Glenn Beck: I left Fox to save my soul!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

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 won't leave with your soul intact.'"

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/27/glenn-beck-i-left-fox-to-save-my-soul/

[dlwickham]

1. the obvious reply

he has a soul?

[dotymed]

19. same trailer, different park...eom

[connecticut yankee]

2. WTF

Glenn Beck has a soul?

[MsNoMo]

3. Damn!

You guys beat me to it!! Gotta have one to lose one!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

6. +1 nt

[shenmue]

4. Can we send him an exorcist?

Anybody got some holy water?

[SummerSnow]

5. holy water wont work in this case.....

RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!!

[ProudProgressiveNow]

7. He just may be the devil himself......... nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. *snort*...guffaw......chortle.....

Doesn't he have the best sense of humor?

[tanyev]

9. You waited too long, Glenn.

[BlueToTheBone]

10. He has one? I thought he sold it ages ago. n/t

[tularetom]

11. Bullshit, he left because they told him to get out

These assholes are masters at coming up with self serving rationalizations for why they got canned.

If this were indeed true, we would have heard about it long before now.

So I'm calling bullshit on the whole "losing his soul" tale.

[Plucketeer]

20. AND..... you have to HAVE one

before you're at risk of losing it.

[SkyDaddy7]

21. I totally agree!!

Not to mention no one has a "soul"...That is just religious woo-woo.

[Botany]

12. he was shit canned

end of story

[ProudProgressiveNow]

13. +1 nt

[ZombieHorde]

14. That video is pretty funny. nt

[ProudProgressiveNow]

15. Thank you!

They are a lot of work.... but it's fun...

[truebluegreen]

16. Beck had a soul? nt

[Don Draper]

17. More revisionist history

Glenn, you didn't leave Fox by your own volition. Your ass got fired.

[marble falls]

18. He left way too late.