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Glenn Beck turns down WWE invitation after anger over tea party characters
World Wresting Entertainment invited Glenn Beck onto the program Raw after the conservative radio host criticized the organization for creating characters that appear to be caricatures of anti-immigrant tea party conservatives. In response to the WWE’s invitation, Beck tweeted on Friday evening, “Unfortunately I am currently booked doing anything else.”…
Beck: ‘Medical fact’ that video games were ‘gateway drug’ to Newtown massacre
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck opposes gun control legislation in the wake of the massacre in Newtown, Connecticut because he says that it’s a “medical fact” that video games are the “gateway drug” that lead to mass shootings. “We are, I think, the only network that is sticking to the…
Beck insists Obama using tax dollars to ‘teach government workers to be racist’
Fox News host Bill O’Reilly hosted former colleague Glenn Beck on his show Monday night to discuss excerpts from a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) cultural sensitivity seminar released this week by the conservative group Judicial Watch, and concluded they taught “government workers to be racist.” Video excerpts from the seminar,…
Beck: Dorner part of a ‘radical left’ conspiracy for ‘oppressive government’
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck explained to his audience on Tuesday that ex-Los Angeles police officer Christopher Dorner’s killing spree was part of a plan by “radical progressives” to create an “oppressive government.” As San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputies were facing off against the suspect holed up in a mountain…
Glenn Beck: Media and Occupy sit ‘closer to the communists’ than Democratic Party
On his program on Thursday night, Glenn Beck illustrated his views on politics and freedom in America — literally. Creating a spectrum of the “scale of freedom,” he argued that “People are fleeing the parties. And they are standing somewhere in-between.” On Beck’s spectrum, the Democratic Party stands close to…
Glenn Beck calls Obama ‘full-fledged woman’ over concern about football concussions
Former Fox News pundit Glenn Beck dedicated a portion of his online broadcast Monday to slamming President Barack Obama for a pre-Super Bowl interview in which the chief executive expressed concerns about the safety of football. Beck called Obama a “girl,” a “woman” and the “chick-in-chief” for his statements and…
Beck rants about ‘handicapable, transgendered breast cancer survivors’ in combat
Conservative radio host Glenn Beck on Thursday blasted the Pentagon’s decision to lift the ban on women serving in combat roles by warning that the enemies of the United States would not “cower in defeat because we have a female, Hispanic, Eskimo, dwarf cross dresser and some handicapable, transgendered breast…
Glenn Beck talks Ted Nugent down: Waco cultists were ‘really nice guys’
In an interview aired Wednesday, former Fox News conspiracy host Glenn Beck seemed to talk National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent down from staging some kind of armed revolt against the government, urging that the Waco cultists were “really nice guys,” but “you want your day in court.” Nugent…
Jon Stewart mocks Glenn Beck’s centrally planned nostalgic Marxist utopia
On his show Tuesday night, The Daily Show host Jon Stewart ruthlessly lampooned “freedom fetishist” Glenn Beck, pointing out his proposed “Independence” city was not very independent. Beck unveiled his grandiose plans to constructed a self-sustaining city that would reflect traditional American values earlier this month. While the city-to-be was…
Glenn Beck stages ‘misfits’ inaugural ball, complete with ‘Earth Haters,’ ‘Hate Mongers’ and ‘Bible Thumpers’
Tea Party darling invites guests, including Rick Santorum, to join Earth Haters and Bible Thumpers at consolatory dinner It is an inauguration ball with red carpet and tuxedos, but Obama is emphatically not invited. There is the Earth Haters table, for climate change deniers; the Hate Mongers table, for radio…
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