Full-Time Staff Writer (Midtown)
Reply to: job-hqkb5-1169741827@craigslist.org
Date: 2009-05-13, 9:01PM EDT
Mercury Radio Arts is the New York based production company owned by Radio and TV host Glenn Beck.
Mercury seeks a writer for contributions to Glenn’s radio program, magazine, and web site. The ideal candidate will have a strong interest in news, current events, and politics.
Key responsibilities will include contributing original content to GlennBeck.com and to Glenn’s radio program and magazine. Writing will include a mix of short pieces and long articles, fact-based commentary on the news of the day, etc.
Requirements:
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Research skills
• At least 2 years of journalism experience
“I thought that one day, I would just wake up and realize it was just a stupid fling . . just innocent experimentation... I thought that if I admitted the love I had been hiding, society would reject me . . . .”
“It all started one day when I was twelve . . . That's when I found my true love . . . I had looked this person's way a few times and got that nervous feeling in my stomach – but I had been taught that this love was forbidden.”
“Then came the fair . . . my hand brushed this person's . . . my palms began to sweat . . . my hands began to shake . . . the Ferris wheel came to a complete stop.”
“I looked deeply into this person's eyes, and reached out to softly touch this person's face. I leaned in and I kissed this person.”
“I kissed my sister. First our lips met, seconds later our tongues. I ran my fingers through her silky hair and felt her soft skin. It was the height of passion and the moment I knew who my true love was . . . We knew we had done something so wrong, but at the same time, something so very right.”
Beck has three books planned for this year, including "Arguing With Idiots," a nonfiction hardcover book; an audiobook called "America's March to Socialism"; and an e-book/paperback channeling of Thomas Paine, "Glenn Beck's Common Sense."
Once Glenn Beck, the Fox TV commentator, announced he was coming, we were overwhelmed. Beck put us in touch with experienced people whose services were either paid for by us or donated. Beck also did a fund-raising lunch for us, but the concerned public paid for it all.
We couldn't use the Fox stage and even covered the costs of the Jumbotrons Fox News used.
Beck is appointment television for Robert Lehman, a stay-at-home dad who lives in Wichita, Kan. He's a regular even though he's a Democrat who considers Beck a "nut."
"It's very difficult to describe why you watch him," Lehman said. "But it is captivating. It's an interesting show and it moves very quickly."
Except for Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity, Beck has more viewers than any other cable news show, and he's on at a time many people are at work.
GLENN BECK: [I]f you don't think that some of these Marxist revolutionary courses that are being taught out in California, the Marxist revolutionary influences in our own unions, in our own businesses, in our own uh, you know, protests out in the streets -- if you think those are spontaneously happening by Americans, you're an idiot.
BECK: You know, I talked to the governor earlier today, and I don't know how popular or not popular he is here, but I tell you, his words ring true to an awful lot of people not just in Texas, but I think a lot of people all around the country. There are movements -- they've taken the original documents between James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, and in several states, I believe it's 23 now, they are passing this in their legislature, which says you don't have any more rights in the Constitution than those that are outlined, and federal government, you need to back off.
VAN SUSTEREN: You know, from here, Glenn, listening to Governor Perry last night and watching your crowd and listening to the things that are coming out of Texas -- I don't want to be too dramatic, but it almost seems like Texas is going to secede from the rest of the nation.
BECK: I mean, I don't know (INAUDIBLE) can we get this (INAUDIBLE) back here? This is on the jib (ph) back over here. This says, Texas independence. Greta, what most people don't understand is I lived in Texas for about four years, and I have to tell you, when you first come down to Texas, you're, like, OK, the boots and the hats and the horns on the car on the car, and within -- within a year, you want the boots and the hats and the horns on your car. And the reason is -- correct me if I'm wrong -- these people love America. They just think Texas does America best!
The crowd here was excited to see the live broadcast of the Glenn Beck Show. Beck is the suddenly popular Fox News commentator who, depending on who you ask, is either the symptom or the salvation of a sick society. "He don't sugar coat the truth," Jim White, a native south Texan said. "Oh my god, oh my god, there he is! I love Glenn Beck!" a woman in a U.S. Marine Corps t-shirt yelled as she ran towards the cable news celebrity.
Fox's Glenn Beck announces comedy tour
By DAVID BAUDER
Sun Apr 12, 10:56 am ET
NEW YORK – Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel's latest sensation, is taking a comedy show on the road for six live performances over six days during the first week of June.
Beck calls his act a "poor man's Seinfeld" and intends to mix topical humor with his modern-day reimagining of Thomas Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense."
"I had one of the darker moments of my life. And I've, you know, had some pretty dark times. [Bawww?] .. This stuff took me into places that, uh, started on Thursday ... and by Sunday night I was, uh, full-fledged suicidal. [Bawww?] And if they had come in Saturday night with a handgun and told me I could have taken more medicine or blown my brains out, I would have just taken the handgun. And ended it."
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