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Adenoid_Hynkel

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Mon Apr 29, 2013, 05:26 PM Apr 2013

FOX finally admits Van Jones/Color of Change boycott of Glenn Beck worked



GLENN BECK, on “Why He Got Out of Cable TV,” by Forbes’ Jeff Bercovici: “Glenn Beck thinks the television industry as we know it is dying, but that’s not why he left it to start his own digital network, The Blaze. He’s making a lot more money now than he did at Fox News, but that wasn’t it either. He left to save his soul. ‘If you stay in it too long, you become Norma Desmond,’ Beck said Friday during an appearance at the NYU Stern School of Business, where he accepted a Disruptive Innovation Award from the Tribeca Film Festival. ‘I remember feeling, “If you do not leave now, you won’t leave with your soul intact.”’”

--A FOX NEWS SPOKEPERSON: “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.”


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Keep this in mind when the baggers try to tell you rightwing radio also doing just fine.
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FOX finally admits Van Jones/Color of Change boycott of Glenn Beck worked (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Apr 2013 OP
I wouldn't call that an 'admission' that Van Jones brought down Glenn Beck, but I like your tagline TrollBuster9090 Apr 2013 #1

TrollBuster9090

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1. I wouldn't call that an 'admission' that Van Jones brought down Glenn Beck, but I like your tagline
Mon Apr 29, 2013, 06:22 PM
Apr 2013

better. After all, it's the truth!

In fact, I wouldn't even characterize it as 'Van Jones brings down Glenn Beck.'

The headline I'd use would be:
"Van Jones accidentally steps on a dung beetle in 2009. Finally scrapes it off the bottom of his shoe in 2011."

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