The MSM has its marching orders....there is a set protocol whenever someone of a conservative leaning becomes popular and successful:

Smear...Ridicule....Destroy!!

Why is anyone surprised here?

Like I said on the earlier thread, Beck's persona is that of Krusty the Clown, except I don't think Krusty is insane.

Liberal's aren't destroying Glenn Beck.

When you go on TV and rant and rave like a lunatic while making goofball faces, laughing hysterically one minute and sobbing like a little girl the next, then go back to making more goofball faces, you do not need any help destroying your credibility.

As I posted yesterday, Glenn Beck has gotten creepy with the crying and emoting.  I think his message is good, but the delivery sucks.

How many of us have seen Jimmy Swaggert crying and believed it?  I don't know too many.  It's the same thing. 

I'm sure Beck's heart is in the right place but I think the crying and gnashing of teeth make him lose any credibility.  I think he's his own worst enemy.  The liberals aren't destroying him...he's destroying himself.  It's like any minute he's going to take out a gun and blow his brains out....just to make his point.  Yikes.

Colbert would give his left arm to have even a quarter of the audience that Beck draws.

Beck is averaging 2.5 million viewers a day

Colbert is averaging 1.6 million per week.

Hey, I got the wrong "CHANGE"!

www.loyaltoliberty.com

The only reason the NY times and Colbert are attacking Beck is because of his high ratings. Period. The fact that some people here think that he's somehow destroying himself is laughable.
Did anyone see how popular his "You are not alone," special was and his 9/12 project has a quarter of a million members.
I used to be put off by his antics but now I don't mind. He's done a really good job of making fun of himself and I watch him every night.

Glenn Beck Friday March 26, 2009 = 2,374,000 viewers.

Colbert Report Monday Jan, 7, 2008  = 1,297,000 viewers.

(could not find any newer data)

So, 1.1 million more viewers and all that at 5:00.

That works out to 11,870,000 people a week that take an hour a day to watch him.

So let them laugh and make fun, Glenn strikes a note with many of us.

As far as him crying, well I share something with my Grandfather (who raised me, a Master Sergeant who landed on the beaches of Normandy) I cry every time I hear our National Anthem. If that makes me or my Grandfather less of a man then, then so be it.

Ronald Reagan, 1962: I did not leave the Democratic party, the party left me.

Insert: your name, 2008, and the Republican party.

     I watched the Colbert video on his website and he accuses Beck of using the memory of 9/11 to further his career.  He goes on to play an audio clip of Beck saying he can't stand the 9/11 victims.  Now, I know that the left has a nasty habit of lifting clips without having it in full context.  I tried to search for the complete transcripts for that day and I can't find them online.  I was wondering if you or any other Newsbusters staff can find it and clear this up?  I have yet to find a site defending Beck on this one.  The date of the incident was September 9, 2005 and he supposedly bashed the 9/11 victims and Katrina victims on his radio program.

Thanks.

"Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head." - Francois Guisot

Beck gets on Republicans, too.  No, he's not going to spend a lot of time raking them over the coals as that is already being handled by the other TV news bureaus, newspapers, magazines, educators, actors, musicians, film makers, and on and on.

Also, it's not the Republicans that are the threat.  Some of them are corrupt-surely...some of them are inept-of course.

But, they controlled Congress for a decade and the White House for eight years and we never saw anything like the Fascist takeover the Left kept saying was inevitable.

So, it is not the Right (which is mostly centrist or as Meghan McCain says, "progressive")-so there is no threat there other than to impede the progress of Dear Leader and the march of Socialism. 

One of the 34% who thinks George W. Bush was a great President. One of the 61% who wants to bring back the stock and pillory (yep...approval for Congress now at 39%...do you believe that!?).

  Jokey time!

Question: How many democrat operatives does it take to kiss Obama's butt?

Answer: None. They can't because Aakaakaak & SpaceManSpiff & HotGermTutu & balboa are already there slobbering and planting wet sloppy libkisses all over teh place.

 HA HA HA! And I am protected from any kind of a response because...

aakaakaak - Last time I checked JWF was a comedian...

spacemanspiff - I agree.  JWF gets a pass...

hotgermtutu - Agreed.  It's time to leave the JWF alone and stick to the real enemy.

balboa - Mommy, Bush touched me. Make him stop. I wanna cry.

Yes! JWF is all teh funny so he is excused from ANY AND ALL CRITICISM!

Sincerely,

a Veteran of a 1000 psychic wars.

Colbert is the most tiresome one-trick pony on TV. I got sick of his shtick about the second time I saw him. He's always doing that fake pose, his mock parody, that stupic attitudinizing -- sort of a bargain-basement Borat. He's the biggest jackass in show biz.