In honor of Mitt Romney‘s commencement speech at Liberty University last week, Bill Maher used his show-ending New Rule tonight to question the validity of the entire university’s credentials and argue that when they give out diplomas, it “cheapens my degree from a real school.” Maher said that because of Liberty’s religious bent, the university isn’t on par with “legitimate” universities that provide students with a comprehensive education.

Lemonade stands and bake sales and hug-a-thons! Oh my! The common ground being none other than Glenn Beck, who joined Bill O’Reilly on Thursday night to rail against the impending nanny state that is America.

Hey, remember Rev. Jeremiah Wright? He’s back! In Pog form! Also in Attack Obama form! In addition to the Super PAC discussing his connection to “black, metrosexual Abe Lincoln“ (seriously, if no one’s pitching that as a show premise to Adult Swim right now, we’ve failed as a nation), there’s also the Edward Klein book that claims Obama’s team tried to bribe him. Apparently there’s a cardboard box of proof out there somewhere and now Glenn Beck is offering $150,000 for it.

Glenn Beck mocked MSNBC host Chris Matthews for his poor showing on a recent episode of Celebrity Jeopardy, after he mocked former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin saying that she would perform terribly if she made an appearance on that program.

While Glenn Beck has been keeping a comparatively low profile since his meteoric rise on Fox News in 2009, but that doesn’t mean he’s doing all that badly– in fact, he’s doing better than ever before in terms of income– and better than any other political celebrity. Forbes‘ Power 100 reveals today that, while in overall ranking including influence in the media, Beck is in 23rd place, he outshines Rush Limbaugh, Donald Trump and Alec Baldwin in the income department.

As I wrote on Tuesday, many on the right have gone lengths to tie President Obama‘s new “Forward” slogan to Marxism, communism, socialism, fascism, etc. Some seem to suggest that this is further proof of his insidious Marxist beliefs. One of those people is Glenn Beck. After reading my column, he and his co-hosts took to their GBTV web show to call me a “moron” and a “buffoon” for saying that President Obama is not a Marxist. The following is my response, in the form of an open letter to Mr. Beck. Video of Beck’s comments is below my letter.

A few days ago, 60 Minutes‘ Lesley Stahl did a lengthy interview with former director of the National Clandestine Service Jose Rodriguez in which he discussed the CIA’s interrogation techniques. During a portion where Rodriguez discussed using “sleep deprivation and dietary manipulation” on Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Stahl worried aloud that those techniques sounded like ”Orwellian stuff.” The conservative media pounced on the quote, accusing Stahl of thinking that drinking Ensure (the dietary supplement that the CIA has suspects drink) is torture. It was all very, very silly. However, it did result in us getting this (very, very silly) video!

Embattled rocker Ted Nugent continued his radio tour on Wednesday with an appearance on the Mike Huckabee radio show. Following the interview, Huckabee defended Nugent’s controversial comments about Democrats and President Obama, saying that they were “really not threatening at all.” The former Arkansas governor also took a swipe at the Secret Service, saying that they have their own “issues” and some agents may need “inoculation from a little Colombian Cat Scratch Fever.”

Rocker Ted Nugent, who is the subject of a Secret Service investigation into controversial comments he made about President Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats, appeared on Glenn Beck’s radio program on Wednesday where he denied that he had ever threatened anyone.

Over the weekend, Bill O’Reilly found his name being thrown around on CNN, where a panelist on Reliable Sources argued he was “in the tank” for Mitt Romney. O’Reilly objected but brought in a second opinion on his alleged bias: Bernie Goldberg, who seconded that: “the only tank I figure you are in is the Bill O’Reilly tank.”

Keith Olbermann, now’s the time where you should take note. This here? This is why you create your own network instead of moving to someone else’s. Remember when you asked for an incredibly expensive desk and the Current people said boring stuff about how “That’s not possible” and “You knew what kind of money we had when you signed on” and “Did you really just buy that desk without asking us?” Well, when Glenn Beck wants a fancy desk, he just has his own network buy him the Oval Office set from the movie JFK so he can make overly dramatic weekly addresses to his audience.

Keith, watch this video and see where you where you went wrong.

Yesterday on his eponymous web and radio series, Glenn Beck took GBTV viewers on a tour to see where all their subscription money has been going and you could certainly see it on the screen. Beck introduced his audience to what he boasted was probably the largest set constructed for the web (Don’t scoff, luddites. That’s a title that will definitely mean something in the coming years). It’s all part of what he has dubbed, ever so subtly, The American Dreams Lab. And what’s the coup de grâce? How about an exact replica of the Oval Office which he can give addresses from?

Rick Santorum isn’t happy about the possibility of Matt Drudge being out to help Mitt Romney, and he’s being vocal about it. But at least one conservative who has been sympathetic to Santorum in the past is telling him to knock it off with indicting Drudge in this: Glenn Beck, who compared Drudge to William Randolph Hearst and insisted Santorum not fight with “a man who buys ink by the barrel.”

MSNBC’s Chris Matthews wrapped up his show Thursday night by responding to Glenn Beck‘s assertion that Matthews is a “total and complete bigot” over comments he had made about both Mormonism and Matthews’ own religion, Catholicism. Beck had taken issue with, among other things, Matthews referring to two Catholics and a Mormon as “cultists.”

During last night’s primary results, Chris Matthews explained why Mitt Romney is doing as well as he is among conservatives despite being a Mormon, by comparing him to a computer technician in India, because “you don’t care who’s fixing it, just fix the damn computer.” On his show today, Glenn Beck (who is also a Mormon, mind you) responded to Matthews’ remarks, calling the MSNBC host a “total and complete bigot,” suggesting it’s part of a larger pattern of anti-Mormon bigotry on the part of not just Matthews but the media in general.

Glenn Beck paid his regular visit to Bill O’Reilly this Friday to call on Republicans to maybe consider giving the whole primary a rest and letting Mitt Romney prepare for a fight with President Obama. Noting that he had been supporting Rick Santorum, Beck told O’Reilly that he was fine with anybody but the President, and that he saw the race now as being “at the end here,” with a longer race potentially hurting the Republicans’ chances.

Last summer, Fox News had a pretty big hole to fill in their now Glenn Beck-less 5 o’clock hour. When they decided to put on an opinion panel show inspired in part by The View, no one knew if it would work. Even the hosts had their doubts. However, sure enough, the show became a big ratings winner for the network. And, ever since the premiere, one of the most attention (and headline) grabbing aspects has been the resident “crazy uncle” to the show’s family of hosts, Bob Beckel, who was nice enough to talk to Mediaite about how the show was created and why it works.

The news of Andrew Breitbart’s passing took many by surprise. Only some people were live on the radio when it happened. That’s what happened to Glenn Beck and crew this morning. Stunned by the news, it took Beck a minute or so to collect his thoughts. After that though, he reflected on his relationship to the man and what Breitbart contributed to the conservative cause.

In the aftermath of the three bazillionth Republican debate Tuesday night, many of the candidates have taken to the airwaves to explain how and why their performance was the awesomest. Rick Santorum chose to go with GBTV for his message, making appearances on both Glenn Beck’s TV show as well as radio show in the past day. While on the radio, he accused his rival Mitt Romney of being “in bed with Barack Obama.”

Glenn Beck spent part of the week in Rome, talking to cardinals at the Vatican and uniting global Tea Party leaders. On The Factor tonight, he told Bill O’Reilly he was up to building a global coalition, one he hoped to be of “individuals against the machine [George Soros] is trying to build.

Not to be outdone by the folks at Fox News, Glenn Beck sat down Tuesday with Kylie Bisutti , a former Victoria’s Secret model, turned teen role model. Bisutti decided to quit modeling for Victoria’s Secret after she realized that her actions weren’t honoring God. She expected a barrage of criticism for quitting but she tells Beck that so far it’s been mostly beneficial.

In an interview on The Mike Gallagher Show, Fox News host Chris Wallace defended MSNBC’s decision to fire longtime contributor Pat Buchanan, calling the conservative pundit out for saying “some very incendiary things about Israel, about Jews, about Blacks, about other minorities,” and disputing Buchanan’s assertion that he was “blacklisted.” Wallace also compared Buchanan’s departure to that of Glenn Beck from Fox News, calling the former Fox superstar “irresponsible.”

Glenn Beck is borrowing Mike Huckabee‘s “We are all Catholics now” statement (from his CPAC speech) and hoping to turn it into a movement. The new campaign aims to help attach Sen. Roy Blunt‘s bill — which allows employers to decide whether they want to cover contraception — to the Highway Transportation bill. The basic [...]

Glenn Beck isn’t one to make the same mistake twice, and when Bill O’Reilly told him to clean himself up to be on his show, he took it seriously, donning a velvet sport jacket and bringing out a wine glass and the 2010 Joe Klein era pipe for tonight’s show. The topic tonight was President Obama’s birth control mandate, which Beck insisted was a sign that the President “is interested in radical transformation.”

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.