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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:20 PM
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Poll question: How Long do You Think this New (Glenn Beck) Stink Bomb Will Last?
Yep, he's really going to try to do this.


Jillian Rayfield November 23, 2011, 10:24 AM

Glenn Beck, comedy entrepreneur, is trying to tap into the market for a “nonpartisan” alternative to The Daily Show with a fake news show on his GBTV network, called The B.S. of A..

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Sack’s mandate: Stay objective, rational and witty as he views politics and pop culture through a nonpartisan lens. Host Brian Sack is author of ‘The B.S. of A. - A Primer in Politics for the Incredibly Disenchanted’ and previously served as Czar-at-Large for Beck’s Insider Extreme network. His staff’s credits include Saturday Night Live, The Late Show with David Letterman, HBO, MTV and several other three-letter networks.

“It won’t be for the thin-skinned - we’re going to be completely indifferent to political parties or ideology,” Sack said. “In fact, I’m making the staff take the ‘no sacred cows’ pledge, and as soon as we figure out how to translate that phrase into Latin we will make that the show’s motto. Because Latin makes you sound smarter than you are. I’d like to put that on flags and cups. I have to think about merchandising.”

In one joke, Sack says: “A new study shows that optimism may be the byproduct of a poorly functioning frontal lobe, and that brain activity lessens when a person is upbeat. I think Obama has his 2012 campaign slogan.” He then cuts to a picture of a bumper sticker that says “I have a poorly functioning frontal lobe,” with the “O” in “lobe” as Obama’s campaign logo.


http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/11/glenn_becks_network_attempts_conservative_daily_sh.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TPMmuckraker+%28TPMmuckraker%29&utm_content=FaceBook

I really had no clue he was doing this. So how much longer will it last?
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:22 PM
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1. .
:wow: Please kill me now.






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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:25 PM
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2. We are to be spared NOTHING
Fortunately, I see this enduring almost as long as Fox's half hour comedy hour show. Bootleg copies of the program will become collector's items, treasured by aficionados and swapped around with all sorts of post-production mischief inserted a la MST3K.
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tomg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:26 PM
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3. They tried this once before on Fox News.
I don't know if I have forgotten the name of the show or if I've blocked it. Either way, it lasted something like 3 episodes. It was god awful. I am sure this will be no better.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:28 PM
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4. It was the 1/2 Hour Comedy Hour.... drumroll.... get it?? Because it's a....
as I said above please just kill me now.
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:42 PM
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9. That show was pure Comedy Gold!
That is if you define 'comedy' as 'neurotic' and 'gold' as 'santorum'.

I'd only suggest euthanasia if the show actually became popular with a majority of Americans. Then I'd say make sure the youth have appropriate educations and are actually from Asia.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:54 PM
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11. Haahaa!!! Yes the Santorum dripped out of that one. Also well played on the "euthanasia".
:thumbsup:
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booley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:28 PM
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5. didn't they try this before?
how long did that comedy show , the half hour show or something, last?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1/2_Hour_News_Hour
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DCKit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:28 PM
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6. The choices you provided made it very hard to choose. FUNNY! nt
Edited on Wed Nov-23-11 12:29 PM by DCKit
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Adsos Letter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:34 PM
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7. Glenn who?
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HappyMe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:41 PM
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8. Good grief!
I can't decide if this fool needs meds, needs to cut back on meds....

What the hell is it with those people and signing 'pledges' and 'contracts'?
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:45 PM
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10. Usually, when plugging one's own program, one would choose to use one of the finest bits of comedy
from the show.

I'm afraid he did exactly that in the above.
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Guy Whitey Corngood Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:55 PM
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12. Colbert is sooo done. nt
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 12:58 PM
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13. Jon Stewart skewers both sides. I don't think he's partisan. n/t
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bullwinkle428 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:22 PM
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16. Exactly. Beck is starting out with a completely false premise.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:18 PM
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14. What network?
Never heard of it.





I know it's his net channel, just saying most people will have never heard of it.
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SomethingFishy Donating Member (552 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-23-11 01:20 PM
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15. As long as Kim Kardashians marriage...
Edited on Wed Nov-23-11 01:20 PM by SomethingFishy
if he's lucky.
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