Glenn Beck: I won't be running with Palin in 2012

The star of the big conservative rally of the week stopped by the press to deny any notion that he might be running for President with Alaskan glam-girl Sarah Palin in 2012.

"Not a chance. I don't know what Sarah's doing; I hope to be on vacation. I have no desire to be president of the United States, zero desire. I don't think that I would be electable, and there are far too many people who are far smarter than me to be president."

Beck caused controversy (he is a conservative commenter for Fox News) when he decided to hold the rally on the same day and in the same location as the one Martin Luther King held several decades ago - where he gave his stirring 'I Have a Dream' speech.

He is no stranger to such controversy, though. He once called Obama a racist, among other things.

"I don't want to retract—I want to amend. I think it's much more of a theological question. I didn't understand really his theological viewpoints come from Liberation Theology; that's what I think at the gut level I was sensing, and I miscast it as racism."

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Democratic congressman makes joke about Nancy Pelosi: "She might get sick and die"

Bob Bright, the Montgomery mayor who is currently facing off for a tough congressional seat in Alabama as a Democrat, has caused controversy after he made a joke about Nancy Peloci's death at a political event on Saturday.

Speaking at a high-profile Democratic Party event, Bright jokingly suggested that Pelosi could fall ill and die within the coming months. "That remark drew laughter from the crowd," reports the Montgovmery Advertiser. He "joked that Pelosi might lose her own election, decide not to run for the speaker’s job or otherwise not be available."


Bright is reportedly the first Democrat since the nineteen-sixties to represent the conservative district. His battle to be reelected is expected, the Advertiser reports, to be one of the most competitive races this fall. 

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