Glenn Beck responded — indirectly, though — to Joe Scarborough's advice to Megyn Kelly about how her career might fare should she leave Fox News.
On Monday, Scarborough cautioned Kelly that should she leave the cable network, she could end up like Beck — whom the "Morning Joe" co-host said has become far less relevant since departing Fox in 2011.
"Other than a brief sighting in Iowa in February, Beck has been largely irrelevant to the 2016 campaign," Scarborough said in
an opinion piece in The Washington Post. "That may be, in large part, because his business has fallen apart since Beck left Fox News."
Beck launched the website The Blaze shortly after leaving Fox.
He hit back at Scarborough Wednesday in a column on
Medium.com — that praised Kelly and said: "Those who use your name to engage in their own personal search for relevance deserve your condolences, not your contempt.
"I pray you are not on a morning cable show with an invisible audience while you pretend you haven’t endorsed a candidate," Beck later advised. "I pray you won’t go into radio and fail miserably.
"I pray you won’t falsely try to convince your audience that you have gone on 'brief hiatus' to revamp the show to add an extra hour. I pray you won’t be in the position of having to explain why the 'brief hiatus' still continues six years later.
"I pray you won’t have to suffer the embarrassment of having your own co-workers publicly point out that your 'radio show is canceled.' They’re not revamping anything!"
He also raved about how Glennbeck.com now has "10 million monthly website visitors … 10 million listeners to the radio show, podcasts, and the largest independent digital streaming network, along with 3.2 million Facebook friends, over a million Twitter followers, tens of millions of visitors to theblaze.com, hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and a TV network being distributed in nearly 20 million homes.
"This responsibility does not come cheap, nor without risk," Beck said. "However, having the ability to speak directly, with no filter, to approximately 50 million people per month is quite invigorating."