Glenn Beck

Following the Boston Marathon bombing, Beck continued portraying Saudi student Abdulrahman Alharbi as a financial participant in the plot after authorities had cleared him. Alharbi sued Beck for defamation; the case was ultimately settled out of court.

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Fox and Beck announced the end of his daily programme following declining ratings, repeated criticism of his theories and historical comparisons, and a prolonged advertising boycott.

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Days after Anders Breivik's attacks in Norway, Beck said a political youth camp such as the one at Utøya "sounds a little like the Hitler Youth". Comparing the young victims with the Hitler Youth was condemned in Norway as a new low.

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Beck advised listeners to leave any church using the expressions "social justice" or "economic justice", portraying them as codes associated with communism and Nazism. Christian leaders from several traditions strongly challenged the comparison.

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Beck organised a major Restoring Honor rally on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial exactly 47 years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech. Critics accused him of appropriating the civil rights movement's legacy.

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In a series on George Soros, Beck alleged that as a child he had helped an antisemitic collaborator confiscate Jewish property and send Jews to camps. Jewish leaders denounced this portrayal as historically unfounded and offensive.

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On Fox & Friends, Beck said he believed Barack Obama was "racist" and had deep hostility towards white people or white culture. The claim prompted a boycott campaign that led dozens of advertisers to withdraw advertisements from his programme.

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