well there has been a pretty successful campaign against glenn beck organized by online activists that's the closest thing to accountability that we've really seen. come from is more extreme comments but his employers stand by him both affiliates on radio and the fox news channel all the way up to rupert murdoch of course have his back and have defended him and his more outlandish comments so the question of accountability is an interesting one there doesn't seem to be the same sort of. people do account the way they used to be with this sort of standard you know what they were already structure in a standard kind of shared reality where there's truth and there's fiction and if you say something that's blatantly false and outrageous you are immediately called out and held up to be a fraud and not someone who's trustworthy that world has disappeared and it doesn't seem to we're going to be returning to it anytime soon you have this alternative reality that basically consists of fox news and the talk radio hosts who pretty much can create their own truths and maintain them amplify them and

york we cross to alexandra side chick he's a journalist and author of the book common nonsense glenn beck and the triumph of ignorance also in new york we have steve rendall senior analyst at fairness and accuracy in reporting and another member of our crosstalk team on the hunger all right steve i'd like to go to you first in preparing for this program i came across an amazing article in the washington post a few days ago. majority of g.o.p. thinks obama wants to impose islamic law now tell me where did that come from because it sounds like a came from the blogs fear that you go from the blog sphere into the mainstream and now everybody's talking about it and it seems quite amazing that we can hear these things repeated over and over again and then people start believing it i think that's right i think you're exactly right peter i think what you have is you have these rumors that began in the in the right wing fever swamps of the blogosphere they seep upwards into into the world of talk radio and fox news and other murdoch outlets like the new york post and they are amplified they enter

that's fox news' problem and glenn beck's problem.odd but i want to stand up for glenn beck's viewers in this case. but the laws that we're proposing obviously don't impact fox news and glenn beck can say and do whatever he wants. but i would hope he looks at the testimony today and realize his viewers are middle class viewers who are struggling. >> speaking of middle class viewers and others. a quick reaction from the senate that the senate is not going to have a vote up or down on tax cuts on middle class or rich people until after the election? >> it should come as no surprise that the senate is where legislation goeso die. ben franklin called it the cooling saucer of our on democracy. it's like the meat locker nowadays. this is ultimately a very good day. you alluded to it earlier. one, health care took effect, closing the donut hole for seniors. the very same day, the republican party, the party that paul ryan says he wants to privatize social security and eliminate medicare. we have a clear case to make here. i just wish democra

glenn beck and others were forced to answer for their practices today. call it the project to restore honor to gold peddlers. according to court records, the s.e.c. alleged they used deceptive messages to defraud 115 mostly elderly investors out of $1.1 million over 18 months. the case was settled and the men conceded no guilt and returned the money. a former gold line employee saying two men are training other salespeople for gold line and handling their biggest clients. in today's hearing, the executive vice president confirming that the men once under investigation are employees in good standing at his company. congressman wiener was interested in one scare tactic. glenn beck fearmongers in a web video for gold line. >> you see back in 1933, fdr said, we're going to take all your gold. gee, it's worth $8 an ounce. but some people got smart and they said, well, wait a minute. i've got antique coins. you can't melt these down. >> there's an identical radio ad done by either glenn beck in falsetto or some woman. gold line provides each customer with a co

this morning, when of course glenn beck saw christie bullying this guy, he instantly thought christie should be president of the united states. beck's sick fascination with governor christie, i think, is disgusting. he loves the new jersey governor so much he's devoted a daily segment on his radio show. take a listen. >> you know what, i demand on this program a chris christie moment every day. a some sort of a -- some sort of a commonsense -- i'm sorry, i'm not into porn, but i want a little chris christie porn commonsense porn every day on this program. >> ah, christie porn, it's just a family show, isn't it, glenn? now if governor christie wants democrats to calm down, be respectful, he might want to start with his old buddy beck himself. >> kathy -- >> giet up my phone. get off my phone, you little pinhead. i don't care, you people don't care about the trillions. get off of the phone! >> oh, yeah. conservative talk show host and heavy-handed politicians like christie just love to tell liberals to calm down and stop their screaming. christie doesn't -- you see, he doesn't want to t

glenn beck is going to stir up hate. there's going to be violence. you know, he's going to desecrate the memory of mlk. did anybody notice none of that happened? did anybody notice that none of the stuff from the koran burning thing happened? you know, i think we should, i think we should just notice here that the media is getting things wrong a lot. i mean, not like kind of wrong, but really wrong all the time. and i think it's because they're now engaging in future news. you know what i mean? it's future news. here is what's going to happen tomorrow, america. why don't you tell me what just happened? why don't you get that one right and maybe tell us what's going to happen? see, i'm not a journalist, i'm a commentator and i'm telling you my opinion. it seems the media is doing now, telling everybody their opinion. all right. so the koran thing didn't happen. the 8-28 thing that didn't turn into a race riots, it's weird, isn't it? and then the latest this weekend, i was up in alaska, i don't know if-- intellectually you can understand this, but unti

the happening is glenn beck. chronicled for the "new york times" magazine though not quite in these terms the scary scares advertisers and the lost advertising makes for a very troublesome relationship between beck and fox. as of september 21st, 296 advertisers have asked that their commercials not be shown on beck's show up from 26 in august, 2009. fox has also a difficult time selling ads on "the o'reilly" factor when beck appears as a guest. his show is known in the tv sales world as empty calories meaning he draws great ratings but is toxic for ad sales. he has no problem using his tv show as a platform to make more money for himself as he endlessly plugs his multimedia multipersonality stuff and while the fox pack president is described as generally supported of beck the beck himself promotion appears to be becoming a problem. the cross promotion can be a sore spot at fox news particularly for the president who has complained about beck hawking his nonfox ventures too much on his show. there is also a sense o

so the point was that obviously, martin luther king impacted glenn beck more than anyone had known. about the constitution, how they tried to relegate blacks and it was one of the most eloquent arguments he would have made. you would have thought that president obama or reverend al sharpton was making this argument. he, too, can be a spark by the great martin luther king as other americans are? >> was it liberals or conservatives? >> all of them. >> armstrong and jane, great conversation. thanks for joining us. had a good time. >>> coming up, one thing both parties can agree about, they both cater to wall street. from regular republicans to clinton democrats, we've got the author of "the great american stick-up." ♪ just one bite opens a world of delight... ♪ ♪ a flavor paradise of delicious fishes ♪ ♪ friskies seafood sensations. ♪ feed the senses. ♪ ♪ hey, now, now, we're going down, down ♪ ♪ and we'll ride the bus there ♪ pay the bus fare ♪ or we find a new reason [ female announcer ] something unexpected to the world of multigrain... taste. ♪ we're going down, down, and we ride t

glenn beck, tea party outsider.go on. >> i am saying that maybe it's time to lose, i don't know, the statue of liberty costume, you know. maybe no more dressing up with abe lincoln or putting the foam finger on your head or something like that. or the obama is a socialist t-shirt. you might want to put that back in the drawer. let me explain why. >> don't worry, he'll still be a socialist and you'll look great in your new members only jacket. >> it's very important that you understand the image. do what you want to do. but when you dust off the statue of liberty costume and wear it to a rally, guess what gets plastered on the front page of the news? this is the problem. >> glenn beck can bring on the thomas payne impersonator and fearmonger with nazi swastikas, you need to refrain from this. glenn beck can play dress-up, but he knows what he's doing. he's a professional. like today, the day after his decree where he dressed up like a baker. tomorrow, karl marx, the candlestick maker. >> you cannot discredit the move

glenn beck tea party outsider? hmm.t maybe it's time to lose -- oh, i don't know -- the statue of liberty costume, you know. maybe no more dressing up, you know, with abe lincoln or putting the foam finger on your head or something like that, or the obama is a socialist t-shirt. you may want to put it back in the drawer. let me explain why. >> don't worry. he'll still be a socialist and you will look great in your new members only jacket. >> it's very posimportant that understand the image. the image. do what you want to do, but when you dust off the statue of liberty costume and wear toyota -- it to a rally, guess who is on the front page of the news. you. >> front page of news, bad. front page of beck's book, no problem. the doorman at the blaine hotel wants his hat back. glenn beck can bring on the thomas paine impersonator. he can fear monger with swastikas, but you need to refrain. glenn beck can play dress-up, but he's a professional. like today, the day after his decree when he dressed up like a baker. tomorrow,

again you saw glenn beck say, leave your signs at home. did it again this week. people, leave your signs at home. you've seen them threw out mark williams from the tea party express and the tea party express faction for not disowning him. they've got to go further. they've got to go further. it's fine if you want to build a movement on tax policy, but if you want to keep racism, gasoline and racism aflame -- >> no doubt. does it make you nervous that their candidates are winning and it's changed -- it's moving the republican party further to the right, which historically, has left minorities behind. >> it makes me want to stand up and fight for pulling this country back to work, putting this country back together. you know, again, if they want to attack dwernsity, if they want to attack the 14th amendment, if they want to attack the civil rights act, we need to be pushing just as hard to get jobs created so that people in this country see that, look, you know, either you can run downhill toward hatred and division or you can push, come together and push uphill to

here's what jon said. >> that's glenn beck. >> yeah. >> yeah, he's my moneymaker.ou know what i call him? >> what. >> a kid's college fund. >> glenn beck's making a lot of people a lot of money. >>> still ahead on "way too early," why are you awake? your disparaging texts and e-mails are next and "morning joe" now just moments away. the most powerful half-ton crew in america has a powertrain backed for 100,000 miles. chevy silverado half-ton a consumers digest best buy and the most dependable, longest-lasting full-size pickups on the road. now get 0% apr for 72 months on 2010 silverado half-ton models with an average finance savings around $5,600. [ dog barking ] [ sniffing ] [ male announcer ] missing something? like 2 pairs of glasses for $99.99 at sears optical, with bifocal lenses for just $25 more per pair. hurry in to sears optical today and don't miss a thing. sadly, no. oh. but i did pick up your dry cleaning and had your shoes shined. well, i made you a reservation at the sushi place around the corner. well, in that case, i better get back to these invoice

but what would glenn beck be if it wasn't for glenn beck being the buzz-kill? let me say what i've been saying all along. this movement is bigger than any one election cycle. you cannot turn this ship, which the size of 1400 aircraft carriers around overnight. you can't do it in a week. you can't do it in a month. maybe not a year. you're certainly not going to do it with one election. it took progressives 100 years to get where they are today and there is much, much more to do. i also think remember the adage i've been saying to you, "the truth shall set you free, but first it will make you miserable." you may have real losses coming this next election season. you might. because the press is not going to do their job. it's going to be incumbent to you and incumbent on you to get people out to vote. i don't care who you vote for, republican, democrat or independent. but our founders knew that they were the stop gap when all three branchs of government would fail, you would step to the plate. you've got to get out in record numbers. you have to make this a histo

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glenn beck sex tape shocker!e obama behind the savage attempt to ruin the president's number one enemy. yes. somewhere in here, too, a man had a alien baby or something. but you can believe this story, sure, sure, sure. >> sure, must be true, i mean, have you heard michelle deny it? pretty far-fetched, even for "the globe." beck dealt with it for what it was, a joke. speaking of beck, two other tv ys

this go. >> that's glenn beck. >> yeah? maker. [ laughter ] you know what i call him? >> what? >> a kid's college fund. >> he does. >> bill: at least he is honest. >> i think there was an article on him. they asked me about jon stewart and i said hey, i think he is funny. i don't think is he fair but i don't think that's not his job. his job is to be funny. and if i were him, i would be doing the same thing. >> bill: you would be mocking yourself. >> i would be the easiest target. >> bill: i'm an easier target than you. >> any joke that jon stewart has done i have done at least five times before him. >> bill: on the radio. >> yes. >> bill: i'm an easier target than you i'm more bombastic than you. >> is that what it is? >> bill: you come off as a nice guy. can i give you a little advice? can i do that? >> well you, you are going to anyway so i might as well say yes, bill. >> bill: if you didn't cry in your broadcast they wouldn't have as much on you. >> i don't cry. >> bill: on the days that you break down. >> sometimes i f

glenn beck is calling me out? challenging me to restore honor at the one nation rally on october 2nd? here i am fighting for the middle class, talking up the stories, hoping for the american dream. this isn't about a fake prophet looking at geese. this is about getting the american people back to work and firing up the base. my commentary on all of that coming up. >>> and big insurance. well, they are back at it. they are threatening your children. they are denying coverage for sick children to save a buck and the republicans are cheering them on from the sidelines. the story just has me fuming. we will with talk about it. >>> and the republicans, well, they always preach about listening to the generals. well, the chairman of the joint chief of staff says gays should be able to serve openly in the military but today, just another big shocker. senate republicans bucked military leaders and voted to obstruct. another filibuster. >>> and we have got breaking news out of the white house tonight, a shakeup in the obama

always. >> my pleasure. >> bill: when we come right back, people all over the country are imitating glenn beckwart and stephen colbert. they will hold a rally in d.c. as beck did. what does the g man think about that? he will be here in just a few gecko: good news sir, i just got an email from the office and word is people really love our claims service. gecko: 'specially the auto repair xpress. repairs are fast and they're guaranteed for as long as you own your car. boss: hey, that's great! is this your phone? gecko: yeah, 'course. boss: but...where do you put...i mean how do you...carry... waitress: here you go. boss: thanks! gecko: no, no i got it, sir. anncr: geico. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> he imitates me. it's hard to tell. >> yes. >> and he and colbert on october 30th, they're going to be in washington, d.c., mimicking your rally. the very successful rally you had in august. everybody wants to know what you think about that. >> i'm cool with anyone, i mean, look. >> you're cool with it?. >> yes. i mean, i had a problem with other people having a problem

. >>> and the professor of paranoia, glenn beck, is warning his viewers with a prediction of liberal violence, led by president obama. i will show you some unbelievable tape of the battleground story tonight. and then we will put that "psychotalk"er right in his place. >>> and a big development today on the jobs bill. within the last hour, the senate has voted to break the filibuster. two republicans have come on board. a couple of georges, george lemieux from florida and george voinovich of ohio have voted with the democrats to move the small business jobs bill, something very positive in the job market in this country. we will tell you more about it later in the show. >>> this, i admit this isn't the biggest story in america but it is the one that has me fired up because i think it sends a very poor message to young people in this country. the perverse conservative hatred for president obama has infiltrated public schools all across this country. it's a debate that's being held in every school district. i thought we had this store ray year ago but here we are again. for the second

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tonight's tool time award goes to glenn beck and it's for his own lack of coverage on the iraq war on his new website and see after his massive d.c. rally last weekend beck the side of to launch the blaze dot com this is a news web site that he says is going to provide the main the stories that the mainstream media doesn't cover so basically it's a web site for the g.o.p. but oh there he have a whole network for that so and a web site dedicated to them it's called fox news and you know just news flash back on that one he's also part of the mainstream media but if you take a look at his new web site you would expect to find at least some coverage of the president's speech tonight about the combat operations and being in iraq seems like an important issue to the american people seemed like something that glenn beck would care about considering how many billions of dollars the government has spent on this but guess what there actually was not a single mention of it on his site when we grabbed this video today there are stories about g.p.s. phones helping illegal aliens a story about a sh

is the future glenn beck's audience or bill o'reilly's worst fears? >> well, you lead it out, keith. any seventh grader can do this math, and clearly glenn beck hasn't been able to. this is a nation that's becoming increasingly diverse and pluralistic. and if we want to build a movement, and i think, you know, glenn beck has been doing that, i guess. you have to be able to build a broad, progressive movement that's broad based. if you have to do the math, we already have a successful model. barack obama won with enormous portion and enormous share of the vote, and that was a coalition built of young people, minorities, people of broad interests all over this country. >> how much of the enthusiasm, thus that we see from the right, particularly in the last few months, how much of that is actually coming out of fears about what it means for them -- means for them to join everybody else, basically, in being a minority in this country? fears about the death of whatever values and culture they think are unique to them? >> i think it's ludicrous to fear bein

is it dangerous to take on glenn beck on the national holy turf like this. >> oh it's fantastic. it. i hope msnbc does wall-to-wall coverage of it. every hour of the day that day. yeah, these guys are great. they really you know find the vulnerability points in all of our politics. they find exactly where the joke is. and, look, if jon stewart and steven get out there, they -- they will forever change, i hope, the way we regard these different event that take place on the mall. some of them are a joke, and should be regarded as a joke. and just because you locate your event at the mall, you know, we shouldn't take the mall so seriously. i think you know we all kind of overplayed the importance or the meaning of glenn beck's afternoon in the mall and let's have fun with jon stewart's. >> willie geist, long before you were born, before you were a glint in your parents' eyes i was on the march at the pentagon in 1967. and i must tell you, it was fun. it was not only antiwar, it was fun. a good rally is fun. well will this one be fun? >> well i've never marched with mailer, chris, bu

they have mass influence alone and they have if you look at the numbers especially for glenn beck daily show and colbert report these three shows alone i mean we're talking many many many more people than watch for example the nightly news or subscribe to newspapers a lot for a lot of people this is how they know what's going on in the world by these three men i think that they could use that in a very negative way i think they all personally believe that they're using it in a way that's positive certainly stephen colbert has an interesting character because he is a. parody of the character of course he's trying to sort of be a parody of bill o'reilly so that's why he has his march to keep fear alive on the same day i assume right next to jon stewart march to restore is ready i think it'll be interesting to see how many people actually come out for that christine thanks. are still to come on tonight's show he got fired today and he's also arch will time later find out why in just a moment and india's economy is booming while america's is struggling so a look at how indian immigrants who

been spelled out by glenn beck and everyone else in the last two years. it's a small government vision that is just validated and validated to the point where the conversation can stop because they agree with the founders and people who do disagree with them don't apre with the mounders -- dpri with the founders. did the system always work? they're not even interested in that disssion. it's just that urban elitists people who have read marks. all these sort of things that get tossed around in politics it's self-ef accident that that's not real -- self-evident that that's not really aerican and what they stand for is. it's not purely ideological i do i any it is the kind of at tuesday and tribe that rises again in american politics. it is being steered this a smarter direction in a lot of ways by ideological actors like the think tanks i keep mentioning and like maybe radio hosts aren't the best at steger it but the radio hosts will have on people who have done lots of research why this economic model doesn't work or this one doe are making it a bit smarte

you spoke to a guy named glenn beck. >> on whether the tea party is a religious or political. >> i cannot wait to watch it. did we see the first republican enter his name on the presidential ballot for 2012?

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glenn beck. >> i wanted to come on the glenn beck program with my book, they wouldn't have us. >> theyt know who you were. >> i called. >> i told beck, have stewart, he's funny once in a while. doesn't know who you are. >> i would love to have a conversation with him. >> with glenn beck? >> we could do an hour. >> he is in a sealed room. >> no. >> nobody can talk to him. >> is he like the bubble boy of fox news. >> does the radio, goes back into the sealed room. he goes back. he's like elvis and howard hughes. you can't. >> it's a love fest. stewart and oh ri'reilly. before we go to break, the clock is ticking. only 330 hours and three minutes left to buy "american freak show." still ahead, your freakish text and e-mails are next. and "morning joe" moments away. [ female announcer ] it can creep up on you. dry skin. that's why there's lubriderm® daily moisture. it contains the same nutrients naturally found in healthy skin. skin absorbs it better and it lasts for 24 hours. later gator. lubriderm. your moisture matched. [ male announcer ] at ge capital, we're out there every day with cl

. >>> the false prophet glenn beck is freaking out about dangerous killers coming from the left. his rhetoric is what's dangerous and it needs to stop. >>> this is the story that has me fired up tonight. john boehner has been out in the sun just probably a little bit too long, hasn't he? the tan man is flustered and back pedalling on his pledge to america. the republicans' so-called new governing agenda to set a different course for the country is nothing but a garbage sale. american people aren't buying it. after 20 months of offering no ideas, he and his cronies laid out their playbook for the american people. late last week he sounded pretty confident. >> the american people are speaking out like never before. they're concerned about the future of our nation, and the future for their children. they see a government in washington that isn't listening, doesn't get it, and frankly, the american people think that washington doesn't really care. we're here today to put forth a new governing agenda built by listening to the american people, that offers a new way forward. >> you know

>> glenn: welcome to the "glenn beck program." tonight, a lot of people on television are going to talk about the g.o.p. pledge to america today. good stuff in there. also has stuff i don't understand. my biggest problem is i'm looking for something bold. i'm looking for, remember shock and awe? i'm looking for something that actually moves us dramatically in the right direction. maybe the rest of america isn't there. there is some bold stuff and then they'll repeal healthcare, they say. not bad, but there is also in there, return to the 2008 spending levels. pretarp. even before tarp, the spending levels stanley cup on ice -- stunk on ice. how act returning to the levels 1908? >> glenn: we need bold solutions, because the problems were as breathtaking as the grand canyon. if we keep watching this direction, we'll tumble down into it. no one is levelling with you on what will happen if we're not bold. but tonight, we will. c'mon! ♪ ♪ >> glenn: hello, america. wouldn't you like once in a while if someone would treat you like an adu

in a moment, glenn beck on the power of the tea party. and my new book pinheads and patriots. ext. >> bill: thank you for staying with us. the beck micer has been watching the political landscape in america. he has been reading my book pinheads and patriots where you stand in the age of obama. i spoke with beck last night. here is beck and you are not a real political guy. but you did cover the election this week a little bit, right? >> yes. i think the tea party needs to understand that they have arrived. my favorite headline of maybe the last two years is establishment freaked. >> bill: freaked out. they freaked out. >> absolutely. because they have been dismissing and belittling these people it doesn't matter what anybody says, they're changing things. >> bill: there is no doubt. here is what beck said on his program. >> the establishment g.o.p. and they are just the beginning, really, it's not just the g.o.p. the democrats are freaking as well. the media is freaking out. they have got to figure out a way to stop the tea party goers because you're winning and they have all t

glenn beck returns in a moment. first, chris wallace previews "special report." >> hey, the president and congressional democrats congratulate themselves. we will tell you why. mcdonald's may take a bite out of the healthcare law and bare knuckle politics in new york. "special report" starts at 6:00 eastern. now back to glenn beck in new york. ♪ ♪ >> glenn: i want to talk to you for a second on a movie that my family watched with me and they hated it. i'm like c'mon, kids, this is a great movie. they're like, "i hated it, dad." remember the movie "the sting." i know, it stars robert redford and you avoid everything with robert redford, i know. but i thought this was a great movie. it's about a bunch of men who are comen who set up an entire fake gaming facility to pull off a rippoff con because somebody wronged them. they set it up so the dealers and the cashiers are in on it and the mark has no clue. because if the mark has a clue that they have set him up, if a mark has a clue that they were the ones stealing the

. >> glenn: welcome to the glenn beck program, there was a clear message sent on 8-28, and do so through faith, hope and charity. and be the americans that we, we know we are and can be. well, there are people, woulding day and night to, to recreate that, spin-off events that are coming up. well, that's fantastic, i love freedom of speech, more speech not less. but let's use this as a learning opportunity, don't shut them down, let them speak, but what is the message and who is involved, not speculation, not future news, from them, who is involved and who are they proud to stand next to. find out, maybe more than you want to know, next. hello america. i-- i'm glad you're here tonight. i want to have a conversation with you, but i want to have a reasoned conversation because quite honestly, i feel stupid when i say communist, a few years ago, i didn't think that-- i wouldn't have believed half of this stuff. i don't want to believe it now. during the election 2008 some people were questioning whether or not barack obama were a socialist. there were some strong evidence, his past associati