Beck: "I have some of the biggest minds in America ... do[ing] research" for me. From the August 13 edition of Premiere Radio Networks' The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: I will tell you that I ask my floor crew and my producers every night after the show and every morning at 7 a.m., "Guys, where do we have it wrong? What are we missing? How come there isn't anyone else on this, these connections."
I will tell you that I have two of very, very prominent universities that are currently working offsite for me on research. I have some of the biggest minds in America that are willing to look -- don't necessarily agree with me -- that are willing to look and do research. I have independent researchers, I have universities doing research for me, I have my own personal researchers, I do my research, and I have Fox News doing research for me.
So I can only tell you that I don't -- if I can't vet it, if I have conflicting evidence, if my news team happens to disagree with the research of my personal team or the colleges happen to disagree with it, I don't air it. I will tell you that we are vetted. I will tell you that we may get things wrong from time to time, but I will tell you when we get them wrong.
Beck: My research team is "working harder than I think any staff ever on television." From the August 25 edition of The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: I'm just going through just some of the news of the day, that is -- it is amazing how much we have to talk about and how much is going on. I beg you, beg you, beg you, please, watch the TV show this week. Every night is a different piece of the puzzle. I've been trying to put this together for you and have been -- I've been working very hard along with my staff. They have just -- they're working harder than I think any staff ever on television, trying to piece this together, and we're doing it at the time when nobody is using television.
[...]
BECK: I mean, there are opinions in this show, but I am surrounding it with facts, and that's why I'm asking you to watch the show -- DVR it. Use it as a reference, please. These facts have come from hours and hours and hours of research. Hours and hours and hours of watching speeches that people gave. I have personally funded research myself. I'm using all of the resources at Fox. We're using university researchers as well. We're doing everything we can. Please, please watch and use this information and spread it among your friends and your co-workers, because I don't care if you're Republican or Democrat, you know something's wrong.
Beck: "My credibility means everything to me, so before we put anything on the radio show or Fox News, we check, we double-check, we triple-check." From the July 29 edition of The Glenn Beck Program:
BECK: Now, there are a ton of bogus nonsense sources -- a ton of bogus emails and everything else circulating. My credibility means everything to me, so before we put anything on the radio show or Fox News, we check, we double-check, we triple-check. And even at times with all of that, with the resources that I have, we still get it wrong. But I will tell you the one thing we never start with is a chain email.
Beck falsely accused Van Jones of being a "convicted felon ... who spent, I think, six months in prison after the Rodney King beating." As Eva Paterson, president and founder of the Equal Justice Society, has explained, "Van [Jones] has never served time in any prison. He has never been convicted of any crime." On August 11, Beck said (transcript from the Nexis database):
BECK: We've spent some time over here. There is so much more to cover, but I want to talk to you about the green movement root. I couldn't figure out why the green movement -- here is Van Jones. This is a convicted felon, a guy who spent, I think, six months in prison after the Rodney King beating.
He was a black nationalist. He came out an anarchist and a communist. He then found the green movement was the new red. And now, he's our green jobs czar. Why is there so much money from the green movement, fund for public interest?
