Glenn Beck

So CNN's Headline News must be looking for better ratings?

Last night I heard Glenn Beck give the best step by step analysis and proof of bias and outright campaigning on the part of the media for Democrats. And I had to hear it on CNN Headline News?

If you love Sean (Shawn?) Hannity but you hate listening to pundits rudely interrupt each other, flip the dial over a few clicks and check out Glenn Beck. This is from last night:

Now I'm going to rattle off some numbers that you will and won`t be hearing a lot about as the election season enters its final few weeks.
Because we are getting close to an election, half of the real news is being intentionally withheld from you...

The first number is 655,000; you probably read about it today or heard about it on the radio. It is the number of Iraqi civilians that have been killed since the war began. No, I don`t consider it a credible report. Neither does General Casey, and neither do Iraq officials.
It was a number taken from a study, published Thursday on the web site of "The Lancet". Forget that it was based on a survey of households in Iraq, not a body count. Basically, they went door-to-door and said, "Bring out your dead."
Let`s just assume that number is true. This leads us right into the second number I gave you a couple of minutes ago, 69. Sixty-nine is the percentage of the 655,000 Iraqi civilians who did not die at the hands of American soldiers. That leaves 451,950 Iraqis who were killed by someone else other than Americans. Gee, who else is killing people over there? This number leads me to believe that the Iraqis would be saying, "Good God, Americans, please don`t leave us now. We`re surrounded by people trying to kill us."

The third number, 11,687, that is the number the Dow Jones closed at yesterday. That number is the highest ever, and the fourth time the Dow broke the all-time high in the last two weeks. Don`t you always hear people saying, "People vote with their pocketbooks" or my favorite, "It`s the economy, stupid." Well, how come nobody`s saying that this time around, with the election only weeks away? What a surprise.
The fourth number, 248 billion, that`s the one you will be hearing a lot about. That is our budget deficit, $248 billion. What you won`t be hearing is the number 22.3. Our budget deficit has actually shrunk by 22.3 percent since last year. Well, how is that possible?

Well, more numbers you`re not going to hear about. Revenues are at an all-time high, which means that, by cutting taxes, we`ve actually grown the economy and are getting more tax revenue. Gee, I was told by the liberals in the media that that sort of thing just doesn`t happen. Well, it just has, America. The reason you`re not hearing it is because the liberal left would then have to accept this as fact, and then they`d have to shift their argument. They`d have to tell you what they really have been trying to do the whole time. They would no longer be able to say, "We can`t afford these tax cuts" because we can, clearly. They`d have to make the case for their real plan, redistributing wealth. That`s what they really want to do. Go ahead, make the argument for that. But they can`t, because they`d have to say things like, well, it`s for social programs. But socialism isn`t a real destination. Socialism is a middle step between capitalism and communism. Look it up in the dictionary. I did. It will blow your mind. Good luck selling that to the American people.

This all leads me to a question: is the media truly not biased, or does it have an agenda? I`ve got to say, it seems like the agenda thing is working right now. Four weeks before an election, why else would you have to go to a yahoo like me to get the real story behind these numbers?

So here`s what I know tonight: numbers are an amazing game. To say that we have caused 655,000 deaths in Iraq, wow, that`s like saying Americans killed 10 million people in World War II, even though six million of those died in concentration camps at the hands of Adolph Hitler. I also know the economy is in fine shape. Why is it that when the economy is weak, it`s all you hear about? But when it`s strong, like it is now, oh, it`s invisible, especially when a Republican`s in charge? You remember when the Dow was breaking all the records when Bill Clinton was in charge? That`s all they could talk about. Now they say that good news doesn`t sell. I say, bull crap. Good news just doesn`t sell some people`s agenda.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0610/11/gb.01.html

Wow. How come FOX News, which liberals would tell you is an arm of the Republican Party - How come FOX News doesn't give a guy like this a microphone and 15 minutes to state his case? Oh, maybe FOX really is fair and balanced and the libs just can't stand hearing the other side aired.

Anyway, check this guy out. I believe it's 9 PM Eastern - Headline News.