What will happen when Glenn Beck finally goes nuts?

[joebuck20]

@Sampiro

Beck’s still at the top of his game in ratings and popularity, but I think he’s also at the apex of his fame and he’s more likely to take a topple down the Gemonian stairs than descend leisurely down the hillside. Rush speaking against him, even if not that vehemently yet, is a precursor. No question that Rush is even more of a Nazi than Beck but he’s also more intelligent (Goebbels as opposed to Streicher) and a lot more sane and very jealous and the second he sees Beck as a threat to his popularity or a liability he’ll give the signal. His fall may not come this year but I doubt it will be that far away and it’s gonna be a good 'un.

Ideally: He makes a comment so stupid and so openly racist or otherwise offensive on air that not even Fox can spin it and they suspend him and bring him back only as a commentator. He tries to regain his popularity by being even more incendiary, essentially appealing to the KKK element of his fanbase, and even Fox disowns him and the Mormon Church excommunicates him (especially since his tithe isn’t what it once was). An IRS problem and a headline making divorce deplete his fortune.
He ends up as a morning DJ in Guam until he’s fired for sexually harassing a desk chair. Ends up on Celebrity Rehab where he cries and says “Sometimes I just want to cut my wrists” and Dr. Drew says “Trust your feelings Luke” while Erin Moran pees on his lap and Danny Bonaduce bitchslaps him for taking airtime from him.
Well it probably won’t go down that way, but I can dream. And he is going down, you can mark my words on that one. Sejanus sejanus sejanus…

This sounds like a plan.
But I’d like to hear just how incendiary a remark he’d have to make for Fox to boot him. This is the network, after all, that cited a noted lawsuit-happy anti-Semite as an “expert” on one of its news shows (Google the name Anthony Martin-Trigoda). My guess is that they’ll tolerate whatever bullcrap he has to say until he dares to speak against Fox News. Maybe he’ll make an offhand remark about Roger Ailes being an elitist, or the network cozying up to progressives, or openly mock Hannity and O’Reilly. It’ll be then that they put him out to pasture.

[Robot_Arm]

@joebuck20

But I’d like to hear just how incendiary a remark he’d have to make for Fox to boot him.

“Maybe Republicans aren’t perfect.”

Gone.

[Sampiro]

@detop

Or if you want the short version of what Sampiro said : Sic transit gloria mundi

Or the shorter one: Fuck Beck.

[detop]

Or, to stay with the classics : * Glenn Beck (or is it Bechius ?) delenda est *

[Captain_Amazing]

@Robot_Arm

“Maybe Republicans aren’t perfect.”

Gone.

That’s what he said at CPAC.

[Clothahump]

@Robot_Arm

“Maybe Republicans aren’t perfect.”

Gone.

Huh? He says that about a half dozen times per show. And he doesn’t put it that mildly, either.

[joebuck20]

It seems like the craziness if finally taking it’s toll:

The Fading Power of Beck’s Alarms

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/business/media/07carr.html?_r=1&hp=&pagewanted=all

Since last August, when he summoned more than 100,000 followers to the Washington mall for the “Restoring Honor” rally, Mr. Beck has lost over a third of his audience on Fox — a greater percentage drop than other hosts at Fox. True, he fell from the great heights of the health care debate in January 2010, but there has been worrisome erosion — more than one million viewers — especially in the younger demographic.

[Really_Not_All_That_Bright]

Probably they’ve all cut themselves off from society and the media in preparation for the coming apocalypse.

[Revtim]

I guess that’s how long it takes apocalypse seeds to bear fruit.