Sorry liberals, Glenn isn’t going anywhere

Daily Finance gives an update on the nearly year long boycott against Glenn Beck.  And the news is good.

Almost a year ago, Glenn Beck created an uproar when he called President Obama a “racist” who had a “deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture.” Liberals screamed for Beck’s head while advertisers and viewers fled from his talk show on Fox News Channel….

According to the latest ratings from Nielsen, The Glenn Beck Show is seen by more than 2.4 million viewers, including 637,000 in the 25- to 54-year-old demographic of interest to advertisers on news programs….

Beck’s viewership is larger than his competitors in his same time slot at CNN, MSNBC, CNBC and HLN combined. His radio show is the third-most-listened-to talk program behind Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity’s, according to Talkers Magazine. His weekly listenership is about 7 million over more than 400 affiliate radio stations. Plus, as my colleague Sarah Weinman pointed out recently, Beck is even breathing new life into the moribund book publishing industry…..

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Beck’s critics have failed to hurt the talk show host and his corporate masters where it counts — on their bottom lines. As Harrison points out, the only way that News Corp would take him off the air would be for financial, not political, reasons. Beck, though, finds friends in the strangest of places. A New York Times editorial praised Beck for not rushing to judgment in the story of Shirley Sherrod, the U.S. Department of Agriculture employee unfairly smeared as a racist. Sherrod was offered her job back by an apologetic USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack after he got all the facts of the situation.