Glenn Lee Beck was born on February 10,1964 and is an American conservative political commentator, radio host, entrepreneur, and television producer.
86 Facts About Glenn Beck
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Glenn Beck is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze.
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Glenn Beck has received both praise and criticism, characterized by his supporters as a defender of traditional American values and by his detractors as a demagogue.
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Glenn Beck was born in Everett, Washington, the son of Mary Clara and William Glenn Beck, who lived in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, at the time of their son's birth.
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Glenn Beck is descended from German immigrants who came to the United States in the 19th century.
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Glenn Beck was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Mount Vernon.
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In 1979, when Glenn Beck was 15, his mother drowned in Puget Sound while fishing with a man in Commencement Bay west of Tacoma.
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Glenn Beck has called his mother's death a suicide in interviews.
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Glenn Beck regularly vacationed with his maternal grandparents, Ed and Clara Janssen, in Iowa.
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Glenn Beck is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, and has said he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
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Glenn Beck said he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis in November 1994, the same month he attended his first AA meeting.
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Glenn Beck later said that he had gotten high every day for the previous 15 years, since the age of 16.
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In 1996, while working for a New Haven area radio station, Glenn Beck took a theology class at Yale University, with a written recommendation from Senator Joe Lieberman, a Yale alumnus who was a fan of Glenn Beck's show at the time.
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Glenn Beck enrolled in an "Early Christology" course, but soon withdrew, marking the extent of his post-secondary education.
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Glenn Beck then began a "spiritual quest" in which he "sought out answers in churches and bookstores".
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Glenn Beck did all kinds of tests and he said, 'you have macular dystrophy.
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In July 2011, Glenn Beck leased a house in the Fort Worth suburb of Westlake, Texas.
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On November 10,2014, Glenn Beck announced on TheBlaze that he had been suffering from a severe neurological disorder for at least the last five years.
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On January 13,2022, Glenn Beck announced that his second case of COVID-19 was "getting into my lungs".
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Glenn Beck has managed to monetize virtually everything that comes out of his mouth.
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In 2002, Glenn Beck created the media platform Mercury Radio Arts as the umbrella over his broadcast, publishing, Internet, and live show interests.
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Glenn Beck founded Mercury Radio Arts in 2002, naming it after the Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre, which produced live radio broadcasts during the 1930s.
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Glenn Beck produces all of Beck's productions, including his eponymous radio show, books, live stage shows, and his official website.
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In 1983, Glenn Beck moved to Corpus Christi, Texas, to work at radio station KZFM.
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Months later, Glenn Beck was hired by Phoenix Top-40 station KOY-FM, then known as Y-95.
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Glenn Beck was partnered with Arizona native Tim Hattrick to co-host a local "morning zoo" program.
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In 1989, Glenn Beck resigned from Y-95 to accept a job in Houston at KRBE, known as Power 104.
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Glenn Beck then moved to Baltimore, Maryland, and the city's leading Top-40 station, WBSB, known as B104.
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When Gray left the show to move to Salt Lake City, Glenn Beck continued with co-host Vinnie Penn.
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In October 2008, it was announced that Glenn Beck would join the Fox News Channel, leaving CNN Headline News.
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Glenn Beck had a regular segment on Fridays, "At Your Beck and Call", on the Fox News Channel program The O'Reilly Factor.
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FNC and Glenn Beck announced that he would team with Fox to produce a slate of projects for Fox News and its digital properties.
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Glenn Beck has reached No 1 on The New York Times Bestseller List in four separate categories as of 2010: Hardcover Non-Fiction, Paperback Non-Fiction, Hardcover Fiction, and Children's Picture Books.
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Glenn Beck has a chapter giving advice in Tim Ferriss's book Tools of Titans.
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When Glenn Beck meets his fans, he does so with the gusto of a public figure engaging his constituents.
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Glenn Beck has perfected the Everyman shtick that presidential candidates spend years trying to master in places like Iowa.
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Since 2005, Glenn Beck has toured American cities twice a year, presenting a one-man stage show.
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In May 2008, Glenn Beck gave the keynote speech at the NRA convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
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In December 2009, Glenn Beck produced a one-night special film, The Christmas Sweater: A Return to Redemption.
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In July 2013, Glenn Beck produced and hosted a one-night stage event, Man in the Moon, held at the USANA Amphitheatre in West Valley City, Utah.
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In 2011, Glenn Beck founded the nonprofit organization Mercury One, which is designed to sustain itself through its entrepreneurship without grants or donations.
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In July 2014, after tens of thousands of undocumented immigrant children crossed into Texas via the Southern United States border, unaccompanied by parents, Glenn Beck announced that he, Senator Mike Lee, and Representative Louie Gohmert would travel to the US-Mexico border with Mercury One.
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Glenn Beck said they would bring tractor trailers full of food, hot meals, and teddy bears for the unaccompanied minors.
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Glenn Beck promoted and hosted the Restoring Honor rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC on August 28,2010.
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In December 2010, Glenn Beck went to Wilmington, Ohio, a town devastated by the late-2000s recession, to host live events to encourage his fans to go to the town to boost the local economy in a project called "America's First Christmas".
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Glenn Beck hosted an event and his radio and television shows from the local theater.
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Glenn Beck headlined his "Restoring Courage" events in Jerusalem, Israel, in August 2011 in a campaign he said was designed to encourage people worldwide "to stand with the Jewish people".
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Glenn Beck's move was praised by supporters of immigrant rights and freer migration but met with considerable pushback from his supporter base.
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On March 18,2015, Glenn Beck announced that he had left the Republican Party, saying that it had failed to effectively stand against Obamacare and immigration reform, and because of its opposition to lawmakers such as Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.
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Glenn Beck endorsed Cruz for president of the United States in 2016.
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In October 2016, Glenn Beck called opposing Donald Trump a "moral, ethical choice".
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Glenn Beck has said that such progressivism infects both main political parties and threatens to "destroy America as it was originally conceived".
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Glenn Beck is trying to give viewers a version of American history that is supposedly hidden.
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Glenn Beck promoted numerous conspiracy theories and falsehoods about President Barack Obama and the Obama administration.
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Glenn Beck suggested that Obama was building FEMA concentration camps to put opponents in, that Obama was planning to fake a terrorist attack such as the Oklahoma City bombing to boost the administration's popularity, and that Obama was George Soros's "puppet".
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Glenn Beck often likened Obama and his administration to Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.
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Glenn Beck later apologized for the remarks, telling Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace that he has a "big fat mouth" and miscast as racism what is actually, as he theorizes, Obama's belief in black theology.
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In November 2012, Glenn Beck attempted to auction a mason jar holding an Obama figurine described as submerged in urine but in fact submerged in beer.
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In July 2009, Glenn Beck began to focus many episodes on his TV and radio shows on Van Jones, special advisor for Green Jobs at Obama's White House Council on Environmental Quality.
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Glenn Beck criticized Jones for his involvement in STORM, a Bay Area radical group with Marxist roots, and his support for death row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal, who had been convicted of killing a police officer.
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Time magazine credited Glenn Beck with leading conservatives' attack on Jones.
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Glenn Beck led opposition against Sunstein's nomination to the position, calling Sunstein "the most dangerous man in America" and suggesting that Sunstein was plotting ways to "ban" conspiracy theorizing.
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Glenn Beck found no evidence of criminal conduct by ACORN employees, but concluded that ACORN had poor management practices that contributed to unprofessional actions by a number of its low-level employees.
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Glenn Beck's lawyers argued that the site infringed on his trademarked name and that the domain name should be turned over to Glenn Beck.
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The JFFJ have claimed on their website that Glenn Beck seems "to draw his material straight from the anti-Semitic forgery, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
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Glenn Beck is a prominent proponent of conspiracy theories about George Soros, a Jewish philanthropist.
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In 2010, Glenn Beck was accused of being anti-Semitic due to his smears against Soros.
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Glenn Beck condemned the 2011 Norway attacks, but was condemned for his comparison of murdered and surviving members of the Norwegian Workers' Youth League to the Hitler Youth.
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Glenn Beck's radio show was moved from the SIRIUS XM Patriot channel to the Triumph channel soon after.
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On May 18,2018, Glenn Beck stated on his radio program that he intended to vote for Trump in the 2020 presidential election, calling Trump's record "pretty damn amazing".
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Glenn Beck is the hottest thing in the political-rant racket, left or right.
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An author with ideological influence on Beck is W Cleon Skousen, a prolific conservative political writer, American constitutionalist and faith based political theorist.
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Glenn Beck authored a foreword for the 2008 edition of Leap and Glenn Beck's on-air recommendations in 2009 propelled the book to number one in the government category on Amazon for several months.
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Glenn Beck has urged his listeners to read The Coming Insurrection, a book by a French Marxist group discussing what they see as the imminent collapse of capitalist culture.
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Glenn Beck has credited God for saving him from drug and alcohol abuse, professional obscurity, and friendlessness.
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Philip Barlow, the Arrington chair of Mormon history and culture at Utah State University, has said that Glenn Beck's belief that the US Constitution was an "inspired document" and his calls for limited government and not exiling God from the public sphere "have considerable sympathy in Mormonism".
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In 2009, Glenn Beck's show was one of the highest rated news commentary programs on cable TV.
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Glenn Beck has called himself an entertainer, a commentator rather than a reporter, and a "rodeo clown".
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Laura Miller writes in Salon that Glenn Beck is a contemporary example of "the paranoid style in American politics" described by historian Richard Hofstader:.
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Glenn Beck has acknowledged accusations of being a conspiracy theorist, saying on his show that there is a "concentrated effort now to label me a conspiracy theorist".
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Particularly as a consequence of Glenn Beck's Restoring Honor rally in 2010, the fact that Glenn Beck is Mormon caused concern among some politically sympathetic Christian Evangelicals on theological grounds.
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One of Bunch's theses is that Glenn Beck is nothing more than a morning zoo deejay playing a fictional character as a money-making stunt.
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Glenn Beck's history is borrowed from the widely debunked work of W Cleon Skousen.
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Glenn Beck's solemn, over-processed radio monologue delivery is a dead ringer for Eric Bogosian in Talk Radio.
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Glenn Beck has been the subject of mockery and ridicule by a number of humorists.
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Alharbi's defamation claim arose from Glenn Beck's repeated broadcasts "identifying Alharbi as an active participant" in the Boston Marathon bombing, even after federal authorities cleared Alharbi, who was injured in the attack, of any wrongdoing and confirmed that he was an innocent victim.