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Glenn Beck Tries To Save Lady Liberty's Bleeding Body With U.S. Flag

Glenn Beck Tries To Save Lady Liberty's Bleeding Body With U.S. Flag
"Now that Glenn Beck is perched over at The Blaze, we don't get to see much of his circus clown routine that he made famous on FOX."

Glenn Beck Wants To Make Cable Subscribers Pay For His Conspiracy Theory Channel

Glenn Beck Wants To Make Cable Subscribers Pay For His Conspiracy Theory Channel: Since Glenn Beck left Fox News in 2011 and founded his own web channel, TheBlaze, the former right-wing sensation has been less prevalent in the mainstream political conversation. Still, Beck has cultivated a substantial audience for his subscription-only programming, and is now using that following to pressure cable networks into carrying his channel. Beck started [...]/p

New Rules - Taking from Rubes Edition

Bill Maher this week on the gradual Dying of Fox News and the end of the Palin nonsense....

Indiana GOP Lets Glenn Beck Set Legislative Agenda: Introduces Bill To Fight U.N. Conspiracy Theory

Indiana GOP Lets Glenn Beck Set Legislative Agenda: Introduces Bill To Fight U.N. Conspiracy Theory: You’d be forgiven for having not heard of Agenda 21. Developed at a summit in Brazil in 1992 with support from President George H.W. Bush, Agenda 21 is a series of non-binding UN recommendations for ensuring that economic growth does not undermine the environment. The agreement aims to encourage “international cooperation to accelerate sustainable development [...]/p

Glenn Beck Has the Paranoid Conspiracy World Cowering with "Agenda 21" | Alternet

Glenn Beck Has the Paranoid Conspiracy World Cowering with "Agenda 21" | Alternet
"The point is, this latest scheme by the Corporate Elite to scare the hell out of all of us with Agenda 21 is just like every other scare tactic by the Corporate Elite – it's meant to distract us. It's a sleight-of-hand technique to keep us focused on bogeymen, while their ranks of Texas oilmen, outsourcing CEOs, and Wall Street banksters carry out the true destruction of the United States of America: the pillaging of the Middle Class at home and the construction of a WTO-style one-world corporate government to promote unfettered capitalism and free trade everywhere on the planet.

And in the process, useful quacks like Glenn Beck and Field Searcy can make a lot of money feeding the paranoid, Fox News-watching masses their latest conspiracy theories."

Revealed: How Conservative Radio Creates an Echo Chamber of Hate | Alternet

Revealed: How Conservative Radio Creates an Echo Chamber of Hate | Alternet
"The study, released last month by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center, used Hannity's radio show and four programs – the "Rush Limbaugh Show," the "Glenn Beck Program," "Savage Nation" and the "John & Ken Show" -- as the focus of an investigation of the influence and confluence of specific interests in ultra-conservative radio programming. The results, as you might imagine, were not surprising.

“The findings reveal that the hosts promoted an insular discourse that focused on, for example, anti-immigration, anti-Islam and pro-Tea Party positions,” the study concluded. “This discourse found repetition and amplification through social media"."

How Ayn Rand's Bizarre Philosophy Made the New Right so Toxic | | AlterNet

How Ayn Rand's Bizarre Philosophy Made the New Right so Toxic | | AlterNet
"Rand's psychopathic ideas made billionaires feel like victims and turned millions of followers into their doormats."
"Ignoring Rand's evangelical atheism, the Tea Party movement has taken her to its heart. No rally of theirs is complete without placards reading "Who is John Galt?" and "Rand was right". Rand, Weiss argues, provides the unifying ideology which has "distilled vague anger and unhappiness into a sense of purpose". She is energetically promoted by the broadcasters Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and Rick Santelli. She is the guiding spirit of the Republicans in Congress."

Glenn Beck Inspires Shooter

This is not the only follower of Glenn Beck's to commit violence.