Glenn Beck Vomits Over Pelosi Speech

Incumbency carries plenty of advantages

(NEWSER) - Sure, things look glum for President Obama, but he’s still the odds-on favorite to win the 2012 presidential election. Carl Cannon tells us why:

• A “generic Republican” doesn’t exist. Obama trails that very thing by double digits in a recent poll, but the GOP nominee will bring his or her own baggage.
• There might be more than two candidates. Lou Dobbs? Glenn Beck? There’s a lot of rumbling out there about third-party runs.

Sure, no one likes her, but still...

(NEWSER) - So a few advertisers abandoned Glenn Beck’s show after his last bout of verbal diarrhea—so what? That didn’t stop him from “joking” that he wanted to poison Nancy Pelosi last night on his show, during a skit about hanging out at her “liberal, elitist wine vineyard,” writes the Cajun Boy for Gawker. Now the "endlessly frustrating" Pelosi is “almost universally disliked,” but Beck’s joke to his "audience of angry simpletons" is still “mildly infuriating.” More»

Speaker, Karl Rove also slam PAC plan to attack Jeremiah Wright

(NEWSER) - John Boehner today took to ABC's This Week to offer his characteristically blunt assessment of JPMorgan, and promptly asserted that Dodd-Frank wouldn't have averted the bank's $3 billion blunder : " There's no law against stupidity . No law against stupid trades. As long as there's no risk of a taxpayer bailout—they should be held accountable by the market and their shareholders. And they are." Boehner also offered his take on a super PAC's scrapped plan to bash President Obama over Jeremiah Wright, calling it "nonsense (that) shouldn't happen. The election's gonna be about the economy. ... And I think Gov. Romney's prescriptions are much better." Elsewhere on your Sunday dial, as per Politico : More»

Gay marriage vote prompts outrage

(NEWSER) - Thousands of angry progressives are demanding the DNC pull the Democratic National Convention out of Charlotte in protest of North Carolina's vote to amend its constitution to ban same-sex marriage. A Change.org petition advocating the move has already drawn more than 27,000 signatures, and the same sentiment is lighting up Twitter feeds, the Raleigh News & Observer reports. "As an LGBT Democrat married in Iowa, I wouldn't set foot in North Carolina," read one typical tweet. More»

'I'll be thoroughly polite,' he tells Glenn Beck

(NEWSER) - As if the Secret Service didn't have enough to deal with just now, agents are meeting today with shoot-from-the-lip rocker Ted Nugent . They're concerned about his comments that he'll be "dead or in jail" if President Obama wins reelection, apparently indicating some kind of violence . During the meeting he intends to be as "polite and supportive as I possibly can be, which will be thoroughly," Nugent told Glenn Beck yesterday . "The bottom line is I've never threatened anybody's life in my life," Nugent added. "I don't threaten, I don't waste breath threatening. I just conduct myself as a dedicated 'We the people' activist." More»