Viewers also began turning away. Beck's 5 p.m. ET show averaged 2.7 million viewers during the first three months of 2010, and was at just under 2 million for the same period this year, the Nielsen Co. said. His decline was sharper among younger viewers sought by advertisers.
Increasingly, the show began to be dominated by Beck standing in front of a chalk board giving his theories about the world's troubles.
I stopped watching his show after he went off on the Egyptian democracy protests. He was talking about the Islamic Brotherhood taking over and other nonsense. Egypt is exactly what the Bush Doctrine stood for and Beck was pissing all over it. I mean we spent lives and treasure to get this to happen in Iraq and Afghanistan and it was happening on its own all over the Middle East.
Beck was basically a fear monger. Instead of saying Egypt might turn into a pseudo-democratic-Israel he had it pegged as a potential Iran. That is a possible outcome but you figure that a bunch of people that fought for "freedom" probably won't change one repressive dictator for another. The left field outcome was the one he ran with and I didn't like it.
All Beck saw was conspiracy crap about a Caliphate rising out of Egypt and not the potential of several Democracies springing up throughout the Middle East. That might actually lend all sorts of stability to the region because Democracies rarely fight one another. But Beck was convinced that this wasn't an opportunity but a sign of terrible times or whatever. I just stopped watching the show because I can't stomach a guy that can side with a dictator (even a benign one) over people that want free elections.
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