Glenn Beck’s biggest remaining adventiser: “Male Enhancement”
Glenn Beck’s special brand of frothing, crying, apocalyptic, “Obama is a racist!” hysteria has driven all of Beck’s larger advertisers away, thanks to an awareness campaign from ColorOfChange.org. So who’s left?
The jokes write themselves. Now we know why Beck viewers feel the need to brag about their powerful handguns.
The rest of the list? Well, there’s the Egg Genie. No doubt conservatives everywhere will be giving their somewhat less-loved ones many of these this Christmas. There’s a portable oxygen concentrator – not sure whether the private health insurers that Beck loves so much would actually cover them. There’s one of those “free” (meaning not free) credit score websites, how reputable. There’s also Rosetta Stone language products (please, conservatives, show your love for Beck and learn a goddamned foreign language). It’s all generally stuff that you call a 1-800 number for and pay shipping and handling charges, then see later in the store for less money under the label “As Seen On TV”.
Have at it.
Tags: Glenn Beck, male enhancement
Well, obviously that advertiser has been quite beneficial to Beck — given the growth/enhancement of his ratings numbers during this controversy. Oddly enough, Keith Olbermann’s have been falling — a size problem that he ought to worry about.
I think Beck’s viewers probably need male enhancement.
I knew we could count on the Cialis magnet to respond.
It gets worse… I’m sure you guys will see the moron telling people to boycott school on Tuesday because Obama will be holding a brainwashing and grabbing session… He’s actually scheduled to do a speech about the importance of school but in Becks head I guess that translates to a Nazi tactic of pursuing our young.
I don’t remember any liberals boycotting school because George W. Bush was speaking. These people are just loony toons. I’m sick of hearing about fever dreams.
This speech is unprecedented — there was no such Bush speech. And when he did speak at schools, i heard there were boycotts by some liberal parents.
I’m just as happy that my classroom is so far from the central hub at school that the broadcast won’t make it to my television. I’ve got stuff to teach, and don’t need the interruption.
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For the Ignorant Puke
Beck is quite entertaining, but sometimes I wonder if he’s really serious. I wonder if it’s not all about the ratings.
http://mikeb302000.blogspot.com/2009/08/glenn-becks-popularity.html
Every report I had seen talks abut this being unusual — and in my 1 years in the classroom, there has never been such a speech. Indeed, the fact that you have had to go back 20 years to find one should tell you something…
CNN just said that the White House is calling this is a “first of it’s kind speech” by a sitting president. I assume that means that we have an administration of “ignorant pukes” running the country — right, von cracka?
RWR~ Yes Bush did do something of the sort when he went to classrooms to do “Don’t do Drugs” campaigns or did you forget where your hero was when he was told about the 9/11 incident in 2001? It’s a first in the sense that he’s the first President smart enough to realize that to get to kids, you don’t sit there and sit and read them stories as half of them don’t pay attention. I have a 10 and 11 year old and they’d rather hear it on the TV, why? Because it’s a new generation.
It’s only unprecedented because a Republican didn’t think of it. And if you’re so eager to teach them about something, why don’t you let them listen to what the speech has to say, it might actually teach your kids something instead of leaving them blind. Oh, but that’s right, it’s a brainwashing socialist, nazi, marxist, [insert another here] propaganda tool that has hidden “Evil” messages from the black man in office that he is setting up his gestapo and it will be the rise of THE EMPIRE….. OOOOOOOhhhhhhhhhhhhh…. Thank God my kids don’t go the school you teach at. Thankfully, there are actually teachers in suburbia that actually care about teaching and not their own agenda. I’m lucky enough to be in one of those areas.
Political debate is fresh and everyone is welcome to their opinion, teachers aren’t exempt to that. What teachers are REQUIRED to do is teach both sides of the spectrum. I’m not going to tell you how to do your job because even though I don’t agree with you and I think you’ve got some serious soul searching to do yourself from what I’ve read on your posts, I’m still thankful for teachers as it’s a job that not everyone can do. I will say that teaching is also about learning.
You Beck detractors need to read Moby Dick, and learn to recognize the symptoms of irrational monomania.
“I’ll smoke no more…..”
It’s a shame the kids he will be targeting to “stay in school” will probably be absent anyway.
Didn’t know he was “targeting” any kids specifically… Since education is the most important thing that our nation can possibly invest in, I’m glad that someone is advising of “what can be accomplished” by someone that focuses his time and his effort to achieve what he sets out to do.
What does writing yourself a letter about “what can you do to help the president?” have to do with staying in school.
Purely political.
The President is making an appeal to kids to stay in school and the rhetoric is that kids staying in school helps him and the country. The letter just follows up on that.
Count me as really stunned that a message to kids to stay in school could be this politicized. You’d want kids to hear that from every adult they get to see. You’d think you it would be a good deal for someone to hear that from someone who stayed in school, went to top notch colleges and got to be President of the United States.
But I suppose inoculating your kids with the conservative victim gene can’t happen too early.
I think the reason conservatives want the president not to speak at school is that it will be so much harder to demonize him to their kids if they see him looking like a normal guy. They’re trying hard to keep their kids in the Faux News alternate reality bubble.
Cassandra/UI,
You two hit the nail right on the head on this one. He can’t be a normal guy… He’s the evil Emperor Palpatine that is set out to destroy the United States… (sarcasm of course)
h- you missed the point as your hatred for him blinds you. Here’s someone who actually cares about the future of our kids, the future of this nation and all you can think about is the fact that you hate this guy. Let me just say this, Being a Republican doesn’t preclude someone from discerning fiction from reality or from ignoring the facts. The fact is, Obama is one heck of an example to kids of what can be accomplished when all things, ALL things are stacked against you.
The reality is that even if he looses paid advertizers, Glenn Beck’s biggest advertizer has always been the American people that listen to and watch his programs. That advertizer keeps growing.
Colorofchange.org may have had some success but not nearly as much as what they would like to claim credit for.
As far as the President speaking in school I think it would be better for parents to go to school with their kids and watch it rather than to pull their kids out of school. Once they have seen what the President really has to say, then they can talk to their kids about it afterwards.
When I was growing up one of my family’s policies was that if a TV show was questionable you had to watch it with the parents.
I disagree Tim, I don’t see his follower base growing rather, it’s the conservative base that is coming out of the woodwork because they’re afraid of the black man that has become President and he’s looking to wipe out the American way of life…
Say what you will, there’s a whole new generation of Americans that voted for him and guess what, they’ll vote for him again… I know I will…
Say what you will is correct. It means very little.
I am part of that whole new generation and I did not vote for him.
You are correct though. Conservatives do think that President Obama is going to wipe out the American way of life. Part way through President Bush’s second term he had most of us convinced that he was going to wipe out the American way of life too.
Whether it is all conservatives or not, Glenn Beck’s audience is growing, and their word of mouth is the best advertizing he has ever had.
What would you folks have said if it were George W. Bush making this speech prior to Sept 11? What about after? How about at any point in his presidency?
A speech about kids staying in school?
He was stuck reading a book to kids on 9/11 — what the hell is your problem?
What is wrong with encouraging kids to stay in school at the start of the year?
Actually, I have a problem with this speech — especially when (as an example) the nation’s largest school district will be off that day. Also, the Department of Education did send out those suggested lessons that were explicitly partisan and designed to get kids to “help the president”. Can you see where this created a really awful impression, and raised the ire of a lot of folks? How would you have reacted to a Bush speech that included a lesson plan that included a call for kids to commit themselves to helping the president and a later activity to “hold them accountable” for whetehr or not they followed through on their commitment?
I would personally prefer that he give his speech on September 17 — Constitution Day, which the Congress passed as an unfunded mandate for all schools at the instigation of Kleagle Robert Byrd. Have him speak on our institutions of government and the importance of the Constitution in the lives of all Americans.
But as for the question of what sort of person would object to such a speech — and your insistence that such objections are somehow irrational — what do you have to say about the Dick Gephardt, Pat Schroeder, Martin Frost, and William Ford objecting to such a speech in 1991 as somehow an abuse of the federal budget for campaign purposes directed at a captive audience?
RwR puts quotes around “help the president”, but these words are not found in the two classroom activities put out by the Dept. of Education. Suprised? I’m not.
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/lessons/prek-6.pdf
http://www.ed.gov/teachers/how/lessons/7-12.pdf
Are you kidding me? This is the focus of the speech:
So — are you really telling me that you are objecting to one clearly accomplished adult reaching out to kids to exhort them to “hard work” and “responsibility”?
No wonder yours is a regional rump party now.
Cassandra, Republican bloggers will never let facts get in the way of their talking points.
I’m bummed that the President is speaking at noon ET. I’m wondering how they are going to work that out for lunches up and down the Eastern seaboard.
True nemski — but they are delighted to let their own talking points get crosswise of their new talking points.
For a group of people so intent on cataloging the failures of all of the rest of us in the business of “hard work” and “responsibility” it is simply remarkable that they could trash the effort of one of the most visible adults on the planet to try to talk to kids about that.
The depths of the craven stupidity never fail.
Nemski — that particular activity has been removed from the DoE website.
Much of the controversy surrounding Obama’s talk has centered on the suggested lessons plan the Department of Education sent to school principals on Aug. 26. Sharp criticism came Tuesday from Jim Greer, chairman of the Florida Republican Party, who lambasted the speech and lesson plans as an attempt to “to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology.”
In response to complaints, the Obama administration altered one line in a lesson plan proposed for pre-kindergartners through sixth-graders.
The original lesson plan suggested students write down what they can do to help the president. The revised plan suggests students list how they “can achieve their short-term and long-term education goals.” No changes were made to the suggested lesson plan for students in the seventh through twelfth grades.
Hope my introduction of facts into the discussion doesn’t interfere with your talking points.
By the way, did you notice that my objection isn’t to the notion of the president speaking — and that I indicate that I would welcome a speech by the man on a different day and subject.
And nemski — I agree wholeheartedly about the time. My students will be at lunch, too (first lunch runs 10:45-11:15, with class starting back up at 11:20). That means that 25% of the students at my school will not see the speech.
You probably ought to read up on the notion of “phallic symbols” if you want to understand how hard you just made me laugh. My point is now proven. Thank you.
‘Point?’ What ‘point?’