

Beck has been planning on leaving New York for a while now, though he only just sold his Connecticut home a few months ago. So the Bryant Park movie disaster wasn't the express reason he's leaving, but I'm sure it's a small part of the bigger why. Everybody's mean to Glenn Beck, so Glenn Beck's leaving.

For $20,000 a month, this Texas pad had better be a well-fortified compound, the better to protect Beck and his kin when the marauding hordes of Jew-hippies come for his gold. (And they will come for his gold.) It's hard to say exactly what the house will look like when Beck inhabits it. These images are obviously a real estate agent's staging work, we see none of Beck's elephant leather furniture here, and anyway the whole place will be structurally different once Beck builds his traditional protection wall and hollows out a holy water-filled "Rapture Tank" in the root cellar for when the terrible magic snake-fires, sent by his sworn enemy the great and powerful sorcerer Soros, inevitably come for him. But you can get a vague impression.

So yeah, this will likely be Glenn Beck's new nightmare villa. He's your problem now, Texas! Well, he's not exactly out of New York's hair. He's holding onto his apartment in Manhattan and will probably still be doing a good bit of business up here. But at the first blaring, clarion call of Van Jones's horn of war, you'd better believe he's hightailing it to this Texas fallback point. Godspeed to him. And to all of us. [NYDN; images of Beck's home via Cindy Ruppert]