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Beck Denies He Partly Caused Police Shootout 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. |
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