Other than Beck succumbing to pressure from the Left, I just can't see why him and FOX would really be parting ways. I mean he's been saying for months that the advertiser boycott wasn't affecting him or his program. He just got through beating back King Soros and all his cronies in the lamestream media again and despite what some folks have been saying out there his ratings remain sublime, so what other reason could he really have for quitting and letting them win? This just sucks:
Completing a swift rise and fall from TV stardom, controversial host Glenn Beck will lose his once-popular Fox News show later this year, the network announced Wednesday.
Beck's 5 p.m. program, which earned scorn from liberals for its attacks on President Obama as well as its devotion to sometimes-obscure right-wing thinkers, was a top cable draw in 2009 and a signpost for the populist "tea party" movement in last year's midterm elections, which dealt a ballot-box rebuke to the White House.
But ratings plummeted and advertisers bailed as Beck — a cherubic, salt-and-pepper-haired longtime radio host who has compared himself to a rodeo clown — increasingly pursued a hard-to-follow agenda that many found too conspiracy-minded. He also chafed his bosses at Fox News, who faulted him for spending too much time on his far-flung business operations and not enough on honing his TV presentation.
Both sides cobbled together a diplomatically worded statement Wednesday that noted Beck would "transition off" his daily program but stressed that the host and Fox News had reached a new deal for future, as-yet-unspecified projects. Joel Cheatwood, a senior Fox News executive, was hired away to help run Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts.
Fox News and Beck both declined to comment beyond the statement.
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Yeah, even though I can't stand the guy, I was shocked by this. Although, I think it may prove that you can't attack anyone and everyone and be fringy.
ReplyDeleteWhen I would voice my displeasure with him I had someone say that he was going to surpass Hannity and I said that wasn't going to happen. It looks like I was right.
Mr. Beck is not going ANYWHERE.
ReplyDeleteAll who hated Beck before will BEG for his simplistic one hour 5 pm spot.
It's time to eradicate the nation of progressives and communists, simple, like that.
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