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Glenn Beck stories: 100 news summaries

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HE'S GOT A BOOK OUT, TOO

 Beck to Unveil 
 'Big Plan' at 
 Saturday Rally 

Righty pundit OK with destroying Dems and GOP

26 minutes ago
(Newser) - Glenn Beck has got a “big plan” for 2010, and he’s going to let us in on it tomorrow at a Florida rally that coincides with the beginning of his book tour, insiders tell Politico . The Fox News host’s new direction is likely to involve his 9.... More »

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Florida • Fox News • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • Democratic Party • conservative media • Glenn Beck book tour • Glenn Beck Arguing With Idiots • Glenn Beck's 'big plan' • 9.12 Project

 Palin Hints at 
 Ticket With 
 Beck in 2012 

'He's so bold,' gushes Sarah

Nov 19, 09 5:28 AM CST
(Newser) - Duck and cover. Sarah Palin made only positive noises when asked about a possible run at the presidency with Glenn Beck as her running mate. "I can envision a couple of different combinations if ever I were to consider running for anything in the future. But Glenn Beck I... More »

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Joan Walsh • Glenn Beck • Sarah Palin • 2012 presidential race • Sarah Palin-Glenn Beck ticket

 ADL: Beck Is Top 
 Hate Monger 

He's offering 'platform to extremists,' report charges

Nov 18, 09 2:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Right-wing Fox mouth Glenn Beck is the most toxic media hate monger operating in the US today, according to a report by the Anti-Defamation League. "Beck has made a habit of demonizing President Obama and promoting conspiracy theories about his administration," the r eport states. He "has... More »

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Rush Limbaugh • extremists • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • right-wing media • right-wing attacks • Anti-Defamation League • right-wing extremism • conspiracy theorists

 Hoffman 'Unconcedes' in NY-23 

Still, Conservative calls overtaking Dem Owens 'long shot'

Nov 16, 09 8:32 PM CST
(Newser) - Though he's not even sure if he can do such a thing, the Conservative candidate in the special election in New York's 23rd Congressional District told Glenn Beck this afternoon he's "unconceding" after recounts narrowed his deficit with several thousand absentee ballots still uncounted. "If I knew this... More »

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Glenn Beck • recount • Doug Hoffman • 23rd District • Bill Owens • unconceding

Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Liberal bloggers' Hannity, Beck clips yanked

Nov 13, 09 7:01 AM CST
(Newser) - A YouTube channel that specialized in capturing Fox commentators' most outrageous moments has been shut down after copyright complaints from the channel. News1News was the favorite choice of plenty of left-leaning blogs and news sources seeking to poke fun at Fox, notes Gawker , which has been left with plenty of... More »

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blogosphere • YouTube • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • copyright infringement

 Stewart Catches 
 Hannity Faking 
 Video Footage 

'If I didn't know better, I'd think they put two different days together'

Nov 11, 09 7:44 AM CST
(Newser) - Sean Hannity should know by now that Jon Stewart will go to the tape. The Daily Show host caught Hannity using old footage—from Glenn Beck’s 9/12 rally, no less—to make Thursday’s anti-health care bill rally appear to have, as Michele Bachmann and Hannity claimed, 20,000... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • health care reform • Michele Bachmann

STAND BY YOUR MAN

 I Agree With 
 Beck—Obama's 
 Racist: Murdoch 

Asked about Beck brouhaha, News Corp. chairman is unrepentant

Nov 10, 09 9:58 AM CST
(Newser) - Rupert Murdoch backed his host over his advertisers in a Sky News interview last weekend, saying Glenn Beck probably shouldn't have called President Obama a racist on the air some months back, but what he said was right. Asked about the Fox host's assertion that Obama made racist comments during... More »

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Rupert Murdoch • racism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • racist • Obama administration • President Obama • Sky News

FIRST AMENDMENT 1, GLENN BECK 0

Beck Loses Fight Against Satire Site

Owner gives up domain name suggesting rape, murder anyway

Nov 9, 09 6:20 PM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck came out on the losing end today in his attempt to shut down a satirical website the Fox News host alleged was defamatory and infringed on his trademark. And though an arbitrator ruled that “even a ‘moron in a hurry’ would not likely conclude that Complainant... More »

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free speech • satire • First Amendment • Fox News • Glenn Beck • conservative media • GlennBeckRapedandMurderedaYoungGirlin1990.com • Isaac Eiland-Hall • Isaac Eiland-Hall

PAUL KRUGMAN


 Paranoid GOP 
 Could Make US 
 'Ungovernable' 

Whack jobs' seizure of Republican Party 'no laughing matter'

Nov 9, 09 7:37 AM CST
(Newser) - The kind of paranoia that made last week's health care reform protesters wave signs showing corpses at Dachau is nothing new in right-wing American politics, but the fact that these people actually wield power is new—and deeply troubling, writes Paul Krugman . "The GOP has been taken over by... More »

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Republican Party • Glenn Beck • Paul Krugman • right wingers • Sarah Palin • paranoia • midterm elections

WATCH THE VIDEO


 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

Appendicitis attack is obviously part of a larger conspiracy, Jon says

Nov 6, 09 12:41 PM CST
(Newser) - Jon Stewart asked the tough questions last night: Now that Glenn Beck has lost his appendix, how are we going to stop the conspiracy to harvest the rest of his organs? The Daily Show host channeled everything Beck last night, from glasses-fiddling to chalkboard to leaps of logic. “... More »

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entertainment • celebrity • Fox News • Comedy Central • Jon Stewart • The Daily Show • Glenn Beck • appendicitis

Beck Pulls an Oprah, Pushing Thriller Writers

'It's almost conservative porn,' Fox host says
of one novel

Nov 5, 09 7:43 AM CST
(Newser) - Oprah's book club used to stand alone in its power to boost authors' sales and profiles. Then came Glenn Beck. The conservative Fox News pundit has endorsed dozens of novels and regularly hosts fiction writers on his show, a rare habit among talk show hosts. But unlike Oprah, Beck singles... More »

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fiction • Oprah Winfrey • Glenn Beck • book • political thriller • publishing industry

 Appendicitis Takes Beck Off Air 

Fox host has appendix removed, out indefinitely

Nov 4, 09 6:09 PM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s appendix accomplished today what the nasty wishes of liberals everywhere couldn’t: It took him off the air. Beck excused himself early from his national radio show; an exec at his production company confirmed the operation. “Before going under Glenn asked the doctor to draw out... More »

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Fox News • talk show • Glenn Beck • talk-show host • appendicitis • conservative media • appendix • Premiere Radio Networks

OPINION

Beck's Silent Red Phone
Is 'a Hotline
to Nowhere'

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

Nov 4, 09 6:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck likes to say that the red phone on his desk is a direct line to the White House, but of course it's a hotline to nowhere, just like the Fox host's whole schtick. Beck complains piteously that White House libbers won't call to respond to his issues, Thomas... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • right wingers • tea parties • Anita Dunn

 Beck Rates 
 Health Reform 
 as 9/11 Attack 


9/12ers are girding for this year's national catastrophe

Nov 3, 09 8:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Glenn Beck's found a new way to frame his opposition to heath care reform, and this one's a doozy: It's a terrorist attack. A decade ago “I could have shouted every single day about Osama bin Laden,” the Fox News commentator said, “and nobody would have... More »

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Congress • terrorism • September 11 • legislation • Glenn Beck • health care reform • 9/11 attacks • 9/12 Project • Sam Stein • 9/12ers

Frank Rich

 NY 23rd: GOP's Lose-Lose War 

Righties are now a 'wacky, paranoid cult eager to eat' their own

Nov 1, 09 11:35 AM CST
(Newser) - Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck are the undisputed standard-bearers for true conservatives, and they've just led a suicidal attack in upstate New York in what's become "a riotous and bloody national GOP civil war." For Frank Rich , there's only one sure outcome: 'Republicans are the sure losers" in... More »

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Frank Rich • Glenn Beck • right wingers • Sarah Palin • Doug Hoffman • Dede Scozzafava • 23rd District

Clarence Page

Actually, Fox Is
a Legit News Operation

Obama must start following through on campaign promises

Oct 25, 09 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Risking his wife's wrath, Clarence Page has to admit he agrees with Sean Hannity. The Fox News host has correctly called President Obama on the disconnect between campaign rhetoric and the attempted boycott of Hannity's employer. "It is disingenuous for right-wing pundits to accuse Obama of dividing the country,... More »

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television • media • cable TV • White House • journalism • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sean Hannity • Obama administration • President Obama

 Game Plays Out 
 2011 Obama Coup 

Ron Paul fans behind scenario, which also finds Glenn Beck dead

Oct 24, 09 5:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - For the burgeoning ranks of political paranoids, a scenario in which President Obama dissolves the Constitution, bans guns and drags the US into a union with Mexico and Canada seems not all that far-fetched. Now, thanks to some Ron Paul supporters, you can prepare for 2011 (yep, that soon!)... More »

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Mexico • Democratic Congress • Canada • Fox News • Ron Paul • Michelle Malkin • Glenn Beck • US Constitution • libertarians • online gaming • gun ban • coup d'etat • President Obama • United States of Earth • imam

Beck, Limbaugh & Co. Scare
GOP Brass

Top Republicans complain talkers are pushing party to fringe

Oct 22, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Top Republicans are fed up with Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh—off the record at least. Without naming names, Politico says that “congressional leaders” privately complain that the conservative commentariat is hurting their chances in 2010 by pushing the party too far to the fringe. Operatives close to top... More »

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Mitt Romney • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Tim Pawlenty • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base

ANALYSIS

 Meet the Future 
 of Conservatism 

Novice Doug Hoffman is shaking up the right

Oct 21, 09 6:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - He's a "nerdy-looking" political novice, but Doug Hoffman just may be the "conservative superstar of the future," writes Marc Ambinder. Hoffman is running as a Conservative in the closely watched special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district. Despite his lack of experience, the lifelong accountant... More »

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Congress • New York • GOP • conservative • Michelle Malkin • Glenn Beck • conservative base • Doug Hoffman

WATCH THE VIDEO

 Beck: Progressives 
 Are Like Slave Owners 

Plus, Fox News host is now traveling with an armed guard

Oct 21, 09 7:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s latest metaphor: Progressives are like slave owners. He came up with this one last night while bemoaning the thousands of people in Detroit who lined up to apply for, as he called it, “free government money that we don’t know where it came from,”... More »

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conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • stimulus funds • progressives

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