Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck's gold problem

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 14:24:00 PST

When Fox News starts worrying about the impropriety of Glenn Beck's goldbug mania, you know that matters have gotten completely out of hand. At DailyFinance, Jeff Bercovici reports that Beck's prominent role endorsing coin vendor Goldline International may be running up against conflict-of-interest rules at Fox. Beck's on-air drumbeating for gold as the answer to an Obama-induced apocalypse doesn't help, (even if has made some money for at least one Salon correspondent.)

I survived Glenn Beck's Christmas spectacular

Mike Madden — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:40:00 PST

There is, it turns out, something far more terrifying than Glenn Beck, political philosopher. On Thursday night, the world met Glenn Beck, empathetic life coach.

Olbermann gets hypocritical on Beck, Grayson

Alex Koppelman — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:36:00 PST

MSNBC's Keith Olbermann does deserve some credit for standing up against a sexist remark made by one of his rivals, Fox News' Glenn Beck. After Beck repeatedly referred to Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La., as a prostitute, Olbermann called him out on his show Tuesday night, naming Beck "Worst Person in the World" and saying, "Where are the conservative feminists? A woman politician is called a prostitute and you're OK with that. It's OK if I call Sarah Palin that? The hell it is."

Beck prepares the two major parties for burial

Alex Koppelman — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:10:00 PST

Give Glenn Beck a little credit: Every time you think he can't possibly get any weirder, or go any further over the top, he does. (That's not necessarily a good thing, of course, but still -- the man is apparently capable of more eccentricity than just about anyone else.)

Glenn Beck has some really big plans

Gabriel Winant — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:15:00 PST

Say this for Glenn Beck: When the guy goes on the road, he doesn’t hold out on his fans. The Fox News host put on a show this weekend in the Villages, Fla., and he played all his classics:

Glenn Beck's white nationalist fans

Alexander Zaitchik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:00 PST

It's been a busy week for Glenn Beck watchers. On Monday, the Anti-Defamation League released a report warning of the paranoia and stridency that increasingly define the conservative grass roots. It echoed an April report issued by the Department of Homeland Security, but unlike the DHS report, the ADL named names, and fingered Beck as the figure most responsible for the unhinging of the right.

Conservative men love rape metaphors

Mary Elizabeth Williams — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:21:00 PST

I'm not in the camp with those who believe that using the word "rape" as a metaphor is always verboten. After all, when we say "screwed," we're using it largely to describe something unpleasant happening to someone unwilling. And if we from time to time use over-the-top terminology of slaughter or ass-kicking when no real earth is being scorched, I can allow that sometimes a person's sense of violation can be couched in terms of sexual violence. But that doesn't mean I have quite the same fondness for the term that others do.

Palin-Beck 2012? Sarah says maybe

Joan Walsh — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:19:00 PST

First, let me apologize for telling you all I had Palin fatigue on Monday, and then following up by writing about Palin the next two days. I kept one promise; I've kept the term Palinpalooza out of our news coverage.

O'Reilly and Beck taking their act on the road

Gabriel Winant — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:30:00 PST

Supergroups are never as mind-blowingly awesome as you think they’ll be. The Traveling Wilburys, for example, seemed like a good idea, what with the combination of George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty and Roy Orbison. But the music was largely terrible. Same basically goes for the Highwaymen, with Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson and Waylon Jennings: great on paper, disappointing in reality.

Sarah Palin: Abortion is so bogus

Gabriel Winant — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:01:00 PST

There's a rule in playwriting, an old one but a good one: Don't put a gun on the stage in the first act unless it’s going to go off in the third. Well, if the healthcare reform battle were a play -- and it kind of is -- that rule meant there was no way it could end before we heard from Sarah Palin again.

The conspiracy against Glenn Beck's internal organs

Alex Koppelman — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:12:00 PST

There's a story behind the case of appendicitis that felled Glenn Beck recently. It's not just an isolated incident -- there's a serious conspiracy at work.

Can Rand Paul bring the Tea Parties to the Senate?

Gabriel Winant — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:06:00 PST

Everyone seems to agree that when Doug Hoffman drove his moderate GOP rival out of a special Congressional election last week, it said something about the future of the Republican Party. (Whether it boded well or ill depends on who you asked.)

Glenn Beck gives his take on Hoffman loss

Alex Koppelman — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:30:00 PST

If it weren't for Glenn Beck, Doug Hoffman and his unlikely insurgent third-party candidacy in New York's 23rd Congressional District might never have happened. Hoffman did, after all, recently name Beck as one of his mentors, and the Fox News and radio host gave the candidate a boost by putting him on the air.

How Glenn Beck and Steve Forbes saved Halloween

Alex Koppelman — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:01:00 PDT

At times of crisis, it's good to have friends in high places. Like, say, if Forbes Magazine makes your face into a fairly lame Halloween mask and declares you the scariest person of 2009. Then, it helps if you're Glenn Beck and you can get the magazine's owner, Steve Forbes -- who also happens to be a failed Republican presidential candidate -- on the phone.

Glenn Beck guest cites Obama's "surrender monkey" speech

Mike Madden — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 14:24:00 PDT

A guest on Glenn Beck's show, British journalist James Delingpole, just referred to President Obama's Cairo speech as "the Cairo surrender monkey speech."

Quote of the day

Mike Madden — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 13:47:00 PDT

Glenn Beck used his show Thursday to wax poetic about what he'd like to see in conservative candidates for political office. He riffed for a while on a metaphor involving buildings, and glass companies, and whether skyscraper windows should be opaque (yes, it really did make about that much sense on the air). And then he boiled it all down to one final summation before jumping off to a commercial break.

Beck: Progressives are like slave owners

Alex Koppelman — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:05:00 PDT

Fox News' Glenn Beck almost never disappoints. Every day, it seems, he comes up with some new and totally off-the-wall way of making himself and his fans out to be the Founding Fathers' heirs, and portraying their liberal enemies as heirs only to Hitler and Stalin.

I get my investment advice from Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy

Mike Madden — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:30:00 PDT

Forget Warren Buffet, Bill Gates and all those other self-made millionaires. My new financial gurus are Glenn Beck and G. Gordon Liddy -- and I'm a richer man for it.

Glenn Beck, Republican strategist

Gabriel Winant and Tim Bella — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:31:00 PDT

Something strange has happened to rank-and-file Republicans since President Obama took office. These past few months, standard-issue gray lawmakers have sounded like fire-and-brimstone demagogues. Conspiracy theories and over-the-top legislation to fix imaginary wrongs are flying wildly around formerly mainstream GOP circles.

Glenn Beck flirts with sanity

Alex Koppelman — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:45:00 PDT

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