Au Revoir, Glenn Beck

Fox News fans may have to soon look elsewhere for their dose of crackpot conspiracy theories and prophecies of the End Times as wingnut favorite Glenn Beck may be getting the axe at the end of the year.

Glenn is hoping to shit out better ratings.  VERBAL diarrhea always worked before.

Since his appearance on the talking-head circuit in 2009, he's amassed millions of fans, held rallies, railed against the President and generally made himself a nuisance.  Sadly, since his "Restoring Honor" rally with an attendance of 100,000, his viewership has dropped off-- by approximately a third.  Some blame the passage of "Obamacare," while some (notably myself) think he's just gotten too crazy for even the crazies to stomach.

Well, sounds like the kids at Fox can't stomach him either.

"He still has numbers that just about any cable news host would envy and, with about two million viewers a night, outdraws all his competition combined. But the erosion is significant enough that Fox News officials are willing to say — anonymously, of course; they don’t want to be identified as criticizing the talent — that they are looking at the end of his contract in December and contemplating life without Mr. Beck."

Pfffft.  Who cares?  He needs to hurry up, quit his show, make his bid in politics and get creamed in the primaries, publish his memoirs, and then just shut the hell up.  You know it's going to happen!   Well, maybe not that last part. 

[NYT]