Audio: George Will says Glenn Beck's departure is good for the Fox 'brand'

This morning on Talk Radio Network’s nationally syndicated, America’s Morning News, George Will told co-hosts John McCaslin and Amy Holmes that he is happy to see Glenn Beck leave the Fox News Network.

Will said that Beck’s “drift into more extreme and bizarre positions was threatening the Fox brand.” And that the “the health and happiness of Fox is served by his departure.”

Sound and transcript below, courtesy America’s Morning News.

Holmes: …I’m sure you’ve seen the news that Glenn Beck is leaving Fox News to go do his own thing.  What is your reaction to that?  I mean you’re a Pulitzer Prize winning columnist, a major thinker on politics and shaper of public opinion, what is your reaction to Glenn Beck no longer being on that cable network?

Will:  Well, actually I think it’s a good thing for Fox.  I think Fox is on the cusp of being accepted, as it ought to be, as a very fine journalism operation.  And I think that Glenn Beck, in his drift into more bizarre and extreme positions, was threatening the Fox brand.  So I think, I wish Glenn Beck health and happiness.  But I think the health and happiness of Fox is served by his departure.