Glenn Beck

Fan Landers: Is My Band Accidentally Aiding A Right-Wing Extremist?

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

Angelo Carusone, Tweeter Behind @StopRush and @StopBeck, On Rush Limbaugh's Implosion

Angelo Carusone is the Director of Online Strategy for Media Matters for America. Even prior to that gig, he's been known in the Twitterverse during the past couple of years as @StopBeck, an online campaign to let Glenn Beck's advertisers know where their advertising dollars were going. The Voice sp ... More >>

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Glenn Beck Gets Cold Shoulder From New Yorkers in Bryant Park

​On Tuesday, American hero Glenn Beck held back tears as he recounted the way that New Yorkers in Bryant Park mistreated him and his family at an outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 39 Steps the night before. Beck's tears demonstrate the seriousness of the situation -- this is a man who ne ... More >>

Sara Romanoski, Woman Who Spilled Wine on Glenn Beck, Tells Her Side

​You may have heard that someone spilled wine on Glenn Beck's wife Monday evening in Bryant Park. Sara Romanoski, a 25-year-old Manhattanite with a penchant for Hitchcock movies, is the culprit. Surprisingly, though Beck has wept about it and many have written about it, no one has bothered to ... More >>

Glenn Beck Moving to the Internet; Arianna Huffington Pissing Off New AOL Team

​After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash cow-turned-credibility sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal and crazy m ... More >>

Mike Bigga Lets Loose

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Glenn Beck to Quit Fox News Show; New York Times Paywall 'Harder' For Poor People

​Though his contract is not up until December, early 2011 has seen its share of speculation about the fate of Glenn Beck and his hugely successful Fox News show. Both Beck's camp, namely his company Mercury Radio Arts, and the Fox News side have flexed in the press to prove that neither really ... More >>

"All That Chat" Has Been Bought By The New York Times--Or Is It An April Fool's Stunt?

​If you go to talkinbroadway.com, it says All That Chat has been scooped up by the Times and they're going to start charging for it. "All That Chat" is the theater chatter box where people pose queries like "Are there any gunshots in Sister Act?" in between some intelligent dissections of Bro ... More >>

Glenn Beck Could Start His Own Channel; Media Matters Sick of Liberals Losing

​When we last hated ourselves enough to spend any time at all thinking about Fox News' best host that cries, Glenn Beck, his people and his bosses were both floating the idea that neither needed the other. Beck's (amazing) ratings have dipped and his shtick has worn a little thin, Fox News whi ... More >>

The Stupidest Things Said About Japan on the Internet

via​We always love to say that "tragedy brings out the best in people." Unfortunately, that's not always the case. As we documented earlier, people flocked to Twitter and Facebook in droves to celebrate the Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami, which have been responsible for thousands u ... More >>

Glenn Beck Accuses Planned Parenthood of Abetting Sex Trafficking (Video)

via Fox News​In Glenn Beck's universe, Planned Parenthood is not just an organization that provides reproductive health care and education to those in need of it. Planned Parenthood, as he "revealed" during his program yesterday, is a nefarious ring of criminals involved in child sex trafficking. ... More >>

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Our critic leaves Peter Parker hanging

Rabbis vs. Glenn Beck in Wall Street Journal Ad

​Nevermind the fact that Glenn Beck is bullying a 78-year-old professor, inciting death threats against her. That offense doesn't even make the newspaper today as Business Insider points us to a full-page Wall Street Journal ad demanding Fox News and Roger Ailes "sanction" Beck. It comes via t ... More >>

More Glenn Beck Outrage: Right-wing Ranter Attacks Co-op City, the Bronx; Natives Up in Arms

​ "Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." This fine free advice, first offered by Humphrey Bogart to Nazi swill in Casablanca, is here offered to Glenn Beck who -- after offending almost all of America's rabbi's, as reported by our Jo ... More >>

Elderly CUNY Professor Faces Death Threats from Glenn Beck Fans; Southern Sudan Votes to Secede

​Today, it's advisable that you stay the hell inside again: it'll be a high of 24. Get prepared for tomorrow, which won't even break 20 degrees. Frances Fox Piven is a 78-year-old liberal CUNY professor. She's also now the recipient of death threats as a result of Glenn Beck's efforts to paint he ... More >>

Glenn Beck Campaign Leads to Death Threats For New York Professor

Prof. Piven​Frances Fox Piven is a 78-year-old professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who Fox News host Glenn Beck has declared "an enemy of the Constitution." Logically, to a certain type of Beck-worshipping nut, that means she ... More >>

Press Clips: RELEASE THE IACRACKEN! (or: Newsweek/Daily Beast Merger Rumored, Again)

​ARISE, DAILY NEWS BEAST OF THE WEEK! Press Clips, Day 20, I'm Somehow Writing About The Observer Again edition, right here:

Obama's "$200 Million A Day" India Trip Exposed! Then Debunked! But... Questions Remain!

As you may have heard, President Obama has made a trip to India, and it's costing taxpayers a bazillion dollars because he brought the entire Seventh Fleet and thousands of campaign contributors. Oops, sorry, that's not true -- it's only $200 million a day and he only took 34 warships. Oops, that's ... More >>

Rightbloggers Denounce Stewart - Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity Cat Stevens

On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn't know that? You must have mis ... More >>

Who Cares How Many People Attended the Rally to Restore Sanity?

The Million Man March​Because it is difficult to form and articulate intelligent thoughts, in general, but specifically about an event that blurs the lines between sincerity, irony, comedy and politics, much of the conversation surrounding Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert's Rally to Restore San ... More >>

Glenn Beck Endorses Emergency Freeze-Dried Food Kits

Uh oh. He looks hungry.​Glenn Beck is so certain that the socialist-led apocalypse is nigh, that he is now endorsing for foodinsurance.com, a website that sells disaster prep kits for when the next 9/11 hits. Time outlines what the Emergency Plus Kit comprises, including a cooking tin and two- ... More >>

Chilean Miner Gets Offer to Endorse Cheating Website; Plus, 5 Truly Unfortunate Endorsements

Barrios and his lyin' eyes.​So, our Chilean miner with the mistress -- Yonni Barrios -- whose wife and "lady on the side" found out about one another while he was stuck underground (and whose wife subsequently failed to meet him on the day of his ascent) has been offered a $100,000 endorsement ... More >>

Stuff Crazy White People Like: 3 Ways Rightbloggers Deal (or Don't) With Race

You may have noticed the controversy over last week's Voice cover story, "White America Has Lost Its Mind" by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher's proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contribu ... More >>

Breaking: Rick Sanchez Fired (or Canned) by CNN

​Not to say we called it, but yeah, we -- to be fair, like a lot of people -- called it. The New York Times' Brian Stelter just Tweeted out a statement from CNN:

White America Has Lost Its Mind

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

This Week in the Voice: White America Has Lost Its Mind

​From Glenn Beck to Breitbart, Sarah Palin to Rush Limbaugh, from sea to shining sea, from their mere followers to their Kool-Aid drinkers, the rage, motives, and manners all lend themselves to a certain composite picture developing quite neatly in this country, that's really, more than anythi ... More >>

Glenn Beck Defends McDonald's, Mocks Heart Disease

"I thought the Hamburglar stole stuff... he steals you life!" cracks Glenn Beck after showing an ad produced by Washington-based health lobby Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

ChristWire Comes Out, Is Certainly Satire; Site Strikes Back, Confuses Commenters

​In a race to the internet 'presses,' both New York's Daily Intel and the New York Times came out Friday evening with profiles of the mysterious, hilarious website ChristWire.org, which convincingly and extensively parodies conservative craziness with Onion-like ferocity. The site's greatest s ... More >>

Glenn Beck Gets Blazed: The (Attempted) Ten Most Half-Baked Stories on The Blaze

​Fox News' moneymaking psycho-shoutcreature Glenn Beck just launched a new website, called "The Blaze." Besides the fact that the marijuana allusion here is so within reach (point: the only thing that can make you dumber than hitting a bong all day is reading Glenn Beck's new site, etc, etc), ... More >>

Glenn Beck and Martin Luther King -- Together at Last at the Restoring Honor Rally!

Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" rally on Saturday was part religious revival, part group therapy session. "Pray on your knees," Beck roared like a TV evangelist, and he warned that the country was "at a crossroads... we must advance or perish. I choose advance!" Sarah Palin generously extended her ... More >>

The Best Coverage of Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally

​Forty-seven years ago today the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech. So naturally the Tea Party reserved that real estate this Saturday with king clown Glenn Beck playing ringleader, hosting his ludicrous "Restoring Honor" rally. As white people flood the Li ... More >>

The Racist Tea Party Protester's Guide to Washington D.C.

​So: You're visiting our nation's capital, Washington D.C., this weekend! You will join Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck and go scream at a building and scare the rest of a sensible nation with your poorly-spelled protest signs promising to "mow the lawn of freedom with patriot blood" or whatever, r ... More >>

Dear World: What Is Effing Wrong With This Picture?

​PEOPLE WHO SUPPORT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE -Dick Cheney -Ted Olson -Laura Bush and Cindy McCain -Glenn Beck -Ken Mehlman -Arnold Schwarzenegger PEOPLE WHO OPPOSE SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

This Is How Fox News Reports on Ground Zero: By Faking It

Via barthel.tumblr.com.​As you can imagine, there are plenty of TV cameras and reporters in the vicinity of Ground Zero right now, reporting on the story that Al Qaeda is now allowed to open a Church of Satan/NYC-themed shake-a-snow shop on top of the exact spot the Muslims started a war with ... More >>

A REAL PATRIOT

Glenn Beck, meet your screenwriter

Barack Obama & Godwin's Law: Glenn Beck, Tea Party Won't Leave Nazis Out of It

​Dana Milbank's Sunday column in the Washington Post tackles a prickly pear cactus of a political issue: not just the Tea Party, but the connection between the amorphous political group and Nazism, specifically Hitler allusions and imagery. "Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naïve," reads ... More >>

Apple Apps Turn Religious: If Man is Five, Then the iPhone is Six and God is Seven

​America is under attack. It's "a new strain of strident atheism" and it's deadly. To the rescue? iPhone applications, according to the New York Times. And if you're on the other side of the war, there's tools for you, too -- alternative applications "arming nonbelievers for battle." It's like ... More >>

Last Night: Stephen Colbert Accuses the Hold Steady of Being Graphic Designers

"Are you sure you're not graphic designers?", Stephen Colbert asks the Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tad Kubler, the joke being that they're way too old to be playing in a band. (Like Harvilla sez: "You have to remember: The Hold Steady were wizened, wistful veterans when they started.") Then, afte ... More >>

Presenting The Hilarious Music-Related April Fool's Joke Probability Index

​Tough day on the Internet: Everyone is both probably lying to you and totally hilarious. As we grapple with this whole Fucked Up getting sued thing, let us examine today's other remarkable music-biz announcements and rate them on a) believability and b) amusement.

Rightbloggers Find New Texas School Curriculum a Boon to Re-Education

The Texas Board of Education accepted this week, on a preliminary basis, the recommendations of conservative advisors to make the state's textbooks read more like Glenn Beck transcripts. They'd been working at this awhile. Earlier this year, conservatives had advised changing the Texas science c ... More >>

Is Glenn Beck Invading Park Slope?

​You'd think all the socialist stroller gangs who've been cheering on third party candidates for as long as they could say "universal health care" would've scared screamy emo-pundit Glenn Beck off. You'd be tragically - possibly, comically - wrong. What's Beck doing in Brooklyn?

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Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote

​It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Montgomery Burns ran away with the write-in vote in last month's mayoral election with 27 votes (pdf) ... More >>

Afterglower: Hoffman "Unconcedes" NY-23, Absentee Votes Remain Uncounted

Conservative Doug Hoffman, encouraged by unexpectedly strong post-election-night gains on recanvassing in some counties (and by Glenn Beck), has "unconceded" the recent NY-23 Congressional race. He showed himself unsure of the wisdom of his concession days ago, but his declaration on Beck's show may ... More >>

GOP Purge Continues with Graham Censure, Conservative Challengers

​It looks like the call by Erick Erickson of RedState to "purge" the Republican Party in the wake of the NY-23 loss is getting some traction: the Charleston County, South Carolina GOP has actually censured Republican Senator Lindsey Graham for cooperating with the enemy, that is, the Democrat ... More >>

Outrage Du Jour! Obama Aide Called Republicans Assholes; Rightbloggers Rush to Prove Him Right

It has lately been revealed by Fox News that Obama environmental advisor Van Jones, who has been slammed as a Communist by conservatives and has of late been hounded by TV buffoon Glenn Beck, once told an audience in Berkeley that Republicans, or at least some of them, are assholes. "That's a tech ... More >>

Staten Island, Anthony Weiner Town Brawls Bring a Little American Rage to Our Communist City

​That Staten Island Health Care Town Hall seems to have had some of the now-traditional bellowing, but not enough to work up a good segment for Glenn Beck. The Staten Island Advance said the New Dorp event was "a chance for many to vent frustration over the plan," which sounds promising at fir ... More >>