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When you whip up conspiracy theory hysteria, and then none of the bad things you predict actually happen, people start to catch on. Stuff like that always catches up with people eventually.
LOL! Like this one?
2006-AUG-22:
Glenn Beck, anchor for CNN Headline News, predicted on 2006-AUG-09 that AUG-22:
"... is the day that Israel might be wiped off the map, leading to all-out Armageddon. ... [It] could be the day that Agnostics get down on one knee and start to pray, 'Sweet Jesus, are you coming today'? "
When AUG-22 arrived without any sign of Armageddon, Beck responded to a critical E-mail from a viewer by saying:
"I wasn't predicting Armageddon today. ... We talked about the predictions of renowned Middle East scholar Bernard Lewis. It is amazing to me to be called a nut job for quoting a scholar who thinks we might expect aggressive behavior from a man who wants to wipe Israel off the map. I know. Sounds crazy! But, hey, who has time to actually listen?" "End of the World" predictions in our near future
There will always be a devoted core that will eat up everything he says, but as the evidence of lies and distortions of truth pile up, most sensible people turn away and seek a source that is more accurate, to put it nicely.
I also think that having to keep the fear cranked up day after day is just not realistic. His ratings thrive on the notion that the world's collapsing and nobody gets it but his viewers. That's really hard to sustain when it proves to not be true.
Keep on dreaming! LOL. Fox and Glen Beck are more popular than ever. Fear does funny things to the lefties.
According to the data they are not as popular as ever. How can you have 40% drop in ratings and still be as popular as ever?
I think Beck blew it with the Egypt riots where he launched his "global caliphate" campaign. It was another attempt to create fear, but even mosr of his his loyal listenets saw through it this time.
Last edited by Finn_Jarber; 02-20-2011 at 03:52 PM..
It always does . Every time it goes back down , kooks post this crap .
That's so true. I remember when a bunch of extreme conservatives posted enthusiastically about MSNBC and CNN's year-over-year decline in ratings, completely ignoring that the previous year was the 2008 election!
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