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Cartoon Coming to Beck Network

GBTV signs deal for animated series

(Newser) - Glenn Beck's Internet-only network GBTV, which already boasts a children's show , is getting an animated series. The network has signed a deal with production company Icebox to create a family-friendly cartoon series, according to the Hollywood Reporter . Icebox was founded in 1999 by a group of writers who...

Beck's Favorite Gold Firm Charged With Fraud

Current and former CEO of Goldline face up to a year in jail

(Newser) - Remember Goldline, the gold dealer that Glenn Beck trusts ? Well, the company and several of its top executives—including both current CEO Scott Carter and former CEO Mark Albarian—have all been charged with fraud, the Santa Monica City Attorney’s office said yesterday. Goldline is accused of, among...

Glenn Beck Launching Children's Show

Liberty Treehouse to debut on GBTV Monday

(Newser) - If you think Sesame Street is too left-wing, Glenn Beck agrees with you—and he's offering an alternative on his Internet channel GBTV. Beck won't be hosting Liberty Treehouse, which debuts Monday, but the hour-long show will share his channel's conservative sensibilities, and won't shy away...

Roger Ailes: Beck, Palin Were 'Branding Issue'

Fox News shifts towards center, plays up GOP's 2012 conflict

(Newser) - Is Fox News going moderate? Not exactly, but Roger Ailes has consciously made a “course correction” from hyper-partisanship back toward the center, sensing that the public has grown weary of the Tea Party, he tells Howard Kurtz of Newsweek . Glenn Beck’s inflammatory rhetoric in particular “became a...

Glenn Beck: Why I'll Never Buy Levi's Again

New ad 'glorified revolution,' he complains

(Newser) - Glenn Beck is going on a one-man sort-of boycott of Levi’s over the company's new “Go Forth” ad, which he says “glorifies revolution.” The ad, which debuted during Monday Night Football, includes a shot of a young man challenging a line of police in riot...

Glenn Beck's Online Show Launches Today

And GBTV already has more subscribers than Oprah's OWN

(Newser) - Glenn Beck’s legion of devotees will finally get to see their favorite pundit’s face again tonight, when Beck launches his new online-only show. Titled simply Glenn Beck, the program will resemble his old Fox show—complete with chalkboards—but it’ll be a whopping two hours long and...

Glenn Beck: Let's Go Back to 'Colored'

'African Americans should be proud to be just American,' he says

(Newser) - Glenn Beck thinks it's time to ditch "African American" and go back to using "black" or even "colored," or so he said on his radio program earlier this week, reports the Cleveland Leader . "Didn't you feel ridiculously stupid everywhere in Africa, in Europe,...

Beck: Jews 'Drive Me Out of My Mind'

'They're constantly talking' over each other, complains radio host

(Newser) - Here’s something Glenn Beck learned in Israel: Jews “drive me out of my mind when they talk over each other.” Though he says he loves “the Israelis” and the “Jewish people,” “they're constantly talking!” he said on his radio show. “...

Glenn Beck: Michelle Obama Behind Biracial Spider-Man

Apparently he's an attack on our 'traditions'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck seems to think the new half-black, half-Hispanic Ultimate Spider-Man is part of some kind of conspiracy to change America. On his radio show yesterday, Beck groused about the change. “The new Spider-Man is really quite great, he looks just like President Obama,” he deadpanned, in a...

We Can&#39;t Ignore Oslo Gunman as &#39;Lone Crackpot&#39;
We Can't Ignore Oslo
Gunman as 'Lone Crackpot'
OPINION
Jul 29, 2011 1:22 PM CDT

We Can't Ignore Oslo Gunman as 'Lone Crackpot'

It's 'too easy,' and he's got too many sympathizers: Timothy Egan

(Newser) - Glenn Beck wasn’t justifying murder when he likened the victims of the Oslo massacre to Nazis. “He was merely muddying the humanity” of Anders Breivik’s victims, writes Timothy Egan in the New York Times . But the comments on his website The Blaze were brimming with sympathy for...

Now Beck Compares Critics to Nazis

Blasting his words will lead to 'society of gas chambers'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck thinks people who attack his use of Nazi analogies are a lot like ... Nazis. The radio host— who was widely criticized for comparing victims of the Norway shooting rampage to Hitler youth —likened the early days of the Third Reich to the Obama administration's reaction to...

Glenn Beck: Norway Victims Just Like Hitler Youth

Compares youth camp to notorious Nazi wing

(Newser) - Glenn Beck has prompted outrage yet again, this time for comparing teenage victims of the Norway shooting rampage to Hitler youth. The right-wing radio host said the Labor Party's camp on Utoya Island— where 68 people were shot last week —is eerily similar to the Nazis' juvenile branch,...

Glenn Beck Laughs About Dead Tabloid Whistleblower

Foes will exploit Murdoch scandal to hurt Fox, he fears

(Newser) - The death of the whistleblower who landed Rupert Murdoch in trouble drew a big chuckle from Glenn Beck yesterday. "Did you hear about the guy who was the whistleblower on the News of the World thing? I love this story. He woke up dead!" Beck laughs on his...

Glenn Beck Gives Pep Talk to Israeli Parliament

Says US media 'skewed' on Israel

(Newser) - Glenn Beck spoke before an adoring crowd at the Israeli parliament today, telling them to forcefully state their case in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. “In America, the media is so skewed on Israel,” Beck said, according to CNN . “Honestly, I thought you can only cook your food over...

Beck Ditching East Coast for $20K-a-Month Texas Mansion

His landlord will be baseball player Jorge Piedra

(Newser) - Glenn Beck must be properly sick of getting wine spilled on him , because he is getting out of the tri-state area and heading for the roomy expanse of Texas. Beck sold his Connecticut mansion for $3.6 million and will be moving into a Dallas-area estate owned by baseball player...

Glenn Beck Signs Off Fox
 Glenn Beck 
 Signs Off Fox 
Jun 30, 2011 7:18 PM CDT

Glenn Beck Signs Off Fox

'Now is the time to be part of the solution'

(Newser) - Glenn Beck is no more on Fox News: He signed off from his show for the final time today. "He kept the chalkboards to a minimum, and shed no tears," writes Jack Mirkinson at the Huffington Post . "He also shied away from too many specific recollections about...

Glenn Beck&#39;s Wine Tosser: It Was an Accident!
 Glenn Beck's 
 Wine Tosser: 
 It Was an 
 Accident! 
YOU LIE, SAYS BECK
Jun 30, 2011 9:32 AM CDT

Glenn Beck's Wine Tosser: It Was an Accident!

Outraged Beck says she's lying

(Newser) - Glenn Beck isn't done crying over spilled wine. After his rant yesterday about the wine viciously spilled on his wife at a New York park, a woman sitting behind him wrote into New York saying that the spill was “a complete accident. A happy one, to be sure,...

Glenn Beck: 'Hateful' Mob Tormented My Family at Park

He says one person kicked a glass of wine onto his wife

(Newser) - A choked-up Glenn Beck described a rough night for his family in New York City's Bryant Park when they tried to watch a movie this week. "These people were some of the most hateful people I have ever seen,” said Beck on his radio show today, reports...

Van Jones Challenges Beck to Debate, Threatens Fox Suit

Beck dismisses challenge from former White House official

(Newser) - "I’ve had all I can stand, Fox TV, and I can’t stand no more," former White House "green jobs" czar Van Jones said in recent tirade against the Glenn Beck and his soon-to-be-ex-employer. Jones, who resigned in 2009 after being targeted by Beck, has challenged...

GOP Candidates Steering Clear of Glenn Beck Israel Rally

So far, only Joe Lieberman, Herman Cain interested

(Newser) - Glenn Beck can't seem to get much traction on his upcoming political rally in Israel. So far, not a single leading GOP presidential candidate has expressed interest in attending the pro-Israel demonstration organized by the ousted Fox mega-mouth. As of now only former Democratic vice presidential contender Joseph Lieberman...

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