GLENN BECK - OUTFOXED HIMSELF


FINALLY...NEW YORK

Later this year Glenn Beck and the Fox News Channel will part company. Beck of course says he is leaving for other ventures, Fox has been quiet and the media quick to seek truth (something he knows little about) and came with different scenarios and reasoning for Herr Beck to leave.  

Some believe it's his mouth, probably the main cause for him leaving. His statements were getting him in trouble, and critics appealed to advertisers to boycott his show last summer after he said President Barack Obama had "a deep-seated hatred for white people."

Fox and Beck's company, Mercury Radio Arts, said Wednesday they will stay in business creating other projects for Fox television and digital, starting with some documentaries Beck is preparing. His boss,  Roger Ailes, Fox News chairman and CEO, in January to discuss ways they could continue to work together without the daily show. "Half of the headlines say he's been canceled," Ailes said. "The other half say he quit. We're pretty happy with both of them."

REAL REASONS
More than 400 Fox advertisers told the company they did not want their commercials on Beck's show.
Beck's advertisers were dominated by financial services firms, many touting gold as an investment. Ailes dismissed the financial impact of the boycott but expressed some frustration with it.   "Advertisers who get weak-kneed because some idiot on a blog site writes to them and says we need to stifle speech, I get a little frustrated by that,".

POINTED LIGHTS and CHALKBOARDS
Beck was a like a fireworks display, after the last ones go off, nothing is left but a stink in the air.  January 2009, he doubled the ratings on his show.  After folks got to know him they dropped off the cliff like the 1932 Lemming Convention in Oslo.  Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert described Beck's "crank up the crazy and rip off the knob" moments. 

Increasingly, the show began to be dominated by Beck standing in front of a chalk board giving his theories about the world's troubles.  He was popular with Tea Pot party activists and drew thousands of people to the National Mall in Washington last August for a "restoring honor" rally described as lots of self adoration and flatulence.

HIS CRITICS
"To his admirers, Glenn Beck has been a voice crying in the wilderness, a prophet who warns us that we have been wandering in darkness too long. To detractors, he is a clown and a buffoon, at best, a dangerous demagogue, at worst." Lee Harris of the Weekly Standard.

David Brock, founder of the liberal watchdog Media Matters for America said that "the only surprise is that it took Fox News months to reach this decision to part company."   

James Rucker, executive director of Color of Change.org which organized the advertiser boycott said, "Fox News Channel clearly understands that Beck's increasingly erratic behavior is a liability to their ratings and their bottom line, and we are glad to see them take this action,"  It's rumored 400 companies agreed. 

Beck is on a campaign to convince the American public that President Obama's agenda is about serving the needs of Black communities at White people's expense. It's repulsive, divisive and shouldn't be on the air. 

The Jewish Funds for Justice organized a petition drive last fall to get Beck fired for what it called his misuse of Nazis and the Holocaust phrases against political opponents.  In January 2011, in protest at what they saw as inappropriate references to the Holocaust and to Nazis by Beck (and by Roger Ailes of Fox News), four hundred rabbis signed an open letter in paid advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. 

The ad was paid for by Jewish Funds for Justice which had previously called for Beck's firing. The JFFJ have claimed on their website that Beck seems "to draw his material straight from the anti-Semitic forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion". The letter states that Beck and Fox had "diminished the memory and meaning of the Holocaust when you use it to discredit any individual or organization you disagree with. 

That is what Fox News has done in recent weeks." In response, a Fox News executive said to Reuters that the letter was from a "George Soros-backed leftwing political organization".

Viewers - Viewers had begun turning away. Beck's 5 p.m. ET show averaged 2.7 million viewers during the first three months of 2010, and was at just under 2 million for the same period this year, the Nielsen Co. said. His decline was sharper among younger viewers sought by advertisers.

BOTTOM LINE
FOX NEWS asked him to leave and he has started his own radio and TV enterprise.  When you are too crazy for FOX , you really have to be interned in an asylum somewhere.

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