Glenn Beck

Health Care Reform to Destruction

Stanton Peele | Posted 07.11.2009 | Living

Read More: Health Care Reform, Glenn Beck, Sicko, Newt Gingrich, Sean Hannity, Michael Moore, Universal Healthcare, Living News

Americans will always demand the most treatment, at any cost. For them, good health care means someone else -- insurance companies, employers, the government -- will pay for it.

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John Oliver Rips Beck, Limbaugh: "Kind Of A Joke In Themselves"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sahil Kapur | Posted 07.09.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Mainstream Media, Comedy, Oliver Beck, Campus Progress, John Oliver, Daily Show, Rush Limbaugh, Oliver Media, Oliver Limbaugh, Media, Humor, Glenn Beck, Comedy News

The Daily Show's John Oliver is unhappy with mainstream journalism, and even drearier on the notion that he's something of a journalist. "I watch cab...

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Daily Show's John Oliver rips Limbaugh, Beck, Blitzer and (possibly) Olbermann

Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: John Oliver, Daily Show, Rush Limbaugh, Washington Times, Bellantoni, President Obama, Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Campus Progress, Center for American Progress, President Clinton, Politics News

First published at WashingtonTimes.com The Daily Show's John Oliver was a top attraction today at the Campus Progress conference in D.C. Right before...

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An Open Letter To Attorney General Eric Holder

Frank Schaeffer | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Justice Department, Domestic Violence, Eric Holder, Politics News

The more successful our progressive President becomes with the majority of Americans, the more extreme his far right critics are going to become.

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New York to Nashville: Two Manhattan Liberals Boldly Go Forth into America's Heartland

Samantha Marshall | Posted 07.07.2009 | New York

Read More: Nashville, Obama, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Guns, Bbq, Sarah Palin, New York News

In a media capital like New York, we're obsessed, and a little suspicious of anyone whose views don't line up on the side of political correctness. But, south of the Mason-Dixon line, other priorities loom large.

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Pleading the Fifth: The Palin Constitution Revolution

Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, 4th of July, Abraham Lincoln, Twitter, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Illinois, George Bush, Constitution, Tax Day Tea Party, Tea Party, Politics News

I don't know what to call it but the Convolution Party aired its brand new platform on the steps of a Land of Lincoln courthouse, some in their Glenn Beck Live Free or Die shirts.

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Census 2010: The Right's Super-Secret Plan to End All Plans

Karl Frisch | Posted 07.02.2009 | Media

Pssst. Hey, conservatives ... I want to let you in on a devious little plan being hatched by your leaders in the media.

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Jon Stewart Blasts Glenn Beck & Michael Scheuer For Promoting Slaughter Of Americans (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.02.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Jon Stewart, Fearmongering, Video, Osama Bin Laden, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Terrorism, Daily Show, Michael Scheuer Glenn Beck, Michael Scheuer, Glenn Beck Michael Scheuer, Beck Scheuer, Glen Beck, Jon Stewart Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart Michael Scheuer, Comedy News

Stewart spoke from the perspective of someone who lived through a terrorist attack and had little patience for fools who just casually suggest that maybe we'd all benefit from another one.

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Franken's Critics Agonize Over Senate Victory (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Video, Paranoia, Al Franken, Minnesota Senate Race, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Media News

Yesterday, Al Franken, after a protracted Hundred Years War with Norm Coleman that played out in front of every legal body in the state of Minnesota, ...

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Glenn Beck Guest: Osama Bin Laden Should Attack Again (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics

Read More: Video, Fearmongering, Paranoia, Terrorism, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Osama Bin Laden, Idiots, Politics News

As many of you know, the modern and civilized life that we lead in America, as sensible people, has long clashed terribly with the panoply of phantasm...

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How Obama Will Keep Michigan Blue in 2010

Susan J. Demas | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michigan Budget, Gop, John McCain, Sonia Sotomoayor, John Cherry, Gm, 2010 Election, Reagan Democrats, Government Spending, Macomb County, Anderson Cooper, Joe Biden, Stimulus, Ray Lahood, Barack Obama, Chrysler, Gary Locke, Pork-Barrel Spending, Oakland County, Michigan Republican Party, Unemployment, Hilda Solis, Jennifer Granholm, Sean Hannity, Michigan, Glenn Beck, Rust Belt, Recovery Act, Dennis Darnoi, Politics News

If the Republicans win the governorship here, the national media will trumpet that as an Important Trend. And a sign of the president's impending doom in 2012.

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Michele Bachmann's Census Theories Too Much For Glenn Beck

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Census, Conspiracy Theories, Michele Bachmann, Video, Acorn, Glenn Beck, Bachmann Census, Politics News

Bachmann has drawn a line in the sand, and will not fill out the Census, and no one really cares because who in America really wants to see government resources allocated to the Bachmann demographic, anyway?

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Glenn Beck Plays With Dolls On "The O'Reilly Factor" (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | Posted 06.23.2009 | Media

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Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly are working together to expose the vast conspiracy that is the organization known as ACORN. Beck, who has a history of e...

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Obama Nominee Moves Forward After GOP Hold Forces Dems To Take Anti-Filibuster Measure

The Washington Independant | Posted 06.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Yale Law School, Cloture, Obama Nominee, John Bolto, Dean Koh, George Bush, Obama, Harold Koh, Harold Koh Nominee for State Department Legal Advisor, Harry Reid, Richard Lugar, State Department, John Bellinger, Glenn Beck, Jim Demint, Politics News

On Monday, nearly four months after President Obama nominated Harold Koh to become legal adviser to the State Department, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) fil...

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Think Again: Chiller, Socialist Theater

Eric Alterman | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

In conservative world, this administration is leading a march on socialism. Just last week alone, Media Matters counted more than 143 mentions of the word "socialism" on the cable news shows.

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Glenn Beck's Warped Hijacking of "9/12 America"

Will Bunch | Posted 06.18.2009 | Media

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Beck promised a project that would be dedicated to America's "eternal principles" -- but the only eternal principle that Glenn Beck really holds is "Glenn Beck."

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Words Have Consequences...Depending Who You Speak With At Fox News

Steve Young | Posted 06.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Shepard Smith, Media News

(From my column in today's Philadelphia Inquirer Oped Page 6/16/09) The broadcast Lords of Loud on talk radio and TV have longed been pressing the ha...

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Glenn Beck: "The Fringe Groups Hate My Guts"

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.15.2009 | Media

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If you follow Glenn Beck carefully, you'll see that he's savvy enough to know that it's smart to temper his outsized weirdness to fit his audience. E...

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This Preposterous Week In Review: Glenn Beck, Mady Gosselin, And Cow Burps

Paul Slansky | Posted 06.12.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Week in Review, Cow Burps, Maureen Dowd, Maddy Gosselin, Glenn Beck, Week in News, Liz Cheney, Comedy News

Here's my look at the most preposterous events of the past week -- index-style.

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What Right Wing Threat?

John Wellington Ennis | Posted 06.11.2009 | Media

Read More: George Tiller, Right Wing DHS Report, White Supremacists, Dhs Report Reaction, Sonia Sotomayor, Holocaust Museum, Richard Poplawski Pittsburgh, Gun Control, Glenn Beck, Pittsburgh Police Attack, Newt Gingrich, Bill O'Reilly, Dick Cheney, Media News

Maybe continually over-simplifying every issue in politics into a siege upon America actually helps bring about a siege mentality in Americans.

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Carrie Prejean to Appear on "I'm a Right-wing Tool...Get Me Out of Here!"

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.11.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Tom Delay, Carrie Prejean, Michael Moore, Lesbian, Miss California, Glenn Beck, Same-Sex Marriage, Comedy News

"It was a horrible experience," the former Ms. California said afterwards. "Maybe I should have just gone and posed for Playboy after all."

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Glenn Beck Spins the Holocaust Museum Shooting

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 06.10.2009 | Media

Read More: White Supremacy, James Von Brunn, Holocaust Museum Washington Dc, President Barack Obama, The Glenn Beck Show, Holocaust Museum Shooting, Beck, Fox News, Joseph Goebbels, Racism, Adolph Hitler, Ku Klux Klan, Nazi Party, Neo-Nazis, Anti-Semitism, Glenn Beck, Council of Conservative Citizens, Reactionary, Media News

Somewhere behind Beck's talking points there is real thinking going on. No one should dismiss Beck as a hack or "entertainer." He is a propagandist.

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O'Reilly and Fox News Will Have More Right-Wing Violence to Answer For

Eric Boehlert | Posted 06.09.2009 | Media

Read More: George Tiller, Glenn Beck, Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

The Fox News crew is going to need better talking points because I fear the violence -- the bouts of right-wing domestic terrorism -- are likely to continue.

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Seeds of Hatred---Reaping the Harvest

Larry Gellman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Media

We can't call ourselves civilized until we learn to disagree like grownups.

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Politically Erect: Rating The TV Demagogues

MADATOMS | Posted 06.06.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Glenn Beck, Keith Olbermann, Bill O'Reilly, Jim Cramer, Comedy News

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