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babylonsister

(170,962 posts)
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 05:10 PM Apr 2013

"Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass..."


Fox News Rebukes Glenn Beck, Reminds Him About Advertiser Losses
Fox Spox: "Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show..."
ANGELO CARUSONE


Glenn Beck is engaging in a bit of revisionst history concerning his Fox News exit. At an April 27 event at New York University, Beck portrayed his departure as self-initiated and suggested that Fox CEO Roger Ailes pleaded with him to stay, explaining:

"If you stay in it too long, you become Norma Desmond. I remember feeling, 'If you do not leave now, you won't leave with your soul intact.'"

[...]

"At the end, when we were leaving, it was a long process. Roger said to me, 'You're not going to leave.' And I said, 'I am.' And he said, 'Nobody does,' meaning leave television....And I said, 'I'm fortunate because I haven't been in it that long.' I knew what this big, huge Fox empire brought to the table, and I had to leave before I became too enamored of that."


A Fox News spokesperson issued a sharp rebuke contradicting Beck's claim, instead citing Glenn Beck's advertiser losses as the major cause of Beck's exit, saying:

"Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show and even Glenn knows what that means in our industry. Yet, we still tried to give him a soft landing. Guess no good deed goes unpunished."


Indeed. Following a series of grassroots efforts beginning in July 2009, around the time Beck accused President Obama of being a "racist," advertisers began fleeing his Fox News show. A Media Matters study revealed that the number of paid advertisements during Glenn Beck's show plummeted and never recovered as a result of those grassroots efforts:

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http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/29/fox-news-rebukes-glenn-beck-reminds-him-about-a/193819
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"Glenn Beck wasn't trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass..." (Original Post) babylonsister Apr 2013 OP
The Seat of the Soul tanyev Apr 2013 #1
I guess you could call it that! babylonsister Apr 2013 #2
Yes, very close. He's nothing but a little shitstain. freshwest Apr 2013 #7
No shit. With no sponsors left, his days were numbered Warpy Apr 2013 #3
Not really an SOS -- more like a POS Blue Owl Apr 2013 #4
Beck is mentally ill Doctor_J Apr 2013 #5
Oh, SNAP! Thanks Babylonsister! freshwest Apr 2013 #6
Glenn has a soul? Fumesucker Apr 2013 #8
Hee hee. secondvariety Apr 2013 #9

Warpy

(110,903 posts)
3. No shit. With no sponsors left, his days were numbered
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 05:27 PM
Apr 2013

and if he'd gotten fired, he'd have been pure poison to any other broadcaster.

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
6. Oh, SNAP! Thanks Babylonsister!
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 06:15 PM
Apr 2013

I needed the laugh - this crook has destroyed the minds of people I once knew as humans.

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