Beck just makes things up about Wikipedia
November 30, 2010 1:51 pm ET by Terry Krepel
Glenn Beck just makes things up on a regular basis -- and especially when it comes to George Soros -- so it’s not a shock that Beck’s attempt to suggest that Soros’ involvement with Wikipedia equates to an involvement with WikiLeaks falls well short of the facts.
On his November 30 radio show, Beck said, as he’s prone to do, that “the storm is here,” adding that “Wikipedia is just a part of it.” One of Beck’s sidekicks quickly stepped in to correct it to WikiLeaks. Beck then asserted that Soros “helped develop software” for Wikipedia. Sidekick Stu Burguiere responded, “I’ve read this before, but I don’t think it’s actually accurate.” Beck went on to add: “Maybe you’re right. ... I’m not saying it’s nefarious. What I’m saying is that he is an open society guy. This is an open society -- this is perfect open society stuff. ... The software was, I think, helped developed by Soros, which is the software that WikiLeaks is using.”
Beck does a lot of false conflating here through a host of ambiguous statements about Soros, Wikipedia, and WikiLeaks. Let’s try to clear things up in a way that even Beck can understand.
First, while Soros’ Open Society Institute has a history of funding Wikipedia’s parent organization, the Wikimedia Foundation, and it has funded peripheral projects such as printing Wikipedia documents, it apparently was not involved in the original development of the Wikipedia software, at least according to Wikipedia’s own history.
Second, the software underlying Wikipedia, known as MediaWiki, is free. It’s available to anyone with the knowledge to install it on a web server and content to put on it -- including Beck and his crew. (Heck, Beck’s blackboard conspiracies might even benefit from presentation in a wiki format.) Wikipedia isn’t responsible for what others do with the software it gives away. That goes for WikiLeaks just as much as, say, the Star Wars wiki site.
Meanwhile, Beck’s insistence that he wasn’t portraying Soros’ involvement in Wikipedia as “nefarious,” while vaguely hinting Soros had something to do with WikiLeaks, is utterly disingenuous. If the point was not to demonstrate how Soros has his evil spooky-dude fingers in everything, why bring it up at all? Then again, Beck portrayed Soros’ involvement in overthrowing communist and authoritarian regimes as nefarious too.
Glenn Beck helped develop propaganda for Fox News. I'm not saying it's nefarious. What I am saying is that he is a bend over and grab your ankles kind of guy. The propaganda was, I think, developed by Roger Ailes, which is the cocaine that Beck uses in bathroom stalls.
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Please do not give him any ideas.
My coffee is no longer hot because I poured it nearly an hour ago. I blame George Soros.
George Soros made me stub my toe.
George Soros and Woodrow Wilson created Nazism to spread Stalin's ideas.
George Soros, who is Jewish, is a nazi and he secretly funded the time machine Obama used to pretend that he was born in Hawaii.
George Soros is actually Woodrow Wilson.
Woodrow Wilson was Hitler.
Therefore World Wars I and II, the Korean War, Viet Nam, Iran-Contra, Watergate, and Jar Jar Binks are all George Soros' fault.
Tax policy
Foreign policy
Constitutional law
Food safety
American History
World History
Climate Science
Physical Science
Economics
and pretty much everything else?
Once we start thinking under that premise, we can stop with the "Beck makes things up about (fill in the blank)" and just go with what he said and when.
My Quote of the Day: "If Glen Beck said it, it's BS"
Beck says crap he hears in his damaged demented brain. It's like the many monkeys pounding on many typewriters for infinite time -- once in a while one of them spells an English word, but mostly all the keystroking, and Beck's microphone spitting, is only chaos-brain crap.
In the Portland OR market Beck, 9:00 - noon, begets a fawning understudy, noon - 3:00, Lars Larson who says crap he hears in his juvenile trauma-stunted brain. Liars makes it up, FOX radio affiliated.
The Beck=Liars combination shouting in impressionable unformed minds caused one listener to get so crazy he bombed a bank and killed two policemen -- as a 'statement' demonstrating how 'anti-government' he is. Turnidges (father & son) are on trial now in Salem OR and if convicted may be sentenced to death. Beck=Liars belong at that 'defense' table and sentenced, as well.
The proof that the man got his violence-set thoughts and 'beliefs' from Beck=Liars, and only from Beck=Liars, was testimony under oath of the FBI agent who recited what the man told him the thoughts were. The wording of the thoughts is exactly verbatim mimickry of Beck=Liars wording during Oct-Nov'08 airing hot rightwing hate and high anxiety about Obama's election, (leading up to bomb/murder Dec.12,'08), to wit: 'if airline passengers had not been prohibited to carry guns, 9/11 never would have happened; that prohibition makes the government at fault for 9/11.' Only Beck=Liars said that same crap, on Turnidge's radio, into his hypnosis-stupored (lit., 'beneath knowing') brain.
Broadcasting made-up hate-filled crap talk incites violence in audience behaviors.
Refer: Statesman-Journal compilation of trial
Day 7: FBI's George Chamberlin testifies, [see video], [read story].
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Just as how ACORN was responsible for all things that Beck didn't like, now, Soros is that same boogeyman for Beck.
When is Soros going to sue the pants off of Beck, and put him into the poorhouse that he seems to think is an a-OK place in America.
The signs are all around us, the storm is upon us and the masses continue to to turn a blind eye to what is going on.
Thank goodness for people like Glen Beck, Nigel Farage(EU) and Alex Jones(Fall of the Republic). Google them. Open your eyes and lets hope that it is not too late for the United States of America, the land that I love.