Is he on “Double Secret Probation or something? Tipsters inside Fox News tell us Glenn Beck’s vacation this week from his Fox News show was not planned. We hear Beck was told to take this week off to let some……

Now this Glenn Beck thing seals the deal. Especially since Beck’s comments that started the Van Jones boycott were one hundred percent correct.

Call it a boycott, personal option or whatever but I’m taking the thousand bucks or so that I used to drop on Wal-Mart every year elsewhere.

First, most dayparts runs ~3-4 hours, which is about how long Beck’s radio show runs during the day. Secondly, you’d *know* which shows fill that daypart, so there’s nothing accidental about it! You’re choosing that daypart knowing that you’ll get some ads aired during Beck’s show, and some not. So that doesn’t fly.

Secondly, when it’s a high-value show like Beck’s you are deliberately booking specific time slots in order to ensure that the vast audience that tunes into his show hears your ad. I’ve done media buying before, and as DaSaintFan said above, you plan your ROI based upon the demographic of the time-slot/programming you’re booking into. It would be very rare for a company to book NOT knowing what programming is running in the specific time slots or general dayparts they’ve chosen. It would happen precisely once, and then the media placement company or manager would be seeking new employment.

So I’m left with the stunning conclusion that they are lying.

honestly, it’s not a liberal. it’s a nut, but it’s a hard core righty nut

funky chicken on August 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM

I wouldn’t refer to an anarchist as a “righty”. When I read comments that reflect disorganized thinking and a high level of anti-social antagonisms, as I did with the *previous of discussion*, I don’t get “a righty” out of that, I get just general Leftwing anarchy-disorder-academic fixations without regard for reality (that is, that we as humans live among others who are also — life is messy).

Lourdes on August 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM

…so you’re right about that “nut” term, though. :)

honestly, it’s not a liberal. it’s a nut, but it’s a hard core righty nut

funky chicken on August 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM

I wouldn’t refer to an anarchist as a “righty”. When I read comments that reflect disorganized thinking and a high level of anti-social antagonisms, as I did with the *previous of discussion*, I don’t get “a righty” out of that, I get just general Leftwing anarchy-disorder-academic fixations without regard for reality (that is, that we as humans live among others who are also — life is messy).

Repeat after me, guys. “Proud Rhino” is a paleolibertarian/conservative and an acolyte of Lew Rockwell and the Ludwig von Mises Institute. Definitely not any kind of liberal or progressive or whatever they call themselves these days.

The admiration for the worker’s paradise, er, capitalist’s paradise of the PRC puts it/him squarely in Ludwig von Mises Institute’s sphere.

funky chicken on August 19, 2009 at 11:47 AM

Google Lew Rockwell and Deng, or Ludwig von Mises and Deng, and you will see that “proud rhino” is spouting their crapola, straight up and unadulterated.

These nuts are from the right side, but that doesn’t make them any less nuts or any less disgusting.

funky chicken on August 19, 2009 at 11:54 AM

honestly, it’s not a liberal. it’s a nut, but it’s a hard core righty nut

funky chicken on August 19, 2009 at 11:50 AM

Sounds like a liberal-tarian, then. Purist claptrap that uses the same “hypocrite” theme as the Alinskyites.

I disagree that Liberal-tarians are “rightist”, some of them believe less in social order than most libs.

Axeman on August 19, 2009 at 12:14 PM

I appreciate what you’re saying, there, funkychicken, but I agree for the most part with Axeman ^^.

I’ve encountered enough of the Liberal Left who fancy themselves Libertarian (it’s as good a nametag as any, I guess, for those who need such — but I find the term more a covering than anything) to recognize a Leftwinger when I read one.

Politico was taken by those guys at color…bigtime….

independent voter on August 19, 2009 at 1:04 PM

Is there ANY Leftwing-whatever/whoever that Politico is NOT taken by? Someone commented once that it was edited by Axelrod and Emanuel. I believe them.

It’s what you do with that dislike that defines a free-market conservative from a statist. Statists demand a law to stop somebody from doing what they don’t like (I’m statist on some issues, btw.) But free-market conservatives decide to address the issue with their own freedom of selection.

Certain clubs are discarded, not all need be.

Axeman on August 19, 2009 at 11:23 AM

WELL SAID!

these companies wouldn’t really pull their advertising from connecting with intelligent life forms, such as those that watch Beck. Boy, he must have hit a nerve with the socialist party.

workingforpigs on August 20, 2009 at 12:07 AM

“intelligent” “Glenn Beck” is a oxymoron.