Glenn Beck is an accessory to murder. I think that many people have known this for a long time now. Of course, he’s never pulled the trigger himself, but that doesn’t change the fact that he is responsible for making killers into what they are, and ordinary gullible people into violent conservatives.

Conservatives have always been a violent group, supporting militarism, retribution, and a tribal us versus them worldview. Vicious rhetoric is no stranger to them. But not since the era of Senator Joseph McCarthy before have we seen such violent rhetoric normalized and promulgated over mass media. Fox ‘News’ is omnipresent throughout today’s media, and their formula to success is to promote sensationalism with a mob mentality. Their very red meat is presenting exaggerations, half-truths, and outright lies as news with impunity.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQcvbw6ExTQ

There are no fact-checking organizations that have the same reach as Fox into the public square, so many of their assertions are simply repeated as facts until proven wrong. Even then, Fox acts as if they either never said anything or did nothing wrong, and simply moves on to the next work of sensational rubbish. Some hold the view that this is okay, as long as people only watch Fox for opinion rather than facts or news. Glenn Beck has proven the power to single-handedly prove them wrong. His opinions, time and time again, incite people to violence.

"Money?! For average Americans?! You're a communist! YOU HATE THE CONSTITUTION!"

There’s a litany of examples that I could turn to, but first let’s go to the most recent example of Professor Frances Piven. Ms. Piven is 78 years old, and she is a widow. But these are just things to make one feel even more pity for her -- they’re not even relevant in light of the events. We all know how Glenn likes to find a person and rant about them with the help of his famous chalkboard, crocodile tears, and unfounded accusations. Well unfortunately, Ms. Piven happened to be his latest target.

45 years ago -- yes, you read that right, 45 years -- Professor Piven co-authored an article with her husband about establishing a national guaranteed income. The topic of the article (again, not entirely relevant) was a call for a movement to overwhelm public welfare rolls in order to bring this about. It’s not a view that makes sense to me, because I don’t think that ends justify means. But nevertheless, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with wanting a minimum national income. Or is there? There sure is, or at least that’s what Glenn Beck says. According to him, average people with money is known as “the fall of capitalism”. And if we’re talking about the Republican version of capitalism, in which income disparity continues to grow by the year, then I’m actually inclined to agree with him. Disgusting.

Anyhow, it seems like Piven is Beck’s latest Van Jones (remember that?), and his sick lie-filled rants are proving just as effective. Van Jones, as we know, resigned. Well Piven is 78 years old, and a bit past the point where she can just retire from the spotlight to get away from Beck. In fact, she’d already done that -- these articles were written when Beck was only two years old. So why did he do it? Maybe he figured that if he picked any relevant material it would be too easy for people to call him out on his crap. Maybe he’d exhausted his supply of modern ranting material. Or maybe, he’s just a drunken Mormon dingbat that sees something and wants to yell about it. I pick the latter.

But I digress. Ever since Glenn started his deranged little pontifications, conservatives have been doing what they do best -- they listen without thinking, they get angry without seeing why, and then they get violent. And in this case, they threaten to kill. Piven has received threats to her email including, but of course not limited to ‘Die you c***’ and ‘May cancer find you soon’. Comments were posted on Beck’s site directed at her. “Maybe they should burst through the front door of this arrogant elitist and slit the hateful cow’s throat.” “Big Lots having a rope sale I hear, you buy the rope and I will hang the wench. I will spin her as she hangs.” Beck’s program has never even tried to contact Piven.

Of course, Beck claims to denounce violence. Fox claims to denounce violence. But this, of course, is just another lie in a long string of fabrications from the people responsible for a litany of death threats, pressured resignations, and even killings. If they cared about these threats, if they did not support these threats, they’d delete them from their websites, they’d apologize, and Beck would speak out against them on his show. Hell, I’ll make a vow right now -- if anybody ever comments on my site with a serious death threat, I’ll delete it. And if it lasts long enough for somebody to catch wind of it, I’ll apologize. It’s only the right thing to do.

"Beck will deny everything about violent approach, deny everything about conspiracies, but he'll give you every reason to believe it ... I understand what he's doing." - Byron Williams

Threats of violence and death from Beck’s crowd are old news to us, and old hat to them. What’s (only slightly) newer? Actual killing. Of course, he didn’t quite make it, but let’s start with Byron Williams. He planned to drive to the Tides Foundation with his rifle, shotgun, and pistol, and go on a killing spree. Luckily, the police pulled him over and arrested him after a firefight, but that’s not where his story ended. In prison, he gave interviews, expressing his love for Glenn Beck’s program in particular(along with Alex Jones and others), and how it was Glenn’s vicious attacks on the Tides Foundation, over many programs, that validated his desire to kill eleven people or more.

Wouldn’t all of this be enough? After shootouts, attempted murder sprees, and twisted death threats, couldn’t a person just call it quits? Admit that what they were doing wasn’t helping, or at least change their course of action so that they were sharing opinion without inciting hatred? At least, after all this, if nothing else a person could issue an apology.

Well not Glenn. Most people would choose the apology, but instead he chooses to continue on his current path, and help inspire Jared Loughner to kill six people and shoot Congresswoman Gabby Giffords in the face. It’s demonstrable that Loughner was a mentally ill man, but ideas like his do not come from nowhere. Beck is the most outspoken proponents of returning to the gold standard, as was one of Loughner’s many unhinged opinions. But furthermore, Beck had launched into an attack of Giffords on his program just months earlier. Of course, we can’t blame everything on Beck, but I’d certainly say that we can hold him responsible for being one of the multiple things that pushed him over the edge.

Guns don't kill people. Conservative extremists kill people. With guns.

After the shooting, Beck issued a plea to stand together against all violence. Of course, this particular statement was one of the biggest ‘epic fails’ in recent memory, because a) he uses explicitly violent rhetoric on a weekly basis, and b) the statement was posted right next to a picture of himself… holding a handgun and trying to look like some kind of action star.

Violent rhetoric, you ask? Just months before, Beck (surprise surprise) called democratic leaders ‘communists’ that ‘have called for a revolution’, and told his listeners “You’re going to have to shoot them in the head”. That is an exact quote. As for the handgun, if you hadn’t believed in his complete insincerity before then, that should definitely be the clincher.

Glenn, I don’t want anybody to kill you in cold blood, as you seem to want for so many people with ideas you dislike. I’m not going to paint a map with targets on your house, I won’t even use any violent rhetoric without providing a disclaimer in the same breath. When I don’t like somebody, what I hope for is that they get taken out of the spotlight, arrested, and/or hit with a hefty fine. And I’d like all of those for you.

It’s with a great deal of sadness that I announce that I’m retiring from The Glenn Beck Report, and the internet in general. I hate to leave at such an important and dangerous time. The hard-won gains of progressives from the last 50 years are under attack by people who are funded to the max and interested in imposing their way of life on everyone else. Primarily they want to keep pushing money up the food chain, which is destroying the middle class, destroying our manufacturing economy, and creating a permanent underclass.

I have found a very capable partner to take over. Quinn is a tenacious, logical, and fair debater and is passionate about the same issues that I am. We mostly agree, but not on everything, which I think is a plus. I wanted someone to inherit this site who would keep it going in the spirit of the old site, but with their own mark heavily on it, not as a clone.

In trying to determine the root cause of our present predicament, I have concluded that one of the major problems, if not the biggest, is dereliction of duty by the press. How ironic that I have lived from the era of short wave radio to the era of instant worldwide communications and people know less about their government and issues than ever before. This is because of a planned, deliberate takeover of the press by right wing forces which started in 1982 with the Reagan FCC taking out the Fairness Doctrine. This was a direct reaction to Nixon being hounded out of office by the press.

Soon we will be fighting for the lives of political sites like this one. There is another plot afoot, this time to choke off the resistance by taking away our bandwidth. Net neutrality is the latest battleground and we will lose that fight, I fear. The question that haunts me is this: how long will it be before anyone even realizes what happened? It’s been almost 30 years since the right wing moneyed interests killed the free press and very few people even know that a free press ever existed.

I had a discussion with an old acquaintence recently who is someone who should know better than to believe Beck. He spun through a whole construct of Beckian conspiracy theories that led up to the Soros-esque characters who actually control the whole world. His conclusion was, “Why do you even bother? The situation is hopeless and you have no power to change it.”

My answer to him was that I knew someday the next generation would realize what a sorry load of mess we left for them to clean up… and I wanted to be able to look them straight in the eye and say “I didn’t do everything I could to stop it but at least I tried.” Well, as illness takes me out of the game, I’m making that apology to the young reading this post today or sometime down the road. I DID try, and somehow you are going to have to try harder, and smarter, and with more solidarity and less isolation than we did. Start with the Fairness Doctrine. That’s the key, I think. If the facts are told straight people will start living in the real world instead of the cartoon environment we live in now.

Farewell, have courage.

Be strong and never underestimate the strength, cunning, and ruthlessness of your opponents. They will not hesitate to put one in your back if you give them the chance.

Best regards,

William W. Wexler
January 28, 2011

A New Beginning

Hi everyone, I’m Quinn Ryan. A lot of you should be familiar with me already, as I’ve been a co-administrator here for months and an author here for even longer. Though I must admit that the departure of my colleague and dear friend Wexler leaves me a bit heartbroken, I very much look forward to taking on the site for my own and continuing to create quality content for the masses. I’ll continue to post articles on a regular basis, carry on every possible discussion in the comments, manage our Facebook page, respond to emails, and update our ever popular lies page. I hope to work with you to publish for the truth, as long as bigots publish lies.

All the best,

Quinlan Ryan

We are very happy to announce that www.GlennBeckReport.com is back on the internet waves. After a few mishaps and some good technical assistance from our webhost, we are now up and running and ready to take on Glenn Beck lies as he lies them.

Oh, looky, it's Glenn Beck with a pistol. Oh, yes, that's the picture that he SCRUBBED from his website after Tucson, isn't it. Tsk tsk.

No? Really Glenn, you are one of the most violent men on TV. You tell people that their livelihoods are being threatened by people who don’t have anything to do with it. You say people are planning to kill you. You tell them to be prepared for whatever will happened. You toe the typical Mormon line, which says be armed to the teeth and have drills with your community on a regular basis.

What about the time you were pouring “gasoline” on a member of your crew on live TV and standing there with a BIC? What about the time you said you would strangle Michael Moore with your bare hands? What about the time that you accused the Tides Foundation of being in a plot to destroy America?

Glenn, you are a domestic terrorist and you ought to be on the NO FLY list. You shouldn’t be able to buy ammo, you should have your broadcast license jerked for inflammatory language trying to incite the overthrow of the US Government.

But none of that is going to happen, so we’ll just sit out here and snipe at you. Not in the “literal” sense, Glenn, only in the “figurative” sense. You see, you’ve been in our sights as a target from Day 1, and you keep loading our guns for us. And you give us plenty of motivation to pull the trigger, too.

With ratings dropping, next time he's going to have to start the fire

Get the picture? It should be clear as day. We’re pacifists. We just use strong language. It’s all just words, words never hurt anyone. I mean, if someone poured fake gasoline all over Glenn Beck and then held up a BIC lighter, that would just be a joke, wouldn’t it?

We’re back! Kinda. Avid readers have surely noticed by now that the site has been very sick for a couple of weeks. No, nobody tased me, bro, but sometimes that’s just how frustrating it is to work with multiple companies and roll internet payment plans around to different areas. You still can’t view the static pages or comment, but at least now you can read. And remember, you can always become a fan and start discussions with us on Facebook or email me at qu1n1an@glennbeckreport.com.

President Obama has recently proposed removing high-calorie drinks and snacks from school vending machines. And as soon as President Obama came out with one opinion, like clockwork, Glenn Beck came out against whatever that opinion was. Did he think about this opinion? No! Thinking isn’t something Glenn’s best at. But hey, that just means it’s ever easier for me to blast every little bit of his useless demagogue opinion.

My personal opinion is (gasp!) in support of Obama’s. The country is indeed facing alarming rates of obesity, which, while over-hyped, is still disgustingly far from ideal. Glenn, as always, spouts his trademark enraged invective, along the lines of “Get yer theivin’ gummint paws out of my mouth.” Well, let me start out by saying, the government does in fact have a right to control what you do with/put into your body. Did you ever hear of an illegal drug, maybe cocaine or methamphetamines? These go in your body.

But really, the government deciding what you will or won’t eat is completely beside the point here. They’re not trying to ban soda or candy from school altogether, well, not in the cases I’m discussing at any rate. Your little fatty will still be allowed to smuggle treats onto school grounds unhindered. We’re simply trying to make access to unhealthy food more than a push of a button away. As for the argument that says that students should learn self-control on their own – I think that anyone making this argument not only is stupid, but simply hasn’t taken a look around at all. If any of these kids had self-control that they felt like exercising, would there be even half this percentage of obese kids? Hah, no.

"It's okay mommy, Glenn says I'm old enough to set my own limits."

But before we get ahead of ourselves, let me assert that I think that it IS a good idea for vending machines to be on school grounds. Perhaps a parent didn’t pack a satisfactory lunch or the student forgot her lunch all together, or maybe a student is simply hungry before/after mealtime, or maybe she needs some brain food before testing. Thus, I do think vending machines should be kept on school grounds and at reasonable prices, but should be stocked with healthy food like fruit, bottled water, non-fat milk, or single servings of things like oatmeal or non-sugary cereal.

One thing that I think must be added to any argument about healthy vending machines is healthier cafeterias. Cafeterias have started serving exponentially healthier food since I left grade school, but I still remember the atrocities served there in my time, horrid in both flavor and calorie count. Good lord! Luckily, since then cafeterias have started serving a bland mix of boiled vegetables and kosher mystery meat (no Halal for you), but this trend needs to continue even further. If the kid has a problem with what’s being served there, maybe he can snag a responsible parent who will pack a lunch for him. Or, maybe he can buy some healthy snacks from a vending machine.

The last thing that I feel should be mentioned is my absolute and unquestioning support of a “sin tax” on soda and juice drinks, for the same reasons. This is a big part of the government trying to kill two birds with one stone – to somewhat decrease the rapidly increasing rate of obesity, and to increase government revenue dramatically.

They call it the 'Bible Belt' because they can't fit into any real belts.

Really, the argument against healthy vending machines is no different than the argument against Obamacare. Our wonderful president has proven for the second time with this that he cares greatly about the health of the American people, and the Republicans and demagogue media personalities just seem to be scrambling for “rational” arguments to mask the facts that they just plain don’t like him.

There’s a thing in the law called “compelling interest”. What this means is that something in the law gets special privileges, if the effects of this action serve a compelling interest to the government. Well let me make it clear right now, that keeping American children healthy is absolutely a compelling interest – if nothing else, as a PR move. I don’t know about you, but I’m just about fed up with the stereotype of the fat, stupid Yank. Well, one of the very reasons I have this site is to show that some Americans DO realize that other ones are stupid. But how do we address the point about obesity? Not only does it make the nation look like a hive of bourgeois assholes, but it’s making those bourgeois assholes drop like flies. Flies with heart disease and liver failure, that is. Now I’m absolutely an advocate for population control, but that absolutely doesn’t mean that I don’t support preserving the lives of Americans that are already alive. Do I think that we should ban junk food altogether? No, because some amount of freedom in choice is important. But let’s not make the choice hard to ignore by placing vending machines in front of every five year old with a sweet tooth.

-Quinlan

You may have noticed lately that we haven’t been putting up many articles. It’s certainly not that we don’t want to, it’s that we simply don’t have the time. But in the interest of keeping The Glenn Beck Report fresh, current, and interesting, I’ve made a choice to take the site in an entirely new direction. From now on, I will be accepting any user submissions, reviewing them myself to make sure they’re acceptable for the site, and posting them with full credit to the author. What does this mean for you? Well, if you love those show breakdowns I do and want to see more, why don’t you do them yourself? Or if you don’t want to go through all the trouble of commentary, just take notes for me and I’ll comment and analyze myself! Write any Glenn Beck-related article, just make sure that it’s 100% factual and not too rude, and I’ll post it! I’m very hopeful that this will kick off quickly, and will become the fastest growing source of community information against the one of the right wing’s most influential liars. To make a submission, simply email me at qu1n1an@glennbeckreport.com. Thank you so much, and I look forward to working with you to tell the truth for as long as Beck and his followers lie.

-Quinlan

This one's ALL white meat

At the link you find below, you’ll open up the story I wrote last Thanksgiving about the whack jobs at the now-irrelevant 9.12 Project who hosted an article that claimed something that was actually quite extraordinary. The article, whose title and author I have still been unable to find, claim that Pilgrims came to America to escape European socialism, not to pursue religious freedom.

We would like to present this as another example of Beck rewriting history, and we can, if you can help us find the post. Here’s more on the story below.

Happy Thanksgiving from TGBR.

http://glennbeckreport.com/2009/11/whackjobs-and-thanksgiving/

Here are some links I found from mental midgets who have repeated this goofy, hysterical revisionist tripe or even worse, revised it into something else. (John Stossell. There’s a jive turkey if ever there was one!)

Representative Todd Akin R-Missouri

http://www.examiner.com/progressive-in-philadelphia/the-pilgrims-came-to-america-to-escape-socialism

Politzoid… who claims that the Pilgrims were actually sent to America as a socialist experiment by a group of investors…

http://www.politizoid.com/blogozoid/item/109-the-pilgrims-america%27s-first-socialists

Here’s one by Kelly that is written in a language s/he obviously doesn’t understand because it says nothing about socialism except that s/he can’t read, which is a failure of our public schools.

I will continue to dig.

http://www.unsolvedmysteries.com/usm467038.html

PAYDIRT!

OK, here is a boatload of information about the so-called “socialist” Pilgrims mythology invented by those cranky, lying bastards on the right wing who want to ruin everything. Of course, this time what they’re trying to ruin is anyone’s faith that people can band together in times of need and accomplish common goals. Nope. Can’t be done.

Read and please have something soft under your jaw because it may drop unexpectedly.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/11/rewriting-history-fox-reporter-claims-socialism-killed-thanksgiving/

We must stand together to condemn those like Glenn Beck who advocate violence against our public institutions.

John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States, May 29, 1917

On this date in 1963, President John F. Kennedy was gunned down by an assassin in Dallas, Texas. Texas Governor John Connolly was critically wounded but survived. There still remains a controversy as to whether or not this was a single shooter and if so if the shooter was part of a larger conspiracy. If you are old enough to remember that day, you will remember where you were when you got the news. I was in a school stairwell coming back from recess, in the 6th grade.

The reason I am bringing this up on the Glenn Beck Report is that there are a number of people who travel in the same orbit as Glenn Beck who are likely candidates to repeat the heinous crime. Unfortunately, he has been a leading voice in the dehumanization of Barack Obama and has also asserted repeatedly without any supporting facts that Obama is the enemy who must be destroyed.

This summer, a nutter named Byron Williams loaded up a large arsenal of weapons and drove to the Tides Foundation intent on killing people. Glenn Beck is the only person in the media who had anything to say about this organization before the incident. Fortunately, Williams was high or stoned or something and was pulled over for weaving around the freeway before he got there.

Glenn Beck supporters were quick on the trigger, too. They went into massive denial that Beck could have had anything to do with this incident. What a shock, then, when Williams told the police he was inspired to attack the Tides Foundation because of what Glenn Beck said about it on TV.

In April, 2009, Glenn Beck did a show where he had an extra sitting on the stage while he imitated Barack Obama pouring gasoline on the man. He said, “President Obama, why don’t you just set us on fire?”

This is exactly the kind of garbage that led me to start this website in November 2009. Somebody has to call BS.

There has been a lot of debate on the left about the relative merits of wasting time on Glenn Beck. Today is a day to reflect on that argument. I believe we need to do it to protect the institutions of our government created by the Founders that Beck loves to distort and twist.

Since we are just past the first anniversary of glennbeckreport.com, on this occasion I want to thank all of our friends for their support. Of course, I want to thank Quinn for joining the website as a partner and providing a good balance of reason to my impatience. Also, I want to thank the many others of us who have seen fit to do what we’re doing in their own way. I’m thinking of stopbeck.com, glenn-beck-sucks.com, GB1990.com, MediaMatters, Huffington, and a whole host of people who read and comprehend, and do their part whether it’s take time to post a comment somewhere or send a few dollars to sites that need your financial support.

Update 12/13/10

Actually, this website started in September ’09, not November. Also, we do not solicit contributions, we are self-supported.

But thanks to those of you who asked.

In the world of media, the most important thing to a radio or TV shock jock is the ratings book. In Beck’s case, since he brings in almost ZERO net advertising revenue due to the Beck boycott, this is critically important because the only rationale for keeping him around is that he holds people from the previous show to the next show. If this is falling apart, so is Glenn.

As reported earlier, Glenn lost almost a 3rd of his demographic compared to October 2009 even in an election year. This means that his attacks on progressives, Pelosi, Obama, and MSNBC are not holding his audience. Sooner or later one of his crackpot lunatic conspiracies has to come true or even the faithful will start to fade away. Since this shtick is failing, time to bring out the Big Guns… an all-out blitzkrieg smear campaign against George Soros.

Glenn Beck's fantasy now revolves around the idea that this man is taking over the US Government

Glenn Beck has spent most of this week attempting to link George Soros, Hungarian-American philanthropist, with the following evil, James Bondish conspiracy plot. The 5 point plot follows below.

UPDATE 11/14

Glenn Beck appeared on Bill O’Reilly’s show on Friday to explain and discuss this plot, which is according to Beck the most dangerous threat facing America today. The video is below with my comments.

1. Establishing a shadow government that REALLY controls the US and this conspiracy goes back to Students for a Democratic Society. (wow) Also Bill Ayers (Weather Underground & university professor), and the Open Society Institute, a philanthropic worldwide organization that promotes democracy, education, and health. Also included in this shadow control are MediaMatters (LOL) and Huffington Post (ROFL… Roy Secroft can’t even tie his own shoes without drooling on them). Beck never says how this shadow government controls anything. Seriously, Glenn. What agencies are they going to control? Name them, name who is control and what they are doing that can even remotely be construed as “taking control of the US government”. If you mean governing, i.e., making decisions about public policy, such as auto safety, clean air, military spending, and so on, that’s what we pay them to do.

2. Controlling the airwaves… somehow Beck thinks that helping fund NPR is “controlling” the airwaves. Holy Tabernacle of Mornoni, BatBoy! Clear Channel, Sinclair, and Fox News Corporation control the airwaves. Everyone knows that, don’t they? Doesn’t Glenn know that? How could he NOT know that? He’s been in broadcasting for 25 years.

Killing NPR has been one of the right-wing mantras since the Newt Gingrich “Contract With America” Congress came to town. What they did was they threatened to de-fund the Corporation for Public Broadcasting unless they became more “fair and balanced” to the GOP. Sometimes there IS no balance, there’s just the simple fact that the GOP is stealing us blind. The result of Gingrich’s threat was that Corporation for Public Broadcasting’s media outlets, NPR and PBS, took a sharp turn to the right. They supported the invasion of Iraq, for example, by under-reporting or ignoring the factual stories that went contrary to the Bush Administration. Reminder to CPB: if you don’t do it, who will?

UPDATE 11/19/10

I got curious about the actual state of the media so I did a little more research. I found a nifty page done as a project for a college class and I thought you might find it interesting. I tried to contact the author of the page, but she must have graduated. She admits that the page is incomplete, and I was trying to find out if she would consider spending a bit more time to update with information about the radio biz, which is mostly missing from this chart.

3. Destroying the state by making kids hate capitalism and encouraging Obama to rule by Executive Order. This is such an idiotic, blatant lie that you’d have to be high on something to even say it. The king of Executive Orders is George W. Bush, who wrote them by the hundreds.

OK here’s the score on Executive Orders. Bush wrote 291 in 8 years, which is an average of 36 per year. Obama has written 65 in 2 years, for an average of 32 per year. But it’s not only the number of executive orders, it’s the content of them. Bush wrote executive orders that nullified federal law and the Constitution. He wrote signing statements that stated that he was planning to violate or would not be held accountable for violation of the very law he was signing. Now that’s wielding executive power. Obama’s idea of executive overreach is to tell the Justice Department to leave Bush alone, or ask the GOP members of Congress if it’s OK that they agree on something now and then.

For a fascinating look at what both men have been doing (or have done) with Executive Orders, visit the National Archives. Each Executive Order is cataloged by subject and the full text of each one is there. Some of it is trivial stuff; some not so much. The easiest way to get there is through Google; use the search phrase “ number of executive orders”. Here are links to

Bush Executive Orders

Obama Executive Orders

4. Provoke an election crisis by seeding the system with Secretaries of State who will try to disrupt elections in the future, that is, assuming they get elected or appointed. LOL, Glenn Beck’s career was saved by Florida Secretary of State Katheryn Harris who did the chicken dance as a night club singer and threw the 2000 election to George W. Bush. Does Beck really believe that someone is plotting to make this happen again and again? How far would a cadre of Soros-appointed Secretaries of State get against the Roberts Supreme Court? Funny stuff. Further, this plan relies on voter fraud, a favorite white-man GOPER whipping boy. There is no voter fraud problem. No GOPER has ever proven that there is, if you know of a single court case in the last 30 years that doesn’t involve Ann Coulter, please let us know.

5. Seize power. I am not exactly sure how they do this one. I think they get Mitch McConnell, Jim DeMint, Eric Cantor, Steve King, Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul, Michelle Bachmann, and all of the rest of the GOP Becktards that control half of our Legislative Branch to sign a paper that says

We’re never going to vote ‘no’ again, in fact we’re all going to be socialists and bow down to Hungarian Bazillionaire George Soros. Further, there won’t be an endless stream of motions from the floor to impeach Barack Obama over the ‘birth certificate’. We PROMISE.

LMFAO!

This is what Beck has been screaming about for the last 6 months? That he’s going to “expose” Soros? Sweet Baby Jesus. Even the most serious Beck fans have to be wondering what the hell is rattling around in his goofy skull. How the hell is any of this stuff even remotely related to a practical plan to turn the US government over to the “socialists” and “Progressives”?

You know, I’ve been watching Beck for a year now, but this has GOT to be the most off-the-wall scrambling to save his ratings that I’ve ever heard. It’s obvious that his demonizing “progressives” wasn’t working.; Too vague. Nobody really knows what that means, and he keeps talking about dead people from 100 years back and nobody really knows history, especially Beck. So why not shift the focus of blame to something more immediate, like, say, George Soros? Beck says that Soros helped put Jews in the gas chambers! Wow. I guess all the Jews should love Glenn Beck for revealing that!

I keep saying this… each new twist is crazier than the last one. Beck is a dead issue, he’s just not aware of it yet.

Update 11/11/10:

The Beckapalooza Show went and stepped in it this time. It turns out that instead of the Jews being happy about him exposing Soros as part of the gas chamber plot during WWII (when he was 14 years old), they’re furious about it. No matzo ball parties for you, Glennie. Instead, the Anti-Defamation League is condemning Beck for his made up bullshit. It’s time that he got called out for what he is… an abject liar on the way out who is scrambling to make his ratings card.

Beck and O’Reilly Talk Up Glenn’s Theory About the Destruction of America by George Soros Et. Al.

If you have any sensitivity to the smell of freshly-excreted cow flop, I recommend you do not watch the following. Also, do not watch this if you are high on nitrous oxide. See comments below.

At :16 Bill calls Beck “the G man” (implying what… FBI?) and also refers to Soros as a “radical left guy”. No, Bill, Soros is a socialist. You’re confused, you think all socialists are radical, because we believe in such far left ideas as 100% voting, health care fore everyone, public libraries, and NPR. (Ooo, scary!)

At :24 the camera pans to Beck who is sitting there with a grin/smirk that makes him appear like he needs a straitjacket.

:40 Bill wants to know what the “headline” is for anyone who might have missed the show (pfffffft!). Here’s Glenn’s response: “What you’re seeing happen, um, and what is coming between the inflation in the grocery stores and the gas pumps, um, the, um, organizations out in the streets, um , it’s a puppet show, it’s a puppet show, it is, it is orchestrated by George Soros. ”

Wait a minute. First of all, food prices have seen moderate increases in the last 6 months, still groceries are only 1.4% above the Consumer Price Index.
Fuel prices are up slightly, which is still within 25 cents per gallon of prices in May 2009. So what organizations are in the streets, exactly, and what are they protesting? OK, let’s hear Glenn explain how this is all being manipulated by George Soros.

To Bill O’s credit, he asks him the direct question at 1:08. ” So let’s take the prices first. So your theory is, that the rising prices, and the rise in food commodity prices is directly attributable to Mr. Soros.”

1:18 Glenn: “Oh yeah, ah, Mr. Soros, um, um, along with allies and, and, he’s created a shadow government which we outlined, um, and really, um, in, in, his own words, the shadow party is something that he did, the shadow party conventions back in 2000.” Not really, Glenn. The Shadow Party thing is based on a widely discredited book by Richard Poe which claims that millions of dollars of Democratic Party campaign contributions were siphoned off into George Soros’ pocket. It is totally absurd, totally undocumented, and just another outright lie.

1:30 Glenn: “… um, and so he and his allies believe there should be a New World Order.” Who was it that first used the phrase “New World Order”? Wasn’t that, hmmm, lemme think.; Hmmm,

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a9Syi12RJo

Oh, yeah! That was George H. W. Bush, noted NEOCON, the natural enemy of socialists like George Soros, talking up how the world was going to be run by a puppet-like UN dominated by the US. Yeah, but now suddenly the New World Order people are socialists! Damn!

1:37 Glenn: This is an organization that George Soros has been putting together for years, in his own words…

1:50 O’Reilly: He’s got the Open Society Organization, and he’s got all this other business that he finances…

1:50 Glenn: Right. $500 million dollars to some of the most radical leftist organizations…

1:54 Bill O’Reilly: There’s no doubt, there’s no doubt.

1:55 Glenn: The guy who runs that “philanthropy” for him, and picks everybody, was the creator of SDS.

OK, stop stop stop. Glenn, I’m calling bullshit on you until you name names and detail exactly what part they had in the original Weather Underground and what their job description, budget, and organizational branch is like. Saying that somebody used to do this or that is bullshit unless you can prove it and explain it. Saying that he runs a $400 million philanthropy budget is absurd beyond belief. Anyone? Do you know how much money that is for one person to administer?

Glenn and Billo articulate another spew of RWNJ platitudes, mainly about how the socialists are so rich (hey, I could use a few $ over here) and how they want to destroy the US government. One question, sirs: Since the John Birch Society is dead and gone, radicals like Cleon Skousen and Ezra Taft Benson, former Mormon nutters, again dead, discredited. Why has the supposedly powerful progressive New-World-Order-expousing left wing been unable to turn this into a bigger version of Cuba? Why is it that the right wing nuts have been proliferating like rats and getting more and more radical every generation?

It’s because the left-wing conspiracy theory is just Mormon mythology. It’s used to scare people into hating social justice, unions, state institutions, of course, into line. If you step out of line as a Mormon, you’re done.

More on this later. I will try to get through another minute of this tape tomorrow. Good gawd it gets ugly.

Thanks to Jon Stewart

we have a complete explanation of the attack on Soros. Glenn Beck is actually working for Soros. His mission is to destroy Fox News through Glenn Beck.

This all makes perfect sense if you think about it.

Because of his slide down the ratings chute, Glenn Beck is apparently feeling the hot breath of MSNBC down his back… and it’s getting him excited. So excited that for the second time in as many weeks, Beck has used homophobic slurs to attack MSNBC staffers.

O'Donnell has "revealed" himself to be "socialist" so to Glenn that means the end is near, oh, and also that O'Donnell is gay

Last time it was his attack on the entire MSNBC staff over the “Lean Over” ad campaign described below in an earlier post. This time it was specifically directed at Lawrence O’Donnell, former Chief of Staff to one of the most powerful men in the US Senate during the 1970s and 1980s, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynahan.

Beck threw a gear with a rant about O’Donnell’s comments regarding how Americans don’t understand the meaning of the word “socialism” (upon which he is absolutely spot on, by the way. O’Donnell’s point is that since the New Deal we are no longer a capitalist country, we have some socialist characteristics that have become very popular. We have a mixed economy, just like every other nation has a mixed economy. There are no more capitalist or socialist states). Beck started in with calling “Larry” “the new hot lover boy” (his emphasis) at MSNBC. If you were opening up a legitimate argument about politics with an opponent, why would you use sexual innuendo in the opening argument? Who talks about men like that?

I’ll tell you who. GAY MEN. More on that in a moment.

Beck continued “He said on Friday he’s not a liberal… no no no … I mean, he could play it straight as an arrow on the air.”

Why would Glenn Beck use terms like “hot lover boy” and “straight arrow”? Because his overcompensation for his own self-loathing homophobia is eating what’s left of his heart from the inside out. Beck can’t even talk about political opponents now without bringing up some kind of sexual reference about gays.

Beck’s sexual hangups have been famous everywhere he worked. After he went through his first transformation from slime shock jock to slime opportunist rightwingnut, he went to war against pornography, particularly porn that involved women dressed in school uniforms. For some reason this really “got” Beck. Why? Could it be that the chapter he wrote in his book about a steamy hot love affair with his sister really happened? After writing 6 or so pages of what could only be called jerkoff material for incestuous pedophiles, he snaps you back to “reality” by saying this is just a made-up story but it somehow illustrates how bad homosexuality is.

Beck also likes to attack homosexuals by saying they have sex with animals. Next claim he’ll have after this Soros thing blows up in his face is that MSNBC is doing the peacock.

More news at Nine.

The weepy Weeble might have something to really cry about according to the ratings chart worked up by TVByTheNumbers.

You can drive other people crazy, Glenn, but stay away from the edge of the cliff

Beck has literally gone off the cliff by media standards, plummeting 24% compared to his viewership in October 2009. Put this into perspective. Here’s the man who is trying to claim the crown of the most influential political commentator in American media, and he loses 24% of his audience in the month before the 2010 mid-term elections. Holy Mormon Juice, Batboy, WTF is up with THAT?

In the important 25-54 demographic, the money pot for cable news, Beck did even worse. His ratings dropped 28% for that demographic in the same comparative months. That’s approaching 1/3 of his audience, for those of you who think better in fractions.

So far I haven’t read any theories on why the creepy little goofball would be plummeting like cow flop, but I will stick my neck out and offer a couple of explanations. First off, the man is OCD and ADD at the same time. The OCD makes his show a one-trick pony of crackpot conspiracy theories that haven’t panned out, haven’t got a shred of reality attached to them, and don’t either enlighten or entertain you. If you are constantly being scared, told that there is a meta-plan to imprison you and take away your money, and the only way you can fight it is to buy Beck’s dubious books and Goldline products, sooner or later this is going to drive some of the viewers away. Glenn, I hate to say it, but you’re going to need a new crisis to save your career.

The ADD part of it was evidenced by the 8-28 Rally, where Mormon Beck lined the stage with right wing nutjob preachers and tried to claim the title of grand Poobah of the unified movement to take back America by asserting religion. WTF? Glenn, I don’t think you’ve thought that one through very well. People might get dewey-eyed and huggy when they’re standing there on the Mall being told that God and Jesus and Moroni are all about what it’s all about. But the TeaBaggers whom Glenn organized behind the 9.12 Project (“Oh, let’s remember how we felt so patriotic and unified the day after 37oo people got killed by 19 towelhead terrorists”) have something else on their mind. The TeaBaggers want political blood, they want guns, retribution, revenge, and the end to fluoridation. They got thrown off the bus on 8-28 and actually blown off on 9.12. So there goes that. I was planning to write about that amazing ego of Beck to think he can just whip people up into a frenzy and then expect them to stay fired up for a year just at the mention of his name. It’s almost as if he’s starting to believe his own press. Reality Check for Glenn: a movement is something that you nurture, it takes stroking, supportive words, and most of all you can’t just IGNORE it a year after your first big rally (which you failed to attend, too). I think Obama just learned a lesson about that, didn’t he?

So, there you have it, my analysis of Glenn’s ratings FAIL. I can just hardly wait until the news comes out that he’s been having a homosexual affair with his radio producer for years. You know something like that is coming down the pike.

Update 11/9/10

There is plenty of speculation that due to Beck’s longstanding feuds with other staff (O’Reilly, Hannity, and probably everyone he comes into contact with), his poor ratings, and his lack of revenue due to the Beck Boycott, Rupert Murdoch might be coming to the realization that it’s time to cut Beck loose. At this time the rationale for keeping Beck in his time slot is not direct revenue; it’s because he attracts the pointy-headed freaks that will watch the shows following his show. If that keeps dropping, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t, Beck is finished. It’s just a matter of time.