Tag Archives: Glenn Beck

Kristen Doerer reports at Right Wing Watch: Elijah Schaffer and his “Slightly Offensive” podcast had an audience of 460,000 on YouTube to which he spewed more than slightly offensive bigotries about people of color, women, and the LGBTQ community. On Monday night, the commentator finally got canned from The Blaze, which hosted his show. The Blaze issued a statement Monday …

Media Matters has the transcript: ALLIE BETH STUCKEY: In some cases, women should share legal responsibility depending on her age, mental capacity, her culpability, whether she was forced or not, the circumstances surrounding the abortion, how old was the baby. All of these things have always gone into judicial decisions about who bears responsibility for the taking of a person’s …

“I think they really want another January 6th. They are begging for it. Nobody paid attention to the January 6th hearings, cause everybody knows it’s bull crap. “There were problems — uh, but it wasn’t the worst since the Civil War, not even close, the bad guys should have gone to jail, but look at how they treated those guys. …

“Behind every man is a strong woman that he leads as she takes care of his household. As she looks after his family, as she helps him to add value to the family. Right? So he can focus on his work. “But this idea that like somehow men don’t have the capability to solve the issues – guys, we caused …

Mediaite reports: Blaze TV Host Elijah Schaffer joked at length about killing trans kids in a recent interview in response to a claim from an unnamed person that “genocide” is being committed against trans people. The full conversation was graphic enough that it was edited out of versions of the show that were posted to Apple and Spotify. Schaffer, who …

The Daily Beast reports: Conservative talk radio host Glenn Beck has fallen sick with the coronavirus — again. This time around, the former Fox News host turned mini-conservative media mogul said Wednesday afternoon, the illness has progressed into his lungs. “I am great, Mark. I am great, Mark,” Beck told fellow conservative radio Mark Levin during his daily radio program. …

The Week reports: “I want to have a frank conversation with you,” commentator Glenn Beck, 56, said on his show Tuesday, the latest conservative to paint the coronavirus lockdowns in terms of life versus liberty. “I would rather have my children stay home and all of us who are over 50 go in and keep this economy going and working, …

“A lot of people would find [Pete Buttigieg’s] lifestyle antithetical to what is found in the Bible. I mean, you just — Pete, you can’t make this claim. ‘You know, I just don’t know how you would vote for him because the way he lives his life, I mean, you know, you can’t find that in the Bible.’ “Well, you …

Raw Story reports: BlazeTV host Jon Miller took to Twitter after Korean director and screenwriter Bong Joon-ho won the Oscar for best screenplay for “Parasite” to complain about him not speaking English. Twitter users quickly went after the triggered conservative, calling out the racist attacks. When the “Parasite” creator won for best director, writer Yashar Ali asked if Miller was …

The Hill reports: Blaze Media’s Glenn Beck in an interview Monday with Fox News’s Sean Hannity said if President Trump and the GOP lose in 2020, “we are officially at the end of the country as we know it.” In his remarks, Beck painted the picture of socialists, anarchists and “Islamists” working together to take down not only the United …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Right-wing pseudo-historian David Barton appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program yesterday to promote the new book he has co-written with right-wing pastor Jim Garlow: “This Precarious Moment: 6 urgent steps that will save you, your family, and your country.” During the broadcast, Beck managed to rope Barton into making an ad for Goldline, …

Mediaite reports: Filing this under things that I did not see coming in 2018: Candace Owens, a brainless pro-Trump YouTube personality who is now famous because Kanye West tweeted about her once, celebrated Louis Farrakhan‘s recent praise of President Donald Trump. Glenn Beck agreed. Farrakhan — a noted anti-Semite who also praised Trump during the 2016 campaign for rejecting donations …

The Military Times reports: A Marine veteran turned journalist has been recalled from Iraq after tweeting a picture showing him shooting at ISIS fighters. On Thursday, Jason Buttrill tweeted a picture of him with a sniper rifle along with the the message: “Major bucket list completed. Shoot at #ISIS ? Check!” A Marine veteran, Buttrill also tweeted that he fired …

Via Mediaite: Conspiracy radio host Alex Jones hit back at The Blaze’s Glenn Beck the day after Beck labeled him a “madman,” accusing-but-not-accusing Beck of being gay. “Why is Glenn Beck out to get me, why is he always attacking me, starting like ten years ago?” Jones asked rhetorically. Jones said that he knew and met Beck back in the …

CNN reports: Nationally syndicated radio host Glenn Beck said Tuesday that the alt-right movement is “truly terrifying,” adding that while leading Breitbart News, Stephen Bannon gave a voice to white nationalists. “He has given a voice and power to that group of people,” Beck told Anderson Cooper on “AC360.” “You don’t empower people like that. You just don’t. It’s not …

From Glenn Beck’s Facebook page: Every person, each of us must decide what is a bridge too far. Mike Lee has obviously reached that point, where the moral compromise his party is asking him to make is simply beyond what is acceptable. It is not acceptable to ask a moral, dignified man to cast his vote to help elect an …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: On Friday, Ted Cruz officially endorsed Donald Trump and the news did not sit well with Glenn Beck, who had campaigned for Cruz during the Republican primaries on the grounds that he had been anointed by God to save America, and who has vowed never to support Trump. Cruz appeared on Beck’s radio …

Politico reports: Conservative media personality Glenn Beck and several related companies have reached an out-of-court settlement with a Saudi Arabian student Beck accused of involvement in financing the deadly 2013 bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Abdulrahman Alharbi sued Beck, his firms The Blaze and Mercury Radio Arts, as well as distributor Premiere Networks for defamation in …

Glenn Beck has apparently seen ABC News’ evisceration of homocon bully Milo Whatisopoulos. From his Facebook page: You want the truth Milo? You are a hurt 13 year old boy. I don’t know what pain you had to go through to make you so cold and distant from any feelings of compassion and basic kindness but causing hurt makes you …

Glenn Beck and two of his staffers face jailing for contempt after refusing today to name the alleged sources that led them to wrongly accuse a Saudi man of being behind the Boston Marathon bombing. Via Law Newz: In a letter delivered Wednesday, Beck’s attorney, Michael J. Grygiel, said that Beck and his colleague Joe Weasel, would refuse to reveal …