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NEWS ABOUT: Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck: I'm Like Paul Revere

And he's now apparently off to fight the 'revolution'

(Newser) - Why is Glenn Beck giving up his show on Fox News ? The host addressed the question at the end of his show yesterday, but left his future plans something of a mystery, Mediaite notes. Beck made it clear to his viewers that he feels "we are heading for... More »

Fox Couldn't Control Glenn Beck Anymore

Both sides seem genuinely happy that it's over

(Newser) - Plenty of speculation is out there about what finally caused Glenn Beck and Fox News to pull the plug on his show , but Glynnis MacNicol at Business Insider thinks it boils down to this: "Beck and Fox are parting ways because Beck had too much power and Fox couldn't... More »

Glenn Beck Ending Fox Show

Fox News host will air his last 5pm broadcast later this year

(Newser) - This time, the rumors are true: Glenn Beck will end his daily show on Fox News later this year, reports the New York Times . Beck's production company, Mercury Radio Arts, announced the move today in a joint statement with Fox. No word yet on when the final show will be.... More »

Secrets of a Beck-Loving Liberal

Right-wing radio is lefty Orrin Onken's guilty pleasure

(Newser) - There’s something about right-wing talk radio that’s undeniably attractive—even for a “sushi-eating, Prius-driving, gay-marriage-supporting Oregon liberal” like Orrin Onken, he writes in Salon . Though he’s always been a lefty, Onken began listening in high school, and he’s maintained his “dirty little secret” for... More »

Alex Jones: Glenn Beck Is Ripping Me Off!

Conspiracy-loving host thinks Beck is, well, a conspiracy

(Newser) - Ever notice a distinct similarity between the conspiracy-laden rants of Glenn Beck and Alex Jones? Well Jones has, too, and naturally, he thinks it’s a conspiracy. In an interview with New York magazine , spotted by the Atlantic , Jones says Beck ripped him off—and is up to no good.... More »

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... More »

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.... More »

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 ... More »

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... More »

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 ... More »

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,... More »

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... More »

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 ... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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... More »

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