The Beck Bash has Worked Wonders….For Beck

Proving that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn once in a while prominent progressive Earl Ofari Hutchinson provides with great insight in his column this morning in the Huffington Post the unexpected consequences of the leftwing attack on Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck loves every minute of the Beck bash. In recent days he’s gotten a rock star mob welcome in South Carolina and Washington. He’d get the same fan mob turnout in dozens of other cities that he chose to travel to. His ratings have soared through the roof. He’s even made the reigning King of TV right side chatter O’Reilly nervous. Beck is simply the hottest ticket item on the national scene now, and for that he can thank progressives, liberal Democrats, and through the backdoor President Obama…..

The thing was that the more you bash, savage, pick at and ridicule a media outlet or a gimmicky talk show host you do what ad people, pr flacks, agencies, and sponsors drool over, and sink a mini kings ransom into. That is to inflate, hype, and pump up a product. In this case the product is Beck……

His mug is plastered over major magazine covers and he’s the topic of incessant chatter in news columns and features. The goofball satire and inane pummeling of him by Jon Stewart and the bevy of comics has inflated his image and worth even higher……

Beck, Like Limbaugh Palin and Fox, is grinning from ear to ear at his new found ratings bonanza, swelling bank account, and media and fan adulation. And why wouldn’t he? The Beck bash has worked wonders for him.

Here’s the link so that you can read the entire article.