Glenn Beck’s final show on Fox News had everything you’ve come to know and love about his program. The chalkboard. The demagoguing. The Goldline commercials.
But before things got underway, it was time for a reel of man-on-the-street interviews of Beck fans singing the television host’s praises.
“I will always remember the things you taught me,” said one Beck fan. “You taught me to look around, open my eyes and question things I felt were wrong,” added another.
“You have enlightened me,” chimed in another. “Thank you for everything you do. Thank you for speaking the truth every day,” another said.
Then Beck offered a backstage tour of his set. “These are cartons of chalk. Yes, we buy chalk by the case.”
“We’ve done amazing things together, and I thank you for watching,” Beck said. “We’ve made an awful lot of enemies in the program. We’ve taken on every single person we’ve been told not to take on.”
Beck thanked Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch for their advice and dismissed claims he was pushed out of the network.
“I didn’t run away from something, I ran to something. I knew exactly where I was supposed to be,” Beck said.
He also issued a final warning to his enemies: “You will pray for the time when I was only on the air for one hour per day.”
Michael Lester has a montage of the episode:
