The ongoing feud between Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin has escalated yet again, this week with Beck mocking Palin on his network and asking whether the former Alaska governor has "had a brain aneurysm". According to Beck, Palin has gone completely crazy after she turned on Donald ...read more
In a stunning interview with The New Yorker, Glenn Beck has admitted that he and those like him contributed to the rise of Trump. However, that isn't the most shocking admission he made. Beck also claims that President Barack Obama has left him a changed man, for the better: "I ...read more
You have to feel a little sorry for Glenn Beck -- the poor chap is having the hardest time during this presidential election. On the one hand, he hates everything Hillary Clinton stands for and believes her to be the devil incarnate. And on the other, he sees Donald Trump as ...read more
If last night's debate wasn't surreal enough, there now definitive proof that we are living in an alternate universe. This 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 ...read more
I'm going to roll this out to you Memento-style, because it's better that way. Fade in from credits to this shit here: Okay, how the fuck did we get there? Well, let's back the story up a little bit, and discover that this is Glenn Beck's way of trying to show how he's really ...read more
Major Donald Trump ally and very angry person Roger Stone had a thing or two to say about Ted Cruz supporter and conservative blowhard Mark Levin on yesterday's edition of WIOD, a conservative talk radio show in Florida. Via Media Matters: Just to be very clear, I wrote with ...read more
Poor Glenn Beck -- his favored lunatic in the Republican primary is losing to Sarah Palin's favored lunatic, Donald Trump -- and Beck is beside himself with grief. The former friends have had a rather nasty falling out over the warring GOP candidates, and the ongoing drama took ...read more
It's probably about eight months too late to say that the Republican presidential primary is getting weird, but the Republican presidential primary is getting weird. I'm not usually one of these guys who goes all panicky about candidates and religion, but Ted Cruz is kinda ...read more
The only thing scarier than a Donald Trump presidency is without a doubt, the prospect of a Ted Cruz presidency. While Donald Trump attracts angry, frustrated white men who dream of being millionaires, Ted Cruz's demographic is a whole lot freakier and should put the fear of God ...read more
All is not well in loony conservative land when the two biggest clowns in the movement turn on each other. Fresh off a bat shit crazy rally in DC to derail Obama's Iran deal, Glenn Beck turned nasty on his former friend Sarah Palin calling her a "clown" on his radio show and ...read more
It has been a while since we trawled the bottomless pit of internet hostility and paranoia found in the comments section of The Blaze, but it felt like the right time to sample what much of the country thinks about current events. Remember, The Blaze reaches almost 30 million ...read more
Here's the quote of the day, from a person whose opinion you want to be sure to base all your important healthcare decisions on: “I think that there is a lot to be said for being cautious on what we are jamming into our children’s arms by law, all the time... I gave my kids the ...read more
Liberals, including myself and Daily Banter editor Michael Luciano, were taken slightly aback last month by a temporary moment of clarity in which Glenn Beck admitted he was wrong about the Iraq war. Don't worry, though. Whatever produced that fleeting epiphany has since ...read more
Listen up, America: Sarah Palin is starting a news channel to solve America's problems. For a mere $9.95 a month, you'll get to hear about the world without the "media filters" Sarah Palin has spent a career fighting against (other than the filters she demands when reporters ...read more
It turns out Glenn Beck has been spreading around something vile other than his horrible opinions. No, it's not herpes (probably). Security firm Invincea reports that on July 1, Beck's site The Blaze unintentionally transmitted malware through embedded advertising to many of his ...read more
Glenn Beck is no fan of liberals, and liberals aren't fans of his. But in the spirit of giving credit where credit is due, Beck warrants props for doing the exact opposite of what a screaming pack of protesters did last week in California. In that ugly episode, three busloads of ...read more
Whether you agree or disagree with SiriusXM's decision to fire shock jock Anthony Cumia after his racial rant on Twitter last week, there's no denying that Cumia is an out-and-out racist and a gigantic douchebag. His bizarre attack on an unknown African-American woman who ...read more
Glenn Beck has long been a fringe figure on the right, which as difficult as it is to do these days, is saying something. But in a weird way I've always respected Beck's occasional unpredictability with regard to certain issues like gay marriage, as well as his talent as an ...read more
During a video segment called "The Morning Meeting," Beck and morning zoo sidekick Pat Gray discussed, of all things, a box of dildos. Specifically, a box of dildos in a high school end-of-term student awards ceremony. Why, Beck wondered, is a box of dildos allowed in school, ...read more
Former Fox host and current conservative media emperor Glenn Beck stunned viewers of his internet TV show today when he tearfully revealed the horrors of rape that have affected his family "firsthand, over multiple generations," including details of the repeated rape of his ...read more
Glenn Beck didn't attend this year's White House Correspondents Dinner, but he's attended once before -- and it was clearly an experience he didn't relish very much because he compared it to, yes, being raped. "My wife and I left, and said, uh, should we go and take a shower ...read more
It's getting more than a little deep in here. No one should be surprised that Newt Gingrich called the ouster of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich a product of "new fascism" (same great taste?), joining other right-wing luminaries like Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck in Hitlerian ...read more
They said it couldn't be done, "they" being critics of the Affordable Care Act and the media, and "it" being the achievement of the lowered estimate of six million Obamacare enrollments, let alone the original 7 million projection by the CBO. Just yesterday, even with the ...read more
Yes, it's that time again... It's Glenn Beck Comment Porn! This week, we look at some wonderful comments readers of The Blaze left in response to the head honcho's threats on Wednesday to leave America. Railing against the president's Stalinist ways, Beck said on his show: ...read more
Ladies and gentlemen, it's that time again: Glenn Beck Comment Porn! This week, we truly have a special edition of the column - a collection of comments from readers of The Blaze that are so epically stupid we're wondering whether the site hasn't been hacked by liberal trolls. ...read more
Happy Thursday. Let's just all keep trying to get by. Here's what's on the interweb: 1. Glenn Beck: I Played A Role In 'Helping Tear The Country Apart' Glenn Beck admitted Tuesday that he has some major regrets about his time at Fox News. “I remember it as an awful lot of ...read more
President Obama was exactly right. Some people don't like him because he's African-American. I didn't think this was even remotely controversial. But wow. Some of the usual suspects erupted in protest, behaving suspiciously defensive when, in fact, the president wasn't really ...read more
It's Friday, Banter readers, thus it is time for our regular installment of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn'. In this week's edition, we look at a delightful comment thread on The Blaze where readers weigh in with their own suggestions one how to celebrate Michelle Obama's 5oth ...read more
One way of understanding the route of bias in the media is to look at the funding model behind the outlet. If a media company is owned by a giant corporate conglomerate, the odds are that it won't base much of its reporting on media consolidation. If a news network is owned by ...read more
We're back, ladies and gentleman! While we took a break from the endless cesspit of ignorance and hostility found at Glenn Beck's site The Blaze' over the holidays, a new year requires new focus and what better way to kick off 2014 than diving into a wonderfully offensive ...read more
It's that time of the week folks: 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn', our weekly review of the funniest/craziest/dumbest quotes from Beck's prestigious online venture 'The Blaze'. This week, we have a solitary comment that is definitely a contender for the greatest ever (there have only ...read more
Whenever screechers Mark Levin and Glenn Beck get together on an idea, it's bound to be profoundly stupid. As Right Wing Watch reported today, Levin floated a plan in one of his dozens of books in which he proposed amending the Constitution via a "convention of the states," ...read more
In this week's installment of "Glenn Beck Comment Porn" we look at reader reactions to an article on 'The Blaze' titled "EVOLUTION AND CREATIONISM DEBATE RAGES IN TEXAS OVER NEW SCIENCE TEXTBOOK". The article kicked off a brilliant debate in the comments section where readers ...read more
In this week's edition of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn', we have one solitary comment from Glenn Beck's site, 'The Blaze'. In response to a post on Darren Aronofsky’s long-awaited film "Noah", a Blaze reader weighed in with what must be the single best comment we've seen in our ...read more
Thousands of suckers -- I'm mean Glenn Beck Fans -- are paying good money to subscribe to Glenn Beck's internet-only shows, and this is what they're getting: ten minutes of Beck inexplicably playing with dolls from The Wizard of Oz. Seriously, he literally re-enacted the basic ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of Glenn Beck Comment Porn - the column where you get to see the madness of 'The Blaze' readers in condensed form. To save you from actually reading Beck's site, we do all the hard work by hand selecting the craziest shit from the commenting ...read more
It's the day after Halloween and it's a Friday, which means I've got about three working brain cells at the moment. The good news is there's the weekend ahead for most of us, so let's give you something to read before you bolt out of the office to get it underway. 1. The Book ...read more
How a centrist Democrat who passed a pro corporate health care bill, slashed taxes for the middle classes and expanded gun rights while in office gets labeled a Marxist revolutionary is anyone's guess. But that's the far right's sales pitch to the hordes of pissed off middle ...read more
In case you haven't heard, a series of rallies involving truckers who are supposedly fed up with President Obama is scheduled for D.C. this weekend. The plan is supposedly for 3,000 truckers to flood the Capitol Beltway and slow down traffic, all as a show of protest against ...read more
Here's Glenn Beck doing his best Barry Champlain impersonation, complete with melodrama and pregnant pauses, while discussing how the Obama administration is planning to “scoop people up.” Then he mentions how he and his morning zoo sidekick Pat Gray would like to get away ...read more
On his show yesterday, Beck warned New Yorkers this week about a "Marxist communist with a history of supporting terrorism" who will most likely be the mayor of New York City. Beck told his To dark, menacing music, Beck told his audience that NYC Mayoral candidate Bill de ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn'! Today, we've picked out some real gems from Beck's site The Blaze - amazing examples of unbridled right wing rage and paranoia that you won't find anywhere else (ok, that's not entirely true, but it's up there). In ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn', the place to get your regular installment of the hilarity found on Beck's website, The Blaze. In today's edition, we do our best to follow a very bizarre comment thread on an article about one of Beck's appearances ...read more
Welcome to this week's edition of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn' where we trawl through the heaving cesspit of comments left by readers of Beck's website 'The Blaze'. Today, we look at a comment thread related to 13 year old Rion Paige's performance on the "X Factor". The pint ...read more
In this week's 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn', we look at reader reactions to an article on The Blazedescribing a supposed shouting episode in the wake of the Benghazi scandal involving Hillary Clinton and a member of Congress. Reports the Glenn Beck rag: Rep. Adam Kinzinger ...read more
If you see any remaining daylight between the rapidly converging spheres of the Glenn Greenwald Left and the Alex Jones Right, you'll have to point it out to me because not only have those two factions begun to merge, but they're locked together in what could be a permanent Venn ...read more
In this week's edition of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn' we look at readers of The Blaze's reaction to an extraordinary article that amongst other things, justifies polygamy and marital rape. In the piece titled "FACT CHECK: DOES THE BIBLE REALLY SUPPORT RAPE AND POLYGAMY? THEBLAZE ...read more
In this week's edition of 'Glenn Beck Comment Porn' we look at the reaction of readers of The Blaze to Chris Matthew's apology in the wake of the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman verdict. In a heartfelt segment on his show, Matthews apologized on behalf of white people for the ...read more
