Glenn Beck Relaunching The Blaze As Global Libertarian News Network

[sailingaway]

Twitter is having fun with this:

David F'n McNabb ‏@DavidMcnabb1
Did Glenn Beck become a libertarian before or after calling for the arrest of most Ron Paul supporters in 2008?

David F'n McNabb ‏@DavidMcnabb1
ProTip: if you REALLY liked Rick Scrotorum, and wished he won the nomination. You're PROBABLY not a libertarian. Period.

 

[cajuncocoa]

I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel.

I wish Penn would tell him to STFU. And yeah, it's interesting that he uses Hagel as an example of what he isn't. See, I would have thought he's closer to Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, and Michele Bachmann. NONE of those people are libertarian; they don't have a libertarian bone in their body!! (I'm a little angry about this too, Angel Clark LOL)

 

[cajuncocoa]

Twitter is having fun with this:

David F'n McNabb ‏@DavidMcnabb1
Did Glenn Beck become a libertarian before or after calling for the arrest of most Ron Paul supporters in 2008?

David F'n McNabb ‏@DavidMcnabb1
ProTip: if you REALLY liked Rick Scrotorum, and wished he won the nomination. You're PROBABLY not a libertarian. Period.

LOL...uh, yeah. Duh!!

 

[awake]

Everybody is a Libertarian! Yay! Soon Libertarian will be the new sheep skin of the establishment and their half wits. Time to start looking for another descriptor.

 

[dinosaur]

Everybody is a Libertarian! Yay! Soon Libertarian will be the new sheep skin of the establishment and their half wits. Time to start looking for another descriptor.

On the bright side, this might undermine all of the effort that has been put forth to paint libertarians as libs.

 

[CaptLouAlbano]

Good for him. The free market will determine whether he will be a success or failure. I know some on here have opined that they would love to see "one of our own" start a major news network, has there been any progress on that?

 

[awake]

On the bright side, this might undermine all of the effort that has been put forth to paint libertarians as libs.

Liberal used to mean a thirst for liberty and libertarian leanings. Look what it means now. The term "Libertarian" stands to be gutted in the same way. The Knaves need new camouflage and it fits the bill. Evil always needs to cloth itself with the good.

 

[dinosaur]

Liberal used to mean a thirst for liberty and libertarian leanings. look what it means now. The term "Libertarian" stands to be gutted in the same way. The Knaves need new camouflage and it fits the bill.

You are right. I was just marvelling at how effective their propaganda against the name "libertarian" was during the last cycle and was amused that they would then use the same name. But it isn't funny. I wish that we had the money to start this network. I wish that we had gotten there first.

 

[Spikender]

You are right. I was just marvelling at how effective their propaganda against the name "libertarian" was during the last cycle and was amused that they would then use the same name. But it isn't funny. I wish that we had the money to start this network. I wish that we had gotten there first.

We consistently call people like Glenn Beck stupid and other degrading words, but the fact of the matter is they're smart, and they love beating us to the punch. The word libertarian is quickly becoming the new liberal, and just like liberals, who quickly retreated to the term "progressive", libertarians everywhere will be forced to give up and move onto a new label.

And God how I hate these stupid labels. Liberal itself used to be word with a different meaning as well, as awake brought up. These labels will be the death of us, if the government doesn't get around to it first.

 

[Danan]

Liberal used to mean a thirst for liberty and libertarian leanings. Look what it means now. The term "Libertarian" stands to be gutted in the same way. The Knaves need new camouflage and it fits the bill. Evil always needs to cloth itself with the good.

Only because the liberals at that time gave up the term and didn't fight for it. There probably weren't even many left.

 

[awake]

Another example of tools hijacking terms and labels ; George Bush as a "Christian" - dastardly. Be we deceived by words, not actions.

Liberty is where it is found, not an exclusive endowment of a geographical location. Liberty will always live in the world at certain times and places. Whole peoples will throw it away only to be picked up by others.

 

[SilentBull]

"Libertarianism" will be co-opted just like the Tea Party was. I've been surprised at how many people on Facebook are now describing themselves as Libertarians, and I don't think it's a good thing, as many of these people don't fully understand what libertarianism is. It's becoming the thing to be if you hate both parties. That's the job of people like Beck. Neutralize a threat by co-opting it. Libertarians are the biggest threat to the establishment right now.

 

[cajuncocoa]

Good for him. The free market will determine whether he will be a success or failure. I know some on here have opined that they would love to see "one of our own" start a major news network, has there been any progress on that?

Now you ARE trolling.

 

[sluggo]

C'mon guys. Glenn Beck is coming around!

 

[itshappening]

Glenn Beck to launch 'libertarian' news network

is he trying to copy infowars?

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Glenn Beck announced plans Tuesday during his online television program to expand the news operation in his media company, The Blaze, and refocus it as a libertarian network, opening three foreign bureaus, debuting a nightly newsmagazine show, and relocating his New York staff to showy new offices.

Beck introduced his ambitious plans by standing in front of a split screen with MSNBC's Chris Matthews on one side and Fox News's Sean Hannity on the other, and bemoaning the fact that cable news has devolved into the "far left [and] far right... yelling at each other."

"We're not gonna play in that crazy space as a network," he said, adding, "I consider myself a libertarian... I'm a lot closer to Penn Jillette than I am to Chuck Hagel."

He said over the next 60 days, The Blaze will open three foreign bureaus in cities that are "important to America." He will also relocate his New York staff from their current midtown offices into a building that will "send a very clear message to everyone in New York... it will piss everyone off."

Beck also showed a teaser for a new nightly 30-minute newsmagazine show called For the Record.

"Our Nightline will be a nightly half hour broadcast to update you on a topic that no one else quite frankly has the balls to do. I will," he said.

The trailer for the show — which he said will be "the most expensive show on the network, including mine" — featured future episodes exposing the NSA for turning America into a "surveillance state," and warning that the UN "want your guns," both big issues in libertarian circles.

After the in-your-face trailer ended, Beck chuckled, "Security is going to be a real issue for the people in our company."

The Blaze also has plans to hire investigative journalists and plans to produce more documentaries, Beck said.

"We are currently looking for our own Woodwards and Bernsteins," he said. "Maybe they don't exist anymore, and if that's the case I don't really care. We'll grow our own!"

Beck launched his online TV network, then called GBTV, in 2011, and has brought all his media properties — including a news and opinion site, a monthly magazine, and an online radio network — under umbrella of The Blaze brand. Last year, the network began airing on a Dish Network channel, and last week, Beck revealed that he tried to buy the channel currently airing Al Gore's Current TV — a sign that he hopes to expand into cable soon.

But Beck's decision to orient the network's programming around libertarian politics — or at least brand it that way — could be a play for younger, conservative viewers, who find the Republican Party, and the network that most closely aligns with its ideals, Fox, distasteful.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/glenn-beck-relaunching-the-blaze-as-global-liberta

 

[VoluntaryAmerican]

Looks like they are hiring too. Won't be so bad if we get more Liberty people in there.

http://www.theblaze.com/jobs/

 

[TCE]

I'm wondering if Judge Nap will have any role in this.

 

[Anti Federalist]

You know, I'm not going to jump on the bash bandwagon here, because I hate it when it happens to people like Jones.

So, even though I have my issues with Beck, good for him, the more the merrier I say, I'll take him over a Piers Morgan/CNN or Sam Donaldson/ABC any day of the week.

 

[Anti Federalist]

is he trying to copy infowars?

Imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.

 

[itshappening]

There's nothing you do about someone calling themselves "Tea Party" and "libertarian" when they're not. Even Reagan pulled that trick when he said libertarianism is the soul of conservatism.

However what does disturb me are the Teocons and the likes of FreedomWorks promoting a hardcore neocon like Tim Cotton and Ted Cruz. This is just the same recycling of the strategy to sound like conservatives in opposition but what gives them away is their hawkish foreign policy views which aligns them with Bush who once sounded exactly the same. In fact. even better Bush called for a humble foreign policy and we were told had an outstanding conservative record as governor of Texas and look what happened there... He launched two wars and tripled the size of the Federal government.

So, what do we do? Well, we can only just keep promoting our "approved" candidates - of which there are only a handful - and TRY and find/recruit new candidates to support in winnable primaries that actually get it when it comes to foreign policy and the Federal Reserve (the litmus test in my view) or encourage FreedumbWorks to support those candidates.

Mark Sanford will be very close to an ideal ally in my view and that's coming up very soon. He's NOT a Teocon and has a conservative record.

Either way we can't let Teocon radicals and fake conservatives dupe the grassroots