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About Glenn Beck's Extremist Rhetoric

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Emerald4/07/2009 6:26:27 pm PDT

re: #489 dalejrfanfreak

Beck is getting ratings almost equal to that of Bill O’reilly, at 5PM. Like it or not Charles the left is controlling the country by throwing temper tantrums on a daily basis. If you think adults are capable of being rationale and using logic to make a point then you might as well admit unicorns are real too. Don’t ever think being extreme isn’t effective.

The figures I found says he’s getting 2.2 millions viewers a month. I’m assuming that’s the total and not the monthly average. Using those numbers, he’s getting less than 75,000 viewers a day. There’s over 300 million people in the country. His audience represents a fraction of a percent of the American public, even if he was getting the 2.2M per day.

Extreme means just that - the outside edges. Even taking into account just the percentage of Americans eligible to vote who do so, he’s appealing to a very small part of the electorate.