Glenn Beck and his radio co-hosts mocked Lawrence O’Donnell’s emotional defense of Planned Parenthood–and the woman whose email drove him to tears. On his Monday show, Beck played the tape of O’Donnell–a host whose feud with Beck is long-running–reading the email from a friend of his who described her need for Planned Parenthood’s services. He […]
Read moreBill O’Reilly told Don Imus that he didn’t know whether or not Glenn Beck was going to leave Fox News when his contract is up in December. “I don’t know,” O’Reilly said. “I mean, this guy is building quite an empire…like him or not, he’s a savvy business guy…I don’t know if he’s going to […]
Read moreGlenn Beck’s radio show is set to be dropped from four small Connecticut stations, it was reported. Buckley Radio, a chain which runs 17 stations around the country, told Radio Ink magazine and Media Matters that it will cease airing Beck’s show, which airs on four of its five stations in the state, beginning April […]
Read moreRush Limbaugh defended Donald Trump, who has caused controversy with his comments about President Obama’s birth certificate, saying that Trump is “performing a valuable service.” Trump got into a heated argument with Whoopi Goldberg on Wednesday’s “The View,” after he said that Obama must have “something on the birth certificate that he doesn’t like.” This […]
Read moreHoward Stern and his agent are suing Sirius XM Radio Inc. for failing to pay stock awards they say are due for helping it exceed subscriber growth targets on its way to becoming the dominant satellite radio service in the country. The New York-based company, which just signed Stern to a second five-year contract, said […]
Read moreRush Limbaugh responded to criticisms that he was mocking Japanese refugees by insisting that he was only mocking a news report about them. Limbaugh sparked outrage on Tuesday when he laughed about a report by ABC’s Diane Sawyer that noted that refugees in a Japanese shelter were recycling. He then turned to a question from […]
Read moreOn his first day back from vacation, Glenn Beck addressed the earthquake in Japan, and said he thinks that it could be a “message [is] being sent” by God. Speaking on his radio show Monday, Beck said, “I’m not saying God is, you know, causing earthquakes,” before quickly adding, “I’m not not saying that either.” […]
Read moreThe company responsible for syndicating big conservative radio names like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity has been using paid actors to call in to their radio shows. According to a recent report in Tablet Magazine, Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, hired actors to call in as guests. A website […]
Read moreA month ago, Tablet Magazine published an article about actors being paid to call in to radio shows and pretend to be real callers. While Tablet didn’t name any specific shows that used the fakes, they mentioned that it was a service run by Premiere Radio Networks which, they pointed out, syndicates the radio shows […]
Read moreCharlie Sheen’s media blitz continues, and Tuesday he spoke with Howard Stern about his phone call with Mel Gibson and his “goddesses,” the two live-in girlfriends who help him care for his young sons. Sheen revealed that Natty (a bikini model) and Rach (formerly known as Bree, her porn star name), sleep in separate beds […]
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