With the media abuzz about Glenn Beck's upcoming departure from FOX News, and the circumstances that led to the parting of the ways, one factor has been overlooked: Glenn Beck can't hold a job.
Since he graduated from high school in 1982 until he began his nationally syndicated radio show in 2000, he's only had one job that lasted longer than three years.
That job, at WKCI in Hamden, Connecticut, was Beck's personal "rock-bottom," after a long string of major market, high salary gigs. He stayed at WKCI for eight years, burning through different on-air partners, and contemplating how far he had fallen in the world of “Morning Zoo” FM radio.
His current syndicated radio show is in its eleventh year, but in this case Beck's the boss. If he's in charge, he only has himself to disappoint. If he has superiors like FOX’s Roger Ailes to answer to, his patterns of buffoonery and over-the-top gaffes become too costly and embarrassing for them to tolerate.
In Beck's most recent book, "The 7: Seven Wonders That Will Change Your Life" Beck reflects on the personal struggles that have allegedly dogged him throughout his adult life.
“I was on the run from the truth. I was in denial of my truth. I had moved every couple of years for almost my entire adult life. For decades I blamed that on one job ending and another beginning, but I know now that I was the one that ended those jobs.
It was a pattern of mine. It was no accident. It was no coincidence. Unconsciously, I was making it happen so that I didn’t have to really see myself for the profoundly pained and flawed person I was.
The pattern allowed me to forget the past, over and over again, without learning from it, dealing with it, or changing because of it. It allowed me to bury all the broken promises I made, all the times I let friends and family down, all the times I spoke loudly and forcefully and hurtfully to others and had no real knowledge to back up what I was saying.”
“… all the times I spoke loudly and forcefully and hurtfully to others and had no real knowledge to back up what I was saying.”
While presumably describing his personal relationships with friends and family, he also tacitly admitted what he was doing every day on “The Glenn Beck Show.”
On countless occasions Beck has stated that “history repeats itself.” In this case he was correct.
Glenn Beck’s Job History:
KUJ, Walla Walla, 1982
KAYK, Provo, 1983
WPGC, Washington DC, 1983
KZFM, Corpus Christi, 1983-85
WRKA, Louisville, 1985-87
KOY, Phoenix, 1987-88
KRBE, Houston, 1988-89
WBSB, Baltimore, 1989-91
WKCI, Hamden, 1991-99
National Syndication, The Glenn Beck Program, 2000-current
CNN Headline News, Glenn Beck, 2006-08
FOX News, The Glenn Beck Show, 2009-2011
In the coming days, weeks and months, people from behind the scenes will begin to talk about “what really went down,” between FOX News and Glenn Beck and I’m sure that the accounts will be filled with stories of broken promises and chalkboards filled with information that can’t be backed up with real knowledge.
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Liberals aren't always the brightest bulbs in the chandelier. Beck's departure hardly constitutes a victory for the left, or "Jews" for that matter. Fox News is a souped up tabloid--not surprisingly Rupert Murdock built his fortune peddling sensationalistic drivel to the unwashed masses, a business model he has never deviated from (why would he)--fueling the neo-con agenda and lining the pockets of a bunch of cynical elitists. When a hack like Beck is marginalized or silenced altogether, that's very good news for classical 'conservatives' and the populist right. It means there is one less shitheel watering down or bastardizing the message, and a guy like Ron Paul has a better chance of being heard. Paul can attract moderates and even some liberals, certainly the blue collar classes fed up with overseas entanglements and globalism, among other things.
They're not going to be able to replace Beck right away, but you can see the wheels turning--is there a more rancid turd on the planet than Donald Trump .. other than Rupert Murdock that is.
Glenn Beck had a message for America. He delivered it. The problem as I see it is that he kept repeating the same message. Time for him to move on.....yes, again.
ACORN & Van Jones .... thank you Mr. Beck. I wish you much success in your new endeavor....whatever it may be.
Psychopaths like him are hired by Faux News so I am surprised they fired him. Perhaps he took their shtick to its logical extreme, exposing all the faux journalists for the biased slanderers they are, so they had to fire him for revealing their true nature.
Beck didn't leave Fox. He changed what he is doing for them and took one of their top executives to help with the projects he has agreed to do.
I think you're just jealous because you're a liberal media want-a-be hack that got out done by a Christian, conservative, former drunk. You focus way to much time on someone you don't like or think much of. Why is that?
Catnlion, if you don't think that Beck was fired by FOX consider this quote from Roger Ailes:
"Half of the headlines say he's been canceled," he told the AP in an interview today. "The other half say he quit. We're pretty happy with both of them."
You're certainly right about the fact that I've been "out done" by Glenn Beck. He makes $32 million and I barely make half that much.
Also I didn't know that having a fondness for the subject of an article was a requirement.
Finally, you have no idea how much restraint I've used with regards to Beck. Thanks for the comments.
Thanks all.
Restraint? Yes I can tell you have. Your dislike for him shows through loud and clear. You have also been out done by lots of others in their comments of him. So yes, I'll buy restraint.
In any case, as long as Meredick and Whales remain in charge of Fux, nothing will change but the faces. Beck will be replaced, and probably by someone worse -- tho that is hard to imagine.