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Glenn Beck's Advice: Sell Your Stuff!

Prices are rising, and you should be prepared, he warns

(Newser) - Now that Glenn Beck has convinced you to buy gold , he has a new directive: Sell all your stuff. Prices are going up, he said last night, and a study shows that the average American has $25,000 worth of things they're not using, Mediaite reports. So sell it, and...

ADL Rips Beck for 'Horrific' Assault on George Soros

Jewish liberal helped send Jews to camps, he said

(Newser) - The Anti-Defamation League is blasting Glenn Beck for accusing liberal philanthropist George Soros, who is Jewish, of helping Nazis send Jews to their death. Soros at the age of 14 "used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews and confiscate their property and then...

Limbaugh Tops Newsweek's 'Power List'

Sarah Palin is 'most influential' political female at No. 6, just behind Jon Stewart

(Newser) - Who's your daddy? Apparently, for many Americans, it's Rush Limbaugh. The Mouth tops Newsweek's "Power List" of the most influential political personalities in America, which is based on earnings as an indication of clout. Limbaugh pulled in an estimated $58 million last year, more than $22 million ahead of...

Keith's 'No Journalist'&mdash; Let Him Donate

 Keith's 'No 
 Journalist'— 
 Let Him Donate 
Meghan McCain

Keith's 'No Journalist'— Let Him Donate

Trouble is 'thin line' between journalism, commentary: Meghan McCain

(Newser) - Keith Olbermann shouldn’t have been taken to task for donating to Democrats because he’s not a journalist—he’s a commentator, argues Meghan McCain in the Daily Beast . But the kerfuffle spotlights a key issue as the lines between entertainment, journalism, and commentary blur: News outlets need to...

Glenn Beck: Stewart's Message Was Same as Mine

Says the themes are identical: "We need to come together as a nation'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck has apparently decided that Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear wasn't really that bad after all. In fact, Beck announced on his show tonight that "it’s basically the same message that I gave on 8/28—of course on 8/28 we spoke a lot about...

Jon Stewart's Was Bigger Than Beck's

But what did it all mean?

(Newser) - Number, schmumbers. Who cares exactly how many people turned up at Jon Stewart's Rally to Restore Sanity? The real question is: Whose was bigger: Stewart's or Glenn Beck's? In the battle of the rallies, Stewart's DC turnout "trounced" Beck's, declares the Independent , citing an "official arbiter"—a...

Stewart's Schtick Didn't Galvanize Dems
 Stewart's Schtick 
 Didn't Galvanize Dems 
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Stewart's Schtick Didn't Galvanize Dems

Politico: Rally was a very funny political failure

(Newser) - The Democrats may not be laughing come election day. This weekend's Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear was a comedic success, but a strategic failure, argue James Hohmann, Marin Cogan, and Byron Tau on Politico . By putting parody above partisan politics, Jon Stewart denied the left a "galvanizing moment"...

Glenn Beck to MSNBC: Bend Over

Host gets in dig at the competition's 'lean forward' slogan

(Newser) - The right has been having a field day with MSNBC's new "Lean Forward" campaign, but Glenn Beck got in perhaps the best dig on it yet on his radio show. "By the way, MSNBC, why don't you just make your slogan 'Bend Over?'" he teased, in this clip...

Tea Party Must Drop the Hitler Comparisons

Germans not amused by 'ignorant' name-dropping

(Newser) - The Tea Party and its supporters should keep their hands off German history, argues Charles Hawley for Der Spiegel . It seems many of them can't stop themselves from comparing Barack Obama to Hitler , or talking about death panels , or, in one case, dressing up like a Nazi , he writes. And...

Beck to Fans: Don't Defend Me Online

Tells followers to cut vitriolic comments, pray for haters

(Newser) - Glenn Beck is shocked—shocked—at the vitriol he found in comments posted about him, and wants his more ardent supporters to turn the other cheek. The Fox host, digressing from a discussion on the Bronx gay torture case , said he'd been horrified to read blogs that viciously attacked him...

Beck Taking Time Off for Medical Issues

Fox News host will undergo testing at hospital

(Newser) - Glenn Beck will take time off next week to deal with some health problems, he announced on his radio show today. Beck has been having problems with his vocal chords as well as feeling in his hands and feet, and said he will go to a hospital “out west”...

Glenn Beck: Firefighters Right to Let Home Burn

'We are going to have to have these kinds of things' in the future

(Newser) - Liberals and conservatives are in a standoff over the firefighters who let Gene Cranick’s home burn down because he hadn’t paid a $75 fee for fire services. Glenn Beck weighed in yesterday—mimicking, for a moment, Cranick’s Southern accent—and he’s on the firefighters’ side, ThinkProgress...

Mormon Prophecy Fuels Glenn Beck's Message

He invokes message of church's founder about Constitution, writes Dana Milbank

(Newser) - Glenn Beck delivered an "unmistakable signal" to America's Mormons in one of his first appearances on Fox News, when he invoked a well-known prophecy, writes Dana Milbank. Following Obama's election, Beck repeatedly made references to the "Constitution hanging by a thread." While to a non-Mormon, this turn...

Professor Glenn Beck Has a Nazi Fetish
 Professor Glenn Beck 
 Has a Nazi Fetish 
Dana Milbank

Professor Glenn Beck Has a Nazi Fetish

Dana Milbank: He and his guests invoked Hitler 147 times in 18 months

(Newser) - Dana Milbank devotes a great deal of space today to ridiculing Glenn Beck's view of history, which he says has two main pillars: Comparing Obama to Hitler and blaming Woodrow Wilson for pretty much everything that's wrong with the world today. He makes the case for Beck having a Nazi...

Tea Party Rage? No, Crazy White People
 Tea Party Rage? 
 No, Crazy White People 
OPINION

Tea Party Rage? No, Crazy White People

Everything we've seen since Obama's election is about race

(Newser) - How do you explain the past two years of utterly unhinged conservative rhetoric? Steven Thrasher of the Village Voice has a theory: “White people have simply gone sheer f---ing insane.” In a lengthy cover story, Thrasher recounts all the insanity of the Obama era—from Dr. Laura’s...

Glenn Beck: I'm Always on Verge of Collapse

He's the cover boy for Sunday's New York Times magazine

(Newser) - Glenn Beck gets the cover treatment in this Sunday's New York Times magazine in a lengthy profile by Mark Leibovich. Some quick highlights:
  • In the flesh: "Beck is sheepish and approachable, betraying none of the grandiosity or bluster you might expect," Leibovich writes. Later: "Beck fashions himself
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Beck: Careful Stewart, Colbert, or You'll End Up Like Oprah!

Meaning ... wildly successful?

(Newser) - Yesterday on his radio show, Glenn Beck warned Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert that if they’re not careful … they’ll “go the way of Oprah.” Beck was specifically warning them against their planned Washington, DC, rallies, PopEater reports . “I believe that those who play these...

Beck to Michelle: 'Get Away From My French Fries'

He mocks anti-obesity efforts, has crude suggestion for carrot stick

(Newser) - Glenn Beck rallied the right at an event in Illinois over the weekend, invoking God, the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson—and deep fried potatoes. Speaking to a crowd of some 300, Beck mocked Michelle Obama's healthy heating campaign , reports the Chicago Sun Times . "Get away from my french fries,...

Beck: 'I&rsquo;d Be Doing a Lot of the Same Things' as Stewart
Beck: 'I’d Be Doing a Lot of the Same Things' as Stewart
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Beck: 'I’d Be Doing a Lot of the Same Things' as Stewart

'New York' takes a good long look at 'Daily Show' host

(Newser) - Chris Smith offers up an in-depth look at how Jon Stewart and his staff create The Daily Show, and traces the show's evolution since Stewart took over. Highlights from the New York piece:
  • Stewart on a possible Stewart-Colbert parody of Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally: “Maybe we would
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Beck: In 2012, Palin and I Will Be...

Um, 'voting.' Duo tease Alaska crowd on 9/11

(Newser) - The Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck traveling show played to a packed house in Alaska last night. The dynamic duo of the Christian right remembered 9/11 and then hit on some of their favorites: love of country, small government, and 'common sense conservatism.' Palin told the crowd Beck inspired...

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