And why was Beck insisting his viewers buy gold from companies paying him to hawk it, of course and stockpile it? Are they supposed to line their coffins like Egyptian kings? Is the heavenly economy based on the gold standard? Every day, seemingly, Beck had another reason for doomsday: an all-out war in the streets between the feds and militias, an economic crisis of epic proportions, a nuclear disaster. You wonder how he slept — even after checking under his bed for monsters. What was next, the Founding Fathers rising from their graves like angry zombies in three-cornered hats, smiting unpatriotic liberals of big government?
More columns Cartoons Click for full cartoon. More cartoons. Matt C. Abbott Chris Adamo Russ J. Banet J. Matt Barber. It's not exactly a secret that Beck was unhappy with many aspects of Fox's tightly controlled and not always friendly media machine and was eager to be free of it.
It is they, not Fox who, in my experience, have rarely to never reached out on behalf of Beck, particularly after he began announcing things like his Year Plan and really started gaining steam who deal with Beck's many public relations.
Fox likes to wield absolute control over their stars. Glenn Beck, whose office is outside the Fox building, and whose many media holdings put him on track to become some sort of media mogul in his own right, has increasingly been outside of their control.
It's perhaps not a coincidence that Fox News' website has been noticeably stepping up its game ever since Beck's site The Blaze launched last year. People are very focused on Beck's loss of advertisers and the crazier statements he's made the one that pops up with most frequency is the time he called Obama a racist, even though that happened way back in July of as the impetus for this parting. And surely they were contributing factors. But tune into Fox and Friends in the morning and you will quickly hear plenty of people say incredibly offensive things on Fox every single day -- the difference is that should Fox want to rein them in they are generally able to do so.
Less so with Beck. For Beck it's almost a lateral move -- this is no Keith Olbermann we are talking about, Beck has an entire media empire waiting for him and will likely become his own case study in what a new media world might look like once stars become less dependent on traditional cable platforms. What remains uncertain is when that move will take place. That does not mean we need to isolate anyone who believes or feels differently.
It simply means that we need to stand for something bigger in principle than ourselves. Indeed it is a considerably stronger person who can carry their faith in themselves, and others, without the inherent selfishness, and self-interest that comes from a God-less perspective of society. I think Beck is right. As a nation we need to reset our principles and reconsider our relationship with our faith, whatever that faith is.
What harm can possibly come from such a proposition. He will continue to be successful in all his endeavors, and I am certain that with trying times ahead he will provide a great point of reference to continue the battle against a diminished American value system.
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