Is Glenn Beck too right wing even for Fox News?

[oldironside]

It may in the end have little impact on the bottom line of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, but a fast-gathering boycott by some of America's best-known conglomerates of Glenn Beck, a conservative commentator on his Fox News channel in the US, is beginning to take on embarrassing proportions.

The baby-faced Beck joined Fox News in January and has quickly established himself as one of the network's stars by feeding the political prejudices of its mostly conservative audience. Indeed, his daily assaults against President Barack Obama and, in recent weeks his healthcare plans, have helped Fox achieve record ratings.

But Beck, who moonlights on the comedy circuit, stepped on too many sensibilities a few weeks ago, however, when he suggested that Mr Obama has a, "deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture". He went on: "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying that he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."

More here:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/is-glenn-beck-too-right-wing-even-for-fox-news-1774049.html

[obliviously]

1. Not the right wing!

Not the left wing! Perhaps the tail.

[zbdent]

5. more like the opening under the tail ...

or, what comes out of it ... and Faux is the orifice ...

[mitchum]

2. When you're number 2, you try harder

[Libertas1776]

3. He is

if he starts losing Fox its corporate sponsors. They'll spout and spew their RW hatred as long as they can. But once those coffers start drying up, they'll clam up.

[grantcart]

4. soon there will be a spot for Lou Dobbs at Fox