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</div><div style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://theintercept.com/2020/12/08/great-reset-conspiracy/">https://theintercept.com/2020/12/08/great-reset-conspiracy/</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Great Reset is an attempt to create a plausible impression that the huge winners in this system are on the verge of voluntarily setting greed aside to get serious about solving the raging crises that are radically destabilizing our world.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">So no, the Great Reset is not just another name for the Green New Deal, as many a right-winger with a digital chalkboard and an unhealthy AOC obsession is absurdly claiming. It is, first and foremost, about blocking a real Green New Deal, which most assuredly would not have the support of BP, Mastercard, the Prince of Wales, and all of the other Great Reset partners.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">And yet, in recent weeks, a slew of right-wing commentators on Fox News, as well as Brazil’s minister of foreign affairs and prominent opposition politicians in Australia and Canada, have claimed to be confused about this and are suddenly giving oxygen to what was, until recently, a<b>&nbsp;marginal conspiracy. Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, and Ben Shapiro</b>&nbsp;have all been terrifying their huge audiences with claims that green socialism is about to be forced down their throats via Schwab’s Great Reset, which, they explain, is the very same thing as President-elect Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan, which is itself a thin cover for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. (Like an early fan of an indie punk band,&nbsp;<b>Glenn Beck</b>&nbsp;has been using his perch at The Blaze to point out that he was ranting about the Great Reset when it was just a gleam in Schwab’s eye.)</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Do these people honestly think that Schwab is in cahoots with AOC and using the pandemic to put BP out of business — with the full cooperation of BP? Of course not. But President Donald Trump is on his way out, and the Green New Deal is popular — precisely because it is as far away from Davos as it could be, grounded in a polluter-pays ethos and in programs like a jobs guarantee and universal health care that enjoy broad working-class support. For right-wing politicians and the oil companies that back them,&nbsp;<b>the more climate action can be conflated with an organization known for its traffic jams of private jets and its&nbsp;Bond villain founder,&nbsp;the easier it will be to resist any climate plan at all. That’s why the earliest alarmism about the Great Reset came from the Heartland Institute, ground zero of the climate change denial machine.</b></font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>[Jason Kenney, leader of the United Conservative Party,&nbsp;</b>speaks during a news conference in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, on Friday, April 5, 2019. Kenney said he would create a C$1 billion ($750 million) crown corporation to support Indigenous resource projects including pipelines if he's elected to lead Alberta's government this month, according to an emailed statement. Photographer: Todd Korol/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJason Kenney, leader of the United Conservative Party, speaks during a news conference in Calgary, Canada, on April 5, 2019. Photo: Todd Korol/Bloomberg/Getty Images</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>This messaging is gaining traction not because people are suckers but because they are mad — and they have every right to be.</b>&nbsp;Lockdown policies have demanded months of individual sacrifice for the collective good without providing the most basic collective protections to keep families from slipping into starvation and homelessness, or to keep small businesses afloat. Meanwhile, trillions have been spent to backstop markets and bail out multinationals, and pandemic profiteering is rampant. Is it any wonder that so many find it entirely plausible that the same elites who expect them to swallow all the coronavirus-related sacrifices while they party in the Hamptons and on private islands would also be willing to exaggerate the risks of the disease to get them to the accept more bitter “green” medicine, for the common good? As that first Davos theme made clear, trust between the people and the mountaintop has been broken — and it most certainly has not been rebuilt.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px; font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">For a glimpse of how all of this fits together, take a look at what is going on in&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Alberta, Canada, under its truly reprehensible premier, one Jason Kenney. Kenney came to power pledging to serve as a shameless valet for the Alberta oil patch, specifically its extra-fast-planet-cooking tar sands. 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</div><div><b>The ‘false choice’ between saving lives and saving the economy is a ‘profoundly stupid’ response to this pandemic: cultural historian</b></div><div>
</div><div>Written by Alex Henderson March 26, 2020</div><div>
</div><div><b>During a rant earlier this week, far-right talk radio host Glenn Beck argued that in order to save the economy, older Americans should return to work and abandon social distancing — even if they’re putting themselves at risk of dying from the coronavirus pandemic. It was an idiotic assertion even by Beck’s abysmal standards, but Beck is hardly alone in claiming that the United States must choose between social distancing and saving its economy. And journalist Siva Vaidhyanathan, in a March 26 op-ed for The Guardian, slams those on the far right who have been claiming that the U.S. must choose between physical health and economic health.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“Republican officials, conservative economists, unqualified pundits and even the 73-year-old president of the United States have suggested that the short-term economic pain we have just begun inflicting on ourselves to slow the spread of coronavirus might cost too much, just to save the lives of a few million of our most vulnerable neighbors,” notes Vaidhyanathan, who teaches media studies at the University of Virginia in addition to writing for The Guardian.</div><div>
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</div><div>Jason Campbell</div><div>@JasonSCampbell</div><div>Glenn Beck says older Americans should return to work: “Even if we all get sick, I would rather die than kill the country”https://www.mediamatters.org/glenn-beck/glenn-beck-says-older-americans-should-return-work-even-if-we-all-get-sick-i-would …</div><div>
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</div><div><b>Vaidhyanathan goes on to say those who are arguing that the U.S. must reduce or eliminate social distancing in order to save the economy are offering a “false choice” that is both dangerous and “profoundly stupid.” According to Vaidhyanathan, the short-term economic pain caused by social distancing will hurt the U.S. economy a lot less than the economic pain that will result if the death toll from COVID-19 is higher than it has to be.</b></div><div>
</div><div>“To set up a false choice between driving the economy into the ground while saving millions of lives or reviving the economy while sacrificing millions of lives ignores a core fact: the global economic depression unleashed by the deaths of millions in the United States, millions in Europe, millions in Asia, millions in India, millions in Mexico and millions in Brazil would be beyond our experience or imagination,” Vaidhyanathan writes. “No one would trade with anyone for years. Trade would grind to a halt because of mourning, fear of infection, society-wide trauma and social unrest.”</div><div>
</div><div><b>Moreover, Vaidhyanathan emphasizes, painting coronavirus as a disease that attacks older people exclusively ignores the fact that young people can die from it as well.</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>“Positing this problem as a tradeoff between the economic interests of the young and the lifespan of the old is a terrible error</b>,” Vaidhyanathan explains. “As the U.S. Centers for Disease Control explains, those vulnerable to serious or fatal cases of the infection include not just the elderly, but anyone who is obese, diabetic, has high blood pressure, is HIV-positive, has undergone cancer treatment, suffers from asthma or smokes. Those factors are more common among poorer Americans as well as older Americans, and poor Americans occupy all age ranges.”</div><div>
</div><div>Vaidhyanathan concludes his op-ed by stressing that people of all ages have a stake in reducing the spread of COVID-19.</div><div>
</div><div>“This is not a matter of young v. old or even rich v. poor — although that would be more accurate and a more classic story of political conflict in America,” Vaidhyanathan writes. “Even those with none of the most dangerous conditions, who are as young as 12, could succumb to this powerful virus. It’s all of us v. all of us. Or, if we choose, all of us for all of us.”</div><div>
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</div><div>REPORT: ACORN OBSESSION: Beck, Hannity obsess over ACORN while virtually ignoring major corruption scandals</div><div>WRITTEN BY MEDIA MATTERS STAFF</div><div>
</div><div>PUBLISHED 09/23/09 4:33 PM EDT</div><div>
</div><div><b>In light of the recent attention Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity have devoted to a supposed corruption scandal involving ACORN,</b>&nbsp;Media Matters for America reviewed the coverage each host has provided on his respective television programs to a selection of well-documented political scandals and instances of corruption by companies that have received thousands of times more money from the government than ACORN has in the past 15 years.&nbsp;</div><div>
</div><div>Our findings show that both hosts have been obsessed with ACORN, devoting a massively disproportionate amount of attention to the story in comparison to their coverage of controversies involving military contractors that have received billions of dollars in federal contracts and instances of Republican corruption at the highest levels of the U.S. government. Furthermore, since Beck joined Fox News, the amount of attention he has devoted to ACORN has skyrocketed, while his interest in other corruption scandals has remained limited.</div><div>
</div><div>Key findings</div><div>Number of times Beck's and Hannity's programs, combined, referenced ACORN, Abramoff, Blackwater, and Halliburton/KBR from May 8, 2006, to September 18, 2009 (NOTE: For the purposes of this study, a “reference” is defined as the specified topic having been mentioned by either a host or a guest on the program being studied.):</div><div>
</div><div><b>ACORN: 1,502</b></div><div>Disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and former Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH): 62</div><div>Blackwater/Xe: 4</div><div>Halliburton/KBR: 43</div><div>
</div><div>Conclusions:</div><div>
</div><div>Beck's and Hannity's programs were approximately 35 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors.</div><div>Beck's and Hannity's programs were approximately 24 times more likely to reference ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney.</div><div>
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</div><div>The numbers are equally shocking for each show individually:</div><div>
</div><div>Beck's programs were approximately 50 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors and approximately 149 times more likely to discuss ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney.</div><div>
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</div><div>Hannity's programs were approximately 18 times more likely to reference ACORN than any of the military contractors and approximately eight times more likely to discuss ACORN than either Abramoff or Ney.</div><div>
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">What a difference Fox News makes -- after leaving CNN's Headline News and joining Fox in January, Beck's focus on ACORN skyrocketed, while his disinterest in major corruption scandals continued:</span></div><div>
</div><div>References to ACORN on Beck's Headline News program:</div><div>
</div><div>ACORN</div><div>
</div><div>Abramoff/Ney</div><div>
</div><div>Blackwater/Xe</div><div>
</div><div>Halliburton/KBR</div><div>
</div><div>43</div><div>
</div><div>7</div><div>
</div><div>2</div><div>
</div><div>11</div><div>
</div><div><b>References to ACORN on Beck's Fox News program:</b></div><div>
</div><div><b>ACORN: 1,002</b></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div>Blackwater/Xe</div><div>
</div><div>Halliburton/KBR</div><div>
</div><div>1,002</div><div>
</div><div>0</div><div>
</div><div>0</div><div>
</div><div>8</div><div>
</div><div>Reporting on ACORN, Beck and Hannity claim to be concerned with government waste and corruption</div><div>Beck implores viewers to “take a stand” because "[t]his is clear-cut, unadulterated, taxpayer-funded corruption" at ACORN due to its receipt of government funding. On the September 15 edition of his Fox News program, Beck aired portions of an undercover video at a California ACORN office and stated (from the Nexis database):</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">BECK: I am just asking you this -- please, take a stand. Take a stand. This is clear-cut, unadulterated, taxpayer-funded corruption. You love your children. You love your country just like I do. You must understand that what you've been seeing from ACORN on these tapes this past week isn't compassion, it's corruption!</span></div><div>
</div><div>I'm asking you -- demand a full investigation from your representatives of everybody -- ACORN, all the way to the top, everybody in government, all the way to the top, in your cities, and in our nation. And until that corruption is brought under control, we must quarantine Washington, D.C. -- no legislation must come out of it.</div><div>
</div><div>Hannity: “The only question that remains is, will this keep ACORN from receiving our tax dollars?” From the September 16 edition of Hannity (from Nexis):</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">HANNITY: Now the employees in five separate ACORN offices have now showed themselves willing to aid and in some cases participate in child prostitution. Now predictably, ACORN is retaliating by attacking the individuals who exposed them and threatening them with lawsuits.</span></div><div>
</div><div>But the videos, they speak for themselves. The only question that remains is, will this keep ACORN from receiving our tax dollars?</div><div>
</div><div>And here with reaction is the author of the best-selling book, “Culture of Corruption,” Michelle Malkin is back with us.</div><div>
</div><div>You know, if you look at the money and follow the money, tens and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to date, Michelle. And if you add the stimulus, you're looking, you know, at potentially $8.5 billion more. So there are -- there is an effort in Congress to stop it. Will it be successful?</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">MICHELLE MALKIN, “THE CULTURE OF CORRUPTION” AUTHOR: Well, it already has, in some measure. And I think that cutting off ACORN from the Census Bureau partnerships was a big first step, and then of course in the Senate cutting off transportation and HUD appropriations money from ACORN and all of its affiliates.</span></div><div>
</div><div>I think that's very important. I called up Senator Mike Johan's office the other day just to clarify and make sure that it's not just ACORN, the national umbrella group, but all of the web of its affiliates and entities under it that are nonprofit, tax exempt and supposedly nonpartisan.</div><div>
</div><div>So all these are a good first step. But I think that the next step, Sean, obviously, is to crack open the books and take a look at how the money they currently have been allocated and allocated in the past is being spent. And that's going to be an incredible forensic undertaking. And hopefully it will be bipartisan.</div><div>
</div><div>HANNITY: You talk about these umbrella groups. There's all these groups that would then, you know, sort of subcontract out to ACORN. So it's almost difficult to do the accounting. But the reality is, and I know&nbsp;<b>Governor Tim Pawlenty and I know some others, Richard Shelby was on this morning, and he is working in Washington.</b></div><div>
</div><div>They're saying they want to find a way to get to the real bottom line dollar figure of how much they are getting and cut off all funds because this is only part of the corruption. I mean it's bad enough every office they went to showed a connection, you know, to some of these scandals. But it goes a lot deeper, doesn't it?</div><div>
</div><div>MALKIN: It's systemic. And I'll tell you, ACORN plays a game of throwing its rank and file operatives under the bus and then claiming that these were just the indefensible actions of a few, a handful. That's the phrase that Bertha Lewis and the ACORN brass are using.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Both hosts have largely ignored major scandals involving military contractors that have huge government contracts</b></div><div><b>
</b></div><div>Halliburton, KBR, and Blackwater have received tens of billions of dollars in military contracts and have been connected to major scandals, some even resulting in death. Major controversies concerning work performed by Halliburton, Kellogg, Brown and Root (a Halliburton subsidiary), and Blackwater (now named Xe) broke between 2006 and 2009.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">According to news reports, Blackwater, Halliburton, and KBR have received a combined total of at least $25 billion dollars in federal contracts since 2001. By comparison, ACORN has received an estimated $53 million in federal funding over the past 15 years, which is an average of $3.5 million per year.</span></div><div>
</div><div>KBR's faulty work in Iraq allegedly killed U.S. soldiers and civilian contractors. For example, KBR, which received more than $24 billion in military contracts in exchange for performing a wide array of services related to the Iraq war, was allegedly responsible for the fatal electrocutions of 13 U.S. service members between the start of the war and July 2008 due to faulty electrical work. In July 2008, The New York Times reported that the Department of Defense ordered electrical inspections of all buildings in Iraq because of the deaths. In September 2006, a group of truckers who had worked for KBR provided congressional testimony against the company, claiming that its practices had unduly endangered them and contributed to the deaths of seven workers in an ambush.</div><div>
</div><div>KBR and Halliburton allegedly took foreign bribes. In 2009, Halliburton and KBR agreed to pay a $579 million settlement to the federal government over charges that they took foreign bribes, reportedly the largest fine ever paid by a U.S. company in a foreign corruption case.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Blackwater contractors were connected to the shooting death of 17 Iraqi civilians</b>, and its founder has been named in a murder investigation. Blackwater, whose leadership had well-established ties to the Bush administration and the conservative movement, has received more than $1 billion in federal contracts since 2001. The company has faced mounting criticism following the shooting death of 17 Iraqi civilians in September 2007. At the time, Iraqi officials accused Blackwater of murder. More recently, there have been accusations of a murder plot directly involving Blackwater founder Erik Prince.</div><div>
</div><div>Despite their professed concern about corruption, Beck's and Hannity's programs have virtually ignored the controversies surrounding Blackwater, Halliburton, and KBR. Since May 2006, Beck's television programs have referenced the contractors only 21 times. Similarly, Hannity's programs have referenced them only 26 times.</div><div>
</div><div><b>Both have similarly ignored major developments in Abramoff and Ney corruption cases</b></div><div>Both Abramoff and Ney were imprisoned after being convicted of corruption. In the summer of 2006, Ney, who was enmeshed in the Abramoff scandal, retired from office. That fall, reports revealed extensive ties between Abramoff and the Bush White House and Republican congressional figures, threatening the electoral prospects of Republicans throughout the country. Ney soon pleaded guilty to corruption charges and was sentenced to a prison term. In September 2008, the Abramoff trial finally concluded with a four-year sentence for Abramoff himself.</div><div>
</div><div>Beck and Hannity consistently ignored developments in these cases of high-level Republican corruption. Despite the fact that the scandal involving Ney and Abramoff received broad coverage and was politically significant, Beck and Hannity largely ignored it. Throughout all of 2006, Beck mentioned Abramoff only a handful of times, often simply to dismiss his significance. For instance, on his November 8, 2006, program, following a major midterm election that returned control of Congress to Democrats, Beck said the following regarding corruption's effect on the election: “According to yesterday's exit polls, voters said the most important issue to them was corruption and ethics. You know, I don't believe that they're talking about Mark Foley or Jack Abramoff. Ask somebody if they even know who Jack Abramoff is.” For his part, Hannity did not mention Abramoff once during the week of the 2006 midterm elections, and Ney has been mentioned only a handful of times during the entire course of his Fox News broadcast.</div><div>
</div><div>Yet Beck and Hannity have devoted disproportionate attention to ACORN</div><div>
</div><div>Beck and Hannity mentioned ACORN 32 times more often than the military contractors. Between May 8, 2006, and September 18, 2009, ACORN was mentioned approximately 376 times as often on Beck's and Hannity's programs combined as Blackwater and approximately 35 times as often as Halliburton and KBR combined. In total, the two programs mentioned ACORN approximately 32 times as often as all of the military contractors combined.</div><div>
</div><div>Beck and Hannity mentioned ACORN 24 times more often than Abramoff and Ney. Between May 8, 2006, and September 18, 2009, ACORN was mentioned on Beck's and Hannity's television programs 24 times as often as Abramoff and Ney combined.</div><div>
</div><div>Methodology</div><div>Media Matters for America conducted a Nexis search for programs hosted by Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity between May 8, 2006, and September 18, 2009,* using the following terms:</div><div>
</div><div>SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (CAPS(ACORN) OR Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now)</div><div>SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Jack Abramoff OR Abramoff)</div><div>SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Blackwater OR Black Water OR CAPS(XE))</div><div>SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Robert Ney OR Bob Ney OR Ney)</div><div>SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Halliburton)</div><div>SHOW(Glenn Beck OR Hannity) AND (Kellogg Brown Root OR KBR)</div><div>For each transcript, every mention of any of the searched terms by any person on the program was included in the study.</div><div>
</div><div>Glenn Beck was off the air between October 17, 2008, and January 18, 2009, during his program's transition from CNN Headline News to Fox News. Included in the results were both Beck's Headline News and Fox News programs, as well as Hannity & Colmes, Hannity, and Hannity's America.</div><div>
</div><div>Justin Seidel is an intern at Media Matters for America.</div><div>=</div></div></div><div>
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<span style="font-size: 17px;">Saturday, there was another mass shooting at a synagogue. A man opened fire inside the Chabad synagogue in Powoy, CA, just outside of San Diego. NBC's Ben Collins and Andrew Blankstein&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b8a81d0e3e6a2f253259ce5eda8cd7fec01f9aad5d472d14fb95a6ccb83aca2412b7f122a1b156c0a09b85c8257114d6c" title="reported that">reported that</a>&nbsp;an open letter was posted on far-right forum 8chan in the shooters name, which also took credit for an unsolved arson of a nearby mosque. According to the San Diego County Sheriff, the alleged shooter is&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bb1cefc3a95f8b8173d20acae39677a89c1c5e4e9e32ef210f704828101556980adfb8e883b1120cba839378695cc44d2" title="now being investigated">now being investigated</a>&nbsp;for that arson as well.</span></font><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Over at Bellingcat, Robert Evans&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bd9e6ab72f632910629fbd4efe19d70d5694cb9d23a1e0836e194eb4419bededadc7731cca52952685b69d43ced94098a" title="took a deep dive into 8chan">took a deep dive into 8chan</a>, which was also the place where the Christchurch mosque shooter posted his manifesto.&nbsp;<i>Media Matters</i>' Cristina López has&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b59768b36abaef162c23c2ce58061ac87b7057541a990bf49475de275a9e6acf7ad668170619db9f2445e3a6767535b5b" title="previously written">previously written</a>&nbsp;about how board users launch harassment campaigns using 8chan. 8chan is also&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b902396d76e403c15efa929d7f6b673999d59651949bf25d900a6f626711b17cae36864b3d9ab82d2c7b2bcf53b2f1009" title="the hub">the hub</a>&nbsp;of the QAnon conspiracy theory which has swept pro-Trump media; a&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b9405eb2a3d63dbb6fb78b3d310d68fb30054abe479b2c93943b2c21feee1bb4899354d40844677321285660d195cefc7" title="number of prominent right-wing figures">number of prominent right-wing figures</a>&nbsp;have amplified that conspiracy theory. And board users&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bae19ca1d1d84cec0667f10e83468c4badb7d64ddb2e6924186f8f00301f814eb940f5257742158bf20352a100bcc5faf" title="absolutely love Sean Hannity">absolutely love Sean Hannity</a>.</span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Over at The New York Times, Charlie Warzel&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b1c81d5e1150276abdd8f32db295402e5436dd2f4bb67cb5de686b196564b2d881909b6b43960e5c5b112fa0f63be8a30" title="writes about">wrote about</a>&nbsp;how these&nbsp;<b>mass shootings have become a meme in the far-right internet: "The pattern is eerie:&nbsp;</b>it starts with a crude genealogy of the shooter’s ethnic roots, then a self-aggrandizing Q. and A. with himself, followed by a litany of toxic in-jokes meant to confuse the media and those less savvy in far-right online culture. ... Like the Christchurch massacre, the Poway shooting is not only tailored for the internet but also sickeningly standardized. The digital footprint and manifestoes of these white nationalist terrorists follow a familiar template — one that each shooter fills in with their own hideous details. Indeed, it seems real-world murderous hate crimes have become a message board meme of sorts.<b>&nbsp;And like any online meme, the creation cycle only seems to be accelerating, refining itself and, horrifyingly, increasing in frequency."</b></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-size: 17px;"><b>On Fox News, a guest was linking the rise of anti-Semitism to Trump's permissive rhetoric about the far right,</b>&nbsp;specifically Trump's defense of white nationalists in Charlottesville who chanted "Jews will not replace us." (Trump&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bccd2ba56a954ef5dba89311ed1dfc4b715e0e50b0f0f8593657600ca85b5e4b11afa2e4146092549a9962c360e8368e3" title="even doubled down">even doubled down</a>&nbsp;on that characterization on Friday in an interview with Mark Levin.) But as the guest described this,&nbsp;<b>the show&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bf1e9164459b9dd07d23d52e16a525395d029bc8c12a1e2d491c107ca292713370b1d204de5e4d7fb9ebc589717db5d76" title="suddenly cut to commercial">suddenly cut to commercial&nbsp;</a></b>. The guest was invited back on later in the day, but the discussion moved quickly beyond Trump's rhetoric to an assertion that Trump could not possibly be personally anti-Semitic.</span></span></font></p><p style="margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="font-size: 17px;">Fox News&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857bfc348775a3b38c21ebec59ec9691f60e7e80afeba0ce33b31ac2e26609771efeb79afc1cf0ae50b9e1332ed1e815ab83" title="never stopped pushing">never stopped pushing</a>&nbsp;the anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that motivated the Tree of Life shooter.<b>Glenn Beck was on Fox News earlier this month pushing it.</b>&nbsp;And earlier this week, a Fox Nation guest<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857ba05fea6614f0a7129c5dfb29c26161c967d26057db4661e18e316ff049e7ed63001c2f1cee45b526809af0c9f9c93071" title="fearmongered">fearmongered</a>&nbsp;about George Soros infiltrating the census, harkening back to when a guest&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=a1ca547d2611857b793c8a1d11a64be4fd5e21541db558a73bc6f91f0fc69379c0c1604bbae9fc183d64bbe5ecf68acbc6e9c0cc944055ef" title="was banned">was banned</a>&nbsp;from the network for complaining about the "Soros-occupied State Department."</span></span></font></p></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">mma</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Before perpetrating what’s believed to have been the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, the Tree of Life synagogue shooter posted online,<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21ee855293ac1db41a5c6dff80350c5ae1f8d4b14a68721b70cbc5d2c3df45fc3f9ac40f06fa126013060d5905d2981fb9" title="blaming">blaming</a>&nbsp;Jewish people in the U.S. “for bringing in an invasion of nonwhite immigrants.” He was specifically referring to the caravans of migrants from Central America that conservative media have focused on as an existential threat to the United States.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The link between conservative media rhetoric and the shooter's words&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21ad482a94b0cd73b425202ba5740390187603e333524a558dc86fccc2605d240b0a8bcb94661728e41f3aa19820a645e3" title="was readily apparent at the time">was readily apparent at the time</a>. But instead of course correcting following the massacre, Fox is instead still pushing the conspiracy theory to this day.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Sean Hannity&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21d5cb7747db3c4773813e5d19b0b3075333ea65b23ab3ccd8478a26598bff109701b3351f1a31d936e345ddb3d169b92c" title="hosted conspiracy theory-monger Glenn Beck">hosted conspiracy theory-monger Glenn Beck</a>, who said the migrant caravans were “directly” funded by “George Soros&nbsp;</b>and others” (Soros is Jewish). Beck further claimed that "American communists in Chicago" are orchestrating the caravans with money from Soros.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The New Republic's Jeet Heer&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21351bf48ebe945785392cbd0c7c091c4df0892585966888593e5d5447d3c0fad52a8973e605b61a99758402ce78e2577e" title="noted that">noted that</a><b>&nbsp;Beck's words were "a straight up articulation of the theory of Judeo–Bolshevism, the ideological pillar of Nazi anti-Semitism."</b>&nbsp;Many&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c2162d1f282073d2321053213a21802a3f102666dfab1a170a83089e9bca635114786b0980818fd588e63d2f39ed9309fb9" title="others noticed">others noticed</a>&nbsp;that Beck's words were indistinguishable from those of the Tree of Life shooter.</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(While shocking, this was entirely foreseeable for Fox News: Beck made his name at the network in part through anti-Semitic conspiracy theories about George Soros.)</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">It was not just on Hannity, either. On the same night, Lou Dobbs blamed "left-wing money" and "the United Nations" for migrants headed to the border.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;This is a clear dog whistle for Dobbs' audience, as the Fox Business host, his guests, and others on the network have&nbsp;</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21b7e8049159ba5673759cf802d432fe683476187bb9d3fd2806452af3952a93760206468656fa9c85316e8905a21444e5" title="repeatedly pushed" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">repeatedly pushed</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;the same conspiracy theory. In the immediate aftermath of the shooting, a Dobbs guest</span><a rel="nofollow" target="blank" href="http://click.e.mediamatters.org/?qs=c178a9092d9e8c21b74d164de41ac8edd4fe0340d2f416942730c547765cbb0ba3f165105966e4c22ccd7c0bf1d19e75e72eacde927281fa" title="was banned" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">was banned&nbsp;</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">from the network after a previously aired show reran in which the guest complained about the "Soros-occupied State Department." Fox has taken no action regarding Beck or Dobbs this week.</span></font></p><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/</a></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...Am<span class="smallcaps" style="box-sizing: inherit; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-caps: small-caps; letter-spacing: 0.0625rem; text-transform: lowercase;">idst the misery&nbsp;</span>of the 2016 presidential campaign, Beck showed unusual courage. Many conservative pundits opposed Trump. But they mostly worked for mainstream media institutions like&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">The</i>&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</i>,&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">The</i><i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Washington Post</i>, MSNBC, and CNN. They didn’t rely on Trump supporters to pay their salary.</font></div><div class="blah" a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid;"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-1" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px;"><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-house-mobile.html" data-pos="housepromo-m" id="housepromo-m" class=" ad-housepromo-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">C<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">onservative talk-show hosts, who stoke right-wing populism for a living, reacted very differently. Sean Hannity appeared in one of Trump’s campaign videos. Laura Ingraham spoke at the Republican National Convention. Rush Limbaugh declared in March that, “with the case of Trump, there’s a much bigger upside than downside.” In July, Hugh Hewitt wrote, “Of course I am voting for Donald Trump.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Even the most moralistic conservative talkers—including William Bennett and Dennis Prager, who have made careers of arguing that private character is key to political leadership—endorsed Trump. Mark Levin, who hosts a popular show on the Westwood One radio network, vowed not to. “Count me as Never Trump,” he declared in April. But in September he announced, “I’m voting for Trump.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Among big-time national conservative talk-show hosts, Beck—who is tied with Levin for the third-largest listenership after Limbaugh and Hannity—was a rare exception. He didn’t just oppose Trump. He compared him to Hitler. He warned that Trump was a possible “extinction-level event” for American democracy and capitalism. In an attempt to defeat Trump, Beck campaigned during the primaries for Ted Cruz.<b>&nbsp;Then, when Cruz endorsed Trump, Beck apologized for having supported him.</b></font></p></div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--2" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center;"><div data-section="side" data-template="hippo/components/ads/rail.html" data-pos="native-rr" class=" ad-native-rr-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;" /></aside></div><div data-section="full" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-pos="boxinjector-flex-d" class=" ad-boxinjector-flex-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="blah" a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid;"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-2" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px;"><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-flex-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-flex-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One longtime sponsor of Beck’s radio show reportedly tried to pull its ads in protest. In May, SiriusXM briefly suspended Beck for implying that if Congress wouldn’t stop a President Trump, Americans might have to do so by force.</span>&nbsp;Nonetheless, Beck held firm in his opposition. He considered voting for Hillary Clinton, but ultimately went for the independent candidate Evan McMullin. Why?</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The answer lies in the very catastrophizing that makes Beck sound like a kook. In the mid-1990s, Beck was, by his own account, a “despicable human being,” a divorced, alcoholic, drug-addicted shock jock for a Connecticut radio station. He once put on a banana suit and leaped into a pool of Styrofoam. He repeatedly considered suicide.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Eventually Beck got sober and fell in love with the woman who would become his second wife. But she refused to marry him until they found a religion. So the couple embarked on a “church tour” and were baptized as Mormons in 1999.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For a time, Beck remained apolitical. “I didn’t pay attention to anything until September 11, nothing, nothing,” he explained to me after the taping, as we sat in his office. “I couldn’t have told you the Bill of Rights in any great detail.” He describes 9/11 as “a turning point for me.” He was by then hosting a show in New York, and remembers walking from Ground Zero to his studio and reading on air a 19th-century hymn written by a Mormon pioneer fleeing Missouri on his way to Utah. Beck says he felt a special calling at that moment. “If you have a position on the gate and you don’t warn the people of what you see,” he remembers thinking, “you’re to blame.”</font></p><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Ever since, Beck has imagined himself as a sentry perched on the national ramparts, warning of looming disaster.&nbsp;</b>Usually, that disaster manifests itself as a threat to the Constitution. Which, given Mormon history, makes perfect sense. Many Americans revere the Constitution. Mormons, however, consider it sacred. In&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Doctrine and Covenants</i>, a book of Mormon scripture, God says, “I have established the Constitution of this land by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose.” According to polling by David Campbell, a Notre Dame political scientist, 94 percent of American Mormons believe that the “Constitution and the Bill of Rights are divinely inspired.” That’s only two points lower than the percentage who believe that the Book of Mormon is.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Mormons don’t just consider the Constitution sacred. They believe that its violation has allowed their persecution. Why did the governor of Missouri in 1838 call for Mormons to “be exterminated or driven from the State”? Why were Mormons forced to travel halfway across the continent—leaving the borders of what was then the United States—in order to find sanctuary in Utah? Because America’s leaders disregarded the country’s sacred texts.</font></p></div></div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--3" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center;" /></div><div data-section="full" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-pos="boxinjector-d" class=" ad-boxinjector-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="blah" a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; display: grid;"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-3" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px;"><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, many Mormons see defending the Constitution the way many Jews see opposing genocide: as a way of honoring their ancestors and affirming their identity. In recounting his own religious conversion, Beck told me about a parade that he claimed Mormon settlers held upon reaching Utah, after having been expelled from the United States. “The women carried the Declaration of Independence and the men carried the Constitution,” he said. “And the whole point was that people may let you down, people will violate the principles, but the principles are true.” Such a parade likely never happened. Two scholars of Mormonism told me they had never heard of it. But the story nonetheless illustrates the Constitution’s centrality to Beck’s identity, and to the identity of many Mormons. According to legend, the Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesied in 1843 that the Constitution would one day “hang by a thread” and be saved by “the elders of Zion,” by which he meant Mormon men. Church authorities say the quote is apocryphal. Campbell’s polling, however, finds that a majority of Mormons believe it’s true.</font></p><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And yet, Campbell argues, Mormons tend not to accentuate these views publicly. Mormon culture, he told me, emphasizes a “moderate way of speaking.” Think Mitt Romney or Orrin Hatch. Campbell, who is Mormon himself, says that’s in part because many Mormons are desperate to be accepted by a mainstream that has long rejected them. They’re fearful of looking like fanatics or nuts.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck is not. Perhaps because he converted to Mormonism as an adult, he never imbibed his co-religionists’ anxiety. He has publicly invoked Smith’s alleged prophecy at least five times, most recently in March. Warning Utah voters of the threat Trump posed, Beck reminded them that “the body of the priesthood is known to stand up when the Constitution hangs by a thread.” More problematically for liberals, Beck invoked the prophecy three times in late 2008 and early 2009 to describe Barack Obama.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is the irony underlying Beck’s current stance: The same doomsday sensibility that helps him appreciate the menace posed by Trump led him to massively exaggerate the menace posed by Obama—and thus to breed the hateful paranoia on which Trump now feeds.</b>&nbsp;Beck, in fact, pioneered some of Trump’s most disturbing themes. At the beginning of Obama’s first term, Beck repeatedly called the president antiwhite. In 2010, he wondered why Obama “needlessly throws his hat into the ring to defend the Ground Zero mosque. He hosts Ramadan dinners, which a president can do. But then you just add all of this stuff up—his wife goes against the advice of the advisers, jets to Spain for vacation. What does she do there? She hits up the Alhambra palace mosque. Fine, it’s a tourist attraction. But is there anything more to this? Are they sending messages?”</font></p></div></div></section></div><aside class="l-rail l-rail--right l-rail--4" role="complementary" style="box-sizing: inherit; display: flex; flex-basis: 300px; flex-shrink: 0; min-width: 300px; grid-area: 1 / 2 / span 1 / auto; -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-box-direction: normal; flex-direction: column; -webkit-box-pack: center; justify-content: center;" /></div><div data-section="full" data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-desktop.html" data-pos="boxinjector-d" class=" ad-boxinjector-d-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit;"><div class="blah" a="a" b="b" grid-template-columns="grid-template-columns" fr="fr" px="px" margin-top="margin-top" em="em" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; display: grid;"><div class="l-articlecontainercontainer" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; max-width: none; width: 736px; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; align-self: start; grid-area: 1 / 1 / auto / span 1;"><section class="l-articlesection s-cms-content" itemprop="articleBody" id="article-section-4" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: 64px;"><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump opponents may appreciate Beck’s Hitler analogies now that they’re directed at The Donald.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">But during the first 14 months of the Obama administration, according to Dana Milbank’s book&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Tears of a Clown: Glenn Beck and the Tea Bagging of America</i>, Beck and guests on his Fox News show invoked “fascism,” “Nazis,” “Hitler,” “the Holocaust” and “Joseph Goebbels” 487 times. For good measure, Beck in 2007 said that Hillary Clinton sounds like “the stereotypical bitch.”</span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Beck says he’s sorry for all that. “I played a role, unfortunately,” he told Megyn Kelly during a 2014 interview on Fox News, “in helping tear the country apart.”</b>&nbsp;He told me that now that America has “hit the iceberg,” he wants to help it heal. “I’m not the guy you want at the beginning of the ride on the&nbsp;<i style="box-sizing: inherit;">Titanic</i>, because I’m the guy going out and saying, ‘We’re going to hit ice,’ ” he explained. “But once she starts going down, I’m the guy who would be standing at the lifeboats saying, ‘Relax, it’s going to be okay. Let’s get the women and the children in the boats. Let’s not tear each other apart.’ ”</font></p><div data-template="hippo/components/ads/article-mobile.html" data-pos="boxinjector-m" class=" ad-boxinjector-m-wrapper" style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Although still generally conservative, Beck now insists that America’s real moral divide isn’t between left and right. He recently angered some conservatives by sending aid to undocumented children detained at the Mexican border. In a&nbsp;<em style="box-sizing: inherit;">New York Times</em>&nbsp;op-ed this fall, he called on conservatives to show “empathy” for Black Lives Matter activists. He says Americans must stop thinking in terms of ideological sides.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The day after Trump’s victory, I checked in with Beck again. He said he saw “the seeds of what happened in Germany in 1933.” The question was whether the American people would “water them” with “hatred and division.” Did he feel partly responsible? “I’ll not only take my share of blame, I’ll take extra,” he answered. “If you want to blame me for him, that’s fine; I don’t believe it’s true, but it’s fine with me. Please just listen to the warnings now so we don’t continue to do this.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">When Barack Obama rose to the presidency after insisting, “There is not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America,” Glenn Beck called him a racist. Now that Donald Trump is president, Beck wants to bind the country’s racial and ideological wounds. He really does.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: inherit; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But for years and years, he called sheep wolves. Now that the wolf is here, it may be too late.</font></p></div></div></section></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MAJOR PUSHER OF AG 21:</font></div><div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176508/tomgram%3A_john_feffer%2C_the_new_world_order_is_here/#more" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/176508/tomgram%3A_john_feffer%2C_the_new_world_order_is_here/#more</font></a></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">They swore he’d never build, just tear down. He was, after all, the ultimate loner president with a grim history of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/nyregion/donald-trump-atlantic-city.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">bankruptcies</a>. It was obvious that, among other things, he’d destroy the country’s alliances. And admittedly, these last two years his strength hasn’t always been in building. Take that “<a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-trump-california-campaign-20160602-snap-story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">big, fat, beautiful wall</a>” of his. You know, the one the Mexicans were going to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-37241626/donald-trump-mexico-will-pay-for-the-wall" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">pay for</a>&nbsp;until it turned out that Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were the Mexicans he had in mind. Not only hasn’t he gotten it built, but he’s now threatening to shut down part of the government if the Democrats won’t agree to fund it. In something like a hissy fit, in fact, he recently swore that he’d be “<a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/public-fight-democrats-trump-says-he-would-be-proud-shut-n946556" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">proud</a>” to do so, wouldn’t for a second blame it on the Democrats, and might even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-threatens-to-have-military-build-border-wall-if-pelosi-schumer-wont-budge" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">order</a>&nbsp;the Pentagon to spend a few billion of the bucks he’s been&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/420490-trump-in-reversal-calls-for-pentagon-to-raise-budget-request-to-750b-reports" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">shoveling</a>&nbsp;its way to build that wall for him -- all of which may represent a first when it comes to presidential public relations.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Still, in other areas, how wrong they were! It couldn’t be clearer now that Donald Trump is capable of building&nbsp;<a href="https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/presidential-races/303226-trump-ends-debate-on-bigly-big-league" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">bigly</a>. Just look at the recent climate-change meeting in Poland if you want some striking&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/that-was-awkward--at-worlds-biggest-climate-conference-us-promotes-fossil-fuels/2018/12/10/aa8600c4-f8ae-11e8-8642-c9718a256cbd_story.html?utm_term=.bbceecb39a89" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">evidence</a>&nbsp;of his success! It took a year or so, but now he’s no longer alone in trying to deep-six the Paris climate accord and turn this planet into a fossil-fueled hothouse&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176464/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_history%2C_memory%2C_and_donald_trump" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">from hell</a>. Thanks to his&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-fox-news/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">kind words</a>&nbsp;and supportive gestures and those of figures&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/world/middleeast/saudi-mbs-jared-kushner.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">close to him</a>, Trump and his men actually managed to put together an informal but potentially&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/climate/katowice-climate-talks-cop24.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">powerful alliance</a>&nbsp;of fossil-fuel producing countries at that recent Polish conference -- Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Mohammed bin Salman’s Saudi Arabia, Australia, and Kuwait -- to take the world down with him. And on a planet on which fossil fuel emissions&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/climate/greenhouse-gas-emissions-2018.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">remain</a>&nbsp;on the rise and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.iiea.com/publication/the-paris-climate-agreement-versus-the-trump-effect-countervailing-forces-for-decarbonisation/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">American bank investments</a>&nbsp;in coal and oil from tar sands (but not in renewable energy) are also on the upswing, here's a strong sign of what such an alliance could ultimately accomplish: glaciers in a part of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/11/east-antarctica-glacial-stronghold-melting-amid-climate-change" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">East Antarctica</a>&nbsp;long considered stable are now melting, a flood threat, sooner or later, to coastal areas globally. In other words, the outlook is bright indeed, if you&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175703/tomgram%3A_engelhardt,the_biggest_criminal_enterprise_in_history/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">happen to be</a>&nbsp;a Big Energy tycoon or CEO.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Now, let&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/176495/tomgram%3A_john_feffer%2C_splinterlands_2.0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><em>TomDispatch</em>&nbsp;regular</a>&nbsp;John Feffer, author of the new climate-change thriller&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1608469484/ref=nosim/?tag=tomdispatch-20" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><em>Frostlands</em></a>, the second in his&nbsp;<em>Splinterlands</em>&nbsp;series of dystopian novels, fill you in on the real New World Order whose creation Donald Trump and his alliance are intent on aiding and abetting.&nbsp;<em>Tom</em></font></p><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><p style="margin: 11px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>Are You Ready for an Epoch Fail?</strong>
<strong>Globalists Really Are Ruining Your Life</strong>
By&nbsp;<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/authors/johnfeffer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">John Feffer</a></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">You know the story: the globalists want your guns. They want your democracy. They’re hovering just beyond the horizon in those black helicopters. They control the media and Wall Street. They’ve burrowed into a deep state that stretches like a vast tectonic plate beneath America’s fragile government institutions. They want to replace the United States with the United Nations, erase national borders, and create one huge, malevolent international order.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The only thing that stands in their way is -- take your pick -- the Second Amendment, Twitter, or Donald Trump.</font></p></blockquote><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a name="more" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none;" /></font><blockquote style="padding: 0px 20px 0px 0px; line-height: 21px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 11px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><a name="more" style="font-weight: bold; outline: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Conspiracy theorists have, in fact, been warning about just such a New World Order for decades, going all the way back to the&nbsp;</font></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/03/the-origins-of-the-globalist-slur/555479/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">isolationist critics</a>&nbsp;of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and to fears about the United Nations in the post-World War II moment. During the Cold War, the John Birch Society and fringe elements of the Republican Party nurtured just such anti-globalist sentiments, but they never made much headway in the mainstream world. As the Cold War ended, however, the<b>&nbsp;anti-globalist virus began to spread again, this time more rapidly,</b>&nbsp;and it’s threatening to become a pandemic.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>The Agenda 21</strong>&nbsp;<strong>Dystopia</strong></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On September 11, 1990, just after Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion of Kuwait and just before the reunification of Germany, George H.W. Bush&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cryan.com/war/speech/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">spoke</a>&nbsp;of a “new world order” that would unite all countries in defense of the rule of law and thwart the Iraqi autocrat’s regional ambitions. The phrase was meant as a rallying cry, not an actual plan, but that didn’t stop the president’s America First critics from reading all manner of mayhem into his speech.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>The elder Bush, who had long toiled in the shadow of Ronald Reagan, was in some ways a curious target for those who feared the end of U.S. sovereignty.</b>&nbsp;As recent posthumous assessments revealed, he was an&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/george-hw-bush-embodied-the-republican-partys-decades-long-struggle-with-race/2018/12/04/1268ab08-f73b-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html?utm_term=.edf0c883a8ea" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">early champion</a>&nbsp;of states’ rights (against civil rights),&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/news/national/election2000/conventions/past.bushsenior.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">supported</a>&nbsp;prayer in school and the NRA,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/04/673398023/looking-back-on-president-george-h-w-bushs-legacy-on-abortion" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">made a U-turn</a>&nbsp;as a presidential candidate to oppose abortion, launched wars in Panama and the Persian Gulf, and presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union. Anti-globalists, however, focused on a different part of Bush’s&nbsp;<span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="st">résumé: he’d gone to Yale, later belonged to a wealthy elite of Texas oil barons, served as ambassador to the United Nations, and was a card-carrying member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and that most elite of global agenda-setting outfits, the Trilateral Commission.</span></span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such characteristics made him particularly vulnerable to attacks from the far right.&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Preacher Pat Robertson, for instance, disliked Bush’s staid Episcopalianism and resented losing to the future president in the 1988 Republican primaries. In his 1991 bestseller,&nbsp;The New World Order, Robertson refocused all his ire on the president’s presumed global ambitions. “Is George Bush merely an idealist or are there now plans underway to merge the interests of the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the United Nations?” he&nbsp;<a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=0DDixvWjpfoC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97&dq=%22A+single+thread+runs+from+the+White+House+to+the+State+Department+%22&source=bl&ots=A2srzn3-rq&sig=w3_KNxeTIjN71thSeA8q5oaXrgg&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwja74T1nIffAhWpxFkKHZA2B9YQ6AEwAHoECAMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22A%20single%20thread%20runs%20from%20the%20White%20House%20to%20the%20State%20Department%20%22&f=false" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">asked rhetorically</a>&nbsp;and then, of course, provided the answer:</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“A single thread runs from the White House to the State Department to the Council on Foreign Relations to the Trilateral Commission to secret societies to extreme New Agers. There must be a new world order...<b>&nbsp;There must be world government, a world police force, world courts, world banking and currency, and a world elite in charge of it all.”</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Though that 1991 book is largely forgotten, the televangelist’s attacks on Bush’s “globalism” resurfaced again and again in different forms. Beginning in 1994, for instance, Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’&nbsp;Left Behind&nbsp;series spun Robertson’s dire predictions of a one-world government into 16 novels and several dreadful movies.</span>&nbsp;Just to ensure that readers wouldn’t miss their point, they even installed the anti-Christ&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolae_Carpathia" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">as the head</a>&nbsp;of the United Nations. More recently, Donald Trump’s&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/10/28/how-globalism-became-the-boogeyman-of-2016/?utm_term=.69a253d8e6b0" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">attacks</a>&nbsp;on Hillary Clinton’s elitism echoed some of the very themes Robertson had sounded almost three decades earlier.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oddly, though, Bush and Robertson agreed on one thing, on which they even found common ground with former Vice President Al Gore: the importance of&nbsp;<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081211155027/http:/www.wecansolveit.org/page/s/unlikelyalliance?source=Ad.com&subsource=SharptonandRobertson728X90" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">addressing climate change</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">As president, Bush&nbsp;<a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/george-h-w-bush-climate-change-trump_us_5c05ad35e4b090e043dc28d4" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">pushed</a>&nbsp;a number of environmental initiatives related to air quality, ozone depletion, and climate change more generally. In 1992, his administration even&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/agenda-21-the-un-conspiracy-that-just-wont-die" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">endorsed</a>&nbsp;a tepid “action plan,”<b>&nbsp;Agenda 21,&nbsp;</b>that came out of that year’s global environmental meeting in Rio de Janeiro.</span>&nbsp;In reality, it was just another of an endless stream of documents produced by such environmental conferences. For some Americans, however, those two words came to evoke the most terrifying aspect of the Bush era, proof positive that he was covertly constructing the very New World Order that he had invoked.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Perhaps the leading proponent of Agenda 21 conspiracy theories has been TV and radio personality Glenn Beck.</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;</span></b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2012, he even published a dystopian novel called (you won’t be surprised to learn)&nbsp;Agenda 21. In it, he and co-author Harriet Parke fingered environmentalists as the true agents of the coming apocalypse and issued dire warnings about climate change becoming the lever a future global authority would use to eradicate national sovereignty and enslave Americans to a collective vision. “Just a generation ago, this place was called America,” Beck and Parke&nbsp;<a href="https://www.glennbeck.com/glenns-books/agenda-21" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">wrote</a>. “Now, after the worldwide implementation of a UN-led program called Agenda 21, it’s simply known as ‘the Republic.’ There is no president. No Congress. No Supreme Court. No freedom.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Once you start looking for Agenda 21, it pops up in all sorts of strange places. Newt Gingrich ran for president in 2012 with a&nbsp;<a href="http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/18/whats-with-newt-gingrich-and-agenda-21/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">pledge</a>&nbsp;to rescind the “plan.” Ted Cruz linked it to -- you guessed it -- George Soros and&nbsp;<a href="https://thinkprogress.org/tx-sen-candidate-ted-cruz-spouts-paranoid-fantasy-about-united-nations-george-soros-conspiracy-to-407d1f395556/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">warned</a>&nbsp;that its implementation would deprive Americans of their right to play golf (no joke). Most recently,&nbsp;<b><a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43937d/youtube-lets-california-fire-conspiracy-theories-run-wild" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none;">YouTube</a>&nbsp;and Twitter have lit up with contrived reports that Agenda 21, not climate change, was somehow responsible for the latest California wildfires.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And here’s the truly bizarre part: while Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich, Ted Cruz, and the rest of them were nattering on about an obscure, non-binding U.N. document, they were missing the real story. A nightmarish New World Order was indeed being constructed around them. It’s global, malevolent, aimed at destroying ever more American lives, and -- according to a recent Trump administration&nbsp;<a href="https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">report</a>&nbsp;-- getting worse by the minute.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Real New World Order</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A significant number of Americans believe that they’re still relatively safe behind the walls of Donald Trump’s Fortress America. Homeland Security protects them from international terrorists. Border patrol agents block caravans of refugees and asylum-seekers. By refusing to ratify membership in institutions like the International Criminal Court, Congress keeps the U.S. safe from foreign influences. President Trump has only reinforced such feelings by pulling the United States out of international pacts like the Paris climate accord and global bodies like the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/us/politics/trump-israel-palestinians-human-rights.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">U.N. Human Rights Council</a>.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Because the world keeps knocking on America’s door, the present wave of nationalist politicians has added a few more locks for safety’s sake. All such precautions, however, have done nothing to prevent the establishment of an actual New World Order on American soil. Yes, it’s happened, even if the conspiracy mongers haven’t cared to notice.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding-top: 0px; line-height: 20.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>There is indeed a new global order. It’s called climate change and, unlike the scenarios imagined by the anti-globalists, it’s wreaking havoc not in some dystopian future but right in the here and now</b>: the prairie fires that struck Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Texas panhandle in the spring of 2017,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/05/the-day-the-great-plains-burned" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">killing</a>&nbsp;seven people and destroying an area equivalent to three Rhode Islands; Hurricane Maria that devastated large areas of Puerto Rico that fall, leaving&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/28/health/puerto-rico-gw-report-excess-deaths/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">nearly 3,000 people dead</a>; Hurricane Michael that swept through Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia with&nbsp;<a href="https://www.popsci.com/hurricane-michael-record-breaker" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">unprecedented winds and flooding</a>&nbsp;this October,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/national-international/Hurricane-Michael-Killed-At-Least-35-in-Florida-45-Total-498832341.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">killing 45</a>&nbsp;and causing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/hurricane-michael-projected-to-cause-30b-in-damage" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">$30 billion</a>&nbsp;in damage; and the wildfires that raged across California in November, killing&nbsp;<a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/03/camp-fire-death-toll-california-deadliest-wildfire/2199035002/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none;">more than 80 people</a>&nbsp;and destroying nearly 14,000 homes. And that’s just to begin a list of weather catastrophes in this country.</font></p></blockquote></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div data-hveid="CA8QAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1CcoADAYegQIDxAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGHoECA8QAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Why Glenn Beck Is Sorry About Donald Trump - The Atlantic</a></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></font></font></font><div class="TbwUpd" style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/01/glenn-becks-regrets/508763/</cite></font></font></font></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Glenn Beck</span>&nbsp;looks like the dad in a Disney movie. He's earnest, geeky, pink, and slightly bulbous. His idea of salty language is bullcrap.</span></font></font></font></div></div></div><div class="index_debug"><div class="g" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><div data-hveid="CBgQAA" data-ved="2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1CcoADAZegQIGBAA"><div class="rc" style="position: relative;"><div class="r" style="margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></font><h3 class="LC20lb" style="font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline-block;"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /></a><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" /><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down" ping="/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down&ved=2ahUKEwiUxcSd-anfAhVJG6wKHQFzCAkQ1ScwGXoECBgQAQ" style="cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Why Glenn Beck's Media Empire Is Burning Down - The Daily Beast</a></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h3><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font><div class="TbwUpd" style="padding-bottom: 3px; padding-top: 2px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><cite class="iUh30" style="font-style: normal; padding-top: 1px;">https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-glenn-becks-media-empire-is-burning-down</cite></font></div></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Glenn Beck</span>&nbsp;is beset by apocalyptic visions, sinister conspiracy theories, mind-blowing prophecies, mysterious illnesses, miraculous cures, and,&nbsp;...</span></font></font></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;">
</span></font></font></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;">oct 2016</span></font></font></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;">
</span></font></font></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/glenn-beck-is-taking-on-trump-but-at-what-cost-117750/">https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/glenn-beck-is-taking-on-trump-but-at-what-cost-117750/</a></font></span></font></font></div><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;">...Th</span>at he got his own national TV show in the same year that Obama first took office is just one of those odd, inexplicable serendipities. Suddenly, he had the biggest player on the biggest stage in the world to lash out at, and he took every opportunity. He said that Obama’s health care bill was the start of “reparations” and that Obama was hellbent on “creating a new America, a new model that will settle old racial scores through new social justice.” Most egregiously, in 2009, he called the president of the United States “a racist” with “a deep-seated hatred for white people.” On he went, detouring only to fantasize about poisoning Nancy Pelosi or about beating Charles Rangel “to death with a shovel,” which you’d think his Mormon God would find much more abhorrent than, say, hot coffee.</font></div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>In recent years, Beck has expressed regret for much of what he said and for his part in helping foster the current anything-goes, no-blow-is-too-low climate in what passes for public discourse,</b>&nbsp;which, as well, helped set the stage for the arrival of a nutcase like Trump. “I played a role, unfortunately, in helping tear the country apart,” he told Megyn Kelly in 2014. “I didn’t realize how really fragile the people were.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But when asked today what his number-one Fox-years regret is, he shuffles around and says,<b>&nbsp;“The number one, obviously, is saying that the president is a, you know . . . ” He pauses, unable or unwilling to utter the word “racist.”</b>&nbsp;And then, forehead corrugating for the first time today, he can’t help himself and, almost Trump-like, starts trying to justify his behavior, saying, “You know, that came from, I mean, he talks about the white culture in his own book!”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s such an odd display that, as always, you hardly know what to think or which of his words to believe, so changeable does he seem. For Beck, though, this is a big part of his appeal.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;" /><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“My audience likes me because I think out loud,”</b>&nbsp;he says. And then, him being him, he continues to think out loud. He says, “It’s also why those who don’t listen to my show every day sometimes get way off track, because if I got to know me just through YouTube clips, I’d hate me, too.” He says, “I mean, you know, you’re doing four hours of live, unscripted talk every day and you throw a lot of crap against the wall.” He says, “I wrestle with my stupid mistakes every day.” He says, “There is an internal battle inside me all the time. It’s the good guy versus 40 years of training in how to do a show.” He says, “I don’t know if people can think my apologies are sincere, because, ‘Well, then, don’t make that mistake again.’ But that’s really hard. I mean, you try to be better than the farting caveman, but I’m not always good at that. And I am really trying.” And, finally, he says, “You can’t be as hated as I am and not spend a good portion of your day saying, ‘Is that what I am? Am I that? I mean, gosh!’ But the only answer I can come up with is no. Have I caused my own problems? Yes. Am I human? Yes. Am I flawed? Yes. But I don’t know how I would have done it differently.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; margin: 0px; padding: 0.9375rem 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><div class="s" style="max-width: 48em; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="st" style="line-height: 1.4; overflow-wrap: break-word;">
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</div><div>The U.S. Concealed Carry Association (USCCA) is a pro-gun company that sells membership plans featuring“education, training, and self-defense insurance” for gun owners. It also criticizes attempts to enact gun control laws and publishes Concealed Carry Magazine. The group claims to have over 250,000 members and has attempted to grow its membership over the years through numerous advertising buys with conservative media.</div><div>
</div><div>Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, and Ben Shapiro are all part of the association’s latest advertising campaign for a “100% FREE Complete Concealed Carry & Family Defense Guide,” which includes tips on “how to survive a mass shooting” and “the safest AND most dangerous places to sit in a restaurant” (the sign-up takes people to a page that urges them to pay for a membership).</div><div>
</div><div>The USCCA created dedicated landing pages for each individual host participating in the advertising campaign, including the following identical quote which was cut and pasted for each person:</div><div>
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</div><div>Prior to the Las Vegas shooting, these media personalities did advertisements for the campaign that aired in late September. Here are those ads, along with their dedicated website URL: ?Beck (ProtectAndDefend.com), ?Hannity (DefendFamily.com), ?Levin (DefendThem.com), and ?Shapiro (DefendMyFamilyNow.com) .</div><div>
</div><div>Hannity has continued to tout USCCA as a solution to surviving a mass shooting following the Las Vegas tragedy. During his October 5 radio program, Hannity segued from talking about the mass shooting to introducing “our friends at the United States Concealed Carry Association,” saying, “I’m proud to be associated with them. They have offered a family defense guide. You’re going to learn -- and this is 164 pages -- how to survive a mass shooting. How to detect attackers before they see you.”</div><div>
</div><div>Previously, Hannity used the shooting at a congressional baseball practice in June to push USCCA membership.</div><div>
</div><div>The association, which did not respond to requests for comment, features a Hannity testimonial on its websiteunder the headline: “Why Sean Hannity Joined The USCCA… Hear Why One Of The Most Trusted Conservative Voices In America Is A Proud Card-Carrying Member.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Hannity used his October 4 Fox News program to advocate for concealed carry while discussing the Las Vegas shooting. He praised right-to-carry laws and said that “having more citizens that are armed leads to a decrease in violent crime.” He did not mention he’s being paid by a pro-right-to-carry group during the program.</div><div>
</div><div>Despite Hannity’s claim, as The Atlantic noted in June, “academic studies have strongly suggested” that right-to-carry laws “lead to higher rates of violent crime. The latest -- and, at least according to one of its authors, most comprehensive -- was released earlier this month by the non-partisan National Bureau of Economic Research.” The study concluded, “There is not even the slightest hint in the data that [these] laws reduce violent crime.”</div><div>
</div><div>Media Matters previously documented that Hannity repeatedly used his Fox New program to push his radio sponsor’s concealed carry agenda without any disclosure about his financial relationship. He similarly used his Fox News program in 2014 to promote the fundraising efforts of the Tea Party Patriots, which sponsored his radio program.</div><div style="font-weight: bold;">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Discredited conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has revived the long-running and debunked claim that billionaire philanthropist George Soros collaborated with the Nazis as a child. The false claim comes as D’Souza has been trying to promote his latest book, which links Democrats to fascism and pushes the Soros lie. The smear, which has been invoked by other right-wing media figures in the past, has been repeatedly condemned by journalists. Nevertheless, other conservative media and GOP officials have run with D’Souza’s recycled and false charge.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Discredited author Dinesh D’Souza accuses George Soros of working with the Nazis</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dinesh D’Souza: George Soros was a “collection boy for Hitler” and is like Josef Mengele of Auschwitz. Author Dinesh D’Souza, speaking with C-SPAN at a FreedomFest event in July, claimed that his new book The Big Lie shows that billionaire philanthropist George Soros “was a kind of collection boy for Hitler” and that Soros admitted as much during an old interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes. D’Souza also claimed there was an “eerie parallel” between Soros and Josef Mengele, a physician at Auschwitz who selected victims for the gas chambers and performed deadly experiments on prisoners, because, D’Souza said, both defended their crimes by saying that if they hadn’t done them, someone else would have. Since the C-SPAN interview (and besides in his book), D’Souza has pushed the claim on Twitter, in The Daily Caller, and in an interview with far-right troll Stefan Molyneux. From C-SPAN’s coverage of FreedomFest on July 20, which aired on August 20:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PETER SLEN (HOST): In The Big Lie you also have a chapter on George Soros.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DINESH D’SOUZA: Yes. It’s not a chapter on Soros, but it’s a -- it’s a section on Soros because Soros claims to be the great anti-fascist. In fact, Soros funds a lot of the Antifa, anti-fascist parties. And what I do is I say, OK, well here’s some -- Soros will talk about, for example, the fact that he's inspired by libertarianism, by Karl Popper and the Open Society. In reality, as you look into Soros' past, his sort of secret history, if you will, you realize that Soros, along with a mentor of his, was a kind of collection boy for Hitler. This is seems harsh to say, but it’s true. It was discussed by Steve Kroft in an interview with Soros in which Kroft asked Soros --</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SLEN: For 60 Minutes.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">D’SOUZA: For 60 Minutes. He says, “You would go around confiscating the property of the Jews and turning it over to the Nazis, right? And how can you feel good about that?” And Soros goes, “I don't feel bad about that at all.” He goes, “Let's remember that if I didn't do it, somebody would do it,” right? Now this gets me thinking because, because I remember a very powerful scene. This actually involves Josef Mengele, the sort of killer of Auschwitz, the crazed doctor of Auschwitz. Mengele escaped after the war and went to Argentina, and one of his sons tracked him down and confronted his father and said, “Dad, how could you do the things you did in Auschwitz?” And guess what Mengele said? Mengele said, “If I didn’t do them, somebody else would have.” In other words, “Here were these captive people and I, as a scientist, simply saw the opportunity to make them into research specimens, so don't blame me because the bad stuff would have gone on anyway.” So here is an eerie parallel between what I would call the “Mengele defense” and George Soros, out of his own mouth, not as a young man. I don't blame anybody for what they did at the age of 15, but as a mature George Soros now reflecting upon his past, there's lots of dark secrets there. [C-SPAN, The Big Lie, 8/20/17; Twitter, 8/2/17, 8/14/17, 8/22/17, 8/24/17; The Daily Caller, 7/31/17; YouTube, 8/16/17; Media Matters, 4/26/17]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">D’Souza has a history of making racist comments and pushing false claims and fringe conspiracy theories. D’Souza has repeatedly pushed false claims and conspiracy theories including that one of the main organizers of the white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, VA, was some kind of liberal double agent, that the Clintons were behind the death of a former Haitian government official, that former President Barack Obama is “anti-American” and "embraced a Third World ideology,” and that Hitler took three "very destructive, genocidal ideas from the Democratic Party” -- a claim he made recently, while promoting his new book. He also shared a fake photo of Obama with Soros, and he has a history of racism, writing about Obama on Twitter, “YOU CAN TAKE THE BOY OUT OF THE GHETTO,” comparing Obama’s father to Ebola, and writing that African-Americans are “better off as a consequence” of slavery. [Media Matters, 8/18/17, 7/18/17, 9/28/12, 2/18/15, 10/6/14, 7/9/14; Snopes, 8/25/17; Fox News, Fox & Friends, 8/1/17]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">D’Souza’s smear is an old right-wing lie that has been previously debunked</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soros did not admit to being a Nazi collaborator in a 60 Minutes interview. During his interview with 60 Minutes, Soros said yes specifically in response to Steve Kroft noting that “you went out with this protector of yours who swore that you were his adopted godson … went out, in fact, and helped in the confiscation of property from the Jews,” not that he confiscated property himself. As Snopes noted, “Perhaps because of the way the 60 Minutes interview … was edited, or perhaps because Soros was blindsided by Steve Kroft’s accusatory line of questions, or both, his responses were contradictory and confusing. … Soros went on to clarify that he hadn’t actually participated in any confiscations.” Soros said, “I was only a spectator. I had no role in taking away that property, so I had no sense of guilt.” [Media Matters, 2/5/07, 11/10/10; Snopes, 11/28/16]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Soros biographer: Soros did not collaborate with the Nazis as a teenager. According to Michael Kaufman, the author of the biography Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Soros “collaborated with no one” during the Holocaust and was simply adopting a secret identity to protect himself while living with a Hungarian government official who was forced to confiscate property from a Jewish aristocrat. From Kaufman’s book:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">While he was living with Baumbach as Sandor Kiss, an event occurred that more than a half a century later would become the basis of charges that George Soros, the international financier and billionaire, had somehow collaborated with the Nazi occupiers of his homeland and had exploited his fellow Jews. The issue was raised in a bizarre television profile and interview of Soros aired on the CBS television program 60 Minutes in December of 1998. In the segment, Steve Kroft, the interviewer, noted with prosecutorial gusto that George's father had "bribed a government official to swear that you were his godson," and added that this survival strategy "carried a heavy price tag." For, he continued, "as hundreds of thousands of Jews were being shipped off to the Nazi death camps, a thirteen-year-old George Soros accompanied his phony godfather on his rounds, confiscating property from the Jews." Visibly dumbfounded by the line of questioning, Soros could only manage to say that he had no role in the seizure of property and was merely a spectator. To underscore Kroft's point, film footage showed masses of Hungarian Jews being led away at gunpoint.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This is what actually happened. Shortly after George went to live with Baumbach, the man was assigned to take inventory on the vast estate of Mor Kornfeld, an extremely wealthy aristocrat of Jewish origin. The Kornfeld family had the wealth, wisdom, and connections to be able to leave some of its belongings behind in exchange for permission to make their way to Lisbon. Baumbach was ordered to go to the Kornfeld estate and inventory the artworks, furnishings, and other property. Rather than leave his "godson" behind in Budapest for three days, he took the boy with him. As Baumbach itemized the material, George walked around the grounds and spent time with Kornfeld's staff. It was his first visit to such a mansion, and the first time he rode a horse. He collaborated with no one and he paid attention to what he understood to be his primary responsibility: making sure that no one doubted that he was Sandor Kiss. Among his practical concerns was to make sure that no one saw him pee. [Media Matters, 12/8/10]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Glenn Beck pushed the smear in 2010, and journalists roundly condemned him</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then-Fox News host Glenn Beck in November 2010 falsely claimed Soros took “property from the Jews as a teenager.” Glenn Beck in November 2010 falsely claimed that Soros “had to go over and take the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors,” and that he admitted as such in the 60 Minutes interview. From his Fox News show:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GLENN BECK (HOST): But when he had to go over and take the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors who were being sent to the gas chambers, I can't imagine what that would do to a teenager, or anybody, an adult. Well, what did it do to George Soros? In an interview with Steve Kroft, Soros was asked if he felt guilt at all about taking the property from the Jews as a teenager. He responded, no. [Media Matters, 11/10/10]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">New Yorker: Beck’s Nazi smear of Soros is “blood variety” “libel.” The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg condemned Beck for using a 1995 New Yorker article to criticize Soros, adding that his claim about Soros and the Nazis was “no ordinary libel—it’s more akin to the blood variety.” From the November 29, 2010, article:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Call us oversensitive, but when our efforts are shanghaied like a nineteenth-century sailor and forced to work as a deckhand aboard a ship of lies, we can’t help getting our hackles up. You don’t have to be a professional semiotician to see that the Glenn Beck promo is intended to leave the impression that George Soros, the hedge-fund investor and funder of anti-totalitarian and liberal causes, is an anti-Semite; that he was somehow complicit in the Holocaust; and that he is an enemy of Israel. These are lies—lies told by innuendo, but lies all the same.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The ugliest single sentence Beck uttered that week came on his radio program, which supplements his TV show. “Here’s a Jewish boy helping send the Jews to the death camps,” he said, referring to Soros, age thirteen. That’s no ordinary libel—it’s more akin to the blood variety. It was Beck’s ruminations on the Jewish Question that exhausted the patience of some conservatives, but that is a relatively minor aspect of his malicious crusade against Soros. [The New Yorker, 11/29/10]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former ABC News reporter Kari Marton: “Beck's smearing of George Soros echoes the anti-Semitic attacks of the Hungarian far right.” Former ABC News reporter Kati Marton wrote a piece in The Daily Beast about Beck’s attacks on Soros. The piece’s subhed said the “smearing ... echoes the anti-Semitic attacks of the Hungarian far right and is a perverse twisting of his experience with the Nazis.” Marton wrote that Soros “acted as a messenger of the Budapest Jewish Council” and was “sent to alert Jews to report to various collection points around the city” but that he “urged defiance” instead. From the November 13, 2010, article:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I, however, find it impossible not to speak up when I hear the likes of Beck from the comfort of his armchair charge Soros with anti-Semitism. Beck paints Soros as a Nazi tool for having had the supreme nerve to survive Europe’s most violent Holocaust: the one that swept through Hungary under SS-Obersturmbannführer Adolf Eichmann during the summer and fall of 1944. Eichmann’s was a well-oiled machine by then, and he had to make quick work of Europe’s last remaining intact Jewish community. Even the most deluded Nazis knew the war was over, their cause lost. But Eichmann was determined to finish the job in Hungary. Only the most resourceful and the luckiest survived.</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It is well known that the 14-year-old George Soros acted as a messenger of the Budapest Jewish Council, a group of aged and terrified elders who thought if they kept the city’s Jews calm, and followed the Gestapo’s every command, they might survive. Sent to alert Jews to report to various collection points around the city, the young Soros, prompted by his canny father, urged defiance instead. “There was one man I shall not forget,” Soros recalled, “I told him what my father had said. And he answered, ‘Tell your father that I am a law-abiding citizen, that I have always been a law-abiding citizen and that I am not going to start breaking the law now.'" We know how few of those law-abiding citizens survived Eichmann’s barbaric campaign to make Hungary Judenrein. The fact is that only by assuming false identities, through bribery and deception, could people survive that Kafkaesque nightmare. Andy Grove, the legendary founder of Intel, another young Budapest Jew, survived thus, as did my own parents. Raoul Wallenberg, the great Swedish humanitarian, performed his miracles in Budapest partly by forging passports and bribing Nazis. [The Daily Beast, 11/3/10]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Nation’s Jonathan Schell: Beck’s Nazi attack on Soros was “especially vile” and constitutes “libel.” The Nation’s late correspondent Jonathan Schell wrote that Beck’s Nazi “libel” of Soros was “especially vile,” noting that Soros “never took any lands or anything else from Holocaust victims or anyone else.” From the December 2, 2010, article:</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a novel and especially vile (and also false) twist, Beck, while heaping the classic anti-Semitic slurs on Soros, insinuates that Soros, a Holocaust survivor, is himself anti-Semitic. Beck, who denies that he is an anti-Semite, accuses Soros of having had to “go over and take the lands from the people, his Jewish friends and neighbors, who were being sent to the gas chambers” when he was a boy in Hungary during World War II. (In reality, as Michael Kaufman reveals in his book Soros: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire, Soros’s Christian protector was ordered to inventory the estate of a Jewish aristocrat who had escaped Hungary. He brought Soros, 13 at the time, with him. Soros wandered the estate and rode a horse. He never took any lands or anything else from Holocaust victims or anyone else.) In a perverse way, the libel is a perfect complement to the history of anti-Semitism: now the Jew is found to be guilty of, on top of all of history’s other evils, his own people’s persecution. [The Nation, 12/2/10]</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The debunked smear has been around since at least 2006 and has been pushed by others besides Beck</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></p><p style="margin-top: 8px; margin-bottom: 8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/01/long-debunked-lie-george-soros-was-nazi-collaborator-resurfaces-thanks-dinesh-d-souza/217826">https://www.mediamatters.org/research/2017/09/01/long-debunked-lie-george-soros-was-nazi-collaborator-resurfaces-thanks-dinesh-d-souza/217826</a></font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><a href="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/27/watch-princeton-professor-delivers-unhinged-attack-against-trump-in-graduation-speech/">http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/27/watch-princeton-professor-delivers-unhinged-attack-against-trump-in-graduation-speech/</a></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>museum no phd</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
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</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-barton</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/first-fake-news-now-fake-history-glenn-beck-wants-train-young-people-promote</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>...</b>two characteristics that really define Trumpism, they are a total disregard for the importance of facts and a nostalgia for a mythical, vaguely&nbsp;defined time of American “greatness.” That makes the Trump era ripe for Glenn Beck’s ongoing project of creating and promoting his revisionist view of American history — one that valorizes straight white men as humanity’s natural leaders and grants Christian fundamentalism a centrality to American history that it did not, in reality, have.</font></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck has been ramping up a program he runs with the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/08/23/meet_the_tea_partys_evangelical_quack_david_barton_is_glenn_becks_favorite_historian/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">pseudo-historian David Barton</a>&nbsp;to peddle Barton’s fake history version of American history.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barton’s history is one&nbsp;where the Founding Fathers’ idea of government was rooted in fundamentalist Christianity, instead of Enlightenment philosophy, and one which minimizes the contributions of people of color in service of centering Christian white men as the righteous shepherds guiding everyone else. As<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/for-375-glenn-beck-and-david-barton-will-indoctrinate-your-children-before-they-head-off-to-college/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;Kyle Mantyla at Wing Watch reports</a>, the&nbsp;<b>latest move by Barton and Beck is a two-week program, at $375 a head, that will teach high school graduates their fake version of history before heading off to college so “they can then set their ignorant professors straight on the ‘real’ history of America.”</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck isn’t subtle about his intention to give college professors headaches by filling their classrooms with fledging right-wing nuts spewing “alternative facts” about history. “Your kids will be challenged to go and find the documents to make the cases that they’re most likely going to have to make in college with their professors,” Beck said in his announcement. “I guarantee you the professors at college will have the wrong answer.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The “wrong” answers, in this case, being the actual facts about history.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Barton, whose historical views are the ones<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">&nbsp;Beck is pushing here, is pretty shameless about making stuff up&nbsp;if it suits his view that our country was meant to be a Christian theocracy and not a secular democracy. “For example, in his version of history, the founding fathers ‘already had the entire debate on creation and evolution,’ and chose creationism,”<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/david-barton" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">&nbsp;explains the Southern Poverty Law Center profile of Barton</a>. “Reality check: Charles Darwin didn’t publish his theory of evolution in&nbsp;The Origin of Speciesuntil 1859, more than half a century after the founding fathers were active.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This two-week program is part of a larger effort that was&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/glenn-beck-and-david-barton-are-seeking-donations-to-build-their-own-history-museum/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">first proposed by Beck and Barton in 2012</a>&nbsp;to build a museum to market this fake version of history. That hasn’t quite happened, but they’ve cobbled together a pseudo-exhibit and a curriculum, and are&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/glenn-beck-and-david-barton-want-to-take-their-new-museum-on-the-road-to-public-schools/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">using those trappings to try to sneak Barton’s</a>&nbsp;misinformation into high school and college courses.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">If this sounds like the methods that Christian conservatives have been using to undermine the teaching of biology and to sneak their views about creationism into classrooms, then congratulations on paying attention.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Zack Kopplin — who currently works as&nbsp;<a href="https://www.whistleblower.org/zack-kopplin" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">an investigator for the&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Government Accountability Project</span></a>&nbsp;but who made his name&nbsp;<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/06/louisiana_science_education_school_boards_principals_and_teachers_endorse.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">exposing the sleazy tactics used by creationists</a>&nbsp;to sneak their religious beliefs into public high schools — argued in a phone conversation, Barton’s reactionary historical revisionism and creationism share a common root. Reactionaries like Beck and Barton “view this as a continuing existential crisis, that they are under threat from the secular, real history people that don’t want to teach that the Earth is 6,000 years old or that&nbsp;<b>Moses created the constitution,</b>” Kopplin explained.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Some conservatives need to&nbsp;put “straight white men” at the “top of [the food chain], top of history,” Kopplin argued.&nbsp;Evolutionary theory and fact-based history threaten that “hierarchical structure where they’re at the top.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Evolution does this by threatening the view that God created man in his image, to rule over the earth (and over women). History threatens this view by suggesting that white men’s dominance is not the result of their natural superiority and inherent genius, but because systems of oppression suppressed or erased the contributions of women and people of color.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Barton’s need to believe in this world where God created white men to be benevolent dictators can lead to some stunning moments of unvarnished racism. In 2011, on the Christian TV show “Celebration”,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/barton-founding-fathers-were-against-teaching-evolution-revolution-was-fought-to-end-slavery/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Barton argued,</a>&nbsp;“That’s why we said we&nbsp;<b>want to separate from Britain, so we can end slavery.</b>”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This comment is so flatly false that it hardly needs debunking. It is, however, revealing of the white supremacist view compelling Barton. Rather than admit that chattel slavery is an evil that white people created and perpetuated, Barton treats it like it was just some unsourced evil, and that white men were actually the great heroes who put an end to it.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Barton’s all-consuming need to believe only white men are really capable of greatness&nbsp;has led him to make&nbsp;similar arguments about&nbsp;the civil rights movement. In 2010, he took part in an&nbsp;effort to rewrite Texas history book standards to erase the contributions of Thurgood Marshall,&nbsp;César Chávez, and even Martin Luther King Jr.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">“Only majorities can expand political rights in America’s constitutional society,”&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2010/01/mlks-legacy-under-siege-texas" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Barton argued to reporters at the time</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In 2012, Barton’s tendency to talk utter nonsense finally caught up with him after the publication&nbsp;his book, “The Jefferson Lies: Exposing the Myths You’ve Always Believed About Thomas Jefferson,” a book which should have just been called “The Jefferson Lies,” because lies,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/08/11/christian-right-historian-david-barton-in-freefall-over-jefferson-lies.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">mostly to minimize Jefferson’s history of slave-holding</a>, is what it was full of. A handful of conservative outlets finally turned on him and his publisher eventually recalled the book.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But none of this has stopped Beck from bolstering Barton’s career and trying to bamboozle as many people as possible into believing this alternative form of history. If anything, Beck has been Barton’s saving grace, as the efforts to start this museum and to indoctrinate young people started right around the time Barton Jefferson book was getting recalled.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Training young people to challenge the historical facts in the classroom isn’t quite as dangerous as earlier Barton efforts to put false information into the curriculum, but there’s still reason to be worried about it.&nbsp;“When you have people challenging teachers, it’s a chilling factor,” Kopplin argued. This is especially so on a high school level, where teachers can find that teaching evolution or that slavery was the reason for the Civil War — both facts that many right wingers deny — results in irate phone calls from parents that can lead a teacher to just give up.&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">College professors have more leverage, Kopplin pointed out, because they tend to have a more pedigreed authority and can tell students just to drop the class if they don’t like the facts. Still, Kopplin agreed that having young people spewing “alternative facts” in a college classroom setting could work to confuse other students and make it harder for them to figure out&nbsp;what facts were true and which were coming from someone talking nonsense.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Kopplin was more worried, however, that Beck and Barton’s trainings were about creating an army of young people who, confident in their own lies, would run for office and engage in political activism in an effort to spread their falsehoods further.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In our age of Trump, where even the president talks shit without any shame about it, the right wing alternative history movement&nbsp;is likely to be emboldened. Many of our political leaders have utterly abandoned the idea that facts matter, after all, so why shouldn’t their supporters feel free to believe MLK was a nobody or that Thomas Jefferson rejected the argument in a book, “The Origin of the Species”, published 33 years after his death?</font></p><div wibbitz="embed-main-player"><div class="bio-new body_news-politics" style="width: 630px; line-height: 22px; height: auto; border-top: 3px solid rgb(223, 223, 218); clear: both;"><div class="author-bio"><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Amanda Marcotte is a politics writer for Salon.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>=</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">thot he retired/ mellowed but&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1/17</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Glenn Beck opened his radio show today by attacking the media for failing to report that last weekend’s massive&nbsp;<a href="https://www.womensmarch.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Women’s March on Washington</a>&nbsp;was nothing more than an “astroturf” rally orchestrated by George Soros and radical Islamic groups.[trms hi % trump ppl believe]</b></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck heaped praise on&nbsp;<a href="http://nytlive.nytimes.com/womenintheworld/2017/01/20/billionaire-george-soros-has-ties-to-more-than-50-partners-of-the-womens-march-on-washington/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">a piece</a>&nbsp;on th<b>e New York Times website</b>&nbsp;by Asra Nomani, a self-described liberal Muslim who has previously said that she&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2016/11/10/im-a-muslim-a-woman-and-an-immigrant-i-voted-for-trump/?utm_term=.70d747a74e96" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">voted for Donald Trump</a>&nbsp;because&nbsp;<a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2016/11/11/muslim_reform_movement_founder_i_dont_fear_donald_trump_i_fear_islamic_extremists.html" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">she believes</a>&nbsp;that “the liberals and the left have really betrayed America” when it comes to fighting Islamic extremism, who claimed that “<span class="s1" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Soros has funded, or has close relationships” with dozens of organization that participated in or supported the march<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">. [<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">Update</strong>: The piece was not actually posted on the Times’ website, but rather, as the NYT’s public editor&nbsp;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/26/public-editor/times-affiliated-story-praise-glenn-beck-liz-spayd-public-editor.html?r=1" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">explained</a>, it was posted “on a site affiliated with The Times — but completely distinct from the paper — called Women in the World … The Times is a business investor in Women in the World and provides the website’s digital platform, but the two have separate editorial operations.”]</span></span></font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><b>“I’m afraid tomorrow I have to go back to my chalkboard</b>,” Beck said. “We’ve been working on it this weekend. We’re going to give you some of the connections, we’re going to talk to the woman who wrote that article for The New York Times about the connections to George Soros and to radical Islam and have a talk with her. Tomorrow I’m bringing the chalkboard in because the connections are there and&nbsp;<b>if you want to call me a conspiracy theorist again,</b>&nbsp;you can; I’m not going to accuse anybody of anything, I’m just going to point out the facts because somebody has to and perhaps someone in the media will listen.”</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Even climate-denier Glenn Beck&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/even-glenn-beck-calls-trumps-chief-advisor-steve-bannon-terrifying-man" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">warned</a>&nbsp;that Bannon "is a guy who wants to tear this system down and replace it with a new system. He is a frightening … no, he is a terrifying man. A terrifying man."</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.ecowatch.com/steve-bannon-trump-2094347523.html</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>blaze added 8/16 since that's how beck seems to show up now</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b></b></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The editor-in-chief and co-founder of The Blaze, Scott Baker, is leaving the company, a source familiar with the move told POLITICO.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Blaze is the conservative TV channel and digital news venture owned by Glenn Beck, who launched it while he was still a host at Fox News Channel.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Baker, who joined The Blaze before it launched in 2010, is said to be leaving to pursue other opportunities. It is not clear who will replace him at The Blaze.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He is the latest in a string of senior executives to depart the company. The Blaze has seen three CEOs depart in the past two years, including founding CEO Chris Balfe in 2014, and Betsy Morgan and Kraig Kitchin in 2015. The Blaze's chief content officer Joel Cheatwood also left the company, as did a number of other executives. The Daily Beast&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/03/why-glenn-beck-s-media-empire-is-burning-down.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">chronicled the departures at Beck's company</a>&nbsp;in a story earlier this year.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Baker, before joining The Blaze, was a TV anchor in Pittsburgh, and also worked with Andrew Breitbart when he was helping to start The Huffington Post. He joined Breitbart's own media venture later on in a business development role, and was the co-founder of Breitbart.tv,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/scott-baker-a485923" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">according to his Linkedin page</a>.</font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Read more:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/04/the-blaze-loses-its-editor-in-chief-222444#ixzz4GUFhOQcC" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition: all 0.25s ease 0s; text-decoration-line: none;">http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/04/the-blaze-loses-its-editor-in-chief-222444#ixzz4GUFhOQcC</a>&nbsp;</span></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;">=<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></span><b>
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/03/why-glenn-beck-s-media-empire-is-burning-down.html
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">refd</font></div><div><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 24px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; line-height: 50px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why Glenn Beck’s Media Empire Is Burning Down</font></h1><div class="Dek" style="line-height: 30px; letter-spacing: 0.5px; margin-bottom: 26px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Glenn Beck was thanked by Ted Cruz in his Iowa victory speech, but for all his ‘mad genius,’ the right-wing media firebrand’s media company has become an abyss of backbiting and paranoia.</font></div><div class="BodyNodes" style="overflow: hidden; line-height: 0px;"><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Glenn Beck is beset by apocalyptic visions, sinister conspiracy theories, mind-blowing prophecies, mysterious illnesses, miraculous cures, and, yes, copious waterworks.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But of all of the hobgoblins fluttering through his mind, consistency isn’t one of them.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck regularly contradicts himself in word and deed—a trait that his less charitable associates call hypocrisy.</font></p></div><div id="tealiumFeatureFlag"><div class="LazyLoad is-visible"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: 30px;">For instance, mere months after announcing, with typically messianic zeal, that he was heartily sick of politics and leaving the</span><span style="line-height: 30px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/18/ive-made-my-decision-im-out-glenn-beck-leaves-the-republican-party" target="blank" style="line-height: 30px; transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Republican Party</a><span style="line-height: 30px;">, he spent the past two weekends barnstorming</span><span style="line-height: 30px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/29/the-evangelical-power-broker-behind-ted-cruz.html" style="line-height: 30px; transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Iowa</a><span style="line-height: 30px;">with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the winner of Monday night’s GOP caucuses, and trading insults with</span><span style="line-height: 30px;">&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/01/donald-trump-the-hater-is-now-a-loser.html" style="line-height: 30px; transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">also-ran Donald Trump</a><span style="line-height: 30px;">, who calls Beck “a&nbsp;whack job.”</span></font></div><div class="LazyLoad is-visible"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><span style="line-height: 30px;">
</span></font></div></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In his victory speech, Cruz thanked Beck specifically: “I am so grateful to national leaders, people like Dr. James Dobson, and Tony Perkins, and Phil Robertson, and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2016/01/25/rick-perry-endorses-cruz-for-president.html" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Governor Rick Perry</a>, and Glenn Beck—leaders who have stood and led, bringing together conservatives here in Iowa and across the country.”<b>&nbsp;</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indulging a weakness for grandiosity, the radio, television, and Internet firebrand has been broadcasting the simulcast of his popular<i>&nbsp;Glenn Beck Radio Program</i>&nbsp;this week from a full-scale mockup of the presidential sanctum, because, as he explained, “since we’re going for the most powerful job in the world, the place to cover that election might be from the Oval Office.”...</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Colleagues and underlings interviewed by The Daily Beast—on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution—describe Beck’s irresistible personal magnetism and undeniable brilliance that one called “mad genius,” mixed with a colossal streak of narcissism, neediness and, above all, capriciousness that have left them feeling whipsawed and, in many cases, betrayed.</font></p></div><div id="teads0"><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck, who turns 52 next week, was not available for an interview.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Attracted by the idealism of<a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/01/29/head-of-glenn-beck-s-media-empire-quits-as-the-blaze-burns-down.html" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">The Blaze</a>, Beck’s six-year-old multimedia venture—whose heartwarming motto is “We tell the stories of love and courage where the good guys win”—they instead tell stories of a sad and baffling descent from a friendly, positive workplace culture (“like a family,” says one) into an abyss of backbiting and paranoia as a company of nearly 300 people contracted to around half that size.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">What happened?</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former Blaze employees point to the abrupt departures a year ago of longtime Beck confidants Chris Balfe and Joel Cheatwood, who are widely credited with making his success possible.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Then there was the sudden appearance in the fall of 2014—from Israel, via Miami—of a slightly-built, bald-pated Beck “superfan” who spouted the slick jargon of Silicon Valley, chain-smoked a vaporous e-cigarette (holding it in his right hand that is missing two-and-half fingers,&nbsp;the result of a childhood accident with a&nbsp;meat grinder), and somehow networked&nbsp;himself into Beck’s inner circle.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck apparently became infatuated with<b>&nbsp;Jonathan Schreiber</b>, who has been regularly spotted in Beck’s expansive, glass-walled office, sometimes entangled in a hug with the boss, and whose Orthodox Judaism apparently meshes well with Beck’s ardent religiosity as a Mormon convert.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last April,&nbsp;<a target="blank" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/taipanway?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=mzI4&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A2434679%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1453998938554%2Ctas%3Ajonathan%20schr" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Schreiber</a>&nbsp;was named president of Beck’s privately held umbrella company<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">,<a target="blank" href="http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/04/21/meet-the-man-changing-the-way-glenn-beck-does-business" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Mercury Radio Arts</a>—of which The Blaze is a subsidiary, along with a diverse collection of enterprises including a publishing imprint at Simon & Schuster, a clothing line, a movie studio, and a guide to trustworthy real estate agents.</span></font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schreiber, a native of Florida who graduated&nbsp;with a marketing degree from Yeshiva University, is a 41-year-old tech entrepreneur whose arrival coincided with the exit of nearly everyone who had steered Beck’s career and built him into a national brand and wildly successful radio personality. (None of the dozen sources contacted for this article directly blamed Schreiber for the departures, but they found the timing rather curious.)</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Beck’s syndicated morning show is the nation’s third-highest-rated, after Rush Limbaugh’s and Sean Hannity’s—and, like The Blaze, sells advertising for a variety of products designed to ease your way through the End Times</b>&nbsp;(gold bullion, fireproof safes, identity theft protection, guns, freeze-dried food, and a “couch cruncher” to serve up washboard abs while you watch disturbing TV news reporting the downfall and destruction of everything good and decent).</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Employees ultimately gave Schreiber the nickname “Voldemort,” after the Harry Potter villain—a moniker that apparently hasn’t reached Schreiber’s ears until now.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schreiber’s LinkedIn profile does seem to invest him with wizardly powers: “I connect things: ideas, people, concepts, ecosystems, anything and everything.&nbsp;I read a lot (a lot), I think a lot (not as much), I like people, I understand people.&nbsp;I don’t just understand people a little bit, I see people for who they are not who they claim to be.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Sometimes I see people for more than they think they are, sometimes less.&nbsp;Because of this I connect with people—quickly.&nbsp;I see the white between the text of what I read, or what someone says, or what someone wants.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet a current Blaze employee said recently:&nbsp;&nbsp;“It’s so toxic and fractured that everybody has eyes in the back of their head. You don’t know who’s about to stab you in the back. So the best thing to do is show up, get your work done, and get out.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Beck’s penchant for flip-floppery has been especially conspicuous at The Blaze, a paid subscription and ad-supported digital television and news aggregation enterprise that he launched in late August 2010, while still hosting a highly rated afternoon show on the Fox News Channel.&nbsp;</b></font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck at the time was riding high, having just made the cover of&nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2010/0426/entertainment-fox-news-simon-schuster-glenn-beck-inc.html" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Forbes</a></i>, which at one point estimated his corporate revenue at $90 million.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Right before The Blaze’s soft launch, Beck had organized a&nbsp;<a target="blank" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoring_Honor_rally" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">“Restoring Honor” rally</a>&nbsp; at the Lincoln Memorial, the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech, that drew a crowd of as many as a half-million fans.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By September 2012, when The Blaze signed a deal with The Dish Network for its programing to be carried on cable and satellite television,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/business/media/glenn-becks-show-heads-to-dish-network.html" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;"><i>The New York Times&nbsp;</i>reported</a>that it boasted 300,000 paid digital subscribers—an unverifiable figure that insiders say has plummeted to around half that as The Blaze became available in 13 million cable households.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet the demise of The Blaze—a once-promising and allegedly profitable venture—has increasingly been predicted by media observers. &nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It was even foretold by Beck himself, at a moment last year when the privately held company claimed to be making money.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We’ve got to course-change, and if we don’t, we’re either going to go out of business or we’re going to be a crappy, soul-sucking business,” a frantic Beck, looking pudgy and exhausted in distressed jeans and a pumpkin-colored cardigan, warned Blaze employees during an in-house session last February at the company’s New York studios—a video of which was obtained by The Daily Beast.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“You’ve seen this company start to slide into that crappy zone. No! I’ll shut the damn thing down before we become everything we despise.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The majority owner harangued his minions: “We are three million dollars in the hole! That means we are three million dollars from profit. That means I&nbsp;have to take three million dollars out of my wallet, and I have done this now for several years. I don’t have money left. I’m out... I need three million dollars [in savings] by the end of the year. If we wait, it’s gonna be massive, bloody cuts.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Massive, bloody cuts soon followed, as the debt ballooned to at least $5 million and as much as $10 million, according to current and former Blaze employees.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On May 11, 2015—a day Beck staffers have dubbed “Black Monday”—dozens were laid off in New York and the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas. There,<b>&nbsp;Beck had purchased a 72,000-square-foot studio complex and corporate headquarters in the Las Colinas neighborhood, and built his fake Oval Office. &nbsp;</b></font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The fired employees (one of whom, a big, bluff Irishman who supervised the lighting for the New York studios, broke down sobbing at the news) received their notice not from Beck, who had personally recruited many of them, but in antiseptic phone calls from the corporate HR department.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Beck, meanwhile, showed up at Las Colinas driving his brand new Maybach, proudly showing off the nearly-$200,000 sleek black sedan that he’d just purchased to add to his fleet of luxury vehicles, including an armored, bulletproof Mercedes limo and a similarly outfitted Chevy Suburban.</b></font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck, whose net worth Forbes puts at more than a $100 million, was crying poormouth, but he had also purchased—through Mercury Radio Arts, named for the production company of Beck’s hero, Orson Welles—the<b>&nbsp;opulently appointed DC-9 that had been owned by his late friend, right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife.</b></font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The vintage jetliner cost around a million dollars, due to its great age, but is ruinously expensive to maintain, operate, and fuel, according to Blaze insiders, and required the hiring of two pilots at tens of thousands of dollars per month—a corporate expense to be added to the estimated million dollars a year for Beck’s personal security force.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck promptly ordered his private jetliner repainted with the logo of his 1791 clothing line—a crown floating over a skull-and-crossbones ornamenting the tail.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I was really disgusted by it,” one of the ex-employees told The Daily Beast.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Two other Dallas-based employees—one of whom managed to find a job at another media company before the ax could fall—recalls a dispiriting meeting with Beck and his producers during this dark period in late April.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The producers, who were on The Blaze’s payroll for Beck’s hour-long television program that airs daily at 5 p.m., asked to see Beck in his office without Schreiber being present, and Beck reluctantly granted them an audience, according to these witnesses.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“OK, what is it?” Beck asked impatiently.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the producers piped up: “When I got here, this was a family company, but now it has become just like any other company that’s ruthless, that can get rid of people at the drop of a hat. I feel like there’s nothing to prevent me from going to work at any other company where I can punch a time clock, and go home.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck looked hurt and surprised.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I’m really sorry you say that,” he said, “because I’ve never felt closer to my staff than I do now”—an assertion that struck many in the room as coming from a Bizarro-World alternate reality.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck had preached “transparency” and boasted of an open-door policy, but in the months since late 2014, he had become increasingly distant and unapproachable.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck added, one of the witnesses recalls, that “The Blaze was sucking him dry, and he’s been funding it and throwing money into an empty pit, and he wasn’t going to do it anymore. He wasn’t going to keep propping it up. And he was going to phase out the New York office.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This last vow from Beck carries a certain irony; with Beck’s approval and active participation, The Blaze signed a 10-year lease on a 35,000-square-foot space on Manhattan’s Bryant Park, previously occupied by Yahoo. At around $2 million a year in rent, it represented a 50 percent savings from the previous arrangement in which television studios and corporate offices were located in separate facilities. Now the company is desperately seeking a tenant to take over the Bryant Park space.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last summer, say former Beck staffers, American Express suddenly declined charges on corporate credit cards for the booking of airline tickets and hotel rooms for guests on Blaze programs.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Several employees—like Beck confidant Kraig Kitchin, the co-founder of Premiere Radio Networks who was The Blaze’s interim CEO until he resigned last week—were forced to charge business expenses on their personal credit cards.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One former employee told The Daily Beast that he’s still waiting for a $200 reimbursement for an expense that he claimed six months ago.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I know much of what has happened since December of 2014, but also much of it has been structural and behind the curtain,” Beck wrote in an email last week on the occasion of Kitchin’s resignation as chief executive of The Blaze. &nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We were a company that was swimming in debt. With the hard work of Kraig, Jonathan [Schreiber], and now Misty [Kawecki, the chief financial officer]&nbsp;we will be debt free by summer. This is miraculous and takes all of the downward pressure off of us.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet some of the signs for the business are hardly reassuring. In November 2014, for instance,&nbsp;<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">TheBlaze.com</span>&nbsp;was attracting 29 million unique visitors per month, according to figures from the Web traffic measure service Quantcast. But by November 2015, monthly traffic for the&nbsp;<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">TheBlaze.com</span>&nbsp;had dropped to 16.4 million unique visitors, and traffic for the associated website&nbsp;<span class="skimlinks-unlinked">GlennBeck.com</span>&nbsp;had plunged from 4.4 million to 1.4 million uniques.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Many of the pinked-slipped staffers, drawn by Beck’s charisma and ambitious plans for original television, feature films, and even a theme park—following the business model of Beck’s other hero, Walt Disney—had left secure jobs at CNN, Fox News, and elsewhere, and some had uprooted families in far-off cities, to join what seemed an exciting, inspiring adventure.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Seventeen months before Black Monday, during a town hall in a leased auditorium at&nbsp;<i>The New York Times</i>&nbsp;event space, Beck had dazzled his troops in a meeting that several witnesses say&nbsp;had the fervor of a tent revival.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck announced onstage that he’d give $5,000, then and there, to anyone who wasn’t on board. There were no takers, several attendees recalled, although one witness told The Daily Beast that an unidentified young intern might have tried to collect.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck had already thrown a lavish Christmas party for the staff of Mercury Radio Arts and The Blaze at his suburban Dallas estate, complete with catering and an open bar under a huge backyard tent. (As a Mormon teetotaler and recovering alcoholic, Beck stayed away from the booze.)</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We all had a good time,” recalls one attendee, “and Glenn talked to me and a couple of colleagues, and said, ‘You guys are the true visionaries of the company who are going to help build it.’ He made you believe that you were really onto something.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This person, like many others, had left behind a wife and kids in another city to work at Las Colinas. “I was away from my family, but the sense of family and the sense of community we had within the company made me look forward to going to work with people I considered a second family,” he says. “It was a very good feeling, a great environment to be in.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On leaving Beck’s Christmas party, everyone received a gift bag containing, among other things, one of their host’s favorite books,&nbsp;<i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FN1SP4/ref=as_at-kindle-redirect?tag=thedailybeast-autotag-20&linkCode=as2&ie=UTF8&btkr=1" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">How to Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life</a></i>.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I read it cover to cover,” says the former employee, “and I remember thinking, ‘Wow. We’re at the beginning of something fantastic, who knows where it was headed? And Glenn was a visionary. Glenn was a thinker. Glenn was Walt Disney!’”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px; text-align: center;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">*</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck—for all his passionate intensity and Pied Piper charm—turned&nbsp;out to be hardly at all like Walt.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In November 2014, as Jonathan Schreiber was settling in at Las Colinas,&nbsp;a tearful&nbsp;<a href="http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2014/11/11/glenn-beck-serious-health-problem-made-me-look-crazy" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Beck announced to his fans</a>&nbsp;that he had recently been cured of a mysterious brain illness that “quite honestly has made me look crazy.”&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It has baffled some of the best doctors in the world, it has frightened me and my family as we didn’t know what was happening,” Beck told viewers on The Blaze, adding that he had been suffering from the malady in 2009 when he infamously claimed, during an appearance on&nbsp;<i>Fox & Friends</i>, that President Obama is a racist with “deep-seated hatred of white people.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck claimed he’d been cured by various unorthodox treatments that included hormones, physical therapy, and being spun around and around while strapped to a giant gyroscope.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“We didn’t know at the time what was causing me to feel as though, out of nowhere, my hands or feet or arms and legs would feel like someone had just crushed them or set them on fire or pushed broken glass into my foot,” Beck confided. “I can’t tell you how many nights my wife would sit in the light looking to the bottom of my feet to make sure there really wasn’t any glass in them.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The following month, Beck’s top New York-based executive, Chris Balfe, who was president of Mercury Radio Arts and CEO of The Blaze and had been at his side for 15 years, made one of his regular visits to Las Colinas. &nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beck summoned Balfe to his office and essentially fired him. The two had apparently disagreed on Beck’s insistence that he would discard his core identity as a political commentator, and focus on lifestyle concerns.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to multiple sources, when a stunned Balfe retreated to an office for visiting executives to absorb what had just happened, Beck’s personal assistant told him: “I’m going to need that seat when you’re done with it”—apparently for Schreiber.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Joel Cheatwood, The Blaze’s chief content officer who midwifed Beck’s television career at HLN and then Fox News, soon followed Balfe out the door, along with Carolyn Polke, The Blaze’s president, and Chris’s brother Kevin Balfe, who had been overseeing Mercury Radio Arts’s publishing arm; they are now all together at media, branding, and tech startup called&nbsp;<a href="http://www.redseatventures.com/about" target="blank" style="transition: color 150ms ease 0s;">Red Seat Ventures</a>. Beck’s longtime agent, George Hiltzik, also departed.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schreiber, meanwhile, seems to have consolidated his power over Beck’s less than magical kingdom.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He welcomed his longtime friend from the tech world, Stewart Padveen, to take over as The Blaze’s fourth CEO since Balfe’s defenestration.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A dozen Blaze veterans interviewed by The Daily Beast described Schreiber as someone who makes many employees uncomfortable. It’s not just that he uses the James Altucher phrase, “Let’s have idea sex,” as a term meaning a brainstorming session.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Or that, on Schreiber’s appointment to the top job at Mercury Radio Arts last April, he jokingly stood in front of a projected image of the Presidential Seal while “Hail to the Chief” blared over the sound system. (Most employees gathered for the spectacle were decidedly unamused.)</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Also humorous—apparently—was a sign marking Schreiber’s reserved parking space, referring to him as “El Presidente.” These days Schreiber, who—unlike many at The Blaze—continues to think it funny, keeps the parking sign on a bookshelf in his office.&nbsp;</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schreiber, for his part, rejects the notion that he has somehow gained Rasputin-like influence over Beck, and persuaded him to explode his company and banish everyone who had been close to him. It’s a scenario he finds ludicrous.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“What if we reverse that?” Schreiber emailed The Daily Beast. “Glenn Beck, brilliant media mogul, realized he was unhappy in the direction his company was going so he brought in new blood. The goal being to put the company in the right direction. Through that process we separated with many people. Some will be missed, some less so.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schreiber added: “When I asked for the org chart [the organizational chart of how the company is set up in terms of authority and responsibilities], I received something that looked like the solar system. Not exactly HBS [Harvard Business School] type stuff.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Schreiber defended his tenure at The Blaze and Mercury Radio Arts.</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“I am very proud of my work here, I am very proud of the culture we have created AND PROUD OF [his capital letters] the people WE have been able to bring in to the fold,” he emailed. “2015 was a great year for MRA ­we had 2 bestselling books, Glenn’s radio show CONTINUED TO PERFORM STRONGLY AS THE #3 RADIO SHOW IN THE COUNTRY and did really well economically... THE Blaze IS POSITIONED WELL TO FURTHER MAXIMIZE ITS POTENTIAL IN 2016.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As for complaints about his leadership style, Schreiber emailed: ”[T]hat’s life... ESPECIALLY DURING TIMES OF CHANGE AND TRANSITION. No one likes to admit that they are not here&nbsp;because of themselves, it must be Voldemort.”</font></p></div><div class="wrapper text" style="margin-bottom: 18px;"><p style="margin: 0px; line-height: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Whether Glenn Beck needs the magic of wizards to save his media dream remains to be seen—but expect the denouement to his own fantastical tale to be every bit as dramatic as a&nbsp;<i>Harry Potter</i>&nbsp;movie.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lifted from main: &nbsp;VIOLENCE</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ch 17: violence</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;&nbsp;Poplawski has posted video w/ gb/rp fema on stormfront</span></font></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">clock ticking and someone will do something stupid [shoot ppl} but then rolls back into death panels 247</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">advoc killing pelosi, rangel and m moore; has claimed on air obama admin trying to kill hi/ gb 248 &nbsp;july 09 thugocracy 249</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">greg guisti threatened pelosi if she voted for health care 249 fox watcher</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">gb called pelosi" really dangerous ppl" like commie, socialist and</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">&nbsp;eco terrorist</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;250 &nbsp;pelosi and BO have thought about picking up a gun b/c maybe tired of evolution and want revo 250 &nbsp;some of ppl around BO have "engaged in bomb-throwing" [of a bathroom?]</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">summer of 09 town halls: "there is a coup going on, &nbsp;There is a stealing of America</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">...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 &nbsp;pretended to pour gas on guest</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">suggest&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">secession&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">mult times; TX &nbsp;moat of fire civil war &nbsp;demos putting a gun to Am head: pass bill or die</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">cass s and</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">&nbsp;john holdren:</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;Between health-care and the envir those two men, in the wrong conditions, will be responsible for many, many death"&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">254..."they are taking you to be slaughtered"</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">follow the Pols to&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Safeway</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">, look them in whites of their eyes" &nbsp;a pt coming where all (peaceful?) options exhausted</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">anti-God forces are aligning themselves &nbsp;all over the world and here at home" 255 &nbsp;"bullets in our backs by our politicians" 255 &nbsp;one nut like tim mcv could ruin all</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">every time want to spk shut down by pol correct, tho accused of starving kids and racists 256</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Tides fdn</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;hardest topic to explain (took 4 nights and black bd) &nbsp;</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ch 16 912 &nbsp;new book The Plan had rally on mall on anniv of i have a dream speech" appropriate' as he will finish the job; will have confs around the country and assemble team of advisors // skousen &nbsp;Bus labl GB show and rally for Am, on armed forces radio</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;jessica lynch</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;family appeared&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">; bachmann his radio guest; he offered to raise $ for her&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">233 &nbsp;april 15 09 TP at Alamo w/&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ted nugent&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;actor dressed at paine read; gb word thy would not dare pearl harbor, WTC pentagon, pass biggest bill in hist</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">dc rally claimed univ said 1.7 mil</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">linc mem rally Special Ops Wounded Warrior' gb said bene, but they actually on hook for costs 243 &nbsp;Palin guest to honor troops</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ch 15 race;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;rev wright "black liberation theology' vj black nationalists (white are poisoning blk ppl)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">david horowitz:</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;blacks are human shield of democ party , slavery, segregation, of race preferences " 227-8</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ch 14 coughlin :&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">sovereignty</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">Brooks says race baiting of gb and rl = fr C, taking over gop. C small town priest from MI avg 10 mil (up to 40) 208 &nbsp;fr c used a variety of techniques sentiment, 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 apocalyptic civil war</span></p>

<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">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 &nbsp;(b2 had 35)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">numerous historical facts wrong (TJ create marines to deal w/ Islamic pirates (actually Adams for French pirates)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">gb claimed BO gave 2b$ loan Brazil oil co;&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">urban legend debunked by factcheck 9 mos before:</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;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</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">your PC can be grabbed by feds if you log into</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;clash for clunkers</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;196</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">lied about view ladies on amtrak, denied he was invest reporter or reporter, but a commentator, so no fact checking 197</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">union supporters are for one world gov 198 &nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">acorn</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;wrote health care bill, apollo wrote stim seiu wrote immig law and consults on afghan mil strategy</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;200 &nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">smart grid</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">"could take critical information out of your house" 202</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">at fox, co split on gb damage to corp rep; ailes sometimes crits "negative tone" &nbsp;202</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ch 12 fema concentration camps&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">(part of one world conspiracy;177 &nbsp;Ron Paul said guest FEMA very powerful and overrule local authorities in emergency 179 ollie said by newspaper &nbsp;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</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;xfile movie</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;revived</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">Monckton&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">cop15: "a treaty will be signed that will, for the first time, create a&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">world government</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;with powers to intervene directly in the economy and in the environmental affairs of individual nations" cm 183 &nbsp;annex 1 Para 38 &nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">John Bolton</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;said he wd not sign such a doc</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">WND: &nbsp;may 18 2010 gb on fox and friends touted one world; 4 days later praise from</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;Henry lamb (sovereignty Int'l)</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;on WND 184 cites World Res Inst and UN Conf on Hu Settlements; &nbsp;James Meigs for Pop Mech 6 april Who blgs FEMA conc camp; video by&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">militia</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;claimed gas chambers and advocated</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">&nbsp;"march on Washington and start executing senators"</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;185 &nbsp;"atrocities going on in camp? yes &nbsp;next day "reveal" was it was North Korea; when krigman called him on it, gb shucked and jived w/ "can't debunk" claim 186 but then returned to touting totalitarianism 187</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">ch 10 scalps: van jones&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">named adviser to</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;CEQ&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">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</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;green is the new red</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;139 &nbsp;5 days later &nbsp;gb said BO had a deep hatred of white ppl</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">aug 24 vj is "czar #1"</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;~ oil co's, a "community organizer" [oh no]&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">Color of change</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;group (co fdr vj, but he'd since left) called for advertiser boycott of gb; in 9 mos vj name used&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">435x</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;long after he quit p 140. gb said after r king riots, j radical for 10 yrs, founding STORM into mao, arrested at wto</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">gb req dirt on vj and got video saying only Nat Am belong here, and gop asshoes; i can be too, gotta get uppity 144 &nbsp;apology, also recant? petition truther</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">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</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">green collar economy book espouses capitalism 142-3 &nbsp;after j quit, gb hitlist ("do not link before burning to disc" [?]: cass sunstein, mark lloyd and carol browner 148&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;john holdren</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;of harvard kennedy school &nbsp;dir WH office of sci and techn policy 150 &nbsp;30 yo book espoused male contraception 1977 ecoscience textbook tho gb said forced abortions and chems in water 151 &nbsp;the book actually said some gov might resort to such methods if smarter and milder meas not undertaken 1st, and opposed invol pgm 151</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">2 gop sen put holds on sust nom, but approved 57-40 155</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">; 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) &nbsp;he actually said</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;opposite on animal rights&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">that gb said "most dang man in Am" 155</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">browner hardcore socialist</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">nat rev&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">guest 156 &nbsp;part of Commiss for Sust World (so was BP PM's) but afil w/ Socialist Int'l</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" color="color" rgb="rgb" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color">acorn&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">"weasels' trying to start brothels w/ 13 yo 168</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">lloyd</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;marxist trying to silence free sp, un Am 156-7 FCC</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">anita dunn</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;attacked gb, so she was proved a commie by hs speech (she contrasted mao to mo teresa)</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">NEA Yosi Sergant (breitbart posted vid of him asking artists to make msg promoting volunteerism (health care , ed , environ</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">then&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">maurice strong</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">ch 9:&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;woodrow wilson</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;spawn of satan: WW jaile 2-3 K ppl for speaking out (vs WWI?], actually 100, including E Debs; "czars" go back to WW</span></p>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">conspiracy: seui, acorn, apollo initiative , soros&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">van j,</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">&nbsp;valerie jarrett all inspired by&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-weight="font-weight" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">richard cloward and frances piven&nbsp;</span><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb">[who?]weather ugd</span></p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">Acc in media set &nbsp;up to defend RMn VN and watergate p5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">MRC 6 m$ budget (scaife) FAIR cash on hand 25K$</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">July 2004 kennedy school symposium; Brokaw says Bozell has it wired w/ news ltr, aud --> immed response p 5</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" vertical-align="vertical-align" baseline="baseline" white-space="white-space" pre-wrap="pre-wrap">David Brooks Wkly Std &nbsp;rw has dazzlingly efficient ideological delivery system that swamps liberal efforts to get their ideas out" p6 &nbsp;around 2003?</span></p>
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he folks at Media Matters knowing Glenn Beck’s affinity for chalkboard diagrams charting out the frequently illusory “connections” in the growing liberal conspiracy to undermine America is well-documented. In that spirit, Media Matters for America has explored Beck’s links to the extremist, unhinged, and sometimes paranoid people and groups that inhabit the world of right-wing political activism and laid them out in a Beck-style chart, but with two key differences: these connections actually exist, and they were spell-checked.</font><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thelibertytree.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/beck_chart-20091019-1.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-817" title="beck_chart-20091019-1" src="https://thelibertytree.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/beck_chart-20091019-1.jpg?w=300&h=176" alt="" /></a></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Legend</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></h2><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. GLENN BECK → W. CLEON SKOUSEN: As&nbsp;<a title="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/print.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2Fnews%2Ffeature%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fbeck_skousen%2Fprint.html" target="blank">documented</a>&nbsp;by Salon’s Alexander Zaitchik, W. Cleon Skousen, a right-wing activist and conspiracy theorist, is “Beck’s favorite writer and the author of the bible of the 9/12 movement, ‘The 5,000 Year Leap.’ A once-famous anti-communist ‘historian,’ Skousen was too extreme even for the conservative activists of the Goldwater era, but Glenn Beck has now rescued him from the remainder pile of history, and introduced him to a receptive new audience.” Beck frequently touts Skousen’s work on his television and radio programs and wrote a foreword for the 30th anniversary edition of&nbsp;<em>The 5000 Year Leap</em>, which he promotes on his&nbsp;<a title="http://www.glennbeck.com/content/books/" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.glennbeck.com%2Fcontent%2Fbooks%2F" target="blank">website</a>.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. GLENN BECK → THE JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY: Beck interviewed Sam Antonio, a national spokesman for the John Birch Society, on the July 25, 2007, edition of his now-defunct CNN Headline News program. Leading off the interview, Beck&nbsp;<a title="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0707/25/gb.01.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Ftranscripts.cnn.com%2FTRANSCRIPTS%2F0707%2F25%2Fgb.01.html" target="blank">said</a>&nbsp;to Antonio: “I have to tell you, when I was growing up, the John Birch Society, I thought they were a bunch of nuts, however, you guys are starting to make more and more sense to me.” Beck was discussing with Antonio the&nbsp;<a title="http://www.spp.gov/myths_vs_facts.asp" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spp.gov%2Fmyths_vs_facts.asp">Security and Prosperity Partnership</a>, an economic and security initiative of the United States, Canada, and Mexico that the John Birch Society&nbsp;<a title="http://www.jbs.org/press-room/5203" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jbs.org%2Fpress-room%2F5203">believes</a>&nbsp;is a vehicle “to stealthily merge the three North American nations.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. GLENN BECK → ABC NEWS: In January 2007, ABC News&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200701090010" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200701090010" target="blank">hired</a>&nbsp;Beck to appear as a “regular commentator” on&nbsp;<em>Good Morning America</em>. The announcement was made not long after Beck’s interview with Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), the first Muslim elected to Congress, during which Beck&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004" href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200611150004" target="blank">said</a>, “I have been nervous about this interview with you, because what I feel like saying is, ‘Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.’ ” Beck appeared on&nbsp;<em>Good Morning America</em>&nbsp;several times as a “commentator.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. GLENN BECK → SIMON & SCHUSTER: Every one of Beck’s books has been published by Simon & Schuster or one of its imprints. Beck’s latest offering,&nbsp;<em>Arguing with Idiots</em>, was published by Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster’s conservative imprint.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. GLENN BECK → NEWS CORP.: In October 2008, Fox News&nbsp;<a title="http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/1008/Glenn_Beck_joins_Fox_News.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fblogs%2Fmichaelcalderone%2F1008%2FGlenn_Beck_joins_Fox_News.html" target="blank">announced</a>&nbsp;that Beck would be joining the network in 2009. The first episode of&nbsp;<em>Glenn Beck</em>&nbsp;aired on Fox News in January 2009.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">6. GLENN BECK → HANNAH GILES: Beck was the&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909100058" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909100058" target="blank">first to air</a>&nbsp;excerpts from James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles’ undercover videos, in which the two dressed as a pimp and prostitute and attempted to solicit advice from ACORN employees on how to operate their proposed brothel. Giles&nbsp;<a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfxWAtY1pyY" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DpfxWAtY1pyY" target="blank">appeared</a>&nbsp;on the September 10 edition of Beck’s Fox News show to discuss the videos.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">7. GLENN BECK → ANDREW BREITBART: Beck has&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909150028" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909150028" target="blank">relied heavily</a>&nbsp;upon Matt Drudge protégé Breitbart for the content of his radio and television programs and has praised Breitbart highly, calling him a “great journalist” and his work “instrumental.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">8. GLENN BECK → 9-12 PROJECT: Beck is the founder of the&nbsp;<a title="http://www.the912project.com/" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.the912project.com%2F" target="blank">9-12 Project</a>, the creation of which he&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200903130029" href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200903130029" target="blank">tearfully announced</a>&nbsp;on the March 13 edition of his Fox News program.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">9. GLENN BECK → MICHELE BACHMANN: On the October 14 edition of his radio program, Beck interviewed Rep. Bachmann and&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910140013" href="http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/200910140013" target="blank">offered</a>&nbsp;to “have a fundraiser” for her after Bachmann claimed that “Speaker Pelosi has made me her number-one congresswoman to defeat next year.” Bachmann herself has&nbsp;<a title="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/17/gop-rep-channels-mccarthy_n_135735.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2008%2F10%2F17%2Fgop-rep-channels-mccarthy_n_135735.html" target="blank">called for</a>&nbsp;an investigation to root out the “anti-America” members of Congress.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">10. JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY → W. CLEON SKOUSEN: Though he claims to never have been a member, Skousen was a&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909300024" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909300024" target="blank">staunch defender</a>&nbsp;of the John Birch Society. He authored a 1963 pamphlet titled “The Communist Attack on the John Birch Society,” in which he alleged that people who criticized the group “usually did so without realizing they were promoting the official Communist Party line.” Salon’s Zaitchick&nbsp;<a title="http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/09/16/beck_skousen/print.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.salon.com%2Fnews%2Ffeature%2F2009%2F09%2F16%2Fbeck_skousen%2Fprint.html">wrote</a>&nbsp;that Skousen “aligned himself” with John Birch Society founder Robert Welch’s accusation that Dwight Eisenhower was a “dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist conspiracy.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">11. W. CLEON SKOUSEN → 9-12 PROJECT: On the March 13&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909300024" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909300024" target="blank">edition</a>&nbsp;of his Fox News program, which was the official launch of the 9-12 Project, Beck provided his studio audience with a selection of books, one of which was Skousen’s&nbsp;<em>The 5000 Year Leap</em>. Beck lauded the “fantastic” book,” telling the audience that “it is the 29 principles that our founders put together, and how they put this genius country together.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">12. SIMON & SCHUSTER → MARY MATALIN: Matalin, a Republican political consultant and former Bush White House aide, is the chief editor of Threshold Editions, Simon & Schuster’s conservative imprint.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">13. SIMON & SCHUSTER → CBS: Simon & Schuster is a&nbsp;<a title="http://www.cbscorporation.com/our_company/divisions/simon_schuster/index.php" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbscorporation.com%2Four_company%2Fdivisions%2Fsimon_schuster%2Findex.php" target="blank">division</a>&nbsp;of CBS Corp.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">14. ANDREW BREITBART → JAMES O’KEEFE: Breitbart worked closely with O’Keefe in promoting and distributing O’Keefe’s undercover ACORN videos, which were first posted on Breitbart’s BigGovernment.com. Breitbart is also one of many media conservatives who have&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909250008" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909250008" target="blank">offered</a>&nbsp;to raise money for O’Keefe and Giles’ legal defense fund after the two were sued by ACORN.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">15. HANNAH GILES → JAMES O’KEEFE: Giles and O’Keefe collaborated on a series of undercover videos shot in ACORN offices in which they would pose as a prostitute and pimp, respectively, and solicit ACORN employees for advice on how to run a brothel. O’Keefe later claimed that he and Giles were not rebuffed at any of the ACORN offices they visited — a claim that was later&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240037" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240037" target="blank">undermined</a>&nbsp;by ACORN officials who produced a police report showing that ACORN had contacted police about O’Keefe’s visit to their Philadelphia office.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">16. HANNAH GILES → YOUNG AMERICA’S FOUNDATION: Giles is an&nbsp;<a title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGAuocA-mRDscWwH701sQ_IWj56AD9ATEBE00" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fap%2Farticle%2FALeqM5gGAuocA-mRDscWwH701sQ_IWj56AD9ATEBE00" target="blank">alumnus</a>&nbsp;of the Young America’s Foundation’s&nbsp;<a title="http://www.yaf.org/NationalJournalismCenter.aspx" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.yaf.org%2FNationalJournalismCenter.aspx" target="blank">National Journalism Center</a>.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">17. GLENN BECK → CBS: Beck was interviewed by Katie Couric for the September 22 broadcast of the<em>CBS Evening News</em>. Couric disclosed during the program that Simon & Schuster, the publisher of Beck’s&nbsp;<em>Arguing with Idiots</em>, is owned by CBS.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">18. JOHN BIRCH SOCIETY → JOHN McMANUS: McManus is the long-serving&nbsp;<a title="http://www.jbs.org/john-f-mcmanus" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.jbs.org%2Fjohn-f-mcmanus" target="blank">president</a>&nbsp;of the John Birch Society. A June 25&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>&nbsp;<a title="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/us/26Land.html?r=1&adxnnl=1&ref=us&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1255532841-WTIVIawRFHCuDFFMlxLHvg" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F06%2F26%2Fus%2F26Land.html%3F_r%3D1%26adxnnl%3D1%26ref%3Dus%26pagewanted%3Dall%26adxnnlx%3D1255532841-WTIVIawRFHCuDFFMlxLHvg" target="blank">article</a>&nbsp;on the John Birch Society reported that former members of the group had released “recorded snippets of Mr. McManus lecturing to Catholic groups that Judaism became a dead and deadly religion after the establishment of the Catholic Church.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">19. MICHELE BACHMANN → 9-12 PROTESTS: On September 12, Bachmann spoke at a “tea party”&nbsp;<a title="http://teapartymn.com/past-tea-party-events/st-cloud/" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fteapartymn.com%2Fpast-tea-party-events%2Fst-cloud%2F" target="blank">rally</a>&nbsp;in St. Cloud, Minnesota, during which she&nbsp;<a title="http://74.125.93.132/search?q=cache:v4l5X3mW-20J:www.sctimes.com/article/20090912/NEWS01/109120036/1009/Bachmann--Reform-plan-will-burden-future-taxpayers/Bachmann--Reform-plan-will-burden-future-taxpayers+bachmann+tea+party+site:sctimes.com&cd=2&hl=en&ct=" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2F74.125.93.132%2Fsearch%3Fq%3Dcache%3Av4l5X3mW-20J%3Awww.sctimes.com%2Farticle%2F20090912%2FNEWS01%2F109120036%2F1009%2FBachmann--Reform-plan-will-burden-future-taxpayers%2FBachmann--Reform-plan-will-burden-future-taxpayers%2Bbachmann%2Btea%2Bparty%2Bsite%3Asctimes.com%26cd%3D2%26hl%3Den%26ct%3D">attacked</a>&nbsp;President Obama’s health care proposals. Bachmann has been supportive of the tea party movement in general, videotaping a&nbsp;<a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Sarp1ZQ55o" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D1Sarp1ZQ55o" target="blank">message of support</a>&nbsp;to the Minnesota Tea Party Patriots, telling them, “Sign me up for your tea party, patriots.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">20. 9-12 PROJECT → 9-12 PROTESTS: The&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909150032" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909150032" target="blank">connection</a>&nbsp;between the 9-12 Project and the 9-12 protests — in particular the “March on Washington” — should be obvious. As CNN’s Howard Kurtz put it, the protest was “something that Glenn Beck practically conceived, promoted.” The 9-12 Project website worked closely with other groups in organizing the march, and Beck was chief among the Fox News personalities hyping the event.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">21. YOUNG AMERICA’S FOUNDATION → 9-12 PROTESTS: YAF was a “<a title="http://912dc.org/about/event-coordinators/" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2F912dc.org%2Fabout%2Fevent-coordinators%2F">bronze co-sponsor</a>” of the 9-12 “March on Washington.” YAF receives funding from the Castle Rock Foundation, the F.M. Kirby Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, and the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>22. JAMES O’KEEFE&nbsp;</b>→ LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE: O’Keefe reportedly&nbsp;<a title="http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gGAuocA-mRDscWwH701sQ_IWj56AD9ATEBE00" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Fhostednews%2Fap%2Farticle%2FALeqM5gGAuocA-mRDscWwH701sQ_IWj56AD9ATEBE00" target="blank">received funding</a>&nbsp;from the Leadership Institute while in college and worked for the group after he graduated.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">23. COMPETITIVE ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE → 9-12 PROTESTS: Hosted a “BureauCrash Happy Hour” as part of the 9-12 March on Washington. CEI has extensive links to corporate interests and once reportedly&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200605190003" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200605190003" target="blank">claimed</a>&nbsp;Exxon Mobil Corp. as a “major donor” due to the group’s position that the burning of fossil fuels does not contribute to climate change. CEI also receives funding from the Earhart Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, and the Sarah Scaife Foundation.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">24. TEA PARTY EXPRESS → 9-12 PROTESTS: The March on Washington was the final stop on the Tea Party Express tour of America. One of the Tea Party Express organizers&nbsp;<a title="http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/09/17/obama.witchdoctor.teaparty/index.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2009%2FPOLITICS%2F09%2F17%2Fobama.witchdoctor.teaparty%2Findex.html" target="blank">told</a>&nbsp;CNN that a racist sign depicting Obama as a witch doctor “says to me that a lot of people in this country are angry about the direction that the administration and Congress are taking us.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">25. OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC → 9-12 PROTESTS: Our Country Deserves Better was a “gold” co-sponsor of the March on Washington. The group ran an&nbsp;<a title="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWFb1Yvlem4" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPWFb1Yvlem4" target="blank">advertisement</a>&nbsp;comparing Obama to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is the home to birther Mark Williams, who&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200908190024" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200908190024" target="blank">promoted</a>&nbsp;the tea parties on Fox News.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">26. FREEDOMWORKS → 9-12 PROTESTS: Led by Dick Armey, FreedomWorks&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200904160017" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200904160017" target="blank">aggressively promoted</a>the first round of tax day tea parties, was the national sponsor of the 9-12 March on Washington, and disseminated&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909140012" href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/200909140012" target="blank">wildly inflated</a>&nbsp;estimates of the crowd size at the march.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">27. AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY → 9-12 PROTESTS: Americans for Prosperity are major&nbsp;<a title="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/041509-taxpayer-tea-parties-update" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americansforprosperity.org%2F041509-taxpayer-tea-parties-update" target="blank">tea party promoters</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a title="http://www.americansforprosperity.org/091209-afp-912-taxpayer-march-washington" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americansforprosperity.org%2F091209-afp-912-taxpayer-march-washington" target="blank">brought</a>&nbsp;its “Patients First bus” to the 9-12 March on Washington. AFP representatives frequently appear on Beck’s radio and television programs.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">28. LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE → 9-12 PROTESTS: The Leadership Institute was a “bronze” co-sponsor of the 9-12 March on Washington and put on several “grassroots activism” seminars as part of the 9-12 March&nbsp;<a title="http://912dc.org/agenda/" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2F912dc.org%2Fagenda%2F" target="blank">agenda</a>. The Leadership Institute receives funding from the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the F.M. Kirby Foundation, and the Castle Rock Foundation.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">29. TEA PARTY EXPRESS → OUR COUNTRY DESERVES BETTER PAC: The Tea Party Express “tour delegation”&nbsp;<a title="http://www.teapartyexpress.org/tpe.homestead.com/about/index.html" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.teapartyexpress.org%2Ftpe.homestead.com%2Fabout%2Findex.html" target="blank">featured</a>&nbsp;two members of Our Country Deserves Better, one of whom is birther Mark Williams.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">30. FREEDOMWORKS → AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: AFP is a&nbsp;<a title="http://www.freedomworks.org/press-releases/statement-by-cse-chairman-former-house-majority-le-0" href="http://mediamatters.org/rd?to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.freedomworks.org%2Fpress-releases%2Fstatement-by-cse-chairman-former-house-majority-le-0" target="blank">splinter group</a>&nbsp;of Citizens for a Sound Economy, which was later renamed FreedomWorks.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">31. GLENN BECK → LOU DOBBS: During his time with CNN Headline News, Beck interviewed Dobbs several times on immigration-related issues. During a 2007 interview on the immigration reform legislation before Congress, Beck introduced Dobbs by saying: “[T]here’s no more leading authority on this congressional debacle and just how badly it’s hurting our country than Lou Dobbs.” For his part, Dobbs has&nbsp;<a title="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240004" href="http://mediamatters.org/research/200909240004">enthusiastically embraced</a>&nbsp;Beck’s reporting style and news sensibility and has praised his former colleague for having “the guts to stand up.”</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://thelibertytree.me/tag/glenn-beck/page/7/">https://thelibertytree.me/tag/glenn-beck/page/7/</a>

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