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Beck dismisses challenge from former White House official

(NEWSER) - "I’ve had all I can stand, Fox TV, and I can’t stand no more," former White House "green jobs" czar Van Jones said in recent tirade against the Glenn Beck and his soon-to-be-ex-employer. Jones, who resigned in 2009 after being targeted by Beck, has challenged the host to debate him before time runs out on his Fox show at the end of this month, and has threatened to take Fox to court over "a series of sensational and inflammatory charges" made against him on its shows, reports the Huffington Post . More»

Will pal Glenn Beck now call for Jason Chaffetz's head?

(NEWSER) - We don’t know the real truth behind the 9/11 attacks, Utah congressman Jason Chaffetz said at a town-hall meeting yesterday. Asked by a group that believes “it was a false flag terrorist attack, that the buildings came down with internally placed demolition,” the Republican said, “there’s still a lot to learn about what happened and what didn’t happen, we should be vigilant and continue to investigate that, absolutely.” More»

Ex-governor bets host a steak NBC will say yes

(NEWSER) - Uniting Sarah Palin on-air with Glenn Beck produced the expected fireworks on Fox News today, with the duo making NBC an offer the network will be hard-pressed to refuse: They want to co-host Saturday Night Live. “How could they say no?” Palin wondered, and bet Beck a steak that NBC will take them up on it. “I can envision episode after episode of things that I could mock myself.” It's unclear who the musical act would be in the scenario. More»

Claim that only 10% of cabinet had private sector cred debunked

(NEWSER) - Glenn Beck’s claim that “under 10%” of Barack Obama’s cabinet appointees have “any experience in the private sector” turns out to be a bad statistic pulled from the internet. The tidbit originated in a study from JPMorgan Private Bank CIO Michael Cembalest, PolitiFact reports. Cembalest looked at nine posts he thought likely to contain execs and concluded that less than 10% of Obama’s appointees were. A chart accompanying the report has gone viral in conservative circles online. More»

Stimulus, President O-bow-ma get top billing

(NEWSER) - As we await tomorrow’s feast, conservative pundit Michelle Malkin gives us something to gnaw on, running down the year’s top turkeys:

• The stimulus: The “Generational Theft Act” isn’t even a turkey, but a “Turbaconducken—the heart attack-inducing dish of roasted chicken stuffed inside a duck stuffed inside a turkey, all wrapped in endless slabs of bacon.”