On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 09:22:42 -0400, Harryk
wrote:

...the Beck is dead:

Fox Drops Glenn Beck

After months of speculation, Fox News and Glenn Beck announced Wednesday
that they will part ways. The departure completes a meteoric rise and
fall for the controversial conservative TV star, who played the pied
piper to scores of Tea Party activists in the lead-up to last year's
midterm elections. The ratings for Beck's 5 p.m. show have dropped of
late, however, and advertisers bolted after the host called President
Obama a racist and turned increasingly to "black helicopter" conspiracy
theories, according to the Los Angeles Times. On Wednesday, Beck
discussed his departure by paraphrasing a witch from Macbeth. "If I
could prove my case that something wicked this way was coming, something
in America was wrong, America would listen, and they have," he said,
explaining his choice to join Fox two years ago. Beck then went on to
observe that Paul Revere "got off the horse at some point and fought in
the revolution and then he went back to silversmithing." He indulged in
a few more apocalyptic predictions about America, before noting that he
would collaborate on future unspecified projects with Fox.

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...,5973014.story


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Well, it took them long enough, although I guess some of Beck's fans in
rec.boats will be heartbroken.

Jon Steward did a great piece on it. He will be missed!