Fox News host Glenn Beck's national domination

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It's official: Americans admire Glenn Beck more than they admire the pope.

This unsurprising news came from the Gallup polling organization on Wednesday. Beck, the new Fox News host, was also more admired by Americans than Billy Graham and Bill Gates, not to mention Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

In Americans' esteem, Beck only narrowly trailed South Africa's Nelson Mandela, the man who defeated apartheid.

His critics during his ascent over the year have compared the pudgy Fox News host to Father Coughlin, George Wallace and Joe McCarthy. Time magazine put Beck on its cover and asked: "Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?"

A better question might be: "Is Glenn Beck America?" [snip]

-- Viewers: Nearly 3 million a night, besting even the likes of O'Reilly among the viewers most valuable to advertisers, even though there are far fewer people watching TV during Beck's 5 p.m. slot than during prime time.

-- Cultural impact: At the New York Times, where Beck's frequent books often top the bestseller list, Motoko Rich reports that novelists are calling Beck the "new Oprah," and some entertainment industry executives consider him a possible replacement for Oprah herself.

-- Scalps: He single-handedly brought down Obama adviser Van Jones over the official's far-left past.

-- Followers: He launched the 9.12 Project, which held a large protest in Washington, was a major promoter of the Tea Party movement and is planning conventions and rallies in 2010.

In a hearing on "policy czars" by the Senate Homeland Security committee this fall, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) declared that Beck had forced them to hold the hearing...

[And Rush? 20-30, million, listeners a day. But that's evidently less influential than someone's scribblings on wood pulp.]

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