Glen Beck Warns Viewers Not To Use Google 1276
An anonymous reader writes "Glenn Beck has told his viewers to do research, but to not use Google, because 'Google is pretty deeply in bed with the government.' He points to the fact that Google is having some problems overseas, as well as Jared Cohen. Cohen is Director of Google Ideas, has worked with the State Department, and has played a role in the 2009 unrest in Iran. He also mentions social networking in sinister undertones, asking if it's government propaganda."
Wanted: (Score:1, Informative)
Seriously, an article about someone not trusting Google? You'd think that it was never said here that Google's "Don't be evil" is complete bull!@#$.
you might find something in his past (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:5, Informative)
Which market is better to exploit / market fear? A young, highly educated market or a older less-educated market?
As for the act, The Daily Show showed 2 clips, one from his CNN show and one from his FOX NEWS show, they were separated by about 18 months. On CNN he was saying the USA had the worst health care system in the world, but 18 months later he is on FOX NEWS saying its the best health care system in the world. So somehow the USA went from the worst to the best in 18 months with no legislation, reform, or any anything.
it's not ideology, it's ideological whoring (Score:5, Informative)
1. Glenn Beck works for Fox News
2. Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp
3. Saudia Arabia is deeply unnerved by the revolutions sweeping aside the old crusty strongmen in the Middle East
So Prince bin Talal gets on the phone with Glenn Beck's bosses. Next day, Glenn Beck starts spouting off against internet tools that Middle Eastern revolutionaries use.
Yes, the same Glenn Beck who wears a Revolutionary War era Tricorner Hat and wraps himself in the American flag.
The tragedy is the people who reject, for example, Barack Obama as a "communist" and "secret muslim" and "antiamerican who wants to destroy the USA" and doubt he was born here. Incredibly low IQ lies and smears. Low IQ lies and smears spread by people who wrap themselves in the American flag, but who are of course working for corporate and foreign interests, corporate interests squarely pointed against what is good for Americans and American interests. And millions of Americans beleive this nonsense! Why? Because the "information" is presented to them, not by appealing to their sense of reason, but by appealing to their emotions: fear, hysteria, panic. Classic propaganda psychology.
The tragedy is people who view Fox News as "American" and don't know they are basically being propagandized and programmed against, for example, their own self-intererests, like higher quality, more affordable health care. Because the insurance industry might make less money. Better that Grandma die 10 years earlier than we succumb to evil SOCIALISM. Seriously?!
Sheep, whose Real American (tm) opinions are bought and paid for by Saudi Oil money, fat cat corporate dollars, and yes, the Chinese Communist Party.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/26/world/asia/26murdoch.html [nytimes.com]
So to summarize: Obama is a Communist and a Muslim Terrorist and anti-American... propaganda deeply believed by millions of Americans whose brains are basically programmed via a regular dose of fear and hysteria by smearmongers like Glenn Beck, whose ideological whoring... drum roll please... is paid for by actual Saudi Wahhabists and Chinese Communist controlled corporations!
If it wasn't so tragic, it would be hilarious.
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:4, Informative)
I can see older, that is the natural tendency of people exposed to the world.
But educated? Where did you get those stats?
The hood, the barrio, the welfare office, and the homeless shelter of course, all bastions of hardcore conservative thought. Err...
The funny part is through massive grade inflation and job requirement inflation, the average "uneducated" HS grad from 50 years ago was far better educated than the average modern college grad.
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:2, Informative)
Uh, what? If Mormons are polytheistic, then so are Catholics...
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:3, Informative)
That is not at all insightful, as somebody else said, it is utterly ridiculous. Palin and Fox are scary without liberal news sources because they set forth a precedent where it is ok to lie to millions of people in order to put public support behind legislation that will kill jobs, kill our economy, and make a few rich people richer. Palin is scary because if she were actually in a position of substantial power, we would be utterly fucked. Also, I eat meat and don't know anyone who shops at whole foods or owns a prius. And for that matter, I don't know anyone stupid enough to subscribe to the noble savage theory either.
Really, that was absolutely downright douche-baggery.
But really, I wouldn't give a damn about politics if it weren't for my stake in survival. If I was rich, I would happily watch America fuck itself with an explosive spiked pinapple with serrated edges by giving republicans power. Watch them cut all welfare spending and instead give it to the rich in the form of subsidies, and due to the lack of market demand for any product at all, watch the markets plummet and the economy crash for real while a few hundred people get disgustingly rich, and can make the American people do whatever they want, as they control the "spice."
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:1, Informative)
>>>The conservative market are older
Really? What a shame that Facts get in the way of your random, uncited belief. Here are the Nielsen demos for teens to 35 (i.e. the young)
FOX News: 600,000
MS-NBC 240,000
CNN 180,000
Young persons are watching FOX approximately 3 to 1 versus the other liberal channels. (MSNBC is a self-proclaimed liberal channel.)
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:4, Informative)
He is saying that Mormons are polytheistic because they believe each Planet in the universe has it's own God and that there is nothing particularly special about the God that runs things here on Earth. In fact, if you are a really, really good Mormon you had a chance to ascend to godhood yourself after death, but only if you had enough wives to birth enough 'spiritual children' to populate it (why some fundamentalist Mormons insist on polygamy). I don't know how much of this is still considered cannon to the Mormon faith, but it is historically part of the faith.
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:5, Informative)
Since when did Mexico, Haiti, or Cuba become the apex of socialized health care? What point are you trying to make?
Also, I have not traveled the world, but I know of many Europeans who were pissed off at how their healthcare systems were vilified in the US when they HAVE lived in the US and seen the advantages that their healthcare systems have over ours. I have also gone onto the internet and looked at the statistics that say that the US (with its supposed amazing healthcare) has one of the highest infant mortality rates and one of the lowest life expectancy's of any industrialized nation. I guess the US believes in the Darwin approach to healthcare. If you are rich, then you have the best healthcare in the world. If you are not rich, then we don't want you to survive anyway.
Re:I think Beck has started to believe his own con (Score:4, Informative)
There is at least one eminent scholar [wikipedia.org] that believes Jesus was an illiterate peasant. He used to be a catholic priest, did extensive research on the subject, and wrote nearly thirty books about it.