Beck has an interesting viewpoint and the courage to point out that the socialists are a very real conspiracy against freedom and the American Principle.
I used to tune in...but I got bored.
The reason was to see what the extreme right are up to. But since the Tea Party got control of the GOP, I lost interest.
I was once forced to listen to this idiot at some public place. I changed the station and the bitch insisted I turn it on. I told her she was an idiot for watching it.
They dont want to learn. Most of them believe the propaganda they have been fed. Pity them, They will not be ready for the chaos comming. They are political Zombies soon to be Food Zombies.
what could I possibly say to you in this little box that would change your mind after the hours and hours of Fox News and radio you have obviously listened too.. . . and yet I'm the brainwashed one. . .? Just think about this, why would anyone pay Beck to do what he does ? Why pay for all that expensive TV time ? Who is benefiting from all this fear mongering ? Hmmm
FLIP: "When I took this job I didn't take it because it was going to be a career for me," Beck said. "Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, 'I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.' He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the Revolution, and then he went back to silversmithing." -(G. L. Beck 04-07-11)
FLOP: "Its time for me as a citizen to get involved.. more than I'm doing here." -(G. L. Beck 04-22-11 - On leaving Fox)
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LIE: "What is the number of Islamic terrorists? 1 percent? I think it's closer to 10%, but the rest of the P.C. world will tell you, 'Oh no, it's miniscule,'" (G. L.Beck 12-10-10)
TRUTH: OK Glenn. That means there are 166,000,000 Islamic Terrorists out there to get us. That's 100 TIMES more than the total enlistment of the US Armed Forces and about 80 TIMES more than the combined forces of the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom. Even at ONE percent the number of terrorists would equal TEN TIMES the US Military's personnel. These figures are based on the CIA's estimate of 1.66 Billion practicing Muslims in the world today. The CIA also reports that the membersip in Al Qaeda is approximately 10,000.
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FLIP: "When I took this job I didn't take it because it was going to be a career for me," Beck said. "Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, 'I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.' He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the Revolution, and then he went back to silversmithing." -(G. L. Beck 04-07-11)
FLOP: "Its time for me as a citizen to get involved.. more than I'm doing here." -(G. L. Beck 04-22-11 - On leaving Fox)
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LIE: "What is the number of Islamic terrorists? 1 percent? I think it's closer to 10%, but the rest of the P.C. world will tell you, 'Oh no, it's miniscule,'" (G. L.Beck 12-10-10)
TRUTH: OK Glenn. That means there are 166,000,000 Islamic Terrorists out there to get us. That's 100 TIMES more than the total enlistment of the US Armed Forces and about 80 TIMES more than the combined forces of the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom. Even at ONE percent the number of terrorists would equal TEN TIMES the US Military's personnel. These figures are based on the CIA's estimate of 1.66 Billion practicing Muslims in the world today. The CIA also reports that the membersip in Al Qaeda is approximately 10,000.
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LIE: Regarding the Iowa Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage: "..this case is actually about going into churches and going in and attacking churches and saying you can't teach anything else." (G. L. Beck 04-13-09)
TRUTH: In the actual ruling it is specifically stated by the Supreme Court: "Require that the state recognize both opposite-sex and same-sex civil marriage. Religious doctrine and views contrary to this principle of law are unaffected."
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CLAIM: "We have a right to health care, really? God doesn't give health care. Man provides health care. So how can it be a right? ...There cannot be a right to health care, because the rights come to God." (G. L. Beck 08-13-09)
OOPS: "It is the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay... it is one of the inalienable rights of man." (Pope Benedict XVI)
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LIE: "Portland is considering an initiative to allow voting by illegal aliens!" (G. L.Beck 10-25-10)
TRUTH: (btw he means Portland, MAINE). The actual ballot initiative in Portland suggested to allow "legal resident non-citizens to vote in municipal elections."
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FLIP: "Getting well in this country can almost kill you" (G. L.Beck, 01-07-08)
FLOP: "We already have the best health care system in the world" (G. L.Beck, 06-04-08)
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LIE: [The Arizona Immigration Law] "specifically states you cannot take into account race." (G. L.Beck 07-29-10)
TRUTH: The law really says you may take race into account to the extent permitted by the Constitution.
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LIE: "George Washington loved the Indians!" (G. L. Beck 08-16-10)
TRUTH: George Washington waged one of the bloodiest campaigns against the Iroquois in history specifying in his orders not only destruction, but total devastation of all Iroquois and settlements before agreeing to peace terms.
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LIE: [After a Hindenburg Omen] "a market crash happens 77 percent of the time." (G. L.Beck 08-25-10)
TRUTH: According to Wall Street, After a Hindenburg Omen a market crash happens 25% of the time.
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LIE: "His new science czar, what is this guy's first name, Jones? Van Jones. Van Jones is a guy that was all caught up in the Rodney King trial and he was actually arrested, went into jail in April, got out in August. So he was arrested for some pretty bad stuff apparently." (G. L.Beck 07-23-09)
TRUTH: Van Jones has never served time in any prison. He has never been convicted of any crime. And he wasn't even in Los Angeles during the Rodney King Riots. Jones was attending the protests in San Francisco as a volunteer legal monitor for Yale University. He was arrested in a group along with all the other protesters. The District Attorney dropped all charges against him. He later sued the City of San Francisco and won.
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LIE: “I checked. We have never had a president sworn into office without a Bible,” (G. L.Beck 01-22-09)
TRUTH: Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Pierce, John Quincy Adams among others didn't use a bible while taking the Oath of Office. You realize the extra scary part about this lie is the "I CHECKED" part. There was no bible on board Air Force One when President Johnson was sworn in. He had his hand on President Kennedy's Catholic Prayer Missal. Johnson was not even Catholic.
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LIE: "Health care already costs - they're already going through the roof!. At least 111 companies have been declared exempt from having to use Obamacare. Many of them, the ones who helped design it!" (G. L.Beck 11-16-10)
TRUTH:. The true number of companies exempt from the Healthcare Reform Act: ZERO. What Mr. Beck has twisted into his own warped reality is that the HHS has approved 111 applications "for waivers from annual limit requirements" for one year. The waivers allow companies with what is called "mini-med or limited benefit plans that employers use for low-wage or part-time workers" to "avoid raising the minimum amount of insurance coverage to $750,000."
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LIE: The FDA revisiting Avastin approval shows "death panel" claim was true. (G. L.Beck 08-17-10)
TRUTH: The FDA has absolutely nothing to do with costs, which is the basis of the so-called "death panel" fantasy.
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LIE: Regarding Chris Coons: "He's a Marxist! ...He admitted it! ...You're telling me she's [Christine O'Donnell] unelectable but a Marxist is??!!" (G. L. Beck 09-17-10)
TRUTH: That's a lie with a free bonus lie attached. Coons is neither a Marxist nor did he admit it. Mr. Beck is referring to a paragraph in an article Coons wrote for his college newspaper in 1985. Here's the paragraph he wrote and the extent of Mr. Coons' Marxism:
"I spent the spring of my junior year in Africa on the St. Lawrence Kenya Study Program. Going to Kenya was one of the few real decisions I have made; my friends, family, and professors all advised against it, but I went anyway. My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists."
What Beck doesn't mention is the statement in his following paragraph:
"I studied under a bright and eloquent Marxist Professor at the University of Nairobi. Nevertheless, It is only too easy to return from Africa glad to be American and smugly thankful for our wealth and freedom."
Coons even titled his article: "Chris Coons - The Making of a Bearded Marxist" To poke fun at the absurdity of his friend's comments.
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LIE: "Nine days in the Libyan revolution and finally, the president speaks. He just did a minute ago. He sat Libya out until TODAY. Why?" - (G. L. Beck 2-23-11)
TRUTH: The President's statement was issued after US Citizens were safely out of Libya, and 5 days prior to Beck's accusation. TODAY GLENN TODAY!! WHY WHY OH WHY??!!! Pfft. Liar.
"I am deeply concerned by reports of violence in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. The United States condemns the use of violence by governments against peaceful protesters in those countries and wherever else it may occur. We express our condolences to the family and friends of those who have been killed during the demonstrations. Wherever they are, people have certain universal rights including the right to peaceful assembly. The United States urges the governments of Bahrain, Libya and Yemen to show restraint in responding to peaceful protests, and to respect the rights of their people." - (B. H. Obama 02-18-11)
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LIE: A Hebrew stone was found in North America and hidden by the Smithsonian. (G. L.Beck 08-18-10)
TRUTH: The stone Beck is referring to is the "Bat Creek Stone" and Its already been proven a forgery. Its not Hebrew and Its not even in the possession of the Smithsonian. It was faked by Luther Blackman for political reasons against John Emmert. It is in the posession of the University of Tennessee. It was sent to the Smithsonian for a short time but they sent it back.
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LIE: "Patrick Murphy illegally solicited absentee ballots" (G. L.Beck, 11-01-10)
TRUTH: Patrick Murphy did not solicit ballots AT ALL, let alone solicit them illegally.
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LIE: "The New England Journal of Medicine says that if this bill is passed nearly one-third of doctors will quit practice medicine -- quit practicing medicine." (G. L.Beck 03-17-10)
TRUTH: Aside from that being a lie, whats extra fun to note is that three hours earlier on the same topic.. ON FOX.. Megyn Kelly had already said that the NEJM did not conduct the so called "survey" and that it was not a "scientific poll." It was conducted by Medicus, which is a national physicians search service.
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LIE: "And don't forget, starting next year in the health care bill for some unknown reason, if you sell anything [on eBay] worth more than $600, you need to send out a 1099. So this will be your last chance before the end of the year to do all the selling without any of the paperwork!" (G. L.Beck 11-16-10)
TRUTH: That's not only a lie, it doesn't even make sense. A 1099 is to be filed by BUSINESSES who PURCHASE items worth more than $600. and it applies only to items used in business that they intend on using as a tax deduction. 1099's are only sent out by people who PAID OUT money, not by those who receive it. Get a grip, Glenn.
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LIE: "The average UAW [United Auto Workers] worker earns $154 an hour if you look at -- you know, if you add in all of the benefits." (G. L.Beck 02-18-09)
TRUTH: The Wall Street Journal reported on February 6, 12 days PRIOR to the Beck quote, that UAW members earn on average $55 per hour in wages and benefits, citing an analysis conducted by Barclays Capital. If that's not funny enough, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News are owned by the same holding company. Beck is lying about reports made by other entities within his own infrastructure.
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LIE: "Obama and his cronies don't like the free-market system" The Obama Administration is attacking the Chamber of Commerce, which "represents 3 million businesses." (G. L.Beck 10-23-09)
TRUTH: The US Chamber of Commerce has repeatedly stated that their membership is approximately 360,000.
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LIE: "And inflation isn't even computed like it used to be computed. The government figured it out. The government realized that people could recognize how bad things actually were, so they changed how we calculated it. So, in other words, the TV could say, 'There's no inflation,' and you'd be going, 'I'm broke. How's that happening?' Now, they calculate inflation without adding in the price of food and energy. Oh, well, other than those going up, we're set." (G. L .Beck 11-22-10)
TRUTH: The government does provide inflation estimates that include food and energy prices through the All Items Consumer Price Index (CPI). In its most recent CPI report, BLS stated: "The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in October on a seasonally adjusted basis." and it INCLUDES: Food, Beverages, Housing (including energy), Apparel, Transportation, Medical Care, Recreation, Education, Communication and other personal goods and services such as tobacco, haircuts, funerals, etc.
Yes, BLS also does provides numbers that exclude food and energy, AS THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE 1950's. Way to twist it, Glenn.
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CLAIM: Glenn Beck has dedicatred countless shows to denouncing the liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros as a "puppet master" who is orchestrating a coup "to bring America to her knees."
OOPS!: Absorbed by the sound of his own mindless blubberings, Mr. Beck probably does not realize that Republican lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, who is Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Advisor and member of her close inner-circle of advisors, has and is still on the Soros payroll for lobbying work regarding legislation involving sanctions and democracy promotion in Burma. Mr. Scheunemann and his partner have received in excess of $150,000 from one of the Soros organizations and are still providing services to them to this day.
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LIE: "He [President Obama] also sought to raise the capital gains tax, which affects every single American who invests!" (G. L.Beck 04-07-10)
TRUTH: The White House's Budget of the U.S. Government for fiscal year 2011 calls for an increase in the capital gains tax rate on families with income greater than $250,000. and individuals with annual income greater than $200,000., not EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN WHO INVESTS.
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LIE: "Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it." -(G. L. Beck 06-10-09)
TRUTH: Citizenship by birth on the soil a certain country is called "Jus Soli" and is recognized in the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, France, Germany, New Zeland, South Africa, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, St. Lucia, Trinidad, The Grenadines, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatamala, Belize, Barbados, Cambodia, Fiji, El Salvador, Guyana, Jamaica, Lesotho, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Honduras & Barbuda.
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LIE: "Do you know in the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs! Do I need to say any more? If you are somebody who is like, 'Well, I just, I'm struggling and we're barely making ends meet,' I'm not paying for your dog cardiologist!" -(G. L. Beck 09-12-09)
TRUTH: This is the conclusion the Wizard of Lard came up with when he saw that there were some veterinarians included in the Public Heath Workforce Corps. The Veterinarians are included as part of an advisory committee to address animal borne diseases such as mad cow & swine flu in their relation to food safety.
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LIE: [Regarding Michelle Obama's staff]: "Forty-three people! I think Nancy Reagan may have been the one who had the most people on the staff. She had three. Three! The first lady's office needs 43 people? For what? These people are out of control! It is really Marie Antoinette." -(G. L. Beck 02-25-11)
TRUTH: The 2010 Annual Report To Congress On White House Staff (The data available at the time of Beck's statement) shows Michelle Obama's staff as 15. The First Lady's Chief of staff reports that the current number fluctuates between 22 and 25. The Reagan Library reports Nancy Reagan had a total of 53 people on the government payroll over 8 years with an estimated staff of 15 at the time Reagan left office. BUT WHAT ABOUT LAURA BUSH, GLENN? Laura Bush's former Chief of Staff, Anita McBride reports that Laura Bush's staff at the time George left office was between 24 and 26.
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LIE: Re Wilmington, Ohio: "It went from the No. 1 most up-and-coming city, and a city everybody wants to live in, to ground zero. And this town hasn’t taken any money from the government. They don’t want any money from the government." -(G. L. Beck 11-22-10)
TRUTH: Wilmington had already received millions in stimulus funds and grants from the government. The surrounding areas of Clinton and Clark Counties had already received millions in stimulus funds from the government. The Wilmington City Council had already asked the Federal Government for $63,000,000. Wilmington even received a second federal grant of $4,100,000 after Beck's statement.
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CLAIM: "How many millions will starve because of Biofuels?" -(G. L. Beck 04-08-11)
OOPS: "[Biofuels will] Condemn[ed] to premature death by hunger and thirst - more than 3 billion people of the world" -(Fidel Castro 03-29-07)
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CLAIM: "[The Obama Administration] is siding with the wrong side," But "I stand with Israel." -(G. L. Beck 04-01-11)
OOPS!: "So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." -(George Washington)
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FLIP: "Who In Their Right Mind Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is A Good Thing!?" -(G. L. Beck 03-23-11)
FLOP: "The [financial] system ..not reboot, sorry.. to reset it, to equalize. There have been too many mistakes, and it needs to be taken down, and then we rebuild it back up. That's still a possibility. I think that's a growing possibility every day, the most likely and the safest of bets in my world, the way I look at things." -(G. L. Beck 12-10-09)
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CLAIM: "Wait, wait, hold it, just a second. Dr. King lost his life for collective bargaining for the public unions, really? Did you know that? 'Cause -- that -- we have to update our history books, because I didn't know that. Did you know that?" -( G. L. Beck 03-21-11)
OOPS: Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis while supporting 1,300 public sanitation workers.
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FLIP: "If I would have told you a year ago that France would lead -- that France would be the one that says, ‘You know what? I’m tired of waiting around. We’ll send our planes, and we’ll bomb.’ And America would say, WHAAAAH!!! Would you have believed that a year ago?”
FLOP: "I believe I did say words similar to that right over there, that it would sweep, destabilize, and drag us all down. We’re in a third war, a third front. God help us all if it all boils over in Libya!”
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CLAIM: "Sam Donaldson and everybody started praising Al-Jazeera! My gosh - look at Al-Jazeera!. Even on the Drudge Report they are linked today to Al-Jazeera Live. Watch it on Al-Jazeera. You have to see it on Al-Jazeera. Remember, Al-Jazeera is not exactly U.S. friendly, not exactly Israel friendly. But let's get our information from Al-Jazeera!" (G. L. Beck 03-04-11)
That's right Glenn! Slam that ABC and internet media SCUM for relying on Al Jazeera! Anyone who relies on Al Jazeera must be unAmerican! Al Jazeera is the devil!
OOPS: FOX USES AL JAZEERA FEEDS.
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OOPS: Beck's chalkboard conspiracy theory in this clip is so absurd it leaves his 'hand picked' panel of guests dumbstruck. Needless to say, they were never invited back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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LIE: "The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings. This may be the last large gathering ever to assemble at the Lincoln Memorial. Historic, historic." (G. L. Beck 06-28-10)
TRUTH: "There is absolutely no attempt by the government to restrict gatherings at the Lincoln Memorial or at any of our sites. There is zero basis for his claim." -Margie Ortiz, National Park Service.
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LIE: “I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.” -(G. L.Beck 08-28-10)
TRUTH: At the National Archive, Beck was shown a vault and told "This vault contains some of our most important documents such as Washington's inaugural address..." Beck later admitted he lied and qualified it by saying "So what?"
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CLAIM: "If he [Jesus] was a victim, and this theology was true, then Jesus would've come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did." (G. L.Beck 07-13-10)
OOPS: The Romans killed Jesus, not the Jews. His crime against Rome was claiming to be a King above Caesar, hence the Titulus, "INRI - King Of The Jews"
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CLAIM: "Submission to his will" is "Islam." (G. L.Beck 08-24-10)
OOPS: "Submission to his will" is also in the King James Bible.
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FLIP: The concern over Japan's nuclear crisis is merely "Propaganda from George Soros" -(G. L. Beck 03-11-11)
FLOP: Japan's Nuclear situation is "the EVIDENCE of my PERFECT STORM theory" -(G. L. Beck 04-07-11)
It is because of Glen Beck and other conservative radio commentators that we blew away the democrats in the 2010 election. The same thing is going to happen this November only better. Glen beck woke up the silent majority with truth and his patriotic style of teaching.
I listen to his radio show mon-fri while I'm at work. I also get the blaze and glenn beck e-mails. I am a subscriber to his internet program. "We'll be the key!!"
Yes, but only when I need a good laugh. The years of drug abuse and mental illness have taken a toll on Beck which makes him hilarious. What a sad hateful little man.
LMAO... I said he's certifiable.. which he has said about himself in his book 'The Real America' .. Clearly I've done more homework then you. Okay you can go now!
What are you going on about?!?!? I said hes certifiable, is it that you don't know the definition of the word? Why do you keep going on about him being right....
No one on the left is saying Beck is right and those idiot 'liberals' on Fox aren't liberals.
Beautiful eyes,, Last time I saw eyes that pretty was on a magazine cover,,but her husband had cut her nose off. In his culture the act was not considered certifiable,,,it was the norm. It depends who you hang with. Beck is certifiable in certain groups especially up north. However down in Texas most folks consider him normal. By the way I hope you still have your nose "Pretty Eyes"
The reason was to see what the extreme right are up to. But since the Tea Party got control of the GOP, I lost interest.
FLIP: "When I took this job I didn't take it because it was going to be a career for me," Beck said. "Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, 'I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.' He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the Revolution, and then he went back to silversmithing." -(G. L. Beck 04-07-11)
FLOP: "Its time for me as a citizen to get involved.. more than I'm doing here." -(G. L. Beck 04-22-11 - On leaving Fox)
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LIE: "What is the number of Islamic terrorists? 1 percent? I think it's closer to 10%, but the rest of the P.C. world will tell you, 'Oh no, it's miniscule,'" (G. L.Beck 12-10-10)
TRUTH: OK Glenn. That means there are 166,000,000 Islamic Terrorists out there to get us. That's 100 TIMES more than the total enlistment of the US Armed Forces and about 80 TIMES more than the combined forces of the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom. Even at ONE percent the number of terrorists would equal TEN TIMES the US Military's personnel. These figures are based on the CIA's estimate of 1.66 Billion practicing Muslims in the world today. The CIA also reports that the membersip in Al Qaeda is approximately 10,000.
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FLIP: "When I took this job I didn't take it because it was going to be a career for me," Beck said. "Paul Revere did not get up on the horse and say, 'I'm going to do this for the rest of my life.' He didn't do it. He got off the horse at some point and fought in the Revolution, and then he went back to silversmithing." -(G. L. Beck 04-07-11)
FLOP: "Its time for me as a citizen to get involved.. more than I'm doing here." -(G. L. Beck 04-22-11 - On leaving Fox)
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LIE: "What is the number of Islamic terrorists? 1 percent? I think it's closer to 10%, but the rest of the P.C. world will tell you, 'Oh no, it's miniscule,'" (G. L.Beck 12-10-10)
TRUTH: OK Glenn. That means there are 166,000,000 Islamic Terrorists out there to get us. That's 100 TIMES more than the total enlistment of the US Armed Forces and about 80 TIMES more than the combined forces of the United States, Russia and the United Kingdom. Even at ONE percent the number of terrorists would equal TEN TIMES the US Military's personnel. These figures are based on the CIA's estimate of 1.66 Billion practicing Muslims in the world today. The CIA also reports that the membersip in Al Qaeda is approximately 10,000.
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LIE: Regarding the Iowa Supreme Court ruling striking down the state's ban on same-sex marriage: "..this case is actually about going into churches and going in and attacking churches and saying you can't teach anything else." (G. L. Beck 04-13-09)
TRUTH: In the actual ruling it is specifically stated by the Supreme Court: "Require that the state recognize both opposite-sex and same-sex civil marriage. Religious doctrine and views contrary to this principle of law are unaffected."
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CLAIM: "We have a right to health care, really? God doesn't give health care. Man provides health care. So how can it be a right? ...There cannot be a right to health care, because the rights come to God." (G. L. Beck 08-13-09)
OOPS: "It is the moral responsibility of nations to guarantee access to health care for all of their citizens, regardless of social and economic status or their ability to pay... it is one of the inalienable rights of man." (Pope Benedict XVI)
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LIE: "Portland is considering an initiative to allow voting by illegal aliens!" (G. L.Beck 10-25-10)
TRUTH: (btw he means Portland, MAINE). The actual ballot initiative in Portland suggested to allow "legal resident non-citizens to vote in municipal elections."
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FLIP: "Getting well in this country can almost kill you" (G. L.Beck, 01-07-08)
FLOP: "We already have the best health care system in the world" (G. L.Beck, 06-04-08)
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LIE: [The Arizona Immigration Law] "specifically states you cannot take into account race." (G. L.Beck 07-29-10)
TRUTH: The law really says you may take race into account to the extent permitted by the Constitution.
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LIE: "George Washington loved the Indians!" (G. L. Beck 08-16-10)
TRUTH: George Washington waged one of the bloodiest campaigns against the Iroquois in history specifying in his orders not only destruction, but total devastation of all Iroquois and settlements before agreeing to peace terms.
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LIE: [After a Hindenburg Omen] "a market crash happens 77 percent of the time." (G. L.Beck 08-25-10)
TRUTH: According to Wall Street, After a Hindenburg Omen a market crash happens 25% of the time.
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LIE: "His new science czar, what is this guy's first name, Jones? Van Jones. Van Jones is a guy that was all caught up in the Rodney King trial and he was actually arrested, went into jail in April, got out in August. So he was arrested for some pretty bad stuff apparently." (G. L.Beck 07-23-09)
TRUTH: Van Jones has never served time in any prison. He has never been convicted of any crime. And he wasn't even in Los Angeles during the Rodney King Riots. Jones was attending the protests in San Francisco as a volunteer legal monitor for Yale University. He was arrested in a group along with all the other protesters. The District Attorney dropped all charges against him. He later sued the City of San Francisco and won.
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LIE: “I checked. We have never had a president sworn into office without a Bible,” (G. L.Beck 01-22-09)
TRUTH: Teddy Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Pierce, John Quincy Adams among others didn't use a bible while taking the Oath of Office. You realize the extra scary part about this lie is the "I CHECKED" part. There was no bible on board Air Force One when President Johnson was sworn in. He had his hand on President Kennedy's Catholic Prayer Missal. Johnson was not even Catholic.
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LIE: "Health care already costs - they're already going through the roof!. At least 111 companies have been declared exempt from having to use Obamacare. Many of them, the ones who helped design it!" (G. L.Beck 11-16-10)
TRUTH:. The true number of companies exempt from the Healthcare Reform Act: ZERO. What Mr. Beck has twisted into his own warped reality is that the HHS has approved 111 applications "for waivers from annual limit requirements" for one year. The waivers allow companies with what is called "mini-med or limited benefit plans that employers use for low-wage or part-time workers" to "avoid raising the minimum amount of insurance coverage to $750,000."
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LIE: The FDA revisiting Avastin approval shows "death panel" claim was true. (G. L.Beck 08-17-10)
TRUTH: The FDA has absolutely nothing to do with costs, which is the basis of the so-called "death panel" fantasy.
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LIE: Regarding Chris Coons: "He's a Marxist! ...He admitted it! ...You're telling me she's [Christine O'Donnell] unelectable but a Marxist is??!!" (G. L. Beck 09-17-10)
TRUTH: That's a lie with a free bonus lie attached. Coons is neither a Marxist nor did he admit it. Mr. Beck is referring to a paragraph in an article Coons wrote for his college newspaper in 1985. Here's the paragraph he wrote and the extent of Mr. Coons' Marxism:
"I spent the spring of my junior year in Africa on the St. Lawrence Kenya Study Program. Going to Kenya was one of the few real decisions I have made; my friends, family, and professors all advised against it, but I went anyway. My friends now joke that something about Kenya, maybe the strange diet, or the tropical sun, changed my personality; Africa to them seems a catalytic converter that takes in clean-shaven, clear-thinking Americans and sends back bearded Marxists."
What Beck doesn't mention is the statement in his following paragraph:
"I studied under a bright and eloquent Marxist Professor at the University of Nairobi. Nevertheless, It is only too easy to return from Africa glad to be American and smugly thankful for our wealth and freedom."
Coons even titled his article: "Chris Coons - The Making of a Bearded Marxist" To poke fun at the absurdity of his friend's comments.
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LIE: "Nine days in the Libyan revolution and finally, the president speaks. He just did a minute ago. He sat Libya out until TODAY. Why?" - (G. L. Beck 2-23-11)
TRUTH: The President's statement was issued after US Citizens were safely out of Libya, and 5 days prior to Beck's accusation. TODAY GLENN TODAY!! WHY WHY OH WHY??!!! Pfft. Liar.
"I am deeply concerned by reports of violence in Bahrain, Libya and Yemen. The United States condemns the use of violence by governments against peaceful protesters in those countries and wherever else it may occur. We express our condolences to the family and friends of those who have been killed during the demonstrations. Wherever they are, people have certain universal rights including the right to peaceful assembly. The United States urges the governments of Bahrain, Libya and Yemen to show restraint in responding to peaceful protests, and to respect the rights of their people." - (B. H. Obama 02-18-11)
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LIE: A Hebrew stone was found in North America and hidden by the Smithsonian. (G. L.Beck 08-18-10)
TRUTH: The stone Beck is referring to is the "Bat Creek Stone" and Its already been proven a forgery. Its not Hebrew and Its not even in the possession of the Smithsonian. It was faked by Luther Blackman for political reasons against John Emmert. It is in the posession of the University of Tennessee. It was sent to the Smithsonian for a short time but they sent it back.
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LIE: "Patrick Murphy illegally solicited absentee ballots" (G. L.Beck, 11-01-10)
TRUTH: Patrick Murphy did not solicit ballots AT ALL, let alone solicit them illegally.
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LIE: "The New England Journal of Medicine says that if this bill is passed nearly one-third of doctors will quit practice medicine -- quit practicing medicine." (G. L.Beck 03-17-10)
TRUTH: Aside from that being a lie, whats extra fun to note is that three hours earlier on the same topic.. ON FOX.. Megyn Kelly had already said that the NEJM did not conduct the so called "survey" and that it was not a "scientific poll." It was conducted by Medicus, which is a national physicians search service.
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LIE: "And don't forget, starting next year in the health care bill for some unknown reason, if you sell anything [on eBay] worth more than $600, you need to send out a 1099. So this will be your last chance before the end of the year to do all the selling without any of the paperwork!" (G. L.Beck 11-16-10)
TRUTH: That's not only a lie, it doesn't even make sense. A 1099 is to be filed by BUSINESSES who PURCHASE items worth more than $600. and it applies only to items used in business that they intend on using as a tax deduction. 1099's are only sent out by people who PAID OUT money, not by those who receive it. Get a grip, Glenn.
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LIE: "The average UAW [United Auto Workers] worker earns $154 an hour if you look at -- you know, if you add in all of the benefits." (G. L.Beck 02-18-09)
TRUTH: The Wall Street Journal reported on February 6, 12 days PRIOR to the Beck quote, that UAW members earn on average $55 per hour in wages and benefits, citing an analysis conducted by Barclays Capital. If that's not funny enough, The Wall Street Journal and Fox News are owned by the same holding company. Beck is lying about reports made by other entities within his own infrastructure.
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LIE: "Obama and his cronies don't like the free-market system" The Obama Administration is attacking the Chamber of Commerce, which "represents 3 million businesses." (G. L.Beck 10-23-09)
TRUTH: The US Chamber of Commerce has repeatedly stated that their membership is approximately 360,000.
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LIE: "And inflation isn't even computed like it used to be computed. The government figured it out. The government realized that people could recognize how bad things actually were, so they changed how we calculated it. So, in other words, the TV could say, 'There's no inflation,' and you'd be going, 'I'm broke. How's that happening?' Now, they calculate inflation without adding in the price of food and energy. Oh, well, other than those going up, we're set." (G. L .Beck 11-22-10)
TRUTH: The government does provide inflation estimates that include food and energy prices through the All Items Consumer Price Index (CPI). In its most recent CPI report, BLS stated: "The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.2 percent in October on a seasonally adjusted basis." and it INCLUDES: Food, Beverages, Housing (including energy), Apparel, Transportation, Medical Care, Recreation, Education, Communication and other personal goods and services such as tobacco, haircuts, funerals, etc.
Yes, BLS also does provides numbers that exclude food and energy, AS THEY HAVE DONE SINCE THE 1950's. Way to twist it, Glenn.
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CLAIM: Glenn Beck has dedicatred countless shows to denouncing the liberal billionaire and philanthropist George Soros as a "puppet master" who is orchestrating a coup "to bring America to her knees."
OOPS!: Absorbed by the sound of his own mindless blubberings, Mr. Beck probably does not realize that Republican lobbyist Randy Scheunemann, who is Sarah Palin's Foreign Policy Advisor and member of her close inner-circle of advisors, has and is still on the Soros payroll for lobbying work regarding legislation involving sanctions and democracy promotion in Burma. Mr. Scheunemann and his partner have received in excess of $150,000 from one of the Soros organizations and are still providing services to them to this day.
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LIE: "He [President Obama] also sought to raise the capital gains tax, which affects every single American who invests!" (G. L.Beck 04-07-10)
TRUTH: The White House's Budget of the U.S. Government for fiscal year 2011 calls for an increase in the capital gains tax rate on families with income greater than $250,000. and individuals with annual income greater than $200,000., not EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN WHO INVESTS.
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LIE: "Why do we have automatic citizenship upon birth? We're the only country in the world that has it." -(G. L. Beck 06-10-09)
TRUTH: Citizenship by birth on the soil a certain country is called "Jus Soli" and is recognized in the following countries: United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, France, Germany, New Zeland, South Africa, Venezuela, Uruguay, Mexico, Peru, St. Lucia, Trinidad, The Grenadines, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Guatamala, Belize, Barbados, Cambodia, Fiji, El Salvador, Guyana, Jamaica, Lesotho, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Honduras & Barbuda.
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LIE: "Do you know in the health care bill, we're now offering insurance for dogs! Do I need to say any more? If you are somebody who is like, 'Well, I just, I'm struggling and we're barely making ends meet,' I'm not paying for your dog cardiologist!" -(G. L. Beck 09-12-09)
TRUTH: This is the conclusion the Wizard of Lard came up with when he saw that there were some veterinarians included in the Public Heath Workforce Corps. The Veterinarians are included as part of an advisory committee to address animal borne diseases such as mad cow & swine flu in their relation to food safety.
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LIE: [Regarding Michelle Obama's staff]: "Forty-three people! I think Nancy Reagan may have been the one who had the most people on the staff. She had three. Three! The first lady's office needs 43 people? For what? These people are out of control! It is really Marie Antoinette." -(G. L. Beck 02-25-11)
TRUTH: The 2010 Annual Report To Congress On White House Staff (The data available at the time of Beck's statement) shows Michelle Obama's staff as 15. The First Lady's Chief of staff reports that the current number fluctuates between 22 and 25. The Reagan Library reports Nancy Reagan had a total of 53 people on the government payroll over 8 years with an estimated staff of 15 at the time Reagan left office. BUT WHAT ABOUT LAURA BUSH, GLENN? Laura Bush's former Chief of Staff, Anita McBride reports that Laura Bush's staff at the time George left office was between 24 and 26.
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LIE: Re Wilmington, Ohio: "It went from the No. 1 most up-and-coming city, and a city everybody wants to live in, to ground zero. And this town hasn’t taken any money from the government. They don’t want any money from the government." -(G. L. Beck 11-22-10)
TRUTH: Wilmington had already received millions in stimulus funds and grants from the government. The surrounding areas of Clinton and Clark Counties had already received millions in stimulus funds from the government. The Wilmington City Council had already asked the Federal Government for $63,000,000. Wilmington even received a second federal grant of $4,100,000 after Beck's statement.
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CLAIM: "How many millions will starve because of Biofuels?" -(G. L. Beck 04-08-11)
OOPS: "[Biofuels will] Condemn[ed] to premature death by hunger and thirst - more than 3 billion people of the world" -(Fidel Castro 03-29-07)
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CLAIM: "[The Obama Administration] is siding with the wrong side," But "I stand with Israel." -(G. L. Beck 04-01-11)
OOPS!: "So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions; by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill-will, and a disposition to retaliate, in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld. And it gives to ambitious, corrupted, or deluded citizens (who devote themselves to the favorite nation), facility to betray or sacrifice the interests of their own country, without odium, sometimes even with popularity; gilding, with the appearances of a virtuous sense of obligation, a commendable deference for public opinion, or a laudable zeal for public good, the base or foolish compliances of ambition, corruption, or infatuation." -(George Washington)
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FLIP: "Who In Their Right Mind Thinks Another Financial Crisis Is A Good Thing!?" -(G. L. Beck 03-23-11)
FLOP: "The [financial] system ..not reboot, sorry.. to reset it, to equalize. There have been too many mistakes, and it needs to be taken down, and then we rebuild it back up. That's still a possibility. I think that's a growing possibility every day, the most likely and the safest of bets in my world, the way I look at things." -(G. L. Beck 12-10-09)
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CLAIM: "Wait, wait, hold it, just a second. Dr. King lost his life for collective bargaining for the public unions, really? Did you know that? 'Cause -- that -- we have to update our history books, because I didn't know that. Did you know that?" -( G. L. Beck 03-21-11)
OOPS: Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis while supporting 1,300 public sanitation workers.
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FLIP: "If I would have told you a year ago that France would lead -- that France would be the one that says, ‘You know what? I’m tired of waiting around. We’ll send our planes, and we’ll bomb.’ And America would say, WHAAAAH!!! Would you have believed that a year ago?”
FLOP: "I believe I did say words similar to that right over there, that it would sweep, destabilize, and drag us all down. We’re in a third war, a third front. God help us all if it all boils over in Libya!”
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CLAIM: "Sam Donaldson and everybody started praising Al-Jazeera! My gosh - look at Al-Jazeera!. Even on the Drudge Report they are linked today to Al-Jazeera Live. Watch it on Al-Jazeera. You have to see it on Al-Jazeera. Remember, Al-Jazeera is not exactly U.S. friendly, not exactly Israel friendly. But let's get our information from Al-Jazeera!" (G. L. Beck 03-04-11)
That's right Glenn! Slam that ABC and internet media SCUM for relying on Al Jazeera! Anyone who relies on Al Jazeera must be unAmerican! Al Jazeera is the devil!
OOPS: FOX USES AL JAZEERA FEEDS.
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OOPS: Beck's chalkboard conspiracy theory in this clip is so absurd it leaves his 'hand picked' panel of guests dumbstruck. Needless to say, they were never invited back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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LIE: "The government is trying to now close the Lincoln Memorial for any kind of large gatherings. This may be the last large gathering ever to assemble at the Lincoln Memorial. Historic, historic." (G. L. Beck 06-28-10)
TRUTH: "There is absolutely no attempt by the government to restrict gatherings at the Lincoln Memorial or at any of our sites. There is zero basis for his claim." -Margie Ortiz, National Park Service.
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LIE: “I went to the National Archives, and I held the first inaugural address written in his own hand by George Washington.” -(G. L.Beck 08-28-10)
TRUTH: At the National Archive, Beck was shown a vault and told "This vault contains some of our most important documents such as Washington's inaugural address..." Beck later admitted he lied and qualified it by saying "So what?"
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CLAIM: "If he [Jesus] was a victim, and this theology was true, then Jesus would've come back from the dead and made the Jews pay for what they did." (G. L.Beck 07-13-10)
OOPS: The Romans killed Jesus, not the Jews. His crime against Rome was claiming to be a King above Caesar, hence the Titulus, "INRI - King Of The Jews"
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CLAIM: "Submission to his will" is "Islam." (G. L.Beck 08-24-10)
OOPS: "Submission to his will" is also in the King James Bible.
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FLIP: The concern over Japan's nuclear crisis is merely "Propaganda from George Soros" -(G. L. Beck 03-11-11)
FLOP: Japan's Nuclear situation is "the EVIDENCE of my PERFECT STORM theory" -(G. L. Beck 04-07-11)
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I said he's certifiable.. which he has said about himself in his book 'The Real America' .. Clearly I've done more homework then you. Okay you can go now!
No one on the left is saying Beck is right and those idiot 'liberals' on Fox aren't liberals.