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Beck's research staff has always been top-notch at finding the dots and connecting them. Beck's hysterics is what turns people off. He should have stayed at FNC, stuck to the chalk board and facts but abandoned the tears and meaningless rhetoric. Had he done that he might well be a narrative driver larger than CNN and MSNBC combined.

Once Beck labeled Obama "racist"...that was it re Fox. The Advertisers took out O'Reilly; they control Fox.

Beck's character flaws are openly admitted; he's a sorely burdened individual, psychological and physical. And that will affect those who focus on the 'messenger'...over and above the message. What were once Beck's weaknesses...have now become strengths, to those who have "ears that hear". In these days of cognitive dissonance and confirmation bias...it's all Subjective. Truth is in the eye of the beholder.

Beck's delivery of information, assessments and predictions are no longer censored by monied interests...but now by those who take him (his information) at it's true value, and who support his work. That is the kind of freedom that Journalism should celebrate; however, as Meghan Kelly pointed out on Tucker last night...'Journalism' has now become Activist, in a moral sense...and as such, far from just reporting the truth. Moral Journalism now defines what is true, in the minds of those who they seek to influence and manipulate. It's their Moral duty to do so. Just like Egalitarian Principle is (supposedly) morally superior to the Individualist Principle (God, judging Individuals, based on Merit, and mitigate by Jesus' Mercy, accordingly to the heart).

Fascinating. Special time. Definitive for many, who see what is at stake, re their future.