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Sara Romanoski, Woman Who Spilled Wine on Glenn Beck, Tells Her Side

By Steven Thrasher Wed., Jun. 29 2011 at 3:28 PM
Categories: Bryant Park, Exclusive, Glenn Beck, Hitchcock, Movies, Oops!, Shit That Can't Be Made Up, Steven Thrasher

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You may have heard that someone spilled wine on Glenn Beck's wife Monday evening in Bryant Park. Sara Romanoski, a 25-year-old Manhattanite with a penchant for Hitchcock movies, is the culprit. Surprisingly, though Beck has wept about it and many have written about it, no one has bothered to actually speak to the klutz holding the glass spilled 'round the world.

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Glenn Beck Gets Cold Shoulder From New Yorkers in Bryant Park

By Willis Plummer Wed., Jun. 29 2011 at 9:34 AM
Categories: Bryant Park, Glenn Beck, Haters Gonna Hate, Movies, Willis Plummer

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On Tuesday, American hero Glenn Beck held back tears as he recounted the way that New Yorkers in Bryant Park mistreated him and his family at an outdoor screening of Alfred Hitchcock's 39 Steps the night before. Beck's tears demonstrate the seriousness of the situation -- this is a man who never cries. Apparently, Beck and his family were simply trying to enjoy the film when a pack of ravenous New York liberals descended on them. Beck reported on his radio show that the New Yorkers screamed, "We hate conservatives here," and "We're in New York and we hate Republicans." Later, he reports, someone "accidentally" spilled wine on his wife, Tania.

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Glenn Beck Moving to the Internet; Arianna Huffington Pissing Off New AOL Team

By Joe Coscarelli Tue., Jun. 7 2011 at 5:45 PM
Categories: Arianna Huffington, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Coscarelli, Media, New York Observer, Press Clips, The Huffington Post

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After some unsuccessful press jockeying on both sides, negotiations between Fox News and their cash-cow-turned-credibility-sucker Glenn Beck pretty much disintegrated and so they worked together on his exit from the channel. Now it's time for him to ride his intensely angry, loyal, and crazy mob of fans straight to the bank, so he's moving where the money is: online. But Beck's not counting on The Blaze, his conservative blog, to sustain him because websites alone tend not to pay the bills. Instead, Beck will launch a subscription-based online network called GBTV (guess what it stands for) with both scripted and unscripted content. The New York Times has the details, which we'll run down in our daily media column Press Clips, as well as Arianna's AOL woes and a redesign for the New York Observer.

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Glenn Beck to Quit Fox News Show; New York Times Paywall 'Harder' For Poor People

By Joe Coscarelli Wed., Apr. 6 2011 at 2:57 PM
Categories: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Coscarelli, Media, New York Times, Press Clips, Roger Ailes, TV

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Though his contract is not up until December, early 2011 has seen its share of speculation about the fate of Glenn Beck and his hugely successful Fox News show. Both Beck's camp, namely his company Mercury Radio Arts, and the Fox News side have flexed in the press to prove that neither really needed the other. Beck, who started on radio, has a huge following online, in print and throughout the country's gun stores, and could branch out successfully any which way, his side said. He's a loose cannon nutjob and his numbers are falling fast anyway, said Fox News. The public semi-battle, fought mostly by anonymous sources on both sides, was doubtlessly a negotiation tactic. Today, news comes that the sides have come together and the show will end, but their relationship will not. More info inside Press Clips, our daily media column, plus embarrassing quotes from the boss at the New York Times and ASME reactions.

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Glenn Beck Could Start His Own Channel; Media Matters Sick of Liberals Losing

By Joe Coscarelli Wed., Mar. 23 2011 at 6:17 PM
Categories: Arianna Huffington, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Coscarelli, Media, New York Times, Press Clips, TV, The Huffington Post

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When we last hated ourselves enough to spend any time at all thinking about Fox News' best host that cries, Glenn Beck, his people and his bosses were both floating the idea that neither needed the other. Beck's (amazing) ratings have dipped and his shtick has worn a little thin, Fox News whispered, but Beck's people countered that everything the man touches turns to gold (get it?) from best-sellers to a website called The Blaze. The nut job has a following. So much so that today's New York Times says maybe he'll start his own channel! Just like Oprah. More details below in Press Clips, our daily media round-up.

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Is Glenn Beck Leaving Fox News?

By Joe Coscarelli Mon., Mar. 7 2011 at 2:11 PM
Categories: Blowhards, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Coscarelli, Media, TV

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That's the idea put forward in David Carr's Media Equation column on Monday, titled "The Fading Power of Beck's Alarms." Beyond being a very fair look at Beck, six months after his "Restoring Honor" rally peak, Carr also gets to be the first big voice to tease a break-up between Beck, the "conservative Jeremiah and talk-radio phenomenon," and the biggest cable network doing it, as the host's contract approaches its end in December. Sure that's nine months away, but the speculation is a conversation starter, especially considering that Beck "has lost over a third of his audience on Fox" since last summer and as a result, Fox is "contemplating life without" him. But this is how bargaining works and both of these sides want to make money.

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Glenn Beck Accuses Planned Parenthood of Abetting Sex Trafficking (Video)

By Rosie Gray Sat., Feb. 19 2011 at 4:18 PM
Categories: Abortion, Debunking Department, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Rosie Gray, Rumor Mill, STFU

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​In Glenn Beck's universe, Planned Parenthood is not just an organization that provides reproductive health care and education to those in need of it. Planned Parenthood, as he "revealed" during his program yesterday, is a nefarious ring of criminals involved in child sex trafficking. With this on top of the House's vote to remove its federal funding, it's not fun right now to be Planned Parenthood.

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Rabbis vs. Glenn Beck in Wall Street Journal Ad

By Joe Coscarelli Thu., Jan. 27 2011 at 9:05 AM
Categories: Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media, Paranoia Politics, Rupert Murdoch, TV

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Nevermind the fact that Glenn Beck is bullying a 78-year-old professor, inciting death threats against her. That offense doesn't even make the newspaper today as Business Insider points us to a full-page Wall Street Journal ad demanding Fox News and Roger Ailes "sanction" Beck. It comes via the Jewish Funds For Justice, "including the heads of the Reform, Conservative and Reconstructionist movements as well as prominent Orthodox rabbis."

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Elderly CUNY Professor Faces Death Threats from Glenn Beck Fans; Southern Sudan Votes to Secede

By Rosie Gray Sun., Jan. 23 2011 at 9:47 AM
Categories: Brooklyn, Brooklyn Problems, Caffeine Nation, Glenn Beck, International News, Link Dump, Rosie Gray

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  • ​Today, it's advisable that you stay the hell inside again: it'll be a high of 24. Get prepared for tomorrow, which won't even break 20 degrees.

  • Frances Fox Piven is a 78-year-old liberal CUNY professor. She's also now the recipient of death threats as a result of Glenn Beck's efforts to paint her as trying to "intentionally collapse our economic system," according to the Times. Some of the two million wackos who regularly watch Beck's show apparently took to heart that Piven was an "enemy of the Constitution," and have been making threats like the following: "Somebody tell Frances I have 5000 roundas ready and I'll give My life to take Our freedom back." And all this is originally because of an article Piven and her husband wrote in 1966. [NYT]


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Glenn Beck Campaign Leads to Death Threats For New York Professor

By Joe Coscarelli Fri., Jan. 21 2011 at 2:42 PM
Categories: Education, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Joe Coscarelli, Paranoia Politics, Politics

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Frances Fox Piven is a 78-year-old professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who Fox News host Glenn Beck has declared "an enemy of the Constitution." Logically, to a certain type of Beck-worshipping nut, that means she should die, according to a report from The Progressive. Just a sampling from Beck's website: "Be very careful what you ask for honey... A few well placed marksmen with high powered rifles... Maybe they should burst through the front door of the arrogant elitist and slit the cow's throat... Somebody tell Frances I have 5,000 rounds ready." Not that it's ever a good time to threaten political violence, but uh... Now?

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