Glenn Beck: So Long And Thanks For The Lulz

Yesterday on April 6th, it announced that Fox News' favourite hysterical media raver: Glenn Beck announced he was leaving the network. At least for me and several others, this is a shame. You see I was actually planning to do several posts on his moronic outbursts watched by millions of Americans. And there would always be one comment that riles people off. The man, for want of a better term, was an ideological crackpot. And his role in Fox News seemed to be no different than to provide a 21st century right-wing spin on the insane news reporter on Network. So, as much my sole post on Glenn Beck before didn't even have me actually addressing his stupidity, but someone else. It upsets me even more because I was so caught up with other work I pretty much missed his retarded claim on atheists a few weeks back. Oh, how I wished I started this blog when he went after Malia Obama, apparently referring to her as "ghetto trash": An act of hypocrisy at the very least since during Bush's presidency, he said that his daughters are off-limits. It is this story that should've kicked off my blog. Not some musician whose awareness of the world isn't expected to be significantly high so long as he sell records. In any case, all that's really happened is that he's leaving his own show. He still has the syndicated radio talkshow where he can deliver similar rants. So he's not actually gone.

Also, this entire affair beautifully demonstrates that even the Fox News Channel has limits. You see, the Fox News Corporation doesn't care that much about media accuracy, or even that matter about political views. Well, it does, but certainly not nearly enough. What it cares about is money. Shoot, it's speculated that Beck's own rhetoric isn't actually representative of his actual views, but in actuality part of the carefully constructed persona he built to draw ratings. Of course, I personally take that with a grain of salt, since he was pretty serious about his Mormonism, and spent the time on his show to present the "theory" that America was one of the places where the 12 tribes of Israel in the Bible went to, becoming the Native Americans and even suggesting that the pyramids were part of the Hebrew culture they took with them. Nevertheless, Beck's show at its height, achieved the highest ratings of any 5PM show around in 2009. Now, it has a third of its viewers from last year, which numbered 3.1 million in 2010. With Beck's increasingly ridiculous rants, the advertisers are leaving by the wayside. Apparently they don't want to me associated with a blowhard prone to crying fits over changes in America he doesn't like, and invoking Godwin's Law repeatedly to people he doesn't agree with, not to mention his tirades are beginning to sound like the right-wing militia groups that emerged in the 90s, and the survivalist sorts. Fox News needs advertising revenue, especially on prime-time and Beck isn't providing that, instead shilling to the gold companies. So they let him go. From prime-time, anyway.

Aw, Glenn,  please don't cry. America will survive without your mid-afternoon rants.

So what's new for Beck? well, I told you, he's still got the radio show. As for who'll replace him: Well, I would say I don't care, but considering the warnings Glenn Beck gave that he was only the calm before the storm, I'm actually a little concerned about who's next. So here's a clip I took hosten by some Fox News spongehead:




Also, I think it's again relevant to post this on the blog one more time as in the first Glenn Beck post: