Overview for glenn-beck

Lest We Forget

As the gold market tumbles , time to recall: even if the price of gold had remained high forever, people who trusted in Glenn Beck would still have been cruelly cheated . I'm trying to recall a worse case of media ethics malpractice than Glenn Beck and Goldline, but thus far I draw a blank. …

Written by David Frum on Thursday December 29, 2011

Gold's Value? It's What We Give it.

Eli Lehrer misrepresents my intentions in his most recent piece. To be clear, my article was not making a case for buying gold going forward per se. Trading in commodities is a volatile and highly leveraged activity, and I would not presume to advise the general public on it. As I said in my …

Written by Brad Schaeffer on Wednesday September 28, 2011

I Stand With Glenn Beck

img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-102559" title="Glenn Beck" src="/files/wxrimport/2011-08/glenn-beck.jpg" alt="" width="440" height="280" />

Written by Emmanuel Navon on Sunday August 28, 2011

Glenn Beck Wants A Whiter Spider-Man

Glenn Beck has a problem with the new Spider-Man, and he thinks Michelle Obama is to blame. In one of Marvel's comic series, Peter Parker has been killed off and the mantle of Spider-Man will be taken up by a new character: Miles Morales, who is half-black and half-Hispanic . On his radio …

Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Wednesday August 3, 2011

Fox's "Five" Should Take Five

While it has a lot of problems, you can commend Fox News for trying to have their replacement for Glenn Beck's show be witty and funny. After two-and-a-half years of dominating the early-evening leadoff on FoxNews, Glenn Beck bid a typically tearful farewell his audience in June, following a …

Written by Telly Davidson on Friday July 15, 2011

Fox News Struggles to Replace Glenn Beck

Fox News has a new TV show to fill the 5pm slot that Glenn Beck had. But is "The Five" just lazy filler? How do you replace Glenn Beck's bizarre and rambling hour of television? If you come up with programming on Fox News, you decide that 5pm is a great time to do a conservative version of …

Written by Noah Kristula-Green on Monday July 11, 2011

Conservatives Dismiss Pay-To-Play in Talk Radio

Politico's story about pay-to-play on conservative radio got the usual ho-hum treatment from most conservative blogs -- if it gets any mention. Politico's story yesterday about pay-to-play on conservative radio got the usual ho-hum treatment from most conservative blogs -- that is, when it got …

Written by David Frum on Thursday June 16, 2011

Conservative Media's Pay-To-Play Deals

We're not talking about commercials, separated from editorial content. Heritage Foundation work is embedded into the editorial flow of Limbaugh's show. Why are conservatives so ready to accept behaviors in their own media that they themselves would damn as outrageous if they occurred in non-conser…

Written by David Frum on Wednesday June 15, 2011

A Great Week for the GOP

Is conservatism recovering its balance? Here are three positive signs from this past week. Is conservatism recovering its balance? Three positive signs in this past week. 1) The Republican caucus accepted a deal to avert a government shutdown. The deal is a huge victory for governance Republica…

Written by David Frum on Saturday April 9, 2011

Come Back Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson, editor of the Little Green Footballs site, has written a post declaring his personal breach with the American right. He offers 10 reasons, but they all boil down to the same one: His outrage at the bad characters found in right-wing media and in the blogosphere. Charles Johnson, …

Written by David Frum on Tuesday December 1, 2009

Scorched Earth Conservatives

In a fiery debate , Frontpagemagazine.com editor David Horowitz accuses NewMajority's David Frum of "scorched-earth attacks on Glenn Beck." Frum replies: "It’s bad luck for you that we are having this discussion in the same week that Glenn Beck a) expressed his enthusiasm for a Hillary Clinton …

Written by David Frum on Thursday September 24, 2009

Are the Birthers the Next Black Panthers?

Bruce Bartlett wonders if conservative elites today see the teabaggers, birthers and others as cannon fodder to promote larger conservative goals the same way liberal elites originally viewed extreme left groups in the 1960s. Bartlett's comparison is thought-provoking, but I think it fails for a …

Written by David Frum on Wednesday September 2, 2009

Don't Despair Yet, Mr. Bartlett!

In a recent post , former Reagan aide Bruce Bartlett correctly noted that the Republican party seems dominated by extremists. But, Mr. Bartlett also ignores the many grown-ups still in the GOP who are trying to steer the party towards the center. In a recent post , former Reagan aide Bruce …

Written by Dennis Sanders on Monday August 31, 2009

The Reckless Right Courts Violence

Hysterical talk from TV and radio hosts may be a cynical marketing exercise. But it's getting too dangerous to ignore. A man bearing a sidearm appears outside President Obama's Aug. 11 town hall meeting in Portsmouth, N.H., under a sign proclaiming, "It is time to water the tree of liberty." …

Written by David Frum on Thursday August 13, 2009

What I Saw at the Town Hall

Twenty minutes into my two-hour wait to get a seat at Senator Ben Cardin's town hall event, I started keeping a "Nazi tally" by counting references I overheard to Adolf Hitler, Germany, or the Nazi Party. The town halls are exactly what you're seeing on TV. The crowds are overwhelmingly conservativ…

Written by Alex Knepper on Wednesday August 12, 2009