Mr Khan said:
Like what RichardHutnik said, his insanity was making advertisors wary, so he moved before it could become a problem. |
When you play to the fringe and go into the political realm, and try to score points there running programming that is paid by sponsors, those who have strong disagreement with you will target your sponsors, to get you off the air. That is what happened with Glenn Beck. And, as much as maybe he was sincere in his intentions, the way he went with the conspiracy theories made him a prime target to get framed as being nuts.
I am sure Alex Jones runs into very similar, which is why he is on the Internet and not cable. Jesse Ventura managed to get a more obscure cable channel gig by doing some show called Conspiracy Theories, but he seemed to hit at everything in not targeting anyone politically. Penn and Teller have their show on Showtime, and they are clearly Libertarian, but hit all over the place, and don't go after politicla people. Go after political folks, and you will get your sponsor targeted, which will drive you off cable. Cable networks don't want to lose sponsors.
