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The Glenn Beck show on Fox News has earned the second highest ratings, according to October 2009 Cable News Ratings released on October 26th. Just last week, however, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) told Ed Schultz of MSNBC's The Ed Show that "Fox News and their Republican collaborators are the enemy of America" and that "99 percent of all Americans "have the good sense to ignore" Fox News altogether. Grayson went on to contend that Fox News and their ilk are the "enemy of peace". And, he didn't end it there-- Grayson's final conclusion-- well, "They ARE the enemy", he said.
Evidently, what is being described as the enemy of America is also ranked most popular in America, rendered thus by what must be its very own foe: the American people. And it is these same enemy-loving-enemies who must be responsible for Glenn Beck's enormous popularity, as well.
On Monday, Reuters columnist, Bernd Debusmann, attributed Glenn Beck's success to "shock value", arguing that Beck and other news commentators do not properly consider the "context" of their statements.
Debusmann linked his reporting of Glenn Beck's dramatic increase in ratings with what has been deemed by some as one of Beck's most controversial statements:
"The shows by Fox’s top conservative commentators all showed steep increases, but none more than Glenn Beck (up almost 90 percent), who said of Obama on a Fox show in July: “This president has exposed himself as a guy, over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people and white culture.”
In another October 26 article on Huffington Post entitled, CNN Falls to Last Place in Primetime Demo, the full breakdown of cable news show ratings is presented:
"Fox News took the top 13 programs in all of cable news, with "The O'Reilly Factor" on top for the 107th consecutive month. O'Reilly averaged 3,389,000 total viewers; "Glenn Beck" (2,748,000), "Hannity" (2,374,000), "Special Report with Bret Baier" (2,248,000), and "Fox Report with Shepard Smith" (1,989,000) rounded out the top five." (Read more at Huffington Post)
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