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Bible-quoting Beck reenacts ‘Untouchables’ by beating activist with baseball bat

Conservative performance artist Glenn Beck on Wednesday compared President Barack Obama to Chicago gangster Al Capone by reenacting a scene from the movie “The Untouchables” and using a baseball bat to beat a tea party activist in the head until he was laying dead in a pool of fake blood.…

Beck calls for impeachment: IRS ‘tyranny’ persecutes tea party like The Inquisition

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Monday responded to the news that the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) had targeted tea party groups for additional scrutiny by comparing the scandal to The Inquisition and insisting that the United States was living under “tyranny” if Congress did not launch impeachment hearings immediately.…

‘Journalist’ Glenn Beck reveals he doesn’t even know what ‘journalism’ is

Internet conspiracy talk show host Glenn Beck announced Tuesday that he is “not a journalist,” literally four days after telling listeners that he is a journalist, revealing in the process that he has no idea what actual journalism is. “We don’t care, honestly, about being first,” Beck said Tuesday, in…

Glenn Beck tells the NRA: ‘I will not comply’ with new gun regulations

Clutching the shattered shell of a policeman’s sidearm, conservative guru Glenn Beck warned the National Rifle Association that a tyrannical US government is bent on taking their guns away. More than 70,000 members of the nation’s premier gun rights organization have flocked to Texas for the NRA’s annual meeting, hard…

Beck: Houston airport shooting a ‘set up’ of NRA like ‘burning of the Reichstag’

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck responded to a shooting at Houston’s largest airport on Thursday by suggesting that it had been a plot to “set up” gun owners like the the burning of German’s parliament — or Reichstag — in 1933, which Nazis exploited as a pretext to suspend constitutional…

Fox News smacks Glenn Beck: ‘He was trying to save his ass’

A Fox News spokesperson explained Monday that conspiracy theorist Glenn Beck left the network not because he was safeguarding his spirituality, but because “he was trying to save his ass” after a massively effective advertiser boycott. The comment comes by way of Politico’s Mike Allen, who emailed Fox News for…

Glenn Beck: I left Fox to save my soul

Never one to shy away from portraying his struggles in the most melodramatic terms, conservative commentator Glenn Beck said on Friday that he left the Fox News Channel because he was afraid of turning into Norma Desmond, the faded screen siren from the 1950 noir film “Sunset Boulevard,” and that…

Maddow: Right wing fringe is now a cynical money-making ‘racket’

Friday night on MSNBC’s “The Rachel Maddow Show,” host Rachel Maddow discussed the elaborate money-making schemes dreamed up by the anti-government conspiracy theorists currently making a living off of conservative Americans’ fears about the Obama administration. There is, for example, the Info Wars dating service. “If you like Info Wars…

Beck: Obama might create a ‘monarchy’ and start decapitating Americans

Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Wednesday blasted President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama for attending a tribute to Memphis soul at the White House and said it was sign of a coming “monarchy” that could result in Americans being beheaded. During his evening Internet broadcast, the former…

Harris-Perry to Beck and Limbaugh: ‘Allow me to double down’

Melissa Harris-Perry responded Tuesday to charges by right-wing commentators like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh who say that her recently released 30-second MSNBC promo is part of a United Nations plot to collectivise U.S. children and remove them from their parents’ custody. In an essay published Tuesday called “Why caring…

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