Recently Beck and his wife went to a free movie night at Bryant Park in midtown Manhattan. This is an open air event with a movie, in this case 39 Steps, projected on a big screen.
There was a wine spilling incident which became according to Glenn Beck grew into a "hate Beck" incident because of his controversial celebrity status.
No matter what really happened at Bryant Park, this recently fired by Fox News, media personality is keeping his image in front of his audience so they will remember to follow his internet show at $4.95 month in September.
A sample of Pro & Con Beck takes of this incident:
If he was just entertainer without a political following it would be trivial news. But Glenn Beck choses to make this a political issue -- liberal vs conservative -- because it promotes his image. And that is really the point of fractious politics - - self promotion.
Such fractious politics is big business. It is estimated Beck earns $40 million a year. Sara Palin gave up being governor of Alaska at salary of $125,000 per year to earn at least $12 million dollars in the year following her abrupt resignation. Rush Limbaugh leads the political money maker group with a solid $60 million per year earnings.
At least when Donald Trump made political noise it was suspected that it was a ploy to increase the audience of his non-political reality show. And he succeeded. Donald Trump received a raise and managed to become the highest paid reality show star in network television. Its not that he really needed the money.
But that is the wonder of today's media that a television personalty can gain the attention of millions talking about his having a bad day and enlarge that incident to the level of national political importance.
The United States will continue whether or not we pay attention to Glenn Beck. After all he is not going hire 100,000 workers, he is not going to help rebuild our infrastructure and he is not going bring peace to the middle east. He is going to continue to be in front of the media.
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