Fox finally dumps Tea Party conservative blowhard Glenn Beck, but for the wrong reasons (New York Daily News)

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By Joanna Molloy

April 7th 2011

Good riddance, crowed anybody even slightly left of John Birch Wednesday at the news that Glenn Beck had lost his nightly Fox TV show.

Officially, Beck "intends to transition off of his daily program," both the blowhard and his bosses at Fox said Wednesday.

But the writing was on his chalkboard: The ratings were down - he was pulling in 2.7 million last year at this time, and that number is down below 2 million.

Young viewers were bolting.

And advertising drying up.

In effect, the tea party is over.

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Fox News host Glenn Beck: Some unemployed 99ers should be ashamed to call themselves American (New York Daily News)

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BY Aliyah Shahid
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

August 17th 2010

Glenn Beck has a message for the chronically unemployed: You're a bunch of un-American losers.

The Fox News host thinks some 99ers — those who have used up their 99 weeks of unemployment benefits—should be embarrassed to call themselves Americans, the Huffington Post reported.

"Have you heard of the 99ers?" Beck asked on Monday. "Some of these people, I bet you'd be ashamed to call them Americans."

About 1.4 million Americans have been out of work more than 99 weeks, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That's when unemployment benefits run out in states with the highest unemployment rates.

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