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Keith has a delightful video commentary analysis of each Republican Presidential candidate and why each is not presidential material. Then he offers his own surprising suggestion, that an unknown self appointed art critic named Susan Burns would make the perfect Republican candidate.
Part 2 of tonight's Fok News is a commentary Lonesome Rhode's Mike Left Open.
The confirmation today that the man who can’t tell the difference between a socialist, a fascist, and an altruist is leaving his daily show on Fixed News, is a great moment for the collective intelligence of American discourse.
Keith then breaks the news that life after Fox for Glenn Beck may be the All Beck TV Enterprise.
The model was a hybrid of the original Howard Stern radio premise (gone, but not forgotten: the additional channel devoted to covering only news about Howard – the reporters even had matching blazers and did Howard Newscasts) and the Oprah Winfrey premise, mixed in with a little megalomania.
Glen will be asking his loyal viewers to relocate with him to a new network and he wants to charge more. Keith points out that Beck's viewers are the tea party crowd...
or as I have begun to enjoy calling them — “The I’m Not Going To Pay A Lot For That Muffler Party” — to pony up some extra green. They expect something for nothing, or at least something for nothing more, not the same thing with an additional price tag.
Keith does an industry insider's analysis of Beck's fall out with Fox.
It has been clear for some time that Beck’s audience does not necessarily entirely overlap with that of Fox News. The advertising tells that story (a hat tip to Twitter’s @StopBeck right here), and the fact that actual rumors of dissatisfaction elsewhere in that company actually wafted out through the otherwise airtight Berlin Wall that Roger Ailes has built around his employees, should have indicated that a divorce was inevitable. Beck’s relationship with Fox as symbiotic and strained, but it was probably of greater value to Beck than it was to Fox. He may have produced astonishingly high ratings for 5 O’Clock in the afternoon, but with the low-end sponsors that did not necessarily mean astonishingly high profits.
Keith concludes that Lonesome Rhodes has a rocky road ahead. He is going to have a hard time getting viewers to pay for his ravings, and Beck's main competition for the loonies will be...... Fox.