Beck leaving Fox News...

gimpy117 · 04-07-11, 10:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen

What, you didn't like his flow charts?

was it something like this?

wow. Hope your screens are bigger than 15" huge pic is huge

04-07-11, 11:24 AM

He is stepping aside to devote his efforts in a run for office.
Beck/Palin 2012
Though some say palin has crazy theories and is too much of an intellectual lightweight so will damage his chances.

AVGWarhawk · 04-07-11, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Tribesman

He is stepping aside to devote his efforts in a run for office.
Beck/Palin 2012
Though some say palin has crazy theories and is too much of an intellectual lightweight so will damage his chances.

Run for office? These two need to quit while they are ahead.

tater · 04-07-11, 12:08 PM

I have never been able to stomach any of the opinion shows on TV, regardless of network. It's not fair to paint Beck as a bad journalist, since I doubt he's ever called himself one. It's an opinion show, so it's like reading a blog.

I have heard Beck a few times on the radio while driving, and I listened a while so I'd have some sense of where he was coming from. I found him first to be annoying (he pauses a lot (for whiny, dramatic effect?), and dead air is incredibly bad radio). I think like any of these goons there is probably some truth in there here and there, but he's such a loon, any good data that might be contained is wiped out by the crazy.

I listened to Hannity on the radio a few times as well. One time, he was taking a side that I agreed with... and managed to pick the worst possible argument to defend it. Stunningly dumb guy, IMO, when you can take something that is basically self-evidently true, and pick an argument for it that is so bad, I want to disagree with it (pretty much universally true any time someone takes a conservative stance (that is correct WRT the Founders) and uses religion to back it up).

FWIW, the 2 radio shows I have listened to the most are by a wide margin NPR Morning Edition, and until a few years ago... Democracy Now! The latter is total moonbat leftist propaganda. At least as nutty as Rush/Hannity/Beck, but it doesn't claim to be opinion as they do, it claims to be the unvarnished truth. For years I listed to that 1 hour a day just to know what the other side thought. I tried to listen to Air American a couple times when it was on, but that was at least as nutty as Beck, every single show I heard (no hosts memorable at all, and the only one I remember the name of was Al Frankin).

em2nought · 04-07-11, 01:04 PM

Beck was better "before" he got religion.

AVGWarhawk · 04-07-11, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by em2nought

Beck was better "before" he got religion.

I can not say if he was better before because I never really watched him but the other day I watched for about 5 minutes. He stopped talking and said, "Let's pray about that." or something to that effect.

MH · 04-07-11, 01:52 PM

Beck-demagogy at its best but not totally crazy loon.
He has some good points sometimes.

04-07-11, 12:08 PM	#4
tater Navy Seal Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Mexico, USA Posts: 9,023 Downloads: 8 Uploads: 2	I have never been able to stomach any of the opinion shows on TV, regardless of network. It's not fair to paint Beck as a bad journalist, since I doubt he's ever called himself one. It's an opinion show, so it's like reading a blog. I have heard Beck a few times on the radio while driving, and I listened a while so I'd have some sense of where he was coming from. I found him first to be annoying (he pauses a lot (for whiny, dramatic effect?), and dead air is incredibly bad radio). I think like any of these goons there is probably some truth in there here and there, but he's such a loon, any good data that might be contained is wiped out by the crazy. I listened to Hannity on the radio a few times as well. One time, he was taking a side that I agreed with... and managed to pick the worst possible argument to defend it. Stunningly dumb guy, IMO, when you can take something that is basically self-evidently true, and pick an argument for it that is so bad, I want to disagree with it (pretty much universally true any time someone takes a conservative stance (that is correct WRT the Founders) and uses religion to back it up). FWIW, the 2 radio shows I have listened to the most are by a wide margin NPR Morning Edition, and until a few years ago... Democracy Now! The latter is total moonbat leftist propaganda. At least as nutty as Rush/Hannity/Beck, but it doesn't claim to be opinion as they do, it claims to be the unvarnished truth. For years I listed to that 1 hour a day just to know what the other side thought. I tried to listen to Air American a couple times when it was on, but that was at least as nutty as Beck, every single show I heard (no hosts memorable at all, and the only one I remember the name of was Al Frankin). __________________ "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one." — Thomas Paine

04-07-11, 01:04 PM	#5
em2nought Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 3,485 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Beck was better "before" he got religion. __________________ em2nought is ecstatic garbage!

04-07-11, 11:24 AM	#2
Tribesman Stowaway Posts: n/a Downloads: Uploads:	He is stepping aside to devote his efforts in a run for office. Beck/Palin 2012 Though some say palin has crazy theories and is too much of an intellectual lightweight so will damage his chances.

04-07-11, 01:52 PM	#7
MH Ocean Warrior Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 3,184 Downloads: 248 Uploads: 0	Beck-demagogy at its best but not totally crazy loon. He has some good points sometimes.