The Mad Prophet of the Airwaves nears the end of his run

Glenn Beck's advertisers are pulling out--including big ones like Wal-Mart and Geico. Which means that his support is caving: I'm sure nearly everyone will stampede out of there in the next few days. I guess the craziness could only go so far before his corporate masters reigned it in.

To be honest, though, I'll miss it. It really was such a singular phenomenon--the bizarre way he would address the camera, his sudden outbursts of emotion that ended just as quickly as they began, his paranoid--and yet incredibly vague and meaningless--sloganeering. We surround them. It doesn't mean anything so much as faintly evoke some primal scene from 100,000 years ago, when our clan had the other surrounded.

In any case, I wonder what he'll do--whether he'll do the O'Reilly/Olberman thing and tone things down, or heroically banish himself into the wilderness, the bane of corporations and reasonable people alike.