Earlier today the news broke that CNN contributor Roland Martin will not be appearing on the network indefinitely for what GLAAD perceived to be a homophobic tweet. Despite his personal ideological bent, the reaction from the conservative media was a swift defense of the longtime CNN pundit. But the conservative reaction to Martin’s suspension is no surprise because the conservative movement has long abandoned the left/right divide for a new war front: that between individuals and the media elite.

Today on his radio show, Glenn Beck jumped into the scandal surrounding a tweet sent out by CNN’s Roland Martin during the Super Bowl. GLAAD is calling for Martin’s firing for what they perceived as an anti-gay attack in the tweet. Beck explained that Martin should be fired, but not for what he wrote. Rather, because he’s a “dope” and an “idiot.”

Has Fox News gotten too liberal? That’s what one prominent conservative activist vociferously claims. Cliff Kincaid of America’s Survival has launched a call for Fox News to bring back Glenn Beck.

Ann Coulter lit into Newt Gingrich on Glenn Beck‘s GBTV program Thursday, lambasting the Republican hopeful as “pompous and boring” and taking issue with doodlings he had drawn back in the 1990s. According to Slate’s Jacob Weinberg, “these notes and doodles, handwritten by Newt Gingrich, appear in a series of exhibits appended to a report published on Jan. 17, 1997 by the House Select Committee on Ethics.”

While most of our attention has been focused on the different shows over at Glenn Beck’s network GBTV, he’s got quite a lot else on his plate. Like The Blaze, book publishing, and his group discount site. In addition to all those, there’s also Mercury One, his charitable organization designed “to inspire, organize and mobilize individuals to improve the human condition.” With a huge “Restoring Love” rally coming up in just a few months, it’s time for the organization to ramp up the publicity, however, they’ve chosen a strange way of doing that; by releasing an enigmatic video that directly antagonizes the “hacktivist” group Anonymous.

Glenn Beck has taken his GBTV operation to Texas, but just because he isn’t near his friend Bill O’Reilly doesn’t mean he will neglect to visit the Factor. O’Reilly returned to Fox News tonight to discuss Monday’s debate and give every candidate reviews, and Rep. Ron Paul got by far the worst of it as Beck shushed the candidate and told him he sounded like Osama Bin Laden.

For the past few weeks, we’ve been hearing about how dangerous the heads of various Internet giants feel SOPA and PIPA are. However, now it’s time to hear from a newer Internet entrepreneur; Glenn Beck. However, while Beck may be greener to the Internet game, he’s being no less forceful in his condemnation of the laws.

Bill Moyers has been making the regular media rounds to promote his return to PBS, and on Friday joined Arianna Huffington for a discussion on the media. But the subject quickly changed to the infamous billionaire George Soros, and Moyers ended up defending Soros from some of the attacks leveled at him by the American right wing. He called Soros a “victim” of attacked leveled against him by “Fox News assassins.” In the midst of a discussion on the media and contemporary society, Moyers cited Soros as an example of someone whom people should be listening more to.

Glenn Beck, still in recovery from The Great Pencil Incident of 2012, decided to broadcast from his bed. The last time he taped a show from bed, he recalled, was following a “butt surgery incident, which we don’t have to discuss now.”

Earlier today, Glenn Beck made a call-in appearance to the radio show that holds his name. Bed-ridden thanks to a back injury, Beck had to be clued in on the show’s goings on by his usual co-hosts Stu Burguiere and Pat Gray. After Beck exclaimed admiration for Ron Paul’s speech last night, Gray and Burguiere let him know that they’d had a Paul fan call in earlier on the show who wanted to start talking about the Elders of Zion and Jewish conspiracies. All three hosts agreed that this type of fan would be Paul’s big obstacle going forward.

Glenn Beck, flying high from his parody on last night’s episode of The Simpsons, had a run-in with a coffee table that caused him to throw out his back, taking him out of commission for today’s episode of GBTV.

GBTV, the online venture of Glenn Beck, has announced another new series. The network has formed a partnership with Beck-owned news site The Blaze (something tells me it wasn’t too hard to swing that) for an upcoming hour-long news show titled Real News From The Blaze.

On the season premiere of the The Simpsons, the writers took no prisoners in a brilliant excoriation of the cable news industrial complex, with Homer Simpson hosting a Fox News-esque political opinion show Gut Check and tweaking Glenn Beck‘s over-the-top persona in the process.

Glenn Beck has made a name for himself as a small government conservative, but that hasn’t exempted him from being a target of fans of Rep. Ron Paul. On his radio show this weekend, Beck debated caller “Tom,” a Ron Paul fan who was outraged by Beck’s support of Israel and accused him of taking “your 30 pieces of silver for Israel over America.”

Many many months ago, when Glenn Beck, one of the highest-rated cable news hosts on television, released his first work of “faction” The Overton Window, our editors promised a “100-part” review of the novel to accompany Beck’s somewhat forgotten “100-year” plan that stole the headlines in summer 2010. They were kidding, of course, but I somehow find myself continuing the tradition upon giving the novel my first read this weekend, and finding that hindsight adds a context to it that surely was not intended, but renders the work that much more significant: the protesters in the novel who Beck described as a fictionalization of the Tea Party Movement resemble what we now know as “Occupy Wall Street” in ideology and problematic behavior far more than they do the 2009 explosion of right-wing activism the Tea Party represents.

It’s finally happening. After months of lead up and presumably a ton of therapy following the “spilt wine incident,”, Glenn Beck is moving to Texas. Part of the GBTV operation will be staying back here in New York and you know what that means; it’s time for them to sing and dance about how glad they are he’s gone. That’s just what the folks at The B.S. of A. have done!

Thursday night, The Factor host Bill O’Reilly brought on his former Fox News colleague Glenn Beck to discuss the latter’s recent criticism of former House Speaker and current GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich. Beck, you made recall, opined that Gingrich is a “big government progressive.”

Yesterday, when Time Magazine announced that “The Protester” would be 2011′s “Person of the Year,” the choice seemed destined to drive all conservative commentators into a tizzy (perhaps on purpose; get more headlines, sell more copies). In fact, from the instant the announcement was made, many in the Mediaite office couldn’t help but thinking, “Oh, man. Glenn Beck is going to have a field day with this.” Beck, of course, being the guy who predicted at the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement that protesters would soon be shooting rich people in the street. So, we were pretty shocked when Beck explained on his radio show yesterday that he thought it was a perfect choice and that the current movements for social change are the most important parts of-

Oh, I’m just kidding. He hated it.

Now that Joy Behar is poised to wrap up her HLN show, it’s a good a time as any to sit down and confess some of the sins she’s committed during her time as host. Seated in a confessional with Anderson Cooper Father Edward Beck, Behar confessed that she’d lied about her HLN colleague Nancy [...]

Glenn Beck has been in the news quite a bit the past few days but the real story for him continues to be the development of his network GBTV. It’s been interesting to see the different shows the network has produced and how closely they adhere to the Beck brand. So far, some might be asking when GBTV is going to produce a show that really feels like a Glenn Beck show.

Well, how about a reality series about a white-bread American family heading off into the woods to learn how to use guns so as to prepare for some kind of vaguely defined apocalypse? Oh my God, yes.

Joe Scarborough sympathized with Glenn Beck‘s assertion that he would consider Ron Paul as a third party candidate on Tuesday’s Morning Joe. “I bash Glenn Beck when he says really inflammatory statements,” Scarborough said, before adding that he would seriously consider an independent run by Ron Paul.

Over the past few years, there’s been much talk about some talk about a kind of “Republican Civil War” between the old dog GOP establishment and the newly energized Tea Party. This past weekend though, Glenn Beck did something impressive when he managed to piss them both off during an appearance on Fox Business Network. He annoyed the establishment by saying they were filled with progressives and that the only difference between Newt Gingrich and Barack Obama was that he was white and he annoyed the Tea Party by asking them if that was why they liked him. And if that weren’t enough to get Republicans angry at him, today Beck said that, were Gingrich to get the nomination, he’d consider voting for a Ron Paul third party run, something many assume would give the election to Obama.

GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich spoke with WGIR AM 610 and 96.7 the Wave’s Paul Westcott Monday, offering his reaction to Glenn Beck‘s who recently interviewed Gingrich.

Glenn Beck is very much not a fan of Newt Gingrich. If anyone didn’t yet know that from this interview, he made it very clear Saturday on Fox Business Network when he alleged that Gingrich was so similar to President Obama in his “progressive” ways, that the only reason Tea Partiers would like him over the President would be because of his race. Unsurprisingly, this has caused some anger. Even less surprisingly, one of those angry voices is Andrew Breitbart, a man who is very much not a fan of Glenn Beck.

Glenn Beck has made no secret of how much he dislikes Newt Gingrich– not even to Newt Gingrich’s face. But he has yet to confront his supporters until last night, when he reasoned to Freedom Watch host Judge Andrew Napolitano that there was very little difference between Gingrich and President Barack Obama– so much so that the only possible explanation for Tea Partiers rallying around Gingrich is “Obama’s race.”