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Glenn Beck

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Glenn Beck is a conservative radio host, author, entrepreneur, political commentator, and former television host. To his supporters he is a staunch defender of American values. His critics find that he espouses conspiracy theories and provocative rhetoric in order to get good ratings

Beck has written six best selling books. He has been married twice and has four children. Beck  began working in radio after graduating high school. He is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict. Raised Catholic, Beck and his wife joined the Church of the Latter Day Saints in 1999.

Beck describes himself as a conservative with Libertarian leanings. He was influenced by W. Cleon Skousen, a conservative, and Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society.

Beck believes in a low national debt and supports gun rights. While he thinks that global warming may be caused partly by man, he believes the American Clean Energy and Security Act is a form of wealth redistribution, and he opposes the Kyoto Treaty.

“Al Gore’s not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. ...The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax.…You need to have fear …Then you have to discredit the scientists that say ‘That's not right.’ And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing].”

Beck believes that “progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution. ... It is big government – it's a socialist utopia. And we need to address it as if it is a cancer.”

“Crime Inc.” is a group of progressives who form a clandestine conspiracy to take over and reform America, and includes Obama, Gore, George Soros, John Podesta, and Francis Fox Piven. He believes they are working with an array of organizations and corporations such as Goldman Sachs, Fannie Mae, Chicago Climate Exchange, and the SEIU to fulfill their progressive agenda.

Beck compared TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), to what lead up to Hitler. Signed into law in 2008 by Bush, TARP put government money into banks and financial institutions in response to the subprime mortgage crisis.

“This is not comparing these people [banks] to the people in Germany, but this is exactly what happened to the lead-up with Hitler. Hitler opened up the door and said, ‘Hey, companies, I can help you.’ They all ran through the door. And then in the end, they all saw, ‘Uh-oh. I'm in bed with the devil.’ They started to take their foot out, and Hitler said, ‘Absolutely not. Sorry, gang. This is good for the country. We've gotta do these things.’ And it was too late.”

Beck claimed that Obama’s agenda is driven by “reparations” and is racially motivated:” “The health care bill is reparations. It's the beginning of reparations. He's going to give — if you want to go into medical school, the medical schools will get more federal dollars if they have proven that they are putting minorities ahead.”

Beck thinks Obama is racist, as he said in 2009, “This president, I think, has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people, or the white culture, I don't know what it is. I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people, I'm saying he has a problem. He has a — this guy is, I believe, a racist.”

In an ongoing feud with George Soros, a Hungarian Jew who survived the Holocaust, Beck said that Soros was a Nazi collaborator, and he was denounced by the Anti-Defamation League.

Referring to this, Beck said, “Most people who are not Jewish don't understand that there are the Orthodox Rabbis and the Reform Rabbis. Reformed rabbis are generally political in nature. It's almost like Islam, radicalized Islam in a way, to where it is just — radicalized Islam is less about religion than it is about politics. When you look at the Reform Judaism, it is more about politics.”

He was denounced by fellow conservatives and rabbis and apologized. “I was making a point about political activists and I started to talk about the difference in Rabbis. Someone has called me ignorant for what I said on Tuesday and I think that's a pretty good description of what I said.”

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“This president I think has exposed himself as a guy, over and over and over again, who has a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture, I don't know what it is … I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying he has a problem. He has a, this guy is, I believe, a racist.”

(On President Obama during Fox & Friends on Fox News, July 28, 2009 – Source)


“The most used phrase in my administration if I were to be President would be, "What the hell you mean we're out of missiles?”

(The Glenn Beck Program, Premiere Radio Networks, 12 January 2009 – Source)


“Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization...And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did. That's what Al Gore, the U.N., and everybody on the global warming bandwagon [are doing].”

(The Glenn Beck Program, May 1, 2007 – Source)


“The only [Katrina victims] we're seeing on television are the scumbags.”

(The Glenn Beck Program, Sept. 9, 2005 – Source)


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