When it comes to the potential ban on Israeli products at the Park Slope Food Co-Op, everyone has an opinion. Even Glenn Beck. With the big vote (to decide if they should vote) coming up fast, the former Fox News host went and expressed his displeasure with the idea at a Crown Heights fundraiser for a museum in Jerusalem last night. more ›

Does anyone care about small businesses anymore? Or have we completely transformed into a Socialist state precisely as Brother Beck warned? First they took away the ingenious MetroCard innovator. Now, CBS reports that a 17-year-old Suffolk County girl was arrested for running a tattoo and piercing parlor out of her bedroom. Authorities are claiming that Carisma Thompson-Pike advertised her skills on Facebook, and charged $5 to $200 for her services. more ›

Glenn Beck may have left Fox News, but he is still out there letting his freak flag fly for those willing to shell out for his personal network, GBTV (slogan: "The truth lives here."). Initially we didn't jump to pay $9.95/month to have Beck talking at us from our computer screens, but we've started rethinking our policy. Why? Because Glenn Beck now has a kids show! It's called Liberty Treehouse (of course it is!) and it features news segments aimed at kids. Reading Rainbow, this ain't. more ›

One of the first of the 80 protesters to be arrested during the Occupy Wall Street protests on Saturday was a young man who dropped to his knees in the street in front of a Chase Bank. He repeatedly screamed "That's the bank that took my family's home!" before being arrested. But now, Glenn Beck's news website The Blaze claims that they talked to the man's mother, and at no point was their house ever in foreclosure. more ›

Last night, Jon Stewart shared a promo for a very special Daily Show segment, ostensibly airing tonight, on 9/13 (unless this too is a joke). Called simply, "The Daily Show Remembers 9/13/2001: Remembering The Day We Forgot The Lessons Of The Day We Swore We Would Always Remember," the segment promises to look back on all the low points of 9/11 exploitation, which began two days after the attacks, with Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson blaming pagans, abortionists, feminists, gays, the ACLU and others for "helping" 9/11 happen. more ›

The DVR is probably already set, but just a quick reminder: Tonight is the last episode of Glenn Beck on Fox News. Of course Beck's radio show will continue to broadcast his thoughts, so everyone can still get their fill of insanity once his TV show ends later today. more ›

Glenn Beck along with his wife and one of his daughters showed up in Bryant Park last night to catch the Hitchcock movie 39 Steps. "All I wanted to do is go out on a blanket with my family and have dinner in the afternoon sun and sit around." While in theory this is a completely reasonable request, it seems a tad disconnected from reality, which shouldn't surprise anyone. Beck said on his morning radio show that from the moment he arrived, the vibe was "hostile," and that someone apparently kicked a glass of wine (which they shouldn't have had!) over on his wife's back. When she got up to use the restroom, someone pointed at her and supposedly shouted, "We hate conservatives here!" more ›

Osama bin Laden's death may have been only the third time the New York Times actually stopped their presses, but maybe they should go for four, because Glenn Beck and many Muslims both agree that the terrorist shouldn't have been given a burial at sea. Perhaps a good bronzing would have been more appropriate? more ›

Earlier this month, Fox News confirmed that chalk addict Glenn Beck was leaving the network sometime this year. Which is why it makes sense that he's leaving New York City, too. He told a crowd over the weekend, "We were each born with a purpose, born at this time for a reason. I don’t care what your [situation] is, your job is. You were born here for a purpose and the first thing you’ve got to do is… have no fear. Have no fear..." and, "The last thing I will be doing, I will be leaving New York City." more ›

The speculation that Glenn Beck's days at Fox News were numbered have turned out to be true. In a joint statement from Beck's production company and Fox the two announce that the host will be leaving "later this year" but that they'll still get together sometimes for "a variety of television projects." more ›

In Sidney Lumet's 1976 film Network, an enraged former news host takes over a TV station to broadcast his feverish diatribes against a bankrupt culture. Next year, Glenn Beck's life may imitate Lumet's art, when the Fox News star carries out a rumored plan to leave the network and start his own Beck Network (Beckwork?). All the Beck you could ever want, in one place, 24/7—Jon Stewart's going to have to start paying Beck royalties for this surfeit. more ›

Yesterday comedian Gilbert Gottfried lost his lucrative voice-over contract with the insurance company Aflac because of a string of revoltingly unfunny Twitter "jokes" about Japanese tsunami and earthquake victims. Gottfried, who can probably relate to feeling washed up, was fired for making such remarks as "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, 'They'll be another one floating by any minute now.' " (He later apologized "to anyone who was offended by my attempt at humor regarding the tragedy in Japan.") And he's not the only one displaying a sickening disregard for victims of the catastrophe. A rapper, a WNBA player, and a Fox news pundit have all used the tsunami as an opportunity to share their warped worldview. more ›

So what did the producers of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark think of yesterday's critical pile-on? They were very disappointed. The idea that those selfish scribes wouldn't keep their mouths shut, even after they were asked nicely, is just not fair. “Changes are still being made, and any review that runs before the show is frozen is totally invalid,” a spokesman whined to the Post. more ›

On his TV show Tuesday night, national debate-poisoner Glenn Beck dumped on the largest cooperative housing development in the world, Co-op City in the Bronx. Describing the historic co-op as a symbol of socialism's drab uniformity, the beloved boob opined, "Once you say there's a place where everyone's life is interchangeable, everyone then has exactly the same stuff, which sounds like these beautiful complexes. Do you want to live there? This is Co-op City. Oh man! This is so beautiful. That's the Great Society for you, and those are the lush [buildings]." You gonna take that, the Bronx? more ›

The latest critic to break the traditional embargo and review Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark before opening night isn't actually a theater critic, but more of a critic of rational thought and intellectual integrity. On Saturday, right wing demagogue du jour Glenn Beck saw the big-budget, high-tech rock musical—which we delicately likened to watching a spandex clad fat man with a flesh-hook suspension fetish masturbate onto a giant pile of money, while singing Muzak versions of all your least favorite U2 songs—and LOVED it. Here's his rave review, which he shared with his millions of radio listeners today: more ›

Yesterday, numerous organizations, including the NAACP, SEIU, and UAW, gathered in Washington D.C. for the One Nation rally about progressive causes. One of the organizers, radio and MSNBC talk show host Ed Schulz, told the crowd, "We are together. This march is about the power to the people. It is about the people standing up to the corporations. Are you ready to fight back?" He also faulted the Republicans to sending jobs overseas, vowing to "take back America, "and adding, "This is a defining moment in America. Are you American? This is no time to back down. This is time to fight for America." more ›

It's always a bit nauseating when one sees all the major media outlets giving an extremist ideologue face time, despite a complete lack of credibility, and with mounting evidence that he's truly disturbed. But Pastor Terry Jones, who started a let's-burn-Korans-on-9/11 campaign, seems to have achieved one thing that even President Obama couldn't: A true liberal/conservative consensus. more ›

You remember Bill Keller, don't you? He's the Florida-based evangelist who promised to create a 9/11 Christian Center at Ground Zero to balance out the Park 51 project (a community center with a mosque, which is planned for two blocks from the World Trade Center site) back in July. Well, he set up shop at a room in the Marriott's downtown hotel this past weekend, where he told a few dozen people, "All these people [Muslims] will die and burn in hell... Islam is not and has never been a religion of peace. How could you build bridges with people who ask their Muslim brothers to fly a plane into the twin towers and killed thousands of innocent people?" more ›

Yesterday, conservative radio and Fox News host Glenn Beck held his "Restoring Honor" rally in Washington D.C. The Washington Post reports that, from the Lincoln Memorial, "he championed a religious brand of patriotism and called on the nation to recommit itself to traditional values he said were hallmarks of its exceptional past." Beck said, "Something that is beyond man is happening. America today begins to turn back to God." more ›

With conservative radio and Fox News personality Glenn Beck set to hold his "Restoring Honor" rally in D.C. tomorrow, featuring former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and throngs of Tea Party masses (who need to be warned about the Beltway's dangerous areas/subways), the Rev. Al Sharpton is holding a rally of his own tomorrow as well. In an interview with CBS News, Sharpton questioned Beck's motives (and Beck's claims that he is recapturing the civil rights movement), "When Dr. King and others came here in '63 to ask the government to protect the civil rights of people and the economic rights of people, they came to ask government to protect them from local states that were robbing them of economic and civil rights...Glenn Beck is coming here to ask government to leave us alone, so he's trying to reverse what King did and there are those of us who are not going to allow that to happen." more ›

Yes, it's time for items related to the proposed mosque and community center two blocks from the World Trade Center and the rhetoric about why the Park 51 project should or shouldn't go forward. Last week, the Daily Show pointed out that speculating about Fox News' speculation about possible terrorist funding for the mosque was akin to speculating about terrorist funding for Fox News parent company News Corp., since News Corp.'s second biggest investor is Saudi prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. Then yesterday, Fox News' Dan Senor basically said that Al-Waleed funds Park 51's Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf and radical madrassas....but neglected to mention Al-Waleed by name or his News Corp. connection. Which gave Jon Stewart a lot of fodder: more ›

This week, semi-professional roaster Rep. Anthony Weiner issued a report lambasting gold-retailer Goldline International and Glenn Beck for colluding to use fear mongering tactics to bilk investors. Always one to rise to the occasion for a bare-knuckled intellectual battle, Beck responded by creating the website "Weinerfacts.com", mixing attacks on Rep. Weiner with pictures of hot dogs. more ›

Glenn Beck was in top form on his Fox News show yesterday, as he railed against the House's passage of health care reform. When not slamming the "California hippie, Marxist, communist, socialist progressives with flowers in the barrels of guns, sitting around smoking dope and talking about how they can destroy the evil American empire," he mocked how Democrats were calling the bill historic. more ›

Recently-resigned Rep. Eric Massa insists he "did nothing sexual" with his staff, but he admits he tickled them, sent them "inappropriate" text messages, and told one aide he should be "fracking" him. Just hours after news broke that Massa was under investigation for groping male aides, the former New York Congressman told Glenn Beck: "Now they are saying I groped a male staffer. Yeah, I did. Not only did I grope him. I tickled him until he couldn't breathe, and then four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday. It was kill the old guy. You can take anything out of context." more ›

Before he resigned from office, former Rep. Eric Massa was reportedly under investigation for allegedly groping three male staffers, as well as incidents of improper conduct with interns and aides. The southwestern New York Congressman has said he stepped down for a number of reasons including his health, his "salty" language, and because Democratic leaders had launched a conspiracy to force him from the House before the healthcare vote. White House officials have called those allegations "ridiculous." more ›

The Conservative Political Action Conference wound down its gathering yesterday with speeches from Ann Coulter, Newt Gingrich and key-note speaker Glenn Beck, who faulted Republicans for not paying attention to conservative principles, comparing them to alcoholics, "I have not yet heard people in the Republican Party admit they have a problem. I have not seen a come-to-Jesus meeting.... 'Hello, my name is the Republican Party and I've got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' ... They need that moment." more ›

The Harlem Gospel Choir canceled a holiday performance on television host Glenn Beck's conservative talk-show—but for financial reasons! While Color for Change's James Rucker, who has previously encouraged several advertisers to withdraw from Beck's show, tells the Daily News that the choir changed its mind after he sent them tapes of Beck's show, the choir's manager said, "This is America. Glenn Beck can believe and say what he believes. He has a good forum for him to do that and God bless that. It was just a slight confusion when the booking was made." more ›