Beck: "Don't Do A Google Search" Because "Google Is Pretty Deeply In Bed With The Government"
From the February 14 edition of Fox News' Glenn Beck:
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BECK: Is anybody willing to do their own homework? Because the media is not going to. Start looking at who they're connected to?
Can you just look at all of these?
By the way, also, you know, I would look into all the people the State Department are working with, MSNBC, CBS, gosh, MTV? Maybe we should start watching those networks a little bit and seeing what their news coverage is like.
And -- who are these groups? Who are they? Are they right? Are they left? Are they clean? Are they dirty? Are they front groups? I don't know.
May I recommend if you're doing your own homework, don't do a Google search. It seems to me that Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government. Remember, maybe this is explaining why Google is being kicked out of all the other countries. Are they just a shill now for the United States government?
Who is Jared Cohen? Is he a private citizen or government operative? And isn't this the second Google guy we've found? This is the second Google executive now being exposed as an instigator of a revolution.
Are you comfortable with a government partnering covertly with media organizations, search engines, social networking so they can bring change that the Washington elites have designed? I don't know about you, but I am not really comfortable with that. I don't care George Washington, George Bush, Barack Obama, or Abraham Lincoln, I'm not comfortable with that. It used to be called propaganda. What do we call it now? That's right -- community organizing.
Previously:
Beck Adds Google, Community Organizers To His Socialist-Communist-Islamist Theory About Egypt
Google will of course, produce more than the rightwing screaming and will show people that theyve absolutely flipped positions dozens of times. Google is far and away one of the major threats to ideologies that require ignorance.
This is really the same anti-intellectual know-nothing-know-it-all as shows up routinely in the right, whenever they conflict with causality. The only way they can perpetuate their ideologies is by having no one understand what those ideologies are.
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Ka-zing.
Define your terms.
Am I, as a conservative, not in the Republican sense, but in the classical sense, a right-winger?
Uh, then why do I find a home here at Media Matters? I would like MM's role expanded to include all spectrums of the politically stupid.
Speaking of politically stupid, stereotypes and generalizations fall into "politically stupid." Or, intellectually lazy. Or prejudiced. Or biased.
Did you expect to be respected by asking us not to attack you when you yourself start your statement with an attack. It makes you look kinda...disconnected? If you cant tell who started slinging first, then apparently you havent asked ms. palin about our president's birth certificate.
Second of all, I dont know what you're talking about. You havent even explained what it is you are trying to say to me? Just saying im small minded does absolutely nothing. At least I had a clever way of pointing it out.
But of course, the fictional element i quoted was pretty obviously an exaggeration. It just gets the point home that, you know, telling people what kind of information sources are bad and wrong and full of disinformation is a pretty clear sign that your side might have an issue.
And its no surprise that youd demand MMFA expand its role. Sure, why should it focus on conservatives? Its not like theres an entire television network and internet community based solely around attacking liberals based on the flavor-of-the-week problem on the right. So we should all focus on the righ tbecause...all those times we've done so have gotten so many liberal voices on time on Fox, i assume. I dont know. Or was it when The Blaze started actually moderating their comments to delete the ones that devolve into random attacks on liberals after ten minutes?
Id love to see how that fight to retake that preserve in arizona from the mexicans is going. And have we heard any more about trying to give manhattan back to the indians? I need to make sure I get the right number of shiny beads back, based on my income of course.
Or were these events just discarded after a weeks' time, when they had wrung all the stupid out of them possible? But you know, you have to focus on that 9/11 mosque, right? Thats what you're going after now right?
no wait, you had to give that up to apologize for BP and warn people about those citizen armies our president was forming. Thanks for that, we'd barely be able to notice all those check points for rightwingers all over the country.
Oh, wait sorry, those were for people with dark skin in a republican state.
You wanna come play with us? Gotta bring more than baseless insults into it. You need to at the very least have clever and/or humorous attacks on us. Though you
I haven't liked the way he badmouths the uses of propaganda much, but I must say the notion propaganda=community organizing is something I never thought of; such insight this marvelous man has.
And his Koolaid is fortified with shredded Constitution.
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The Midnight Review
It wasn't really a very good morning!
Just thought I would point that out. ;)
Right now, that he hasnt realized this is the only thing keeping him from wandering the streets of new york with a "The End is Near!" Sandwich board around him.
Then something about the new world order trying to supplant god..I dont know, im not very good at this. I try but nothign i make up ever sounds anywhere near as looney as the right by themselves.
Its my own fault really. I try to have some semblance of a meaningful narrative.
We all know that that the new Caliphate will absorb China in the next 20 years. So that means that New Zealand will become part of the Caliphate. Hence, Jeeves is really a hidden Muslim playing that he's a commie.
He's a DUKE not a Lord! Where were you trained, a dago dancing school?
Delusional, liar, snake oil, apocalypse, fecal engineer, God complex, fear-monger, uneducated, bad history, uber-capitalist, Ayn Rand fetish, teabagging, shameless, sociopath, pathological, obsessive, ignorant, et al.
That's rich, coming from a highly paid propagandist.
Basically take my word for it"
"The BLAZE is the only place to get True and Un-Biased Facts !"
" That is where I go to do all of my Research !"
Just add popcorn.
NOT.
You beat me by 2 minutes , Credit is yours... We think alike !
Who is John Boehner?
Recently,a friend of mine posted a positive message to the people of Egypt as his Facebook status. It only took a few comments before some guy was warning him not to jump to conclusions, and to Google "Caliphate".
Of course, when they do stumble on some heretic source (like MMFA) they just dismiss everything as some sort of conjuring trick, and most seem to have that filter that only gets hits from cult-approved sites, but still, it's not impossible that one or two of Beck's fans could Google one of their homework words.
I just don't think he has to worry about any of them being influenced or affected by any source that gives them information that doesn't mesh with Beck's class material.
or
Imbalance on his medication !
or
" Some people without Brains.. do a lot of Talking "
I cannot pity this fool.
(Yes, Network reference, but Beck is our generation's living embodiment of Howard Beal)
Boy I wish Google would do something to glennbeck.com or The Blaze. They are too ethical to pull something like that.
By now I should know better, but everyday I am surprised by what he says and the fact that he seems to be able to get away with it.
"Don't do a Google search...it seems to me Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government." What does this buffoon know for sure? Not much I am sure. This guy is a freak, a major buffoon. That is the problem with the first amendment, buffoons like this get to spew their gibberish in the name of freedom of speech.
Hey, representatives from one of those organizations is coming to our church in a couple of weeks! Maybe we'll end up on his chalkboard next to Jim Wallis and One Nation.
He's not comfortable with "Elitists"... because they know where to go in the library and find facts under 900. something in the Dewey Decimal System. (not his cup of tea or something his peeps would do". I didn't know growing up that liking to read and inform myself would make me sound snooty. This guy is and has been getting more dangerous day by day.
Can you say out of touch.
He is going to get more people murdered, but the hate-wing doesn't care!
Don't find facts.
factcheck.org and snopes ARE LIBRUL SECRET ORGANIZATIONS!!!!!
Why is every argument from them a LIE??????
UGH
-inflated sense of self
-claims of insight and knowledge not available to others
-demands that followers not seek out knowledge from other sources
-paranoia
-criticism is only more confirmation that he is correct
-inappropriate or false emotional affect
Sounds like our boy!
that's true..
government..and google..
try sisizhao.com or cicelyzhao.com
I'm actually on Beck's side on this issue even though he's renowned for being a conspiracy theorist he makes a valid point. Learn the people behind their corporations and see if they have any motives.
I bought an awful lot of stock in two companies. One a manufacturer of chalk and one who manufactures chalk boards. Now old Glennie is using electronics to outline the end of the world. I say let's petition Fox to bring back the chalk and chalkboard, I'm losing my life savings here!
http://blogmaverick.com/2009/11/22/bing-trying-to-get-exclusive-on-fox-smart/
At least Glenn gets one thing right.
Also, I love how social networking is the new threat to America. You're really reaching, Glenn.
Well, in that case, Glenn Beck is the new threat to America.
...Becuase you JUST MIGHT fond some ACTUAL FACTS, that make me look like a complete DUMBASS!
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I really hate this pinhead.
its actually kind of brilliant. most people will realize that beck is just trying to shield his lies from the most cursory checks, but for his hardcore fans this will seem reasonable. every day glenn exposes 1 more force of evil that he alone stands against. he knows is deep in a downward professional and personal spiral. hes going out balls to the wall, all systems go.he will live on in the memory of the drooling, gibbering true believers. the crazier he gets ,the more credible they find him.
pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
Fox is trying for Bing (ya know, that -other- search engine) exclusivity.
Two birds with one stone.
FIXED
Glad to be of service.
Seeing as it was the government that created the internet in the first place, you may want to look into finding another method of communicating with others -- I hear smoke signals work pretty well . . .
Your homework assignment is complete:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/18/saudi-prince-alwaleed-bin_1_n_426891.html
Turns out that a member of the Saudi royal family has a vested interest in not having their little empire crumble. Oh, and they also have a large financial stake in FOX.
That said, I can infer guilt just as easily as you. Does Prince Alwaleed bin Talal cosign your paycheck, Glenn? See how easy it is to stoop to your level?
Sincerely,
Disgusted
*citation needed*
He'll probably add Wikipedia to his list of banned things at some point.
And I thought he was open to "doing your homework" by going to as "many sources" as you can to "understand what is going on."
Hypocrite.
You loon, Glennie, you looney. A rodeo clown lecturing America on doing its homework.
America, it's a wonderful country, ain't it, when a self-admitted rodeo clown can clown around so often on TV.
An amazing spectacle.
Anything is possible in America.
You don't have to be educated, intelligent or moral. You just have to have a plan to get rich at any cost.
Like Glennie.
Political and historical
"The old American mind-set that Richard Hofstadter famously called the paranoid style – the sense that Masons or the railroads or the Pope or the guys in black helicopters are in league to destroy the country – is aflame again, fanned from both right and left ... No one has a better feeling for this mood, and no one exploits it as well, as Beck. He is the hottest thing in the political-rant racket, left or right."
— David Von Drehle, Time Magazine[28]
An author with ideological influence on Beck is W. Cleon Skousen (1913–2006), a prolific conservative political writer, American Constitutionalist and faith-based political theorist.[90][91] As an anti-communist supporter of the John Birch Society,[92] and limited-government activist,[93] Skousen, who was Mormon, wrote on a wide range of subjects: the Six-Day War, Mormon eschatology, New World Order conspiracies, even parenting.[93] Skousen believed that American political, social, and economic elites were working with Communists to foist a world government on the United States.[80] Beck praised Skousen's "words of wisdom" as "divinely inspired", referencing Skousen's The Naked Communist[94] and especially The 5,000 Year Leap (originally published in 1981),[93] which Beck said in 2007 had "changed his life".[93] According to Skousen's nephew, Mark Skousen, Leap reflects Skousen's "passion for the United States Constitution", which he "felt was inspired by God and the reason behind America’s success as a nation."[95] The book is touted by Beck as "required reading" to understand the current American political landscape and become a "September twelfth person".[93] Beck authored a foreword for the 2008 edition of Leap and Beck's on-air recommendations in 2009 propelled the book to number one in the government category on Amazon for several months.[93] In 2010, Matthew Continetti of the conservative Weekly Standard criticized Beck's conspiratorial bent, terming him "a Skousenite."[80] Additionally, Alexander Zaitchik, author of the 2010 critical book Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance, which features an entire chapter on "The Ghost of Cleon Skousen",[96] refers to Skousen as "Beck's favorite author and biggest influence", while noting that he authored four of the ten books on Beck's 9-12 Project required-reading list.[97]
In his discussion of Beck and Skousen, Continetti also stated that one of Skousen's works "draws on Carroll Quigley’s Tragedy and Hope (1966), which argues that the history of the 20th century is the product of secret societies in conflict",[80] noting that in Beck's novel The Overton Window, which Beck describes as "faction" (fiction based on fact), one of his characters states "Carroll Quigley laid open the plan in Tragedy and Hope, the only hope to avoid the tragedy of war was to bind together the economies of the world to foster global stability and peace."[80]
Princeton University historian Sean Wilentz says that alongside Skousen, Robert W. Welch, Jr., founder of the John Birch Society, is a key ideological foundation of Beck's worldview.[98] According to Wilentz: "(Beck) has brought neo-Birchite ideas to an audience beyond any that Welch or Skousen might have dreamed of."[98]
Other books that Beck regularly cites on his programs are Amity Shlaes’s The Forgotten Man, Jonah Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism, Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen’s A Patriot's History of the United States, and Burt Folsom Jr.’s New Deal or Raw Deal.[80] Beck has also urged his listeners to read The Coming Insurrection, a book by a French Marxist group[80] discussing what they see as the imminent collapse of capitalist culture.[99]
In addition, on June 4, 2010, Beck endorsed Elizabeth Dilling's 1936 work The Red Network: A Who's Who and Handbook of Radicalism for Patriots, remarking "this is a book, The Red Network, this came in from 1936. People — (Joseph) McCarthy was absolutely right ... This is, who were the communists in America."[100] Beck was criticized however by an array of people, including Menachem Z. Rosensaft and Joe Conason, who stated that Dilling was a proud anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer