Conservative commentator Glenn Beck is leaving CNN Headline News for Fox News Channel, where he will host a weekday show at 5 p.m. starting next spring.
The video of a disheveled, unshaven Glenn Beck talking about a hemorrhoid operation gone wrong feels like one of those late-night, partying-with-your-friends pictures posted — to your eternal regret — on Facebook the next day.
Conservative radio hosts - Michael Savage, Neal Boortz, Glenn Beck - have blamed Mexican immigrants for spreading swine flu across the border, but Rear Adm.
Very angry, possibly disturbed dude, Tweets that he's going to start his own rebelliion 'against the goverment' with a bloodbath on the OK state capital steps. He was arrested in his home. Obviously all talk, no walk. Peaceful protests, just about taxes, right?
Fox News host Glenn Beck has done all the necessary spadework to position himself at the center of a brewing and increasingly paranoid right-wing insurgency.
Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jazz musician and Web designer Charles Johnson has devoted his blog, Little Green Footballs, to exposing Muslim extremism in and outside the United States.
Earlier this week, the anonymous blogger known as "Brandon Friedman" contrasted the disgruntlement voiced by Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin et al during the Democratic fundraiser otherwise known as the tax day tea parties, with the disgruntlement that Friedman's own relatives voiced …
I couldnt sleep trying to follow the logic, yes, not having concrete evidence for things often keeps me up. I thought to my self, "Self, are you loyal to the british crown?" I see these tea party shenanigans as bloody bullocks! By Crikey!
This is what is coming, America — depression and revolution. They're going to eat the rich."
Nobody's covering the tea parties quite like Fox — and that's prompting critics and cable news competitors to say that the network is blurring the line between journalism and advocacy.."Fox appears to be promoting these events at the same time it is presenting them in a w …
So as you might have world right wing nutcases all across the country will be having "tea parties" tomorrow on Tax Day...April 15th. ::Pause for Laughter::
Summary: Glenn Beck falsely asserted that the Iowa Supreme Court's decision striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage "is actually about going into churches ...
Anyone who has watched Fox News of late has seen them talking about the April 15 "tea party" demonstrations, which they take pains to characterize as a spontaneous grassroots uprising against government spending that they are simply "covering." Neil Cavuto said:
"It's right under our noses!", says a trucker in Tennessee. "We want to expose the liberal taint", cries one Orange County suburban hausfrau.Across America, spurred on by right-wing luminaries like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity, the air is filled with the sweet fragrance of politic …
Summary: Conservative media have directed their violent, doomsday, and anti-intellectual rhetoric at progressives in power, and specifically at President Obama, whom fake populists in conservative media depict as a threat to their audience's very way of life.
Summary: By aggressively promoting upcoming tea party protests despite the numerous instances of extremist rhetoric at previous tea party events, Fox News is associating itself in advance with whatever rhetoric emanates at the upcoming events.
The anti-school message resonates with one woman. "Burn the books!" she yells from off-camera. The surprised camera man asks if she's serious, and which books she'd burn. "The ones in college, the brainwashing books, like the evolution crap."
One of the hallmarks of the militia movement of the 1990s was the way it inspired violence: by essentially loosing the moorings of their followers from reality by promulgating a toxic brew of conspiracy theories, right-wing historical revisionism, and a bevy of false "facts" and …
It was a very special episode of Glenn Beck's Fox News show, when he pretended to douse a colleague in gasoline while talking about setting himself on fire, but what I found especially interesting is what happened immediately afterwards.
Summary: Numerous conservative media figures have called for a "revolution" or have invoked violent rhetoric while discussing the Obama administration or government in general.
So a crazy person got up at one of Glenn Beck's 9/12 get-togethers (and I realize that "crazy person at a Glenn Beck function" is redundant) and started ranting about who knows what, [...] What I heard was pretty standard fare for mainstream Republicanism.
excerpt:But the most otherworldly moment came when Beck, near the end, introduced a segment featuring an actor supposedly playing Thomas Paine -- but Paine reading Glenn Beck's words. Um, OK.
Glenn Beck is so outraged by President Obama's immigration plan that he was forced to ask on his show Thursday, "President Obama, why don't you just set us on fire?"
Please, you need to get this person help. I don't know what Fox News has for a health plan -- being conservative, I can only presume you have none -- but I'm sure Murdoch has a few bucks lying around.
You know just when you thought he couldn't get any more bizarre. Now we should be afraid of the "system" which harbors Iranian Tom Cruise. Priceless.. you just have to watch it and pinch yourself to make sure you are actually awake.
Since President Obama's election, several conservative media figures have warned their audiences that Obama is planning to, in the words of Glenn Beck, "slowly but surely take away your gun or take away your ability to shoot a gun, carry a gun" or have suggested that a governm …
What is the purpose of America? What does our nation really stand for? The truth was spoken in America's darkest days, during our hardest struggle, by our greatest President. Not in 2001. In 1941.