INSIDER SOURSES AT
GLENN BECK'S NETWORK HAVE PAINTED AN EXTREMELY GRIM FUTURE
ABOUT THE PICTURE ABOUT THE FUTURE OF THE NETWORK OF IT EVEN
HAS A FUTURE.
THERE IS AN OVERALL MISMANAGEMENT AND
PARANOIA AND ATTITUDE PROBLEMS AND A LOT OF THE PLACE WHO USED
TO WORK THERE HAVE BEEN LET GO THINK THE MASSIVE LAYOUT
SEDIMENT HAPPENING.
THEY ARE PAINTING A PICTURE THAT YOU CAN
PUT THIS ON GOING BACK THAT IT IS MAINLY DUE TO HIS RIDICULOUS
PERSONALITY QUIRKS THAT WERE OBVIOUS TO ALL OF US BEFORE THE
NETWORK EVEN LAUNCHED THAT HAS LED TO THE SITUATION THAT THE
BLAZES IN RIGHT NOW.
HERE ARE SOME QUOTES FROM THESE SOURCES
WHO HAVE NOT BEEN NAMED BUT APPARENTLY HAVE BEEN BEDDED BY
THE HUFFINGTON POST AND OTHER ORGANIZATION.
ONCE SAID THE FEW
PEOPLE WHO ARE STILL LEFT ARE LOOKING FOR AN EXIT BECAUSE THEY
KNOW THE BLAZE IS OVER.
THEY HAVEN'T TOLD THE STRAIGHT UP
THAT THEY'RE DONE WITH US, BUT ALL THE SIGNS POINT TO A, AND
THEY'RE NOT REPLACING PEOPLE WHO ARE LAID OFF OR GET OUT.
MICHELLE FEEL TO YOU MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH SAID THAT THE
BLAZE.COM IS CURRENTLY SUFFERING FROM A LACK OF EDITORIAL
DIRECTION, STAFF ATTRITION, AND INTERNAL DISCORD AND AT THE MOOD
UP WRONG EMPLOYEES IS SOMBER AS THEY'VE WATCHED A 25 MEMBER
EDITORIAL TEAM GET WHITTLED DOWN TO SIX PEOPLE.
THERE'S A LOT
MORE TO THAT, BUT HOW MUCH IS ANGRY THAT THEY HAD THE
RESOURCES TO HAVE A 25 NUMBER EDITORIAL BOARD.
LET ME PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT.
MICHELLE FIELDS CAME ORIGINALLY
FROM BREITBART.
SHE'S THE PERSON THAT COREY LEWANDOWSKI
MANHANDLED THAT SHE IS A CONSERVATIVE.
THIS IS FROM
OTHER CONSERVATIVES.
SOME OF WHICH STILL WORK THERE.
DON'T GET THROWN BY THE FACT BECAUSE IT IS HAVING SOME POST.
MICHELLE FIELDS IS A CONSERVATIVE WRITING FROM HER
SOURCES.
IT'S NOT 25 PERSON COMPANY.
IT'S A MUCH LARGER
COMPANY.
JUST THERE EDITORIAL TEAM WAS 25 PEOPLE AND NOW IT'S
GONE DOWN TO 6.
APPARENTLY THEY COULD'VE DONE THE JOB WAS SIX OR PERHAPS
THEY WERE A LITTLE BLOATED TO SAY THE LEAST OUT.
DO YOU NEED AT DOZENS OF PEOPLE TO MAKE UP UNDER NONSENSE?
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR A LONG TIME.
I DON'T KNOW, WHEN I GET TO SCREAM I TOLD YOU.
SHOOT SOON,
I ASSURE YOU.
THEY HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO SPEND MONEY.
THEY CAME
IN AND GOING OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY TOO, LIKE OH MY GOD.
BLAH BLAH.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMICS OF DIGITAL MEDIA
AT ALL?
THE ANSWER IS CLEARLY THEY DIDN'T.
PEOPLE Assuming
THEY DID BECAUSE WE ARE SILLY, SILLY PEOPLE.
GLENN BACK WAS ON
TELEVISION, HE WAS ON FOX NEWS.
HE MUST BE TELLING THE TRUTH.
THIS GUY IS A NOTORIOUS LIAR.
WHY DO YOU THINK HE WAS TELLING
THE TRUTH ABOUT HIS BUSINESS?
OF COURSE HE WASN'T.
IN A CRAZY
TWIST AT THE END OF THE STORY I AM GOING TO DEFEND HIM A LITTLE
BIT.
1ST WE'RE GOING TO KICK THE CRAP OUT OF HAND.
BY THE WAY, I LOVE THE GENERAL IDEA THAT YOU COULD
TRUST THIS GUY WITH MONEY TO RUN A DIGITAL CUTTING-EDGE COMPANY
WHEN HE TRIES AND EVERYTHING FROM HIS MICROPHONE SHAPE OR HIS
REFERENCES TO THE SOVIETS, HE BELIEVES HE IS STILL IN THE 50S
ON RADIO AND FOR SOME REASON THEY THINK HE CAN RUN A MODERN
ONLINE BUSINESS.
HE CAN'T.
OTHER EMPLOYEES REPORT THAT
THEIR HEALTH CARE BENEFITS WERE REDUCED OVER THE SUMMER AND THEN
IN SEPTEMBER, ALL THEIR TRAVEL AND PHONE STIPENDS WERE CUT OFF.
IN JUNE, THE COMPANY CLOSED ITS NEW YORK CITY NEWSROOM AND THE
REMAINING EMPLOYEES ARE WORKING FROM HOME WHICH WE HAVE SEEN IN
OTHER COMPANIES IN NEW YORK CITY.
HERE IS A QUOTE THAT WE
HAD EVERYTHING WHEN WE STARTED IN 2010, HUGE PLATFORM AND
FOLLOWING, BUT MANAGEMENT SCREWED IT UP WITH THEIR
INCOMPETENCE.
THEY MADE SO MANY STUPID MISTAKES AND GLENN TRUST
THE WRONG PEOPLE WHO THEN GO AND HIRE OTHER BAD PEOPLE.
REALLY
INTERESTING THING ABOUT GLENN BECK HERE THAT I WOULD NOT HAVE
EXPECTED.
GLENN BECK INSISTED HIS WORK WITH NEWS BE QUASHED
SOMETIMES REFUSING TO PARTICIPATE IN A SHOW ENTIRELY
IF IT CONTAINED A NEW SEGMENT THAT I DON'T THINK ANY OF US
SUSPECTED HE WAS TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM HIS ALTOGETHER BUT
APPARENTLY HE WAS.
HE SPENT CURIES MONEY DEVELOPING FILMS,
PLANNING AMUSEMENT PARKS, AND PLANNING TO REINVENT THE
HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY STARTING BY BUILDING HIS OWN HOSPITALS.
IN
THE SUMMER OF 2013, HE PRODUCED A LIVE STAGE SHOW CALLED MAN IN
THE MEN THAT COST OVER $2 MILLION FOR A SINGLE NIGHT RUN.
I GUESS THAT WAS A MOONSHOT.
THIS IS PART OF HIS INSANITY,
AND I TOLD YOU ALL ALONG THAT HE HAS LITERALLY LOST HIS MIND.
THAT IS WHY HE WOULD GO ON THE GYROSCOPE AND SPIN AROUND AND
AROUND AND HE THOUGHT THAT THAT MADE HIM BETTER.
I AM NOT
KIDDING.
WHEN I SAID, NO, THAT DIDN'T MAKE HIM BETTER.
HE'S
OBVIOUSLY STILL CRAZY.
PEOPLE WERE LIKE GOD, CENK UGER, YOU
ARE SO RUDE.
NO, I'M NOT RUDE.
I AM LOGICAL.
I GYROSCOPE DOES
NOT CURE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES AND IF YOU HAVE THEM AND
DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR, YOU THINK YOU ARE GOING TO START DISNEY
AND YOU ARE WALT DISNEY AND JUERGEN HAVE AMUSEMENT PARKS AND
MAKE MOVIES.
YOU KNOW I THOUGHT THAT?
I'M GOING TO AFFECT THE CULTURE.
THAT'S WHY HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO NEWS DOCUMENTS TO MOVIES
INSTEAD, BUT NOBODY WOULD WATCH YOUR DUMB MOVIES.
THEY BARELY LISTEN TO YOUR RADIO SHOW LET ALONE YOUR ONLINE
SHOW LET ALONE ANY MOVIES YOU MIGHT CREATE.
THE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR GO TO ANOTHER SCALE WHEN HE IS
GOING TO REINVENT THE HOSPITAL INDUSTRY.
REALLY?
ARE YOU GOING BACK?
ARE YOU?
SEEMS EXPENSIVE.
ONE OF THE OTHER EMPLOYEES DESCRIBED HIS BEHAVIOR AS A
RADICAL, PARANOID, AND RECKLESS.
WHICH IS ALL INCREDIBLY FAIR.
GET OFF MY PHONE EXCAVATION MARK I THINK WE'VE SEEN A
EVIDENCE OF THIS.
WE ALSO KNOW BY 2014, HE WAS SPINNING
INCREASINGLY AMOUNT OF MONEY BUSINESS PARANOIA ON STUFF LIKE
PRIVATE JET LETTERS SO HE WOULDN'T HAVE TO FIND OTHER
PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY MIGHT TRY TO ASSASSINATE HIM, AN ARMORED
MAIBACH LIMOUSINE AND UNNECESSARY PRIVATE SECURITY.
THIS IS AROUND WHEN I MOST PEOPLE WERE THINKING LESS
AND LESS ABOUT GLENN BECK AND HIS PARANOIA WAS GOING UP
INVERSELY WITH THE AMOUNT PEOPLE CARE ABOUT WHAT HE WAS DOING.
I'M GOING TO KEEP SAYING THIS UNTIL PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY
MAD AT ME BECAUSE THEY ARE STARTING TO FEEL BAD FOR HIM.
HE HAS SERIOUS MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES.
I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY CRAZY
ANYMORE BUT WHATEVER PHRASE YOU WANT TO PUT ON IT.
HE OUGHT TO GET REAL HELP FROM A REAL DOCTOR AND NOT AN IDIOT.
IT TELLS THEM TO GO ON A GYROSCOPE THAT YOU KNOW THOSE
THINGS ARE?
THEY STRAP YOU IN AND SPIN YOU AROUND.
I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO SAY HE'S CRAZY, BUT THAT IS CRAZY.
HE TRIED TO DO WHAT SOME PEOPLE DO WHICH IS LEARNING
NEW RELIGION.
APPARENTLY DIDN'T STICK.
WAS BREAKDOWN THE MORE IMPORTANT ARE HERE WHICH IS NOT
ABOUT BECK SPECIFICALLY BUT ABOUT CONSERVATIVE MEDIA
OVERALL.
THEY HAVE TWO PROBLEMS.
ONE IS REVENUE AND
THE OTHER IS EXPENSES.
NUMBER ONE, THEY ARE NOT THAT POPULAR.
THEY HAD NO CHANCE OF A DIGITAL MEDIA EMPIRE BECAUSE THEY ARE
NOT THAT MANY PEOPLE WHO WATCH IMPERIAL.
JUST BECAUSE HE WAS
ON TV, EVERYBODY GETS GOOGLY EYED.
ONLY GOD, EVERYBODY
WATCHES HIM.
I SAW HIM ON TV.
I'M 35 YEARS OLD AND I SAW HIM
ON TV I'M SURE ALL THE 25-YEAR-OLDS ARE.
TOMMY LAREN
IS THE ONLY ONE AND SHE WORKS THERE.
THAT IS IT.
THE BLAZE,
WHICH YOUNG PEOPLE ARE LIKE GUYS, I HAVE TO GET HOME RIGHT
AWAY, THE BLAZE IS ON.
THAT IS NOT A THING THAT EXISTS.
I HAD A RELATIVE WHO WAS YOUNGER THAN ME WHO LIKED
GLENN BECK BRIEFLY BUT HE EVENTUALLY WISED UP.
I'M NOT GOING TO NAME HIM.
THE NUMBER TWO PROBLEM IS EXPENSES WHICH WE LAID OUT FOR
YOU GUYS.
THEY HAVE NO BUSINESS SENSE.
IT IS SO IRONIC BECAUSE
ALL THEY ARE IS WELFARE QUEENS.
BUT THEY THINK WELFARE NOT FROM
THE GOVERNMENT BUT FROM THE RATES.
CONSERVATIVE MEDIA IS
NOT BASED ON CAPITALISM.
IS NOT MEANT TO SURVIVE IN A FREE
MARKET THAT IS NOT POPULAR ENOUGH TO SURVIVE IN A FREE
MARKET.
IT IS MEANT TO BE PROPAGANDA FOR THE RICH.
FOR
EXAMPLE, WE ARE MAKING FRONT OF THE BLAZE, BRIGHT BUT STILL
EXIST.
PEOPLE THINK IT'S SUCCESSFUL, NO IT IS NOT THAT
HAS THE SAME NUMBER OF VIEWERS THAT THE BLAZE DOES A MINUSCULE
AMOUNT THAT THE REASON IT IS NOT BANKRUPT IS BECAUSE THE MERCER
FAMILY WHO ALSO CONTROLS DONALD TRUMP.
THEY ARE THE ONES WHO
PUT IN KELLY AND CONWAY AND STEVE BANNON FROM BREITBART AS
HEAD OF THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN.
THEY'RE THE ONES WHO GAVE $13
MILLION TO TED CRUZ AND SECRETLY CONTROL ALL OF CONSERVATIVE
MEDIA.
WITH THE COKE BROTHERS.
MACRO PHENOMENON HERE.
THESE
GUYS GIVE MONEY TO POLITICIANS AND THEY BUY THEM.
THEY GIVE
MONEY TO THINK TAKES AND THEY GET PROPAGANDA.
THEY GET MONEY
TO CONSERVATIVE MEDIA NEGATIVE PROPAGANDA.
THEY GET MARKETING.
FOR EXAMPLE, THE MERCER'S HAVE PUT IN REPORTEDLY OVER $10
MILLION INTO BREITBART.
BREITBART IS NOT PROFITABLE
EITHER.
IN A FREE MARKET, IT WOULD GLOW DOWN IN A BLAZE OF GLORY TO
DIE WOULD BE OUT OF BUSINESS TOMORROW IF THEIR REAL
PURPOSE WASN'T MARKETING FOR THEIR DADDIES.
WE'VE SEEN THIS IN A NUMBER OF OTHER FIELDS AS WELL.
FOXBUSINESS, THAT IS JUST BUSINESS CLASS WELFARE TO
ADVANCE CONSERVATIVE ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHIES.
ALMOST EVERY
BEST-SELLING CONSERVATIVE BOOK FROM ALL OF THESE AUTHORS WHO
THINK THEIR HARDSHIP, THEY ARE BEING BOUGHT UP BY THE PACKS.
HUGE QUANTITIES OF BOOKS BUT A BALL AT ONE TIME IN A GIVEN OUT
TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT THEM AND WON'T READ THEM.
THE IDEA
IS IF YOU SEEM IT MAKE IT SEEM LIKE CONSERVATIVE IDEAS ARE
POPULAR AS SOME PEOPLE BECAUSE WE ARE SIMPLE PRIMATES WILL
GO ALONG WITH IT.
WHETHER IT IS THE MOVIES OF THE BOOKS OR WEBSITES OR
CHANNELS, EXCEPT FOR MAYBE FOX NEWS, IT IS ALL BEING
SUBSIDIZED THAT THERE IS NO INDUSTRY IN AMERICA MORE
SUBSIDIZED THAN CONSERVATIVE THOUGHT AND IDEAS.
THAT IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT DIET DOES MAKE SENSE FOR THE REALLY
RICH AND POWERFUL TO DO THIS BECAUSE IF YOU SPEND EVEN $100
MILLION IN ALL THIS MEDIA WHICH IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY,
ONE TAX BREAK FOR THE COKE BROTHERS OF THE MERCER'S COULD
BE WORTH $1 BILLION.
HE COULD BE WORTH $10 BILLION.
THAT IS A
GREAT RETURN ON INVESTMENT.
THEY ARE BUYING PROPAGANDA.
I
REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST READ THAT THE WEEKLY STANDARD WAS IN
CIRCULATION.
THEY ARE STILL AROUND BUT NO ONE KNOWS THAT IT
HAS CIRCULATION OF 80,000 PEOPLE.
80,000 PEOPLE?
THAT IS
HALF A YOUNG TURKS VIDEO.
IT IS INCONCEIVABLE THAT YOU CAN
POSSIBLY BE PROFITABLE AT 80,000 CIRCULATION.
NEW YORK POST.
IT
IS NOT LIKE THEY'RE MAKING AN INVESTMENT THAT WILL TURN A
CORNER.
EVER SINCE MURDOCH HAS OWNED IT, FOR AS LONG AS I CAN
SEE, IT HAS LOST $50 MILLION A YEAR.
THINK TANK ADDED MORE THAN 80,000 SUBSCRIBERS IN AUGUST.
WHERE THE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM BILLIONAIRES.
SHOWER ME WITH CAST-IRON DOESN'T HAPPEN.
BECAUSE THAT IS NOT THE GAME WE PLAYED THAT WE PLAY IN THE
FREE MARKET WE ACTUALLY HAVE TO WIN AND GET AN AUDIENCE AND MAKE
MONEY.
THESE GUYS ARE ALL WELFARE QUEENS.
FINALLY, YOU
ARE THINKING ARE YOU EVER GOING TO GET TO GLENN BECK'S DEFENSE?
MY SLIGHT DEFENSE OF HIM IS THIS: AT LEAST HE APPARENTLY DID
NOT SELL OUT TO THOSE GUYS.
BECAUSE THE OTHER WAY THAT YOU
COULD'VE KEPT BLAZE GOING IS DADDY MERCER, WHAT YOU NEED ME
TO SAY?
I'M SURPRISED HE DIDN'T WITH THE COKE BROTHERS AND MAYBE
THEY DID BUT IT WASN'T ENOUGH TO PAY FOR ALL OF HIS PRIVATE
AIRLINES AND MAIBACH LIMOUSINES.
THOSE ARE NOT CHEAP.
I DO THINK HE DESERVES CREDIT FOR OPPOSING DONALD TRUMP.
THAT IS SOMETHING THAT HE LOSES ALL THE CREDIT BECAUSE HE
WAS ACTUALLY FOR TED CRUZ, BUT HE DESERVES SOMETHING.
HE DIDN'T GO ALONG WITH DONALD TRUMP, THAT IS THE ONLY
THING IN HIS FAVOR.
IF YOU GOT ALONG WITH DONALD TRUMP, MAYBE ROBERT MERCER
WOULD'VE GIVEN ANOTHER $10
MILLION AND HE COULD'VE KEPT GOING FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS.
MAYBE DONALD TRUMP GIVEN HIM SOME MONEY.
IF HE HAD IT.
HE DOESN'T HAVE IT AND WOULDN'T EVER GIVE IT TO HIM.
LOOK GUYS, THE BLAZE IS LIKELY OVER.
I LOVE ONE OF THEIR
EXECUTIVES NOW SAYS NO, THIS IS PROJECT PHOENIX PHASE 2.0.
IF
IT'S PHOENIX A MINORITY BURNED ASHES.
DON'T TELL ME DIDN'T
BECAUSE IT MEANS IS ARTIE OVER YOU ARE TRYING TO RESUSCITATE
IT.
BLAZE CEO STUART PAUL GRAY SAID THE BLACK CLOUD OF
NEGATIVITY AND PESSIMISM IS SLOWLY BEING REPLACED BY
OPTIMISM ABOUT OUR FUTURE.
YOU CAN CALL PEOPLE PESSIMISTIC IF
THEY'VE ALREADY BEEN FIRED.
YOU FIRED 19 OF THEM.
DON'T BE OVERLY PESSIMISTIC, YOUR FIRE, GO HOME BUT
DON'T BE PESSIMISTIC ON YOUR WAY.
THERE IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT OF OPTIMISM AS THE
CHEMICALS IN THE KOOL-AID START TO SEE THROUGH YOUR BODY
BRIEFLY YOU WILL FEEL BETTER.
HE DOESN'T END WELL THOUGH.
IN THE END, TOLD YOU.
OF COURSE THEY DON'T HAVE ENOUGH
VIEWERS THOUGHT THEY WERE SPENDING LIKE DRUNK
SAILORS THAT WE TOLD YOU THAT FROM DAY ONE.
OF COURSE THEIR
MANAGEMENT IS HORRIFIC.
THEY ARE CONSERVATIVES.
IF YOU ARE
NOT ATTACHED TO LOGIC AND REASON, YOU MIGHT GET SOME DADDY
WARBUCKS MONEY BUT AT SOME POINT, GRAVITY IS GRAVITY AND
YOU ARE GOING TO FALL BECAUSE IT IS REAL.
IN THE REAL WORLD, YOUR WAR ON MATH DOES NOT WORK OUT.
EVENTUALLY RUN OUT OF MONEY.