Glenn Beck Fired from Fox News for "Course Correction"

I always found Shepard Smith one of the more evenly balanced commentators on FOX News.

Fox is not conservative, and Beck never preached violence. Hoffa, however....

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/09/25/roger-ailes-repositions-fox-news.html

There is no mention of anyone being fired.

Ok, lets follow the story trail here. You link to an article on perezhilton.com which you pretty much parrot. Perez Hilton links to an article on hollywoodreporter.com which just states that Glenn Beck and Roger Ailes parted ways (no explanation of why). They link to an article on thedailybeast.com which is an article by Howard Kurtz in which he quotes himself from his own interview with Roger Ailes. The article he refers to, of which he quotes himself, can be found also on the Daily Beast here.

Ok, now we are down to the final source (since I cannot find a full transcript of the interview itself, only this article in which Kurtz writes of the interview). In this article Kurtz makes this statement...

But Ailes has his limits. After multiple meetings with Beck, whose incendiary rhetoric was growing hotter, they agreed to divorce. Given Beck’s outside projects, Ailes says, “his goals were different from our goals?… I need people focused on a daily television show.”

You notice that Kurtz speculates that Becks "incendiary rhetoric" has something to do with their separation and then quotes Ailes as saying that they split because Beck could not focus all his time on the Fox television show because of his growing business outside of Fox.

Never once had Ailes "admitted in an interview that the conservative commentary on the notoriously right-wing channel has been on a slow course of change because of the violent rhetoric commentators like Beck produce". At least no transcript of him saying that has been released and Kurtz didn't use a quote of Ailes actually saying that.

You should learn to do your homework so you don't sound like a media parrot.

You should learn to do your homework so you don't sound like a media parrot

This from the idiots who brought us "Obama raised in a Madrassa" and "Obama NOT a US citizen"

I could just puke but that would only make them MORE hungry.

David, when you post the truth... Its like Dorothy in the Wizard of OZ when she threw the water on the wicked witch...
eeeeeeeeeeeecccccchhhhh I am melting , I am melting...

@Rude D

Really, did I say that? I'm glad I have you around to ensure I remember my place.

ugh... green split pea soup... does Captain Howdys head spin around too?

Beck was too much of a clown and a fraud; his crying was vapo rub induced.
That was the best part of a boring show in the end; and that was long before I no longer watched him; Roger was correct to fire his butt.

Would you mind enlightening me as to what he has done that is fraudulent? Oh, and if you'll be so kind as to be intellectually honest we can move beyond all this "Beck was fired" nonsense.

Beck's tears for one were as a result of smearing his face with Vick's Vapo-rub.

I assume your referring to this video where a photographer, in a staged photo shoot, puts some substance (most likely not vaporub as it is petroleum based and would make his face shiny for the camera) on his face which helps him produce tears.

How do you make the leap in logic from a picture of tears (most likely a satirical way to poke fun at himself) in a staged photo shoot to every time he has cried on air is fraudulent? Or, even that it's ever happened once for that matter?

Look, I'm no Beck apologist I just can't stand faulty arguments. The saddest thing in our society is the loss of critical thinking skills.

Beck was making way too much money.....he has such a huge following it made sense for him to go out on his own....much like Rush did when he quit his TV show. I remember many of you libs stating then that Rush was washed up....over with....and his popularity just took off.

You just have to love libs that makes quotes then produce a story about the quote, that they made in the first place.....this is why liberal media is totally failing and conservative media is ruling the ratings.

not going to get into all the other stuff, just wanted you to know that ratings aren't based on who "likes" something, but simply the number of people watching.

I.e. -- liberals watch Fox News too, ya know.

The majority of people won't watch what they hate. Moderate dems watch Fox because it is more in line with what they believe........the liberals are another thing.

Bottom line it is entertainment......if you put out a good product people will buy it. That explains what happend with Air America...lol

well you know libs are watching if they're reporting on and against it, come on John, use your head ;)

Chelsea...its very clear that they don't since they get almost everything wrong about it

Instead they rely on the words of another lib and then they write something about it without having one shread of facts.

LIke with Rush and all the talk about him being a racists....you have no idea how many black people and other minorities are close friends of Rush.....in fact the main person in his business is black......guess he has no clue how racists Rush is.....lol

Just because Roger Ailes is getting cold feet and can’t decide what side he wants to be on, does not make Palin, Beck or the rest, less truthful. I have seen many posts from you on Beck and you point out the things that he has said that may be a bit shocking and you make it sound like the shooting was a reminder of how we all should treat each other, but have you stopped to listen to the other side? Just a little:
“President Obama, this is your army. We are ready to march… Everybody here’s got a vote…Let’s take these sons of bitches out and give America back to an America where we belong,”
Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa, Jr.
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/09/hoffa-on-tea-party-lets-take-these-sons-of-bitches-out/

Waters. "This is a tough game. You can't be intimidated. You can't be frightened. And as far as I'm concerned, the 'tea party' can go straight to hell."
U.S. Representative Maxine Waters (D-Los Angeles)
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8318264

"You have to have more ability from Congress, I think, to work together and to get over the partisan bickering and focus on fixing things. I think we ought to suspend, perhaps, elections for Congress for two years and just tell them we won't hold it against them, whatever decisions they make, to just let them help this country recover. I really hope that someone can agree with me on that. The one good thing about Raleigh is that for so many years we worked across party lines. It's a little bit more contentious now but it's not impossible to try to do what's right in this state. You want people who don't worry about the next election."

Governor, Bev Perdue of North Carolina (Democrat)


What has been said on the conservative side that is more inflammatory than the above, and I can come up with more?

Bev Perdue quote http://projects.newsobserver.com/under_the_dome/perdue_suggests_suspending_congressional_elections_for_two_years_was_she_serious

Not sure I follow the conclusion from the post. Are you trying to say that because Fox is moving away from the "Beck" style that they are now admitting that everything Beck stood for or said was wrong and that the Left is right? That's not what I get from the statements you quote. TV is about ratings, because ratings translate into advertising revenues, which turn into profits for the companies that own the stations.

So anyone who is let go or hired is done so, not for the correctness of what they say, but due to whether viewers will want to tune in. Beck's popluarity and ratings have been slipping for years as it does with most commentaries (both left and right) after media saturation. To claim this is somehow an acknowledgement that the left was right or that Beck was wrong is absurd. I'm neither a Beck fan nor enemy - I honestly never watched the show. I do not particularlly care for commentators who rant - whether it's Beck or Oberman. Both have a very condenscending tone that I fine offensive - regardless of the content.

The only reason FOX is "notoriously right" is because that niche is not being filled significantly anywhere else in the media. If mainstream media was balanced, FOX would have died out years ago, but as long as there are main stream stations continue to report from a left position, there will always be a market for a station presenting ideas or thoughts from the right. Again, not saying which is correct, just saying that is what the market will do.

Personally, and that's what I like about this country, people, media, commentatorys, etc. can rant and rave all they want and I can listen to it all, none of it, or only one side of it and draw my own conclusions.

But to say or imply that Beck's departure and the comments made the station somehow substaniate the left's correctness about the content, or direction, of Beck's position is really a stretch and I don't believe is supported by what was posted.

Just a thought -

Couldn't have said it any better myself Michael.

I put this in the same line of people whining that big business is only in it for the money while at the same time telling us that they are destroying the economy....that is utterly crazy.

Most people are in business to make money and as much as they can as quick as they can......they would love to have Obama succeed and be happy watching their dollars grow......his problem is that they can see that what he is doing is the exact opposite of what it takes to improve the economy so they are against him....and now somehow that is a racist action.....really people?