Fox finally dumps Tea Party conservative blowhard Glenn Beck, but for the wrong reasons (New York Daily News)

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By Joanna Molloy

April 7th 2011

Good riddance, crowed anybody even slightly left of John Birch Wednesday at the news that Glenn Beck had lost his nightly Fox TV show.

Officially, Beck "intends to transition off of his daily program," both the blowhard and his bosses at Fox said Wednesday.

But the writing was on his chalkboard: The ratings were down - he was pulling in 2.7 million last year at this time, and that number is down below 2 million.

Young viewers were bolting.

And advertising drying up.

In effect, the tea party is over.

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McGinniss is just doing his job, Sarah (Worcester Telegram)

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If you listen to Sarah Palin and her somewhat hysterical supporters, you'd think her new neighbor was armed with a pistol instead of a pen.

On Fox News, the pundits have dubbed author Joe McGinniss a stalker, a creep and a threat to Sarah's family. An apoplectic Glenn Beck has called for a boycott of McGinniss' publishing house. And the spinmeister herself, never missing the chance to play victim, once again frames the issue as an unfair attack on her children:

“People have said already, oh, the guy, he has his freedoms too, and he can live wherever he wants to,” Sarah said. “Well, of course he can, and he can do what he wants to do. However, I think any mom, in my position, if they put themselves in my shoes, that they would feel the same way. You do your thing, you keep your distance, and you better leave my kids alone.”

Of course, there's no indication that McGinniss has any designs on Sarah's precious and politically expedient children. But he is writing a book about their mother. And when an opportunity fell in his lap to rent the house next door to his subject, he took it. He's a reporter. He goes where the story is. But I trust he has no interest in catching Sarah mowing the lawn in her underwear.

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‘Family Guy,’ Palin and the Limits of Laughter (New York Times)

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By DAVE ITZKOFF

February 19, 2010 

 

“Family Guy,” the Fox animated comedy series, is either irreverent or crass, depending on your tolerance for unmannerly humor. Viewers come for its pop-cultural free associations and flatulence gags, not necessarily to debate pressing issues of the day.

So it is probably the last program that anyone expected to serve as a catalyst for a continuing fight about the depiction of disabled people on television, and whether they are fair game to participate in and be the subjects of satire.

It is a dispute that has drawn in Sarah Palin, the former Republican governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential candidate, who has a son with Down syndrome, and a “Family Guy” voice actress who, like the character she portrayed on the show, also has that disability. Though the two women would seem to be coming from similar perspectives, they have ended up as far apart as possible.

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