"He fear mongers for a living. He is frequently dishonest. He won't have open dialogue about his views."
Please post a statement where he told a lie.
Open dialogue?
That would be nice.
Did he censor that?
I don't know if he's been caught out telling flat out lies. I don't pay a lot of attention to the commentary around him.
I've noticed lots of simple factual/historical mistakes when I've been watching him, but I doubt those are there deliberately to mislead, and just more in line with what seems to be a general laziness at Fox when it comes to that sort of thing (
hey, the audience will never notice, what the hell do they know about the Middle East?) and probably also because it seems a lot of Beck's 'research' generally seems to come from less than ideal sources, who in turn are probably fairly loose/lazy when it comes to facts. I mean, the 'expert' guests he has on for some topics hold no weight on the subject, to say the least. Some are flat out mad. One of the guys he had on to help him tie together his recent rants about how an antichrist led Islamic caliphate was rising out of Tahrir Square to take over the world was a guy with zero qualifications in anything, who thinks he's a prophet getting personal revelations from God, and so writes ridiculous books about it. When Beck, on what claims to be a news channel, presents someone like that as an 'expert' on a topic, and then presents his views on the world and its immediate future as some sort of well researched, intellectually tested possibility, then, well.
His views, his conspiracies, and his unimaginably loose linkages are so extreme or silly or flat out wrong that a lot of people just assume that it
must be done with complete awareness on his part. People are genuinely confused as to how someone could be so silly and so wrong on such a large stage (ie he's not some random blogger in his bedroom, he's got News Ltd standing behind him), without it being a kind of 'in joke', presumably one that has made a lot of money. So Beck/Fox don't believe it, Beck/Fox just knows there's a huge audience of the ignorant out there, easily whipped up, and with that are ratings and cash. If that were true, that is, obviously, dishonest.
I think the truth is probably in a split of those two. I think Beck probably is just a nutty lightweight who puts on a good show. He probably does believe it all. It's Fox that were dishonest in airing it, as you know there can't be too many (any?) people there who believe a word of it. Apparently higher ups at Fox have been uncomfortable with him for a long, long, long time. Apparently Ailes has been fighting Murdoch over him since almost Day 1. It's only once the cash started to dwindle that Ailes lost what I assume was the only winning argument.
That is pretty shit.