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the big plan

Beck Will Host Conventions
to Educate America

He's shifting toward political organizer, plans big DC rally

4 hours, 34 minutes ago
(Newser) - Glenn Beck is fashioning himself into a political organizer. Beck unveiled his promised "big plan" today at a Florida rally , in a letter to supporters, and in an interview with the New York Times . He plans a series of educational "conventions" across the country to teach people "... More »

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Fox News • Glenn Beck • conservative base • small government • Glenn Beck Arguing With Idiots • Glenn Beck's 'big plan'

poll shows dead heat


 Far-Right 
 Challenger 
 a Threat 
 to McCain 

Talk show host JD Hayworth gets close in new poll

Nov 20, 09 10:09 AM CST
(Newser) - Everyone’s favorite maverick could be unseated in 2010 by a hard-line conservative talk show host who's mulling a bid, a new Rasmussen poll suggests. John McCain leads potential primary opponent JD Hayworth, a local radio host and former House member, by a razor-thin 2%, which is within the poll’... More »

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John McCain • Arizona • primary • conservative • Senate Republicans • conservative base • poll numbers • US Senate • tea parties • JD Hayworth • McCain Hayworth • McCain Senate primary

Jonah Goldberg

Conservatives Aren't Crazy, They Just Want
Their Turn

8 years of Bush
didn't count

Nov 3, 09 12:53 PM CST
(Newser) - Don’t listen to the liberals telling you the right is crazy and going to heck in a handbasket. The reality is far simpler: “After 15 or 20 years of steady moderation, many conservatives think it might be time to give their ideas a try,” writes Jonah Goldberg... More »

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conservative • compassionate conservatism • conservative base • George W. Bush • Jonah Goldberg

'Tea Party' to Fight Dozen GOP Candidates in 2010

Conservatives taking aim at moderates

Nov 3, 09 12:00 PM CST
(Newser) - This election cycle could herald all-out war between far-right conservatives and the Republican establishment. Empowered by their success in pushing the GOP candidate out of the race in New York’s 23rd District, tea party activists and their allies plan to launch primary challenges against more than a dozen GOP... More »

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conservative • Charlie Crist • Bob Bennett • conservative base • Dick Armey • Rob Simmons • tea parties • Mark Kirk • Tea Party

Mutiny!

 Conservatives 
 Declare War on GOP 

New York race just the beginning, activists say

Nov 2, 09 8:36 AM CST
(Newser) - The conservative coup in New York’s special election shows just how little control the GOP has over the ascendant tea party movement—it's a mutiny, and it's just gaining steam, activists say. The folks who helped push Republican Dede Scozzafava out of the race in favor of conservative Doug... More »

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Republican • conservative • Charlie Crist • conservative base • conservative movement • Tea Party • Doug Hoffman • Dede Scozzafava • 23rd District • election day November 2009

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

(Newser) - The so-called “tea party” movement has spawned a host of primary challengers for House Republicans, pressuring them to stay far to the right, CQ Politics reports. “I’ve got four primary challengers, and all of them hope to capitalize on the tea parties,” complains Bob Inglis of... More »

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Republican • primary • conservative • right wingers • House Republicans • conservative base • Tea Party

 How the Crazies Took Over 

Birthers, Limbaugh, Beck fill vacuum as Obama tries to stay above the fray

Sep 21, 09 3:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - As recently as this spring, the Tea Party movement seemed anemic and wonky. But in the months that followed, Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others whipped the right-wing fringe into such a frenzy that a “separate reality grew like a second head on the American polity,” Philip Weiss... More »

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Barack Obama • RNC • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Republican Party • Glenn Beck • right-wing media • conservative base • right-wing attacks • Obama administration • Republicans • right-wing extremism • birther • World Net Daily

 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

OPINION

Malkin: Left
Tries to Stamp Out Civil Dissent

Foes of health care reform aren't out of control—liberals are

Aug 5, 09 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - The same “Democrat Masters of Astroturf” who delight in liberal activism are crying foul about the perfectly valid rabble-rousing of Tea Party activists, writes Michelle Malkin on her blog. Conservative activists have been told to pack Democratic events and heckle them, something one liberal blogger describes as “civic... More »

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Michelle Malkin • health care reform • conservative base • activists • conservatives

OPINION

Conservatives Are Stunting This Child's Growth

CPAC-types should nurture intellect instead of keeping him simple

Mar 11, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - If you watched the gathering of the tribes at the Conservative Political Action Conference last week, you might’ve caught 14-year-old Jonathan Krohn’s speech. It seems odd, blogs Ta-Nehisi Coates for the Atlantic, to flaunt the idea that conservative talking points are simple enough for an adolescent to master.... More »

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CPAC • conservative base • Jonathan Krohn

 Draft Your 
 Limbaugh 
 Apology Here 

Democratic site
mocks GOP regrets to right-wing radio guru

Mar 4, 09 5:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Democrats have launched a website to mock the stream of Republicans rushing to apologize to Rush Limbaugh, the New York Daily News reports. Imsorryrush.com, launched on the official DNC site, helps users formulate a mock note of regret for publicly criticizing the radio host. They can sign it on... More »

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technology • Democrats • Republican • Rush Limbaugh • conservative base • Michael Steele • conservative media • Bill Maher Grid

OPINION

Infrastructure Revitalization Is Right and Right

A conservative argues for investing in water, energy, transport

Dec 8, 08 12:12 PM CST
(Newser) - Conservatives who fear that investing in the nation’s infrastructure goes against core Reaganite values need to get over it. Our aging energy, water, and transportation systems are in dire need of corporate dollars and ingenuity, but “the private sector alone cannot handle the job—and the states are... More »

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economics • electricity • Reagan Revolution • investment • transportation • infrastructure • Treasury Department • drinking water • conservative base

OPINION

 Blame Rush
 and Co. for
 GOP's Fall 

Divisiveness makes for good ratings, bad political movement

Nov 17, 08 12:40 PM CST
(Newser) - Blame has been flying in Republican circles, but not enough has stuck where it belongs: on conservative talk radio. Rush Limbaugh and his imitators skyrocketed to prominence by being "rabble-rousers—high intensity, 'hot' performers whose appeal is based on energizing their base," writes Steven Stark in the More »

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talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • Mike Huckabee • Ronald Reagan • right-wing media • conservative base • Sarah Palin • conservative movement

(Newser) - The conservative movement is at a crossroads, torn between its intellectuals (think David Brooks) and its shouters (think Rush Limbaugh). As TV’s main conservative voice, Fox News could tip the scales, so Isaac Chotiner of the New Republic watched as much of the channel as he could. His verdict... More »

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Bill O'Reilly • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Fox News • Election 2008 • media bias • conservative base • Brit Hume

 Conservatives 
 Plan Future 
 With Palin 

Conservatives meet to make plans

Oct 29, 08 11:46 AM CDT
(Newser) - A “who’s who of conservative leaders” will meet in Virginia next Wednesday to plot their movement’s future, and the top item on their agenda will be Sarah Palin. Win or lose, many see Palin as the new face of the Republican party, the New York Times ... More »

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John McCain • GOP • Republican Party • Election 2008 • conservative base • Sarah Palin • conservatives

Religious Right Plots Takeover of GOP

Moderates have
pushed party out of power, some argue

Oct 28, 08 3:06 PM CDT
(Newser) - Social conservatives are wrangling with moderates for control of the GOP, plotting a January takeover of the Republican National Committee even if John McCain wins, the Los Angeles Times reports. Moderates like Colin Powell say the party has alienated voters—especially minorities—by narrowing its focus, but “moderating our... More »

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immigration • John McCain • abortion • gay marriage • RNC • Republican Party • illegal immigration • social conservatives • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • conservative base

'Outsider' Palin Used Media Insiders to
Win VP Nod

PR firm helped her woo pundits, make case

Oct 20, 08 4:23 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin likes to play up her outsider credentials while decrying the media elite, but she’s relied on both throughout her career. Belying her mockery of the “mainstream media,” Palin hired a well-connected PR firm to target East Coast journalists and courted conservative media insiders who eventually... More »

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John McCain • media • Joe Lieberman • Republican Party • McCain 2008 • Election 2008 • conservative base • Sarah Palin • McCain-Palin • Dick Morris • William Kristol

 Anger Growing at GOP Rallies 

McCain-Palin rallies taking an angry turn

Oct 10, 08 9:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - With the polls going south for John McCain, the anger is becoming palpable at his campaign’s rallies, reports Politico. Party supporters are not only lashing out at Barack Obama—one audence member shouted "Terrorist" when McCain mentioned him—but they're frustrated that McCain isn't going into attack mode... More »

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John McCain • Election 2008 • conservative base • Sarah Palin

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