Subject: Glenn Beck

• The Top Five Reasons You Need Mexicans

  October 11, 2007

• KTRH Gives Up On The Extended-Morning-News Experiment, Goes Back To Choir-Preaching

  We noted in October that KTRH, pretty much the only news operation left on the AM dial, had expanded their morning news program by getting rid of San Antonio shouter Joe Pags' show.Sure, since then the expanded "news" hole was often filled by a chaotic hodgepodge of whatever guest the station's intern could get on the phone to be interviewed by the anchors, but at least it wasn't yet another conservative talk show preaching to the choir.That's about to end, though: Starting February 2, the 9-11

  January 2, 2009

• Glenn Beck Takes a Break From the Economy; Talks with Marcus Luttrell, Former SEAL Who Chased Down Men Accused of Shooting His Yellow Lab

  If you have been listening to right-wing pundit Glenn Beck's daily syndicated radio show on 740 AM KTRH in the mornings or watching his Fox News Channel TV show in the evenings, no doubt you have heard the sad tale of former Navy SEAL and Navy Cross recipient Marcus Luttrell. The distinguished war hero and author of Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10 awoke on the morning of April 1 to the sound of a gunshot outside his family's Huntsv

  April 9, 2009

• Hypin' Up Those Tea Parties

  Photo by KankoSomeone alert Kevin Whited at bloghouston! We're about to mention KTRH again!! (It always seems to annoy him greatly, pointing out how the city's once-proud and still-largest radio news station has become a mouthpiece for the GOP.)Anyway, the station's lead story today is, of course, the "tea parties." According to Fox and talk radio, this is the single most important event of the century.We leave it to others to make tea-bagging jokes. But we point out that the KTRH reporter

  April 15, 2009

• On The Scene At The Houston Tea Party

  In the end, it exceeded the expectations of even its once-seemingly wildly overenthusiastic organizers. Approximately 3,500 pissed-off demonstrators packed Jones Plaza for a warm-up blues-rock concert and harangues about high taxes, debt, bail-outs, and socialism.     You'd have to think the crowd was decidedly of the Outside the Beltway persuasion. All in all, there hasn't been this many melanin-challenged people in Jones Plaza since Cory Morrow played here back in '03, and t

  April 15, 2009

• Fareed Zakaria

  The editor of Newsweek’s international edition says we’ve seen the “rise of the West” and now it’s time for the “rise of the rest”

  May 22, 2008

• First They Came For Our Teabags: The Slideshow

  Photo by Katharine ShilcuttWe promised, and we are Promise Keepers! (of a sort).Here's the slideshow of the tea-party protest at Jones Plaza yesterday. Check to see if you made the cut. We are not responsible, however, if the fact that your photo is posted here puts you on a Department of Homeland Security watchlist and is the first step to sending you to one of those FEMA concentration camps that Glenn Beck can't disprove.

  April 16, 2009

• Racism Goes Unchecked at Regent University, Meanwhile the Melanin-Challenged Turn Out to Protest... Something.

  April 23, 2009

• Mexican-American Culture

  Why do prietos always get the blame?

  March 29, 2007

• Radio Daze

  February 10, 2005

• Glenn Beck

  June 4, 2009

• Meeting Of The (Utterly Insane) Minds: Glenn Beck Interviews A Texas Secessionist From Houston

  Glenn Beck has stumbled onto an extremely lucrative shtick -- act like an insane man, and right-wing nuts will give you incredible ratings (for cable, anyway), they will throw money at you for your supremely silly books, they will take you seriously as a political analyst.Hard to believe, but true.Beck, as anyone who tunes into KTRH-AM in the mornings knows, is completely unlistenable (He's got great radio chops, but other neessary basics, like logic and sanity, are missing). So it's a good thin

  June 25, 2009

• Houston's Tea Party: Yes, There Was One

  You probably didn't realize it, because the Left-Wing Socialist/Fascist Mainstream Media chose to ignore it, but there was yet another "Tea Party" in Houston over the weekend, which means another wacky, fun-loving combination of a) very odd people, and b) wildly overstated crowd estimates.Organizers say up to 10,000 people showed up, according to Instapundit. Bloghouston says "HPD put the attendance at around 6,000," which is news to HPD's public-information office. They say they aren't in the b

  July 6, 2009

• Memories of Michael

  July 9, 2009

• We Apply to Be BARC's Top Dog. Plus: 10,000-person-strong tea party. maybe.

  July 16, 2009

• KTRH Listeners Speak Out, Inanely

  ​If you've been listening to Rush, Glenn Beck or Sean Hannity, you know that President Obama has called every single police officer in the nation "stupid," and that he has absolutely no respect for them.It's not because he's black, it's because....he's not Republican?We're not sure. Sometime it's hard to follow.At any rate, Obama has proposed getting together over a beer at the White House with the Cambridge cop and the ornery professor so everyone can hash things out. Both sides have accepted

  July 27, 2009

• Feeling The Sweet Flow Of Freedom With Sean Hannity

  Photo by Pete Vonder Haar​Conservative radio/TV host Sean Hannity began hosting his "Freedom Concert" series, benefiting Oliver North's Freedom Alliance Scholarship Fund for the children of soldiers killed or disabled in action, back in 2003. Last Saturday the 2009 incarnation kicked off at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion, boasting a powerhouse lineup featuring the likes of Billy Ray Cyrus, Lee Greenwood, and other acts that haven't been relevant since the 1980s, if ever, and Hair Balls wa

  August 3, 2009

• Exposing Obama's "Brainwash The Kids" Scheme, With KTRH's Michael Berry

  ​You gotta admit this about the right-wing, talk-show-listening, Fox-News-loving one-third of America -- no one can whip up a paranoid kerfluffle like they can.The latest insidious event causing them to storm the barricades is Barack Obama's Stalin-like plan to hypnotize mass numbers of gullible schoolchildren into becoming mindless slaves of the liberal agenda by telling them to stay in school.Even the hard, cold fact that Obama intends to kill your grandparents at the first opportunity is ta

  September 3, 2009

• The Rockets Go Communist In Their Search For Ticket Sales

  You've lost your best player to injury, you've lost the guy who thinks he's the best player to Advanced Wussiness Syndrome, you haven't got a decent big name to take the court for you next year: What are you gonna do if you're the Rockets?Pitch yourselves as "Red Nation," apparently.That's the new advertising slogan, officially to be rolled out by the team next week. (Rejected slogans: "Yee-Haw, We're Yao-less!!!" and "The Rockets -- We're Scola-riffic!!!"The whole "Nation" thing is kind of play

  September 18, 2009

• Rob Mungle/Nick Graza

  September 24, 2009

• Halloween Countdown Part 1: The Seven Most Cliched Costumes

  Halloween is coming, and that means many, many costuming mistakes will be made by normally sane adults. To help stop this scourge, each Thursday we will be offering tips and analysis of what to avoid, or possibly what to do. It seems that every year Halloween becomes less and less about scaring other people and more about what current pop-culture reference you can cleverly pull off. One year wearing a Cubs hat and headphones was all the rage after fan Steve Bartman snatched a foul ball from outf

  October 1, 2009

• Rocks Off Loves Muse - So What If Idiot-Arguer Glenn Beck Does Too?

  It's easy to forget that tonight another band is actually playing before U2 at Reliant Stadium. But Bono and the boys couldn't have found a better band to heat up their adoring throngs than space-rock overlords Muse. Hell, even conservative hand-wringer Glenn Beck likes them. We swear that that's not an indictment of the band. The English-bred trio just released its fifth album, The Resistance, last month, and almost immediately it somehow struck a chord with Beck, the author of such recent boo

  October 14, 2009

• Obama's Screwing Texas Out Of Swine Flu Vaccine!!!! Or Maybe Not

  ​Is Obama trying to kill Texans as revenge for not voting for him?Quite possibly, if you believe a list of swine-flu vaccine information getting e-mailed around. (And yeah, we're calling it swine flu, you H1N1 snobs.)What's being e-mailed is a list of vaccine doses shipped, broken down by state. California has gotten 836,900 doses; Texas 178,300. Texas has less than Arizona, and who the hell lives in Arizona?So obviously there's political skullduggery going on, right?Not really.Carrie Williams

  October 27, 2009

• No, We Haven't Forgotten About That Other Guy Playing House of Blues Thursday

  ​Amidst all the rum, sodomy, and lashing going on this week about the Pogues hitting House of Blues Thursday, it's easy to forget that they have a pretty stellar opener warming up the crowd. Hmm, kinda reminds us of another Irish band that brought a really kick-ass young band with them a few weeks back. Exceptt we don't think Glenn Beck quotes Justin Townes Earle lyrics on his radio show. Earle will open for the Pogues tomorrow night, despite being felled by a leg injury he suffered late last

  October 28, 2009

• The Week In TV: Art of the Dushku

  We'll always have Bring It On...​I'm waiting for winter, I'm tired of Joseph Fiennes, and I can't stop raving about Wade Boggs' Carpet World. This was the week in TV Land: • I've been a little remiss in advising you to watch Parks and Recreation, which is my bad, as I heard a kid say the other day when I yelled at him to get off my lawn. It's a funny, quick little show cut from The Office's cloth but able to stand on its own, and it's the most unsung component in NBC's rock-solid two-h

  November 16, 2009

• The Tug of War

  November 19, 2009

• Glee: The Ballad of Will and Rachel

  Last night's Glee, "Ballad," was pretty strong, if a little too full of awkward-in-a-bad-way moments. The musical numbers were entertaining and plot-driven, the jokes were on, the narration was ramped back up to Election levels, and the ep's main hook -- all the glee kids are randomly paired up to sing ballads -- was a fun way to put together characters who might not normally hang out. Of course, there were some horribly awkward moments thrown in for good measure, and the ending shot for uplif

  November 19, 2009