On the first day of Glenn’s vacation, the New York Times released an article (read Blaze analysis of the article here) speculating that Glenn and FOX News would be parting ways at the end of the year. Glenn had to wait a whole week before he could issue his own response, but he gave a passionate response on radio this morning.
“While on vacation I saw that the New York Times had stopped focusing on the unimportant Charlie Sheen contract and moved to the really unimportant Glenn Beck contract. In case you missed it, let me summarize. Glenn Beck is crazy. He’s dangerous. And nobody’s watching because he’s crazy and dangerous. And now he’s so crazy and dangerous that even Fox that’s crazy and dangerous can’t even have him or his crazy and the dangerous fans around,” Glenn said.
Among the accusations leveled at Glenn and his audience? The New York Times said that Glenn doesn’t really believe in all that “God” stuff or his stance against non-violence. Glenn also said that they equate his audience with “illiterate zombies” who only listen because they don’t realize Glenn is “faking it”.
Glenn pointed out that while the New York Times and other media outlets were calling his show too doom and gloom, they were reporting stories with the same negative tones. “The New York Times and others saw no irony in their Mr. Gloomy pants critique while at the same time they would run these stories and provide no real insight or answers to these major catastrophies.”
And, of course, they tried to attack the ratings of his show despite the fact that he is beating every single show on CNN, Headline News, and MSNBC (including primetime).
“By the time the New York Times arrived to the in ratings decline conclusion, it was strange because I was only a CBS News estimate of the 8/28 crowd of 87,000 people, away from the actual audience size that the Times themselves used to declare that I was a ratings phenomena just two years before. Isn’t that weird? And that was the time before, you know, Time magazine put me on their cover declaring, of course, that I was a crazy madman. Oh, the more things change, the more they stay the same,” Glenn said.
“I’ve decided that the media and the American left have become nothing more than a shampoo label and should be disregarded as we disregard most shampoo labels because they all say the same thing: Lather, rinse, repeat and that’s all they do. And that’s why in the end they will fail,” Glenn said.
How does Glenn feel about FOX? His feelings certainly don’t match up with the tone described in the New York Times article.
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