Glenn Beck tells his radio audience about an amazing conversation he had with a Fox News executive. The key quote:
I was in this meeting and I pulled one of the guys out, he’s a vice president of Fox. And I said, "When I first started working with you — let’s have a frank conversation here — you thought I was nuts."
And he smiled and he said, "No, I would say I just thought you were on the cutting edge."
And I said, "okay, alright, sure." I said.
"Now?" he said, "Glenn, everything you’re talking about is coming. Everything you’re talking about — everything you’ve been talking about for the last year and a half. It’s all here now. And what you’re saying is coming, I don’t see any other way."
Beck went on to say that the executive told him "we have to convince the audience that this is really truly true."
So what is the "this" that the Fox executive wants Beck to convince people is true? None other than Beck's crazy theories like his week-long special from last August claiming that "America is burning to the ground."
If you didn't see it, it was a perfect encapsulation of Beck's lunacy...lunacy that apparently Fox execs want him to convince his audience is "really truly true."
Beck's big problem is that his fantasies aren't grounded in reality. At some point, his bubble will burst -- things that aren't sustainable just aren't sustainable. Don't ask me...ask Morton Downey, Jr. All bad things come to an end.