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</div><div>Evangelicals Love Donald Trump for Many Reasons, But One of Them Is Especially Terrifying</div><div>End Times.</div><div>Stephanie Mencimer January 23, 2020</div></div>=also politico If you’re a regular listener of Glenn Beck’s radio show and you wanted to contribute to a political group that would advance the populist conservative ideals he touts on his show, you’d have plenty of reason to think that FreedomWorks was your best investment.But if you’re a fan of Mark Levin’s radio show, you’d have just as much cause to believe that Americans for Prosperity, a FreedomWorks rival, was the most effective conservative advocacy group. And, if Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity are who you listen to, you’d be hearing a steady stream of entreaties to support the important work of the Heritage Foundation.
“The point that people don’t realize,” said Michael Harrison, founder and publisher of the talk media trade publication TALKERS Magazine, “is that (big time political talk show hosts) are radio personalities – they are in the same business that people like Casey Kasem are in – and what they do is no different than people who broadcast from used car lots or restaurants or who endorse the local roofer or gardener.”That’s not coincidence. In search of donations and influence, the three prominent conservative groups are paying hefty sponsorship fees to the popular talk show hosts. Those fees buy them a variety of <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/static/PPM170_110614_levinafp.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">promotional</a> <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/static/PPM170_freedomworks.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">tie-ins</a>, as well as regular on-air plugs – praising or sometimes defending the groups, while urging listeners to donate – often woven seamlessly into programming in ways that do not seem like paid advertising.The Heritage Foundation pays about $2 million to sponsor Limbaugh’s show and about $1.3 million to do the same with Hannity’s – and considers it money well spent.“We approach it the way anyone approaches advertising: where is our audience that wants to buy what you sell?” Genevieve Wood, Heritage’s vice president for operations and marketing. “And their audiences obviously fit that model for us. They promote conservative ideas and that’s what we do.”Last month, in the midst of a <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55051.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">flurry of scrutiny</a> of GOP presidential candidates’ stances on health insurance <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/54651.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">mandates</a> similar to one included in the 2010 Democratic healthcare overhaul, Limbaugh took to the airwaves to defend Heritage’s past support for such a proposal.“The Heritage Foundation to this day says they are being impugned and misrepresented in terms of their advocacy for such a thing,” <a target="blank" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051811/content/01125107.guest.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">Limbaugh said</a>, explaining that the venerable think tank “abandoned the idea once they saw it implemented” and realized “it doesn’t work.”Limbaugh, who has been a paid Heritage endorser <a target="blank" href="http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_010709/content/01125109.guest.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">since 2009</a>, said the reversal did nothing to detract from the “profound … respect for Heritage. Heritage is the gold standard. Heritage was every bit as involved in Reaganism as Reagan was, and nothing’s changed.”Levin, whose endorsement deal with the tea party organizing group Americans for Prosperity started last summer, was similarly protective of his sponsor last year after President Barack Obama singled out the group in making the case that anonymously funded attack ads <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1010/43470.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">were distorting</a> the midterm elections.“Americans for Prosperity is a magnificent organization that people join voluntarily. You. Me,” Levin said <a target="blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJQWtE8mm0" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease; text-decoration-line: none;">on his syndicated radio show</a>. Obama, Levin continued, “wants you to hate Americans for Prosperity. So if he wants you to hate it, then you should embrace it, and promote it, and support it and join it, because it’s effective.”...Beck, lavishing praise on FreedomWorks’s new social network website this year, seemed to acknowledge the blurriness of the line between his show’s content and messages paid for by advertisers.“This is a new thing from FreedomWorks and by the way, they are sponsor of this program and I have a commercial to do for them in, well, in just a few minutes. I don’t think they’re going to get one because this is pretty much it,” he said on his show, in a clip that’s <a target="blank" href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/02/14/freedom-connector-get-organized">posted</a> on his personal website. “But it is something that I believe in, I’m not saying this because they’re paying me to do a commercial in a couple of minutes. This is something that I think is absolutely critical.”<div class="story-embed" times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman"><div id="storyControls" class="embed-mod js"><div id="listenToStory">To be sure, the hosts’ political perspectives dovetail with those of their endorsees and their paid sponsorships do not preclude them from discussing – or even praising – other groups.And the integration of sponsors and their causes into the content of conservative talkers’ shows is not unique to advocacy groups and think tanks, as Beck demonstrated in 2009 when he melded his frequent warnings of impending economic collapse with his promotion of <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30231.html">gold</a>, generally, and the precious metals retailer that sponsored his show, <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0910/42222.html">Goldline</a>, specifically.That prompted liberals – led by now-embattled Democratic Rep. Anthony Weiner – to accuse Beck and, to a lesser extent, other conservative talk show hosts sponsored by gold retailers, of using misleading fear-mongering <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/37413.html">tactics</a> “to cheat consumers.”The increased willingness of non-profits to write big checks for such radio endorsements – which appears to have started in 2008, when Heritage <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/static/PPM191_heritagefoundation.html">paid $1.2 million</a> to sponsor the talk shows hosted by Hannity and Laura Ingraham – seems to be a primarily, if not entirely, a conservative phenomenon.That’s perhaps attributable to the enduring power of talk radio on the right, as well as a newer development, the explosion of grassroots engagement by tea partiers and other newly mobilized Republican activists, which has spurred a competition for grass roots support – <a target="blank" href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/30595.html">and contributions</a> - among conservative groups.Heritage estimates that it in each of the past two years, its sponsorships with Limbaugh and Hannity brought in more than 40,000 new memberships starting at the $25 level, while FreedomWorks said that in the three months after its Beck sponsorship started in April 2010, the group saw a huge spike in traffic to its website (which featured a photo of Beck linked to a fundraising <a target="blank" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/201006140030">appeal</a>), resulting in 50,000 new email sign-ups.Americans for Prosperity wouldn’t divulge any details about its sponsorship of Levin, but board member Art Pope said the endorsement “makes AfP’s position on issues and policies more widely known and it also does attract grassroots activists or potential donors to AfP.”The groups pay the companies that distribute the hosts’ shows, and not the hosts directly, for the endorsements.While the deals differ, most provide the sponsoring group a certain number of messages or so called “live-reads,” in which the host will use a script, outline or set of talking points to deliver an advertisement touting the group and encouraging listeners to visit its website or contribute to it.</div></div></div>aug 2011 also g carlson foxGlenn Beck's The Blaze is <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/u-s-dept-of-ed-pushes-man-made-global-warming-at-kids-reading-event/" title="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/u-s-dept-of-ed-pushes-man-made-global-warming-at-kids-reading-event/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">stoking fears</a> of a sinister plot aimed at "indoctrinating children" with the "overtly controversial stance" that global warming is man-made with free books and SpongeBob SquarePants:<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">On July 20, 2011, kids in the Washington, D.C. area were treated to free books during a special U.S. Department of Education event. Two of the books that were offered featured popular Nickelodeon characters as part of the network's "Big Green Help Series," a campaign encouraging children to help protect the Earth.But one of these publications takes an overtly controversial stance, as it promotes the idea that global warming is a man-made problem that requires human intervention in order to be stemmed.</blockquote>Of course, there should be <a href="http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?nfpb=true&pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=1907" title="http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_SUPERARTICLE&node_id=1907" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">nothing remotely controversial</a> about the idea that humans are contributing to climate change. Countless <a href="http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12781" title="http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12781" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">scientific</a> <a href="http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm" title="http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/07_1.cfm" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">organizations</a> and <a href="http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2007climatechange.html" title="http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2007climatechange.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">groups</a> long ago <a href="http://stats.org/stories/2008/global_warming_survey_apr23_08.html" title="http://stats.org/stories/2008/global_warming_survey_apr23_08.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">moved past</a> the notion that the concept is "controversial." The controversy exists only in the fevered imaginations of <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/07/07/heartland-institutes-climate-contrarians-enjoy/185131" title="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201107070016" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">right-wing commentators</a>, like those at The Blaze, where it has become <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/01/27/fox-tries-to-debunk-global-warming-fails-misera/183174" title="http://mediamatters.org/research/201101270013" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">a point of pride</a> to deny a massive body of scientific research.SPOILER ALERT!Not content to ruin science, The Blaze also gave away the ending of SpongeBob SquarePants in The Endless Summer while explaining why that particular episode of the cartoon was "implausible":<blockquote style="border: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170); margin: 20px 20px 25px; padding: 25px 30px 10px; box-shadow: rgb(204, 204, 204) 0px 6px 0px -4px; clear: both; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In the end, because of global warming, Mr. Krab's pool water boils away. But, don't despair. Once everyone in SpongeBob's hometown (remember, this all exists underwater, which makes the entire premise of the story implausible) starts planting trees, riding bikes and unplugging appliances, the community is restored. And, Mr. Krab even decides to give people a discount for coming to the pool if they walk or ride their bikes. Problem solved!</blockquote>

<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.72px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">Glenn Beck is accusing Daily Kos Staff Writer Shaun King of being one of "the two main guys" leading a network of "Islamicists, Communists and anti-Americans" as part of a national "anti-police" conspiracy.<br style="line-height: 18.72px; outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" />

<span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.72px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">You can read all of Shaun’s work covering police brutality for Daily Kos <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://kos.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xktX1zDtEpbazmaL2uVkQ5XU7njafXpW" style="text-decoration: none; line-height: 18.72px; outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">here</a><span style="font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 18.72px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);">. Shaun’s work is always supported by facts, often including videos of the violence people of color face at the hands of police every day.<br style="line-height: 18.72px; outline: none; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(245, 245, 245);" />

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<div class="byline story" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Brad Blog / By <a href="http://www.alternet.org/authors/brad-friedman">Brad Friedman</a> [1]</div>

<h1 property="dc:title" datatype="" class="node-title">Glenn Beck's Supporters Turn on Him After 'Operation American Spring' Total Fail</h1>

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This piece first appeared on the <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10639#more-10639">BradBlog.</a> [2]

Glenn Beck's natives are getting very restless, and many of them are now taking their frustrations out on him.

The organizers of last Friday's <a href="http://operationamericanspring.org/">"Operation American Spring"</a> [3] (OAS) had <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/13/operation-american-spring-promises-to-drive-obama-from-office-this-friday/">claimed</a> [4] their massive Washington D.C. protest, "calling for the removal of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, and Eric Holder as a start toward constitutional restoration," was likely to draw 10 million to 30 million fed-up American patriots to the nation's capital.

To the weekend-long <a href="http://firebrandprogressives.org/35-top-excuses-happened-29999000-people-didnt-show-operation-american-spring/">bemusement</a> [5] of Democrats and progressives, the number of attendees at the rally was closer to 10 people than to 30 million. As even the rightwing Washington Times reported, attendance fell "woefully below expectations," with turnout claims varying from a few hundred to a few thousand. "Hundreds is more like it," said one of the attendees quoted by the Times.

Progressives were <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2014/05/17/americanspringexcuses-overtakes-twitter-operation-american-spring-epic-fail.html">predictably entertained</a> [6] by the dismal failure of the umpteenth rally to save our nation from the "outlaws" or "commies" or "Muslims" or "Constitution haters" who have now taken it over the government — through peaceful elections. But once the King of the American Patriots himself, Glenn Beck, and his online "news" outlet The Blaze, appeared to join in to mock the event, the real patriots could no longer hold their tongues.

Long-time supporters of Beck's turned their sights on the radio host-turned-CNN-host- turned-Fox-"News"-host-turned-multi-millionaire-Internet-entrepeneur after <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/05/16/operation-american-spring-comes-to-washington-was-only-millions-short-of-projected-turnout/">The Blaze's Oliver Darcy covered the event</a> [7], describing it as "only millions short of projected turnout," featuring "only a few dozen protesters" and as having "failed incredibly."

Many of Beck's fans were decidedly not happy about that, some going so far as to declare Beck himself "the enemy"...

"Operation American Spring was BECKSTABBED and then TheBlaze has the nerve to mock them for low turnout," said one furious commenter at The Blaze. "Of course glenn [sic] did not endorse it, it wasn't his PARTY," said another in response.

And on and on it went. While many Blaze readers predictably blamed the usual "commie" or "Muslim" or "liberal" or "government" operatives for undermining the event, the most vitriol in The Blaze's hundreds of comments on the one article seemed to be reserved for Beck himself.

Reading through them, one finds many calls for an armed or otherwise violent overthrow of the government. Some commenters complained they hadn't heard about the event until it had already failed, while many blamed Beck for that as well.

Others came to Beck's defense, blaming the organizers for a bad idea in the first place. One commenter named "Eastinfection" said the entire affiar, echoing the name and tactics of the so-called "Arab Spring" uprisings, just sounded too Muslim-y. "Looking at it's [sic] name, alone, would have been enough to make me avoid it. sounds like an event for Muslims demanding Sharia Law in the USA."

Commenter "Uechi" echoed the sentiment: "When you here [sic] the word 'spring' used in this contest [sic] one can't help but remember Egypt. How'd that work out moron?"

Another commenter, "mustang-2537", felt that Operation American Spring's acronym was just too similar to the one applied to the Occupy Wall Street movement for those on the right. "Its title of OAS is just too close to the hated OWS."

As expected, there were scattered shots taken throughout the comments against both Beck and his supporters from posters who were obviously never fans of his in the first place. And some commenters, such as "Nof", were quick to come to Beck's defense: "Glenn has done much more than anyone else to open our eyes to The Progressive Agenda, and some are abandoning him and standing with those who will aid Progressives in their destruction of America."

But it was the stinging comments from the many self-declared "patriots," excoriating Beck and The Blaze for failing to support OAS, that caught our eye.

One attack after another after another seemed to suggest that many amongst the minions Beck has succeeded in working into an angry, paranoid and disinformation-based lather during the years since President Obama was first elected to office, may now be turning hard against the man they had once viewed as their one true savior from the Communist-in-Chief.

Here are just a few of the spirited attacks on Beck and the Blaze, as posted at his very own website [all typos, misspelling and bad grammar found in the original]:

"Mohawk77": "Based on disparaging Beck comments made regarding this event I would suggest not getting in a foxhole with Beck expecting him to defend you and I'm sure as hell glad he wasn't influential in 1776 or we'd all have British accents. ... The Founders/Framers risked their lives and fortunes for our freedom. Don't count on Beck to risk anything except maybe a new sponsor or new found fake friendship with his new Hollywood 'friends'. Becks about as deep as a small puddle thats almost dry.Just like the GOP..I say cut him off..quit Blaze TV."

"defendConstitution": "I ALSO AM VERY DISAPPOINTED WITH THE BLAZE. I have given Glen Beck a lot of money because I thought He and the Blaze were on the side of patriots."

"DMONIC": "Why doesnt little Beckyboy pony up the cash to send all of us to DC? Oh thats right, because hes a govt shill!!"

In response to a commenter named "SoftwareBabe", who claims to be a longtime supporter of Beck's and who attempted to defend him by charging that "MOST of you commenting on this article are TROLLS"...

"The_Traitors_Will_Swing": "Wow softwarebabe ... You are so deep in Denial I seriously don't know if there's hope for you A few years back I was Almost that mesmerized by Glenn but since then my eyes are open !!! No politically correct BS here"

"fedup ohio": "SoftwareBabe, No disrespect intended, but you have drunk the Kool-aid. But, I will admit, I took sip a time or two."

"katzkiner": "Softie, I'm sorry, I just thought after 6 years of Beckie getting all emotional about the founders and the sacrifices of the American Revolution we thought he would jump at the chance to protest the islamic socialist takeover of the country. ... Beckie can quit advertising guns, gear, survival food, safes and other prepper stuff, he's is after all just a teary NY carpetbagger. Good luck as a movie mogel Beck. You will need it.

"WarMunger_Al": "Of course, Beck is anti-patriot now. Pretty sad state of affairs when only a a couple dozen people care enough to show up."

"macpappy": "With the left wing writers at the Blaze, what did you expect."

"gunslinger" (in response to "macpappy"): "Not left wing. They are just becoming populists like O'Reilly. In other words they lick a finger and hold it to the wind"

"Hey Harry Lets Box": "Exactly. Beck, give everything to [radio host Michael] Savage and go hide in your hole."

"DaRyuujin": "I got more respect for those Americans who were there taking a stand then beck sitting comfy in his studio mocking them. I haven't much heard of Beck doing anything more than running his mouth insulting patriots lately while the country goes deeper and deeper in the pit."

"bigbear_awake": "F t bLAZE DONT KNOCK IT IF YOU cant get behind it ... I dropped my account he has all the cable money now he dont need ours anymore thanks for NOTHING BECK"

"Bonnieblue2A": "Glenn as not behaved well these past few months. He's become a real tool with the way he attacks and puts down those patriotic Americans who have not been corrupted by Freedom Works Astroturf. I'm very disappointed in his boorish behavior. It started with his personal attacks on Ron Paul (original Tea Party founder) and have only worsened from there."

"Aubryn": "That is exactly what Glenn did. I do not trust him now. After what he did to Bundy, this is the first Blaze article I've read in a month #coward #glenn ... Beck helped kill this event. I do not trust him. Turned him off"

In the middle of a discussion about "armed revolt" being needed, now that voting and rallies haven't worked, as far as many of the commenters were concerned, "KnewHear" seemed to accuse Beck himself of forwarding "anti-conservative propaganda" in suggesting that OAS protesters might show up to the D.C. rally with weapons: "Just as a reminder NOONE said anything about arms....except people like Beck. So that aspect is anti-conservative propaganda being perpetuated from the supposed Conservative/Libertarian side."

"Gotztheironhand": "Glenn has not been representing the facts accurately, meaning he either has an agenda other than the truth, or he has people inside his organization misleading him."

"lisalake": "this is an epic FAILURE. And not to mention the probable direct impact Glenn and others who flat out called for no one to show"

"babumjane": "how could they have a good turnout when none of the media would cover it before hand including the hypocrite glen beck!!! He made his millions now he is just one of the creeps getting rich from spewing his garbage. It was AOK when he was planning his rally he wanted all the coverage he could get so why didn't he give this rally publicity beforehand. HUM whose pocket is he in."

"dublinthewagons": "It didn't fit into becks agenda, to help promote it. Reverend beck (with a little b) is only interested in his own agenda. Stick a fork in the good old U.S. of A. Everyone is on their own. Welcome to the new third world communist country."

"katzkiner": "Stay tuned. It has not began yet. Beck was not the star so he wouldn't lend any support but the objectives were everything he told us we needed for the last 5 years."

"[Suspended User]", likely the one commenters later referred to as "Cindy", before her account was suspended for some reason: "No wonder why you relate to Beck. Except you dont leave the house and he does with an entourage. Savage was correct about Beck years ago. Circus clown."

"DaRyuujin": "Wow...so let me get this straight the Blaze refuses to report on this before hand to give it extra attention for those who had never heard of it.....yet they are quick to make a story about how not a ton of people showed like they were hoping. ... Almost sounds like the folks at the blaze were hoping or should i say praying for it to flop. ... It just seems like f it isn't something Beck came up with himself he wants no part in it. We all saw how viciously and quickly he turned on the Bundy ranch supporters he just doesn't seem to support people standing up for our rights in general....unless they are following behind prophet Beck in that case he fully supports the movements, as long as his own little flock of sheep is there and he gets his pedestal. ... Becks ego has grown way, way too big he acts as if he is some sort of prophet he has lost touch (and lost) a lot of his fan base because he has lost the values he originally stood for that grew his fan base to begin with."

"AmericanWomanFirst": "don't understand the Blaze and I don't understand why Beck would not at least be supportive of these patriots. What are they afraid of?"

"WillTheBlazeFreezeThisAccount" ["Cindy" again?]: Blaze refused to report on it and Beck trashed it on the radio show....Then TheBlaze mocks it for not having 'millions' of people. Seems to me like this is more of a pride thing than anything. Beck wants to be remembered forever for 9/12 and nobody is allowed to take its place.

"Aubryn": "Glenn Beck can no longer be trusted. He has believed his own hype and thinks he is the Bagwhan. He has become an embarrassing caricature of the man he once was. All this mystical shuck and jive crap. He sold his soul. ... Inhave stopped watching the Blaze. Hours and hours and hours of sermons on beckworship. He is losing his following. It started as a slow bleed, it is now hemorrhaging."

"KnewHear": "Glenn Beck's agenda is NOT what he 'advertised' ... Many Hoped he would open a different option on the usual Controlled agenda driven press."

"fedup ohio": "I went to the event. And yes, it had a terrible turn out. Very disappointing. It doesn't help that Glen Beck bad mouth the event. ... Glen is nothing more than a bunch of hot air. We need a new voice for America, Glen is a coward. ... The way I see it, if Glen isn't the head honcho at an event, he won't support it. ... It's disgraceful how Glen and his cohorts have reacted to Americans trying to do something. And I bet you that, almost everyone at the rally are also followers of Glen Beck. So in essence, Glen is making fun of some of his supporters."

"rose-ellen": "Beck didn't like it because it wasn't his idea."

"Smoore": "Wow. As if reading the nasty tweets from liberals all day wasn't enough. This article was sarcastic and patronizing. Shame on you Blaze. I talk better about my no good ex husband than you do about fellow Patriots."

"pepper61": "I'm very disappointed in Glenn Beck and the Blaze...you could have at least offered to cover this story and promote it. This is something you people have been preaching about for the last five years..how Obama is turning the country into Socialism, or worse, and then when the People finally go ahead to stand up to him, you ignore them completely?"

"The_Traitors_Will_Swing": "Way to decieve people here Glenn ! Real fine work !! You prove yourself more of a loser every day !!!!!!!! Way to Decieve idiot !! No wonder your followers are dropping like flies anymore !!!!! ... I used to believe in Beck he has sold out..."

"TeaBeliever": "It's offical: Gleb Beck has gone to the dark side. He turned on Clive Bundy now he turned on the Tea Party."

"outlaw45": "I have followed Beck since he left CNN. Beck is reporting the propaganda issued by the gov. on OAS. In my eyes. Beck is now part of the problem. He was probably part of the problem all along. ... Beck is a liar. And he is the enemy."

In case Beck isn't getting the message from those who read his own website, perhaps the devout Mormon might better relate to the New Testament, Galatians 6:7: "For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

<a href="http://www.alternet.org/print/tea-party-and-right/glenn-becks-supporters-turn-him-after-operation-american-spring-total-fail">http://www.alternet.org/print/tea-party-and-right/glenn-becks-supporters-turn-him-after-operation-american-spring-total-fail</a>

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sorta sane:

Conservative activists and media outlets have generally embraced the cause of Cliven Bundy, a Nevada cattle rancher who inspired a gang of protesters—many of them armed—to face off with federal law enforcement this weekend. But one figure on the right has taken a surprising stand against Bundy's supporters: former Fox News host Glenn Beck.

On Saturday, a large group of anti-government protesters converged on a Bureau of Land Management base camp in rural Nevada to protest the federal government's seizure of Bundy's cows. Bundy had for years grazed hundreds of cattle on protected lands controlled by the federal government and refused to pay the resulting court-ordered fines. This month, after nearly 20 years of consistently beating Bundy in court, the BLM moved to confiscate his cattle. A judge ordered Bundy not to physically interfere. In response, Bundy assembled protesters to confront the BLM officers who were holding his livestock.

After a dramatic, two-day standoff, federal officers backed down and handed the cows over to Bundy to avoid violence. Astonishing <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/nevada-rancher-feds-face-over-cattle-n79271" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">photos from the scene</a> show protesters perched on a highway overpass and hunkered down in the brush with long-range weapons; one photo appears to show a man on the bridge <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-long-fight-between-cliven-bundy-and-the-federal-government/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">aiming down at the BLM base camp.</a>

The involvement of armed militiamen—and Bundy's promise to "do whatever it takes" to reclaim his cattle—doesn't appear to phase conservative activists who have turned Bundy into a cause célèbre. Before this weekend's confrontation, National Review Online, Fox & Friends,and American Thinker all blamed the government for <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/10/right-wing-media-are-throwing-gas-on-a-ranchers/198841" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">mounting tensions</a>. Two groups affiliated with Americans for Prosperity, a political organization funded primarily by the Koch brothers, spent the weekend tweeting their support for Bundy, Media Matters <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/11/feds-turn-from-landlords-to-warlords-koch-group/198857" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">reported</a>. Sean Hannity, who on Friday <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=armAcbEO1PE#t=255" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">hailed Bundy</a> as a capitalist hero—"When your cattle graze there, that keeps the price of meat down for every American consumer"—invited Bundy back on the air Monday for <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2014/04/14/hannity-gives-platform-for-lawless-rancher-to-d/198892" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">a second, easygoing interview</a> in which he made only glancing reference to the armed confrontation.

Beck, though, in an episode of his show broadcast Monday, said he fully supports Bundy's principles but <a href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2014/04/14/inciting-violence-doesnt-solve-anything-glenn-denounces-violence-in-response-to-nevada-ranch-conflict/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">couldn't look past</a> his supporters:

The problem here is that Bundy hasn't been all that clear on this…He's a rancher. And so he's not used to making his sound bite case in this sound bite world. But the problem with that lack of clarity is some of the supporters that he's attracting. He is drawing in the decent, small government proponents from groups such as the tea party…I know there's some people that listen [to] and watch me. And they are sick of the government regulations hampering themselves, small businesses, farming, I'm with you on that.

But when you're not really super clear, it also draws another element, drawing in the violent, anti-government groups. The, I think, right's version of Occupy Wall Street. We did some research online on PsyID [a social-media analysis tool] today, and found that there's about 10 to 15 percent of the people who are talking about this online that are truly frightening. They don't care what the facts are—they just want a fight. And you see it in some of these pictures.

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At this point, video played behind Beck of protesters scuffling with federal officers.

I don't know who these people are. They all might be great. But here they are, they're acting, they're enraged, they're enraged. And they're confronting the federal government officials. I get that. But this is not the way to win…I want to be clear, 100 percent clean on one thing all of us should agree on, and unfortunately, I don't believe we do, both left and right. And that is, we need to agree on, we condemn those who use violence. Inciting violence doesn't solve anything. I vehemently denounce anyone who even hints at such tactics…People can spot anger and vengeance from a mile away. And when I saw that video where they were lunging and jumping at the agents, calling them scumbags, I thought, this is our side's Occupy Wall Street. It's happening all over again, and it will end the same way.

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Beck didn't specifically call out the armed protesters, and the Blaze, a website that is part of his media empire, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/10/right-wing-media-are-throwing-gas-on-a-ranchers/198841" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">played up</a> the federal government's role in bringing the crisis to a head. Beck claims the facts of the federal government's actions against Bundy are "convoluted" (when they're <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/04/15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-long-fight-between-cliven-bundy-and-the-federal-government/" target="blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">pretty well established</a>) and equates heavily armed protesters with Occupy Wall Street. But there's no doubt that he took a stand against the extreme elements among Bundy's supporters. And when Glenn Beck approximates a reasonable position on the same night that a blood moon rises, you've got to second-guess the folks who say <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/04/blood-moon-end-of-days-john-hagee" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">the world isn't coming to an end</a>.

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Yet for right-wing website  The Blaze, news of a tryst between the three rich, aging white men is a cosmic revelation seemingly heralded by Providence, and the website gushes that the "UNPRECEDENTED, POWERFUL COALITION. . .LIKELY HAS THE ESTABLISHMENT TERRIFIED."

The story is that the three megalomaniacs had been fighting over what megalomaniacs generally fight each other for: power and influence. After months of potshots and aggressive snark, Beck announced they would be coming together to "join forces," as  The Blaze writes.

The "alliance" will probably be a financial boon for the three personalities, as they leverage propaganda outlets like  The Blaze to help them sell books and tickets for what will likely materialize into yet another cross country bonanza of speaking engagements and book-signings...alternet

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Glenn Beck's <a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F1mQzjsX&utm_campaign=weekly130_2&n=24&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email" style="line-height: 15.6px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">recent apologies</a>underscore the insurrectionism he pushed, even if Beck is just apologizing to make getting his network The Blaze funding from your cable provider:<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://action.mediamatters.org/r?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmm4a.org%2F1mQzjsX&utm_campaign=weekly130_2&n=25&e=2fd18ded548fce9ef66e074aaf01da3d5df1923b&utm_source=mediamatters&utm_medium=email" style="line-height: 15.6px; outline: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://mm4a.org/1mQzjsX</a>

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/search/index?qstring=glenn+beck&x=23&y=0" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">We told you</a> back when Glenn Beck was a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/04/06/the-50-worst-things-glenn-beck-said-on-fox-news/178421" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Fox News host</a> that he was <a href="http://www.infowars.com/glenn-beck-says-government-will-stage-false-flag-terror-to-discredit-opposition/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">a blight</a> on our media and political culture and was doing great harm to the country. Beck now admits as much himself.  Returning for an appearance on Fox this week, Beck recalled his time there by <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/glenn-beck-fox-news-102464.html#ixzz2rETLr8uM" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">conceding</a> he made "an awful lot of mistakes." "I think I played a role," Beck reflected, "in helping tear the country apart. "

You think?

-<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2009/11/03/beck-white-house-and-progressives-are-taking-yo/156481" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 153, 255);">White House And Progressives Are "Taking You To A Place To Be Slaughtered</a>"

-"<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/03/25/beck-tells-country-to-pray-its-911-all-over-aga/162279" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">It's 9-11 All Over Again Except We Didn't Have The Collapsing Buildings</a>"

-<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/06/10/ranting-that-govt-under-nixon-wasnt-as-corrupt/166056" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Beck Suggests Obama Admin. Might Kill "10 Percent" Of Population</a>

-<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2009/07/28/beck-obama-has-exposed-himself-as-a-guy-with-a/152551" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Beck: Obama Is A "Racist" Who Has "Exposed Himself As A Guy" With "A Deep-Seated Hatred For White People, Or The White Culture</a>"

-<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2011/04/01/beck-people-on-the-american-left-are-funding-an/178231" style="outline: none; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Beck: The "American Left" Is "Funding Terrorists Or Working With Terrorists</a>"

Sure there's reason to be skeptical about Beck's latest public confession. He told Megyn Kelly he regretted<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2009/04/01/after-stating-i-am-not-saying-that-barack-obama/148835" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">dividing Americans</a> while at Fox between 2009 and 2011. But he didn't stop peddling hateful conspiracies when he left for his own independent network. In 2013, as the city of Boston and nation recoiled from the Boston Marathon terrorist attack, what did Beck do? He led a <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/05/02/beck-now-mired-in-competing-boston-conspiracies/193872" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">mindless crusade</a> against an innocent Saudi national student who was actually injured in the blast.

And keep in mind, Beck's network, The Blaze, is currently in the middle of a <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/02/25/theblaze-launches-grassroots-campaign-to-prove-to-tv-operators-that-conservative-commentary-is-in-demand/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">marketing campaign</a> to convince cable operations around the country to add his channel to their television offerings. It would make sense for Beck to strike a conciliatory public tone in hopes of addressing fears that operators might have about hosting the guy who was <a href="http://the-reaction.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-did-fox-news-fire-glenn-beck.html" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">too crazy</a> for Fox News.

So yes, I'm reluctant to assume Beck's apology means serious change is in order, or to pretend his entire media empire doesn't revolve around feeding his loyal followers an hourly dose of Obama Derangement Syndrome programming.

But if we take Beck's comments at face value they amount to a complete vindication for Media Matters, which helped lead the charge in highlighting his dangerous rhetoric, and warned about the long-term implications of Beck's effort to use cable TV to tear the country apart.

Of course Beck botched the facts and made stuff up while hosting his show at Fox, and of course Media Matters documented his deliberate misinformation. But he works for Fox, that's what their nighttime hosts are paid to do. What made Beck such an <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/04/06/the-50-worst-things-glenn-beck-said-on-fox-news/178421" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">incendiary figure</a> though, and the point Media Matters stressed for years, was that aside from being professional inaccurate, Beck was purposefully <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/08/26/self-proclaimed-civil-rights-leader-glenn-becks/169797" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">fermenting</a> a toxic brand of race-baiting paranoia designed to tap into the darkest fears among his right-wing followers.

Beck was pushing a disturbing brand of insurrectionism -- of <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/04/07/glenn-beck-and-the-rise-of-fox-news-militia-med/148957" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">militia media</a> -- in which the President of the United States wasn't simply criticized for being misguided, or for someone whose policies would set the country back. Instead, the President of the United States was <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2009/03/31/beck-the-government-is-a-heroin-pusher-using-sm/148793" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">ceaselessly depicted</a> as an enemy of America and to liberty itself; the man at the center of a <a href="http://www.infowars.com/glenn-beck-says-government-will-stage-false-flag-terror-to-discredit-opposition/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">violent leftist movement</a> designed to topple the Constitution and to eliminate the American way of life.

I realize that lots of liberal commentators didn't like George W. Bush, but this was crazy town talk.

Beck's two years of mostly mindless harangues and toxic attacks, which kicked off when he debuted his new show the week Obama was inaugurated in 2009, did deep damage to the public dialogue and helped legitimize rancid rhetoric in a way we haven't seen in modern American history. And in a way we'd certainly never seen or heard before on a national television platform.

Most disturbing of all was the specter of hostility that hung over Beck's show and the unavoidable way his dark conspiracies appeared to move some fans to acts of political violence.

<a href="http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/why-are-media-ignoring-richard-popla" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Fans</a> like <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/08/09/pop-poplawski-the-high-def-hucksters-and-the-do/168952" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Richard Poplawski</a>, who ambushed police officers at his mother's Pittsburgh home, gunning three of them down with an Ak-47 style rife. Poplawski <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/id/30043893/#.UuJpmvZOlT4" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">feared</a> "the Obama gun ban that's on the way" according to a friend; a conspiracy Beck had <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2009/04/09/media-conservatives-fearmongering-obama-will-ta/149054" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">pushed</a>.

Fans like Byron Williams, 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, left-leaning Tides Foundation in hopes of <a href="http://articles.sfgate.com/2010-07-21/news/21991372_1_chp-officers-body-armor-san-francisco" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">sparking a political revolution</a>. The foundation had been the centerpiece of a year-long Beck <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/07/23/the-ca-cop-shooter-and-glenn-beck-heres-what-we/168178" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">attack campaign</a>, during which he <a href="http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/07/organization_targeted_by_anti-govt_ca_shooting_suspect_was_frequent_topic_on_glenn_becks_show_video.php#more" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">smeared</a> the low-profile entity for being staffed by "thugs" and "bullies" and involved in "the nasty of the nastiest," like indoctrinating schoolchildren and creating a "mass organization to seize power."

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/10/11/byron-williams-beck-is-like-a-schoolteacher-on/171741" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">Said</a> Williams from jail, "Beck is like a schoolteacher on TV."

And fans like the ones at Beck's site, The Blaze, who followed the host's <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2011/01/25/piven-responds-to-beck-it-only-takes-one-person/175513" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">demented obsession</a> with elderly activist and academic Frances Fox Piven, by posting lurid threats against her: "ONE SHOT...ONE KILL!" announced one. "Why is this woman still alive?" asked another. And this <a href="http://www.ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-appeals-fox-news-president-help-silencing-glenn-beck-misinformation-camp" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">particularly shocking threat</a>: "Maybe they should burst through the front door of this arrogant elitist and slit the hateful cow's throat."

No, Media Matters never doubted the damage Beck was doing to the country. It's nice to know the host himself now admits we were right.

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<a href="http://grist.org/list/glenn-beck-will-fire-any-employee-caught-using-cfls/">http://grist.org/list/glenn-beck-will-fire-any-employee-caught-using-cfls/</a>

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extensive: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/magazine/03beck-t.html?pagewanted=all&r=0">http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/magazine/03beck-t.html?pagewanted=all&r=0</a>  bulletproof vest

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<a href="http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/2013/08/01/fox-news-adopts-glenn-beck-nudge-conspiracy-the/195177">http://mediamatters.org/print/blog/2013/08/01/fox-news-adopts-glenn-beck-nudge-conspiracy-the/195177</a>

Fox dumped Glenn Beck after his bizarre conspiracy theories and rhetoric reportedly caused the network's advertisers to balk. Now Fox appears to be clinging to one of his classic distortions, characterizing a government effort utilizing behavioral psychology to reduce fraud, error and debt as "mind control."

FoxNews.com <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/07/30/govt-knows-best-white-house-creates-nudge-squad-to-shape-behavior/" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">reported that</a> it obtained a document outlining plans for the government to hire a "Behavioral Insights Team" that "will look for ways to subtly influence people's behavior." The United Kingdom has implemented several related initiatives. In one instance the U.K. government sent out reminder letters to late taxpayers, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/feb/05/david-halpern-government-nudge-unit" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">leading to</a> increased tax revenue.

The ideas behind this type of initiative were laid out in Professor Cass Sunstein's book, Nudge. When Sunstein joined the Obama administration as the administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Beck launched a campaign to demonize him and his ideas.

Beck <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/05/27/beck-renews-witch-hunt-sunstein-has-more-power/165384" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">said</a> Sunstein was "the man that controls everything through nudges. He'll just nudge you. He'll never tell you what to do, he nudges." For example, Beck <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2011/01/12/beck-stokes-fears-of-a-ban-on-guns-following-az/175013" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">claimed</a> that Sunstein might enact policies to increase health premiums for gun owners, which would "nudge you into a position where you might get rid of that gun."

Beck cast behavioral psychology in sinister terms, describing it as <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2010/02/02/glenn-becks-ever-shifting-explanations-and-occa/159933" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">a plot</a> to convince people to "give up on your freedom" by being "nudged into it." He also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/09/14/beck-suggests-progressive-coalition-will-become/170633" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">stated</a> that progressives were trying to "nudge" the United States towards "global governance."

Fox News is now <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/31/right-wing-media-characterize-government-effort/195165" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">echoing its</a> former afternoon host. Fox contributor Monica Crowley said the initiative "has an Orwellian ring to it," while Fox Business host Lou Dobbs said it "sounds purely like propaganda and mind control." On America Live, host Shannon Bream said the initiative was "raising serious concerns about Big Brother."

On multiple occasions, Beck <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2011/06/20/beck-claims-cultural-elite-has-contempt-for-the/180716" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">characterized</a> behavioral psychology in <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/10/14/beck-on-healthy-school-lunch-program-first-its/171976" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">violent</a> terms, claiming that "Nudge leads to shove, and shove leads to shoot."

Fox & Friends co-hosts Steve Doocy and Brian Kilmeade <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/07/31/right-wing-media-characterize-government-effort/195165" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">echoed</a> Beck's complaints. Doocy noted that "sometimes a nudge can lead to a shove, so you just don't want to overdo it," while Kilmeade responded, "Right. Nudge, push, shove, poke, we don't know."

Beck often opposed related initiatives by jumping to the most paranoid conclusion in response to benign proposals. He <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2010/11/29/beck-campaigns-against-food-safety-bill/173834" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">opposed</a> a food safety bill in Congress, describing it as a stealth effort to "nudge us out of meat" because Sunstein "doesn't want us to eat meat." He also <a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/09/14/beck-fearmongers-that-offering-children-healthy/170627" style="outline: none; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204);">attacked</a> a program to promote healthier eating in school lunches, falsely claiming it would eventually lead to imprisonment for eating French fries.

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<h1 class="title" style="line-height: 1em; margin: 0px 0px 0.2em; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">How to Make Your Lie Go Mainstream in 26 Easy Steps:  <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/how-make-your-lie-go-mainstream-26-easy-steps">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/how-make-your-lie-go-mainstream-26-easy-steps</a></h1>

mojo: 2011  graphic funny <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/glenn-beck-fox-news-brain-chart">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/04/glenn-beck-fox-news-brain-chart</a>  gilson

Glenn Beck <a target="blank" href="http://a%20chart%20of%20the%20obsessions%20and%20conspiracies%20that%20fueled%20his%20soon-to-be-gone%20fox%20news%20show./" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">has announced</a> that he "intends to transition off of his daily program" on Fox News later this year. It's not clear what killed The Glenn Beck Show—perhaps it was the <a target="blank" href="http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/07/glenn-beck-advertisers-fox-news" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">fleeing advertisers</a> or the <a target="blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/03/liberal-viewers-keep-glenn-beck-on-air-fox" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">shrinking audiences</a>. Or perhaps it was the increasingly <a target="blank" href="http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/02/glenn-becks-collision-course-fox" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">bizarro</a>obsessions and labyrinthine <a target="_blank" href="http://motherjones.com/special-reports/2010/05/glenn-becks-golden-fleece" style="text-decoration: none; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: dotted; border-bottom-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); line-height: 24px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conspiracy theories</a>, which we've attempted to catalog in this map of the inner workings of Beck's brain.

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7. Glenn Beck: Can’t We All Just Get Along? And Progressives Should Be Hunted Like Nazis

Far-right radio host, Internet entrepreneur, and—how shall we put this?—utter and complete lunatic, Glenn Beck (seriously, Google the clip where Beck talks about how fast-food companies have implanted a chip in our brains that will turn us all into zombies when they decide to throw the switch), gave a very dignified interview to the New York Times this week.

In it, he made a Rodney King-like plea for the country to heal its divisions and unite.The only problem is, we must all unite on the crazy, right-wing side, and only after progressives have been hunted down, because progressives are the “biggest danger to the world” and they inevitably leave “millions dead.” Like Mao.

That’s how this whole “big government” thing always ends up. Like Mao. Millions dead. Then they come back to life as zombies when the switch is flipped. And then they have to be hunted like zombies. Got it?

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But that's not the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The U.S. Chamber is a hard-right ideological operation, which provides massive funding to conservative Republicans, including the new GOP majority in Wisconsin. If you want a sense of just how far right: Glenn Beck held a telethon on their behalf, and donated $10,000 of his money. "They are us," he said -- and an executive of the chamber called in to thank him. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent more money lobbying in 2009 than the next five biggest players combined; they spent more money on politics than either the Republican or Democratic National Committees. They're the biggest elephant in the jungle.

Despite their claim to represent three million American businesses, more than half their budget comes from just 16 companies. They don't have to identify them, but it's pretty easy to guess who they might be, since the chamber has devoted much of its time to thwarting any effort to control carbon emissions. For instance, they filed a brief with the EPA demanding they not fight global warming because "populations can acclimatize to warmer climates via a range of behavioral, physiological, and technological adaptations."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-mckibben/koch-brothers-the-us-cham_b_834462.html

Beck has crude network conspiracy theory, but does target significant agents of change: Mann, Bill McK, Acorn, Color of Change, van jones, Soros, unions, cap and trade, UN agenda 21, Occupy (fox piven , holdren, sunstein reg czar legal). this may just indicate the usual suspects from Powell/defund the left.

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threatens to reveal truth on monday (hook) protected by michele o, but then nothing

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4. Glenn Beck at Liberty University, 2012

Liberty University teaches its students that the Earth is 5,000 years old and that dinosaur bones washed up in Noah’s flood. So it’s little wonder that the school would not only select the loony and fact-averse Glenn Beck to address its graduating seniors (which included his daughter), but award him an honorary doctorate, a gesture that gave Beck the weepies.

“We live in a time when it seems truth is on the run,” said Beck, an observation that no doubt stemmed from watching reruns of his Fox TV show (since canceled). The man who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking, as Jon Stewart aptly described Beck, began with various meditations on the evilness of Barack Obama and then launched into a tidal wave of homilies, which included a mandate that students always ”<a href="http://mediamatters.org/video/2010/05/15/becks-advice-to-his-daughter-liberty-u-grads-in/164793">shoot to kill</a> [6].” This from a man who was constantly warning of the inherent violence of the left.

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On the May 2 <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/02/gb.01.html" title="blocked::http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/02/gb.01.html">edition</a> of his CNN Headline News show, <a href="http://mediamatters.org/issues_topics/people/glennbeck">Glenn Beck</a> aired an hour-long "special report" titled "<a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/beck.climateoffear/" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/beck.climateoffear/ blocked::http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/beck.climateoffear/">Exposed: The Climate of Fear</a>," which he promised would present the "other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere." During the show, Beck and those he featured rehashed several falsehoods and misleading talking points in an attempt to discredit the scientific consensus on global warming and to claim that former Vice President Al Gore "exaggerate[d]" and misrepresented climate science in the documentary <a href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.climatecrisis.net/" title="blocked::http://mediamatters.org/rd?http://www.climatecrisis.net/">An Inconvenient Truth</a> (Paramount Classics, 2006).

media matters

Exposed: Glenn Beck's Climate of Distortion

Research ››› May 8, 2007 3:14 PM EDT ››› ROB DIETZ & KATHLEEN HENEHAN

On the May 2 edition of his CNN Headline News show, Glenn Beck aired an hour-long "special report" titled "Exposed: The Climate of Fear," which he promised would present the "other side of the climate debate that you don't hear anywhere." During the show, Beck and those he featured rehashed several falsehoods and misleading talking points in an attempt to discredit the scientific consensus on global warming and to claim that former Vice President Al Gore "exaggerate[d]" and misrepresented climate science in the documentary An Inconvenient Truth (Paramount Classics, 2006).

Sea level

During the program, Beck put forth an apples- to-oranges comparison by suggesting that the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report contradicts Gore's statement in An Inconvenient Truth, that if the West Antarctic or Greenland ice sheets were to break up or melt, "sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet":

Sea Levels

BECK: Now, what about that really cool animation of Florida and Manhattan drowning? Ha! Cool, huh? You've seen these horrific scenarios everywhere, based purely on catastrophic hypotheticals that dramatically exaggerate even what the UN says. It's Al Gore's best supporting actor -- the word "if."

GORE [video clip]: If we have an increase of 5 degrees. ... If Greenland broke up and melted. ... If this were to go, sea level worldwide would go up 20 feet.

MARLO LEWIS (senior policy analyst at energy industry-funded Competitive Enterprise Institute [CEI]): Where he's misleading is that he gives the impression that this is something that is likely to happen. The likelihood of this is next to nil.

DAVID LEGATES (University of Delaware associate professor in climatology): The IPCC report is that the upper limit of sea-level rise by the year 2100 is going to be about 23 inches.

CHRIS HORNER (counsel for CEI and senior fellow): That's why Al Gore makes up 20 feet. The truth isn't scary.

BECK: Just look at the difference between Greenland's ice melt in Al Gore's scenario when spread out over a century versus what the IPCC projects.

JOHN CHRISTY (University of Alabama professor and director of its Earth System Science Center): To come up with 20 feet is really grasping at straws, I think. But it does make a dramatic image. It makes a startling announcement. And that is where, as I heard one commentator say, "It makes blood shoot out of my eyes."

BECK: Gee, I wonder who he could be talking about.

But Beck's depiction of the supposed "difference" between Gore's statements and the IPCC's relied on a false comparison. While the IPCC projected a maximum 23-inch sea-level rise before 2100 as a result of rising temperatures, Gore's statement predicted a 20-foot rise in sea levels if the Greenland or West Antarctic ice sheets were to melt or collapse at an indefinite point in the future. Indeed, while Beck purported to contrast the two scenarios, "when spread out over a century," even New York Times science writer William J. Broad -- who, as Media Matters noted, also set up this false comparison -- acknowledged that Gore cited "no particular time frame," in which the seas could rise by 20 feet.

Moreover, Lewis' claim that the likelihood of Gore's sea-level scenario is "next to nil" and Horner's assertion that Gore "makes up 20 feet" appear to conflict with the IPCC report. According to the report, "Contraction of the Greenland ice sheet is projected to continue to contribute to sea level rise after 2100," and "[i]f a negative surface mass balance were sustained for millennia, that would lead to virtually complete elimination of the Greenland ice sheet and a resulting contribution to sea level rise of about 7 m," which is equivalent to approximately 23 feet.

The IPCC report notes "new concern" with regard to the West Antarctic ice sheet's stability. Although it does not provide a timeframe for which the ice sheet may melt or collapse, it contradicts the claim that scientists know that the likelihood of such an occurrence is "next to nil":

Recent satellite and in situ observations of ice streams behind disintegrating ice shelves highlight some rapid reactions of ice sheet systems. This raises new concern about the overall stability of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, the collapse of which would trigger another five to six metres [approximately 16 to 20 feet] of sea level rise. While these streams appear buttressed by the shelves in front of them, it is currently unknown whether a reduction or failure of this buttressing of relatively limited areas of the ice sheet could actually trigger a widespread discharge of many ice streams and hence a destabilisation of the entire West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Carbon dioxide and warming

During Beck's program, Tim Ball, the chairman of the Natural Resources Stewardship Project, argued: "We now know for certain that the temperature changes before the CO2. And one of the fundamental assumptions that Gore doesn't understand is that in the theory of global warming due to humans is, as the CO2 goes up, the temperature will go up. Well, the ice-core records show it's exactly the opposite." Later in the program, Beck asked Horner to name "one fact" in Gore's film that people should "Google." Horner replied: "Well, the cause-and-effect relationship of CO2 and temperatures. Obviously, temperatures go up throughout history. The scientific literature is fairly clear, fairly uniform. Temperatures go up; then, CO2 concentrations go up. CO2 does not drive temperature."

Gore said of the relationship between CO2 and temperature:

GORE: The relationship is actually very complicated, but there is one relationship that is far more powerful than all the other and it is this: when there is more carbon dioxide the temperature gets warmer, because it traps more heat from the sun inside.

But despite Ball's assertion that "[w]e now know for certain that the temperature changes before the CO2," scientists and scientific organizations, including the Met Office -- which is the UK's national weather service -- offer a different assessment of the relationship between temperature and CO2. In fact, the Met Office lists Ball's and Horner's arguments as the top "myth" related to climate change. The Met Office states:

Myth 1 -- Ice core records show that changes in temperature drive changes in carbon dioxide, and it is not carbon dioxide that is driving the current warming

Only the first part of this statement is true. Over the several hundred thousand years covered by the ice core record, the temperature changes were primarily driven by changes in the Earth's orbit around the sun. Over this period, changes in temperature did drive changes in carbon dioxide (CO2). Concentrations of CO2 are now much higher and increasing much faster than at any time in at least the last 600,000 years. This should be a warning that what is happening now is very different to what happened in the past.

In fact, over the last 100 years CO2 concentrations have increased by 30% due mainly to human-induced emissions from fossil fuels. Because CO2 is a greenhouse gas, the increased concentrations have contributed to the recent warming and probably most of the warming over the last 50 years.

The bottom line is that temperature and CO2 concentrations are linked. In recent ice ages, natural changes in the climate (due to orbit changes for example) led to cooling of the climate system. This caused a fall in CO2 concentrations which weakened the greenhouse effect and amplified the cooling. Now the link between temperature and CO2 is working in the opposite direction. Human-induced increases in CO2 is [sic] enhancing the greenhouse effect and amplifying the recent warming.

In a February 2007 article, Paul Fraser, chief research scientist at Australia's CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research, wrote:

The panel concludes there is very high confidence that the warming is due to human activities, which are likely to have been at least five times greater than the impact of solar irradiance changes on global warming. In fact, they conclude that there is a greater than 90 per cent chance that temperatures are rising due to human activities.

These conclusions, supported by many hundreds of climate experts around the world, contradict Dr [Len] Walker's implication that increasing carbon dioxide levels do not cause global temperature increases, which he makes in his statement, "The fact is the Earth has cooled since 1998 ... despite ... increasing carbon dioxide levels."

Fraser added:

There have been numerous research papers and reviews published over the past 10 years, including several in prestigious journals such as Nature and Science, that conclude that the observed temperature changes over the past 100 years are consistent with the combined changes in atmospheric aerosols (volcanic and anthropogenic), land surface changes, variations in solar irradiance and increases in greenhouse gases. As a researcher in the field for more than 30 years, I am not aware of a single peer-reviewed paper or review, in a quality atmospheric science journal, that relates the temperature changes over this period to only natural causes such as changes in solar activity.

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The fact that, in the long history of the atmosphere, temperature increases sometimes precede carbon dioxide increases simply implies that those temperature change are due to some factor, or factors, other than carbon dioxide increases; for example from changes in the Earth's orbit. This in no way precludes an imposed carbon dioxide increase (such as the current rapid increase from the combustion of fossil fuels) leading to an increase in global temperatures.

Eric Steig, an isotope geochemist at the University of Washington in Seattle, similarly argued in a post on the Real Climate weblog:

[I]t is not as if the temperature increase has already ended when CO2 starts to rise. Rather, they go very much hand in hand, with the temperature continuing to rise as the CO2 goes up. In other words, CO2 acts as an amplifier, just as Lorius, Hansen and colleagues suggested.

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In summary, the ice core data in no way contradict our understanding of the relationship between CO2 and temperature, and there is nothing fundamentally wrong with what Gore says in the film.

Oregon Petition

Beck aired a clip of Patrick Moore, one of the original founders of Greenpeace, saying that Gore and others who speak out about the effects of global warming "completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon Petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change." As Colorado Media Matters noted, the so-called "Oregon Petition," drafted in 1998, "urge[d] the United States government to reject" the Kyoto Protocol, an international agreement to limit the production of greenhouse gases in an effort to curb global warming. The petition further stated that "there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

The petition was sponsored by the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine (OISM), which, according to PR Watch, describes itself as "a small research institute" that studies "biochemistry, diagnostic medicine, nutrition, preventive medicine, and the molecular biology of aging." Arthur Robinson, who founded OISM, was the lead author of a paper accompanying the petition, which asserted that the effects of increased levels of carbon dioxide are "a wonderful and unexpected gift from the Industrial Revolution." The Associated Press reported on April 30, 1998, that Robinson is "a physical chemist" who "acknowledges he has done no direct research into global warming." The New York Times reported on April 22, 1998, that the paper "was printed in a format and type face similar" to that of the journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) -- which subsequently disassociated itself from the paper, saying, "that the petition had 'nothing to do' with the academy and that the article was never published in the academy's journal," and clarifying that the petition "does not reflect the conclusion of expert reports of the academy."

Also circulated with the petition was a letter from Frederick Seitz, the former NAS president. Seitz's letter warned that "[t]he United States is very close to adopting" the Kyoto Protocol, which, according to Seitz, "would ration the use of energy and of technologies that depend upon coal, oil, and natural gas and some other organic compounds." Seitz added that "there is good evidence that increased atmospheric carbon dioxide is environmentally helpful." A June 5, 2000, item in Business Week reported that "[f]or 28 years, Seitz was also a paid director and shareholder of Ogden Corp., an operator of coal-burning power plants that stands to lose financially should the Kyoto Protocol become law." Business Week reported that Seitz "sold most of his 11,500 shares" of Ogden in 1999 -- after promoting the petition in 1998.

Further, as Media Matters has noted, many of the signatures on the petition apparently belong to people who are not climate experts. In its April 22, 1998, article, the Times reported, "Of the 15,000 signers of the petition [at the time], Dr. Robinson said, about 2,100 were physicists, geophysicists, climatologists and meteorologists, 'and of those the greatest number are physicists.' " According to a May 1, 1998, AP article, the petition at one time included the names, "Drs. 'Frank Burns,' 'Honeycutt' and 'Pierce' (Remember the trio from MAS*H?), not to mention the Spice Girl, a.k.a. Geraldine Halliwell, who was on the petition as 'Dr. Geri Halliwel' and again as simply 'Dr. Halliwell.' "

Nazis

Twice in the hour-long special, Beck asserted that those who question global warming are called "Nazis" or "Holocaust deniers." In one segment, he cited environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who called Beck "CNN's chief corporate fascism advocate." And Beck ended the special by saying that scientists who are "just yelling, 'The debate is over, and these people are heretics or Nazis,' as loud as you can is not really the best way to advance science." However, Beck himself has frequently compared his opponents on this issue to Nazis. For instance, on the April 30 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Beck likened Gore's fight against global warming to Adolf Hitler's use of eugenics as justification for exterminating 6 million European Jews. On that program, Beck stated: "Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United Nations running the world. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government."

Beck continued: "You got to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy: global warming." He added: "Then you get the scientists -- eugenics. You get the scientists -- global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists who say, 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices. That's what Hitler did." Anti-Defamation League national director Abraham H. Foxman subsequently called Beck's remarks "outrageous, insensitive and deeply offensive."

In addition to his April 30 comments, on the March 22 edition of Glenn Beck, Beck likened Gore to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels for Gore's statement, during his testimony before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, that he would initiate a "mass persuasion campaign" to urge Congress to act on climate change.

Further, on the June 7, 2006, broadcast of his radio program, Beck compared An Inconvenient Truth to Nazi propaganda. Beck dismissed many of the conclusions drawn from the documentary, stating, "[W]hen you take a little bit of truth and then you mix it with untruth, or your theory, that's where you get people to believe. ... It's like Hitler. Hitler said a little bit of truth, and then he mixed in 'and it's the Jews' fault.' That's where things get a little troublesome, and that's exactly what's happening" in An Inconvenient Truth.

From the May 2 CNN Headline News special, Exposed: The Climate of Fear:

LAURIE DAVID (producer, An Inconvenient Truth) [video clip]: No serious scientist, no peer-reviewed scientist is saying that, OK?

GORE [video clip]: Those who deny global warming are just flat-out wrong.

BECK: Ellen Goodman from The Boston Globe wrote, "Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on par with Holocaust deniers."

LEGATES: Somebody says that whenever you get into Nazi connections, you've really jumped the shark.

BECK: No Nazi references? But how would these people even form sentences? Even I got to jump into the World War II of weather. Robert F. Kennedy called me "CNN's chief corporate fascism advocate." When asked why by The Washington Post, he recalled that I was voicing doubts about global warming a few weeks back.

LEGATES: When you have the science on your side, you argue the science. When you don't have the science on your side, you attack the messenger.

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BECK: Lost among all the extreme rhetoric? Any semblance of balance. An Inconvenient Truth is a study in absolutes, a one-sided argument devoid of any gray area.

GORE [video clip]: There's not a single fact or date or number that's been used to make this up that's in any controversy. [...] Isn't there a disagreement among scientists about whether the problem is real or not? Actually, not really.

BECK: Attention: You're about to meet people that aren't really real.

ROY SPENCER (University of Alabama professor): Politicians and some of the scientists like to say that there's a consensus now on global warming ,or the science has been settled. But you have to ask them, "What is there a consensus on?" Because it really makes a difference. What are you talking about? The only consensus I'm aware of is that it's warmed in the last century.

MOORE: They completely ignore the fact that there's this thing called the Oregon Petition that was signed by 19,000 professionals and scientists who don't agree with the idea that we are causing climate change.

[...]

BECK: Now, here's one of Al Gore's favorite charts, comparing CO2 levels and temperature.

GORE [video clip]: When there is more carbon dioxide, the temperature gets warmer. Look how far above the natural cycle this is, and we've done that.

BECK: We? Meaning you and me? I guess it looks pretty convincing. Gore assumes here that CO2 levels are causing temperatures to rise, but, look, could it be the other way around?

BALL: We now know for certain that the temperature changes before the CO2. And one of the fundamental assumptions that Gore doesn't understand is that in the theory of global warming due to humans is, as the CO2 goes up, the temperature will go up. Well, the ice-core records show it's exactly the opposite.

[...]

LEWIS: Where he's misleading is that he gives the impression that this is something that is likely to happen. The likelihood of this is next to nil.

LEGATES: The IPCC report is that the upper limit of sea-level rise by the year 2100 is going to be about 23 inches.

HORNER: That's why Al Gore makes up 20 feet. The truth isn't scary.

BECK: Just look at the difference between Greenland's ice melt in Al Gore's scenario when spread out over a century versus what the IPCC projects.

CHRISTY: To come up with 20 feet is really grasping at straws, I think. But it does make a dramatic image. It makes a startling announcement. And that is where, as I heard one commentator say, "It makes blood shoot out of my eyes."

BECK: Gee, I wonder who he could be talking about.

[...]

BECK: Chris, one thing that somebody could Google right now, and you watched the movie and you said, "Oh, jeez, I wish people would just Google this fact." In the movie An Inconvenient Truth, what would be the one fact they should Google?

HORNER: Well, the cause-and-effect relationship of CO2 and temperatures. Obviously, temperatures go up throughout history. The scientific literature is fairly clear, fairly uniform. Temperatures go up; then CO2 concentrations go up. CO2 does not drive temperature.

[...]

BECK: I can't tell you how many calls I've received from parents saying their kids are now being shown An Inconvenient Truth completely unchallenged. Not just in science class, but in art and math classes. A green hotel in California has just replaced the traditional in-room Bible with an in-room copy of An Inconvenient Truth. Isn't that appropriate? Al Gore's version of climate change has no longer become science. It's dogma. And if you question it, you are a heretic.

You'd think that scientists would look back at their history, when out-of-control churches locked them in towers to stop progress, and realize that just yelling, "The debate is over," and "These people are heretics or Nazis," as loud as you can is not really the best way to advance science. However -- and many have discovered -- that it is the best way to secure funding.

For now, all we can do is look for sober solutions in a world drunk on hysteria. The debate is not over. I have a feeling it's just beginning.

From New York, good night.

<a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/05/08/exposed-glenn-becks-climate-of-distortion/138811">http://mediamatters.org/research/2007/05/08/exposed-glenn-becks-climate-of-distortion/138811</a>

david corn

<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/mitt-romney-video-wythe-glenn-beck-cleon-skousen">http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/mitt-romney-video-wythe-glenn-beck-cleon-skousen</a>

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huffpo green:

matthews?

"Rush Limbaugh says stuff that is just non- well, is just not true," he said. "I never use the word lie, but it's appropriate here."

He then turned to Beck.

"People like, you know, Glenn Beck, I heard him months or years ago on the radio before he was on TV saying there's no climate change, playing, pandering to these business types, pandering to people who don't want to deal with reality," he said, his voice rising. "These people are evil in what they're doing! I'm not saying their souls are evil, but what they're doing is really, really wrong and it's not the President. It's this corrupt media on the right. You know, it's corrupt media on the right."

Beck and Matthews have feuded before; most notably, Beck <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/28/glenn-beck-chris-matthews-bachmann_n_815610.html" target="_hplink">exploded at Matthews</a> over his criticism of Michele Bachmann.

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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/03/glenn-beck-mocks-chris-matthews-drunk_n_917218.html"> Glenn Beck Mocks Chris Matthews, Suggest He's Drunk On Air (VIDEO) </a>

<div style="padding-left: 80px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Glenn Beck mocked Chris Matthews' enunciation on his radio program on Tuesday, speculating that the MSNBC host was intoxicated on air. Beck laughed at Matthews'...</div>

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alternet 10 conspir:

8. The Secret Behind The Gulf Oil Spill

When millions of barrels of oil were pouring into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, most Americans were disturbed by the devastating environmental damage and the negligence of the company operating the drilling platform. But conservatives led by Rush Limbaugh <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/media/2010/05/03/94901/fox-oil-conspiracy/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">saw through the scheme</a> [9] and revealed that the massive malfunction was actually a deliberate act of sabotage devised to create a justification for eliminating all off-shore drilling. Limbaugh told his audience that ��I want to get back to the timing of the blowing up, the explosion out there in the Gulf of Mexico of this oil rig �� What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig?” You can’t argue with logic like that, because it’s the logic of a mad man who thinks the President would murder twelve workers and foul an environmentally sensitive region in order to achieve a political goal.

9. Obamacare’s Death Panels

No list of conspiracy theories would be complete without a mention of Sarah Palin’s “death panels.” (Although the non-existant "death panels" have been roundly mocked, this did not stop Presidential candidate Mitt Romney from basically reviving them at <a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/letters/the-death-panels-lie-656485/">last week's debate. </a> [10])

These nefarious groups were said to have the power to decide whether your grandmother would live or die based on her level of productivity to society as determined by a team of government bureaucrats. In reality the section of the Affordable Care Act to which Palin referred actually provided for coverage to pay for end-of-life counseling. These were voluntary sessions to help patients determine and document what sort of life-saving measures they preferred in the event that they were incapacitated and unable to communicate their wishes to their doctors. When that proved to be an embarrassing misinterpretation of the law, conservatives switched to another section of the bill, the Independent Payment Advisory Board, and called that the death panel. However, the IPAB was simply a board that assessed the best practices in medicine and made non-binding recommendations in order to prevent excessive billing and unnecessary procedures. Palin was awarded the <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels/" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">“Lie of the Year”</a> [11] award from PolitiFact for her imaginary panel.

10. The Green Plot to Enslave the World

Conservatives have never taken to science. So it should come as no surprise that many of them regard global warming as a hoax whose purpose is to enrich Al Gore and a few socialist wind farmers. But there is another faction of the anti-environment movement that has uncovered something even more dastardly lurking behind the effort to maintain a clean, sustainable planet.<a href="http://www.un.org/esa/desa/aboutus/dsd.html" target="_blank" style=" color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">Agenda 21</a> [12], a little known and non-binding resolution adopted by the United Nations is viewed by some on the right as an attempt to control the lives of people throughout the world by regulating everything they do. Amongst their paranoid fears is that Agenda 21 will cede U.S. sovereignty to the U.N. and a one-world government. The truth is that Agenda 21 is a set of principles to guide the development of practices to preserve a sustainable environment for future generations. It is entirely voluntary and was agreed to by the U.N. in 1992 and signed by President George H.W. Bush. But to hear doomsayers like Glenn Beck put it, it will “suck all the blood out of [our communities], and we will not be able to survive.”

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tp bk whites of their eyes: mar 5 2010 beck warns about indoctrination America, kids taught to worship earth; "social justice" leaves out god

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<h1 class="node-title">Meet the 'End Times' Novelist Adored By Glenn Beck Who Is on His Way to Congress</h1>

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<div class="field-item even">GOP congressional candidate Chris Stewart says America needs a miracle—him.</div>

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<div class="story-date" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">September 28, 2012  | </div>

Glenn Beck likes to say that he never endorses candidates—he just tells his followers how he  feels about them. In Chris Stewart, the Republican nominee in Utah's 2nd Congressional District, Beck has found someone he feels pretty damn good about. "If he wasn't running, I'd be trying to convince him to work for me, to help me stay the course, strategize, and save the country,"  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVzqEpTp8E0" target="_blank">he said last winter </a>, as Stewart's campaign was just getting off the ground. "I've actually tried to talk him out of running, because it's a lion's den in Washington."

But, Beck added, "I believe he's a Daniel."

Like the Old Testament figure who emerged unscathed from a pit of lions, Stewart—an Air Force pilot turned consultant turned end times novelist—is also a prophet of sorts, and his message is grim: "If we don't make some difficult decisions now, if we don't show the courage to do what we have to do to save our country, we won't make it for another 10 years,"  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YYP2gsYNnU" target="_blank">he said in February </a>, in a campaign video that also served to promote a book he'd just published under Beck's imprint. But there was hope. "At critical times in our history��we literally had miracles where God intervened to save us," he said. Send me to Congress, Stewart seemed to imply, and it could happen again.

<a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/meet-end-times-novelist-adored-glenn-beck-who-his-way-congress">http://www.alternet.org/election-2012/meet-end-times-novelist-adored-glenn-beck-who-his-way-congress</a>

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agenda 21

Above: Screenshots of D'Aubuisson trying to link centrist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Democratic_Party_%28El_Salvador%29">Christian Democratic Party</a> to the leftist insurgency

<blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">SAN SALVADOR, March 9—  After leading throngs of clapping supporters in a martial campaign song called ''Tremble, Tremble Communists,'' Roberto d'Aubuisson took a machete from an aide and sliced a watermelon in two. The fruit, he told the cheering campaign crowd, represented Jose Napoleon Duarte and the Christian Democrats, whose party color is green - green on the outside, he said, but red on the inside.</blockquote>

Beck: You like watermelon?

Kerpen: I love watermelon.

Beck: I think this is a watermelon bill.

[Begins slicing open melon.]

Kerpsen: I think you're exactly right. This bill is green on the outside -- the thinnest green on the outside, and on the inside, it's deep Communist red.

And, you know, Gorbachev actually runs an environmental group now. I don't know if everyone knows that. But this bill has only the thin sheen of environmentalism. Greenpeace said it will do nothing to help pollution. Even the EPA says it might increase greenhouse gas emissions.

This is just an excuse for central planning, central control of our economy.  http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/11/12/911342/-Glenn-Beck-and-Roberto-D-Aubuisson

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350.org commie plot

<a href="http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-03-01-glenn-beck-says-350-org-is-part-of-a-communist-plot/">http://grist.org/climate-change/2011-03-01-glenn-beck-says-350-org-is-part-of-a-communist-plot/</a>

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EFX timeline:

Something strange has happened to rank-and-file Republicans since President Obama took office. These past few months, standard-issue gray lawmakers have sounded like <a href="http://www.salon.com/opinion/walsh/politics/2009/08/13/grassley_grandma/">fire-and-brimstone demagogues</a>. Conspiracy theories and over-the-top legislation to fix imaginary wrongs are flying wildly around formerly mainstream GOP circles.

It turns out that like so much of what ails the world today, this can be traced back to Glenn Beck. Some fifth-term Iowa senator might be railing against death panels, but it’s really Beck’s voice you’re hearing. With his show on Fox News, Beck has successfully positioned himself as the weirdo right’s ambassador-at-large to the rest of the world. When the patron saint of the Tea Parties lets his freak flag fly, seemingly normal right-wing functionaries have been known to line up and salute. Republicans parrot Beck's crackpot notions and pet issues routinely — sometimes running with his manias the morning after he first airs them.

Take Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. In the middle of the Senate Finance Committee’s debate over healthcare reform legislation last month, he broke out with an analogy about frogs failing to jump out of boiling water, one that seemed to have little to do with what he was discussing. “Sounds to me like it’s the old story about the frog in the pot of water on the stove that pretty soon the heat’s turned up so slowly that the frog doesn’t know it’s cooked,” Cornyn said. Where might he have gotten the idea? Perhaps from Beck — who the night before had <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/24/beck_frog/">pretended to boil a frog</a> on TV. “You know the old saying, if you put a frog into boiling water, he’s going to jump right out, because he’s scalding hot, but if you place the frog in lukewarm water and gradually raise the temperature, it won’t realize what’s happening and die?” he <a href="http://mediamattersaction.org/video/200909240004">asked viewers</a> (who, apparently, included the junior senator from Texas). “We have been tossed quickly into boiling water!”

Democrats watch this all with some bemusement. “In the absence of any new leadership and an unwillingness to put forward any new ideas, the Republican Party has become the party of cranks and conspiracy theorists,” Democratic National Committee spokesman Hari Sevugan says. “And that’s exactly why their popularity rivals that of swine flu. And they will remain marginalized so long as they continue to talk to the tinfoil hat crowd.” But Beck is more than a harmless — if deranged — entertainer. His ability to push the GOP from rhetoric to action means he can inject toxic ideas and fears directly into the body politic. It was Beck who raised the most alarm over Obama’s czars and his allegedly totalitarian instincts, after all. Here’s a guide to some of Beck’s greatest hits, and how they wormed their way into the real world.

Overthrowing the czars

Beck’s central theme is that our country is being taken away from us by shadowy, menacing figures (though in the end, the most menacing figure of all seems to be tall, skinny and wearing a Nobel peace medallion). He usually focuses his general panic on specific, shifty-seeming characters. Often, because he wants to invoke Russia — and is apparently ignorant of both the history of Russia and the thoroughly ironic origins of the term’s use in the states — he calls these people czars.

March 17: Talking to guest Kevin Williamson of the National Review, Beck has his first discussion of the supposed proliferation of czars in the administration. But the only explicit complaint comes from Williamson, who says, “We have way too many people named czar in their job title.”

May 29: Beck makes his own first comment. “And, I’m so excited. We’re getting a new czar, everybody! Yes. Can we stop with the czars, please?” He continues to refer to the phenomenon almost daily over the summer. Obviously influenced by Jonah Goldberg’s book “<a href="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/01/11/goldberg/">Liberal Fascism</a>,” Beck links the czars to early American progressives like Woodrow Wilson, and through him, naturally, to Hitler, Mussolini and Lenin.

July 15: Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., introduces the Czar Accountability and Reform (CZAR) Act of 2009.” By September 16, the bill has <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/09/16/czar/">99 co-sponsors</a>, including one Democrat.

July 30: House Minority Whip Eric Cantor writes an <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/29/AR2009072902624.html">op-ed in the Washington Post</a> accusing the Obama administration of making an “end run around the legislative branch of historic proportions.” Notes Cantor, sagely, “At last count, there were at least 32 active czars that we knew of, meaning the current administration has more czars than Imperial Russia.”

Sept. 12: Conservative protesters inspired by Beck head to Washington, D.C., where the czarist (and also, somehow, communist) power grab is a <a href="http://twitpic.com/hgj9o">common theme</a> of signs and chants.

Sept. 13: Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison — locked in a bitter Republican gubernatorial primary — <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/11/AR2009091103504.html">writes</a> essentially the same czar-fighting op-ed as Cantor, also in the Washington Post.

Sept. 16: On the floor of the House of Representatives, Rep. John Shadegg, R-Ariz., holds up a chart showing 34 “czars,” saying rather darkly, “I don’t think you know who these people are.” A number of the people on the chart were, in fact, <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/59560/rep-john-shadegg-lists-czars-who-were-confirmed-by-the-senate">confirmed by the Senate</a>.

Sept. 29: Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/61367/finally-a-senate-hearing-on-czars">announces plans</a> to hold a hearing of his Judiciary subcommittee on the “czar” issue, which — by going bipartisan — officially jumps the shark.

Attacking Cass Sunstein

Though Beck’s diatribes against Obama’s czars have mainly hinged on the word’s association with Russia — and by tortured implication, communism — he’s also singled out specific enemies for periodic close-ups. A curious favorite this summer was Cass Sunstein, a legendary legal scholar, and Obama’s nominee to run a regulatory office in the White House. Before Beck was on the case, it was <a href="http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1881473,00.html">mainly progressives</a> who disliked Sunstein, a well-known centrist.

July 22: Shortly after one conservative senator lifts his procedural hold on Sunstein, Cornyn, of Texas, places his own hold on the nomination. A spokesperson tells Fox News, “Sen. Cornyn finds numerous aspects of Mr. Sunstein’s record troubling, specifically the fact that he wants to establish legal ‘rights’ for livestock, wildlife and pets, which would enable animals to file lawsuits in American courts.” That very day, Beck mentions Sunstein for the first time, saying:

<blockquote>The latest nominee for the regulatory czar, a Harvard law professor, oh, and a guy Barack Obama knew in Chicago, is Cass Sunstein. He’s a friend of Obama’s. Wait until you meet this guy. He embraces the ever so popular senior death discount. That’s the idea that will calculate the lives of younger people as having greater value than those of the elderly. He also believes in giving legal rights to livestock, wildlife and pets. So, your pet can have an attorney file a lawsuit against you.</blockquote>

Aug. 7: Another senator anonymously <a href="http://www.pointoflaw.com/archives/2009/08/an-update-about.php">places a hold</a> on Sunstein’s nomination, slowing down the move toward a vote.

Aug. 31: Beck increases the frequency of his Sunstein attacks all month, eventually asking, “Is he just a control freak? What is this?”

Sept. 3: Beck <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/57912/glenn-becks-next-target-cass-sunstein">writes</a> on Twitter, “FIND EVERYTHING YOU CAN ON CASS SUNSTEIN, MARK LLOYD AND CAROL BROWNER”.

Sept. 10: By a 57-40 vote, the Senate <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27019.html">confirms Sunstein</a>. Several Democrats vote against him.

Van Jones: Beck’s great triumph

The anti-czar crusade is also, of course, where Beck met his Nicholas II: so-called “green jobs czar” Van Jones.

July 23: Picking up on <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/57776/far-right-site-gains-influence-in-obama-era">commentary at right-wing website WorldNetDaily</a>, Beck mentions Jones for the first time on-air. “This is a guy who is a self-avowed Communist,” said Beck. “And he is in the Obama administration — this guy wasn’t a radical, and then was arrested. He spent six months in jail, came out a Communist.�� It was the first of dozens of instances this summer in which Beck went after Jones.

Aug. 24: Beck <a href="http://washingtonindependent.com/56965/the-glenn-beck-effect">suggests</a> that the Apollo Alliance — an environmental group on whose board Jones sat — had rigged the stimulus so they could “raid the U.S. Treasury.��

Aug. 25: At a town-hall meeting held by Rep. Steve Buyer, R-Ind., a constituent asks, “Who wrote all of these thousand-pages bills? And did the far-left Apollo Alliance have any influence on any of them?” Buyer has no idea what she’s talking about, but people in the crowd begin <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2vbpdMFLFU">shouting audibly</a> about Jones. It’s the first in a series of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyhNg9olaM0">such confrontations</a> between furious constituents and understandably befuddled representatives. But Beck’s show would wind up enlightening them all.

Sept. 4: The day after it emerges that Jones had signed a so-called “9/11 truth” petition, Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/09/04/gibbs_offers_little_support_fo.html?wprss=44">calls for</a> his resignation. Sen. Kit Bond, R-Mo., calls for hearings on his fitness for office. Says Pence, “His extremist views and coarse rhetoric have no place in this administration or the public debate.”

Sept. 5: Jones resigns.

Obama the totalitarian

Beck’s notion that the president is some kind of czarist fits in neatly with a larger effort to brand the decisively elected president as a dictator. Every Democrat gets called a socialist, but Beck has given the charge an especially dark twist, with repeated references to 1984, communism and fascism. His frequent, Goldberg-influenced <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RBRuqtz0CY">musings</a> on the Progressive Era give a surreal veneer of historical basis to the incoherent hysteria. Beck got going on this topic early.

Feb. 4: Beck does a segment on the stimulus bill and children��s healthcare legislation that he calls a ��<a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2009/02/05/beck/index.html">Comrade Update</a>.” Fox News obligingly covers the screen in Soviet symbolism.

April 1: In a now-famous segment, Beck declares with horror, “They’re marching us to a non-violent fascism. Or to put it another way, they’re marching us to 1984. Big Brother. Like it or not, fascism is on the rise.” In the background, Fox plays <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/01/beck-march-to-Fascism/">video</a> of goose-stepping Germans.

June 23: A Republican women’s group in Maryland <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/23/md-gop-obama-hitler/%29">issues a statement</a> saying, “The president and Hitler have a great deal in common.”

Sept. 12: The 9/12 protest produces an outpouring of comparisons between the president and the Third Reich. Says <a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/2189419-max-blumenthal-the-unauthorized-9-12-teabagger-tour">one attendee</a>, “I’m afraid he’s going to do what Hitler could never do.” The event, of course, is heavily promoted by Fox News and addressed by a number of prominent Republican figures.

Sept. 22: Beck’s new book, “Arguing With Idiots: How to Stop Small Minds and Big Government,�� comes out — featuring an oh-so-subtle <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arguing-Idiots-Small-Minds-Government/dp/1416595015">cover image</a>.

School indoctrination?

Beck was one of the first commentators to attack Obama’s plan to give a back-to-school speech to students. The event was almost tailor-made for Beck’s road-to-tyranny hysterics.

Sept. 2: Beck gives the story of the president’s back-to-school speech some of its first national media attention. Says Beck, “Isn’t that great? The teachers have a little plan on what they can talk about. How much do you love the president? How can you help the president accomplish his goals? This is fantastic. It doesn��t sound like propaganda to me at all.” On the radio, Beck called the speech “indoctrination,” and said, “you have a system that is capturing your kids.��

Sept. 3: In an opinion piece for Fox News, former Reagan official Peggy Venable writes, ��When recruits are children, doesn’t that constitute indoctrination, even brainwashing?”

Sept. 4: Just two days after Beck raises it, aspiring Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty <a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/04/pawlently-takes-aim-at-obamas-address-to-students/">says</a> of the president��s speech, “I don’t think he needs to force it upon the nation’s schoolchildren.”

Art as propaganda

In Beck’s world, Obama isn’t content just to use the school system for indoctrination. He’s also getting artists — presumably, decadent and perverted ones — in on the action.

Sept. 1: On his show, Beck raises the bizarre idea that the National Endowment for the Arts has been instructed to tilt the politics of funded projects leftward. Says Beck, “There is a propaganda arm now, engaging artists and the art community using your tax dollars in propaganda.” He would keep at it all month.

Sept. 24: Commenting on a different brainwashing-related story, he throws in this aside: “Maybe we could have had a giant statue of Barack Obama made with your taxpayer dollars from the National Endowment for the Arts. Wouldn’t that be grand?”

Sept. 26: Again, just two days after Beck discusses an issue, the GOP responds. Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/09/26/gop-lawmaker-seeks-disclosure-controversial-nea-conference/">accuses the administration</a> of trying to turn the NEA into the White House’s “strategic communications firm.” Says Issa, “Activating artists and art groups reliant on NEA funds under the implied threat of withholding future grants is a Chicago-style tactic that should have been left on the campaign trail.”

Money, money, money

March 24: Talking to former ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, Beck asks, “Ambassador, everybody is calling for global currency. I think part of this is a game, but I think, also, part of it is — I mean, now the U.N. is saying, you know what? We should have a global currency. It’s also a movement to tie the entire globe together into one big government. Am I wrong or right?”

March 25: The very next day, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, R-Minn., <a href="http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/03/24/bachmann_and_the_constitution/index.html">asks</a> Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner and Fed chief Ben Bernanke, “I’m wondering, would you categorically renounce the United States moving away from the dollar and going to a global currency?”

With additional reporting by Mike Madden.

<a href="http://www.salon.com/2009/10/12/glenn_beck_2/">http://www.salon.com/2009/10/12/glenn_beck_</a>==

Fox Effect:Color of change boycott GB when he said BO racist (van jones fdr)</div>

GB--> BO'R, Cornyn, bond, mike pense

Several GB listeners killed cops, went after pols 152-  aclu and Tides targeted

asked for dirt on sunstein, mark lloyd and carol browner

ACORN hist 1970, to broaden efforts beyond welfare recip, created housing unit that helped 45k ppl, rehab 750 homes [//habit6at??]

fdr bro embezzled, ret $ but not reported to law.

1992 BO worked w.

no real fraud; sometimes canvassers made up fake reg for $, but law some places requires ALL to be turned in.

Fox news blamed acorn for subprime  161

BREIBART started at E!Entertinament New, then drudge; used okeefe vids to launch Big Gov't, said it wd change dir of politics in US

may 8 tp sept 18, 09 beck and hanity referred to acorn 1502x 163 (vs ney and JA 62 x) 163 halliburton 43, Blackwater 4x

GB 1Kx seqmwents on acorn

one acorn staffer spotted put on, so she told okeefe shed killed husband, picked up by fox (not checked)

demo led house defunded acorn 345-75, sen 85-15

METHOD: 1 activist lie, 2 massive coverage 3) attack other media for not covering 4) mainstream media picks up  5 media critics praise fox  60 story falls apart after damage donr 168-9.

GB aksed m bachmann how hw could help.

in face of CoC charge for $ 1m GB donated and urged listeners to,  $300K best day ever

GB MLK day rally, said he picked up struggle of, AFP and NRA sponsored FWorks (leveraged event to train ppl), chaffetz, , hatch bachman

SH boosted Odonnell witch, Fiorina, Angle, said Reid supported viagra for pedophiles

GB demint, bachmann, chaffetz

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beck U is premium content (// direct mail?)

THE NEW HATE arthur goldwag pantheon ny 2012

beck tour of rock ctr pointing out commie icons (he was in diff part of bldg/complex?

skousen and ezra taft benson pals (black musl mob coming to burn slc?), kids pals of beck

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NB gbecknotes text file 12/21/11

some from wingnuts:

GB: when system collapeses and gov comes w/ guns and takes all you own, fight off raving cannibalistic crowds Ted Turner talked about, don't come crying to me; i told you to get gold [and seeds] 113  woman bought 5k on gold she could have gotten for 1600 less b/c fred thompson, mark l and GB told her ti buy it

David Frum: the Talk-Fox complex: Fox reports talk show content as if real news 113-4 often use "some say"

rumor becomes discussion, WND publishes as fact --> talk radio Cd this be true? --> GB RL --> TV 114

GB: calls himself borderline schiz (actually bipolar?] ex top 40 dj, pot Mormon convert; mom gave him golden age of radio record, studies and mimcked eg orson welles; apolitical, mood swing cd be sadistic hyper compet: called wife of rival on air who'd miscaried and said he could not even have a baby right 119 note 20 p 119 (salon 09) after getting

clean morning zoo RL and racist Bob Grant getting big, so followed 120

health care is good old socialism, raping the pocketbooks of rich to give to the poor +-" 121-2 it's the beginning or reparations" to blacks; on-air investigation of van jones (building on WND?  old pal sumpter does not know if GB is creator of content or just vehicle

gb says BO will slowly take your guns, called him racist with deep seated hatred of white ppl 123 headed to scoalism, totalitarinsim, coup in guise of election 123

Storm front find BG good for recruiting 1

Last week, we brought your attention to Glenn Beck's comparison of the young, innocent victims of the Norway mass murders to "Hitler youth" and his attempt to escape responsibility for that outrageous claim

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2007 special climate of fear had usual suspect ball m michaels and horner

<a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/bios-and-research-on-glenn-becks-global-warming-disinformation-special">http://www.desmogblog.com/bios-and-research-on-glenn-becks-global-warming-disinformation-special</a>

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attended koch  aspen mtg:

Glenn Beck -- Fox News and talk radio program host.

Beck was a featured speaker at the secret Koch Industries meeting in Aspen. Shortly afterwards, Beck credited <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/201006290072">Charles Koch</a> during a segment of his show mocking an Al Gore presentation of climate trends. Glenn Beck has also worked in cooperation with <a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/083110-weekend-remember-glenn-beck-and-afp">Americans for Prosperity (AFP)</a> to coordinate Tea Party rallies and provide material for <a target="_blank" class="zoom" href="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/show/2010-03-16/">his broadcasts</a>.

<a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://americansforprosperity.org/081310-glenn-beck-calls-out-president-obama-his-attack-afp">Beck publicly defended</a> AFP on air after President Obama's characterized the group as a front for â<a target="blank" class="zoom" href="http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/08/20/americans-for-prosperity-offers-bushotel-packages-for-glenn-beck-lincoln-memorial-event/">a big oil company</a>.â Americans for Prosperity has received over $5.6 million from Koch foundations in the last five years.

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anti-gore nazi rhet? <a href="http://bigthink.com/ideas/24343">http://bigthink.com/ideas/24343</a>

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anti-commie shoot them in the head rant (aclu, tudes fdn) <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/20/glenn-beck-told-viewers-june-shoot-dems-in-head/"> http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/20/glenn-beck-told-viewers-june-shoot-dems-in-head/</a>  This video is from the Republican Fox News Channel, broadcast June 10, 2010.

"You've been using them? They believe in communism. They believe and have called for a revolution. You're going to have to shoot them in the head. But warning, they may shoot you.

"They are dangerous because they believe. Karl Marx is their George Washington. You will never change their mind. And if they feel you have lied to them â they're revolutionaries. Nancy Pelosi, those are the people you should be worried about.

"Here is my advice when you're dealing with people who believe in something that strongly â you take them seriously. You listen to their words and you believe that they will follow up with what they say."

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PBS Newshour 1st week '11, commentator said all in GB's hands b/c new house (only) will have to toe his line

<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck</a>

on CNN?!

<h2 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Viewpoints</h2>

Beck has described himself as a conservative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian" class="mw-redirect" title="Libertarian">libertarian</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-23">[24]</a> Among his core values Beck lists personal responsibility, private charity, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_life" title="Right to life">right to life</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_religion" title="Freedom of religion">freedom of religion</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_government" title="Limited government">limited government</a>, and family as the cornerstone of society.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-Common_Sense-24">[25]</a> Beck also believes in low <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt" class="mw-redirect" title="National debt">national debt</a>, and has said "A conservative believes that debt creates unhealthy relationships. Everyone, from the government on down, should live within their means and strive for financial independence."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-cnnbeck-25">[26]</a>

Beck believes abortion is murder.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-26">[27]</a> He supports individual gun ownership rights and is against <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control" class="mw-redirect" title="Gun control">gun control</a> legislation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-27">[28]</a>

Beck believes that there is a lack of evidence that human activity is the main cause of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming" title="Global warming">global warming</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-inconvenient-28">[29]</a> He also says there��s a legitimate case that global warming has, at least in part, been caused by mankind, and has tried to do his part by buying a home with a "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_energy" class="mw-redirect" title="Green energy">green</a>" design.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-29">[30]</a> He also views the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Clean_Energy_and_Security_Act" title="American Clean Energy and Security Act">American Clean Energy and Security Act</a> as a form of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_redistribution" class="mw-redirect" title="Wealth redistribution">wealth redistribution</a>, and has promoted a petition rejecting the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Protocol" title="Kyoto Protocol">Kyoto Protocol</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-30">[31]</a>

In a 2010 interview in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbes" title="Forbes">Forbes</a>, Beck asserted that his business was not political, but is an entertainment company: "I could give a flying crap about the political process," continuing on to say that Mercury Radio Arts, his production company, is "an entertainment company".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-Forbes410-0">[1]</a> In a follow-up story, Beck said, while explaining why <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Perry" title="Tyler Perry">Tyler Perry</a> is his hero, â[Perry] has the luxury of not doing the political stuff, which is really where I want to be as a company. I just happen to believe the Republic is on fire and it wouldnât be as effective if I had Pluto come out with a cartoon fire hose to put it out.�� <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-31">[32]</a>

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Ideological influences</h3>

According to Joanna Brooks, a scholar of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_the_United_States" title="Religion in the United States">American religion</a>, one pre-eminent influence on Beck's political ideology has been <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.Cleon_Skousen" class="mw-redirect" title="W. Cleon Skousen">W. Cleon Skousen</a> (1913â2006).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-32">[33]</a> Skousen was an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-communist" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-communist">anti-communist</a>, a supporter of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society" title="John Birch Society">John Birch Society</a>,<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-33">[34]</a> and limited-government <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative">conservative</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-SalonSkousen-34">[35]</a> whose works involve a wide range of subjects (including the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-Day_War" title="Six-Day War">Six-Day War</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time#Latter-day_Saints_and_Mormonism" title="End time">Mormon eschatology</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_Order%28conspiracy_theory%29" title="New World Order (conspiracy theory)">New World Order conspiracies</a>, and even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenting" title="Parenting">parenting</a>).<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-SalonSkousen-34">[35]</a> Skousen believed that American political, social, and economic elites were working with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communists" class="mw-redirect" title="Communists">Communists</a> to foist a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_government" title="World government">world government</a> on the United States.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a> Beck praises Skousen's "words of wisdom" as "divinely inspired", referencing Skousen's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Communist" title="The Naked Communist">The Naked Communist</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-36">[37]</a> and especially <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5,000_Year_Leap" class="mw-redirect" title="The 5,000 Year Leap">The 5,000 Year Leap</a> (originally published in 1981),<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-SalonSkousen-34">[35]</a> which Beck said in 2007 had "changed his life".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-SalonSkousen-34">[35]</a> According to Skousen's nephew, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Skousen" title="Mark Skousen">Mark Skousen</a>, Leap reflects Skousen's "passion for the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" title="United States Constitution">United States Constitution</a>", which he "felt was inspired by God and the reason behind Americaâ��s success as a nation."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-37">[38]</a> The book is touted by Beck as "required reading" to understand the current American political landscape and become a "September twelfth person".<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-SalonSkousen-34">[35]</a> Beck authored a foreword for the 2008 edition of Leap and Beck's on-air recommendations in 2009 propelled the book to number one in the government category on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com" title="Amazon.com">Amazon</a> for several months.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-SalonSkousen-34">[35]</a> In June 2010, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Continetti" title="Matthew Continetti">Matthew Continetti</a> of the conservative <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Standard" class="mw-redirect" title="Weekly Standard">Weekly Standard</a> opined that "Glenn Beck is a Skousenite."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a> Additionally, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Zaitchik" title="Alexander Zaitchik">Alexander Zaitchik</a>, author of the 2010 critical book<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-39">[nb 1]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Nonsense:_Glenn_Beck_and_the_Triumph_of_Ignorance" title="Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance">Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance</a>, which features an entire chapter on "The Ghost of Cleon Skousen",<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-40">[40]</a> refers to Skousen as "Beck's favorite author and biggest influence", while noting that he authored four of the ten books on Beck's 9.12 Project required-reading list.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-41">[41]</a>

Beck has also been influenced by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carroll_Quigley" title="Carroll Quigley">Carroll Quigley</a>âs Tragedy and Hope (1966), which argues that the history of the 20th century is the product of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_societies" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret societies">secret societies</a> in conflict.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a> In Beck's own novel <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Overton_Window" title="The Overton Window">The Overton Window</a>, which Beck describes as "faction" (fiction based on fact), one of his character states "Carroll Quigley laid open the plan in Tragedy and Hope, the only hope to avoid the tragedy of war was to bind together the economies of the world to foster global stability and peace."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a>

Other books of importance that Beck regularly cites on his programs are <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amity_Shlaes" title="Amity Shlaes">Amity Shlaes</a>âs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Forgotten_Man:A_New_History_of_the_Great_Depression" title="The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression">The Forgotten Man</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonah_Goldberg" title="Jonah Goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a>âs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism" title="Liberal Fascism">Liberal Fascism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Schweikart" title="Larry Schweikart">Larry Schweikart</a> & <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Allen%28historian%29" title="Michael Allen (historian)">Michael Allen</a>âs <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Patriot%27s_History_of_the_United_States" title="A Patriot's History of the United States">A Patriot's History of the United States</a>, and Burt Folsom Jr.âs New Deal or Raw Deal.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a>

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Countering progressivism</h3>

<div>"Whatâ��s the difference between a communist or socialist and a progressive? Revolution or evolution? One requires a gun and the other eats away slowly."</div>

<div class="templatequotecite">âGlenn Beck, keynote address to the 2010 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">Conservative Political Action Conference</a>, February 20, 2010 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-CPAC-42">[42]</a></div>

</blockquote>

During his 2010 keynote speech to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Political_Action_Conference" title="Conservative Political Action Conference">CPAC</a>, Beck wrote the word "progressivism" on a chalkboard and declared, "this is the disease. This is the disease in America", adding "progressivism is the cancer in America and it is eating our Constitution!"<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-CPAC-42">[</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-CPAC-42">42]</a> According to Beck, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressivism_in_the_United_States" title="Progressivism in the United States">progressive</a> ideas of men such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dewey" title="John Dewey">John Dewey</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Croly" title="Herbert Croly">Herbert Croly</a>, and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Lippmann" title="Walter Lippmann">Walter Lippmann</a>, influenced the Presidencies of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt">Theodore Roosevelt</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>; eventually becoming the foundation for President <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_D._Roosevelt" title="Franklin D. Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>â��s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Deal" title="New Deal">New Deal</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a> Beck believes that such progressivism infects both main political parties and threatens to "destroy America as it was originally conceived."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a>

In Beckâs book Common Sense, he argues that "progressivism has less to do with the parties and more to do with individuals who seek to redefine, reshape, and rebuild America into a country where individual liberties and personal property mean nothing if they conflict with the plans and goals of the State."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a>

<h3 style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">9-12 Project and Tea Party protests</h3>

Beck put together a campaign, the <a title="9-12 Project" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9-12_Project">9-12 Project</a>, that is named for nine principles and 12 values which he says embody the spirit of the American people on the day after the <a title="September 11 attacks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks">September 11 attacks</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-The_Star_2009-04-04-43">[43]</a> Beck has supported the <a class="mw-redirect" title="Tea party protests" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_party_protests">tea party protests</a> from their inception and held a broadcast from one of the April 2009 rallies in <a class="mw-redirect" title="San Antonio, Texas" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Antonio,_Texas">San Antonio, Texas</a>.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-FOXNews.com_2009-04-15-44">[44]</a>

<a title="Newsweek" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newsweek">Newsweek</a> magazine opined on Beck's relationship with the <a title="Tea Party movement" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_movement">Tea Party movement</a> stating:

<div>Tea partiers are driven by the belief that the America that elected Barack Obama isn't their America, and Beck comforts them by telling them they're right: that the America they love, the America they now feel so distant from, the America of faith and the Founders and some sort of idyllic Leave It to Beaver past, is still there, waiting to be awakened from Obama's evil spell. And he flatters them by saying that the coastal elites are too stupid or too lazy to figure out what's really going on; only his loyal viewers are perceptive enough to see the truth and, ultimately, to save the nation.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-45">[45]</a></div>

</blockquote>

In September 2009, the conservative political activism group <a title="FreedomWorks" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreedomWorks">FreedomWorks</a> organized the <a title="Taxpayer March on Washington" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_March_on_Washington">Taxpayer March on Washington</a>, to rally against President <a title="Barack Obama" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama">Barack Obama</a>'s policies.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-The_Washington_Post_2009-09-12-46">[46]</a> The event was inspired by Beck's 9/12 project.<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-USA_Today_2009-09-08-47">[47]</a> In June of 2010, <a title="The Weekly Standard" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Weekly_Standard">The Weekly Standard</a> named Beck "one of the fathers of the Tea Party."<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck#cite_note-WeekSt-35">[36]</a>

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tears of a clown dana milbank (one l) glenn beck and the tea bagging of am doubleday 2010  no index

bill thomas  ed in chf at doubleday

3m tv and 8 m radio p 254

ch 17: violence  Poplawski has posted video w/ gb/rp fema on stormfront

clock ticking and someone will do something stupid [shoot ppl} but then rolls back into death panels 247

advoc killing pelosi, rangel and m moore; has claimed on air obama afmin trying to kill hi/ gb 248  july 09 thugocracy 249

greg guisti threatened pelosi if she voted for health care 249 fox watcher

gb called pelosi" really dangerous ppl" like commie, socialist and ecoterrorost 250  pelosi and BO have thought about picking up a gun b/c maybe tired of evolution and want revo 250  some of ppl around BO have "engaged in bomb-throwing" [of a bathroom?]

summer of 09 town halls: "there is a coup going on,  There is a stealing of America...through the guise of an election but they lie to us the entire time...grab power in every way they can, and God help us in an emergency" 252  pretended to pour gas on guest

suggest secession mult times; TX  moat of fire civil war  demos putting a gun to Am head: pass bill or die

cass s and john holdren: Between health-care and the envir those two men, in the wrong conditions, will be responsible for many, many death" 254..."they are taking you to be slaughtered"

follow the Pols to Safeway, look them in whites of their eyes"  a pt coming where all (peaceful?) options exhausted

anti-God forces are aligning themselves  all over the world and here at home" 255  "bullets in our backs by our politicians" 255  one nut like tim mcv could ruin all

every time want to spk shut down by pol correct, tho accused of starving kids and racists 256

Tides fdn hardest topic to explain (took 4 nights and blackbd)

ch 16 912  new book The Plan had rally on mall on anniv of i have a dream sp" appropriate' as he will finsih the job; will have confs around the cty and assemble team of advisors // skousen  Bus labl GB show and rally for Am, on armed forces radio jessica lynch family appeared ; bachmann his radio guest; he offered to raise $ for her 233  april 15 09 TP at Alamo w/ ted nugent  actor dresed at paine read; gb word thy wd not dare pearl harbor, WTC pentagon, pass biggest bill in hist

dc rally claimed univ said 1.7 mil

linc mem rally Special Ops Wounded Warrior' gb said bene, but they actually on hook for costs 243  Palin guest to honor troops

ch 15 race; rev wright "black liberation theology' vj black nationalists (white are poisning blk ppl)

david horowitz: blacks are human shield of democ party , slavery, segrgation, of race preferences " 227-8

ch 14 couglin : sovereignty

Brooks says race bailting of gb and rl = fr C, taking over gop. C small toen priest from MI avg 10 mil (up to 40) 208  fr c used a viariety of techniwues sentinet, anger, patriot religious 210 teary eyed said FDR cd be dictator if wants to 210 opposed world ct, part of L of Nations hinted at apocalytic civil war

ch 13; 32 czars: u of Penn/ factcheck.org 9 conformed by senate, 8 not appt by pres, 7 in jobs created by prev admins  (b2 had 35)

numerous historical facts wrong (TJ create marines to deal w/ Islamic pirates (actually Adams for French pirates)

gb claimed BO gave 2b$ loan Brazil oil co; urban legnd debunked by factcheck 9 mos before: actually US Export-Imp bank, elf funded, prelim commit approved by B2 ppt board; loan was to buy US oil gear; soros had reduced his stake 193-4 but picked up by Indiana sen Dan Burton 194

your PC can be grabbed by feds if you log into clash for clunkers 196

lied about view ladies on amtrack, denied he was invest reporter or reporter, but a comentator, so no fact checking 197

union supporters are for one world gov 198   acorn wrote health care bill, apollo wrote stim seiu wrote immig law and consults on afgan mil strategy 200  smart grid "could take critical information out of your house" 202

at fox, co split on gb damage to corp rep; ailes sometimes crits "negative tone"  202

ch 12 fema concentration camps (part of one world conspiracy;177  Ron Paul said guest FEMA very powerful and overrule local authorities in emergency 179 ollie said by newspaper  miami herald to have secret plan, and nixon has plan to round up blacks in case of martial law (panthers?) 11 m21 in "assembly ctrs or relocation camps " 181 ollie plan 86'd and denied '88 xfile movie revived

Monckton cop15: "a treaty will be signed that will, for the first time, create a world government with powes to intervene directly in the economy and in the environmental affairs of individual nations" cm 183  annex 1 Para 38  John Bolton said he wd not sign such a doc

WND:  may 18 2010 gb on fox and friends touted one world; 4 days later praise from Henry lamb (soverenty Int'l) on WND 184 cites World Res Inst and UN Conf on Hu Settlements;  James Meigs for Pop Mech 6 april Who blgs FEMA conc camp; video by militia calimed gas chambers and advocated "march on Washington and start executing senators" 185  "attrocities going on in camp? yes  next day "reveal" was it was North Korea; when krigman called him on it, gb suhcked and jived w/ "can't debunk" claim 186 but then retunred to touting totalitarianism 187

ch 10 scalps: van jones named adviser to CEQ july 23 09 gb tried to prove BO wants race reparations; vj spent 6 mos in jail, came out a commie, he found the eco-movement and decided green is the new red 139  5 days latr  gb said BO had a deep hatred of white ppl

aug 24 vj is "czar #1" ~ oil co's, a "community organizer" [oh no] Color of change group (co fdr vj, but he'd since left) called for advertiser boycott og gb; in 9 mos vj name used 435x long after he quit p 140. gb said after r king riots, j radical for 10 yrs, founding STORM into mao, arrested at wto

gb req dirt on vj and got video saying only Nat Am belong here, and gop asshoes; i can be to, gotta get uppity 144  apology, also recant? petition truther

next days resigned "smear campaign , lies, distortions to distract and divide" l145 in historic fight, can't ask colleagues to defend; vj gloating for a year

green collar economy book esposes capitalism 142-3  after j quit, gb hitlist ("do not link before burning to disc" [?]: cass sunstein, mark lloyd and carol browner 148  john holdren or harvard kennedy school  dir WH office of sci and techn policy 150  30 yo book espoused male contraception 1977 ecoscience textbook tho gb said forced abortions and chems in water 151  the book actually said some gov might resort to such methods if smarter and milder meas not undertaken 1st, and opposed invol pgm 151

2 gop sen put holds on sust nom, but approved 57-40 155

; claimed dubiously that Const could allow compuls abortion in emergency . gb then extended distortion. gb gave up and went after harv law prof sunstein (also on type by WND, //vj)  he actually said opposite on animal rights that gb said "most dang man in Am" 155

browner hardcore socialist nat rev guest 156  part of Commiss for Sust World (so was BP PM's) but afil w/ Socialist Int'l

acorn "weasels' trying to start brothels w/ 13 yo 168

lloyd marxist trying to silence free sp, un Am 156-7FCC

anita dunn attacked gb, so she was proved a commie by hs speech (she contrasted mao to mo teresa)

NEA Yosi Sergant (breitbart posted vid of him asking artists to make msg promoting volunteerism (health care , ed , environ

then maurice strong

ch 9:  woodrow wilson spawn of satan: WW jaile 2-3 K ppl for speaking out (vs WWI?], actially 100, including E Debs; "czars" go back to WW

conspr: seui, acorn, apollo initiative , soros van j, valerie jarrett all inspired by richard cloward and frances piven [who?]weather ugd

ch 8 hitler: gore not rounding up jews, but same tactic 120 goal now is gloalization carbon tax, UN running the world, in 30's goal was get rid of jews and have global gov't 120

ch 7 : new canaan CT, highest med income in US cnn 2008 16 rooms, 4.25 mil in 05 almost 3 acrs on reservoir  103 wanted variance for tall wall; co earns 32m/yr 13 m books, simon and schuster  450 m radio over 5 yrs, 4 m www, 3m tours and talks, 2 mil Fox 105

may 2010 5 books amazon top 25 he promoted; anthony weiner crit hs goldline ties? issued reports (why the ""?] 112

color of change summer 09 gb said BO hated white ppl; co's complied; walmart, gmac, conagra, radioshack P&G

ch 6: botched roid surgery, but mos later attack BO healthcare june 08; ctr toen hall b/c 3 eugenics ppl in WHse  went adter Cass S b/c pal Peter Singer wrote we might have to ration: guests rj pestritto, law prof carter sead and b2 john hoff; repeatedly misrep HC bill (incl jail, expressly ruled out by bill), then said restrict diet and having kids 100

if no pass, left will be violent 101

HC a bloodstream disease" incurable, transform Am 101

ch 5: mr 2010 rant on social justice, said they broke several commandments and urgen them no to brk not kill (him) 82  machne to kill entre spirit, fredom , thugs expects "dogs and firehoses" to be used on he and his ppl [mirror] 84-5   witch hunt will come for jes and conservative [gb is german)

ch 4 apocalypse: survial seed bank sponsor; ad: pols and bankers want to bring econ down; 150 $ for seeds [you can buy anywhere for 30) non-hybrid (why, no race mixing?]  no discounts even to rema or mil ers9nnel; "indestructible ssb can be buried to avoid confistication" all caps 70

joe smith predicted messianic age hq in US; gb says islam has mirror vsiob

ch 3 mormonism: white horse prophrecy is that LDS elders will save Const in hour of danger "hanging by a thread"

Cleon Skousen lds/jbs in order to get dry, he had to find his true beleifs; he likes science and logic 46-7

I'm basically a rodeo clown just trying to entertain you every night 49

joe lieb helped gb enroll in religion class at yale 51  convert lds 1999 [millenium y2k?], along w/ rw ideas

Carroll Quigley, BC mentor at georgetown, 1966 book tragedy and Hope went after Round Table Group, anglophile network of int'l finance control 54-5 led to one world gov conspracies (shadow gov run by co's, demo = gop) 56, skousen misintreprt quig (q told him so) and beck picked it up.

Cleon skousen byu prof 5k year leap bk #1 amazon after gb pitched; skousen commie hunter ,thot Manch Cand real; called pressure to ordain blacks in lds comie attack. sk claimed to rep FF, get rid of soc sec, educ and welfare $, farm subsidues, UN, income tax and most reg agencies 58

p 76 less GHG will lead to "a black and white world man, that is nothing but destruction and ugly"

under attack; guns, freedom, Const, families, religion, talk radio, fox, GB, god , all of us p 77

gb raped and killed younggril 1990 spoof site ; gb went to WIPO *UN) for takedown 43  lost in ct; pgmr gave him domain name [thus acknol UN?]

his story about mom's death morphs? 33  dj in nyc fot call from agent Geo Hiltzik gop goon? jrnlist?

endoresed palin on death panels; also said BO admin wants sterilants in water and health care rationing 27 v  eugenics: ww tr hitler BO 27

gb joined fox early 09, right after econ collapse

TP dumped mod GOP sen robert bennett (84% conserv rating) utah; same day maine new platform 86 fed, no agw, seal borders, ~ oneworld gov 11  "social and ecological justice ans all of this bullcrap is man's [sic] work for global governemnt"  global standards and global; bank tax all part of conspiracy. "Jesus doesn't want a cap-and-trade system" p 12  progressivism will eat away ant Const , rot Am from inside 54 incrementally

2009 gallup poll most admired: mandella, GB, then gates, graham rev, bush 1, clinton p 10

mr 2010 Harris poll found BO a "socialist" who has done many unCost acts, and wants to turn USA over to one rule govt

(all gb theme) 11

p 3-4 mebbe better if US does not make it as civilization  bc "they are building a global cage...a machine to redisytr wealth all over the globe; his "rooted in fact" novel about US surrendr p5 w. 30 page afterward w/ citation of "actual" events as support p8 already happening

9 mil listeners makes him #3 behind RL and hannity 9  ads indicate they are old, in dfbt, sick and fear eco collapse p9 goldline, lear capital, rosland cap

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Nonsense beck Cleon Skousen member p 226

invited back to relig convergence period (lds, mormon, southern). Renamed freeman inst praised by RR. orin hatch eulogized��. 5K year leap phenom

related to?  <a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/758/000136350/">http://www.nndb.com/people/758/000136350/</a>

fr was leroy fbi uncle cleaon (claimed descendent of Ben F <a href="http://www.mskousen.com/about/mark-skousens-family-and-famous-relatives/"> http://www.mskousen.com/about/mark-skousens-family-and-famous-relatives/</a>

praise jbs 231

ch 13 912 pjt launched by stock trader [guys that brought down the economy]? losers" lost houses and can never prosper.

yasha levine and mark ames  found supporting sites linked

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Goldline invesitgated, 90% markup over melt value

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2010/07/glenn-beck-goldline/

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lies about soros, anti-semitic

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In an extraordinary move to nip the inflammatory commentary coming from Glenn Beck, the founder and CEO of the Tides Foundation (a frequent Beck target) has written advertisers asking them to remove their sponsorship of the Fox News program or risk having "blood on their hands."

Drummond Pike, who along with his organization was recently targeted by an assassin inspired by Beck's program, penned a letter on Friday to the Chairmen of the Boards of JP Morgan Chase, GEICO, Zurich Financial, Chrysler, Direct Holdings Americas, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Lilly Corporate Center, BP, and The Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc.

my orig notes on coleman?

GLENN BECK

http://www.mefeedia.com/entry/an-inconvenient-segment-glenn-beck/4331752

/ attacks GW, plugs own book

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Beck

"Al Gore's not going to be rounding up Jews and exterminating them. It

is the same tactic, however. The goal is different. The goal is

globalization. The goal is global carbon tax. The goal is the United

Nations running the world. That is the goal. Back in the 1930s, the goal

was get rid of all of the Jews and have one global government. You got

to have an enemy to fight. And when you have an enemy to fight, then you

can unite the entire world behind you, and you seize power. That was

Hitler's plan. His enemy: the Jew. Al Gore's enemy, the U.N.'s enemy:

global warming. Then you get the scientists -- eugenics. You get the

scientists -- global warming. Then you have to discredit the scientists

who say, 'That's not right.' And you must silence all dissenting voices.

That's what Hitler did." [10] =

http://mediamatters.org/items/200705010003 a sort of media watch looking

for conservative bias

11/14/07  CNN Headline News show, also on GMA

Graphic: front of cover of book on nearly the whole time.

ch1 Storming and Conforming

gore worshipping psychos

deaths /yrs from extreme weather down 90% since 20's

No one want to talk about good news, only the bad

manufactured crisis

founder or weather channel, "greatest scam in history"

John Coleman, 1st weatherman on GMA, now in San Diego (member bogus

ICECAP, which he refers to as an independent publisher)

icecap.us Drudge

Why are scientists in one it?  You got to make a living; if you put out

a report that GW not bad wasted ...

Hockey stick graph in Manning's original report, knew instantly

incorrect. Bogus science

numbers massaged and acepted b/c all scientists have an agenda, pile on,

we'll get rich, awards, become famous.

Pt of no return: ppl are afraid to speak out? Destined for global

scoilaism.

We'll have last laugh in 20 years, but billions wasted, policy set, ppl

scared.

thousands speaking out, signed petition 19k, but mainstream press ignore

them.

Gore got emmy, oscar, Nobel (and a grammy as well)

thx for courage

...

Coming up, tired of being beaten over the head with the global warming

stick all week by NBC? They were making a statement, you know. Well,

its over. But what did NBCs parent company, General Electric, gain?

The answer is in something I like to call "An Inconvenient Segment."

Next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BECK: Well, full disclosure, this is a shameless plug here. I`ve got a

new book coming out next week called "An Inconvenient Book: Real

Solutions to the World`s Biggest Problems."

And today I`m going to give you a preview of chapter one, called "Global

Warming: Storming and Conforming." I wrote this chapter basically as

kryptonite for you to use against your Gore-worshiping psycho friends.

The next time they tell you how global warming causes all sorts of

massive natural disasters, you say, really? That`s interesting because I

heard somewhere, I`m trying to remember, that deaths per year from

extreme weather are down 95 percent since the 1920s. Sure, you`ll be

unhip and friendless, but at least you`ll be accurate.

Anyway, as I put the chapter together, the thing that struck me -- the

thing that was more amazing to me than the facts that I was finding was

the fact that no one wanted to talk about those facts.

If a scientist says that temperatures are up .01 degree, lead story

around the country in every newspaper. But when somebody with decades of

experience comes out and says global warming is a manufactured crisis,

no one cares and you can hear a pin drop.

How do I know? Because that is exactly what happened last week when the

founder of the Weather Channel wrote an article that began, and I quote,

"It is the greatest scam in history. I`m amazed, appalled, and highly

offended by it. Global warming; it is a scam."

But since that opinion doesn`t fit nicely into the mouth of the media

beast, hello NBC, you probably didn`t hear a word about it. Well, now

you will. John Coleman is the founder of the Weather Channel. He was

also the first weatherman ever on "Good Morning America." And he is

currently weather man at KUSI News in San Diego. John, your head about

exploded with the NBC thing this week. Is that -- that was the breaking

point for you?

JOHN COLEMAN, FOUNDER, WEATHER CHANNEL: Well, I`d been listening to all

the global warming talk for a long time and posting material about

global warming on our Web site.

But finally, the crescendo of global warming myth, nonsense, exploded in

my head and I had to write a real rant. And that`s the one that got

noticed. I put it on our Web site. It was picked up by icecap.us, picked

up by Drudge. First thing you knew it was all over the newspapers, all

over the radio, all over the TV sets. And I`d created a bit of a stir.

And all I was doing was telling you the truth as best I know it.

BECK: Why is it that the scientists are all in on this? I mean, so many

people are in on the global warming is real and we`ve got to stop it

right now.

COLEMAN: Glenn, you`ve got to make a living, first of all. So you spent

10 years becoming a PhD in meteorology, you got a research job. And you

decide you`re going to research the effect of human activity on global

climate. And if you were to put out a research report that said not much

and it doesnt seem too bad, youve probably wasted all your 10 years.

BECK: John, what was the turning point for you? Because I know you that

said that you went in to look for an honest answer, you thought maybe

it`s real. What was the thing that stood out and you went, this is

absolutely bogus?

COLEMAN: Well, when I looked at the hockey stick graph that was produced

in Manning`s original report and it showed a steady line temperature

through the millenniums and then a sudden rise global, I knew that that

was incorrect. I knew it couldn`t possibly be.

And I started asking experts about it and I started digging into how

that was produced, and I found out it was bogus science. It wasn`t real.

The numbers had been massaged.

The whole thing had been created. What bothered me was that the other

scientists had accepted it. Well, why did they possibly do that? And I

think the real answer to that question is that they all have an agenda,

an environmental and political agenda that says let`s pile on here,

were all going to make a lot of money, were going to get research

grants, were going to get awards, were going to become famous. And I

guess that`s what happened.

BECK: John, do you think we`re at the point of no return yet? Are we at

the point where no scientist will come out -- you`ve said to me on my

radio program today that people are afraid in your business to speak

out. Can we turn this around, or are we destined for global socialism?

COLEMAN: I think that the ship may have left the dock. But in 20 years,

we`ll have the last laugh. But of course, billions of dollars will have

been spent. Policy will have been changed worldwide. People will have

been scared. We will have reacted to a myth.

But nonetheless, eventually we`ll realize that there is no global

warming of significance and we`ll have the last laugh. Now, there are

scientists speaking out. There are hundreds of them speaking out. There

are thousands who signed a petition, 19,000 on a petition against global

warming. There are many scientists speaking out.

But the mainstream press is totally ignoring them. The mainstream press

has totally climbed the board and is marching along. And of course the

former vice president got himself an Emmy and an Oscar and --

BECK: I believe that.

COLEMAN: -- A Nobel Peace Prize.

BECK: A Grammy as well. John, thank you very much. Thanks for your

courage.

Now, another global warming angle that we cover in chapter 1 of "An

Inconvenient Book" is how climate change and their cheerleaders that you

see in the media are anything but independent. They love to talk about

how the oil companies fund the studies to distort the truth. But the

reality is that the conflict of interest works both ways. Oh, and I

detail it in the book. And that is when it`s most dangerous, when it is

hidden from you.

For example, did you watch NBC last week? You probably saw their "green

is universal" promotion. It`s great. They changed their logo, their Web

site. Let`s hug a tree. They even changed the plots of their sitcoms by

corporate mandate, all to bring awareness to the issues of climate

change.

Wow, what stewards of the earth they really are over at NBC.

Unfortunately, what NBC didn`t tell you is far more important -- that

they are a subsidiary of General Electric. General Electric, important

for two reasons. First, G.E. has a bigger lobbying budget than the three

largest U.S. oil companies combined. But more importantly, G.E. owns

major environmental business like G.E. Energy, which has made huge bets

on things like wind power and clean energy technologies. And they stand

to make boatloads of cash if Congress passes all sorts of environmental

legislation and you decide to go green.

Imagine the uproar if ABC did a week-long series called "War With Iran"

complete with Islamic extremists competing on "Dancing with the Stars"

but only later did you find out that ABC would actually be owned by

Raytheon, one of the Pentagon`s largest weapons suppliers. Do you think

"The New York Times" might cover that story?

This, honestly, is one of the worst manipulations of the public trust I

have ever seen. In fact, I believe its damn near criminal what theyve

done and somebody should look into their license. NBC and G.E. have used

the public airwaves against us. And they`ve done it all for the only

type of green that they really care about, and that is money. Once you

cut through the propaganda, G.E.`s real motive becomes very, very clear.

Its time you heard the full truth behind NBCs green week. And you

will, in 60 seconds.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

BECK: Welcome back to "An Inconvenient Segment." Tonight we are exposing

the major conflict of interest that NBC and its parent company, G.E.,

are hiding when it comes to promoting environmentalism. Tim Carney is

the author of "The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal

Your Money." Tim, I`m amazed because this is really not about NBC saying

you should have a choice and maybe choose a hybrid SUV. This is about

legislation --

TIM CARNEY, AUTHOR: Absolutely.

BECK: -- And special interest money.

CARNEY: NBC`s parent company, General Electric, actually spends more

money on lobbying than any other corporation in America. Over the last

six months -- first six months of this year, they spent $12 million on

lobbying. And I see their Green Week as just another extension of that

huge lobbying arm. So if theyre saying, well, you shouldnt leave the

lights on when you leave the room, then that`s a great idea. But this

company has invested -- is investing $1.5 billion in renewable fuels, in

carbon dioxide credits, things that are basically worthless without

government action. That`s why they have such a good lobby.

BECK: This is -- what`s fascinating to me is that they actually bought

all the trading systems and a lot of the stuff that Enron was

developing, you know, before they went evil and they bought it because

they thought Enron is on to something, if this legislation comes to the

United States we`re in the money. Right?

CARNEY: Absolutely. They just launched a joint venture that`s about

investing in carbon dioxide credits. And 10 million metric tons of CO2

worth credits. And these are worth nothing right now in the United

States because, well, we can emit CO2, we`re a free country right now.

If Joe Lieberman, John McCain, Hillary Clinton get their way, then these

credits that they bought cheap because they`re worthless all of the

sudden become worth a lot of money.

BECK: It`s really truly amazing, up on the Drudge Report earlier this

afternoon there was a story about Al Gore and how he`s a venture

capitalist now. He`s got some money to play with. And he was thinking

about calling G.E. up. I mean, it just doesn`t stop, how these companies

-- let me ask you this way. Do you think this is something that maybe

the FCC or the SEC should look into? I dont think Ive ever seen a more

blatant use of propaganda than this.

CARNEY: And again, I think it`s an extension of their lobbying arm. You

see shows, they use this hype to try to push the call -- to pump up the

call for more regulation on greenhouse gases. And they at least

journalistically ought to disclose their parent company stands to profit

from it.

BECK: Honestly, I have seen infomercials with more credibility. At the

end they need to say, look, I want you to know, we`re making money off

this. If NBC wanted to do this and at the end of the episode they would

have said full disclosure, we`re owned by G.E., we stand to profit, you

know, billions of dollars if this legislation goes through, then I

wouldn`t have a problem with it.

CARNEY: One of their CNBS anchors I did see on his blog disclose that

said maybe we ought to mention that G.E. is heavily invested in

windmills, heavily invested in solar panels, and now heavily invested in

CO2 credits.

But you know, if an oil company owned a T.V. station and they dedicated

a week black gold week to talking about the beauties of driving and the

beauties of oil, you would think that people would be all over the fact

that the parent company stands to profit.

BECK: Tim, thanks a lot. I appreciate it. I didnt know about -- Im

sorry, NBC, I didn`t know you had it on a CNBC blog, that disclosure

there.

We have just scratched the surface of what`s in chapter 1 of "An

Inconvenient Book." I want to tell you a couple of things about the book

itself.

First, I asked for this book to be released right before Thanksgiving so

it gave you a chance to read, have the arguments ready for those

relatives, you know, that get their news from Keith Olbermann when they

come over to your house.

Second, the book doesn`t look like the typical conservative manifesto. I

mean, here`s, you know, "An Inconvenient Toot" here. Actually, this is

the No. 1 book now on amazon.com in the humor section. It`s a funny

book, and it just looks different than other books. And I did this

because you`ve got to save the people that you can save, the ones that

you know are actually conservatives, but they just don`t want to, you

know, read a conservative book. This is a good book that`s kind of

stealth. You know what I`m saying? Check it out and preorder your copy

right now at GlennBeck.com. It`s released next week.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0711/12/gb.01.html

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Between Feb. 9 and Feb. 17, four Mercatus scholars <a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/48894499/Mercatus-Testimony-2-10-11" target="new" title="testified">testified</a> at oversight committee and subcommittee hearings, including Veronique de Rugy, who was scheduled to speak at an exclusive Koch Industries conference in Aspen in June.

Koch Industries hosted another exclusive conference last month in Palm Springs â�� a semi annual event to discuss âstrategies for combating the multitude of public policies that threaten to destroy America as we know it.â��

Two Mercatus scholars, as well as FOX Newsâ Glenn Beck and the Wall Street Journalâs Stephen Moore, were on the agenda of speakers at the Aspen conference.

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