Oh Magic 8 Ball!: Is Glenn Beck Fixin' To Get Fired From Fox News?

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Way back in November of 2009, I pondered the possibility of Lou Dobbs replacing the train wreck at Fox News that has become Glenn Beck. I wrote in this blog post that my prediction is that Lou Dobbs will replace an already burned out Glenn Beck at Fox News and do so in Beck's timeslot.

While Dobbs is already slated to revamp is "Lou Dobbs Tonight" show at Fox, a later reassignment into Beck's old timeslot would be likely.

It would be similar to how Lawrence O'Donnell's show was allowed to get underway, but then shifted timeslots once Keith Olbermann was purged from MSNBC's line-up.

I'm sure Fox News Exec's are contemplating the worst case scenario of another presidential election cycle with Glenn Beck and a functioning microphone. I think it all began when Beck changed the format of his show from the traditional behind the desk news program into what it's become. A never ending revisionist history lesson complete with chalkboards and homework assignments. It's not surprising that Becks literary offerings to the world are the textbooks required to understand his convoluted message.

Even further back in July of 2009 in this blog post I was wondering if Lou Dobbs was 'screen testing' for Fox News. He seemed to be going in a conspiratorial direction similar to Beck when Dobbs started to embrace controversy by pretending not to embrace it. One of my favorites was how Dobbs would say that President Obama could put the whole birther thing to rest if he'd just show 'everyone' his 'real' birth certificate. Then he'd quickly clarify that by 'real' birth certificate, he meant the 'original' birth certificate.

Now there are rumblings of Beck's pending demise in the New York Times today that anonymous officials at Fox News are "looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck."

I have to say that I have no idea how this is going to pan out. I mean one can always hope, right? - Hang on a minute! - I got it!


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Question: Oh Magic 8 Ball ! - Is Glenn Beck's goose cooked over at Fox News?

Answer: Doubtful :(

FUCK YOU MAGIC 8 BALL! - YOU DON'T KNOW SHIT!

Lou Dobbs Get's Glenn Beck's Timeslot?

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Back in July, ChicoBrisbane.Com raised the question if Lou Dobbs sudden departure from reality was in any way a subliminal
screen test for The Fox News Channel.

I think that the departure of Lou Dobbs from CNN is not as much of a loss as it will be made out to be. Chico Brisbane has held a boycott of CNN since the election of Barack Obama and it is really the respectible journalist like Cooper Anderson that I enjoy, but haven't seen for more then a year because CNN refused to fire Lou Dobbs.

I think where Lou Dobbs went wrong was when he jumped aboard the crazy birther train with the likes of Alan Keys and the third whackiest bitch in the world Orily Taitz. Do either of these people have anything of value to say? NO! - but that didn't stop Lou from inviting them onto his show and then not blasting them into smitherines. Here what Lou had to say about the subject of Barack Obamas citizenship.

"I believe Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States, folks, don't you? But I do have a couple of little questions, like you. Why not just provide a copy of the birth certificate? That's entirely within the president's power to do so. Then all of this nonsense goes away," Dobbs said on his radio show after Obama's birth certificate had been posted online for months. After the Dept of Vital Statistics had announced that Hawaii has digitized all birth certificates and that the originals had been destroyed.

Now Lou Dobbs is gone from CNN and not of his own chosing by the way. He had been warned to tone it down after executives saw the American responce to Glenn Beck's hatfulness and how sponsors will not hesitate to cut ties with little or no warning. Lou didn't listen and this was the result. Period!

PS: My prediction is that Lou Dobbs will replace an already burned out Glenn Beck on Fox News in Beck's timeslot.
I'm just saying.

Chico Brisbane

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CHICO - Invited To A Tea Party ? - Gets An Ear Full

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From day one of the Obama Administration, Glenn Beck has been creating an alternate reality for the fans of his tee-vee and radio programs. One that necessitates a revolution "to take our country back", from what?, well, that's where Beck get's creative.

It only stands to reason that if any of his rhetoric thus far, had worked as intended, Beck wouldn't be at the point where he's had to resort to calling Barack Obama a racist. It's a bit early in the game, I would say, if I where playing Beck's game.

Nevertheless, it doesn't mean that he's not good at it because he is. But, like Sarah Palin, the message is so inciteful that it only draws in a large, but insignificant percentage of the electorate.

"We need to take our country back, so we can return it to the way our founding fathers intended it to be." Beck recently said from his pulpit at Fox News.

What does he mean by that? - "The way our founding fathers intended it to be." - A virtually all-white nation of rich slave owners, and then everyone else? That's what the far left of my party might believe, but I think what Beck means is a spiritual nation based on religious values. A nation where everyone is equal, but just as long as everyone understands that they're only equal whitin your own ecomic and racial station in life.

Being a resident of California and particularly the L.A. area, I'm reminded of the sujbect of imigration, illegal or otherwise, more often then most. While my position leans mostly to the right on the subject, it's difficult for me to say that because my reasoning is nowhere near the narrative of the likes of Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs, O'Reilly, Hannity, Limbaugh, or any of the other rightwing pipe-dreamers force feed to their fans and new recruits.

I'm not sure when or how the word immigration became synonimous with the word Mexican, but I've never heard a single one of these people utter a word about the number of immigrants of other ethnicities. It's not as if the government isn't aware of how many people are in this country on expired visas, the question is why these immigrants aren't a focus of government concern since we have their fucking names and dates of birth on file! - But hey! - Ya know what? - Let's forget about all of these immigrants who are buying up our land, businesses, and industry street by street, block after block. Let's all be minute-men and run these fucking beaners back to Chihuahua Ville just incase my kid wants that dream job at the carwash, or selling oranges at the freeway offramp.

In fact, one day as I was getting off the Centrury Freeway at Crenshaw, I came across an orange vendor peddling his wares under the scorching mid-day sun. It wasn't as if this was anything new to me because I had seen it a million times before. What made this time different was the contrast between the man that came to this country under the cover of drakness, willing to do what he was doing at that moment, and do it for what certainly could not be very much. And then the man who had always been here, sitting in the shade provided by the shadow of the off-ramp sign, with a fucking sign asking for a hand out.

I bought 25 lbs of oranges in hopes of showing my lazy fellow American that people are more willing to help those who are actively trying to help themselves. What I really wanted to do was to tell him to "GET A FUCKING JOB!", but there's no benefit in that.

Well...unless you're Rush Limbaugh etal. They make it a duty to point out that the white anglo-saxon is superior to all others even if said in not so many words. It's why Obama is not a good president, it's why Sonya Sotomayor is not a suitable candidate for the Supreme Court.

I had no idea just how deep racism ran among those on the far right until I attended a meeting with a co-worker who mistook some of my right leaning ideologies as a sign that I was a raging righty. Here is the bottom line with these people when it comes to Obama and Sotomayor. "We can't have a bunch of Niggers and Mexicans calling the shots in the country!" - One man said with a sense of calmness that frightened me.

I thought that I was going to a prep meeting for a "Take Our Ballot Back" event, which is a spin-off of the Tea Party, but it felt more like a God Damn Ku Klux Klan Rally. Can you imagine a guy named Chico being invited to a Klan Rally? -

Just imagine Hannibal Lechter inviting you over for lunch. Yeah, it's like that.

That type of opinion was not the message spoken by anyone on behalf of the event, but it was running hot and heavy among some of those in attendance. Not all to the extream as that crazy comment, but over the course of two hours I heard the "N" word used 6 times. Four in refrence to President Obama and twice in reference to Attorney General Eric Holder.

These are the types of people that Fox News and particularly Glenn Back and Sean Hannity are driving to these Anti-Obama rallies and wether these are the type of people that these event organizers are trying to recruit, it does not seem to matter. They seem more interested in more bodies to hold more signs regardless of what their signs say.

These people didn't speak too kindly about Micheal Steel either, but they didn't use the "N" word against him. From what they did say about Steel, they have a belief that he's window dressing and a result of affirmative action.

They see Steel as the "well-spoken" type of "black guy" and as long as he just keeps "doing a little soft-shoe and hums a few bars of Baby Loves Shortenin' or whatever the RNC has him doing", they'll tolerate him. And I have to tell you, I don't think this would come as a surprise to Micheal Steel. Not becasuse he wouldn't expect it, but rather because it may not be news to him. The entire experience was surreal and an eye-opener to say the least. One man said that he tries to follow counter protesters (Lefty's) back to their cars to see if he can snap a picture of their license plate with his camera phone.

"I gotta friend at the DMV, so we can find out where these fuckers live." He said.
I was fairly certain that he was lying after talking to a high school friend who is now a CHP officer. There's been a real crack-down on just running license plate numbers through the database all willy-nilly. I guess running a license plate number is trackable to the person who did it and if there are an unusual amout of inquirys without a traffic citation or DVM fee or payment matching up with that inquiry, it does not go un-noticed. Nevertheless, hearing shit like that from this guy is the last thing that someone less stable then himself needs to hear. I couldn't imagine this guy having a friend that worked, muchless one that worked at the DMV, but I digress.

Somewhere deep down in the pea-brains of Glenn Back, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly, they think that by registering as Independants and Libitarians that it renders their rhetoric not in support of the Republican Party? -
And now we have Lou Dobbs going off the deep end,

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which is a good thing because I wish I had a nickle for every time someone thought to themselves "Jeeze! - Lou Dobbs is starting to sound like Glenn Back, or Hannity, or O'Reilly. If it's not Immigration and runnung these Mexicans back across the border, it's McCain or some other republic trying to disguise their racism.

Sometimes you have to wonder if John McCain possesses any stratigic skills whatsoever. He comes out today and announces that he will not be supporting Sonya Sotomayor, and sites reasons that her judicial history do not support.

Yet, he ends all of that by saying that he believes Sotomayor is an extreamly qualified candidate. However, when it came to Sarah Palin, he picked her sight-on-scene with what we now know to be little or no vetting whatsoever.

These are the types of choices that republicans make on a daily basis. John McCain chose a minimaly educated white woman to take the second highest office in the land, but couldn't bring himself to support a highly educated fedreal court judge who is a Latina and was already sitting on the bench when Sarah Palin was still taking bong rips in her dorm room. Yet, I'd be the one accused of being a racist for pointing out the obvious fact that John McCain beleive that a stipid white bitch beats a smart beaner any day of the week. I'm sure that there are many things that Sarah Palin is qualified to do, but becoming the Vice President or a Supreme Court Judge aren't among them.

Let me see if I can sum up Sarah Palin using the Glenn Beck method of summing shit up. "I'm not saying that Sarah Palin is a fucking idiot, I'm just saying that she's nuttier then a Chinese Chicken Salad and that she doesn't like darkies. Ya know, up there in Alaska where the real Americans live - That's all.

Your Friend Always,

Chico Brisbane.

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Is Lou Dobbs Screen Testing For The Fox News Channel?

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Lou Dobbs sudden departure from reality seems familiar to that of Glenn Beck in the weeks leading up to his leap from CNN's over to The Fox News Channel. Now Mr. Dobbs seems to have transitioned from riding the razor's edge of plausible lucidity to straight up bat-shit crazy. Dobbs actually first began giving the birthers a boost last week, when he had Alan Keyes, who ran against Obama in 2004 and 2008 and is now suing over the ligitamacy of the president's birth certificate.

However, Dobbs is sturring up the mix by screaming fire in a crowded theatre and then sticking around to be a witness. It allows him to play the unbiased advocate, the guy sticking up for the concerns of the average American no matter how obsurd the topic. It all plays out so well for him in contrast to the allegedly liberal reporters, who are, according to Dobbs, "more interested in currying succor with the White House than in doing their jobs."

On his radio show Tuesday, Dobbs was back at it, discussing the issue at length and responding to requests for comment from media outlets including Salon. (As of this post, a CNN spokeswoman had not yet been able to provide any comment.)

"We'll have some answers for the Los Angeles Times, Salon, a few others, Politico too. You know, and if you're in the left wing of the political spectrum, come on down, because we're going to have us a little talk about, oh, all of those crazy things that the American people just want to know," Dobbs said.

"Some of the news organizations in this country are acting as if they have their very identity attached to the issue of his birth certificate."

Later in the day, Dobbs brought the issue to CNN again. This time, it was part of a panel discussion at the end of his show with a decidedly unbalanced panel: Just three talk radio hosts, none of whom seemed to have any actual facts at hand -- not that they would have contradicted the anchor anyway.

One of the panelists, WPHT's Dom Giordano, noted that he's actually friends with Phil Berg, a Pennsylvania attorney who was one of the original leaders of the birther movement, and that his son once worked for Berg. (Giordano didn't mention that Berg has also

represented him in a lawsuit before.)

From the beginning of his coverage, Dobbs has been repeating a familiar trope of the birthers and their supporters: If Obama would just release his real birth certificate, the long form rather than the certification of live birth he made public last year, then all of this would be over.

"I believe Barack Obama is a citizen of the United States, folks, don't you? But I do have a couple of little questions, like you. Why not just provide a copy of the birth certificate? That's entirely within the president's power to do so. Then all of this nonsense goes away," Dobbs said on his radio show Tuesday.

"One would think the president would want to get rid of this nonsense. But he doesn't. And so none of us knows what the reality is."

But Dobbs knows that the crowd of conspiracy theorists he's now supporting won't be placated that easily. When he brought Keyes and Taitz on his show, he mentioned that he'd asked Taitz, off-air, whether the release of a long form birth certificate would satisfy her.

"She said no," Dobbs told his audience, and then directed the question to her again. "Both parents have to be citizens in order to satisfy the requirements of natural-born citizen," Taitz responded. In other words, for the de facto leader of the movement, her questions can never go away, because Obama's father was a British citizen at the time of his son's birth. (For the record, Taitz is wrong about the law here, as she very often is; in the 1898

Wong Kim Ark case, the Supreme Court said a child born in the U.S. is a natural-born citizen regardless of their parents' citizenship.)

Besides, Dobbs is completely wrong about the legal status of the certificate of live birth that Obama released. He said Tuesday that "there is no actual birth certificate. There is a document that says there is a birth certificate." But what Obama has made public thus far is the same form that anyone requesting their birth certificate from Hawaii would receive, and state officials have made very clear that it's authentic and shows he was born there.

Taitz and others say, wrongly, that there's a Hawaiian statute that applied to Obama that would have allowed his parents to register a foreign birth there, and somehow get state officials to say he was born in Honolulu. But as Janice Okubo, the director of communications for the Hawaii Department of Health, recently

explained to the Washington Independent's David Weigel, "If you were born in Bali, for example, you could get a certificate from the state of Hawaii saying you were born in Bali.

You could not get a certificate saying you were born in Honolulu. The state has to verify a fact like that for it to appear on the certificate. But it’s become very clear that it doesn’t matter what I say. The people who are questioning this bring up all these implausible scenarios."

That gets to the heart of the problem here. While Dobbs' colleagues at CNN, like

Rick Sanchez and even Kitty Pilgrim, his own guest host, have debunked the birthers' claims, Dobbs himself says he's learned a lot about birth certificates and the whole issue from Taitz and Keyes.

And that raises a question: With other CNN hosts having offered the actual facts on the air -- Pilgrim even attributed the debunking to the network itself -- why is Dobbs allowed to go on and make these false claims, without any hint of opposition? For now, CNN's not saying.