New York – Glenn Beck is leaving his Fox News Channel show later this year.
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The network and Beck’s company, Mercury Radio Arts, announced the departure on Wednesday. Fox and the company said they will work together to create other projects for Fox News television and digital.
Beck became a sensation almost immediately after jumping from HLN to Fox for an afternoon program. Lately his viewership has declined. He had faced an advertiser boycott that limited the amount of companies that wanted to be a part of his show after saying President Barack Obama had a “deep-seated hatred for white people.”
Beck said that he “cannot repay (Fox News chief) Roger (Ailes) 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.”
Sad to see him go,
This has been rumored for some time. Beck has not been able to live up to the expectations of his contract in several years. While his fans are loyal, they are much fewer than he (or they) believe. His show has been losing money for more than two years as his audience dwindles and major advertisers have rejected his brand of entertainment.
There are several reports (off the record and/or speculation) that the NEWS anchors at FNC have been pushing for his ouster as his increasingly frequent lying undermines the news division. Apparently too many Americans are too dumb to know the difference between Beck’s entertainment show and actual NEWS programming.
I hope FNC gets back to what it does best. NEWS. This has been slipping for some time now with people like Beck, the morning show, and Hannity turning into propaganda machines that have become nothing more than fodder for fact-checking organizations and comedians who easily prove them to be liars.
Truly honest Conservatives like Tucker Carlson could add relevance, integrity and honesty to the entertainment-driven “opinion” programming at FNC and I hope they consider picking him up off the bench and putting him on full-time.
It will be hard to find someone with a staff that is so dedicated to investigate the background and disclose of folks close to and have the ear of our president.
To our detriment, I guess George Soros finally got his way. George will now be able to plod forward without fear of disclosure.
Beck is an ideological fascist whose “old fashioned” American populism is a thin disguise for hatred of anything that is “foreign” to him. His demagoguery crossed the line of reality and ethical behavior many times. He used the Shoah and Jewish-tinted themes to falsely indicate that he is pro-Jewish, but his daily rants were the basest
kind of schlock and completely un-Jewish in nature. I have no doubt that he would soon connect with his inner adolf-child and unveil the anta-semit soul that is his.
Whether you watched Glenn or not, he was not a news show, he shared his thoughts. But anyone who is foolish enough to think they can go to sites like Snopes or Factchecks or any other site similar to those may as well use a Wiji Board!