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(Newser) - Time hits newsstands tomorrow with a familiar face on the cover and the question, "Mad Man: Is Glenn Beck Bad for America?" But instead of a hit piece, the article itself offers a fairly benign profile of "the pudgy, buzz-cut, weeping phenomenon of radio, TV and books."... More »

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conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Time magazine • right wingers

OPINION

 Working Class Picks 
 Wrong Villains 


Sep 17, 09 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - When the tea party protesters converged on Washington, one leader, radio demagogue Mark Williams, repeatedly described them as “working stiffs” who felt left out. It’s no wonder they’re angry, writes Timothy Egan for the New York Times, because it’s been a lost decade for “... More »

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Bush administration • conservative • protests • tax cuts • deregulation • Obama administration • President Obama • tea parties

(Newser) - New Jerseyans are apparently having a difficult time figuring out whether the president is the devil or not, the Washington Independent reports. To be sure, a Public Policy Polling questionnaire has 79% of respondents responding “No” to the question “Do you think Barack Obama is the Anti-Christ?”... More »

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Barack Obama • conservative • voters • Satan • The Antichrist • opinion polls • President Obama • devil

 Maybe Obama's 'Half-White 
 Side' Is Racist: Limbaugh 

Also, president's media 'lust' is Castroesque

Sep 16, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh yesterday capped off a free-wheeling show on the scourge of racism in America by suggesting that Obama’s white half is racist because he hasn’t thrown a bone to his Kenyan relatives, Media Matters reports. “I'm just going on Newsweek, that we're all born racists, and... More »

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Kenya • radio • Fidel Castro • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Kanye West • Serena Williams • racism • homosexuality • talk show • President Obama • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

analysis

Fad or Movement? March Tests Sway of Tea Parties 

Vocal minority could hurt Republicans, critics say

Sep 12, 09 11:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - The “Tea Party Express” bus has rolled into Washington today for a “Taxpayer March” to the Capitol, and if you listen to organizers, it’s the start of a real political movement. “You can’t manufacture this kind of thing,” says a conservative radio host. A... More »

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conservative • protests • Glenn Beck • march • tea parties • FreedomWorks Foundation

Opinion Roundup

 Right: Angry 
 Obama Exploited 
 Kennedy, Failed 
 to Compromise 

President steps up, doubles down on health care reform

Sep 10, 09 9:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative commentators were, predictably, less than impressed with the president's big speech on health care reform last night. Here’s what they’re saying:
  • Obama’s speech “was 40 minutes of boilerplate followed by a socko, emotional finish exploiting the death of Sen. Teddy Kennedy,” Fred Barnes
... More »

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Barack Obama • conservative • health care reform • pundits • speech

(Newser) - The eagerly anticipated speech President Obama will deliver to the nation's schoolchildren tomorrow contains none of the socialist indoctrination conservatives had apparently feared, Politico reports. Rather, an advance text indicates, he urges kids to work hard, not expect to get something for nothing, and "wash your hands a lot,... More »

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education • conservative • Virginia • back to school • speech • Obama administration • President Obama • schoolchildren • Wakefield High School • Arlington, Va.

Obama School Address Infuriates Critics

Republicans denounce speech as 'socialist' indoctrination

Sep 3, 09 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conservative critics are blasting President Obama’s plan to give a speech on education in Virginia next week as a ploy to brainwash the nation’s children, the Washington Post reports. The address, which the White House is encouraging educators and students to watch, is part of a push to... More »

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education • Barack Obama • Republican • conservative • children • school • Virginia • Republican Party • Obama administration • President Obama • Tommy Vietor • Thaddeus McCotter • House Education and Labor Committee • Jim Greer

OPINION

 Obama Site Calls 
 Conservatives 
 'Terrorists' 

Apparently user-generated posting sent to supporters

Sep 2, 09 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - A message posted on President Obama’s “Organizing for America” website and sent to its supporters “likens conservatives to al-Qaeda terrorists,” writes Rory Cooper for the Heritage Foundation. The posting, which Cooper notes “may have been user-generated,” calls for a phone campaign to Senators on... More »

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email • conservative • terrorist • website • President Obama • Organizing for America

 Beck's Ratings Surge 
 as Ad Boycott Continues 

Six more firms to refuse to run ads on host's show

Aug 27, 09 3:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The audience for Glenn Beck’s Fox News show continues to swell even as more advertisers decline to run commercials on the program in the wake of the talk-show host's assertion that President Obama is a racist, the Los Angeles Times reports. Beck’s Monday night show attracted 2.81... More »

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Republican • advertising • conservative • radicals • Fox News • Glenn Beck • boycott • conservative base • leftist

Limbaugh
on Kennedy:
I Told You So

Shock jock crows over his prediction of the senator's death, fallout

Aug 27, 09 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh gave himself a big pat on the back yesterday for predicting that Ted Kennedy would kick the bucket—and that it would be used as an “inspirational technique” to boost health care reform efforts. “Before it’s all over it’ll be called the Ted Kennedy... More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Ted Kennedy • health care reform

 Palin to Fans: Watch Beck 

Ex-governor encourages Facebook friends to find out 'who is actually running the White House'

Aug 26, 09 2:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin is using her social-media soapbox to plug Glenn Beck’s Fox News show, Politico reports. In a message to her 829,000 Facebook friends, Palin says the host has been "doing an extraordinary job this week walking America behind the scenes of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and outlining... More »

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GOP • Facebook • conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck • Sarah Palin

 Obama Urges 
 Activists to
 Retake Health 
 Care Debate 

White House struggles to regain message control

Aug 20, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama urged the grassroots activists who helped him so much in the presidential campaign to do the same in the health care debate, Politico reports. “Now come on," the president told members of Organizing for America in a conference call today. "The best ambassadors for true... More »

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health care • White House • conservative • grassroots • health care reform • Obama administration • Organizing for America

APPRECIATION

 Novak: Last of the
 Shoe-Leather 
 Columnists 


Aug 19, 09 5:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most Americans will remember Robert Novak as the acerbic right-winger on CNN, but he saw himself first and foremost as "a shoe-leather reporter," writes Washington Post media critic Howard Kurtz. Novak prided himself on getting scoops and uncovering secrets via a wide network of Republican officials. But that... More »

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Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • conservative • obituary • CNN • columnists • Robert Novak • Howard Kurtz

analysis



 Why Gingrich 
 Became Catholic 


Aug 16, 09 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich shrugged off religious issues while in office, and was recently seen reading a novel before Mass—so why his sudden conversion to Catholicism? Some analysts say he converted this spring to position himself for the Republican nomination in 2012. Joining other high-profile conservatives on the road to Rome,... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Catholic Church • conservative • convert • Catholic • conversion • Election 2012

$57M Health Care Battle Infects Airwaves

Groups spend $57M on tough TV ads

Aug 15, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A popular ad blasting President Obama’s health care effort symbolizes the overhaul with a bulging balloon: Eventually, the balloon bursts, as could Obama’s ambitious plan if the White House loses a fierce TV ad war against critics, Katharine Q. Seelye writes in the New York Times. So far... More »

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health care • Barack Obama • conservative • political activism • health care reform • tv ads

(Newser) - The list of Republican presidential hopefuls just keeps getting longer. Former Sen. Rick Santorum will make the first of several scheduled trips to Iowa in October, reports Politico. The conservative Santorum, of course, isn't explicitly calling it a scouting trip for 2012, but he acknowledged he wants a bigger role... More »

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Iowa • GOP • conservative • Rick Santorum • Republicans

 Meet the New Sarah Palin 


Aug 8, 09 8:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - With Sarah Palin gone, Democrats have penciled a new name atop their hitlist: Michelle Bachmann, the far-right Minnesota rep. who once called Barack Obama “anti-American.” Like Palin, Bachmann’s a fierce social conservative with a large family and an upper Midwestern accent. And, of course, she drives Democrats... More »

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conservative • Minnesota • social conservatives • Sarah Palin • Michele Bachmann

(Newser) - Israeli police have recommended the indictment of the country's foreign minister for bribery, money laundering, and other corruption charges, Haaretz reports. Avigdor Lieberman, who leads the ultranationalist Yisrael Beiteinu party and was kingmaker in February's closely-run election, has been under investigation for years and is accused of funneling cash to... More »

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Israel • Ehud Olmert • conservative • bribery • corruption • money laundering • Avigdor Lieberman • corruption charges • Yisrael Beiteinu • foreign minister

OPINION

 GOP Needs Its Brains Back 


Jul 31, 09 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Republican sycophants may think Sarah Palin’s resignation was brilliant, “but don’t kid yourself,” writes Robert Eisinger in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “The GOP is in trouble.” The party has lost its intellectual coherence, and if it wants it back, it’s got to look beyond... More »

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Mitt Romney • Newt Gingrich • conservative • Rob Portman • Republican Party • John Sununu • academics • Sarah Palin • Mark Sanford • intellectual

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