It was just a matter of time before Fox dumped Glenn Beck, especially after Fox lost their A-List of advertisers costing the network $600,000 a week in 2009, then Beck lost half of his audience by July of 2010, 15 of the 27 ad slots on his show were unpaid ads, by March of this year, 400 advertisers were boycotting the program and Beck was hemorrhaging viewers at the rate off 500,000 a night; the stats suggested it was time for him to go.

But what was it that did him in?

He took on the liberal establishment and those with deep pockets.  Just as Media Matters to George Soros who funds the organization of the same name, money matters to Fox and the two didn’t mesh, despite the network’s conservative leanings.

You know, Fox News, according to the Obama administration, is not a ‘news organization’ its a mouth piece for the right as the New York Times is for the left.  But Obama has no problem with the latter.

Now, there was another organization founded by Van Jones – that was Obama’s Green Czar at the White House before he was fired for some radical remarks – called Color of Change that also had links to Soros, that launched the advertiser boycott to the Glenn Beck program.

It began in 2009 when Beck called President Obama a racist on Fox and Friends, which he subsequently walked back from only to upset Jews when he alleged Holocaust survivor Soros collaborated with the Nazis.

And it was then that the money game began, or should I say the implementation of a boycott that was going to do damage to Fox more than Soros.

Soros knows what he is doing and so does Fox that’s why they dumped Beck.

Beck a virtual unknown three years ago when he was at CNN, rose like a shooting star at Fox, only to fade in the atomosphere as Fox gently puts him to pasture.

Beck said last night that “I will leave the program, but not leave Fox.”   He said he would produce occasional content for Fox News and “transition’ off his 5PM show.

There was no departure date, but he said, “I have other things to do.”  He promised that they would be “bigger and better.”

Fox had to pull the plug, that’s what it’s all about in New York’s media world, with no ad dollars and declining viewership they had no choice.

Perhaps both Fox and Beck learned something about the real world of ‘Freedom of Speech’ , which we so highly tout in our democracy — it only works to the point that it does not affect the bottom line of a business.

And no one knows this more than George Soros.