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The 5 Funniest Glenn Beck Parodies Of All Time (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.14.2009 | Comedy

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It's hard to mock Glenn Beck. He's sort of become a caricature of himself, leaving little room for others to inject more humor into the situation. But...

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Hooked on Fame: Balloon Boy's Dad Isn't the Only Publicity Junkie

BJ Gallagher | Posted 10.24.2009 | Media

Read More: Addiction, Balloon Boy, Richard Heene, Jesse Jackson, Recovery, Fame Addict, Glen Beck, Jon Gosselin, Sarah Palin, Media News
BJ Gallagher

Fame is like alcohol. Some people can handle it and others can't.

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Obama and the Political Center

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Birthers, John McCain, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, George W. Bush, Health Care Reform, Fox News, Democratic Party, Glen Beck, Republican Party, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

The failure of McCain's divisive message to resonate beyond the base should have alerted Republican leaders to the resurgence of the center, but they seemed to have missed this clue.

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Rush Thrown For a Loss

Charles Warner | Posted 10.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, NFL Players Union, Media News
Charles Warner

Although I have a deep-seated suspicion and dislike for most unions, the NFL Players union is doing the right thing by speaking out against the racist entertainer Rush Limbaugh.

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New White House Line Against Fox: It's War

Ari Melber | Posted 10.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Dan Pfeifer, Robert Gibbs, Anita Dunn, Major Garrett, Bill Burton, Obama, Fox News, Media Bias, Jen Psaki, Media News
Ari Melber

In the most significant exchange on CNN, Communications Director Anita Dunn stressed that Obama now personally views Fox as a partisan opponent, rather than a journalistic organization.

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Obama Wins the Publisher's Clearing House Prize, Conservatives Protest

Erik Sean Nelson | Posted 10.10.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Michelle Bachmann, Nobel Peace Prize, Glen Beck, Barack Obama, Obama Nobel Peace Prize Reaction, Obama Nobel Peace Prize, Comedy, President Obama, Comedy News
Erik Sean Nelson

When the Publisher's Clearing House Van pulled up to the White House, Obama was surprised by balloons, cameras, and an over-sized check for one million dollars.

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When Pundits Attack: The Beck-Brooks Fight

Ari Melber | Posted 10.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Van Jones, David Brooks, Right Wing Talk Radio, Talk Radio, Rush Limbaugh, Conservative Talk Radio, Glenn Beck, 2008 Election, Media News
Ari Melber

After the summer of townhalls and what's shaping up as the autumn of Glenn Beck, it is hard to see things through David Brooks' bifocals.

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Fake News Is the Real News

Roderick Spencer | Posted 10.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Glen Beck, Walter Cronkite, Education, Real News, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Facts, Standards, Comedy, Fake News, Media News
Roderick Spencer

It strikes me as downright surreal that Stewart and Colbert, and not the 'real' anchorpersons, seem to be the people on TV who actively adhere to concepts like fairness, primary sources and facts.

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Thug Politics in America

Karen Finney | Posted 10.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: John McCain, Newsmax, Cnn, Lou Dobbs, Obama, Democrats, Glen Beck, Clinton Administration, Tom Friedman, Republicans, Politics News
Karen Finney

Having seen this movie before as a staffer in the Clinton Administration, it is painful to again watch the right-wing machinery crank into overdrive; and the rhetoric spin up on all sides.

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I Am Afraid of Getting Old and Irrelevant

Norman Horowitz | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living

Read More: Bill O’Reiley, Glen Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Liz Cheney?, And Lest We Forget, Sarah Palin, Living News
Norman Horowitz

We arranged for the rich to get richer, the sick to get sicker, and the uneducated to stay that way.

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Oh, Now You Care

Vanessa Carmichael | Posted 09.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Socialism, Tea Baggers, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, Tea Party, Illegal Immigrants, George W. Bush, Politics News
Vanessa Carmichael

Shame these outraged citizens weren't taking it to the streets during the Iraq War. We could have used their righteous indignation when Rumsfeld threw millions of Saddam's money at militants.

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A Case for Republican Secession (From Itself)

Michael B. Laskoff | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Al Qaeda, Slavery, Rush Limbaugh, Afghanistan, John Boehner, Adultry, Pakistan, Secession, Taliban, Race Baiting, Lindsey Graham, Civil War, Glen Beck, S.C. Governor Mark Sanford, Republican Party, Politics News
Michael B. Laskoff

Sometimes the body from which a political party springs is so filled with bile and corruption that its healthiest components should seek to go their own way. A case in point is today's Republican Party.

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Poll: Majority Of Republicans Oppose Wilson's "You Lie" Outburst

The Plum Line | Greg Sargent | Posted 11.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Censure, Gop, Joe Wilson You Lie, Glen Beck, House Republicans, Joe Wilson, Politics News

If, as expected, many House Republican officials rally behind Joe Wilson for his "you lie" moment during the House debate on Wilson today, they will b...

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Cloture Passes On Cass Sunstein, 63-35

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: White House, Blanche Lincoln, Cloture, Robert Bennett, Olympia Snowe, Orrin Hatch, Filibuster, Judd Gregg, Glen Beck, Cass Sunstein, Barack Obama, James Webb, Richard Lugar, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

On a 63-35 vote, the Senate has broken the filibuster against Cass Sunstein, President Obama's nominee for Administrator of the White House Office of ...

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Cass Sunstein Attacks Frustrate Conservative Fans

Washington Independent | David Weigel | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Cornyn, White House, Van Jones, Ed Morrissey, President Obama, Harry Reid, Saxby Chambliss, Glen Beck, Czars, Eric Cantor, Cass Sunstein, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Politics News

...The campaign against Sunstein has largely written itself. One of the most regularly cited legal scholars, the author, co-author, or editor of dozen...

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Thank You, Glenn Beck!

Arianna Huffington | Posted 10.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck, Green Jobs Czar, Green Jobs, Glenn Beck Van Jones, Van Jones, Van Jones Resigns, Glen Beck, Politics News
Arianna Huffington

Thank you, Glenn Beck. By helping force the resignation of Van Jones, you have done a great service to your country. But in the exact opposite way than you intended.

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Glenn Beck Clones Himself Because He "Loves America" (VIDEO)

Posted 10.20.2009 | Comedy

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DDT-loving, NBC-art-hating Glenn Beck, who has made the leap from average nutjob to leader of the deranged in the past year, has finally taken the nex...

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Blanche Lincoln Town Hall Overrun By Conspiracy Theorists

Time | Joe Klein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Blanche Lincoln, Van Jones, Iraq, Glen Beck, Health Reform, Cass Sunstein, Republicans, Politics News

I was at a Blanche Lincoln town hall meeting in Russellville, Arkansas, yesterday--and the number of people who believe that the President has larded ...

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Glenn Beck's Book Bumped From Amazon #1 by Progressive's First Book

Rob Kall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Book Reviews, Amazon.com, Glen Beck, Right-Wing Extremism, Progressives, David Swanson, Books, Media News
Rob Kall

Daybreak was written by first time author and progressive activist David Swanson.

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Glenn Beck's Attack On Van Jones: Fantasies and Falsehoods

Eva Paterson | Posted 09.28.2009 | Home

Read More: Glenn Beck, Van Jones, Glen Beck, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Civil Rights, Rodney King, Home News
Eva Paterson

Van Jones draws a distinction between "cheap patriotism" and "deep patriotism." I highly recommend that chapter to Glenn Beck.

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"We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rendition, Waterboarding, Detainees, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Interrogations, Torture, George W. Bush, Attorney General John Ashcroft, CIA Interrogators, Attorney General Eric Holder, Glen Beck, Robert F. Kennedy, Dick Cheney, Waterboard, Savak, CIA Torture Policies, Sean Hannity, CIA Prisoners, Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, 9-11, CIA Inspector General, John Durham, Dina, Orden, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.

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Health Care Protesters: "I'm All Right, Jack"

Tom Sullivan | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Sinclair Lewis, Katy Abram, Lawrence O'Donnell, Bruno Kirby, Firedoglake, Rick Perlstein, Health Care Reform, Glen Beck, Health Care, Town Hall Meetings, Politics News
Tom Sullivan

There is no "we" in the protester's view, no welcome for your tired, your poor, your huddled masses of fellow Americans, much less immigrants. There is only my family, my friends, my neighborhood, my church and my ethnic group,

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Aug. 17, 2009, News Update

Richard Valeriani | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Town Hall Debate, Mitch McConnell, Death Panels, Michael Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Glen Beck, Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, Jon Corzine, General Motors, Geico, Mel Martinez, Myanmar, Cnn, Sarah Palin, Cash for Clunkers, Eli Manning, Obama Town Hall, Waterboarding, Hilary Clinton Secretary of State, Obama Socialist, Town Hall Meetings, Hilary-Africa, Politics News
Richard Valeriani

Town hall meetings on health care reform....Debate or Debacle? Media make sure squeakiest wheels get the grease.

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On Health Care It's "E Pluribus" Without the "Unum"

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Arlen Specter, Health Care Town Halls, White Males, Town Hall Meetings, Health Care Debate, President Barack Obama. Obama's Health Care Reform, E Pluribus Unum, Tea Baggers, New York Times, Health Care Reform, Glen Beck, Democrats, Town Halls, Jacques Derrida, Derrida, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

The election of the first U.S. president of African descent has challenged a lot of people's self-identity. The loud, vicious, unruly behavior is a collective expression of white trepidation.

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More Orly Taitz!

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Bernie Goldberg, Anne Coulter, Far Right, Orly Taitz, Rush Limbaugh, Geithner ABC This Week, Dick Morris, President Barack Obama, Tea Baggers, Obama's Health Care Reform, Michelle Malkin, Glen Beck, Alan Keyes, Sarah Palin, George Stephanopoulos, Frank Gaffney, Birthers, Health Care Reform, Timothy Geithner, Alan Greenspan, Abc, Republican Party, Pundits, William Kristol, Birther Movement, Bill O'Reilly, Ms. Orly Taitz, Michael Savage, Taitz, Andrea Mitchell, Jerome Corsi, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Finally, we have an extreme right-wing personality making the rounds in the corporate media who tears down the facade of "legitimacy" the Far Right bestows upon its craziest enthusiasts.

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