Glenn Beck is playing you for a fool

Why the Tea Partiers so willing to be duped? Beck himself admits that he doesn't care about the politics, he only cares about yanking peoples chains to they'll buy into him, and ultimately, buy his stuff. He's causing a Pavolvian reaction in the right wing: throw them red meat and they'll open their wallets.

While I disagree with so many of the basic themes of the Tea Party, I feel bad that they're allowing themselves to be lied to and mislead by this charlatan who is clearly only interested in their money. Read the quote: "I could give a flying crap about the political process. We're an entertainment company".

Wake up, people, wake up!

Forbes

With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: "I could give a flying crap about the political process." Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. "We're an entertainment company," Beck says.

He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million. Over several days in mid-March Beck allowed a reporter to follow him through his multimedia incarnations, with one exception, his 5 p.m. daily show on Fox News, which attracts just under 3 million viewers.

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"I don't necessarily believe that (what Beck says) is reflective of his own personal politics — I don't even know if he has personal politics," says Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers, a trade magazine devoted to talk radio. "I see him as a performer."