Glenn Beck is Out

The king of rants is on his way out...


From: ThinkProgress

After weeks of rumors about poor ratings and increasing concern at Fox News headquarters over Beck’s apocalyptic ranting, it’s finally official — Glenn Beck is ending his daily show on Fox. An announcement posted on his website today, but then taken down without explanation, said:

Fox News and Mercury Radio Arts, Glenn Beck’s production company, are proud to announce that they will work together to develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News Channel as well as content for other platforms including Fox News’ digital properties. Glenn intends to transition off of his daily program, the third highest rated in all of cable news, later this year. [...]
Glenn Beck said: “I truly believe that America owes a lot to Roger Ailes and Fox News. I cannot repay Roger for the lessons I’ve learned and will continue to learn from him and I look forward to starting this new phase of our partnership.”



 Here's an example of Beck's latest rants:

– Union leaders are communists, socialists, or revolutionaries who want destruction of “western way of life” [04/05/11]
– Maybe Obama decided to try suspects at Guantanamo to inflame the Islamic world [04/05/11]
– Obama is “merely a player” in a globalist, Islamist show [04/05/11]
– Showing images of Obama, SEIU, and others, Beck says he “would put a lot of these people in jail.” [04/05/11]
– Beck somehow linked 9/11 to Wisconsin election, budget cuts [04/05/11]
– Smeared students protesting in Wisconsin as Lenin’s “useful idiots” [04/05/11]