He speaks fondly of her, and did one of first interviews, I think. Maybe on radio.
Actually, he interviewed her on his tv show several months before she was picked as vp candidate. Due to her great job as gov of Alaska, her fight with GOP corruption in the state, and also, I think, he felt a special bond and admiration due to her attitude towards special needs children (Beck has a special needs child himself). It was a great interview.
He did a long interview on his HLN show before she was named Veep candidate and really impressed him.. that interview was about the Interior department making the polar bear endangered and the lawsuit AK was filing to stop it, she went into great detail about how they were not only not endangered, but the population is expanding...