Meet Riaz Patel, The Gay Liberal Mlim Who Is Glenn Beck’s New BFF

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• MEET RIAZ PATEL, THE GAY LIBERAL MLIM WHO IS GLENN BECK’S NEW BFFALLIGLENN BECK, WHO BELIEVED LGBT MARRIAGE EQUALY WOULD LEAD TO SOCIAL STCTN, HAS CHANGED HIS MD—AND HIS NEW GAY BFF SISTS THE TRANSFORMATN IS SCERE.LLOYD GROVEUPDATED MAY 05, 2017 2:32PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 02, 2017 12:15AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTTHE UNLIKELY METAMORPHOSIS OF GLENN BECK OM NUTTY RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY-MONGER TO RATNAL-SEEMG FENR OF AMERIN MOCRACY—AND OPPONENT OF ALL THGS DONALD TMP—HAS CROSSED OVER TO A NEW ONTIER.THE 53-YEAR-OLD MULTIMEDIA FIREBRAND AND SELF-SCRIBED “TASTROPHIST”—WHO SHOCKED AND POSSIBLY ALIENATED HIS DWDLG FAN-BASE THREE MONTHS AGO BY FORMG AN ANTI-TMP ALLIANCE WH LEFTY SATIRIST SAMANTHA BEE—IS THE DAYS SPENDG QUALY TIME WH A PAKISTANI-BORN, POLILLY LIBERAL, GAY, MLIM TELEVISN PRODUCER.RIAZ PATEL—WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE PARENT, WH HIS BRISH-BORN HBAND, OF AN 11-MONTH OLD GIRL NCEIVED BY ARTIFICIAL SEMATN AND RRIED TO TERM BY A MEXIN SURROGATE—IS THE EMMY-NOMATED PRCIPAL OF AXIAL ENTERTAMENT, A SUCCSFUL LOS ANGEL-BASED PRODUCTN PANY RPONSIBLE FOR SUCH REALY TV SHOWS AS LIFETIME’S HOW TO LOOK GOOD NAKED AND VH1’S I HEART NICK CARTER, AMONG MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER PROJECTS.PATEL ED TO FEAR AND LOATHE BECK’S DIVISIVE HYPE. “I DID E THE EXPRSN ‘WHE DEVIL’,” PATEL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “BEE I HONTLY THOUGHT HE WAS HATEFUL, ANGRY NEWS PERSONIFIED. I THOUGHT HE IS ABSOLUTELY PARTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THIS CULTURE OF MADNS AND CHAOS AND RAGE ALL THE TIME THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.”BUT THE 43-YEAR-OLD PATEL, A U.S. CIZEN WHO ARRIVED HERE OM KARACHI AS A BABY WH HIS PARENTS AND TWO OLR SISTERS PG POLIL PANMONIUM PAKISTAN, HAD A CHANGE OF HEART AFTER MEETG BECK LAST JULY AND ENGAGG “HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF NVERSATN” WH HIM SCE THEN.THE BIASTAL PATEL—WHO IS NEGOTIATG TO ACCEPT AN EDOR-AT-LARGE ROLE BRASTORMG IAS FOR SHOWS WHILE MAKG FILMS FOR THE BLAZE’S SISTER WEB SE, —VISS BECK’S SUBURBAN DALLAS STUDS NEARLY EVERY WEEK TO DISCS POSSIBLE PROJECTS, HAS MA 15 APPEARANC ON BECK’S RAD AND TELEVISN SHOWS, AND FEBARY TREKKED TO THAILAND WH HIM TO FILM A PIECE ABOUT AN ANIZATN THAT FIGHTS CHILD SEX-SLAVERY.“THE SIMPATI IS SHOCKG,” PATEL SAID ABOUT HIS TERACTNS WH BECK. BUT PATEL, WHO HAS LOST LIBERAL IENDS OVER HIS NEW LLABORATN, ADD: “I’M A BRIDGE, NOT A FECTOR…I’M NOBODY’S PAWN… I’M NOT A STOCKHOLM SYNDROME GUY WHO LOV MY PTOR.”BECK, MEANWHILE, WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR MENT. “WE’LL LEAVE THIS TO RIAZ,” SAID HIS NEW YORK PUBLICIST, DAVIDSON GOLD.PATEL, WHO GREW UP THE SUBURBS OF BALTIMORE WH HIS SURGEON-FATHER AND REAL TATE ENTREPRENR-MOTHER, DOUBLE-MAJORED AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA PSYCHOLOGY AND LERATURE AND GRADUATED WH AMIC HONORS WHILE PURSUG A MANDG PRE-MED PROGRAM.PATEL IS NOT UNAWARE OF THE DOUBTS THAT SOME HAVE RAISED ABOUT BECK’S LATT ATTEMPT TO REBRAND HIMSELF AS A REASONABLE MAN.INED, LAST SEPTEMBER, A CERTA GREE OF SKEPTICISM GREETED BECK—WHO HAD PREVLY ACCED “RACIST” PRINT OBAMA OF HARBORG “A EP-SEATED HATRED OF WHE PEOPLE,” AND THE FIRST LADY OF BEG A “MONSTER”—WHEN HE LNCHED A SERI OF REMORSEFUL MASTREAM MEDIA APPEARANC WH AN OP-ED THE NEW YORK TIM URGG EMPATHY FOR THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT.A LONGTIME BECK ASSOCIATE OPED AT THE TIME THAT BECK’S APPARENT TRANSFORMATN “IS ABOUT A PATTERN OF REVENTN AND CYCLE OF APOLOGY AND OFFENSE…I THK HE’S UP TO HIS SIXTH APOLOGY CYCLE NOW, WHERE HE’S ONTO THE MASTREAM MEDIA WHEN THEY’RE SUPPORTG HIM, AND THEN HE REALIZ HE’S GOG TO GET BURNED, AND HE NS AWAY OM THEM. HE’S BASILLY FLAILG.”IN AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST, PATEL WROTE: “GOSH I HOPE DON’T SEEM LIKE I’M JT WILLG TO OVERLOOK ANYTHG DAMAGG FOR A SHOW. I STILL NEED TO LOOK AT MYSELF THE MIRROR EVERY EVENG—AND THAT’S THE BIGGT THG FOR ME.”AS A RULT OF HIS IENDSHIP WH BECK, HOWEVER, “I HAVE UGHT MYSELF RECENTLY A BUNCH OF TIM A DOUBLE-STANDARD WHEN TO THE ‘RIGHT’ VS. THE ‘LEFT,’ ” PATEL WROTE. “I’M SAYG A LOT OF THIS BEE I WAS FORCED TO STEP PLETELY OUT OF MY FORT ZONE—AND BY DOG SO, REALIZED THE OTHER SI ISN’T ALWAYS WHO I THOUGHT THEY WERE…WHO IS TO SAY WHAT IS ‘RIGHT’ OR THE ‘RIGHT TERPRETATN.’ I JT WANT TO SHARE WH YOU MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE—WHAT I HAVE SEEN AND FELT WH MY OWN EY. THAT’S ALL.”IN AN TERVIEW, PATEL SAID: “I BELIEVE HE’S SCERE…WE N MOVE FORWARD BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY WHEN I N TELL HIM, ‘THIS IS WHAT I SEE. THIS IS WHAT I FEAR. THIS IS MY NCERN.’ AND IF HE N ADDRS ALL THAT WHILE MATAG EYE NTACT, WE’RE DONE.”THIS, SPE BECK’S FLAMMATORY ATTACKS ON “PROGRSIV” AND MLIMS, TWO GROUPS TO WHICH PATEL BELONGS AND HISTORILLY TWO OF BECK’S MOST REVILED SPEGOATS.BECK HAS PARED THE FORMER GROUP TO NAZIS BENT ON BRGG TOTALARIANISM TO THE LAND OF THE FREE; AND HE HAS SUGGTED THAT “CLOSER TO TEN PERCENT” OF MLIMS ARE “TERRORISTS” WHILE THORG A 2015 BOOK, IT IS ABOUT ISLAM, THAT SALON LLED “300 PAG OF ISLAMOPHOBIA DRSED UP AS SCHOLARSHIP.”MORE RECENTLY, ON THURSDAY, DURG HIS SYNDITED MORNG RAD SHOW SIMULST ON BECK’S THE BLAZE WEB SE, HE PARED THE ABORTN SERVIC PROVID BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD—UNFAVORABLY—TO THE DIABOLIL EXPERIMENTS THAT JOSEF MENGELE PERFORMED ON JEWISH VICTIMS AT ACHWZ.“MENGELE HAD GOOD TENTNS,” BECK CLARED, NFLATG THE NOTOR SS DOCTOR WH PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND PHILALPHIA ABORTNIST KERM GOSNELL, WHO WAS NVICTED OF FIRST-GREE MURR 2013 THE ATHS OF THREE FANTS BORN ALIVE DURG THE PROCR. “MENGELE WOULD S THERE AND TELL YOU ‘WELL, I’M TRYG TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN RACE.’”PATEL, WHO ATTRIBUT SOME OF BECK’S WACKIER AND MORE OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS TO THE PFALLS OF FILLG THREE HOURS OF UNSCRIPTED RAD EVERY MORNG, SAID HE NTU TO DISAGREE WH MUCH OF BECK’S RABBLE-ROG RHETORIC, YET SE HIS SURPRISG NEW IEND AS WILLG TO LISTEN AND MAYBE EVEN REFORMABLE.FOR STANCE, BECK HAS BEEN A FENR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AT LEAST SCE DECEMBER 2012, WHEN HE ARGUED ON HIS SHOW, “THE QUTN IS NOT WHETHER GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE MARRIED OR NOT, THE QUTN IS WHY IS THE ERNMENT VOLVED OUR MARRIAGE”; BECK ADD THAT THE LEGAL SOLEMNIZATN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T “PICK MY POCKET OR BREAK MY LEG.”BECK, A MORMON NVERT, WAS NOT ALWAYS SO ENLIGHTENED. IN ONE OF HIS PREV RNATNS, HE SPECULATED THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD STROY SENTIAL SOCIAL AND RELIG STUTNS AND EVABLY LEAD TO LEGALIZED POLYGAMY.HE ALSO ZIED UP TO A ROGU’ GALLERY OF POLICIANS AND PASTORS WHO PROMOTED ANTI-LBGTQ POLICI AND RHETORIC, CLUDG JAM DOBSON, JOHN HAGEE, MICHELE BACHMANN AND SARAH PAL.BUT BY DECEMBER 2013, HE WAS PUBLICLY SUPPORTG MPAIGN GROUP GLAAD THEIR OPPOSN TO RSIA’S OFFICIAL ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY. “I WILL STAND WH GLAAD AGAST RSIA’S HETERO-FASCISM,” HE CLARED ON CNN.“I AM NOW REALIZG THAT I WAS SENTIALLY UNRMED WHEN I SAY I HATED GLENN BECK FOR WHO HE WAS,” PATEL SAID. “IF I WAS REALLY BEG HONT, I DON’T THK I EVER WATCHED ONE OF HIS SHOWS. A LOT OF WAS G OM THIS PERCEPTN OF HIM AND MY SENSE OF WHAT ARE THE THGS HE DON’T LIKE ABOUT ME. I WAS PRETTY OBNOX MY OPNS. THAT BEG SAID, THERE ARE THGS HE SHOULD BE HELD ACUNTABLE FOR, AND I DO BELIEVE HAS DONE WRONG.”PATEL SAID HE READ IT IS ABOUT ISLAM AT BECK’S URGG, AND ME AWAY BOTH IMPRSED AND TROUBLED.“HIS OPNS ABOUT ISLAM ARE VERY RMED, BUT I THK THE AMG IS A B OFF, AND WHEN WE’RE LOOKG AT , HE’S LEARNG MY POT OF VIEW,” PATEL SAID. “THE TONE, I FELT, WAS A LTLE ALARMIST, NOT AN ATTACK. BUT GLENN LLS HIMSELF A ‘TASTROPHIST.’”IRONILLY, WAS ISLAM AND TASTROPHE THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. PATEL, WEARG TRADNAL PAKISTANI GARB, WAS ATTENDG A WEDDG ORLANDO, FLA., THE WEEKEND LAST JUNE WHEN ISIS-SPIRED TERRORIST OMAR MATEEN, THE AMERIN-BORN SON OF MLIM AFGHAN PARENTS, SHOT MORE THAN 100 REVELERS AND KILLED 49 AT THE GAY ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB PULSE.WORRYG THAT THE MASSACRE WOULD PROVOKE A NATNWI WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, PATEL—A SECULAR MLIM—REACHED OUT TO VAR TELEVISN NEWS OUTLETS TO EXPLA THAT MATEEN’S ATROCY HAD NOTHG TO DO WH THE TES OF ISLAM, AND TO REPRENT MLIMS AND THEIR FAH A POSIVE, NON-THREATENG LIGHT.HE MANAGED TO GET BOOKGS ON CNN—APPEARG ON DON LEMON AND BROOKE BALDW’S SHOWS—AND ON BLOND BOMB-THROWER TOMI LAHREN’S RANTFT ON THE BLAZE.ON LAHREN'S SHOW, PATEL CHALLENGED THE BOMBASTIC HOST: “I ULD GO OUT AND DO A HORRIBLE ACT OF VLENCE THE NAME OF TOMI, AND THEN SUDNLY YOU ARE LEFT TO FEND . IF PEOPLE GO AND DO THE KDS OF HORRIBLE, HEO THGS THE NAME OF MY RELIGN—AND I HAVE LERALLY NOTHG TO DO WH —IS MY RPONSIBILY NOW?”PATEL WAS SO IMPASSNED, ELOQUENT AND POSED THAT A MEMBER OF LAHREN’S PRODUCTN STAFF REMEND HIM AS THE PERFECT GUT FOR BECK’S EVENG TELEVISN PROGRAM. THE FOLLOWG MONTH, HE WAS BECK’S SOLE GUT FOR AN HOUR.“WOULDN’T BE CRAZY IF THE SOLUTN TO ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WAS AS SIMPLE AS HUMBLG YOURSELF AND SAYG, ‘OK, LET ME LISTEN’?” BECK TOLD PATEL AS THE TWO SAT OPPOSE EACH OTHER OVERSTUFFED CHAIRS AND TENTATIVELY FELT EACH OTHER OUT.“I THK YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT,” PATEL SAID. “I BELIEVE YOU N CREATE A BETTER AMERI WH FOUR CHAIRS. LERALLY. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED. THREE PEOPLE HAVG A NVERSATN. NOT TWO. AT SOME POT YOU’LL DISAGREE AND SOMEONE WILL WALK AWAY. YOU NEED THREE FOR A DYNAMIC. AND A FOURTH PERSON HAS TO LISTEN.”TH, WH PATEL SHREWDLY ENGAGG BECK CIDLY BECK-LIKE LANGUAGE, WAS THE BEGNG, APPARENTLY, OF A BETIFUL IENDSHIP.BUT WHAT IF BECK BACKSLIS AND REVERTS TO FORM HIS LONGTIME ROLE AS A DIVISIVE MAGOGUE?“SOME DAYS HE’S HAPPY, SOME DAYS HE’S SAD, SOME DAYS HE’S ANGRY, AND PEOPLE ARE TUNG TO WATCH THAT PERSON,” PATEL SAID. “MAYBE HE HAD A ROUGH NIGHT AND HE’S MORE EDGY. SOME DAYS HE IS MORE ANGRY. I DON’T THK HE’LL EVER WALK THE WALK EVERY DAY. BUT TO ME, THAT’S WHERE HIS HEART IS.” LLOYD GROVE
• GLENN'S TAKE ON GAY MARRIAGE

MEET RIAZ PATEL, THE GAY LIBERAL MLIM WHO IS GLENN BECK’S NEW BFFALLIGLENN BECK, WHO BELIEVED LGBT MARRIAGE EQUALY WOULD LEAD TO SOCIAL STCTN, HAS CHANGED HIS MD—AND HIS NEW GAY BFF SISTS THE TRANSFORMATN IS SCERE.LLOYD GROVEUPDATED MAY 05, 2017 2:32PM EDT / PUBLISHED APR. 02, 2017 12:15AM EDT PHOTO ILLTRATN BY SARAH ROGERS/THE DAILY BEASTTHE UNLIKELY METAMORPHOSIS OF GLENN BECK OM NUTTY RIGHT-WG NSPIRACY-MONGER TO RATNAL-SEEMG FENR OF AMERIN MOCRACY—AND OPPONENT OF ALL THGS DONALD TMP—HAS CROSSED OVER TO A NEW ONTIER.THE 53-YEAR-OLD MULTIMEDIA FIREBRAND AND SELF-SCRIBED “TASTROPHIST”—WHO SHOCKED AND POSSIBLY ALIENATED HIS DWDLG FAN-BASE THREE MONTHS AGO BY FORMG AN ANTI-TMP ALLIANCE WH LEFTY SATIRIST SAMANTHA BEE—IS THE DAYS SPENDG QUALY TIME WH A PAKISTANI-BORN, POLILLY LIBERAL, GAY, MLIM TELEVISN PRODUCER.RIAZ PATEL—WHO ALSO HAPPENS TO BE THE PARENT, WH HIS BRISH-BORN HBAND, OF AN 11-MONTH OLD GIRL NCEIVED BY ARTIFICIAL SEMATN AND RRIED TO TERM BY A MEXIN SURROGATE—IS THE EMMY-NOMATED PRCIPAL OF AXIAL ENTERTAMENT, A SUCCSFUL LOS ANGEL-BASED PRODUCTN PANY RPONSIBLE FOR SUCH REALY TV SHOWS AS LIFETIME’S HOW TO LOOK GOOD NAKED AND VH1’S I HEART NICK CARTER, AMONG MORE THAN A DOZEN OTHER PROJECTS.PATEL ED TO FEAR AND LOATHE BECK’S DIVISIVE HYPE. “I DID E THE EXPRSN ‘WHE DEVIL’,” PATEL TOLD THE DAILY BEAST, “BEE I HONTLY THOUGHT HE WAS HATEFUL, ANGRY NEWS PERSONIFIED. I THOUGHT HE IS ABSOLUTELY PARTLY RPONSIBLE FOR THIS CULTURE OF MADNS AND CHAOS AND RAGE ALL THE TIME THAT WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.”BUT THE 43-YEAR-OLD PATEL, A U.S. CIZEN WHO ARRIVED HERE OM KARACHI AS A BABY WH HIS PARENTS AND TWO OLR SISTERS PG POLIL PANMONIUM PAKISTAN, HAD A CHANGE OF HEART AFTER MEETG BECK LAST JULY AND ENGAGG “HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF NVERSATN” WH HIM SCE THEN.THE BIASTAL PATEL—WHO IS NEGOTIATG TO ACCEPT AN EDOR-AT-LARGE ROLE BRASTORMG IAS FOR SHOWS WHILE MAKG FILMS FOR THE BLAZE’S SISTER WEB SE, —VISS BECK’S SUBURBAN DALLAS STUDS NEARLY EVERY WEEK TO DISCS POSSIBLE PROJECTS, HAS MA 15 APPEARANC ON BECK’S RAD AND TELEVISN SHOWS, AND FEBARY TREKKED TO THAILAND WH HIM TO FILM A PIECE ABOUT AN ANIZATN THAT FIGHTS CHILD SEX-SLAVERY.“THE SIMPATI IS SHOCKG,” PATEL SAID ABOUT HIS TERACTNS WH BECK. BUT PATEL, WHO HAS LOST LIBERAL IENDS OVER HIS NEW LLABORATN, ADD: “I’M A BRIDGE, NOT A FECTOR…I’M NOBODY’S PAWN… I’M NOT A STOCKHOLM SYNDROME GUY WHO LOV MY PTOR.”BECK, MEANWHILE, WAS NOT AVAILABLE FOR MENT. “WE’LL LEAVE THIS TO RIAZ,” SAID HIS NEW YORK PUBLICIST, DAVIDSON GOLD.PATEL, WHO GREW UP THE SUBURBS OF BALTIMORE WH HIS SURGEON-FATHER AND REAL TATE ENTREPRENR-MOTHER, DOUBLE-MAJORED AT THE UNIVERSY OF PENNSYLVANIA PSYCHOLOGY AND LERATURE AND GRADUATED WH AMIC HONORS WHILE PURSUG A MANDG PRE-MED PROGRAM.PATEL IS NOT UNAWARE OF THE DOUBTS THAT SOME HAVE RAISED ABOUT BECK’S LATT ATTEMPT TO REBRAND HIMSELF AS A REASONABLE MAN.INED, LAST SEPTEMBER, A CERTA GREE OF SKEPTICISM GREETED BECK—WHO HAD PREVLY ACCED “RACIST” PRINT OBAMA OF HARBORG “A EP-SEATED HATRED OF WHE PEOPLE,” AND THE FIRST LADY OF BEG A “MONSTER”—WHEN HE LNCHED A SERI OF REMORSEFUL MASTREAM MEDIA APPEARANC WH AN OP-ED THE NEW YORK TIM URGG EMPATHY FOR THE BLACK LIV MATTER MOVEMENT.A LONGTIME BECK ASSOCIATE OPED AT THE TIME THAT BECK’S APPARENT TRANSFORMATN “IS ABOUT A PATTERN OF REVENTN AND CYCLE OF APOLOGY AND OFFENSE…I THK HE’S UP TO HIS SIXTH APOLOGY CYCLE NOW, WHERE HE’S ONTO THE MASTREAM MEDIA WHEN THEY’RE SUPPORTG HIM, AND THEN HE REALIZ HE’S GOG TO GET BURNED, AND HE NS AWAY OM THEM. HE’S BASILLY FLAILG.”IN AN EMAIL TO THE DAILY BEAST, PATEL WROTE: “GOSH I HOPE DON’T SEEM LIKE I’M JT WILLG TO OVERLOOK ANYTHG DAMAGG FOR A SHOW. I STILL NEED TO LOOK AT MYSELF THE MIRROR EVERY EVENG—AND THAT’S THE BIGGT THG FOR ME.”AS A RULT OF HIS IENDSHIP WH BECK, HOWEVER, “I HAVE UGHT MYSELF RECENTLY A BUNCH OF TIM A DOUBLE-STANDARD WHEN TO THE ‘RIGHT’ VS. THE ‘LEFT,’ ” PATEL WROTE. “I’M SAYG A LOT OF THIS BEE I WAS FORCED TO STEP PLETELY OUT OF MY FORT ZONE—AND BY DOG SO, REALIZED THE OTHER SI ISN’T ALWAYS WHO I THOUGHT THEY WERE…WHO IS TO SAY WHAT IS ‘RIGHT’ OR THE ‘RIGHT TERPRETATN.’ I JT WANT TO SHARE WH YOU MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE—WHAT I HAVE SEEN AND FELT WH MY OWN EY. THAT’S ALL.”IN AN TERVIEW, PATEL SAID: “I BELIEVE HE’S SCERE…WE N MOVE FORWARD BOTH PERSONALLY AND PROFSNALLY WHEN I N TELL HIM, ‘THIS IS WHAT I SEE. THIS IS WHAT I FEAR. THIS IS MY NCERN.’ AND IF HE N ADDRS ALL THAT WHILE MATAG EYE NTACT, WE’RE DONE.”THIS, SPE BECK’S FLAMMATORY ATTACKS ON “PROGRSIV” AND MLIMS, TWO GROUPS TO WHICH PATEL BELONGS AND HISTORILLY TWO OF BECK’S MOST REVILED SPEGOATS.BECK HAS PARED THE FORMER GROUP TO NAZIS BENT ON BRGG TOTALARIANISM TO THE LAND OF THE FREE; AND HE HAS SUGGTED THAT “CLOSER TO TEN PERCENT” OF MLIMS ARE “TERRORISTS” WHILE THORG A 2015 BOOK, IT IS ABOUT ISLAM, THAT SALON LLED “300 PAG OF ISLAMOPHOBIA DRSED UP AS SCHOLARSHIP.”MORE RECENTLY, ON THURSDAY, DURG HIS SYNDITED MORNG RAD SHOW SIMULST ON BECK’S THE BLAZE WEB SE, HE PARED THE ABORTN SERVIC PROVID BY PLANNED PARENTHOOD—UNFAVORABLY—TO THE DIABOLIL EXPERIMENTS THAT JOSEF MENGELE PERFORMED ON JEWISH VICTIMS AT ACHWZ.“MENGELE HAD GOOD TENTNS,” BECK CLARED, NFLATG THE NOTOR SS DOCTOR WH PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND PHILALPHIA ABORTNIST KERM GOSNELL, WHO WAS NVICTED OF FIRST-GREE MURR 2013 THE ATHS OF THREE FANTS BORN ALIVE DURG THE PROCR. “MENGELE WOULD S THERE AND TELL YOU ‘WELL, I’M TRYG TO IMPROVE THE HUMAN RACE.’”PATEL, WHO ATTRIBUT SOME OF BECK’S WACKIER AND MORE OFFENSIVE STATEMENTS TO THE PFALLS OF FILLG THREE HOURS OF UNSCRIPTED RAD EVERY MORNG, SAID HE NTU TO DISAGREE WH MUCH OF BECK’S RABBLE-ROG RHETORIC, YET SE HIS SURPRISG NEW IEND AS WILLG TO LISTEN AND MAYBE EVEN REFORMABLE.FOR STANCE, BECK HAS BEEN A FENR OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AT LEAST SCE DECEMBER 2012, WHEN HE ARGUED ON HIS SHOW, “THE QUTN IS NOT WHETHER GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE MARRIED OR NOT, THE QUTN IS WHY IS THE ERNMENT VOLVED OUR MARRIAGE”; BECK ADD THAT THE LEGAL SOLEMNIZATN OF GAY RELATNSHIPS DON’T “PICK MY POCKET OR BREAK MY LEG.”BECK, A MORMON NVERT, WAS NOT ALWAYS SO ENLIGHTENED. IN ONE OF HIS PREV RNATNS, HE SPECULATED THAT SAME-SEX MARRIAGE WOULD STROY SENTIAL SOCIAL AND RELIG STUTNS AND EVABLY LEAD TO LEGALIZED POLYGAMY.HE ALSO ZIED UP TO A ROGU’ GALLERY OF POLICIANS AND PASTORS WHO PROMOTED ANTI-LBGTQ POLICI AND RHETORIC, CLUDG JAM DOBSON, JOHN HAGEE, MICHELE BACHMANN AND SARAH PAL.BUT BY DECEMBER 2013, HE WAS PUBLICLY SUPPORTG MPAIGN GROUP GLAAD THEIR OPPOSN TO RSIA’S OFFICIAL ANTI-GAY BIGOTRY. “I WILL STAND WH GLAAD AGAST RSIA’S HETERO-FASCISM,” HE CLARED ON CNN.“I AM NOW REALIZG THAT I WAS SENTIALLY UNRMED WHEN I SAY I HATED GLENN BECK FOR WHO HE WAS,” PATEL SAID. “IF I WAS REALLY BEG HONT, I DON’T THK I EVER WATCHED ONE OF HIS SHOWS. A LOT OF WAS G OM THIS PERCEPTN OF HIM AND MY SENSE OF WHAT ARE THE THGS HE DON’T LIKE ABOUT ME. I WAS PRETTY OBNOX MY OPNS. THAT BEG SAID, THERE ARE THGS HE SHOULD BE HELD ACUNTABLE FOR, AND I DO BELIEVE HAS DONE WRONG.”PATEL SAID HE READ IT IS ABOUT ISLAM AT BECK’S URGG, AND ME AWAY BOTH IMPRSED AND TROUBLED.“HIS OPNS ABOUT ISLAM ARE VERY RMED, BUT I THK THE AMG IS A B OFF, AND WHEN WE’RE LOOKG AT , HE’S LEARNG MY POT OF VIEW,” PATEL SAID. “THE TONE, I FELT, WAS A LTLE ALARMIST, NOT AN ATTACK. BUT GLENN LLS HIMSELF A ‘TASTROPHIST.’”IRONILLY, WAS ISLAM AND TASTROPHE THAT BROUGHT THEM TOGETHER. PATEL, WEARG TRADNAL PAKISTANI GARB, WAS ATTENDG A WEDDG ORLANDO, FLA., THE WEEKEND LAST JUNE WHEN ISIS-SPIRED TERRORIST OMAR MATEEN, THE AMERIN-BORN SON OF MLIM AFGHAN PARENTS, SHOT MORE THAN 100 REVELERS AND KILLED 49 AT THE GAY ORLANDO NIGHTCLUB PULSE.WORRYG THAT THE MASSACRE WOULD PROVOKE A NATNWI WAVE OF ISLAMOPHOBIA, PATEL—A SECULAR MLIM—REACHED OUT TO VAR TELEVISN NEWS OUTLETS TO EXPLA THAT MATEEN’S ATROCY HAD NOTHG TO DO WH THE TES OF ISLAM, AND TO REPRENT MLIMS AND THEIR FAH A POSIVE, NON-THREATENG LIGHT.HE MANAGED TO GET BOOKGS ON CNN—APPEARG ON DON LEMON AND BROOKE BALDW’S SHOWS—AND ON BLOND BOMB-THROWER TOMI LAHREN’S RANTFT ON THE BLAZE.ON LAHREN'S SHOW, PATEL CHALLENGED THE BOMBASTIC HOST: “I ULD GO OUT AND DO A HORRIBLE ACT OF VLENCE THE NAME OF TOMI, AND THEN SUDNLY YOU ARE LEFT TO FEND . IF PEOPLE GO AND DO THE KDS OF HORRIBLE, HEO THGS THE NAME OF MY RELIGN—AND I HAVE LERALLY NOTHG TO DO WH —IS MY RPONSIBILY NOW?”PATEL WAS SO IMPASSNED, ELOQUENT AND POSED THAT A MEMBER OF LAHREN’S PRODUCTN STAFF REMEND HIM AS THE PERFECT GUT FOR BECK’S EVENG TELEVISN PROGRAM. THE FOLLOWG MONTH, HE WAS BECK’S SOLE GUT FOR AN HOUR.“WOULDN’T BE CRAZY IF THE SOLUTN TO ALL OF THE PROBLEMS WAS AS SIMPLE AS HUMBLG YOURSELF AND SAYG, ‘OK, LET ME LISTEN’?” BECK TOLD PATEL AS THE TWO SAT OPPOSE EACH OTHER OVERSTUFFED CHAIRS AND TENTATIVELY FELT EACH OTHER OUT.“I THK YOU’RE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT,” PATEL SAID. “I BELIEVE YOU N CREATE A BETTER AMERI WH FOUR CHAIRS. LERALLY. THAT’S ALL YOU NEED. THREE PEOPLE HAVG A NVERSATN. NOT TWO. AT SOME POT YOU’LL DISAGREE AND SOMEONE WILL WALK AWAY. YOU NEED THREE FOR A DYNAMIC. AND A FOURTH PERSON HAS TO LISTEN.”TH, WH PATEL SHREWDLY ENGAGG BECK CIDLY BECK-LIKE LANGUAGE, WAS THE BEGNG, APPARENTLY, OF A BETIFUL IENDSHIP.BUT WHAT IF BECK BACKSLIS AND REVERTS TO FORM HIS LONGTIME ROLE AS A DIVISIVE MAGOGUE?“SOME DAYS HE’S HAPPY, SOME DAYS HE’S SAD, SOME DAYS HE’S ANGRY, AND PEOPLE ARE TUNG TO WATCH THAT PERSON,” PATEL SAID. “MAYBE HE HAD A ROUGH NIGHT AND HE’S MORE EDGY. SOME DAYS HE IS MORE ANGRY. I DON’T THK HE’LL EVER WALK THE WALK EVERY DAY. BUT TO ME, THAT’S WHERE HIS HEART IS.” LLOYD GROVE

The unlikely metamorphosis of Glenn Beck om nutty right-wg nspiracy-monger to ratnal-seemg fenr of Amerin mocracy—and opponent of all thgs Donald Tmp—has crossed over to a new 53-year-old multimedia firebrand and self-scribed “tastrophist”—who shocked and possibly alienated his dwdlg fan-base three months ago by formg an anti-Tmp alliance wh lefty satirist Samantha Bee—is the days spendg qualy time wh a Pakistani-born, polilly liberal, gay, Mlim televisn Patel—who also happens to be the parent, wh his Brish-born hband, of an 11-month old girl nceived by artificial sematn and rried to term by a Mexin surrogate—is the Emmy-nomated prcipal of Axial Entertament, a succsful Los Angel-based productn pany rponsible for such realy TV shows as Lifetime’s How to Look Good Naked and VH1’s I Heart Nick Carter, among more than a dozen other ed to fear and loathe Beck’s divisive hype. ’”Patel, who attribut some of Beck’s wackier and more offensive statements to the pfalls of fillg three hours of unscripted rad every morng, said he ntu to disagree wh much of Beck’s rabble-rog rhetoric, yet se his surprisg new iend as willg to listen and maybe even stance, Beck has been a fenr of same-sex marriage at least sce December 2012, when he argued on his show, “The qutn is not whether gay people should be married or not, the qutn is why is the ernment volved our marriage”; Beck add that the legal solemnizatn of gay relatnships don’t “pick my pocket or break my leg. In one of his prev rnatns, he speculated that same-sex marriage would stroy sential social and relig stutns and evably lead to legalized also zied up to a rogu’ gallery of policians and pastors who promoted anti-LBGTQ polici and rhetoric, cludg Jam Dobson, John Hagee, Michele Bachmann and Sarah by December 2013, he was publicly supportg mpaign group GLAAD their opposn to Rsia’s official anti-gay bigotry.

Patel, wearg tradnal Pakistani garb, was attendg a weddg Orlando, Fla., the weekend last June when ISIS-spired terrorist Omar Mateen, the Amerin-born son of Mlim Afghan parents, shot more than 100 revelers and killed 49 at the gay Orlando nightclub Pulse.

GLENN'S TAKE ON GAY MARRIAGE

Is Glenn Beck Gay? Is Glenn Lee Beck Gay? However, his marriage dit that he is not gay.