Forbes Magazine features Glenn Beck on its cover this month. The story is Glenn Beck $32 million in 2009 the magazine is featuring. Apparently, he earned $32 million in the fiscal year ending on March 1, 2010. Forbes calls it the Glenn Beck Money Machine. Read more about it below, see his picture and enjoy a video below.
Glenn Beck $32 million in 2009
It seems that Glenn Beck has gotten everybody’s attention since he moved his show to Fox News. Everyone seems to have an opinion about the opinionated radio and TV star. He’s passionate, controversial and most of all influential. People either love him or hate him. It doesn’t seem to matter much to him. His hyperactive, flame-throwing persona is makes an impression not to mention, it makes a lot of money.
According to Forbes Magazine, Beck earned $32 million last year. The article breaks down how he made the money. He earned $13 million from sales of his books and his magazine Fusion. The Glenn Beck Program, his nationally syndicated three-hour radio show, brings in $10 million a year. His digital newsletter and ads for Glennbeck.com bring in another $4 million. He gets $3 million from speaking fees and events like his ‘Bold Fresh Tour with Bill O’Reilly. Then you add to that $2 million from his Fox TV show and you have a whopping $32 million in revenue for the fiscal year ending March 1.
Beck claims to not be at all interested in the political process. On the other hand, controversy brings its own monetary rewards for Beck. As Forbes says, ‘Brand it like Beck’.
Here’s some more articles from around the web.
American Thinker – Liberal Narcissism and Anti-Christian Phobia
Hot Air – Lieberman: Obama decision on terror terminology “Orwellian”
The Pirate’s Cove – Bergen County Teachers Union Prays For Chris Christie’s Death, Tries The “Just A Joke” Avenue
The Tygrrrr Express – Ideological Bigotry, Ideological Violence, Ideological Idiocy–My 3 books are now available
Michelle Malkin – Snort: Huffpo writer moans about Left’s lack of “women of any wattage”
Betsy’s Page – Why conservatives were right to despise Charlie Crist
Red State – Crashing the ‘Crashing the Tea Party’ Meme
Outside the Beltway – Ron Paul: Obama Not A Socialist
The Classic Conservative – Democrat Civil War
Jammie Wearing Fool – ‘This Is Disgusting’
So what are your thoughts about the Glenn Beck, $32 million in 2009. ‘Brand it like Beck’ or too much histrionics? Also, what do you think of Greta’s video below?
Below is a must see video. Greta Perry discusses the infamous Representative Hank Johnson theory on tipping over the Island of Guam with too many Marines. Yes, I know it happened a couple of weeks ago, but you might need a good laugh today.
Photo courtesy of Gage Skidmore, creative commons
April 11th, 2010 at 10:27 am
Test:)
April 11th, 2010 at 10:40 am
Beck is a very successful business man as that kind of profit is really large in the pundit world. He said he has a large staff, a company actually that he writes the paychecks for so that would put him in the ranks of a small to almost medium successful entreepreneur. Much of what hs syas fall’s into that line of thinking, with the occassional material for other pundits to comment riboldly on. I found his interviews with Prime Minister Netanyahu very interesting as they are of like mind, dress, and haircut. So when I think Beck I think succcessful small business owner and then it all comes into focus.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:42 am
Brian – I beg to differ. $32 million does NOT qualify one as a ’small business owner’. I’m sure he has overhead that eats up some of that profit. But even at that, that’s a pretty good living by anyone’s standards.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:53 am
From the linked article:
With a deadpan, Beck insists that he is not political: “I could give a flying crap about the political process.” Making money, on the other hand, is to be taken very seriously, and controversy is its own coinage. “We’re an entertainment company,” Beck says.
Just one in a long line of political showbiz hucksters who unfortunately has a lot of dummies who think he’s serious.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:03 am
Beth not sure whzat you mean. Its respectable money and he basifcally runs an video and radio publlishing business linked to wide distribution networks. Its an accomplishment. I don’t know what he nets, probably a third of it or so which is fine. I am not putting that down. The trick is to get a wide syndication which cable and radio is doing for him as they pay the delivery freight. He provides the content at reliable intervals. I think Beck’s personality is kind of admired by lots of entrepreneurial type people who can handle all the tasks to build something from the bottom up. I mean Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert run back to back comedy central pundit shows that flow much of the same advertisers, many high end so they aree offering a highly profitable producct of content for one hour to the deistributor. If you ignore their commentary or politics and just look at their adverstising platform they are brilliantly marketing to a rather hard to get up and coming demographinc. Beck knows his audience. They know thiers. Its all about that.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:27 am
@me – Beck says up front and frequently that he’s an entertainer. He’s honest about that and doesn’t try to present himself as anything other than that. On the other hand, one need only look as far as Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews to see REAL political showbiz hucksters.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:49 am
Olbermann admitted too once, I saw it, that they were all basically doing a slant, but he has a long reputation of championing what you would call liberal causes and its well known. The glitzyness of his current show doesn’t really capture that part so it just seems spin. Matthews use to be more fair and balanced, he’s an ex capitol policemen by the way, but now he slants too. Oreilly is interesting as he really means a lot of what he says, but in many ways is pretty liberal except about right and wrong issues in his mind and yes he self promotes to the max, but that is what entertainers do. I don’t think you could graduated from the Harvard School of international affairs and just be some tea bagger. He knows both sides and enjoys Colberts lampooning of him as that raises his visibility among a hard to get demographic, so he is a player.
April 11th, 2010 at 11:57 am
@Brian – ‘tea bagger’??? Show some respect. Its a TEA PARTY movement. You are letting your verbiage be dictated by the media and the Orwellian world we are living in. Also, yes you CAN be a Harvard Graduate and be part of the Tea Party movement. Again, you are letting your opinions be dictated by what the media is telling you to think. That movement represents a broad cross-section of middle America. And, in spite of what this administration and it’s media lackeys would have you believe, its a huge movement and Middle America is not populated with ignorant hillbillies.
April 11th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
beth why do you now want to fight with me like some others? When I see teabaggers on tv or in a magazine or a placard its all angry kind of low level white peoples stuff in my face that tells me they aren’t nice people to be around. I suppose if they dressed better than buffoons and made thoughful individual colorful signs with some artistic I.Q. and were witty and had good thoughts in their heart you could relate to I would like them. I am probably to the right of many of them, except i want real solutions that have a chance of working and I do believe health care reform is truely needed for our people and that its a national security issue as its melting apart right now. SUre I woul do it different than this congress/obama thing and have big tort reform, cost reform, less defensive medicine, etc involved and little debt on medical and nursing students who woul work in hospitala nd school and state clinics and services a little while. There is plenty we can do to stop theze new “facility fees” from being tacked onto the sick and vulnerable who simply gto to their doctors or hospital office. But I don’t thinkt he problme is really a liberl versus repbulican thing, but more the need for a fair and honest tranparent playing field wheree people stop gettting ripped off. I think in many ways obama is just trying to fit into a caretaker for the current government mode. I want even more change frankly as we are in deep doo doo. anyways the tea party as you call it isn’t really a defined party at this time nor does it have a basic platform, just anger. just anger ain’t attractive. If palin is what they want they just aren’t picking leaders well at the very start. The mormons picked brilliant leaders at the start.
April 11th, 2010 at 12:14 pm
a good example is a university where certain basics are provided, housing, cafeteria food, health care, counseling, remedial learning clinics, tutorials, plant security, a scheduled year ets. But how well you do is up to you. You ahve to select a major, classes, get there, take notes, learn the material and take tests. But you don’t have to worry about day to day where your going to sleep, what you are going to eat, or where to get your stitches for falling down on your bike. Its interesting how for a tiny fee universities can provide a wide range of health care services for their students compared to the private sector. It won’t cost you 4600 dollars to spend an overnight in the university hospital for a bad astham attack as its covered. You won’t keep getting bills for 2 years threatening you. That is what I am talking about. You ptobably only pay a couple a hundred a year for the insurance, which is in part subsidized by the University itself and its affiliated hospitals. It doesn’t have to cost you near twenty grand to stay two and a half days in a hospiatl in a shared room get a couple of xrays, one scan, and some iv meds a nurse adjusts and an intern who visits you 5 minutes a day.
April 11th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
Now if you were not at the university but working a regular job and living in an apartment or house you pay for, you would start getting about 6 different heatlh care bills demaning at least 20 percent or more of the 20 grand for your 21/2 day stay. They would try and bill you for various doctors fees, hospital fee, room fee, tooth paste fee(26$), iv meds, tylenol 8.50 a tab, respiratory therapist one visit 360$, a facilities fee for the e.r. waiting room for your inital exam $560, meals at about $75 a day, plus an e.r. admmit fee $1500 etc etc, and one ct scan $2750. IF you don’t have insurance your on the hook for 20 grand, or about 6 years after taxes and expenses wages for most people making under 60k a year, and if you have insurance your on the hook for 4500 or about 45 months of savings after expenses. What did you get? a simple broken bad astham attack. That is the different of just living in america compared to a university. How on earth should the medical system be able to charge you near 4 yearss of your after expense income for simply breaking an astham attack? obviously you got ripped off and its wrong! but you guys don’t care. that is why I don’t trust you with America.
April 11th, 2010 at 1:37 pm
student insurance and health care tends to be very expensive.
the target population is basically healthy adults, and if they do not go to school in the summer, the pre-existing condition rules kick in, so few students can claim treatment for cancer
and it is usually run by private insurance companies. the student clinics typically cost enormous sums for mostly handing out birth control
April 11th, 2010 at 4:45 pm
While Glen Beck makes me want to kill myself when I listen to him I think his story of redemption is a powerful one. His story of alcoholism, finding God and overcoming that addiction is pretty compelling whether you agree with what he has to say or not.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
Beck will go too far. He already has gone too far.
This man is a charlatan. I know charlatans when I see ‘em, and he is one. Charlatans are eventually exposed, and when this finally happens to Glenn Beck, he can take his money and go buy an island somewhere and permanently retire, while America tries to recover from the damage that he has caused.
Or prison, depending upon what happens. His money won’t do him any good, there.
April 11th, 2010 at 10:39 pm
I’m waiting for the day when he can’t take it any more and he looks at the camera and lectures the audience about being gullible and blindly following a leader. When I watch him, it’s pretty obvious to me that he’s wondering how far he can push the act… but I think eventually he’s going to come to terms with the monster he’s created and try to turn it all around… and we’ll see what happens. I have a feeling so much of his audience is so far gone that even if HE tried to expose what he really does to them, they’ll just turn on him and think that he’s become part of the vast conspiracy he’s created in their minds.
April 12th, 2010 at 5:50 am
Glenn Beck: AKA Gleam Bucks
April 12th, 2010 at 7:57 am
ME;
“Just one in a long line of political showbiz hucksters who unfortunately has a lot of dummies who think he’s serious.”
Well, I’ll take him more seriously than you any day.
” but I think eventually he’s going to come to terms with the monster he’s created and try to turn it all around…”
What “monster” ?
All hes trying to do is get both sides to come to their obligations. You’re attacking him from a moonbar perspective.
Since the present party in charge is the dems thats where he’ll focus the majority of his presentations. If you actually watched the show you’d know that he places a lot of blame on the right also for what he saw as mistakes during their terms in power.
I’ve yet to see anyone today in the white house prove him wrong on his accusations or presentations. What he presents as theory is always made clear as that, and necessarily truth.
He worked hard to get where hes at and believes enough in what he says to of told CNN to go take a flyin fck and go somwhere where hes not pressured to lean in any direction.
Hes educating usas to whats really going on and I think that is worth every dime of what he makes
April 12th, 2010 at 8:02 am
@Klo – what ‘damage’ has he caused? He’s just on television and radio. People have a choice whether to listen to him or not.
The president, on the other hand, has real power. If something is being damaged in our country – one might look to the cauldrons of power for the source.
April 12th, 2010 at 8:04 am
@Brian – I don’t want to fight with you at all! I just disagree with your characterization of the Tea Partiers.
April 12th, 2010 at 8:07 am
I went to a university clinic when I was in college. The last time I went I had an upset stomach, was feeling tired, gaining weight, nauseous all the time.
The medical person there gave me an antibiotic and told me I had the flu.
Turned out I was pregnant. Talk about a misdiagnosis.
April 12th, 2010 at 8:15 am
Yeah Beth.
Arguing with Brian is like chasing your tail.
April 12th, 2010 at 9:37 am
Brian;
“beth why do you now want to fight with me like some others? When I see teabaggers on tv or in a magazine or a placard its all angry kind of low level white peoples stuff in my face that tells me they aren’t nice people to be around. I suppose if they dressed better than buffoons and made thoughful individual colorful signs with some artistic I.Q. ”
First of all the term “Teabaggers” implies that someone is sucking on someones balls.
I’ve never seen anyone sucking on anyones balls at these rallies so why dont you do yourself a favor and drop the term if you want to maintain that exemplary image you imagine that you carry.
Second of all, why shouldnt they be angry and why are you so hung up on the asthetics of their signs and dress ? WTF does that have to with anything.
Trust me, I’ve seen some moonbat rallies that make the Tea Partiers look like a bunch of GQ scholars in comparison.
Bunch of unbathed unhygenic very poorley dressed loons with some rather viscious signs.
These are just a bunch of angry Americans coming from every political demographic who are tired of the way governments been going. And it so happens that Obamas policies are the straw that has broken the backs of these camels that are carrying that load and going to continue by virtue of their kids.
April 12th, 2010 at 9:54 am
Beth,
Who do we blame for your brain damage? Your conclusions are as insane as you are.
April 12th, 2010 at 10:45 am
newfangled.
How bout some display of any sane conclusions that might be in your possesion instead of the lame predictable liberal tactic of attacking sanity or ones intellect.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:43 pm
Why is Glenn Beck damaging America? Because a “news” organization which is in reality the propaganda arm of the Republican Party is paying his paycheck to fan the flames of fear and hatred, with no check or debate whatsoever. Anything on Fox News is coming straight from the RNC. Fox News is the most wonderful thing a major political party ever had, a powerful vehicle with which to disseminate the most despicable and unethical drivel imaginable, with no accountability whatsoever. The difference between Glenn Beck and the demagogues of the past is, he has a blank check, a priori. A least they had to work for it a little, get out on the street on a soap box. When someone throws a tomato at Glenn Beck, it bounces off the TV screen. The problem is the crazy ones who don’t want to throw tomatoes, who take Glenn Beck seriously, believe his insanity about American being taken over and impending apocalypse and revolution, and then maybe decide to go out and pick up a gun.