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Glenn Beck May Launch Own Channel

Fox host mulling options for going solo: sources

(Newser) - Glenn Beck is considering following in Oprah Winfrey's footsteps and starting his own channel, sources tell the New York Times . Beck's contract at Fox is up at the end of the year. With the network rumored to be considering dropping him , Beck is looking into taking over all or part...

Glenn Beck: Quake Was Message From God

'Follow the Ten Commandments, people'

(Newser) - Japan's massive earthquake was probably a message from God, and Glenn Beck says the big guy's clearly not very happy. So what's the message? It's not entirely clear, but what we're doing is all wrong, and we should be following the Ten Commandments, not like "radical" Islamists, Beck counsels....

Glenn Beck out at Fox? Execs thinking of dropping the controversial host

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David Carr
Mar 7, 2011 7:19 AM CST

Fox News Might Dump Glenn Beck

Ratings drop as viewers turn back on depressing talk

(Newser) - The Glenn Beck phenomenon has been, well, phenomenal since the "conjurer of conspiracies" made his Fox debut in 2009, turning the once moribund 5pm time slot into a ratings juggernaut. "But a funny thing happened on the way to the revolution," writes David Carr for the New ...

Beck Calls His Radio Show 'Recipe for Disaster'

And apologizes for making 'one of the worst analogies of all time'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck apologized on his radio program yesterday for comparing Reform Judaism to "radicalized Islam" earlier this week. "It was stupid," he said. "I made one of the worst analogies of all time." On Tuesday, Beck said that Reform rabbis "are generally political in...

Glenn Beck: Don't Use Google
 Glenn Beck: Don't Use Google 
Feb 17, 2011 5:37 AM CST

Glenn Beck: Don't Use Google

Search firm is in cahoots with US government, Beck says

(Newser) - Glenn Beck doesn't trust Google and he doesn't think his viewers should either. The Fox host—pointing to a Google exec's role in the Egyptian uprising —says the search firm is in bed with the US government and he plans to avoid using its products, the New York Daily ...

Democracy's Bad Now? Beck Illustrates Right's Split

Essayist: Some conservatives championed Mideast freedom, only to fear it now

(Newser) - The demonstrations in Egypt have Glenn Beck on a tear, even by Glenn Beck standards. He's warning that "radical Islam" could take control and, what with one thing leading to another, eventually "destroy the Western way of life," writes Michelle Goldberg in the Daily Beast . But wait,...

Glenn Beck: I'm No Anti-Semite
 Glenn Beck: I'm No Anti-Semite 
Jan 28, 2011 8:15 AM CST

Glenn Beck: I'm No Anti-Semite

Host responds to criticism, but not to 'Wall Street Journal' ad

(Newser) - Glenn Beck mocked the very notion that he might be an anti-Semite on his radio show yesterday—even as a group of 400 rabbis took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad to scold him. Beck didn’t mention the ad, instead focusing on an unnamed web commentator who apparently...

Rabbis Urge Murdoch to Rein In Beck, Fox News

Coalition slams constant use of Holocaust, Nazi imagery

(Newser) - A coalition of 400 rabbis have had enough of Glenn Beck's use of Nazi and Holocaust imagery and attacks on George Soros . The group is urging Rupert Murdoch to sanction Beck and Fox News chief Roger Ailes. It has bought a full-page ad in one of Murdoch's own papers, the ...

Keith Olbermann Returns—on Twitter

Glenn Beck calls him 'biggest pain in the ass in the world'

(Newser) - Keith Olbermann is off TV, thanks to his $7 million buyout, but he can still make all the noise he wants online. "Citizens Of The Free World: Greetings!" he tweeted yesterday. "My humble thanks to all Friends of Keith for the many kind words. The reports of...

A Goodbye to Olbermann Is a Goodbye to Wingnuts

America is finally demanding something different, writes John Avlon

(Newser) - Keith Olbermann, Glenn Beck, and Sarah Palin are “the best-known faces of the … extreme partisanship and the cycle of incitement that [is] dividing our nation instead of trying to unite it.” But now they’re fading away—Olbermann out at MSNBC, Beck’s ratings collapsing, Palin’s...

Glenn Beck Target Dealing With Death Threats

Group asks Fox to rein in rants against liberal Frances Fox Piven

(Newser) - Glenn Beck fans know liberal academic Frances Fox Piven as a radical who would destroy capitalism on behalf of the welfare state. And some of those fans have taken to issuing death threats against the 78-year-old CUNY professor, reports the New York Times . This week, the liberal group Center for...

Stewart to Beck: Come on My Show and I'll Give You...

Daily Show host extends another invitation, likely in vain

(Newser) - Jon Stewart ended Tuesday’s Sarah Palin slapfest by inviting her on the Daily Show—and last night , he extended another invitation to Glenn Beck. Beck told Today Show host Meredith Vieira yesterday that even in light of the Tucson shootings, he doesn’t regret any violent statements he meant...

Dear GOP: If You Can't Be Moral, at Least Be Smart
Dear GOP: If You Can't Be Moral, at Least Be Smart
joe scarborough
Jan 18, 2011 12:43 PM CST

Dear GOP: If You Can't Be Moral, at Least Be Smart

Joe Scarborough: Heated rhetoric would be political disaster in 2012 race

(Newser) - Joe Scarborough joins the chorus of those wishing for a more civil tone in politics, but he's not holding out much hope that the moral argument for civility will do the trick. After all, Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, and other "right-wing polemicists who make big bucks spewing rage" aren't...

Limbaugh, Beck: Don't Blame Us for Jared Loughner

Limbaugh calls it 'embarrassing day for media'

(Newser) - There's been a lot of shouting today about the role of inflammatory rhetoric in the Tucson shootings, but Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck are having none of it. Beck took aim at Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, who, in the wake of the shootings, called Arizona a "mecca for...

Beck: It Was 'Cowardly' to Skip Slaves in Constitution Reading

Beck wanted GOP to read the document 'scars' and all

(Newser) - Glenn Beck was not satisfied with Congress' constitutional read-along yesterday, because House leaders left out a couple of parts: namely, the three-fifths compromise, and the 18th Amendment, which declared prohibition. “They didn’t want to offend anybody ... which shows their cowardice for not reading it,” Beck fumed of...

Glenn Beck Dumped by NYC Radio Station Over Ratings
NYC Radio Station
Dumps Glenn Beck
Jan 5, 2011 6:45 AM CST

NYC Radio Station Dumps Glenn Beck

Beck, meanwhile, Beck unplugs 'hotline to White House'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck's radio show is currently without a home in New York after having been dropped by WOR, one of the city's biggest talk radio stations. "The reason is ratings," WOR's program director tells the New York Daily News. "Somewhat to our surprise, the show wasn't getting...

Glenn Beck's Guide to Julian Assange's Sex Life

Fox News host utilizes chalkboard, Barbies to explain it to you

(Newser) - Having trouble keeping track of what sex crimes, exactly, Julian Assange is accused of ? Allow Glenn Beck and his handy chalkboard to explain it to you. The Fox News host tracked the WikiLeaks founder's sex life last night, using Barbie pictures as stand-ins for Assange, "Woman No. 1,...

Glenn Beck Estimates 10% of Muslims Are Terrorists

That's a whopping 157 million Islamic terrorists

(Newser) - According to Glenn Beck, 10% of all Muslims are terrorists. And since there are 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, ThinkProgress notes, Beck is basically calling 157 million of them terrorists. The talk show host made the comment on his radio show yesterday, the Huffington Post reports, while he...

GOP's 10 Favorite Pundits
 GOP's 10 Favorite Pundits 
Dec 3, 2010 5:02 PM CST

GOP's 10 Favorite Pundits

Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck lead survey

(Newser) - The website ConservativeHome polled about 1,500 folks defined as Republican activists to find their favorite pundits. Here's the top 10:
  1. Rush Limbaugh, 41%
  2. Glenn Beck, 33%
  3. Charles Krauthammer, 29%
  4. Bill O'Reilly, 24%
  5. Sean Hannity, 21%

Palin: Back Our 'North Korean Allies'

Glenn Beck corrects her on-air flub

(Newser) - Sarah Palin is taking a razzing today for a verbal gaffe about North Korea. She told Glenn Beck on his radio show that we must “stand with our North Korean allies” before he corrected her. “This speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms...

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