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Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity surpassed by Glenn Beck on top conservative list

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PATRICK ROBERTS,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer
Published Friday, January 15, 2010, 12:26 PM
Updated Friday, January 15, 2010, 1:15 PM

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Bill O'Reilly has been passed over as one of America's top conservatives by Glenn Beck.

According to the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph, which released its annual list of Top 100 conservatives and liberals, Beck easily made the Top 20 on the conservative side, but O'Reilly and his Fox soulmate Sean Hannity are nowhere to be found.

This is bound to be an irritant to Bill, who was the movement's favorite Fox crusader for many years. Now, however, the upstart Beck has begun to replace him in the top echelons of the movement.

Beck of course has wholeheartedly embraced the tea party movement while Bill has been a little less enthused.

That may well be the main reason behind the jump for Beck and Bill's disappearance.

Other Irish Americans figure prominently.

Paul Ryan, the young Congressman from Wisconsin who many see as a future leader of the Republican Party, is high on the Top 20 list as is Mike Pence, the Indiana Congressman who once worked cutting turf in the West of Ireland and as a bartender there.

On the liberal list, Bill and Hillary Clinton as expected are prominent and a surprise name is Denis McDonough, who handled Ireland for Obama during the campaign and who is now Chief of Staff at the National Security Council.

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McNamara31 | Jan 26, 2010, 08:02 PM EST
BigDaddy" The link you mentioned, about Glenn Beck using Vicks to make fake tears is posted below

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McNamara31 | Jan 26, 2010, 07:58 PM EST
Glenn Beck http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kj4I2f0ZO6g

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jennyVT | Jan 26, 2010, 02:00 AM EST
pat52rk I didn't like Bush either. Still think he is more real of a person than Obama. Obama is all about himself. I liked Obama and thought he HAD the opportunity to become one of the best Presidents in the history of America. His choices sometimes make me wonder if he is in tune with reality or maybe from another planet. Seriously, something is just not normal with him.

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Haole3000 | Jan 22, 2010, 08:46 AM EST
Irish people like to talk so Irish Americans become talk show host. It's good to see Irish Americans leaving the democrat party. My family have been dems since the first serfs got off the boat from a country that was a european nightmare, Ireland. The dem party replace the british landlord's with American businessmen in minds of the simple euroserfs of the 1800's. My family was a little different, they moved to a slave state, Missouri where they competed with blacks for the same jobs. The Dem party sold segregation to the irish as a way to keep blacks from taking their jobs. The bricklayers and other union kept blacks out and the jobs safe for the irish. The dems have kept the Irish down as they have the blacks. Drive through a black neighborhood, terrible places run by dems for generations now, bad schools, crime, violence. My irish family now 4th generation americans but still in jobs controlled by the dem party through the public service unions. They have become American serfs as much as their ancestors were euro serfs.

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BigDaddy | Jan 20, 2010, 10:43 AM EST
If you watch Fox News, you should have your voters registration card revoked. Also, if you believe pro wrestling is real, you should forfeit your right to vote. ps Glenn Beck rubs Vicks Vapo-Rub under his eyes in order to cry. Saw the video. He is such a dickhead

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pat52rk | Jan 19, 2010, 12:59 PM EST
jenntvt, there is corruption in every white house so why didn't fox expose it when bush was president ?

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jenntVT | Jan 19, 2010, 12:03 AM EST
The influence of Fox News especially Glenn Beck has exposed more corruption in the Obama White House than any other news org. This is fact not theory.

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maureenmayer | Jan 18, 2010, 12:43 PM EST
idiots

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seagreen | Jan 18, 2010, 11:51 AM EST
Your defination of Glenn Beck as a conservative is interesting? Beck is the closest thing to an American NAZI to appear on a TV screen. As a person who does not have a dog in the race, I 'm amazed at the number of Irish -American media types (Hannity, O'Reilly,Sullivan,Carr etc) that bash their own continually in order to gain favor with the very people that oppressed their forebears. Behind closed doors , its must be amusing for Roger Ayles and his crew at Fox news to observe and listen to these lackeys as they spew out the very doctrine that is designed to put Irish that think they have arrived back in their place

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ciarrai | Jan 18, 2010, 11:24 AM EST
Respectfully, If you could hear what these guys talk about in private, you'd change you high opinion of them. They have you anti-Obama dopes hornswaggled. It is a big joke on all their viewers. For example, they don't really believe Sarah Palin is worthy of the Presidency. They just are trying to keep you watching because is so perty and dumb and you all eat that stuff up.

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ciarrai | Jan 18, 2010, 11:19 AM EST
These guys are frauds. I remember Glenn Beck when he was a dj in New Haven, Ct. He sucked then and he still sucks.

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odubhlaoich | Jan 18, 2010, 10:00 AM EST
So, a skunk overtakes a cockroach. We need to know this?

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Buffalobrave | Jan 17, 2010, 07:59 AM EST
Respectfully: "Someone must be watching Fox News." Well yes, but that says more about the mental state of thous Americans than do watch it rather than the popularity of Fox News. Besides, anyone that watches Fox News and admits it, needs to have their heads examined.

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Respectfully | Jan 16, 2010, 10:22 AM EST
As a viewer of FOX News, I saw this coming several months ago. Bill O'Reilly takes on the Judges who let child molesters walk, Sean Hannity takes on the politician’s secrete backdoor deals and Glenn Beck takes on any and everyone, conservatives and liberals. Every second of Glenn Beck’s program is loaded with info very few viewers are aware. His visual aids (the red phone, blackboards, the spider web effect to connect the dots) plus his humor help the viewer to understand the complexity of what’s taking place in Washington. No way is this going to be an ‘irritant’ to Bill. Bill has Glenn on his program every week and the two are touring together in the next month. All three hosts have had everything thrown at them from other networks; however, FOX News still holds the highest rated cable news’ program. Its reruns bring in more viewers than other cable news in primetime. Someone must be watching FOX News!

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vincentruane | Jan 15, 2010, 11:42 PM EST
This is amusing-Irishcentral.com promoting the british media as honest brokers of media truth!

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