Glenn Beck's decline

Like Icarus, Glenn Beck loved flying close to the sun. And like Icarus, his waxen wings are melting. Glenn Beck's "ratings and reputation are in steep decline," writes James Downie of the New Republic. "His show has lost more than one million viewers over the course of the past year ... He now ranks fifth among Fox’s six weekday talk hosts, trailing lesser-known personalities like Shepard Smith and Bret Baier." The Washington Monthly, I think, sheds the best light on Beck's inevitable decline: "The economy's growing; Democrats didn't eliminate capitalism; there are no secret messages in the clouds implanted by Islamic gay communists. The country is slowly exhaling after a period of tumult. It's not just that Republicans don't really need Beck anymore; it's that Americans don't really need Beck anymore, now that the intensity of the anxiety has passed." It kinda proves again that what goes around comes around.