AKA Glenn Lee Beck

Born: 10-Feb-1964
Birthplace: Seattle, WA

Gender: Male
Religion: Mormon
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: TV Personality, Radio Personality
Party Affiliation: See Note [1]

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Conservative TV and radio talk-show host

Glenn Beck grew up in Mount Vernon, Washington, a small town about sixty miles north of Seattle. He started on radio by winning an hour of air time in a contest on one of the town's two radio stations. While still in high school, he worked as a late-night and weekend disc jockey at a different station about forty miles from Seattle, until he was fired for missing scheduled shifts. He went straight from high school to full-time radio work, and by his mid-20s he was a successful radio DJ. With his early success, though, Beck became an alcoholic and daily drug user. His first marriage ended in divorce, and then he kicked his addictions with help from Alcoholics Anonymous. Now clean and sober for years, Beck says he still suffers back pain from an injury incurred when, intoxicated or high, he tumbled through a window.

Beck suffers from Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), so his show is always fast-paced. Fans describe him as quick-witted, well-informed, an independent thinker, and a good Christian. His mantra, he says, is to begin and end each day on his knees, praying for the troops and the president. A Mormon with self-described libertarian leanings, Beck is big on conservative politics and traditional family values, and his radio program is syndicated on more than 200 US stations. He also has an hour-long TV show that runs three times nightly on CNN Headline News.

In the build-up to America's 2003 war on Iraq, Beck countered anti-war protests by using his radio show to organize dozens of pro-war rallies across the nation, and he has promised he will never question the cause, “no matter how unpopular this war gets." He has described Jimmy Carter as "a waste of skin", Cindy Sheehan as "a pretty big prostitute", and fantasized on the air about strangling to death Michael Moore.

Beck is also the founder and editor of Fusion, a magazine of conservative political perspective, where a regular feature is the magazine's humorous "future obituaries" of prominent liberals, celebrities, and terrorists. In its September 2006 issue, Fusion solemnly commemorated the fifth anniversary of September 11 with a cover drawing of Beck standing in front of World Trade Center's twin towers.

    High School: Sehome High School, Bellingham, WA (1982)
    University: Yale University (dropped out)

    Alcoholics Anonymous
    Converted to Mormonism 2000 (from Roman Catholicism)
    Endorsement of Select Comfort Sleep Number bed
    Birther Movement
    Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Marijuana, Cocaine, Obesity

    TELEVISION
    Fox Talk Host (2008-)
    CNN Talk Host (2006-08)

Official Website:
http://www.glennbeck.com/

Author of books:
The Real America: Messages from the Heart and Heartland‎ (2005)
An Inconvenient Book: Real Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems‎ (2007)
The Christmas Sweater (2008)

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