Yet, Beck says, "I'd look myself in the mirror every day, and say, "You're not an alcoholic. You don't have a problem."
"One morning," he says, "my kids came down for breakfast, and they said, 'Dad, tell us the story of Inky, Blinky and Stinky and the Island of Cheese.' And I realized that not only could I not remember the story I told them, I didn't even remember tucking them in. So I said, 'You see how much you remember. You tell me what was the story.'"
That night he went to Alcoholics Anonymous. Not long after, he became a Mormon. I asked him why.
"I apologize, but guys will understand this. My wife is, like, hot, and she wouldn't have sex with me until we got married. And she wouldn't marry me unless we had a religion."
I asked Tania Beck about that. She laughed, saying, "He's not joking."
Now Beck says that Mormonism has grounded him, so he's grateful to his wife.
Whatever grounded him, I'm glad something did. Because it's good to have a super-successful cable-TV host arguing that life would be better if government -- Democrats and Republicans -- just left Americans alone.
"We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was," Beck says.
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