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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
(3,316 posts)he has a soul?
dotymed
(5,610 posts)connecticut yankee
(1,728 posts)Glenn Beck has a soul?
MsNoMo
(5 posts)You guys beat me to it!! Gotta have one to lose one!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Anybody got some holy water?
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)RELEASE THE KRAKEN!!!!!!!
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Doesn't he have the best sense of humor?
tanyev
(42,636 posts)BlueToTheBone
(3,747 posts)tularetom
(23,664 posts)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
(12,882 posts)before you're at risk of losing it.
SkyDaddy7
(6,045 posts)Not to mention no one has a "soul"...That is just religious woo-woo.
Botany
(70,614 posts)end of story
ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)ProudProgressiveNow
(6,129 posts)They are a lot of work.... but it's fun...
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)Don Draper
(187 posts)Glenn, you didn't leave Fox by your own volition. Your ass got fired.