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Glenn Lee Beck is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck also hosts the Glenn Beck television program, whi…
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Born 10 February 1964 · Q310618
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“I am thrilled and profoundly humbled to have the chance to bring my program to Fox News. Expanding my audience is exciting, but I’m really looking forward to joining Mr. Ailes and his world-class team,”
“You will have to shoot me in the head. We are not stopping”
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“Reform Rabbis are generally political in nature. It”
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“This is the disease. This is the disease in America”
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“destroy America as it was originally conceived”
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“Those who count us out are counting on one weekend of action, one weekend of speeches. One weekend. One day. Please, my fellow countrymen, let this be the first of many.”
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“If Donald Trump wins, it is going to be a snowball to hell.”
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Published video “Democratic Candidate JAILED After This fight?!”.
Published video “The Best of Glenn Beck's Chalkboard Specials”.
Published video “Is He Right About This?”.
Published video “If Glenn Is Right About Trump's Plan, EVERYTHING Is About to Change...”.
Published video “The Truth About Nixon...”.
Published video “I can't take John Thune anymore.”.
Published video “Glenn Is DONE With Weak GOP Leadership Refusing To Pass The SAVE America Act”.
Published video “There's A "Little Yemen" In NYC?”.
Published video “England's Culture Is Being DESTROYED From Within. Could It Happen Here?”.
Published video “The Threats In England Are Real.”.
The Guardian: The kindness of strangers: I was a broke youth radio host who couldn’t afford a Beck ticket – then a listener called in
The Jerusalem Post ranked Beck first on its list of "pro-Israel Christian influencers," honouring him for his long-standing public support for Israel and advocacy against antisemitism
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Claimed: “A World Economic Forum-sponsored plan would limit meat consumption by 2030” — rated False by AFP Fact Check.
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Beck announced that his second case of COVID-19 was "getting into my lungs"
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Snopes rated the claim “Glenn Beck's charitable organizations airlifted 5,100 Christian refugees out of Afghanistan.” Research In Progress.
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Claimed: ““Just for the record, the Biden Administration IS separating children and parents.”” — rated False by PolitiFact.
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Beck argued that the election of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders could lead to "another Holocaust
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“s defeat in the 2020 election would be”
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Beck stated on his radio program that he intended to vote for Trump in the 2020 presidential election, calling Trump's record "pretty damn amazing"
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“It is not either/or. It is both. We have to be active in the political game, and we must open our hearts.”
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For remarks made during an interview a week earlier
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“I did a lot of freaking out about Barack Obama.”
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Beck, a friend of actor and director Mel Gibson claimed he and Gibson shared a conversation in which Gibson claimed Jewish people had stolen a copy of The Passion of the Christ before its official theatrical release, and
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Beck announced that he had left the Republican Party, saying that it had failed to effectively stand against Obamacare and immigration reform, and because of its opposition to lawmakers such as Mike Lee and Ted Cruz
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Beck announced on TheBlaze that he had been suffering from a severe neurological disorder for at least the last five years
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And 45,000 people have received humanitarian aid as a result of donations to Mercury One
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That Mercury One would make efforts to provide food and relief to the large numbers of migrant children
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The Hollywood Reporter placed Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list
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Campaign: 2012 presidential election.
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And a new two-hour show began his television network, which started as a subscription-based internet TV network, TheBlaze TV, originally called GBTV, on September 12, 2011
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When he recounted the accomplishments of the show and said, "This show has become a movement
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During a discussion on his radio show about the controversy surrounding his earlier comments about Soros, Beck said "Reform Rabbis are generally political in nature
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As the publishing imprint of Mercury Radio Arts
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Beck founded the nonprofit organization Mercury One, the mission of which is to "restore the human spirit by encouraging dependence on God, providing humanitarian aid, preserving heritage, and empowering all to stand for
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“The questions hanging over Murdoch, USA”
“transition off of his daily program”
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Mercury Ink publishes adult and young adult novels and non-fiction titles
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Beck endorsed Elizabeth Dilling's 1936 work The Red Network: A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, remarking, "this is a book, The Red Network, this came in from 1936
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An investigation by the California Attorney General found the videos from Los Angeles, San Diego and San Bernardino to be "heavily edited", and the investigation did not find evidence of criminal conduct on the part of A
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The District Attorney's office for Brooklyn determined that the videos were "heavily edited" and concluded that there was no criminal wrongdoing by the ACORN staff in the videos from the Brooklyn ACORN office
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The fact that Beck is Mormon caused concern among some politically sympathetic Christian Evangelicals on theological grounds
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“A couple of weeks ago I went to the doctor because of my eyes. I can”
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“reclaim the civil rights movement. … We were the people that did it in the first place”
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“, Atlantic Wire, retrieved on 2010-10-23 If you go to Cass Sunstein, what net neutrality means is now if you go to FoxNews.com, you will have Arianna Huffington, a little box pop up with her showing that”
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Beck was accused of being anti-Semitic due to his smears against Soros
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Matthew Continetti of the conservative Weekly Standard criticized Beck's conspiratorial bent, terming him "a Skousenite"
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Was selected for Time's top 100 most influential people under the "Leaders" category
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That conservative evangelicals respond to Beck's framing of conservative economic principles, saying that Beck's and ideological fellow travelers' "marriage between evangelicalism and patriotic nationalism is so strong t
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Declaring, "It's like someone found a manic, doom-prophesying hobo in a sandwich board, shaved him, shot him full of Zoloft and gave him a show
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The former Massachusetts Attorney General, after an independent internal investigation of ACORN, found the videos that had been released appeared to have been edited, "in some cases substantially"
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“There are things unique to the African-American experience that I cannot relate to. I had to listen to them.”
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Propelled the book to number one in the government category on Amazon for several months
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Beck's show was one of the highest rated news commentary programs on cable TV
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“a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture”
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Lawyers for Beck brought a case (Beck v
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Beck and other conservative commentators were critical of Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) making multiple claims including voter registration fraud in the 2008 presidential election
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Beck argued that Obama had repeatedly shown "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture", saying, "I'm not saying he doesn't like white people
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Won the Marconi Radio Award for Network Syndicated Personality of the Year
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The New York Times reported that Premiere Radio Networks was extending Beck's contract
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Hosted the 2007 Toyota Tundra "Stadium of Fire" in Provo, Utah
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Performed an inspirational monologue in Salt Lake City, Utah, detailing how he was transformed by the "healing power of Jesus Christ", which was released as a CD two years later by Deseret Book, a publishing company o
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During the early stages of the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, Beck called for and helped fund "Rallies for America" in cities across the country to support American troops and counter the anti-Iraq War movement
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Naming it after the Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, which produced live radio broadcasts during the 1930s
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Beck created the media platform Mercury Radio Arts as the umbrella over his broadcast, publishing, Internet, and live show interests
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On WFLA (AM) in Tampa, and took its afternoon time slot from 18th to first place within a year
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In 1999, Beck married his second wife, Tania.
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Beck married his second wife, Tania
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While working for a New Haven area radio station, Beck took a theology class at Yale University, with a written recommendation from Senator Joe Lieberman, a Yale alumnus who was a fan of Beck's show at the time
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WKCI apologized after Beck and Gray mocked a Chinese-American caller on air who felt offended by a comedy segment by playing a gong sound effect and having executive producer Alf Gatineau mock a Chinese accent
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The couple divorced in 1994 amid Beck's struggles with substance abuse.
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Amid Beck's struggles with substance abuse
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Beck resigned from Y-95 to accept a job in Houston at KRBE, known as Power 104
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Beck moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, to work at radio station KZFM
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Studied at Sehome High School (1982).
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When Beck was 15, his mother drowned in Puget Sound while fishing with a man in Commencement Bay west of Tacoma
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Born 1964-02-10.
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