The Primal Forces of Nature

Glenn "Lonesome Rhodes" Beck has been alarmingly off message of late. His crackpot conspiracies and typically nonesensical historic revisionism has morphed into Huey P. Long populist bandwagoning. The natives may be getting too restless. This surely must be enraging the powerful at Fox News, who give this curious Mormon mouthpiece his soapbox.

I'm imagining Ol' Rupert calling for a little sitdown with the "Weepy Patriot". Just to make sure he knows which side his bread is buttered on. It'd probably go a little something like this:

A dimly lit room deep within the confines of the Wolf's Lair, somewhere in the bowels of Murdochia...

That was from Network. A bit of profound and prescient genius from Paddy Chayefsky. All the more astounding in that it was written over 30 years ago. Why, it seems like only yesterday I heard...