If your town wants to honor Glenn Beck with his own day, you better check the cushions in the couch for change and start taking up a collection. The mayor of Mount Vernon, Wash. recently gave Glenn Beck his own day, and the taxpayers will now have to fork over more than $17,000, most of which was for police overtime.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
10-24-2009 @ 4:05PM
Aaron Vasicek said...
I remember when this was just a television blog. Political news/commentary belongs on a different site.
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10-24-2009 @ 4:21PM
Robert said...
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing.
10-24-2009 @ 6:00PM
A.Barrios said...
Couldn't agree more.
10-25-2009 @ 10:36AM
Rindie said...
I totally agree as well.
10-24-2009 @ 4:28PM
Mike in Seattle said...
It'll actually be interesting to see whether TV Celebrity Beck or Fox News ends up paying for this since the Mount Vernon, Washington City Council voted unanimously ahead of time that Beck was not welcome and not endorsed by the city. The Republican Mayor extended a personal invitation and attended but not with the City goverment's OK.
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10-24-2009 @ 4:40PM
Judy40 said...
Yes, PLEASE, let's just stick to TV.
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10-24-2009 @ 4:56PM
Mike in Seattle said...
Hmmm. Having a promotional event for a TV celebrity promoting his show IS about TV.
The fact that the Fox News TV network expects the citizens of Mount Vernon to pick up their business cost of promoting their shows is TV business especially when the people and the council voted ahead of time that they wouldn't.
If it were a soap opera star and the network running the soap expecting to have the celebrity's home town pay against their wishes for a PR stunt there to promote the show it would be NO different.
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10-24-2009 @ 5:15PM
David Marcoe said...
To add: For those who say "well, this is related to TV." What in our popular culture is not in some way "related to TV"? You could stretch that criteria to the point it becomes senseless. The point is that using the guise of "TV-related news" to make political commentary about something that isn't really TV is disingenuous. Moreover, the whole issue is whether the mayor should have spent money on police security that the town council didn't want. How Beck or Fox were supposed to be privy to city expenditures they probably weren't told about, I have no idea. If it were any other media personality--Olbermann, let's say--he wouldn't be any more culpable for those issues.
10-24-2009 @ 5:00PM
joebruin said...
Start your own political blog if you want to spew this crap. There wouldn't be a need to pay for police overtime if no one showed up and made a big deal of it.
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10-24-2009 @ 5:00PM
Citizen said...
So there wouldn't be a problem if say, Keith Olbermann had been the recipient? Is that what this is about - the fact Beck is a conservative?
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10-24-2009 @ 5:05PM
David Marcoe said...
Danny, notice the site's name, TV Squad? That's what your site is supposed to cover. Your site is rather well-known for that. Using that popularity to sucker-punch readers with sophomoric political commentary--ending with a vulgar insult for people you don't happen to agree with--is unprofessional, immature and compromises the integrity of this site.
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10-25-2009 @ 12:33AM
Bryan McGuckin said...
I agree! Stick to discussing talking about people on television. Wait... Glenn Beck IS on TV? Are you sure? Well, I'm still ANGRY. How dare you call them "Teabaggers"! I'm sure if they had a choice they wouldn't call themselves that. What? That's the name they chose? Whatever "TV" Squad, just stop forcing me to read everything on your site ok?
10-25-2009 @ 12:52AM
David Marcoe said...
Bryan:
"Stick to discussing talking about people on television. Wait... Glenn Beck IS on TV?"
TV Squad traditionally covers non-political entertainment television and has very occasionally made forays into the news/politics arena, but there seems to be an uptick of this happening. Glenn Beck's appearance in a small town was a rather thin pretext to make sneering remarks about actions and events that had nothing to do with him, much less anything on his show. I don't see any commentary on either of those issues.
"How dare you call them 'Teabaggers'! I'm sure if they had a choice they wouldn't call themselves that. What? That's the name they chose?"
No, they called themselves Tea Parties, as in the Boston Tea Party, not teabaggers, which was meme started by a news anchor or media personality. If you're going to write satire, at least get your facts straight.
"Whatever 'TV' Squad, just stop forcing me to read everything on your site ok?"
So, I write a strong opinion in a respectful manner about not wanting to see this blog descend into the political muck and the only thing you can do is act like a child? Your right, I'm not forced to read what they write, but I enjoy the blog and I'm voicing an opinion as a reader. This comments section thingy is supposed to be for that type of stuff.
10-24-2009 @ 8:40PM
Andy said...
While I couldn't care less about Glenn Beck or who pays for him to go anywhere, I don't understand those who argue that this is not TV news/commentary. He is, at the moment, political TV's biggest celebrity, and no one would be complaining if this same article were written about an actor or reality TV star, so why get riled up about a different brand of television personality?
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10-25-2009 @ 12:03AM
john said...
Maybe people wouldn't get as worked up about it if Danny didn't use vulgar terms to slander people who he obviously disagrees with politically.
If you are going to make stretches & claim it's related to TV, at least show common courtesy & decency to those who disagree with you.
10-25-2009 @ 2:15AM
John said...
I see your point, but it's just sad seeing how politics has turned into entertainment.
Also, I agree with lowercase john. As much as I dislike Beck and, well, pretty much all cable news networks in general, it does no good to throw out half-baked insults as a rebuttal. It just makes the author of this post look bad.
Jeez, how did I not see it sooner? This HAS to simply be a ploy to get more views to TV Squad. Rile up all the Internet Tough Guys on both sides and watch the page views go up up up! Too bad TV Squad has fallen so far from what it used to be that they have to stoop to this level to get better numbers. Goodbye forever, TV Squad. Go fuck your collective self.
11-01-2009 @ 1:17PM
cousinrk said...
Umm...Isn't Glenn Beck on TV? Doesn't he have his own tv show? So covering a story about him on TV website...how has that not in the spirit of this site? Oh yeah because they should only pick on tv personalities that you don't like. That's right, gotcha.
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10-24-2009 @ 10:09PM
Brett Alan said...
You're so right. I mean, who could possibly be so frivolous as to worry about Americans dying when there are conservative celebrities that need to be honored?
And of course your numbers are way off. For one thing, there are many millions of us who are "covered" only until we get sick enough to be dropped.
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10-24-2009 @ 11:24PM
bcarter3 said...
If you don't like the content of this site, you're perfectly free to develop your own blog. If you want, you can devote it exclusively to the adoration of the Fox gang of gasbags, dope addicts, perverts (falafel, anyone?), and wingnuts.
You don't own TVSquad. You don't even pay for it. You don't get to dictate its content.
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10-24-2009 @ 11:54PM
John said...
You're right. It isn't our blog, but saying that we can't comment on the pointlessness of this article (as far as being under the umbrella of 'entertainment') is stupid. This isn't a political website. It's entertainment. I come to sites like this to get away from the quasi-religion that politics has become. Glenn Beck isn't entertaining in any way, shape, or form. This article is political pandering, pure and simple.