Glenn Beck: “If you stay in it too long, you become Norma Desmond."

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Beck further recalled his conversation with Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, as he was on his way out. Per Forbes:

“At the end, when we were leaving, it was a long process,” he said. “Roger said to me, ‘You’re not going to leave.’ And I said, ‘I am.’ And he said, ‘Nobody does,’ meaning leave television….And I said, ‘I’m fortunate because I haven’t been in it that long.’ I knew what this big, huge Fox empire brought to the table, and I had to leave before I became too enamored of that.”

A Fox News spokesperson responded to Beck’s comment, via email to POLITICO’s Mike Allen:

“Glenn Beck wasn’t trying to save his soul, he was trying to save his ass. Advertisers fled his show and even Glenn knows what that means in our industry. Yet, we still tried to give him a soft landing. Guess no good deed goes unpunished.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fox-news-fires-back-at-glenn-beck-saying-he-left-tv-to-save-his-soul-he-was-trying-to-save-his-ass/

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1. Beck is clinically insane

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2. Anyone who works for Fox News *is* Norma Desmond.

I thought his quote revealed a lot. In effect, he's admitting that Ailes' network ramps up the drama.