Glenn Beck: "I couldn't give less of a crap about the political process."

[Initech]

HE FINALLY ADMITS IT!!!

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. (FORBES has a relationship with that channel via Forbes on Fox.)

By now everyone knows Beck's curriculum vitae--at least, the hideous details (which he doesn't hide) of his drug and alcohol addictions and the pettiness of firing an assistant for supplying a pen he didn't like for signing autographs. In the popular mythology his career was born twice: first after Sept. 11 (his national radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, launched officially in January 2002); then again when Barack Obama was inaugurated (his Fox News show first aired two days before, on Jan. 19, 2009). The summary omits a few details of his climb to fame and, more important, to fortune.

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

[ZeitgeistObserver]

1. Yeah, he's a stand-up comedian

that tea-baggers take literally.

[political_Dem]

2. First Tancredo, Jeb and Rove speak out against the AZ bill. Now this.

This might be truly the apocalypse if Beck has suddenly reached an epiphany of truth on air and is admitting it in front of the camera.

Now the question will be whether his audience of toadies believe him.

[Incitatus]

3. I figured, but if he incites some whacko to do something stupid,

I don't think things are going to end well for him.

[era veteran]

4. He wouldn't make a pimple on an anal cyst's canker sore's pus leak

I don't like him either.

[PinkFloyd]

5. I was glad to see him go to Fox....

But he's bullshit got much deeper. Just yesterday he was saying Bush was a progressive. If Bush was his version of progressive, what's his version of conservative? Genghis Khan? Hitler?

[PBass]

6. Glenn Beck is an expert on so many topics!!!! (sarcasm)

I listened to him a week or two ago, for about an hour (not the only time BTW)

I won't bore you with a play-by-play description of how incomprehensible and inane it was.

Conclusion: he's an idiot.