Glenn Beck: Fox News told me to shut up

Did Fox News try to censor Glenn Beck before the media giant left the cable network last year?

The answer is yes, according to Beck, who made the disclosure this week on his new television program on GBTV.com.

Beck was discussing comments made by longtime PBS news commentator Bill Moyers who was defending leftist billionaire George Soros.

Moyers had said Soros has "been the victim, of course, of Glenn Beck and the right-wing, the Fox News assassins."

In response to Moyers' comment, Beck explained that his own former network tried to get him to clam up about his constant reporting on what he felt was Soros' fiendish agenda to harm the American way of life.

"Here's the real reason why George Soros is worried about little old me and the assassins, because I know the truth about him," said Beck.

"Everyone – including the assassins [at Fox News] – told me, 'You wanna shut up about George Soros?'

"No. No I don't. Nope. Doesn't make my life easier. Doesn't make me more popular. Doesn't do anything, except I am allowed to end my days saying I told the truth. I did what somebody should have done and tell the truth. The truth has no agenda. The truth will set you free. The truth needs to be held like a sword and a shield. He should be worried. He should be worried because I'm going to continue to expose him when he finds out the role he plays in our next little book coming out this spring. He'll be up all night on the phone with Bill Moyers crying himself to sleep."

Beck left the Fox News Channel last year after hosting a popular, hour-long, weekday program on the network.

His show had been the target of intense controversy including boycotts by some.

WND reported one organization that led a crusade demanding Fox News fire Beck is, in fact, backed by Soros and is tied to many of the liberal activists Beck routinely excoriated on his show.

Jewish Funds for Justice, or JFSJ, a charity that campaigns for social change, delivered a petition with 10,000 signatures to Fox News in protest of a program in which Beck specifically targeted Soros, calling the businessman the "puppet master." JFSJ deemed the show anti-Semitic.

WND media analyst Kathy Shaidle reported on a forecast Beck made as he was leaving Fox.

"He made a provocative vow to make gloating progressives eat their celebratory words," Shaidle wrote, "telling them on his radio show, 'One year from now, you on the left will be crapping yourself so much, you haven't crapped in your pants as much as you will in a year from now. ... You'll crap yourself more than when you were a baby. And you will find Jesus.'"