The Glenn Beck Report

In an amazing but not surprising turn of events, Fox News owner Rupert Murdoch has been caught on videotape PURPOSELY saying that Obama is a racist. And then he’s not a racist, OK?

If this seems familiar to you, it should. Glenn Beck started the controversy that has led to 84 advertisers boycotting his radio and television shows by calling Obama a “racist” and then immediately saying “I didn’t say he was a racist” when it’s obvious that 1) Glenn DID say it, and 2) Glenn IS a racist.

Here’s Rupert Murdoch doing the same racist dance.  This ought to ignite another round of outrage that spreads the boycott from just Beck’s absurd daily hate speech to the entire hate-filled Fox network.

Here’s a FYI: this clip from MediaMatters does not include the backstep dance that each of them made after the “racist” charge was leveled. Also, to be clear, Murdoch never did identify what specific remark he was claiming that Obama made which he considered to be racist.

Vapo-Rub or NY District 23 election results?

Glenn Beck is a lot of things to a lot of people. To most, he’s an opportunistic, money-grubbing, phony clown of a Mormon millenialist meat puppet. Beck uses his own ignorance as a foil while he poses simple hypotheses about complex questions and then allows “expert” crackpot guests on his show to conjure up facts out of thin air or their rectums to support Beck’s crackpot conspiracy theories while he fawningly agrees with him, nodding like a bobblehead with wide-eyed amazement about how Obama has done/is doing the most dreadful things.

To one man, however, Glenn Beck was something much more. Glenn Beck could reach through his empty head and grab hold of his shallow heart. That man would be Doug Hoffman, “staunch conservative” from out of nowhere, who got talked into running against Dede Scozzafava, who fell out of favor with Fox News and other conservative media. Michelle Malkin called Dede “an ACORN-friendly, union-pandering, tax-and-spend radical Republican.” Rush Limbaugh accused her of “bestiality”, proclaiming that she had “screwed every RINO in the country”. (This was so unbelievable that I had to include it in this post. I realize that including comments from other right wingnuts besides Glenn Beck is a bit off-topic, but sometimes it’s good to have them for a complete context. Think of it like an artist’s palette of stupidity from which you can savor the meaning created by the meaninglessness, greed, stupidity, and grabbasticism of the morally bankrupt and politically corrupt right wing nut movement of Beck and the Becktards, Rush and the Dittobots, Michelle Malkin and the perverts, Michael Savage and the Wieners, and so on and so on.) But, as usual, I digress. Here’s the Rush Limbaugh quote where he says Dede practices bestiality:

Dede Scozzafava, nemisis of Glenn Beck

Glenn Beck took a few swings at Dede Scozzafava himself. He bashed her in the video below for being “pro-choice, pro-stimulus”, ACORN-endorsed (and also “for the working families party”), and “the Democrat is basically the same as the Republican”. Glenn also managed to flail away at Arnold Schwarzenegger, the GOP, and Newt Gingrich.

Glenn’s cure? Stop the insanity! (He can’t resist citing Einstein’s “definition” of insanity. Note to Glenn Beck: you’re no Einstein.) He says the GOP should have chosen Doug Hoffman, who collected the endorsements of Sarah Palin, Steve Forbes, former US Senators Rick Santorum and Fred Thompson, and “The former House Majority Leader Dick Armey are [sic] also behind him”. Hmm, there’s something kicking around in the back of my mind… what do all of those endorsers have in common? Well, I guess it’s that none of them are from New York? Oh, WAIT A MINUTE… What Glenn Beck probably didn’t notice is that each of these endorsements comes from a failed and/or disgraced former GOPER who have fallen from power by running almost as right as Glenn is.

Watch:

So what’s the ONLY problem Glenn sees? The GOP continues to back the “Obama lite Republican.” Oh, that nasty Newt Gingrich! He’s one of the (great big finger quotes) “Republicans” supporting the Obama Lite candidate although Glenn has “nothing bad to say about him.” LOL! Glenn disagrees with Newt because Newt says that the local party has the right to choose their own candidate. Oh NO YOU DIDN’T! Glenn Beck says you’re WRONG on that, Newt, you vote for the person you agree with MOST! So in Glenn Beck’s world, the local party should vote for who, exactly? The candidate HE SUPPORTS. After all, how can you sleep “night after NIGHT” knowing you voted for the “ACORN-supported candidate”?

Well, before I forget, I want to go ON THE PUBLIC RECORD as supporting Glenn Beck in his effort to keep doing what he did last night, over and over, in 2010, in 2012, as long as he still can. PLEASE keep trying to pull the GOP to the brink of the lunatic fringe where you are and then push them over! PLEASE!

9/12 Project Website doesn't know Doug Hoffman's name

I couldn’t find much of anything about Doug Hoffman on the 9/12 website except a link to a story where he gets Fred Thompson’s endorsement. Only the link to the story and the story itself, from October 28, says Fred is endorsing Doug THOMPSON. This was so unbelievable I had to take a couple of screenshots for you. Talk about having some powerful NAME RECOGNITION, eh, Glenn? LOL.

So who is Doug Hoffman/Thompson? Turned down by the GOP Congressional Committee. Endorsed by lunatics. He’s an accountant from Saranac Lake, not even in the 23rd District. He claims to have been fighting for the heart and soul of the GOP which is waaaay too liberal. He says he’s going to “take America back” by “revolution”, which is just white nationalist code words. He doesn’t know anything about local issues in the 23rd District, but he says that “I think that this district is so wide and vast that ALL THREE CANDIDATES aren’t familiar with local issues in each different sector”. Really? So what are were voters supposed to do? Just TRUST you because you say you’re honest? You say you know about taxes, spending, and liberals so people should just vote for you because of that and because a pack of GOP has-beens says your OK?

WTF? Doug WHO?

Here’s the deal. I am sympathetic to the idea of 3rd party candidates, in fact I was a Nader supporter and even put a Ron Paul sign in my yard last fall along with the others. I even agree with Beck’s thesis that major party candidates should not have a lock on the process. There is no reason why people shouldn’t be able to file and run for any office and I favor making that easier rather than harder. The more the merrier.

But I would never support any candidate who has no specific policy positions, local or otherwise, except that he can spew the specific political/religious dogma such as “Obama-lite”, “tax and spend”, “RINO”, “take our country back”, “revolution”, and other meaningless gibberish. Doug Hoffman was the 9/12 Project candidate, in fact he was even listed on http://912candidates.org/gold-list/, the “unofficial” 9/12 website that has since taken his name down because even they realized that being associated with Glenn Beck was killing Hoffman’s chances. (Or maybe they took it down because they were trying to avoid the humiliation of backing a candidate who got his ass handed to him last night.) Doug Hoffman never looks very bright in any of the video clips I’ve seen, and the audio clip of him on the Glenn Beck radio show sucking up to Glenn and even calling him his “mentor” makes him sound like a driveling stooge.

Listen:

So congratulations, Glenn, and to the 9/12 Project, and to all the “take our country back” race-baiting “Patriots” from all over America who poured money and support into a non-resident candidate to defeat the “liberal” Republican. Glenn, you can put Dede Scozzafava’s scalp on your wall.

And you can also chalk up another GREAT BIG FAIL, Glenn, because what you’ve accomplished is to further divide the conservatives along the faultline of crazy. I think it’s wonderful, heckuva job, Glennie.

OK, I have had it called to my attention that Glenn Beck has repeatedly claimed that his wild-ass conspiracy theories and outright lies have never been disproved.

HOGWASH.

You may check back often to my page Glenn Beck Lies, where I will debunk his statements with the plain truth, an element that is completely lacking from his radio and TV shows, his books, his claims of being a religiously-changed person, and most of all, his character.

He is a liar, proven here and elsewhere. You are welcome to join me in this project by providing links to his phony statements, conspiracy theories, crackpot accusations, and lies. You can take credit or remain anonymous, all of your input is WELCOME.

Wexler

Glenn couldn’t let go of the tongue-lashing that Fox News got from Anita Dunn without a GOPER-style slimefest. Of course, if anyone says anything bad about him, there must be something WRONG WITH THEM. So he sent his minions out to see if there was anything they could find on MS Dunn. He told them to dig deep, drive their Lexus to the Nexis!

The minions came up with a video where MS Dunn is speaking to a group of high school students. In the speech, she states that she is an admirer of Mao Tse Tung and Mother Theresa. That’s it! That’s all the proof Glenn needs to PROVE WITHOUT A DOUBT that Anita Dunn is just another one of Obama’s socialists! She says it in the video, no kidding! She says she admires and turns to Mao… but… why? How did Anita Dunn become an admirer of Mao?

If you think you can find out from Glenn Beck, you’re wrong. He won’t show you where she takes the line of thought, he only plays the clip long enough to make it seem that all she does all day (when she’s not watching his show like a TV lizard) is read Mao, Stalin, Hitler, and who else? Glenn has TWO stacks of books he says came from his office and he claims to have read them all! More on that in a minute.

Anita Dunn was making a point about how to choose your decisions carefully. Glenn wouldn’t understand the point, because he can’t. He’s not wired for it. He’s not wired for honesty, either. He takes Dunn out of context (obviously) and then starts cramming words, er, books into her head! In the second stack of books Glenn brought in “from his office” he has the Bible, books about American icons like Washington, Adams, and so on. But… he does NOT mention the Book of Mormon. OK, I really don’t care about the religion, it’s all pretty much crap to me. But why does Glenn Beck bring in the Bible but not the Book of Mormon, the book that changed his life? Because he’s a LIAR, that’s why. The Book of Mormon only pops up when Glenn is raking in cash from the faithful.

Glenn goes way off the leash here with a wild claim that he is responsible for the announcement that Anita Dunn will be leaving the White House staff. Oooh, they’re scared of you Glenn! They’re going to let her go because YOU called her a Maoist Marxist Socialist Communist Fascist! They are so scared that they won’t call the Red Phone!! Head for the hills, Anita, Glenn Beck is after you!

Sigh. If only it were true, you’d be such a hero, at least in your own mind. But Glenn, if you weren’t so busy daydreaming about the Mormon afterlife, you could have just used the Google to find out that she is interim White House Communications Director and will be leaving at the end of the year.

Pffffffffffft. That’s the air escaping from the blow-up clown doll that is Glenn Beck.

Update 10/19/09

Media Matters is undoubtedly one of the finest sources of news media fact-checking. If you have perused this site, you will have noticed that some of the video links are from their site. Bless ‘em.

Their Research Department came up with the full quote from which Glenn Beck dishonestly put together the video that made it appear that Mao is Anita Dunn’s go-to guy. As I reported above, Beck used a portion of the video to make it seem that she is an acolyte of Mao and then started a rant about what books she reads when he has no way of knowing that and his assumption is based on a false premise that he knowingly created.

But once again Glenn Beck is busted by the inconvenient truth. This time Media Matters came up with the whole video, which is something I was planning to do Monday but I got busy with students. So here’s the real quote:

A lot of you have a great deal of ability. A lot of you work hard. Put them together, and that answers the “Why not?” question. There’s usually not a good reason.

And then the third lesson and tip actually come from two of my favorite political philosophers, Mao Zedong and Mother Teresa -- not often coupled with each together, but the two people that I turn to most to basically deliver a simple point, which is, you’re going to make choices. You’re going to challenge. You’re going to say, “Why not?” You’re going to figure out how to do things that have never been done before. But here’s the deal: These are your choices. They are no one else’s.

In 1947, when Mao Zedong was being challenged within his own party on his plan to basically take China over, Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalist Chinese held the cities, they had the army, they had the air force, they had everything on their side. And people said, “How can you win? How can you do this? How can you do this against all of the odds against you?” And Mao Zedong said, you know, “You fight your war, and I’ll fight mine.” And think about that for a second.

You know, you don’t have to accept the definition of how to do things, and you don’t have to follow other people’s choices and paths, OK? It is about your choices and your path. You fight your own war. You lay out your own path. You figure out what’s right for you. You don’t let external definition define how good you are internally. You fight your war. You let them fight theirs. Everybody has their own path.

And then Mother Teresa, who, upon receiving a letter from a fairly affluent young person who asked her whether she could come over and help with that orphanage in Calcutta, responded very simply: “Go find your own Calcutta.” OK? Go find your own Calcutta. Fight your own path. Go find the thing that is unique to you, the challenge that is actually yours, not somebody else’s challenge.

The reason I knew that Anita Dunn had said that she was talking about making the point about choices was that Beck himself aired a longer portion of that cliop on his October 15 show. I got the link to the original report from Twitter, from @Moms4GlennBeck (watch them block me). Beck went on to clip the video for his shocking “special report” and then start his character assassination attempt against Anita Dunn, who was the first from the White House to point out that Fox in general is NOT a news organization.

There has been some news show chat with talking heads wondering why the White House would take on the yucky task of cleaning Fox News off of their shoes. I suspect this was a shot fired across Rupert Murdoch’s nose to let him know that Fox stands to lose their press credentials (meaning they would not be allowed on Air Force 1 or in press briefings) if they don’t clean up their act. Time will tell.

Coward, liar, psychopath

By now everyone in the US who hasn’t been hiding in a cave ought to know that Glenn Beck is on a jihad against black people in general and one particular black man in the White House. Ever since Glenn convinced the GOP to go even fringier than normal and take after Van Jones, he has puffed himself up to believe that he actually might be onto something, after all. I guess you can get the DTs from cocaine, too.

Enter Obama’s political affairs director Patrick Gaspard. The American Spectator, a conservative online newspaper trying to make a name for itself, got a quote from Wade Rathke’s blog which they quoted as saying:

Tell me that 1199’s former political director, Patrick Gaspard (who was ACORN New York’s political director before that) didn’t reach out from the White House and help make that happen, and I’ll tell you to take some remedial classes in “politics 101.”

In fact, Wade Rathke’s blog did indeed say that. But one problem; it wasn’t true and for once somebody who printed a false statement about the Obama Administration retracted it. Not an ordinary retraction, I might add, but a kick to the privates of the phony whining “conservatives” who trade in falsehoods and impossible conspiracy theories. Rathke posted, in part,

Patrick was never on the staff of ACORN. I double checked with people I still know there, and it appears that I dropped a stitch there. Hopefully my misstatement won’t lead to the White House throwing him in front of the bus in this rush to neo-McCarthyism that has become so prominent. In this case, my memory tricked me. I’m glad to carry the weight and simply say I made a mistake, and damned if I’m not sorry and hope no damage is done to a good man doing a hard job.

Let me quickly add, since I read Google alerts and have noticed that there is a attack squad at all manner of friends and associates I have had over the years, that for the formal record, I have NO friends. If there’s a problem with me, then bring it on, but for the rest of you, if you see me on the street, just nod and pass on by, if you are worried about it. Until we learn to all stand together and oppose this kind of blood sport political targeting, it’s going to be like this for a while. I’m just not sure how long it will take.

As of 10:00 PM Central, American Spectator, fine conservative noisemaker as they are (I kind of picture them as a whoopee cushion) have failed to take down the story or publish a retraction.  Ditto for Breitbart.  Fox News, ditto, because if it’s the Fox Nation, it must be TRUE!  Matt Drudge, wow, you took it down!  But it’s nice to see that you still slather ink over tsunamis, earthquakes, and Dan Rather.  (Is it possible to have a fetish about earthquakes?  Paging Dr. Freud, Dr. Freud…)

So what, you may ask, does a phony non-story ginned up by a crummy online newspaper and amplified by the conservative noise machine have to do with Glenn Beck?  Glad you asked, but I think you already know the answer.  Glenn Beck jumped all over this like a BIG DOG!  Ruff ruff, go sic ‘em, Spot! You might want to skip ahead to about 4:45 in the video.

Of course, Beck’s staff has taken down the story from his website, but… I have the VIDEO… so enjoy!  I will cut out the first 4:45 of it tomorrow and repost so you don’t have to wait for the fun and games!  Did you know that Gaspard was CEO Bertha Lewis’ “right hand man”!  “In FACT!” LOL… and did you know that SEIU and ACORN are really the SAME ORGANIZATION??? And, to top it off, Beck says the President has “ZERO CREDIBILITY!” Oh, I just can’t stand it.  I’ll finish this story when I can stop laughing uncontrollably!

Update September 30… National Review still has it up. New article by Kurtz, claiming that Obama has ties to labor. Gee, isn’t that what Democrats do? The Dems support the little guy, the GOPERS support the corporations. That’s why they lost the election. They suck up to money, not to votes.

Update October 1… National Review Online has taken down the Kurtz article. It does not appear in the “searchable archives” for the week. Anatomy of a GOP lie… make it up, spread it around, it gets debunked, take it down quietly.