Michelle Obama and Barbara Walters
First Lady Michelle Obama was named Barbara Walters' Most Fascinating Person of 2009, one year after President Barack Obama took the honor.
"It has been a whirlwind. But it's been amazing," Obama told Walters on her Wednesday special, The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009.
Jackson's kids, Kate Gosselin make "Most Fascinating" list
Obama noted settling into ...
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Barbara Walters
Michael Jackson's three children, Kate Gosselin and Sarah Palin are among Barbara Walters' most fascinating people of the year, ABC announced.
Taylor Swift receives five AMA awards; Michael Jackson wins four
Joining them on Walters' annual special, The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2009, are ...
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck suffered from appendicitis during his radio show Wednesday and had to undergo surgery, a Fox News Channel spokeswoman said.
She said...
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Don Imus
Imus in the Morning began simulcasting Monday on Fox Business Network, having Glenn Beck and John McCain among his guests and indulging in some classically edgy shtick with longtime newsman-sidekick Charles McCord.
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Barack Obama
President Barack Obama may have failed to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago, but the White House doesn't have any regrets — and lashed out this week at Fox News and Glenn Beck for criticizing the president's efforts.
On the official White House blog, Jesse Lee, the online programs director, wrote that the cable news channel "continued its disregard for the facts ...
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Keith Olbermann, Glenn Beck
MSNBC commentator Keith Olbermann is looking for dirt on Fox News' Glenn Beck.
"Find everything you can about Glenn Beck, Stu Burguiere, and Roger Ailes," Olbermann posted on The Daily Kos. (Burguiere produces Beck's radio show; Ailes is the head of Fox News.)
Read about the top 5 talk-show controversies of 2009
Olbermann's request for fact-finding was a somewhat cheeky reply to...
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Glenn Beck
Talk show host Glenn Beck returned to the air Monday, but did not address the advertiser boycott that began after he called President Barack Obama a racist.
Beck, who had been away on a planned vacation, didn't shy away from making other controversial statements upon his return, however. Launching a weeklong series called "The New Republic: America's Future," Beck opened the show by encouraging viewers to tell their friends to watch his show with a pen and paper because he was going to ask "reasonable questions for unreasonable times."
Check out the Top 5 talk-show controversies of 2009
Beck accused the Obama administration ...
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Glenn Beck
Glenn Beck has lost another advertiser.
Geico and Lawyers.com stopped advertising on Beck's show after he called President Barack Obama "a racist" on a July 28 episode of Fox and Friends. A spokeswoman for GMAC Financial Services told TVGuide.com on Monday that the company has "ceased to advertise on the Glenn Beck Program," though she would not say why.
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David Letterman, Glenn Beck
It's been a big year for incendiary talk-show chatter. Sometimes a host gets viewers irate. Sometimes it's the guest. Sometimes that guest is even the president of the United States. Here's a look back at some of the comments this year that made people mad.
1) Who: Glenn Beck on Fox News' Fox and Friends
What he said: On the July 28th edition, Beck said President Obama has "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." He added, "I'm not saying that he doesn't like white people. I'm saying that he has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist."
The fallout: Geico and Lawyers.com have pulled advertising from Beck's show, The Glenn Beck Program.
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Glenn Beck
>Companies are pulling their ads from Fox News' The Glenn Beck Program after Beck called President Barack Obama a racist during a broadcast.
Geico and Lawyers.com (which is owned by Lexis Nexis) have both pulled advertising from Beck's show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Geico is one of the country's largest advertisers, spending more than a quarter-billion dollars for the first half of 2009, according to Nielsen Co.
Fox noted that the cable networks will not lose revenue, as the companies are simply shifting their ads to other programs. Additionally, Procter & Gamble, Progressive Insurance and SC Johnson said their ads were never supposed to run during Beck's program and the mistake would be corrected.
The controversy stems from a July 28 broadcast when Beck called Obama a racist with "a deep-seated hatred for white people." The comments led ...
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