O'Reilly or Tucker with a brief moment where he seemed non-partisan with Samantha Bee but then dropped off the map? What the hell happened? Off the top of my head, so may be forgetting parts, and in wrong order. Radio Shock Jock to begin with. Phoned up a guy to taunt him over his wife having a miscarriage. Then went into Right Wing Radio. Became popular post 9/11 with the Tea Party movement, would dress up in founder style wigs and pretend to be all the founding fathers at once. Started the crazy chalkboard times during this, he would draw flow charts linking whatever democrat/left wing thing to Soros or Iraq or whatever lizard evil baddy du jour. Started the 'Im only asking questions' meme. And was stupidly popular with the old folk demographic. Then hooked up with Goldline, a coin selling company, to prepare for the apocalypse. Goldline turned out to be a massive scam, you would need the apocalypse to just break even for what you bought the coins for. Final straw was when he did a 'special' where 'Obama is the REAL racist here' which led to a lot of advertisers pulling ads from his show. He was let go soon after, started his own show at Blaze, now a fraction of his former self. Didn't suck off Trump for 2016, so was shunned even further. I forget when he did this, but tried to start a 9-12 movement, 'lets get back to that comrade feeling we had for each other on that day' but reality wise was just right wing guns, jesus, and do what we tell you. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 11:06 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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happyhippy posted:Off the top of my head, so may be forgetting parts, and in wrong order.  don’t forget that he was on CNN for a time too
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Glen Beck is also an adult convert to Mormonism.
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PT6A posted:Nah, he's not American. The obsession with Christianity in the modern age is limited to America and a few weird kooks we make fun of everywhere else. Australia exports a lot of religious nutjobs to the US.
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Apr 27, 2023 12:06
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Brian Kilmeade not doing so good with the audience that tunes in for Fox News version of the 5 minutes hate I see. bird food bathtub posted:I don't see how Tucker manages to get his audience to switch to podcasts or YouTube rants or whatever. The average age was pushing 70 or something if memory serves. Trying to get that audience to figure out how to do something besides use the remote for the TV is a not insignificant task one-on-one. Doing it across the entire population? Good luck. Yeah I've really noticed that generations extreme aversion to being asked to learn new things, having to think for themselves in even the simplest of decision making scenarios, and do things like I don't know, simply read and interpret information on their own. Somebody has to do it for them a frankly concerningly large amount of the time and on average being asked to do these things for themselves just makes them really loving angry and pissy. It's actually quite something to behold and can't really be attributed just to age and ability. They're just kind of lazy and stubborn and used to making other people do it for them. I'm kind of at the phase of gently caress the boomer generation on average myself despite not seeing it that way even a few years ago. It's almost to the point where I'm kind of surprised when I come across a boomer in public now and they aren't behaving like an entitled shithead in some capacity.
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I'm literally witnessing an example of this on the bus. Just utter refusal to be aware of a schedule and just shouting into a phone on a bus for everyone to here. gently caress everyone else that isn't me and may be put off by my behavior but also do my thinking for me basically is the average outcome for anyone over 70 more often than not these days.
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Why is crowder so sweaty these days. Like in a literal sense just somewhat under siege by moistness
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happyhippy posted:Off the top of my head, so may be forgetting parts, and in wrong order. He was a never-Trumper, but he saw the writing on the wall and made a showy bit of putting on a red MAGA hat saying liberals went too far. IIRC the straw that broke the camel’s back was liberals “defending MS-13” by pointing out that they were being used to smear all immigrants.
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Staluigi posted:Why is crowder so sweaty these days. Like in a literal sense just somewhat under siege by moistness Crowder I think has some legitimate health problems, like things that can actually kill him that are also not even faults of his lifestyle or other choices, just genetic bombs he has.
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AtomikKrab posted:Crowder I think has some legitimate health problems, like things that can actually kill him that are also not even faults of his lifestyle or other choices, just genetic bombs he has. One can only hope
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It's either the broken heart (medical), broken heart (divorce), or all the dog cum he chugs.
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wiki says he has pectus excavatum, a condition that's exactly what it sounds like, with an associated image I didn't particularly need to see this early in the morning. It's apparently pretty treatable if addressed while young, but he had it treated in 2021 and there were severe subsequent complications.
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Glen Beck burnt out pretty massively at one point, but his buildup and peak of popularity was pretty insane. I feel like he (briefly) surpassed O'Reilly, Hannity, and Tucker at their respective peaks, but he let it go to his head and started crying and becoming way too overtly religious/apocalyptic with his stuff. Even my conservative family members call him crazy, but eat up everything else.
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Staluigi posted:Why is crowder so sweaty these days. Like in a literal sense just somewhat under siege by moistness I've seen comments that he started steroids, but I can't say that's a fact.
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Didn't Beck also have a brief moment of "c'mon, we're all Americans here, left or right it doesn't matter" weak centrism pre-2016? I seem to remember him trying to pump the brakes before Trump came along and let him play the role of a principled aw-shucks conservative for a bit.
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JosefStalinator posted:Glen Beck burnt out pretty massively at one point, but his buildup and peak of popularity was pretty insane. I feel like he (briefly) surpassed O'Reilly, Hannity, and Tucker at their respective peaks, but he let it go to his head and started crying and becoming way too overtly religious/apocalyptic with his stuff. Even my conservative family members call him crazy, but eat up everything else. I think the beginning of the end for Beck was his big dumb rally at the Lincoln Memorial where he unveiled his "100 Year Plan" to save America from... Woodrow Wilson, or some poo poo? And then a month later Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert did their Rally To Restore Fear/Sanity basically going "Glenn Beck is a stupid crazy rear end in a top hat, don't be like Glenn Beck" and that kind of kicked off his death spiral. So now everyone still remembers (and mocks) Stewart and Colbert's mock rally, but completely forgets that it was in response to and making fun of Glenn Beck's 100% serious rally. Dude's 100 Year Plan only lasted like 9 months. Crunch Buttsteak posted:Didn't Beck also have a brief moment of "c'mon, we're all Americans here, left or right it doesn't matter" weak centrism pre-2016? I seem to remember him trying to pump the brakes before Trump came along and let him play the role of a principled aw-shucks conservative for a bit. Yeah that was all a con too to try and get his face back on TV, and it worked very briefly because rubes like Samantha Bee and Lawrence O'Donnell bought into it, but at least O'Donnell had the wherewithal to realize about halfway through the interview that Beck was just being a huckster again and started pressing him on poo poo and ended it on "Well I hope you're serious about everything you said, but we'll see." And then Beck disappeared from public life again because he realized the jig was up.
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He also at one point tried to launch his own libertarian city.quote:The ambitious project, projected to cost over two billion dollars, has been heavily influenced by Walt Disney. As Glenn has been explaining throughout the week, Disneyland was originally intended to be a place where people would find happiness, inspiration, courage and hope. Over time, Walt Disney's original vision has been lost. While hundreds of thousands still flock to the town, it's become commercialized and the big dreams and the heart have been compromised.
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Crunch Buttsteak posted:Didn't Beck also have a brief moment of "c'mon, we're all Americans here, left or right it doesn't matter" weak centrism pre-2016? I seem to remember him trying to pump the brakes before Trump came along and let him play the role of a principled aw-shucks conservative for a bit.
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Iirc he would regularly work himself up to the point of genuinely crying on national tv. This was to display how genuine/patriotic/faithful he was.
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Generic American posted:He also at one point tried to launch his own libertarian city. I still love that this spawned an entire GBS thread of short stories about what an inherently bad idea this was, back when there was still real creative talent on SA and we were doing poo poo like the Skinwalker thread and Slenderman.
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JosefStalinator posted:Glen Beck burnt out pretty massively at one point, but his buildup and peak of popularity was pretty insane. I feel like he (briefly) surpassed O'Reilly, Hannity, and Tucker at their respective peaks
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Generic American posted:He also at one point tried to launch his own libertarian city. How could this have been called anything but Glen's Gulch
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Mellow Seas posted:that's pretty much dried up, because most of us can't stand to watch any of it anymore. Apparently many of us can because a large part of Tucker's audience was libs tuning in to hate watch. Also, "look at these RW fuckers and their fuckery" is about 80% of left leaning Youtube content.
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Mellow Seas posted:because most of us can't stand to watch any of it anymore.
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Another mega chud hopefully facing consequences as a result of his actions? https://twitter.com/yashar/status/1651645370898989057
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World Famous W posted:so, about the thread you're posting in... I know the thread wouldn't work without the true masochists tracking down the content though, and I salute them. o7
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Ethics_Gradient posted:Glen Beck is also an adult convert to Mormonism. Also he attacked Romney in 2012 for being on of those weird poly Mormon members so his apparently his conversion isnt very deep or good. e: im pretty sure his futurama bender casino Blaze project was 100% dark money from some other regressive billionaire, but turns out having a media platform money blackhole. doublelly so if its some political platform and no other hooks. Beck let his ego and some dark money screw him out of a better longterm career path imo, but screw him PhazonLink fucked around with this message at 21:06 on Apr 27, 2023 |
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mobby_6kl posted:Another mega chud hopefully facing consequences as a result of his actions? God, how many people, famous and obscure alike, have Ring doorbell/home security cameras done in now? I feel like the answer is "a lot" with "even more coming in the future".
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