Tag Archives: Glenn Beck

Anti-Hate Activists Win S.F. City Media Resolution

Posted on 08/12/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

The Hispanic/Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition, along with the National Hispanic Media Coalition (8/11/09), "applauds" the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for being "the first elected body to take a stand against hate speech in media" by having approved unanimously a resolution … Continue reading →

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Race-Baiting on Fox, 'Over and Over and Over Again'

Posted on 08/03/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

The anti-racism Color of Change organization has sent out an email blast (8/30/09) warning that "more and more, right-wing talkshow hosts are bringing race-based fear mongering into the mainstream." Still, they claim that "Fox's Glenn Beck just took it to … Continue reading →

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Fox: New 9/11 Needed for U.S. to Become Violent Enough

Posted on 07/02/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

The folks at Fox News, so quick to denounce dissent as unpatriotic during the George W. Bush era, have now moved from generally hoping for the failure of the Obama government to wishing another September 11 upon a country too … Continue reading →

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Fox 'News' Elevates Pandering to Plain Nonsense

Posted on 06/24/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Gawker blogger The Cajun Boy (6/24/09) is agog at "How Fox News Educates Its Viewers": Last night Glenn Beck made crude drawings on a chalkboard, and tonight he and Bill O'Reilly used Barbie dolls to explain ACORN. In the course … Continue reading →

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Right Media Darlings as Racist Double Murderers

Posted on 06/23/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

A posting on Timothy Karr's Media Citizen blog (6/17/09) contrasts Crooks & Liars' collection of cable news pundits like Lou Dobbs and Bill O'Reilly likening the anti-immigrant Minutemen to a giant, friendly "neighborhood watch" organization with the "chilling double-murder" Minutemen … Continue reading →

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On the Real Effects of Cable's 'Deranged Demagogues'

Posted on 06/15/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Political Animal blogger Steve Benen (6/11/09) has a look at the remarkable occurrence of Fox News' Shep Smith "reminding the viewing audience, shortly after the shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, of the DHS report that warned of potentially … Continue reading →

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Sotomayor Coverage the Very 'Antithesis of Journalism'

Posted on 06/02/2009 by Gabriel Voiles

Progressive critic Dr. Roberto Rodriguez has a new commentary (New America Media, 6/2/09) demonstrating how the miserable press reaction to Judge Sonia Sotomayor's U.S. Supreme Court "nomination clearly shows us is that what this nation needs is more incisive journalism, … Continue reading →

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Remember When Fox News Thought Nazi Analogies Were a Bad Thing?

Posted on 04/02/2009 by Jim Naureckas

Do you remember when Fox News Channel thought comparisons between the U.S. government and Nazi Germany were insane and reprehensible? This was the channel's reaction when a couple of entries to a video contest sponsored by the progressive activist group … Continue reading →

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Glenn Beck Offers New Fox Slogan

Posted on 03/18/2009 by Jim Naureckas

Jon Stewart (3/17/09) has found Glenn Beck expressing his philosophy in what may be its purest form: Believe in something! Even if it's wrong! Believe in it!

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'I Knew He Knew Who I Was'

Posted on 11/20/2008 by Steve Rendall

Glenn Beck has been telling a personal story illustrating what he says is a particularly intense level of hatred on the left. According to the newly signed Fox News host, he was verbally assaulted by a truck driver while standing … Continue reading →

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Glenn Beck a Ratings Failure as Well as a Moral Failure

Posted on 10/24/2008 by Jim Naureckas

With Glenn Beck's recent departure from CNN Headline News for Fox News Channel, there's an idea going around that his Headline News show was at least a ratings success. Beck "was arguably the networkâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s most conservative political voice and stirred … Continue reading →

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Media's Obsession

Posted on 10/08/2008 by Isabel Macdonald

Over the past several weeks, 28 million copies of an anti-Muslim propaganda film, Obsession, have been delivered to the doorsteps of newspaper subscribers in swing states. Unfortunately, as a new report by FAIR documents, the media's complicity in smearing an … Continue reading →

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