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By David Ferguson
Saturday, April 27, 2013 12:11 EDT
Never one to shy away from portraying his struggles in the most melodramatic terms, conservative commentator Glenn Beck said on Friday that he left the Fox News Channel because he was afraid of turning into Norma Desmond, the faded screen siren from the 1950 noir film Sunset Boulevard, and that he would not be able to keep his soul intact.
According to Forbes.com, Beck told an audience at the NYU Stern School of Business Friday that TV networks as we know them are dying, which was why he had to leave his daily 5:00 p.m. slot on former Nixon aide Roger Ailes highly rated network.
If you stay in it too long, you become Norma Desmond, Beck said. I remember feeling, If you do not leave now, you wont leave with your soul intact.
While critics may say that Becks sagging ratings were to blame for Ailes decision to eject him from the network, on Friday, Beck said that his former boss urged him to stay on.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/27/glenn-beck-i-left-fox-to-save-my-soul/
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(70,496 posts)He found his magic to raking in the moola.
By the bye, a few years ago the Mormon edifice nearest my abode erected a New England type church SPIRE onto their previously flat-roofed temple, and in today's local newspaper there's an article that they just did the same to another one a few miles away. This is likely a nation/world-wide project to make their image more relatable, like their t.v. commercials with Blacks, (Gays?), and other formerly-not-identified-Mormon groups, "I am a Mormon."
Whoever has the contract for the SPIRE erections will be raking it in like Defense contractors.