From his FOK News Channel, Olbermann reminds Beck of the original Lonesome Rhodes and his descent from popularity and gloats that he will be back in the spring with a new and improved version of Countdown on Current TV. From an earlier piece Olbermann has this to say about Beck.
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.
More over, Glenn Beck did not build Fox News and nowhere in the early coverage of his departure is there seemingly the slightest suggestion that the well-oiled Murdochian Perpetual Motion Propaganda Machine will miss his daily presence. There are a couple of true believers with whom they could replace him; more likely they will simply reach into that inexhaustible supply of those so desperate to remain on television that they’ll say anything (see Megyn Kelly, Stuart Varney, Steve Doocy), and fill up the hour quickly.
Ultimately how ever Beck winds up positioning his new television venture he has bought himself a new problem that was his old problem back in the days when he struggled along with mediocre ratings at CNN Headline News.
Whatever show(s) he does, whatever Beckian Stamp Of Batcrap Crazy Nonsense he produces, whatever he sells for $19.95 a pop, whatever hour is the 60 minutes of Revelation – whatever The Plan is – he’s got a big problem now.
It’ll be on against Fox News.
