BURBANK, Calif., Dec. 9 (UPI) — U.S. radio and television personality Glenn Beck has been booked to appear on “The Jay Leno Show,” NBC said Wednesday.

It’s one thing, perhaps, to challenge the White House — as FOX News Channel’s Glenn Beck has been doing — for inviting an “ex-con” to a State Dinner: Robert Creamer, the former Illinois Public Action Fund director who did some prison time for check kiting and tax problems.

WASHINGTON — After conservative TV host Glenn Beck highlighted Evanston political consultant Robert Creamer’s criminal record and his visit to the White House, Creamer fired back tosday, calling Beck part of a “new, McCarthyist movement of the far right.” Creamer, 62, is the husband of Rep. Jan Schakowsky, D-Ill. In 2006, he was sentenced to five months in federal prison for bank fraud and a …

WASHINGTON — After conservative TV host Glenn Beck highlighted political consultant Robert Creamer’s criminal record and his visit to the White House, Creamer fired back Wednesday, calling Beck part of a “new, McCarthyist movement of the far right.”