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By: Steve - July 31, 2010 - 8:30am Glenn Beck has denied being responsible for a planned attack on the leaders of the Tides Foundation, a nonprofit organization Beck has repeatedly demonized. Beck said that he stands by each one of his attacks on the group and lauded his coverage of the organization. Here are the facts: On July 18, Byron Williams, a convicted felon, engaged in a shootout with police after being pulled over on I-580 in California. Williams was heavily armed, wearing body armor and wielding a high-powered hunting rifle, a pistol and a shotgun. After being taken into custody, Williams told investigators that "his intention was to start a revolution by traveling to San Francisco and killing people of importance at the Tides Foundation." Following her son's arrest, his mother told the San Francisco Chronicle that her son was angry about "what's happening to our country." The Chronicle reported that Williams "watched the news on television" and that his mother told them he was upset." Now here is the kicker, as Media Matters has detailed, a LexisNexis search reveals that the Tides Foundation has been mentioned 29 times on the Glenn Beck show in the time between the show's premiere and Williams attempted rampage. Okay now get this, the Tides Foundation has not been mentioned at all on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or PBS in the same timeframe. In his coverage of Tides, Beck has repeatedly implicated the organization in his conspiracy theories, linking it to George Soros, the Apollo Alliance, the Joyce Foundation, and the Weather Underground. Beck has referred to the group as a "shady organization" [May 11] and claimed it is "a major source of revenue for some of the most extreme groups on the left" [May 21, 2009]. Beck frequently airs video produced by Tides, which he refers to as an "indoctrination video, shown in schools all across America to warp your children's brains and make sure they know how evil capitalism is" [June 21]. So the Glenn Beck show was the only News show on television to even mention their name. In fact, I am a 50 year old liberal, and I had never even heard of the Tides Foundation, until I read about Glenn Beck talking about them. That means this guy got mad at them from watching the Glenn Beck show, because he is the only guy on tv who has ever talked about them. But Beck denies it anyway, because he is a dishonest right-wing idiot. Now of course Glenn Beck has free speech, and he can say whatever he wants. But if your show is the only show that spewed out right-wing lies about the Tides Foundation, and then a guy who watched your show gets mad (based on your lies and spin) and tries to kill people at the Tides Foundation, you are partly to blame for that, and that is a simple fact. Someone should explain that to Beck, because it looks like he is too stupid to understand it. Beck Shows What A Massive Liar He Is Once Again By: Steve - July 28, 2010 - 9:30am For over a year Glenn Beck has been saying the progressive Tides Foundation is a central player in a larger, nefarious cabal of Marxist, socialist, Nazi Obama loving groups determined to destroy democracy in America. Okay first let me say this, I am a liberal, and have been all my life. I have been involved in politics for 25 years, if not more. I read all the big liberal websites, blogs, message boards, etc. Including the top 20 stories at Google News every day, Yahoo News, etc. I read 20 or more websites every day, and watch the O'Reilly Factor every night. And yet, before Glenn Beck started talking about the tides Foundation, I had never even heard of them. So if they are this big progressive group that is trying to take over the country, how come I have never even heard of them, it's ridiculous. The Tides Foundation is a little-known, left-leaning organization that simply a liberal group of about 125 people that just want to make America a better place to live, and Beck is just using them to try and scare people into thinking they are this big liberal group that is trying to destroy the county, it's insane, and nothing but right-wing nonsense. They are just 125 people who raise money for liberals, and liberal groups. Beck has mentioned the little-known progressive organization 30 times on his Fox program alone since it premiered in 2009, including several mentions in the last month. (And Beck is the only TV host who regularly references the foundation). So Beck has done all he can to scare the hell out of people about the Tides Foundation and turn the light of day onto an organization that actually works to provide non-profit giving. Everybody in America would have found out about the Tides Foundation last week if Byron Williams had his way. He's the right-wing, government-hating, gun-toting nut who strapped on his body armor, stocked a pickup truck with guns and ammo, and set off up the California coast to San Francisco in order to start killing employees at the previously obscure Tides Foundation in hopes of sparking a political revolution. Where do you think he got so much hatred for the Tides Foundation, when Beck was the only guy who ever talked about them. The planned domestic terrorist attack never came to pass because California Highway Patrol officers pulled Williams over for drunk driving on his way to his killing spree. Williams quickly opened fire, wounding two officers during a lengthy shootout. Luckily, Williams was not able to act out the ultimate goal of killing liberals, fueled by the Glenn Beck show he watched, where he heard about how "Congress was railroading through all these left-wing agenda items," as his mother put it. Williams was not able to open fire inside the offices of the Tides Foundation, an organization nobody knew about until Glenn Beck started targeting it. And btw, neither Beck, O'Reilly, or anyone at Fox News reported this story. So the next time they are accused of driving people to kill or hurt someone, they will say we never did anything and nobody has even done anything based on what we said. O'Reilly Admits Glenn Beck is Crazy By: Steve - July 28, 2010 - 8:30am While O'Reilly was on Leno Monday night spinning out a bunch of right-wing propaganda, he made one true statement, that Glenn Beck is insane. When Leno asked O'Reilly what he though of Glenn Beck, he said this: "Beck thinks that rats are invading the White House sent by Satan." Now you might think O'Reilly was just making a joke, but it's true. In one of the Beck shows recently on Fox, Glenn Beck talked about rats in the White House, yes real rats, and he claimed they were sent there by the Devil. So while O'Reilly was trying to be funny, he was also telling the truth about what Beck said. And that is not even the dumbest thing Beck has said, he also claimed Obama has joined up with communist marxists to destroy the American economy, and that it will lead to a new revolution. Beck claims Obama wants that, so he is crashing the economy on purpose, and that's no joke, he is serious. Beck Caught Lying About Sherrod Attacks By: Steve - July 27, 2010 - 8:30am On his radio show Monday, Glenn Beck continued to make the bogus claim that he supported Shirley Sherrod because he knew "something was wrong" with the video Andrew Breitbart posted of her at his BigGovernment.com website. But as MMFA has noted, Beck has been complicit in the right-wing smear campaign against Sherrod. By the time Beck talked about Breitbart's deceptively edited Sherrod video on his July 20th Fox News show, it had already been revealed that Sherrod's story was not evidence of her racism, as Breitbart had claimed, but was a tale of racial reconciliation. Beck said he wouldn't "demand a resignation" based solely on the clip of Sherrod. Now if that was the only thing he said about the video, Beck might have a case in claiming that he supported her, but they were not. On his radio show earlier that day, Beck played the edited clip of Sherrod's remarks and said it revealed "a USDA administration official discriminating against white farmers." After he played the clip, he suggested it indicated that America has been "transported in 1956 except it's the other way around." He added: "Does anybody else have a sense that there are some that just want revenge? Doesn't it feel that way?" Which was not supporting Sherrod with those remarks, he was attacking her, like many others in the right-wing media. Even after it was known that Sherrod was not a racist, Beck continued his attacks. On his July 21st radio show, Beck said Sherrod "obviously has some sort of Marxist or redistribution qualities to her." Then on Fox News, Beck said that Sherrod should have been made a czar because she fits in with the Maoists in the Obama administration. If that's supporting her, I'm Donald Trump. Since the full video of Sherrod's remarks became public, Beck has repeatedly claimed he didn't attack Sherrod and that he supported her. When it's not true, but that hasn't stopped other media figures from repeating his bogus claim. On the July 25 edition of CNN's Reliable Sources, The Washington Post's Howard Kurtz stated that Beck "ended up defending" Sherrod. And on the July 24th Fox News Watch, Jim Pinkerton even said that "Glenn Beck never even touched the story." So not only is Beck a liar, other media figures have also been caught lying about what he did. Congress To Investigate Beck Gold Advertiser By: Steve - July 23, 2010 - 9:30am Congress formally launched an investigation this week into Goldline Intenational, the Glenn Beck sponsor accused of marking up gold prices as part of its business practices. Congressman Anthony Weiner and House Commerce Subcommittee Chairman Bobby Rush formally announced a hearing of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection to investigate the business practices of Goldline International, a precious metals dealer that uses aggressive sales tactics and conservative spokespeople such as Glenn Beck to sell overpriced gold coins. Weiner and Rush sent a letter to Goldline requesting information in preparation for the hearing. The announcement follows a report on ABC News that detailed Goldline's business model. Additionally, the Santa Monica City Attorney's office launched a joint investigation with the Los Angeles County District Attorney's office into the possible criminal practices of Goldline International. Weiner's announcement cited several findings in his own review of the company, among them: The average Goldline markup was 90% above the melt value of the coin. The largest markup on any coin was 208% above the melt value. And the average Goldline markup is 47% higher than better-priced competitors, with some of the company's markups going as high as 102% compared to its competitors on one of the coins they offered. Beck Does Hour Long Show Full Of Lies By: Steve - July 23, 2010 - 9:00am Okay now this is even more insane than usual, Beck usually has a few lies in the show, and the usual conspiracy nonsense, but on the Thursday 7-22-10 Glenn Beck show on Fox he went totally nuts. Beck opened the show talking about the recently enacted financial regulatory reform law. He started by declaring that the law amounted to Big Brother, and he called it "the biggest re-routing of the nation's wealth in our history" and "an unprecedented assault on our economy, our ability to do business, and quite honestly the republic as we know it." Saying that the new law is too complicated. He asked: "What is wrong with us, America? Why are people not in the streets? Your republic is over." Then he said this: "the America we grew up in is over" and warned that "this Sherrod thing is all about a government plot to take over the media." Beck increased the crazy factor even more a few minutes later, saying that his Fox News program is "the show of record," and went off on the "dangerous and scary time" in which we live. Warning his viewers about the plan that "people in and around this White House" have, Beck even went biblical, he said this: "This isn't the new new deal, this is an old, old deal -- maybe since the beginning of man. I believe a third of the angels fell from heaven over this plan." He went on to quote Psalm 23:4, the one about walking through the "valley of the shadow of death." Beck blamed Freddie and Fannie for the financial crisis and stated that Barney Frank and Chris Dodd "were right in there -- real important -- right there with the collapse at every level in the first place." In fact, the myths that Dodd and Frank and Fannie and Freddie were responsible for the crisis have repeatedly been debunked. Beck went on to claim that the financial reform law would create a "massive government bureaucracy with the power to watch your bank account and track every credit card account." In fact, the Office of Financial Research would simply collect and analyze data about potential risks to the financial system, a plan that's been endorsed by numerous economics and finance experts, including six Nobel laureates in economics. Beck also claimed the law would "create a protected class of arbitrarily selected companies that are too big to fail" and that it would lead to the "institutionalizing of bailouts." In fact, the orderly liquidation fund," which would be paid for by financial institutions, would be used to dismantle failing firms -- not bail them out or give them some kind of protected status. In an analysis of Republican claims that the legislation establishes a $50 billion fund for future bailouts, PolitiFact called the claim false, saying this: "The legislative language is pretty clear that the money must be used to completely shut down failing firms. In the actual bill it specifically says the money can not be used for bailouts." Near the end of the show, Beck claimed to look at the facts about Andrew Breitbart's deceptively edited video of Shirley Sherrod. Beck claimed that "the first Fox report" about the video, in which Breitbart accused Sherrod of racism, came after Sherrod had already resigned, but in fact, FoxNews.com posted an article about the video, and the Fox Nation website linked to the video well before Sherrod's resignation. Beck even said that he had defended Sherrod, claiming that he took her side, but his defense included labeling her a Maoist on his Fox News show and stating on his radio show that she had discriminated against white farmers, and that her remarks on the video indicated that America has transported into 1956 except it's the other way around. And all of that is LIE, nothing Beck claimed is true, it's all made up right-wing propaganda that is meant to make people hate President Obama. Now think about this, Fox News allows this right-wing lunatic to have a show, while they claim to be a fair and balanced News Network. ABC News Investigating Beck Gold Advertiser By: Steve - July 20, 2010 - 8:00am ABC News chief investigative correspondent Brian Ross is setting his sights on Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck and Goldline, which is one of the sponsors of his crazy show. The report, which will kick off tonight on "Nightline," focuses on investigations into the company currently underway in California. The Ross report takes Beck to task directly, from the headline ("Exclusive: Glenn Beck's Golden Advertiser Under Investigation") to the substance of the article, examining the argument that Beck's endorsement of Goldline has been used to deceive potential customers into purchasing gold coins. The conservative talk and gold sales have brought scrutiny, from U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, a New York Democrat, called the relationship between Goldline and the conservative talk shows an "unholy alliance." There is an unholy alliance, I call it, between the commentators on Fox News and Fox News' advertising policies to sell ads to these guys.ABC News tried to get Beck and Fox News to respond, but they refused. While Beck and Fox News declined to be interviewed by ABC News, a spokesperson for Beck noted that Goldline has an A plus rating from the Better Business Bureau and claimed the consumer fraud investigation in California is more about politics than anything else. A Fox News spokeswoman said the network has not received a single complaint from a viewer about Goldline. Yeah of course not you moron, because they like Beck and they watch his show. Beck Caught Lying About MLK Jr. & Al Sharpton By: Steve - July 19, 2010 - 9:30am In another attempt to misrepresent the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Glenn Beck attacked Al Sharpton for "telling people that Martin Luther King's dream was really about redistribution of wealth." There is one small problem with that, MLK Jr. did not say that, and Al Sharpton simply stated the sentiments of Dr. King, who advocated for the "radical redistribution of economic power." On the July 16th Glenn Beck show, Beck claimed that "the movement of the 1960s has been perverted and distorted" by people "like the Reverend Al Sharpton telling people that Martin Luther King's dream was really about redistribution of wealth." Then Beck aired a video of Al Sharpton, who said that the "dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house." Beck responded by saying, "I don't remember that. Really?" Yes really he said that, you right-wing dumbass. And Dr. King was just saying he wants everyone to be equal, no matter what color their skin is, he was not saying there should be a redistribution of wealth. Author Nick Kotz writes that during a 1968 trip to Mississippi, Dr. King said this: KING: It didn't cost the nation one penny to integrate lunch counters" and "it didn't cost the nation one penny to guarantee the right to vote.So all Al Sharpton did was repeat what Dr. King said. In the speech, Sharpton stated that "the dream was not to put one black family in the White House. The dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house." Which is exactly what Dr. King said. Then Beck lied about what Sharpton said, and he lied about what Dr. King was saying. The dream of MLK Jr. was to have equality for everyone, he is even famous for his dream speech. All he wanted was for blacks, and people of color, to have the same rights as white people. Dr. King did not say he wanted to take money from the wealthy and redistribute it to the blacks. Not once did he ever say that, which is what Beck claimed, it's just a lie. Then the lying right-wing jackass has the nerve to claim he admires Dr. King, while smearing people like Al Sharpton and lying about what Dr. King said. Dinner With Glenn Beck: Only 75K By: Steve - July 17, 2010 - 8:30am Wow, only $75k to get a helicoptor ride and dinner with Beck. I am pretty much broke, but I would not eat dinner with Glenn Beck if he paid me $75,000 dollars. So here is what you get, and all you have to do is pony up the 75K and pass a very strict background check. For $75,000, Glenn Beck is auctioning off the chance to fly in a helicopter with him to his home in Connecticut, where Mrs. Beck will make everyone dinner. The adventure is being auctioned off as part of his "Restoring Honor" event in Washington, D.C., to commemorate America's leaders and noteworthy citizens. The money raised will go to the Special Operations Warrior Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides support and assistance to the families of wounded and fallen special operations personnel. The winner and a guest will go on a luxurious helicopter ride from New York City with Beck to his home. Along the way, Beck will point out historical buildings. A chauffeur waiting at the Westchester County Airport will drive the winners and Beck to his home, where his wife Tania will be waiting with a meal. After dinner, the winner will be flown back to the Big Apple. That's if the winner has passed an extensive background check. A member of Beck's security detail also will schedule a phone interview with the winner before the event. If dinner and a solo ride with Beck aren't your cup of tea, there are more conservative offerings. For $7,500, you can enjoy lunch with Karl Rove. And a tour of the U.S. Capitol with Republican Michele Bachmann goes for $15,000. Five Signs that Your Date is a Beck Fan By: Steve - July 16, 2010 - 9:30am The political climate is thick in today's culture. You could literally slice it through with a knife (and pretend that it's Beck while you're doing it). And regardless if you fancy yourself a social liberal, moderate democrat, compassionate conservative, independent or anything else you can box up with, the truth is that you fall on one of two sides: Glenn Beck's or normality. There's no in between. With a Democratic majority in Congress, the nation's first African-American President and Attorney General, and the lion's share of the media actually doing their jobs, it's an exciting time to be alive in this great nation of ours. Politics permeate every bit of our lives these days; we're inundated with political topics. And dating or even online dating is no exception. While you'll always disagree with someone about something, singles in the country certainly want to agree about some things - like the fact the extreme right is cuckoo for Coco Puffs. Men and women alike: if you're looking for a date, be weary of a few attributes from the starting gate. Because if you end up with someone sharing a Beck-like worldview, you might be locked in the bunker until gold sees an exponential drop in value. Here are five things to be on the lookout for to ensure you don’t end up Becked. 1: Context The Beckster is known for his loathing of all things context. So, if you happen to set a date for eight at a nice restaurant, only to have your mate lie to your face and say you said seven at a diner, then it’s a safe bet he or she is a Beck fan. 2: Bellowing If a potential partner begins to moan passionately about a topic—could be founding fathers, Van Jones, or even the type of car you drive—with welled-up eyes and a puffy red face, get out of there. Let your now ex go home and watch Glenn on TiVo. 3: Explanations We all appreciate our partners taking the time to spell things out for us. Explanations are a good thing. But if they grab a chalkboard, magnetic cutouts of people's faces and start working up a conspiracy about the grocery store, then you're in a lose-lose situation and euthanasia is a viable option. 4: Common Sense (?) Sure, we all dig smart people. Most of we sane folk are well educated. But then you have the know-it-alls (read: know-nothings) who insist you can't see the forest for the trees and that what you want isn't feasible because of some grossly out-of-context reason they blurt out without one fact to back it up. It's Beckitis. 5: Advocacy You may really like this person and think you have a good thing going. But if they support the Tea Party, oil companies, Rand Paul or any other Beck-championed issue, just run for the hills. The alternative is attending a Klan rally for your ten year anniversary. I know there's a little bit of something in us all thinking we can change a person. But don't fall for that nonsense. Once a person's been Beck-a-tized, they're no longer human. You'd be better off with a Hannity fan - and that's saying a lot. Beck Claims Your Tax Dollars Funding Child Murder By: Steve - July 16, 2010 - 8:30am If you want proof that Glenn Beck is a lying right-wing propagandist, here it is. Now he claims your tax dollars are funding the murder of children. What he is talking about is federal money that pays for abortions under the Hyde amendment. But he claims it's in the Obama health care bill, which is a lie. The Hyde amendment has been in place for years and years, well before Obama was even elected the President. So nothing in the Obama health care bill has changed anything, making Beck a proven liar. Not to mention, abortion is not the murder of a child, because the Supreme Court ruled a baby is not a person until it can live outside the womb on it's own. This has been the law of the land (Roe v Wade) for a long time, and Beck knows it. But he still lies and claims it's murdering a child. Here is the truth, if it's murder to get an abortion, how come no prosecutor in the country ever files murder charges against the mothers who get abortions. Because it's legal, and because it's not murder, it can not be murder to do something that's legal. Can someone please explain that to Glenn Beck, because he is clearly too stupid to understand it. Not to mention, there are children getting murdered with your tax dollars, in Iraq, and Afghanistan. And it was all done by George W. Bush and Dick Cheney. But Beck never talks about that, and he never claims they are murdering children with your tax dollars in Iraq or Afghanistan. So basically Beck is a liar, and if you believe one word he ever says you are a fool. Beck Makes Routine Obama Memo Seem Evil By: Steve - July 13, 2010 - 9:30am Now this is a good one, Beck is really digging deep to dream up this conspiracy garbage. On his radio show Monday, Beck explained to his audience that he had obtained (via an e-mail) information on an "executive order" issued by President Obama on July 7th, 2010. According to Beck, the order would do no less than reconstruct the economy of the Gulf Coast region. Even worse, Beck explained that by discussing "tribal councils" in the so-called executive order it meant that some of the so-called debt would be paid to Native American tribes. Wow, sounds pretty evil to me, NOT! Especially because none of it is true, Beck just made it all up. First of all, there has not been a presidential executive order issued since July 2 (and that was about securing biological agents and toxins). What Beck was talking about is a "Memorandum from the President" issued on June 30th and placed in the Federal Register on July 6th. Beck claimed the document showed some radical change to the Gulf Coast was going to happen, but the memo says no such thing, here is a quote: As I announced on June 15, 2010, and pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I assign to the Secretary of the Navy (Secretary) the responsibility to lead the effort to create a plan of Federal support for the long-term economic and environmental restoration of the Gulf Coast region, in coordination with States, local communities, tribes, people whose livelihoods depend on the Gulf, businesses, conservationists, scientists, and other entities and persons as he deems necessary.What it shows is that the President asked the Secretary of the Navy to work with local officials on a plan to restore the gulf region to its condition before the oil spill. That's it. Nothing more, nothing less. So regardless of where you are on the political spectrum, does anyone oppose the gulf region being restored to its pre-spill condition. I sure don't, and I don't know anyone who does. But what about Beck's theory about why a reference was made to tribal councils. Well, there are two federally recognized Native American tribes in the gulf region of Florida, the Micosukee and Seminole, as well as the Poarch Creek Indians in Alabama, the Chitimacha tribe in Louisiana, and the Kickapoo tribe in Texas. It doesn't take a grand conspiracy to assume that tribal communities in the Gulf Coast region would be affected by a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, and that an attempt to assess those communities needs should involve those communities. And finally, the actual memo even details its own limitations, and I quote: This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.So as usual, nothing Beck said about it is true, he just made it all up in his warped mind. Beck Calls His 8-28 Political Rally Grassroots By: Steve - July 13, 2010 - 8:30am Which is just ridiculous, and when he says crazy stuff like this it proves how dishonest he is. This is a rally that Beck created, a rally that beck worked on for a year, and a rally that he has aggressively promoted. That's not grassroots, and it's not even close. A grassroots rally would be started by someone who is unknown, and not part of an established political group, so nothing Beck does can be considered grassroots. Because he is a known member of the right-wing establishment, hell he works for Fox News, which is about as far from being grassroots as you can get. Here is what wikipedia calls a grassroots movement. A grassroots movement (often referenced in the context of a political movement) is one driven by the politics of a community. The term implies that the creation of the movement and the group supporting it are natural and spontaneous, highlighting the differences between this and a movement that is orchestrated by traditional power structures. Grassroots movements are often at the local level, as many volunteers in the community give their time to support the local party, which can lead to helping the national party. So when Glenn Beck spends a year putting a political rally together (with all right-wingers) it's not a grassroots anything, not now, not ever. And if Keith Olbermann did the same thing for the left, that would also not be a grassroots anything. That Crack Beck Research Staff Strikes Again By: Steve - July 8, 2010 - 9:30am And by crack research team, I mean they must all smoke crack they are so bad at doing their job. On his Fox News show Wednesday, Glenn Beck blamed what he called a suppression of history, because his research staff could not find video footage of Sen. Robert Byrd filibustering the Civil Rights Act. BECK: At the same time this was going on, Robert Byrd was filibustering the Civil Rights Act. Why is it this guy dies and we haven't seen any footage -- Tiffany, did we look for footage? We're still looking. We can't find footage of the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of this guy. How? How is that possible?Ok now here are some facts, and btw, I found this information in about 2 seconds by doing a Google search for "history of cameras on Senate floor." The reason the crack Beck staff can not find that 1964 footage is that it doesn't exist, because television cameras were not allowed into the Senate chamber until 1974. From senate.gov: Following succession to the presidency after the resignation of Richard Nixon in 1974, Gerald Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as vice president, as prescribed by the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Rockefeller took the oath of office in the Senate chamber on December 19, 1974.This is a great example of just how stupid Glenn Beck is, and how bad his so-called research team is. I am just one guy with a computer and an internet connection, and I found that information in 2 seconds. This Is Real: Beck University (I'm Serious) By: Steve - July 5, 2010 - 8:30am The other day I heard someone on a tv news show saying something about a Beck University, but I did not catch all of what they were saying as they went to commercial. I thought it was part of a joke, or someone making fun of Beck. And I was wrong, dead wrong, there is a real Beck University. Here is the logo from his website.  That is the actual logo of something called Beck University that was announced on Friday July 2nd, by the king of all right-wing propaganda, Glenn Beck. And here is what it says on his website: This July, while others are relaxing poolside, head back to the classroom - from the comfort of your own home. That may sound like an oxymoron but Glenn's new academic program is only available online.And btw, Beck University is strictly a for profit con game. Once you pay Glenn Beck Inc. to become an extreme insider ($9.95 a month) you can enroll in Beck University. How else do you think Beck plans to to move out of that lousy $4.25 million mansion he has for sale, so he can get something better. One thing that guarantees Beck University won't be showing up in the U.S. News and World Report education survey anytime soon is that 33% of the faculty is a fraud. That would be the Christian-oriented pseudohistorian and Texas schoolbook perverter David Barton, whose sins against knowledge have been chronicled in the past. Students at Beck University can also learn economics from a Beck's good friend, David Buckner, who has a mediocre pedigree as an adjunct associate professor, not of economics, but of psychology and education. This is so insane it's beyond laughable. It's an online University, run by Glenn Fricking Beck, and it only cost $9.95 a month. What a deal, yeah if your an insane right-wing fool that loves throwing your money away. Let's say you sign up, and you graduate from Beck University. Do you get a degree, in what, propaganda and lying? So if you get a degree, what good is it, except to maybe use to start a fire. Seriously, if you know anyone who signs up for Beck University, contact the local mental help facility in your area and get them some help. Beck Claims Bill Could Let Obama Shut Fox Down By: Steve - June 29, 2010 - 9:30am If you ever wanted proof that Glenn Beck is a lying, spinning, right-wing propagandist, here it is, enjoy. On his Monday June 28th radio show, Beck claimed that under current financial regulatory reform legislation, the government can grab companies it thinks are a danger to the nation, including Fox News. Except the bill does not say that, the bill would only allow the government to seize banks and nonbank financial institutions -- not any company, as co-host Pat Gray put it -- only if they "pose a significant risk to the financial stability of the United States." So Fox News would never be covered under the bill. BECK: What is in this new financial bill, they can grab companies. They think that it is a danger to the nation? They can just grab it and shut you down. That's a little frightening with that power.Wrong! Wrong! Wrong! Contrary to Beck's insane claims that media conglomerates Fox News and Clear Channel, or even "talk radio," would be targets of the financial reform bill, the conference report of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act says, companies affected by the legislation include banks and "nonbank financial" institutions, which are defined as companies "predominantly engaged in financial activities," meaning that 85 percent of their revenues or assets are derived from financial activities. So basically Beck is either lying about what can be done in the bill, or he is lying about it on purpose to scare you. I vote for both, he is lying about all of it, and none of what he said is true. Beck Plays The Communist Card Once Again By: Steve - June 27, 2010 - 8:30am The crazy Glenn Beck is now quoting the disgraced former Senator Joseph McCarthy, and the right-wing anti-civil rights nut Ezra Taft Benson to claim he supports civil rights. Talk about Bizarro world, this is it, and Glenn Beck is the king there. Beck regularly pays tribute to the civil rights movement, claiming that one of his goals is to reclaim the civil rights movement and that his followers are the inheritors and the protectors of the civil rights movement. but he's drawing heavy criticism from top civil rights leaders, who say that he is hijacking the imagery and symbolism of Dr. Martin Luther King's I Have a Dream speech by planning a rally at the Lincoln Memorial on the speech's anniversary. Beck even denies the claim and says he plans to salute Dr. King and the civil rights movement at the rally. But he seriously hurt his civil rights credibility on his Fox News show last week when he used a quote from a 1966 speech by former Eisenhower Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to justify his claims that communists are infesting America: BENSON: You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright; but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won't have to fight you; we'll so weaken your economy, until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands.Beck then went on to favorably cite disgraced Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his claim to have in his possession the names of 57 communists who are in the State Department. And Who is Ezra Taft Benson you ask, He's a former Mormon Church apostle who was closely identified with the John Birch Society and once told a reporter he could not see how a person could be both a liberal and a good Mormon. He also once called the civil rights movement "a communist program for revolution in America."[Associated Press, 5/31/1994] Benson also authored a pamphlet titled "Civil Rights -- Tool of Communist Deception" and he also referred to Martin Luther King Jr. as the "Communist leader of the so-called civil rights movement." This is the guy Beck quotes about civil rights, a man who thinks everyone is a communist, including Martin Luther King Jr. In an interview with the blog Scholars and Rogues, Zaitchik noted that "Benson actually wrote the forward to a Mormon-authored book of racial hate called Black Hammer: A Study of Black Power, Red Influence, and White Alternatives, which had on its cover the bloody, severed head of an African-American." Now Beck Wants To Get Rid Of Public Schools By: Steve - June 23, 2010 - 9:30am Why you ask, because he claims the kids are all being indoctrinated by the Government. And if you had any doubts that Beck is insane, he just removed those doubts with that statement. Beck Has Lowest Ratings Day Ever By: Steve - June 23, 2010 - 8:30am According to the latest Nielsen numbers, Glenn Beck just demolished its previous low ratings mark with the program that aired last Friday, June 18th. Not only was the June 18th show easily the lowest rated, non-vacation show for all of 2010, it was the lowest rated Monday thru Friday program that Beck has ever hosted at Fox News. That's how bad the Nielsen numbers were from Friday night. The show had an audience of 1.365 million viewers. Beck's previous low for 2010 was recently posted on June 11th. That show drew 1.71 million viewers. In other words, the June 18th rating wasn't even close to the previous low -- Friday night's airing set the new low. Remember that this is the same Glenn Beck that, back in January, was averaging more than 3 million viewers each night, and almost beating O'Reilly, which means that since January and last Friday, Beck has lost two million viewers a night. Which may be unprecedented in cable news TV ratings. And get this, Beck claims his ratings are up this year. He said that year to year his ratings are up 22 percent, which is just total spin. The facts show otherwise, since January of this year, Beck has lost 2 million viewers a night. You can spin that any way you want, but that is a fact. Beck Defends BP & Big Corporations By: Steve - June 22, 2010 - 9:30am The crazy fool even claimed that is what we fought the Nazis for, which is just pure right-wing insanity. We fought the Nazis for freedom, and because it was the right thing to do. It had nothing to do with fighting for the rights of Corporations. But of course, in Beckworld reality does not enter the picture. Glenn Beck has repeatedly rushed to the defense of corporations and corporate executives that have been widely criticized for recklessness, corporate greed, and alleged violations of federal laws. Beck has defended BP, AIG executives, and Toyota. On the May 4th broadcast of his radio show, Beck criticized the Obama administration for attempting to raise BP's liability cap in the wake of the catastrophic Gulf oil spill. Beck asked this, "Is there anything like the rule of law here?" He then argued that "if we don't stand by the Constitution" in "tough times," things will worsen. He also asked this, "Did we go and fight Germany for this? Is that what we fought the Nazis for? Is that why those millions of people died?" Beck concluded, "That's not America." Beck even compared the BP hearings to the McCarthy hearings, feeding Christians to lions. On the June 18 broadcast of The Glenn Beck Show, Beck criticized the congressional hearings on the BP oil spill, lamenting the nature of lawmakers questioning of BP CEO Tony Hayward by asking, "How do we not see the McCarthy hearings in this and everything else that is going on in Washington?" Beck went on to criticize the tone of the hearings, stating, "If you have all of the facts, if you can -- if you can nail them to the wall, there's no reason to get nasty." He concluded: "We are in a thugocracy. We are being run by criminals, and we've got a little puppet show just to entertain the masses. Why don't we bring some Christians out and feed them to lions?" Beck even compared the BP hearings to the "Salem witch trials" and called lawmakers "thugs and bullies." On the June 18th edition of his radio show, Beck criticized the Congressional hearings on oil spill by stating that "we've got Salem Witch Trials going on in Washington, DC." Beck criticized the lawmakers who questioned Hayward, calling them "thugs and bullies." During the same June 18th broadcast, Beck attacked the lawmakers who questioned Hayward, asking, "Why don't you ask these dumb questions after we've stopped the oil leak?" He then said: "All of these people should be not only ashamed of themselves, they will -- they will be held in front of an eternal judge for what they have done to this country....They will be held in front of an eternal judge and they will be praying, praying, for the mercy of Guantanamo when they face that judge." Wow, that is some serious right-wing crazy talk right there. Earth to Glenn Beck, BP is the bad guy here, they are the company that took shortcuts and violated safety guidelines, that caused the worst oil spill in the history of the world. If anyone is going to be held in front of an eternal judge for what they have done, it's BP, you fricking idiot. Beck Has Worst Ratings Week Of The Year By: Steve - June 16, 2010 - 10:30am Just-released Nielsen ratings numbers from last week confirm that Glenn Beck posted its weakest numbers of the entire year. And last Friday's program was his single lowest-rating show of the year. For the June 11th show, Beck had 1.74 million viewers. Beck's previous, non-vacation, low for the year came on May 14, which drew 1.77 million viewers. And yes, that is about half the daily audience the show was getting at its peak in January. NOTE: Funny how Beck and O'Reilly never mention this, but when Beck was getting 3 million viewers a night, they talked about the ratings every week. How soft were last week's numbers for Beck. On only one of the five days, June 9, did Glenn Beck draw more than 2 million viewers. In other words, for most of 2010 it's been unusual for Glenn Beck to fall below the 2 million-viewer mark. It had only happened a handful of times all year. But last week, it happened on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. And btw, Beck claims he's poised to change the course of U.S. history in August. So how does he plan to do that with less than 2 million viewers a day, which is less than 1% of the American people. Beck's below 2 million viewers streak actually dates back to the previous week, Friday June 4, when the show posted 1.8 million viewers, That means, of the six most recently rated episodes, five of them had less than 2 million viewers. In other words, Glenn Beck is now getting the same ratings the show used to have when Beck was on vacation. It looks to me like most people have figured Beck out, and they see that he is just a right-wing conspiracy nut fraud, who is simply out to make money lying to people about the President and the Democrats. What he has done is fool about 1.8 million morons into buying his con game. Which is less than 1% of the people, proving that his dishonesty might work for a while, but sooner or later MOST people catch on, and stop watching his insane garbage of a show. Beck Now Claims He Is A Journalist By: Steve - June 16, 2010 - 9:30am Which is just laughable, because he can barely spell journalist, let alone be one. Especially after he has spent 2 years telling people he is NOT a journalist. In a recent interview with USA Today, Glenn Beck was asked to define what he does. "I'm a little of everything," replied Beck, saying that included being a concerned dad, a faith-based guy, a businessman, an entertainer and, after a long pause, a journalist. "I don't have formal training as a journalist, but I think that works to my advantage," said Beck. And Beck forgot one thing, he has also called himself a clown, which in my book is an insult to clowns. Beck's claim to be a journalist is surprising, given how often he has shielded himself from the rules of journalism by saying, "I'm not a journalist." In fact, as recently as April 5, 2010, Beck said he wore it as a badge of honor that he is not a journalist: -- I am not a journalist. I'm just a guy who cares. I'm sorry. I'm just a guy who cares an awful lot about my country. [Fox News, 2/3/2009]Beck routinely makes the claim on his radio show as well. "I am so proud of the fact to tell you I am not a journalist," Beck said on his Jan. 14, 2008 radio show. "I never claimed to be a journalist. I am an opinion person," said Beck on April 16, 2009. Beck even told Katie Couric that he's "not a journalist." And btw, O'Reilly gave Beck an entire segment on the Monday O'Reilly Factor to promote his new book. Here is what Steven Levingston, the senior editor of the Washington Post's Book World, said about it, he wrote that Beck's new book has no literary value at all, as in none. O'Reilly even said it was a strange book, and he was helping him to promote it. Beck Attacks Obama's Family (Again) By: Steve - June 12, 2010 - 8:30am Glenn Beck, who apologized last month for his vicious smear of President Obama's 11-year-old daughter Malia and commented that "there is absolutely no excuse or reason to ever, ever, ever, ever even come close to the line of dragging somebody's family into the debate" today attacked Obama's wife, parents, and grandparents. Riffing off Obama's statements about BP CRO Tony Hayward and Obama's reference to his grandmother in his 2008 speech on race, Beck attacked Obama's parents as "revolutionar[ies]" and his grandparents for purportedly attending a "communist Little Red Church." Beck concluded that "it's almost like Marxism has been bred into" Obama. Later in the program, Beck said of Michelle Obama, "I don't think she" has "a love of her country." While Beck has angrily told his alleged persecutors to "leave the families alone" and claimed to have never "dragged somebody's family into the debate prior to his attacks on Malia, Beck has in fact repeatedly brought up Obama's family in his commentary over the last several months. BECK: Using his own words to describe his grandmother, that when you see a 'typical person' like the president of BP, he has a reaction -- um, you know -- to those people that has been bred into him. Ok. Alright. Now that actually kind of works, if you understand who his parents were. And who his grandparents were. Because they're not really the 'typical white people.'This is 100% proof that Glenn Beck is a low life piece of you know what, he says nobody should attack the family, and he went nuts when his family was attacked. So he has a rule against attacking the family for political reasons, then he breaks his own fricking rule. Stay classy Glenn, you giant piece of right-wing garbage. Media Matters Details Some Beck Insanity By: Steve - June 9, 2010 - 9:30am Oliver Willis from mediamatters.org wrote an article on Glenn Beck that details how his insane communist marxist nonsense is not only a lie, it does not even make sense. So I am posting it here for everyone to see. And think about this, Fox News hired this lunatic, and continue to employ him, even though he has been proven to be nothing but an insane right-wing liar. Not to mention, O'Reilly has him on the Factor every week for a regular segment. Making O'Reilly as guilty as Beck, by giving him a forum to spew out his insanity on the #1 rated cable news show. Glenn Beck's latest theory on how the world works: Anarchist/Marxist throwdown edition June 08, 2010 by Oliver Willis It becomes clearer each day that Glenn Beck's grasp on how the world works is quite tenuous. He simply doesn't understand things, and reaches out for theories, no matter how harebrained they might be. When he latches on to something, it becomes his guiding principle until he becomes distracted by a new theory. He's like a cat with a new ball of yarn. One day it's a faulty "history" book, the next it's the writings of a virulent anti-semite, then it's a Robin Hood movie. The underlying facts don't matter, just whether the theory tickles Beck's fancy or not. Today Beck's ball of yarn is The Call, a book apparently published by French anarchist saboteurs. On his radio show today, Beck explained that this book was his key to understanding what he sees as a battle within the left that is currently underway. He claims that Democrats are divided between Marxist true believers (who he identifies as "black flag" anarchists) and just run of the mill Marxists (who purportedly believe in "total government"). On the true believer side are figures like former White House advisor Van Jones, Andy Stern of SEIU (Stern recently announced he's resigning from SEIU), and Bill Ayers. On the other side, according to Beck, are people like Bill and Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden. In the middle of this epic battle is of course President Obama. This theory -- like every other theory Beck dreams up -- makes no sense. It accuses the Democratic party of being comprised of people who either support the abolition of government or are in favor of complete government control. That assertion isn't borne out of anything the party has actually done, however. It's clear that Democrats, for instance, favor more regulation than Republicans do, but it's a big leap from increased oversight of offshore drilling (for instance) to anarchism or Marxism. Yet, this nonsense proved to be no impediment to Beck inventing dramatic showdowns - for instance alleging that President Obama selected Joe Biden as his vice president in order to keep the supposedly more radical Andy Stern in check and to keep labor unions under control. Beck extended his theory to the Democratic primary in Arkansas, where Beck claimed that President Clinton was simultaneously supporting and attacking unions through his support of Sen. Blanche Lincoln and opposition to Lt. Governor Bill Halter (who has more support from organized labor). When President Obama said he wanted to "know whose ass to kick," Beck explained that this was a coded message to Bill Ayers. To Beck it's all evidence of a struggle between labor-affiliated Marxist-anarchists in opposition to total government anarchists. Is it any wonder he brought one of his chalkboards into the radio studio to explain this? Those conspiracy theories may make for a weird yet entertaining movie, but it's a far cry from an even remotely coherent political critique or analysis. Even worse is that in the time it has taken to write this, there's a good likelihood that Beck has found a new, more garish ball of yarn to paw at. ---------------------------- And let me add this, Beck based all that on one book written by French anarchists. Which has nothing to do with Americans, or anything happening in America. It's a fricking book written by some French nut, and I though O'Reilly and Beck said we should not care or listen to anything from the French. Beck Promotes Book By Anti-Semitic Nazi Lover By: Steve - June 5, 2010 - 10:30am In an interview Friday with Media Matters, a prominent historian criticized Glenn Beck's "ludicrous" promotion of an anti-Communist screed written in the 1930s by a "crackpot" anti-Semite. On June 4th, Beck praised The Red Network: A 'Who's Who' and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, a 1934 book written by Elizabeth Dilling. Beck said: "This is a book -- and I'm a getting a ton of these -- from people who were doing what we're doing now. We now are documenting who all of these people are. Well, there were Americans in the first 50 years of this nation that took this seriously, and they documented it." As they reported, Dilling was a virulent anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer. According to Glen Jeansonne, a University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee history professor who has written about Dilling, she referred to President Eisenhower as "Ike the Kike" and labeled President Kennedy's New Frontier program as the "Jew frontier." Reached for comment yesterday, Jeansonne said that it is "ludicrous that this book written in the 1930s by a woman who was considered a crackpot at the time ... could be cited as an authority on Communism." Jeansonne described Dilling as a "bigot who believed in ludicrous conspiracy theories" and whose "anti-Semitic" and "sophomoric" writings "appealed to the lunatic fringe" and the "far right." According to Jeansonne, Dilling was probably the "most bigoted anti-Semite of the period around World War II" and used "long-discredited conspiracy theories" -- including theories advanced in the infamous Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion -- in an effort to link Communism and Judaism. In addition to being anti-Semitic and anti-Communist, Dilling purported the most convoluted conspiracy theories that are imaginable. He added, "She viewed all sorts of groups with no connection or only the loosest connection as being bound together in an international conspiracy." "I think she was mentally unstable," said Jeansonne. |
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