MEDIA MATTERS: Glenn Beck’s affinity for chalkboard diagrams charting out the frequently illusory “connections” in the growing liberal conspiracy to undermine America is well-documented. In that spirit, Media Matters for America has explored Beck’s links to the extremist, unhinged, and sometimes paranoid people and groups that inhabit the world of right-wing political activism and laid them out in a Beck-style chart, but with two key differences: these connections actually exist, and they were spell-checked. MORE
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RELATED: In recent days, Glenn Beck has said that something he is “working on” will “take the administration down” and that White House interim communications director Anita Dunn “will have to go away” after “what we show you tonight.” Beck and his fellow Fox News personalities have repeatedly called for Obama administration officials to be fired, asked people to dig up information on administration officials, and fearmongered about President Obama, his advisers, and his policies. MORE
RELATED: Beck cited WND report in his ongoing smear campaign against Dunn. On his October 
19 radio program, Glenn Beck highlighted the clip to continue smearing Dunn, who he has previously falsely claimed “worships” “her hero” Mao Zedong. While Beck stated that “every candidate tries” to “control the press” and that “there’s no problem with that,” he added: “Here is a problem that I do have, is that they — she used the — if I may quote her, ‘A huge part of our press strategy was to make the media cover what Obama was actually saying as opposed to why the campaign was saying it and the strategy.’ Hmm. … Why wouldn’t you want — is it possible that you didn’t want anybody looking at your tactics because they’re all Saul Alinsky tactics?” MORE
ANITA DUNN: “The reality of it is that Fox News often operates almost as either the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party. And it is not ideological… what I think is fair to say about Fox, and the way we view it, is that it is more of a wing of the Republican Party.” […] “[Fox is] widely viewed as a part of the Republican Party: take their talking points and put them on the air, take their opposition research and put it on the air. And that’s fine. But let’s not pretend they’re a news organization like CNN is.” MORE
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