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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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