“The Five,” a panel of five co-hosts who argue about the day’s top stories, seemed to be a quick-fix after Glenn Beck’s departure last June, but the show has found its footing.

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‘The Five’ Rises on Fox News, in Glenn Beck’s Shadow

None of the major 2012 GOP presidential candidates currently plan to attend an August rally in Israel being held by conservative firebrand and outgoing Fox news host Glenn Beck. But Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), a former Democratic vice presidential contender, signaled he might show up. And former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, a long shot in the 2012 nomination fight to face President Obama, said he would like to attend. Lieberman and Cain are the only two politicians listed on the event’s Facebook page . Read full article > >

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Glenn Beck rally in Israel hooks no major GOP candidates yet; Lieberman, Cain may be in

None of the major 2012 GOP presidential candidates currently plan to attend an August rally in Israel being held by conservative firebrand and outgoing Fox news host Glenn Beck. But Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.), a former Democratic vice presidential contender, signaled he might show up. And former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain, a long shot in the 2012 nomination fight to face President Obama, said he would like to attend. Lieberman and Cain are the only two politicians listed on the event’s Facebook page . Read full article > >

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Glenn Beck rally in Israel hooks no major GOP candidates yet; Lieberman, Cain may be in

Glenn Beck is about to find out just how loyal his followers are. When he moves from Fox News to his own Internet network, Beck will start charging a monthly subscription fee to view his show. “I think we might be a bit early,” Beck said Monday about…

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Glenn Beck to Charge for Online Show

Maybe Glenn Beck thinks if he can make it in New York, he can make it anywhere? The Fox News host announced in a live show that he sold his Connecticut mansion and will possibly base his operations elsewhere. “As we build a new media, I’m not building…

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Glenn Beck Sells Connecticut Mansion

Maybe this is why Glenn Beck was so paranoid. Several staffers from a small-town paper in Putnam County, New York, allege that Fox News Chief Roger Ailes had them followed, read their emails, and bugged their offices. Ailes bought The Putnam County…

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Staffers Accuse Ailes of Spying

Glenn Beck will end his popular and often controversial daily program on the Fox News Channel later this year, Fox News and Beck’s production company said Wednesday.

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Glenn Beck to leave Fox News program

Shadowy forces are conspiring to… wait, no, apparently this is real. Glenn Beck will end his daily Fox News program later this year, he announced Wednesday. He intends to “develop and produce a variety of television projects for air on the Fox News…

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Glenn Beck to End Fox News Show

It is believed that Glenn Beck is thinking about starting a cable channel, or expanding his online video service, after his contract with Fox ends.

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Glenn Beck Contemplates Starting Own Channel

Is it possible that Fox News and Glenn Beck will one day be in competition with each other? Sources close to the explosive Fox News host say he is considering starting his own channel when his contract expires at the end of the year. Earlier this week,…

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Glenn Beck to Start His Own Channel?

If Glenn Beck is preaching “the answer,” it might be time to start asking what the question is. Fox News host Glenn Beck said Monday that Japan’s devastating earthquake was a “message” from God. “I’m not saying God is causing earthquakes-well I’m not…

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Beck: Quake Was a Message From God

This is supposed to come as a surprise? NPR says James O’Keefe misleadingly edited undercover video of NPR executive Ron Schiller-and it has support from an unlikely place: Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze. After watching O’Keefe’s full two-hour tape,…

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NPR: O’Keefe Misleadingly Edited Tapes

Glenn Beck agrees: He’s “ignorant.” The conservative radio host is backpedaling after comments he made on Tuesday in which he compared Reform Judaism to radical Islam. The comparison, in which he said each ideology focuses more on politics than…

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Beck: Sorry for Judaism Comments

“400 rabbis can’t be wrong,” Media Matters declares , praising their demand that Murdoch sanction Glenn Beck for his anti-Semitic rants. I doubt that any random collection of 400 Jews would share this view of rabbinical infallibility, and, in any case, these rabbis are wrong — not morally but politically — to join an apparent effort to force Beck off the air.    I’m not criticizing the rabbis, or any Jewish advocacy groups, for criticizing Beck. I’m not denying their right to call for his punishment or even dismissal; I’m questioning the wisdom of doing so. My unsolicited advice is: Expose and challenge the anti-Semitic ravings of Beck and others, but stop short of trying to silence them. Rabbis and liberal Jews are not exactly Beck’s target audience, which means that Murdoch probably doesn’t care what they think of him or any Fox performers that appeal to anti-Semitic, biblical Zionists on the right. Liberal or Jewish demands to punish Beck probably fire up his fans, increasing their loyalty to him (and his value to Murdoch), as liberal attacks on Sarah Palin help fuel her political ascent. Besides, publicly calling for Beck’s punishment helps him play the victim of an alleged anti-libertarian, liberal assault on speech. It changes the subject: What should be a discussion of anti-Semitism becomes a debate about free speech, and not a particularly enlightening one. Free speech advocates tend to oppose consumer boycotts of corporate speech, and Beck is a corporate instrument, if not spokesman. But consumers constitute the market that elevates some cable stars (among other celebrities) and effectively silences others. Whomever the market makes, the market may break. Successfully opposing a high paid talker and persuading his employers to take him off the air is not necessarily any more or less censorious than successfully supporting him and deterring his employers from hiring — and giving voice — to a replacement. I’m not minimizing the problem of marketplace censorship (which has shaped my own freelance career). Instead, I mean to underscore it and highlight its complexities. As I’ve written previously, everyday, media executives engage in content-based discrimination against speech, with every right. They’re in the business of discriminating, deciding what and what not to publish or air. Media conglomerates base these decisions on the bottom line, promoting profitable speech (like Glenn Beck’s rants). Money losing opinion journals, dependent on foundations or deep-pocketed publishers, discriminate against speech on ideological grounds. But whether they’re interested in profits or politics, editors and executives who decide what we will read, hear and see generally aim to please their audiences, and advertisers. Beck will keep his job if he continues to be an asset; he’ll lose it if he becomes a liability (economically or politically). What else is new? But while demands for corporate sanctions of hateful, dishonest, or unhinged talkers don’t threaten to shackle political discourse, neither do they promise to elevate it. The left (what’s left of it) won’t increase its audience share by playing defense, trying to shame or silence talkers on the right, anymore than protesters gathered outside the latest Koch sponsored conference will mitigate the political influence of Koch sponsored political groups. (Efforts to cut funding for these groups through campaign finance reforms is another counter-productive defensive play that, unlike consumer boycotts, does indeed seriously threaten free speech.) These are hardly new insights. For years, liberals have been bemoaning the absence of a media empire to rival Fox News and right wing talk radio, which is why so many cheered the emergence of MSNBC, and why the often insufferably egotistical Keith Olbermann was regarded by some as a savior. For years, liberals have been discussing the need to establish a left-leaning political infrastructure of think tanks and advocacy groups as well. Still, liberals often assume the defensive crouch, not just criticizing wing ranters and ravers, but asking a corporate authority to rule them out of order, just as they oppose right-wing advocacy groups by demanding that state authorities cut off their funds. So in demanding sanctions for Beck, the 400 rabbis are reading from a familiar script (which, I guess, is what rabbis are trained to do).  But — and I say this as a non-believer — praying for Beck’s enlightenment might be a lot more effective than calling for his punishment. “Just ignore her; she’s only trying to aggravate you,” my mother advised my high school principal when I declined to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. Don’t ignore Beck’s anti-Semitism; challenge, or better yet, make fun of it — mockery is often more effective than outrage — but don’t let him aggravate you.

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