Glenn Beck

Muslim Hunting: David Horowitz has made taunting college students a spectator sport. Sometimes he's actually right.

Show Your Support for Mitt Romney by Shopping at Guitar Center! The Power of Passive Endorsement

Are you a musician? Is your group having issues? Ask Fan Landers! Critic Jessica Hopper has played in and managed bands, toured internationally, booked shows, produced records, worked as a publicist, and is the author of The Girls' Guide to Rocking, a how-to for teen ladies. She is here to help you ... More >>

2016: Obama's America: The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

Conservative Bloggers Shocked By "Naked Kid" Wearing Clothes at Naked Bike Ride

A post on Glenn Beck's website The Blaze expressed righteous outrage that kids were forced to ride naked through the streets at this weekend's 2012 St. Louis Naked Bike Ride by their hippie parents. "'DISGUSTING'," The Blaze headline shrieks. "PARTICIPANTS IN 'WORLD NAKED BIKE RACE' SEEMINGLY BRING ... More >>

KMOV Endangers Anti-Gun Liberal Media Conspiracy with Postive Gun Story

Whoa. KMOV Channel 4 has gone way off-script. What is reporter Maggie Crane doing reporting the story of 69-year-old Ed Gischer? This is the guy who, in the wee hours of Monday morning, was snoozing in his Lemay home when a masked burglar kicked in the back door, pryed open the locked bedroom door, ... More >>

Straight Shootin': The firepower at the NRA convention is incredible, just like the rhetoric

Mormons: A Shallow Yet Helpful Guide to See If You Should Hate Them or Not

Glenn Beck and Sarah Palin: Defending the Republic

Can you feel it? Discontent has been in the air this week. The news has been full of #OccupyWallStreet and its various regional sympathy protests. On the face of it, it's hard to think of something more diametrically opposed to the Occupy movement than "Defending The Republic," a rally/appearanc ... More >>

Look! Sarah Palin Is Naked!

​Did that headline get your attention? Love Sarah Palin or loathe her, you just can't seem to look away. You're as obsessed as a post-Mariah-Carey Eminem!So that oughtta make today's Daily RFT contest right up your alley. We're giving away an entire suite of seats for tomorrow's event at the Famil ... More >>

Sarah Palin Limerick Contest: We Have a Winner

​We've long known that RFT readers are funny. But we had no idea that you're this funny!Our call for limericks about Sarah Palin, all beginning with the line "There once was a mayor from Wasilla," drew twelve solid entries. And many of them wowed us with their creativity. We honestly didn't realiz ... More >>

Ten years have passed since 9/11, and The Guys has not improved with age

Cardinals Lose To Those Queer-Loving Giants; San Fran First Team to Join "It Gets Better"

What's next? A pre-game screening of the gay baseball play?​It's bad enough that the Cardinals blew the lead in the ninth inning last night to fall by a score of 7-5 in extra innings. But to lose to a bunch of gay-sympathizing, touchy-feely, socially-conscious men like the visiting San Francisco G ... More >>

Wanna Be on the Presidential Ballot in Missouri? We Need to See Your Birth Certificate, Please

Can we just lay the rumors to rest that Barack Obama is not an American citizen? He was born in Hawaii in 1961 -- two years after it became a state. Not Kenya. Hawaii. Even Glenn Beck has shut up about this, maybe because the claims are so ridiculous the Supreme Court doesn't want to waste its time. ... More >>

Glenn Beck Talks About - and to - Cupcakes

Rumors of the death of the cupcake fad have swirled for months. With five minutes of video, Glenn Beck kills them dead. In an attempt to explain inflation and treasury bonds on his Fox News show last night, Beck substituted flag-studded cupcakes for gold so that us simple folk might understand. ... More >>

Ten Best Tweets from Fake Dana Loesch

If you haven't heard by now, someone last week created a fake Twitter account for Dana Loesch, St. Louis' most hated and/or adored political pundit depending on your leanings.  ​The fake account (@fake_dloesch) closely resembles Loesch's real account (@dloesch), except for the comments -- int ... More >>

The 2010 RFT News Challenge

This Month in Science

image via​Here in St. Louis, lots and lots of people are working tirelessly to explain the meaning of life -- not in the philosophical sense, but literally: How does the universe work? Here are some of the discoveries they've made this month, as reported in Riverfront Times and Daily RFT: Bar ... More >>

Monsanto to Glenn Beck: We Are Not Evil and Sinister and Manipulative, Unlike You

MonsantoGlenn, it may look like something else, but really, sometimes corn is just corn.​As Ian noted over on Gut Check, Senate Bill 510, the food safety bill, passed yesterday morning with a vote of 72 to 25. This, despite the best efforts of Glenn Beck. Beck took to the airwaves Monday night in ... More >>

Twelve Crazy Drinks You've Probably Never Heard Of (Videos)

​One day Gut Check was sitting around the office enjoying an after-hours libation when someone said, "Hey, have you ever heard of a Red-Headed Slut?" As a matter of fact, we had. It soon became evident, however, that our colleague was referring to a cocktail. There quickly ensued a lengthy d ... More >>

Kevin Jackson wrote the book on how to win (white) friends and influence (black) people

Tony La Russa Comes Out Against ... Puppy Mills

St. Louis Cardinals Manager Tony La Russa may have taken a sudden turn to the right with his attendance at a Glenn Beck rally this summer.   Tony La Russa may agree with Sarah Palin about "restoring honor" -- but we're guessing they disagree about animal rights.​But La Russa's parting w ... More >>

A dog's life: Readers are moved by the plight of pit bulls

Author Buzz Bissinger Not Finished Trashing Tony La Russa, Albert Pujols

hmhbooks.comBissinger and La Russa in happier times.​So, you think you have strong feelings about Albert Pujols and Tony La Russa attending a Glenn Beck rally this past weekend at the Lincoln Memorial? You've got nothing on Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger. Trust me. Bissinger and La Russ ... More >>

Pujols, La Russa to Attend Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" Rally

​I don't know who's going to be there, who's going to accept it. But the gist of the day is not political. I think it's a really good concept, actually. -- Tony La Russa to stltoday.com.So, let's get this straight, TLR. You know next to nothing about conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck's "Resto ... More >>

A New Arch for a New St. Louis: Let's not just redesign the grounds around the Gateway Arch. Let's go for the whole enchilada!

¡Ask a Mexican! Special Poetry Edition

Readers speak up for Cecilia Velazquez, Glenn Beck, the Beautiful Kind and other controversial figures

Senator Kit Bond Gets Frothy Over 'Terrorists' and 'Rights'

John McCain managed quite a feat this week: He somehow got both Glenn Beck and John Stewart to agree with each other. The issue? How flat-out wrong the Arizona senator is when he says that U.S.-born people merely suspected of being terrorists should be denied their Miranda rights. Agree with McCain ... More >>

Amongst Us

Sheriff Joe Arpaio's reign of terror becomes Arizona policy, thanks to state Senator Russell Pearce and Governor Jan Brewer

St. Louis-Based Nestle Purina Latest Company to Pull Ads from Glenn Beck

A website devoted to financially crippling controversial Fox News host Glenn Beck has scored another victory. This time with a St. Louis-based multinational advertiser. Yesterday Nestle Purina Petcare said it was an "error" that advertisements for its Cat Chow brand pet food that ran on Beck's show ... More >>

Wash. U. Prof Joins Obama and Lady Gaga on Time's Most Influential List

Image sourceA Time artist's rendering of Michael Sherraden.​Although, according to various stupid media-generated lists, St. Louisans/Missourians are ugly and stressed and spend too much time sitting in traffic and have few job prospects, we now have one thing to be proud of. Or, rather, one p ... More >>

Show Review Setlist: Ben Folds and a Piano Triumphs Despite a Distracted Crowd

​ Ben Folds and his piano rocked the Chaifetz Arena last night, despite the less-than-intimate venue and somewhat-inattentive crowd. The personable popstar didn't chat as much between songs, possibly because it's hard to unite a crowd in an oversized venue like the Chaifetz. For such an intim ... More >>

¡Ask a Mexican!: The mexican defends immigrant laborers — again — and clarifies the meaning of the word paisano.

Have You Made Any Twitter Lists Yet?

Twitter added a new list feature in the last week or so. Twitter lists (if you haven't explored them yet) allow you to group Twitter users into categories of your own creation.​For instance, I have created four lists:STL for local peoplePeople I know IRL for people I have actually met in personA l ... More >>

Daily RFT, STL Picks for Twitter Follow Friday

Here are six random St. Louis Tweeps you should consider following:UnclePilot is a writer.Twitter bio: I write stuff. And have adventures. And sometimes drink a little too much.Sample Tweet: Maybe it's just me, but this certainly seems to have become The Year Of The Great Growing Up-ening for me and ... More >>

Daily Web Crawl

The Few, The Proud, The Shattered

Tina Richards' son returned, suicidal, from Iraq battlefields. Now, the Missouri woman is waging her own war in Congress.

How many Mexicans does it take to screw in a light bulb?

One gabacho really wants to know.

"It is a priority of Whole Foods Market to only use products that meet our strict quality standards."

Week of August 31, 2006

What If . . .

A cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard of the 9/11 "truth movement." Just don't call them conspiracy theorists.