"Crime Inc.": Beck's name for the liberal cabal that's plotting a takeover of America. Notably members include Al Gore, Barack Obama, John Podesta, former SEIU president Andy Stern, and Harvard Law professor Cass Sunstein. According to Beck, Goldman Sachs and Fannie Mae are in the plot along with Big Labor, non-profits, and think tanks like the Center for American Progress.

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"Diabetic Mallwalkers": Bill Maher's description of Beck's target audience.

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Europe: A continent Beck wants nothing to do with, and gets upset about when the president goes there. He also finds the accents rather comical.





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"Fear chamber": Fox News colleague Shepherd Smith's pet name for Beck's studio. Smith wasn't a Beck fan, a fact he made clear on live television in 2009.







Frog: Amphibian Beck pretended to boil on television, to illustrate how President Obama has treated America.







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Gold: Precious metal that Beck's audience was frequently told to buy, both by paid advertisements and the host himself.

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"Hope 101": Course offering at Beck's unaccredited online university that launched last summer, the appropriately named Beck University. Other intro level courses include Charity 101 and Faith 101.

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Islam: Religion, one Beck believes has been infiltrated by communists.







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Jones, Van: President Obama's short-lived "Green Jobs czar" and frequent Beck target. Beck was widely credited with forcing his September 2009 resignation.

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"Hey let's kill Obama": Beck's most unfortunate slip of the tongue came in May, when he fell victim to the Osama/Obama slip of the tongue.

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Libertarian: Beck claims he's becoming more of one every day. Alex Jones at Info Wars disagrees, arguing he's always going to be a neocon at heart.

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Massa, Eric: Former Democratic congressman from New York whom Beck interviewed for an hour last March about allegations he groped a male staffer. Afterwards, Beck turned to the camera and said, "America, I think I've wasted your time."







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Network: Beck frequently compares himself to Howard Beale, the renegade newscaster played by Peter Finch in Sidney Lumet's 1976 film, but has trouble remembering the details of the film's most iconic scene. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Beck referenced "the moment when he was in the raincoat, where he figures everything out, and he’s like, ‘Whoa, whoa, wait a minute! Why the hell aren’t you up at the window shouting outside?’” The actual line went more like this:







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Overton Window, The: Political thriller written by Beck last year. It reached number one on the New York Times best seller list for fiction, but Beck insists the book, which features a terrorist ring led by someone named Elmer, is actually 'faction'--fiction based on fact.

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Parody: Beck's careening screen persona and kooky worldview made him an easy target for late-night comics and the blogosphere. Nobody did this better than Jon Stewart, whose ten-minute Daily Show cold opening last March was the Tree of Life of Beck parodies, by virtue of its sheer ambition. A brief snippet: