“Glenn Beck has a dream. On Thursday, the former Fox News host, gold bug, survival-seed guru, movie star, and bestselling author unveiled plans for a new planned community—inspired by the Ayn Rand novel 'Atlas Shrugged'—to be built at an undisclosed location somewhere in the United States.”
“Glenn Beck's new novel, 'Agenda 21,' is set in a dystopian future in which in the implementation of a United Nations treaty on sustainable development has turned the United States into a police state where workers spend their waking hours attempting to minimize carbon emissions and to have children with as many different partners as possible, as ordered by the central government.”
“...before you dismiss this as the strange rants of a crazed and largely unknown state lawmaker, let's not overlook the fact that last week, [Glenn] Beck used his Internet show to push a bogus claim about a Boston suspect, but his arguments quickly drew attention from the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Oversight and Management Efficiency, the chairman of the House subcommittee on Counterterrorism and Intelligence, and the chairwoman of the House subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security—all of whom are Republicans, and all of whom took Beck's nonsense seriously. There's a strain of madness running through contemporary Republican politics, and it runs deeper than just some random state lawmaker...”
“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”
—Fox News’official statement about Glenn Beck’s departure is blunt, short, and sweet. The network responded to Beck’s comments that he left Fox to “keep his soul intact.”
