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Bill Maher Goes After Glenn Beck and His ‘Gullible Honey Boo Boo,’ ‘Rube’ Audience

Feb. 2, 2013 2:13pm Madeleine Morgenstern

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Bill Maher on Friday took aim at Glenn Beck as a “con man” preaching a “patented brand of apocalyptic race-baiting” to a subscription-based audience — from Maher’s own perch on subscription-based network HBO.

It started when Maher said liberals need to stop “gloating” about Sarah Palin’s recent departure from Fox News — even though it was a “wonderful, hilarious coincidence” that it just came after Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal implored fellow Republicans to “stop being the stupid party.”

“It makes me think of this guy,” Maher said, flashing a photo of Beck. “Did he curl up into a ball and weep like a baby? Of course he did. This is Glenn Beck we’re talking about.”

Maher continued that Beck then “saw an open window, the Internet. Who needs Fox News when he can take his patented brand of apocalyptic race-baiting directly to the fans, who now pay $9.95 to hear Glenn. Cheaper than a case of their favorite wine.”

Maher evidently missed that access to TheBlaze.com is free of charge, as is Beck’s radio show, which pulls in an average of 10 million listeners a week. Subscription-based TheBlaze TV is also available in millions of homes on DISH Network.

“That $9.95 really adds up,” Maher continued. “Last year, Glenn Beck made $80 million, placing him 11th on the Forbes list of the highest-paid celebrities, Elton John, who sang at the wedding of someone else on the list, Rush Limbaugh.”

Beck did indeed make $80 million — a combination of radio, book, and touring profits, not solely BlazeTV subscriptions. Maher then opined about how Beck and Limbaugh are a big part of what’s wrong with the Republican Party.

“Con men like Rush and Beck are one reason the Republicans are in such dire straits today,” he said. “They don’t care about winning elections, they care about separating rubes from their money. They’ve discovered there’s a fortune to be made by keeping a small portion of America under the illusion that they are always under attack from Mexicans or ACORN or Planned Parenthood or gays or takers, global warming hoaxers, it doesn’t matter.”

Knocking TheBlaze TV’s “only” 300,000 subscribers — but not mentioning TheBlaze.com’s 10 million unique visitors last month or its 90 million page views according to Google Analytics — Maher continued that Beck and Limbaugh “don’t want a majority.”

“They don’t want a majority, they want a mailing list — a list of gullible Honey Boo Boos out there who think there’s a war on Christmas or that these socialist policies of our Kenyan president have been so disastrous that the end of the world is coming,” Maher said.

Watch the clip below, via Mediaite:

In CONTROL, Glenn Beck presents a passionate, fact-based case for guns that reveals why gun control isn’t really about controlling guns at all; it’s about controlling us. Find out more HERE.

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T-2
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:54pm
$9.95? Damnit Glenn. you’re ripping me off.

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dave88
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:45pm
I bet Maher is Honey Boo Boo’s father. They seem to have the same intellect and attract the same audience.

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doglady
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:45pm
I thank God for Glenn Beck every day and pray for his safety.

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- MAX0O1
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:52pm
  ME to!!!!!!!!!
  
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doglady
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:44pm
Bill Maher is a pig. He, Michael Moore, Al Gore, the present administration and many more progressives should be shipped away for they are the ones who are corrputing this country. Glenn Beck has a huge audience and following and Bill Maher does not.

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- MAX0O1
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:55pm
  NA. JUST tie their hands to HUGO CHAVEZ and they can jump into hell with him !!!!!!!!!!!
  
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Ben__Franklin
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:42pm
Keep up the good work Glenn. The fact the Left has to do segments to try and discredit you means your doing just fine.

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Thinman
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:37pm
You can always tell if a person has actually listened to or watched Glenn by what they say about him. Bill has obviously done neither.

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SallyV
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
I’m proud to be one of the “rubes” and I thank God and Glenn for getting me on the right track!!

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churchee
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:33pm
A total distraction from the fact that the leftist hero, Mr. “Several MILLION Degrees” Gore, has turned out to be the fraud who has been successfully separating the “Man-made climate change” fools from THEIR money. You keep going, Mr. Beck. There are lots of folks out here who believe that TRUTH MATTERS.
BTW – Who knew Bill Maher was a birther?

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Mikie
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:29pm
I want to say something about this dope but I’m afraid you would eject me from The Blaze for a lifetime!!!

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Lord_Frostwind
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:20pm
Oh come on Billy, don’t try to pull the intellectual act on us. We all know you’re a guttersnipe with the language skills of the average 12 year old playing Call of Duty. Your attempt at claiming a superior position on the moral high ground is about as authoritative as a lecture on treating women with respect from Ted Bundy.

In other words, “this is your best joke ever! Please, stop, I can’t stop laughing!”

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youshuthehellup
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:20pm
he’s being eaten up by his own Jealousy!! sooner or later these sick individuals show their true colors.

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rickroland
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:14pm
O.K., so Bill is green with envy, this is nothing new. NEXT!

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upadastra
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:11pm
Bill Maher is so clearly jealous of Glenn making more money than he does. Also his remark that at the left nobody tries to separate liberals from their cash: Oh no liberals only try to tax everybody who still tries to make a living by working and is not on government benefit out of their cash, surely those are mostly republicans.

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klatoo
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:10pm
I find Bill Maher to be offensive. A truly self loathing slime with a mouth the size of Saturn and a brain like a disgusting lizard. He is crazy insane.
Oh yeah … my apologies to lizards.

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LonDog
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:10pm
@Unalien

Great post! It better describes our wanna-be king. BHO.

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ClemBradshaw
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:06pm
Honey Boo Boo endorsed Obama…..Big Bird, too.

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riseandshine
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:04pm
I can’t stand either one of them.

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yiska8
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:03pm
Bill Maher is what’s wrong with American society and world at large. Jealous, petty little liberal men who live on Viagra,drugs, and Hollywood hatred for the people that put food on their table will always be hating on someone. Beck is a financial threat to Maher. Envy doesn’t wear well on the LEFTISTS.

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grimmster
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:02pm
Wonder how many “armed guards” this assclown employs,and i wonder if he ever leaves the security of his mansion, or bullit proof cars,to move around freely in public? I think not….

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saliwalido
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:01pm
I would LOVE to see Glenn do a 10minute dialogue on this moron and expose him for EXACTLY who he is. A bigot, homophobe, race-batting, sexist, narcissistic swine. Please do it, Glenn!!

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MrKnowItAll
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 3:00pm
Definitely FEAR! Maher has all Glenn’s Stats. Remember if your on Someone’s Mind. Good Or Bad. YOU Win.

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Ceefour
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:58pm
This bird is a prince…p r i c k………prince

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PMLaw
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:57pm
As much as I can’t stand Bill Maher (everything out of his mouth seems to be demonically inspired), unfortunately there is some kernel of truth in the overall gist of his moronic diatribe. The truth is, in light of the November election results, the combined influence of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, etc., even though what they were all saying was true, had no effect whatsoever on the enormous leftward shift in this country over the past 8 years. That Obama and his Marxists were elected in 2008 is bad enough. That they were REelected in 2012 shows that the majority don’t care about what is true or good.

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centralflorida
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:56pm
The left is ramping up their war on Fowx News, Rush, and Glenn again.

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- barber2
  Posted on February 2, 2013 at 5:55pm
  Agree. Obama II is all about banning guns and conservative media . Then they would have total control.
  
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SHASTADIANE1
Posted on February 2, 2013 at 2:55pm
Sounds like a good case of the “jealousy bug” to me. Maybe he needs to be vacinated for it, that is if he isn’t afraid of the shot.

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