How much money did you make last year? Here’s how it went for popular entertainer Glenn Beck: “He has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth. He gets $13 million a year from print (books plus the ten-issue-a-year magazine Fusion). Radio brings in $10 million. Digital (including a newsletter, the ad-supported Glennbeck.com and merchandise) pulls in $4 million. Speaking and events are good for $3 million and television for $2 million.” That’s $32 million a year. [Forbes]
$32 MILLION A YEAR! 1:33 pm April 8, 2010
Glenn Beck Is a Frickin’ Genius
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I’m doing something wrong. I’m a douchebag, and I give it away for free.
Well he needs to.
Expenses:
1) Rageahol to keep up his anger bear mojo ($7.5 mil)
2) Tithes to pay for majikal undies ($3.2 mil)
3) Onions to keep his tears ($1.5 mil)
4) Padded Cell ($1.0 mil)
5) Tin Foil for hats ($.5 mil)
6) Heating house by burning books ($1.0 mil)
So how much did he pay in taxes this year?
Poor white trash has a great market to tap into if you can tap into all of it at once.
And most of that money was separated from unemployed/disabled teabaggers.
Unlike the IRS, Beck is successfully collecting a Stupid Tax from Bitters.
That works out to roughly $90,845 for every tear drop.
murka! land of the fee and home of the knave!
Only in America. Meanwhile, millions of us are willing to suck elephant dicks at a dime a herd just to have a job, but nooo, can’t find work anywhere at any wage. What’s wrong with this picture?
[re=551528]canadasteve[/re]: Which, really, should qualify him as a church — meaning his organization ought to be tax-free.
One would hope the many gallons of Vicks VapoRub he buys to slop under his eyes to fake tears must eat into his profits to a significant degree.
He needs all of that money folks. He has a rare condition called “being a living, pig-eyed nutsack who takes money from Grandmas to self-publish unreadable garbage and yelp on the radio”.
Together, we can find a cure.
He lives in the only country in the world that won’t skin him for his anti-government views, and he complains that the $12 million of the $32 million he makes is too much. He thinks the after-taxes $20 million a year isn’t enough!
But he’s not made any “I’m Sorry” Nike commercials now has he???
CASH FOR GOLD
[re=551534]ttommyunger[/re]: willing to suck elephant dicks at a dime a herd
Well there’s your problem. That’s a niche market right there. Have you thought about retail or maybe office temp?
How much do we have to pay him to make him go away? We could have a bake sale …
It’s much more profitable being a whore than fucking them.
Hear that Spitzer!!?!?!?!?
[re=551541]Speed Ball[/re]: CASH FOR FOOLS GOLD (Hiyooo)
[re=551525]Pete-O[/re]: Don’t know his full tax bill, but I can tell you that he gets a $1,464,830 tax break from the Bush tax cuts this year. And that’s not counting the cap gains tax cut he gets for manipulating the gold market.
Give that man a tax cut! It’s not fair he pays more than a lazy welfare mom!
And he speaks for the common man!
In sum: Books, $13 million; Radio show, $10 million; Website: $4 million; Burning in the 10th level of Hell forever: Priceless.
Regal taint
I am convinced that I live in country full of uneducated morons. This fact about Beck’s income just further proves that point. When your intellect is second to a fern and you make that kind of money something is wrong.
Of course this is country that complains about kids not being educated, and then home skools their kids to teach them all the dumb shit their parents believe. A place that worships professional athletes and celebrities with no discernable talent, while ignoring those with Nobel prizes and real talent.
Out of all the arguments out there for atheism, I think this is a pretty solid one.
There’s gold in them there shills!
That hair cut is priceless.
We drove through hiz olde hometown yesterday. The Mayor gave Gleen a key to the
shittycity a couple of months back. While passing each way through that turd’s roots we cheerfully farted. Juvenile, yes but it was somehow satisfying.How does he make $4 million from his website? T-shirt sales?
Ken, it’s time for the official Wonkette bathrobe.
Nice 3.2MM payday for the Mormon church, eh?
Beck profits from your hatred. Cease mentioning him. Don’t feed the troll. In a year he will be subbing for Art Bell.
[re=551565]iwillsavethispatient[/re]: NO FUCKING KIDDING.
We have, in fact, begun this Process. And there’s going to be a SURVEY today, which we hope you will click ‘n answer, so as to figure out your Tastes.
This gives new meaning to the expression, “crying all the way to the bank.”
Wait, does that total factor in the prize money he won when I awarded him the most Punchable Fucking Face on Television? I know the ceremony wasn’t televised, and witnessed only by my cat, and the prize money was “zero dollars” but.. Jesus just look at that fleshy soft pink bastard, with his spiky hair and his trembly chin.. No matter how rich he is, I’m pretty sure that in the summer his thighs still rub together and get all rashy and his underwear get twisted up in a sweaty little fabric ball between his supple legs. Guess I can take some comfort in that..
to figure out your Tastes.
Oh dear God.
[re=551535]SayItWithWookies[/re]:
Well, that hoarding thing he’s convincing the teabaggers to do IS straight from Mormon teachings.
Well, now you know why he’s opposed to redistribution of wealth, or progressive tax schemes. No millionaire left behind!
What is galling, though, is how he consistently portrays himself as defending the interests of the middle class or the small businessman. The Republican party’s most vocal base consists of hypocritical frauds.
Gregory Giusti, the man accused of drunk dialling Nancy Pelosi to express his teabagger love, was weeping like a baby at his arraignment. He has apparently learned from the master and is hoping for his own show, just after he finishes his life sentence at Guantanamo.
How much would it take for me to agree to act like Glenn Beck in public? I’m not sure there’s that much money in the… wait.. yes there…no, no there isn’t. Whew.
Ferget that olde-tymey, cottin’-n-tabaccy pickin’ based slavery. Glenn Beck is the New Confederacy, stoopid is the new cash crop, and- get ready teabaggers- you all be de new darkies!
[re=551574]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: Coming soon:
Wonkette brand Real Dolls
Wonkette brand malt liquor
Wonkette brand Uzi (are you happy now, Neilist?)
That’s enough to live pretty well in Mt. Vernon.
Roger Ailes pays for Glenn’s weekly crotch waxing, also. God, I envy this guy.
[re=551525]Pete-O[/re]: “So how much did he pay in taxes this year”
I’d like to know that. When he cries at speaking events, does he deduct the tears from his taxes?
Does it cost extra to get him to cry at events.
[re=551575]Terry[/re]: Having grown up in a Mormon family, we had that food storage thing going on. Grandma eventually had to throw it all out but she did prevent a boll weevil holocaust.
@SmutBoffin: Edible Trucknutz.
Does this mean we’ll be getting the anatomically correct inflatable Jim Newell dolls?
Meg Whitman spends that much to buy governorships every week or so, and you don’t see HER crying.
[re=551560]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]: Abso-fucking-lutely. Certainly for the “lack of justice in this world” meme, even if you still need invisible friends to tell you how to behave.
Beck proves that even though you can’t fix stupid, you can exploit it and get rich.
Lotsa cheddar for that kooky bedwetter.
[re=551568]Ken Layne[/re]: “so as to figure out your Tastes”
That may be the single most frightening you’ve ever said.
Here is the real funny part. Since most of his listeners are aging white trailer trash a good portion of that money probably came from the Gov’t in the form of welfare and social security checks.
@DustBowlBlues: Yes, I found “so as to” very disturbing as well.
Let’s not forget the kickbacks he gets from a certain towing company in Florida.
[re=551578]gurukalehuru[/re]: And even his 83 year old mommy blames Fux Noise.
[re=551568]Ken Layne[/re]:
My tastes are low priced but I might shell a few bucks for some magic underwear or a Get a Brain Moran bumper sticker.
I had a buddy who used to work the AOL World Wrestling Federation website back in the heydey. He’d interview WWF wrestlers for online chats. He said when offline, the wrestlers referred to their audience as “woodchucks”. They were in on the joke, relishing in their ability to vacuum money from fan’s dumb pockets. I suspect Glenn is the same way.
[re=551568]Ken Layne[/re]: I’ll take an Official Wonkette double wet-suit and dildo special, pleeze.
The article on Beck didn’t include his “special” monthly payments of $1,900 from his cronies at the RNC.
[re=551560]Anonymous Office Zombie[/re]:
“Out of all the arguments out there for atheism, I think this is a pretty solid one.”
Amen
32 million seems like a lot, nut it converts to only $20 million Ameros. Thus his urgent crusade against progress.
[re=551593]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Is it the capitalized ‘Tastes’? Because I think it’s that.
Is the Wonkette Store going to sell “iPhones”?
You mean Wonkette isn’t getting a share of all these TruckNutz I’ve bought?
But seriously, my only consolation for the fact that Glenn Beck makes $32 million a year is that not a dime of it came from me. Other than that, this is what’s wrong with America.
i wonder who surrounds his money? cause WE sure as hell don’t.
ahhh i hope teabaggers hear this and feel stupid…but no they think they too can probably be him if it wasn’t for OBAMA.
[re=551528]canadasteve[/re]: “And most of that money was separated from unemployed/disabled teabaggers.” And the oldz. Everyone I know who adores Glenn Beck is over 70, so his current audience can’t live THAT much longer. DEATH PANELS!
[re=551567]Troubledog[/re]: “Nice 3.2MM payday for the Mormon church, eh?” He probably figured a way around that, too. My guess: He agrees he owes them $3.2 mil, then he deducts from that amount an “in-kind donation” for every time he’s mentioned them in public. In the end, they probably pay HIM money.
With that much per year, he does not need gubmint medicare – he could buy his own hospital for jeebus’ sake !
That’s the way to roll y’all poors – keep feeding the turkey! But ya won’t get ta eat that one.
Honestly, he kinda looks like a lesbian cat lady too, when you think about it. Don’t he?
Just sayin’
The fact that this talentless hack can make even a single dollar proves that this is simultaneously the best and worst country on earth.
Pretty damn good for a guy who got fired from his FM radio “morning zoo” gig because he called up another DJ’s wife to ridicule her for having a miscarriage. That call was live on the air, probably with one of those obnoxious FM morning zoo laugh tracks going on in the back ground.
Any chance with that kind of money Beck is a “young eagle”? Would he even qualify?
@Gorillionaire: So Beck is sticking to his core principles, then.
Today, we are all sad lesbian cat ladies.
‘Tis pitty he’s a whore.
Wish I had kids just so I could send them trick-or-treating with a mask of that face.
Does anyone remember Howard Cosell, the obnoxious talking head?
A bar in San Francisco held a lottery and the winner got to throw a brick through a TV while Cosell was on the air. Raised a bunch of money and really pissed Cosell off.
Wonkette should consider such a lottery with Beck as victim. Trucknutz or a bag of dicks through a TV? Maybe a date with Liz as the prise?
He is the L.Ron Hubbard of his time. If he was smart he would figure out how to get a religious tax exemption. And if it wasn’t for the fact that Hubbard was a looney tune he would have been a pretty dangerous guy. His followers are practically a cult anyway all he needs is his own oeration snow white and away we go!
[re=551650]bamaboy[/re]: Someone should totally do that and give all of the proceeds to whatever is left of ACORN.
[re=551581]SmutBoffin[/re]: What about Wonkette™ Hobo Beans? Slogan: “When you really are just beyond caring at all”
[re=551630]Jukesgrrl[/re]: “Everyone I know who adores Glenn Beck is over 70″
Ah but you forget Victoria Jackson, who considers him ‘her teacher.’
32 mill/yr. No way. Get the fuck outta here.
[re=551567]Troubledog[/re]: The $32 mil is the revenue earned by Beck’s corporation, which prolly pays Beck a salary plus bennies. The tithe would be on the salary, which could be $1. The bennies might be visits to a topless lesbian bar, sex therapy, dry cleaning for Beck’s company uniform, drug counselling, a GED course (until Beck passes), etc.
[re=551673]Cape Clod[/re]:
But how do you thank someone who’s taken you from crayons to feces?
To Sir-ir-ir, with lo-o-o-ooove….
It’s all a conspirassy, man! To wit: Hopey gets elected, does scary shit like being black, reforming health care, and signing nuke treaties. Bitters get angry. Beck and friends play to bitters and make f*cking fortunes. Even at Bush tax rates, Beck and friends pay millions in taxes. Social Security is saved and the national debt is paid off by end of Milia Obama’s second term in 2056.
That Obama is a frack’n genius!
[re=551597]Naked Bunny with a Whip[/re]: [re=551604]Monsieur Grumpe[/re]: [re=551612]trondant[/re]: [re=551661]qwerty42[/re]: Call off the survey; it’s all here.
Think of the taxes the poor man has to pay! I would be crying too.
[re=551571]Aurelio[/re]: WIN
Oh Beck, you hypocritical bastard. I think your crocodile tears and incitement of radical violence against the black preznit have scarred me for life. I’m now scared of every oldz I know, all the social security collecting, wheelchair-using, Constitution-misquoting, ignorant teabaggers. Because of you, I am petrified one of these yahoos will show up and throw bricks through my window, call me a cunt, promise to kill me and then start firing his weapon – or, worse, hand his weapon off to his 8-year-old grandson to shoot me while he continues screaming.
Anyone else experience emotional damages? I smell a class-action lawsuit… could certainly help put Beckers there in a lower tax bracket…
Worthington’s Law
[re=551686]S.Luggo[/re]: And we know that most U.S. corporations manage to NOT PAY any U.S. income tax.
Wonder if Beck, Inc. is a registered in the Caymans, Bermuda, or the Bahamas? After deducting the “rent” on his island headquarters (those post office boxes are expensive!), Beck may actually end up in the red.
Let me be blunt: Shit floats. And right-trash americans pay to eat Glenn Beck’s shit.
just shows you- in america, being an idiot who cries pays off!
[re=551673]Cape Clod[/re]: Victoria Jackson looks at least 80.
The saddest part is that this piece of flaming dog poo can convince people that would never see their taxes raised, that their taxes will be raised, in order to protect his own ass. Either the man is an evil genius, or his audience is incredibly stupid.
Never mind.
And the best part? Beck’s FNC show draws okay ratings, but the big-budget advertisers are mostly avoiding him because they don’t want to be associated with the loon, so while Beck himself is raking in dough, Fox is only able to sell ads on his show to low-rent outfits. Nothin’ like a media empire build on Survival Seeds and penis enhancement tablets…
[re=551568]Ken Layne[/re]: You’re opening Pandora’s Box asking for our opinions on bath/bed-time attire! Be forewarned….
What about Beck’s rent payments from the C Street House on Capitol Hill?
He’s the landlord there, you know.
[re=551554]Dr. Zoidberg[/re]: beat me to that one about the common man. Bet none of this will be on fax news either. fuckers.
[re=551556]queeraselvis v 2.0[/re]: priceless and perfect
[re=551568]Ken Layne[/re]: I need a new bathrobe, also. But I missed the survey, because I actually have a fucking job, unlike some lamos. But I still need a bathrobe.
[re=551701]Redhead[/re]: Sign me up. Class action is my middle name. And if you put me on the stand right after I get out of bed, and before I’ve had coffee, I can look and sound every bit as damaged as that guy who got arrested for pestering the Speaker.
I’m all cool on capitalism, except for douchebags like this who are a freaking wormhole of market distortion. FEAR! HATE! LOATHING! GOLD! SEEDS! Although . . . the sheer performance art brilliance of the seeds is probably worth a few thousand, but fsm, not millions. Jebesus.
[re=551575]Terry[/re]: Wait, he’s been telling them to horde the young girls and womynz? And if there aren’t enough of them to buy some off the natives?
I pay him a royalty every time I cry, or say something stupid.
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