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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2009
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the big plan

Beck Will Host Conventions
to Educate America

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

HE'S GOT A BOOK OUT, TOO

 Beck to Unveil 
 'Big Plan' at 
 Saturday Rally 

Righty pundit OK with destroying Dems and GOP

 ADL: Beck Is Top 
 Hate Monger 

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

 Hoffman 'Unconcedes' in NY-23 

Still, Conservative calls overtaking Dem Owens 'long shot'

Fox Crushes Unflattering YouTube Channel

Liberal bloggers' Hannity, Beck clips yanked

 Stewart Catches 
 Hannity Faking 
 Video Footage 

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

STAND BY YOUR MAN

 I Agree With 
 Beck—Obama's 
 Racist: Murdoch 

Asked about Beck brouhaha, News Corp. chairman is unrepentant

FIRST AMENDMENT 1, GLENN BECK 0

Beck Loses Fight Against Satire Site

Owner gives up domain name suggesting rape, murder anyway

PAUL KRUGMAN


 Paranoid GOP 
 Could Make US 
 'Ungovernable' 

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

WATCH THE VIDEO


 Jon Stewart 
 Channels 
 Glenn Beck 

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

Beck Pulls an Oprah, Pushing Thriller Writers

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

 Appendicitis Takes Beck Off Air 

Fox host has appendix removed, out indefinitely

OPINION

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

Host's willful nonsense is the 'new ignorance'

 Beck Rates 
 Health Reform 
 as 9/11 Attack 


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

Frank Rich

 NY 23rd: GOP's Lose-Lose War 

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

Clarence Page

Actually, Fox Is
a Legit News Operation

Obama must start following through on campaign promises

 Game Plays Out 
 2011 Obama Coup 

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

Beck, Limbaugh & Co. Scare
GOP Brass

Top Republicans complain talkers are pushing party to fringe

ANALYSIS

 Meet the Future 
 of Conservatism 

Novice Doug Hoffman is shaking up the right

WATCH THE VIDEO

 Beck: Progressives 
 Are Like Slave Owners 

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

OPINION

 Paranoid 'Pseudocons' Hijacking Right

Logic-defying conspiracy theories jump from the fringe to the mainstream

OPINION

Glenn Beck's Paranoia
Is a Gold Mine

Gold to guns, scribe says there's profit to be made off right wingers

Beck Moves Obama From 'Hitler' to 'Mao'

Hollywood in cahoots with the prez to force us to volunteer



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Off the Grid a Michael Wolff Newser Column

Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar

3
Nov 24, 09 | 10:10 AM BY Michael Wolff

Microsoft is a company that Rupert Murdoch understands. When he talks about the technology business or about the Internet or Google, which, on at least one occasion, I’ve heard him call Gadget, he invariably reverts to talking about Microsoft, which, on at least one occasion, I’ve heard him call IBM. What is Microsoft going to do? he asks, oddly echoing—indeed anticipating—Jeff Jarvis’ book, What Would Google Do? Murdoch’s question... More »

Books Are Bad for You

20
Nov 23, 09 | 8:41 AM BY Michael Wolff

A few years ago, writing about the book business and how dumbed down and craven books had become—and pathetic, designed only to sell... More »

The Health-Care Wars Have Just Begun

11
Nov 20, 09 | 8:32 AM BY Michael Wolff

My 84-year-old mother was full of venomous indignation at dinner last night over the great mammogram take-back. Bureaucrats, in her view,... More »

Sarah Palin Deserves Some More Attention

17
Nov 19, 09 | 10:14 AM BY Michael Wolff

This is a phenomenon that just keeps giving. Its very lack of explanation, and ensuing incredulity and apoplexy, propel it. There... More »

And We Thought We Hated Mammograms

8
Nov 18, 09 | 2:40 PM BY Caroline Miller

No one likes to get a mammogram. Still, it’s hard to find a woman anywhere who was pleased to hear the new ruling that... More »

China and the Obese: The President Meets His Greatest Problems

12
Nov 18, 09 | 8:43 AM BY Michael Wolff

For all sorts of obvious reasons, it seems like a greatly unacceptable and possibly discriminatory thing to say that the obese are a lot... More »

Rupert Murdoch’s Guy Gets It

7
Nov 17, 09 | 6:50 AM BY Michael Wolff

If Arthur Miller were at it again, he’d call the play Death of a PR Guy. Gary Ginsberg, Murdoch’s PR guy who got... More »

Obama's Secret Weapon: The Hug

4
Nov 16, 09 | 12:30 PM BY Lewis Grossberger

President Obama needs to get the hell out of China as fast as he can, rush back to America and start hugging Republicans. This will... More »

The President Wants You to Know He’s Too Dopey to Use Twitter

19
Nov 16, 09 | 8:01 AM BY Michael Wolff

“First of all, let me say that I have never used Twitter. I notice that young people—you know, they’re very busy with... More »

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