Archives: Glenn Beck

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Trish Ponder | Mar. 12, 2010

If I had any authority at Fox News right now, Glenn Beck would be seeking economic justice.

– Pastor Marty Duren of the Southern Baptist Convention, challenging Beck’s call for Christians to leave churches that support social and economic justice.

Beck Fails to Out-Victim Massa in Interview – Earlier Had On-Air Spat over Massa with Malkin
Jon Ponder | Mar. 10, 2010

Beck to Massa: “Do you realize my family is at stake? You’ve got a little scandal with your children in college. I’ve got one for all time now, because I am not going to resign. I’m not going to back down. I have come to a place where I believe at some point the system will destroy me.”

Verbatim
Buck Banks | Oct. 15, 2009

Watching Beck, who sometimes resembles a snake-oil salesman’s dim-witted assistant accidentally promoted to the top job, makes a foreigner wonder just what’s happening to American conservatism … I don’t want to seem forward or rude, but one can’t help but ask: Have you people lost your minds?

— Alex Massie, Scottish journalist, writing about Glenn Beck’s introduction to the United Kingdom for The Daily Beast.

Right Wing Exaggerations of 9/12 Crowd Size Too Extreme Even for Fox News
Jon Ponder | Sep. 13, 2009

During Glenn Beck’s anti-Obama 9/12 march in Washington, a lobbyist who organized the event took to the stage and flatly lied about the crowd size, saying it was about 25 times the D.C. Fire Department’s estimates.

Beck Seeking to Quash ‘Parody’ Web Site
Buck Banks | Sep. 11, 2009

Lawyers for Glenn Beck, who is a Mormon and a wingnut TV blatherer, are seeking to shut down a Web site on grounds the site is defamatory and libelous. This from the guy who characterized President Obama as a racist.

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Ad Boycott – And Audience Share – Grow in Wake of Glenn Beck’s Racist Smear of President
Jon Ponder | Sep. 3, 2009

On Wednesday, 11 more companies — including Mercedes-Benz, Capital One, HSBC and Discover — announced they were joining the boycott of Glenn Beck’s show on the Fox channel. This brings the number of companies in the ad ban to nearly 60, according to James Rucker, executive director of ColorOfChange.org, the organization behind the sponsor protest.

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