Glenn Lee Beck is an American conservative political commentator, conspiracy theorist, radio host, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a popular talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck’s television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News.
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Glenn Lee Beck is an American conservative political commentator, conspiracy theorist, radio host, and television producer. He is the CEO, founder, and owner of Mercury Radio Arts, the parent company of his television and radio network TheBlaze. He hosts the Glenn Beck Radio Program, a popular talk-radio show nationally syndicated on Premiere Radio Networks. Beck’s television program, which ran from January 2006 to October 2008 on HLN, from January 2009 to June 2011 on Fox News. He has authored six New York Times–bestselling books. Beck is descended from German immigrants who came to the United States in the 19th century. He was raised as a Roman Catholic and attended Immaculate Conception Catholic School in Mount Vernon, Washington. In 1996, while working for a New Haven area radio station, Beck took a theology class at Yale University, with a written recommendation from a Yale alumnus who was a fan of Beck’s show. In 2012, The Hollywood Reporter named Beck on its Digital Power Fifty list. Beck has said he used Dr. Jack Daniel’s to cope with his mother’s death and subsequent suicide of his stepbrother. In 1994, Beck was suicidal, and he imagined shooting himself to the music of Kurt Cobain. He said he stopped drinking alcohol and smoking cannabis in November 1994, the same month he attended his first AA meeting. The couple divorced in 1994 amid Beck’s struggles with substance abuse. Beck later admitted that the family problems ranging from the divorce to his substance abuse had a severe negative impact on his children.
During this time, Beck’s first attempt at self-education involved reading the work of six wide-ranging authors, including Carl Sagan, Friedrich Nietzsche, Billy Graham, John Paul Dershowitz, Adolf Hitler, and Billy Graham. He then began a quest to find answers in churches and bookstores, which he called his’spiritual quest’ Beck’s mother, Mary Clara Beck, died in 1979 while out on a small boat with a male companion, and Beck has described her death as a suicide. Beck and his older sister moved to their father’s home in Bellingham, Washington, where Beck graduated from Sehome High School in June 1982. In 1983, the couple married and had two daughters, Mary and Hannah, Mary developed cerebral palsy as a result of a series of strokes at birth in 1988. Beck is also the producer of For the Record on TheBl Blaze. He currently hosts an hour-long afternoon program, The Glenn Beck Program, on weekdays, and a three-hour morning radio show; both are broadcast on Theblaze. He is a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, and has said that he has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Beck has admitted that he had gotten high every day for the previous 15 years, since the age of 16. In April 2011, Beck announced that he would \”transition off of his daily program\” onFox News, but would continue to team with Fox.
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