August 31, 2010

What Exactly Is Glenn Beck Talking About?

By Michael Wolff

Follow me on Twitter @MichaelWolffNYC

Nobody of a more or less liberal cast knows what to do about Glenn Beck. We don’t know what he’s saying. What he means. What he wants. Or really who he is. Rupert Murdoch, who pays him, doesn’t know either. Those exact questions above have worried him and he’s tried to have the discussion about Beck’s nature with Roger Ailes, the Fox chief who hired him, but gotten no real satisfaction. Murdoch’s wife, Wendi, makes fun of Beck. She’s quite a funny woman, and Beck is one of her punchlines. She says Beck’s name and guffaws and follows up with...