Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck is Fox News Channel's cable opinion show hosted by controversial radio and TV host, political commentator, author, and overall media personality Glenn Beck. The show airs weekdays at 5pm eastern, and in March of 2009, two months after it migrated to Fox News Channel from CNN Headline News, it became the highest-rated cable news show in that time slot, in line with Beck's own quick rise to fame. Raised Mormon, Beck is an outspoken proponent of conservative ideology and traditional family values, in the vein of Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, and Sean Hannity. Beck routinely uses the show to issue incendiary, emotionally charged, and often humorous statements on nearly every sensitive issue in America today, and has especially focused on criticizing the Obama Administration. This has had a polarizing effect on his public reception, attracting the audience to make the show a smash-hit, but also driving away many advertisers--including a boycott of more than 80 in September of 2009, after he first described President Obama as "racist" and accused him of being a "socialist." The show primarily features daily news items, opinion, and interviews, but occasionally will air "Special Programs" that offer a more in-depth analysis of specific topics like terrorism or global warming. Beck will also often incorporate his side "912 Project", which Beck says is designed "to bring us all back to the place we were on Sept. 12, 2001 ... when we were not obsessed with red states, blue states or political parties." MORE