Replies to post #107759 on Tornado Alley (PROG)

[Specalculator1]

the whole thing is a scam from isle to isle

I still don't know what any of these people are saying. They speak double talk, all of them, they tap dance around issues and blame eachother, thats the message I get. I don't think any of them know how to do anything but promote their own agenda while its their responsiblity to come together for the whole country, they are split apart. Some United States this turned out to be.

The Divided States of America tell Sara to put that in her pipe and smoke it.

Stop the Planet, I want to get off!

[F6]

dws -- do you have any idea how much self-described 'rodeo clown' Beck rakes in every year from/courtesy of folks like you being seduced by his outrageous lies and bullshit? -- Sharpton's certainly had his own foibles, but he's never sunk to anywhere close to the purely exploitative rank demagogic hucksterism exemplified by Beck

and I don't recall having seen anything about Sharpton charging big speaking fees -- if you have a source for that, I would be interested to see it

[wbmw]

Yes, Glen Beck's salary, genius. Are you going to sit there and pretend that Al Sharpton monetizes his controversy, while Beck doesn't? How gullible can you be?

Maybe reading this article on Forbes will help, where Beck professes his motives in his own words.

"We're an entertainment company," Beck says.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0426/entertainment-fox-news-simon-schuster-glenn-beck-inc.html

With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says. He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers.