Glenn Beck Bombs in Jersey
Maybe he’s not quite the conservative pied piper he’s made out to be? Glenn Beck began his “Restoring America” tour Saturday to a crowd of just 700 at a New Jersey Six Flags. Attendees paid $50 (or $125 for VIP treatment) to see the Fox News host and other conservatives speak over six hours. This event didn’t benefit from the weeks of marketing that helped bring 100,000 people to Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally on the National Mall in August, and it had far less planning. The crowd didn’t come close to filling the arena, which has a capacity to hold 8,000. He’ll make many such appearances across the country until the November midterm elections.
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Keith Olbermann’s Eccentricities
The new issue of New York Magazine has a long piece about network news, but it's worth skipping to the bits about Keith Olbermann. Author Gabriel Sherman notes that Olbermann takes “eccentricities to extremes.” According to one story, Olbermann has instructed producers to communicate with him by leaving paper notes in a small box outside his office. According to another, he once blew up at David Shuster after he tweeted that he’d be filling in for Olbermann on Countdown because Olbermann was sick. An executive producer later told Shuster that there’s a rule against tweeting about Olbermann. He also talks trash on one of his nemeses, Dan Abrams, the former general manager of MSNBC. “Dan never really ran it,” Olbermann says. “He’s always tried to ride my coattails.” According to Sherman, Abrams wanted to rebrand MSNBC with the tagline, “MSNBC: Keepin’ It Real.”
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