Low: Mourning Fox's Split with Beck

There are certain people so naturally funny that they are impossible not to enjoy listening to from time to time, and Glenn Beck just happens to be one of those people. Whether or not he has ever believed a single word that has come out of his mouth is basically irrelevant. While Republicans embarrassingly burn their Beck tee shirts and bumper stickers now that they're forced to acknowledge that Beck jumped the shark long ago, Democrats should actually have a different perspective. They should be begging Fox News to reconsider their decision to can Beck. They should be storming Fox News headquarters with picket signs, Molotov cocktails and your friend's crazy cousin that is always up for something random and dangerous. As long as Fox News sponsored a man who suggested that viewers stock their shelves in preparation for the breakdown of society, they weren't exactly flush with credibility. Even Republicans had to give you that one, which touched the problem to a needlepoint. But rarely do you find a man like Beck, one who has the gall to stand there and tell the truth to the American people, or at least to the tiny percentage of geriatrics and caffeine addicted extreme right-wingers longing for old testament simplicity. Comedy Central should pick him up right this second, in order to make sure they can broadcast the "revolution" Beck speaks about. Am I the only one in the country who is dying to know what this revolution would entail if he got to do it his way? I say give him an unlimited budget and a slot right behind Jon Stewart, and let the man just go to work. Fly in Francis Ford Coppola or Terrence Malick to do the camera work and hire John Williams to do the score if you need to. Just imagine the theories he might come up with with an hour-long news show and pure autonomy! It may not be a formula for a long-term success, but we're talking a supernova of legendary comedy here over a very short, glorious period of time. Groucho Marx, Richard Pryor, George Carlin and smiling Glenn Beck. Of course, when his ratings turn into the highest on television (a guarantee), he'll see confirmation that he is in fact the Savior. But I suppose that ship has already sailed....