At Your Beck And Call

Well one of our fellow warriors has fallen. The Liberal Left will no longer have erstwhile alcoholic and self-professed A.D.H.D. sufferer Glenn Beck to kick around.   The powers that be have cited a 40% viewership drop and miffed sponsors as the cause for the year-end dropping of Beck from the Fox airwaves.   Also, members of both the left and Right have denounced Becks undefined allegiances, and supposedly unfounded attacks as cause-a-plenty for yanking the chubby, puckish host from the airwaves.  
     When Beck first started at Fox I found him to be jovial, well-informed, and original.   As time went on however, Beck became sullen, foreboding, and very Nostradamian in his presentations of immanent doom.   His chalk board dissertations became convoluted, paranoiac, and conspiratorial.   I am not saying that Beck was always wrong in his assertions,more often than not he was spot on.   What I am saying is that he became too intellectual for his own good.   Beck misjudged his viewing audience which is the kiss of death for any personality.   Beck was preaching to a conservative, Middle-American audience.   He was not being watched by high-brow intellectuals who could traverse the increasingly wending trail of Becks conspiratorial labyrinth.
     Another problem for Beck was over-exposure. Television, radio, books, traveling shows, gatherings, documentaries, road shows with Bill O'Reilly.   Beck became as ubiquitous as shots of Obama on still another vacation.   This too is the kiss of death for personalities.   Hey Shawn Hannity remember, in this field of endeavor less is more.  We need all of the conservative thinkers we can get.